Publications

Edward W. Bolton
Yale University
Department of Geology and Geophysics

E-mail: edward.bolton@yale.edu

JOURNAL PAPERS

  • Neogi, S., Bolton, E.W., and Chakraborty, S., Constraints on timescales of disequilibrium melting in the crust from trace element modelling: A case study of the formation and segregation of melts in the sillimanite zone, Sikkim Himalaya, Submitted to Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Sept., 2007.
  • Bolton, E. W., Berner, R. A., and Petsch, S. T., (2006) The weathering of sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O2: II. Theoretical Modeling, to appear: American Journal of Science, October, Vol. 306, pp. 575-615.
  • Wildman, R. A., Berner, R. A., Petsch, S. T., Bolton, E. W., Eckert, J.O., Mok, U., and, Evans, J.B., (2004) The weathering of sedimentary organic matter as a control on atmospheric O2: I. Analysis of a black shale, American Journal of Science, Vol. 304, p. 234-249.
  • Luttge, A., E.W. Bolton, and D.M. Rye (2004) A kinetic model of metamorphism: An application to siliceous dolomites, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI: 10.1007/s00410-003-0520-8, Vol. 146, No. 5, January 2004, pp. 546 - 565.
  • Rye, D.M., E.W. Bolton, A. Luttge (2003) Erratum to Antonio C. Lasaga, Danny M. Rye, Andreas Luttge, and Edward W. Bolton (2001) “Calculation of fluid fluxes in the Earth’s crust,” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 67, No. 9, p. 1755.
  • Breeding, C.M., J.J. Ague, M. Brocker, and E.W. Bolton, (2003) Blueschist preservation in a retrograded, high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphic terrane, Tinos, Greece: Implications for fluid flow paths in subduction zones, G-cubed, Vol. 4, No. 1, 22 Jan. 2003.
  • Lasaga, A.C., D.M. Rye, A. Luttge, and E.W. Bolton, (2001) Calculation of fluid fluxes in the Earth’s crust, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 65, No. 7, pp. 1161-1185.
  • Seilacher, A., M. Meschede, E.W. Bolton, and H. Luginsland, (2000) The Precambrian “fossil” Vermiforma is a tectograph, Geology, v. 28, pp. 235-238.
  • Lasaga, A.C., A. Luttge, D.M. Rye, and E.W. Bolton, (2000) Dynamic treatment of invariant and univariant reactions in metamorphic systems, American Journal of Science, v. 300, pp. 173-221.
  • Luttge, A., E.W. Bolton, and A.C. Lasaga, (1999) An interferometric study of the dissolution kinetics of anorthite: The role of reactive surface area, Invited paper in: Biogeochemical cycles and their evolution over geologic time. D. Canfield (ed) A special triple issue of the American Journal of Science, A tribute to the career of Robert A. Berner, v. 299, pp. 652-678.
  • Bolton, E.W., A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, (1999) Long-term flow/chemistry feedback in a porous medium with heterogeneous permeability: Kinetic control of dissolution and precipitation, American Journal of Science, v. 299, pp. 1-68.
  • Bolton, E.W., A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, (1997) Dissolution and precipitation via forced-flux injection in a porous medium with spatially variable permeability: Kinetic control in two dimensions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 12159-12171.
  • Bolton, E.W., A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, (1996) A model for the kinetic control of quartz dissolution and precipitation in porous media flow with spatially variable permeability: Formulation and examples of thermal convection, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 22157-22187.
  • Bolton, E.W., K.A. Maasch and J. M. Lilly (1995), A wavelet analysis of Plio-Pleistocene climate indicators: A new view of periodicity evolution, Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 2753-2756.
  • Bolton, E.W. and J. Maurer (1994) A new roll-type instability in an oscillating fluid plane, J. Fluid Mech, 268, 293-313.
  • Bolton, E.W. (1993) A simple notation for differential vector operations in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates, Geophysical Journal International, 115, 654-666.
  • Fauve, S., E.W. Bolton and M.E. Brachet (1987) Nonlinear oscillatory convection: A quantitative phase dynamics approach, Physica, 29D, 202-214.
  • Bolton, E.W., F.H. Busse and R.M. Clever (1986) Oscillatory instabilities of convection rolls at intermediate Prandtl numbers, J. Fluid Mech., 164, 469-485.
  • Azouni, M.A., E.W. Bolton and F.H. Busse (1986) Convection driven by centrifugal buoyancy in a rotating annulus, Geophys. Astroph. Fluid Dyn., 34 301-317.
  • Bolton, E.W. and F.H. Busse (1985) Stability of convection rolls in a layer with stress-free boundaries, J. Fluid Mech., 150, 487-498.
  • Busse, F.H. and E.W. Bolton (1984) Instabilities of convection rolls with stress-free boundaries near threshold, J. Fluid Mech., 146, 115-125.
  • Van Hise, J.R., D.E. Martz, R.A. Jackson, D.Y. Kunihira and E.W. Bolton (1982) Polonium-218 half-life, Physical Review C, 25. 2802-2804.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (with refereed extended abstracts)

  • Bolton, E.W., D.M. Rye, J.J. Ague, and A. Luttge, (2004) Modeling contact metamorphism of siliceous dolomite via kinetic control of overall reactions, Water-Rock Interaction, Vol. 1, R.B. Wanty and R.R. Seal II, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 27 June -2 July 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, pp. 269-272.
  • Berner, R.A., E.W. Bolton, R.A. Wildman, and S.T. Petsch, (2004) Organic matter weathering and atmospheric oxygen: A field and modeling study of black shale oxidation, Water-Rock Interaction, Vol. 1, R.B. Wanty and R.R. Seal II, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 27 June -2 July 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, pp. 805-808.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Bolton, E.W., Review of Buoyancy-induced Flows and Transport, by B. Gebhart, et.al., (Hemisphere, New York, 1988), which appeared in American Scientist, 77, pp. 298-299, 1989.
  • Bolton, E.W., Review of Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 22, John L. Lumley, et al., editors, published by Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, California 1990, for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 72, 1399-1400, 1991.

Ph. D. DISSERTATION

  • Problems in Nonlinear Convection in Planar and Spherical Geometries, University of California, Los Angeles, (Advisor: F.H. Busse) 1985

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (most with published abstracts)

  • E.W. Bolton, F.H. Busse and R.M. Clever, An antisymmetric oscillatory instability of convection rolls (Am. Phys. Soc., fluid dynamics meeting at Houston, Texas, Nov. 1983), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., 28 (9), 1399, Abstract FD3, 1983.
  • F.H. Busse and E.W. Bolton, Instabilities of convection rolls with stress-free boundaries, (Am. Phys. Soc., Fluid Dynamics Meeting at Houston, Texas, Nov. 1983), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., 28 (9), 1398, Abstract FD2, 1983.
  • M.A. Azouni, E.W. Bolton and F.H. Busse, Convection columns driven by centrifugal buoyancy, (Am. Phys. Soc., Fluid Dynamics Meeting at Houston, Texas, Nov. 1983), Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 28 (9), 1373, Abstract CD1, 1983.
  • E.W. Bolton, M.A. Azouni, and F.H. Busse, Drifting convection columns in a rotating annulus, XVth International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 1984, Lyngby, Denmark, Poster 624P, Section fB-#10.
  • I.A. Quintanar, E.W. Bolton, F.H. Busse and M.A. Azouni, Experimental measurements of drifting convection columns in a rotating annulus, paper presented on 6 Dec. 85 at the Fall Meeting of the Am. Geoph. Union, San Francisco, CA, EOS, Trans. Am. Geoph. Union, 65, No. 45, p. 871, 1984.
  • M.A. Azouni, E.W. Bolton, F.H. Busse and I.A. Quintanar, Etude experimentale de la structure convective dans un anneau vertical en rotation, paper presented on 10 Sept. 85 at the Congres National of the Societe Francaise de Physique, Nice, France, 1985.
  • E.W. Bolton and F.H. Busse, Nonlinear thermal convection in rotating spherical shells, paper presented on 4 Aug. 87 at the Nonlinear Dynamics of Rotating Magnetic Systems Conference at University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.
  • E.W. Bolton and F.H. Busse, Nonlinear thermal convection in rotating spherical shells, paper GA1.3-7 presented on 19 Aug. 87 at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) at Vancouver, Canada, 1987.
  • E.W. Bolton and J. Maurer, A new roll-type instability in an oscillating fluid plane, paper IB-4 presented on 24 Nov. 87 at the Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting of The American Physical Society at Eugene, Oregon, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 32, No. 10, p. 2097, 1987.
  • E.W. Bolton and H.F. Bolton, Vortex street generation and bubble motion in inclined fluid planes, presented at the Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting of The American Physical Society at Buffalo, NY, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 33, No. 10, p. 2253, 1988.
  • E.W. Bolton and N.M. Ribe, Square-cell convection in a fluid with temperature dependent viscosity, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 70, p. 1333, 1989.
  • E.W. Bolton and B. Sayler, Karman vortex feedback and chaotic bubble motion in a rotating annulus, presented at the Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting of The American Physical Society at Palo Alto, CA, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 34, No. 10, p. 2331, 1989.
  • E.W. Bolton and B. Sayler, The influence of lateral variations of thermal boundary conditions on core convection: Numerical and laboratory experiments, presented at Santa Fe, Studies of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) symposium, August, 1990.
  • E.W. Bolton and J. Park, The development of anisotropy in a convecting mantle, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 72, p. 508 of Fall 1991 AGU Meeting Supplement, 1991.
  • E.W. Bolton, Radial functions for spectral/Galerkin modeling of spherical-shell convection, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 73, p. 575 of Fall 1992 AGU Meeting Supplement, 1992.
  • E.W. Bolton, K.A. Maasch and J. M. Lilly, A Wavelet Analysis of Plio-Pleistocene Climate Indicators: A New View of Periodicity Evolution, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 74, #43, p. 366, 1993.
  • K.A. Maasch, T.K. Dupont and E.W. Bolton, Climate transition in the mid-Pleistocene: Was the onset of the 100-kyr cycle gradual or abrupt?, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 75, #16, p. 56, 1994.
  • R.J. Faux, E.W. Bolton and A.C. Lasaga, Cellular automata modeling of growth of 1:1 ordered compound in a binary system and applications to low temperature dolomite formation, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 75, #16, p. 189, 1994.
  • E.W. Bolton, A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, Kinetically controlled quartz dissolution and precipitation in porous media flow with spatial and temporal variations in permeability, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 75, #44, supplement p. 293, 1994.
  • E.W. Bolton, A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, Oscillatory quartz precipitation in porous media flow, V.M. Goldschmidt Conference programs and abstracts, p. 32, 24 May 1995 (at Penn State).
  • E.W. Bolton, A.C. Lasaga and D.M. Rye, Kinetic Effects and Fully-Coupled Long-Term Evolution of Quartz Dissolution and Precipitation in Heterogeneous Porous Media Thermal Convection, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, 77, #17, supplement p. S97, 1996.
  • Bolton, E.W., Lasaga, A.C., Rye, D.M., and Chakraborty, S., 1997, Kinetics isotope effects: The competition of diffusion and recrystallization, Geologic Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 29, no. 6, p. A-25.
  • Luttge, A., Bolton, E.W., Rye, D.M., and Lasaga, A.C., 1997, Kinetics control of metamorphic isograds, Geologic Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 29, no. 6, p. A-94.
  • Chakraborty, S., A.C. Lasaga, and E.W. Bolton, Diffusion controlled fractionation of trace elements in magmatic systems, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, vol. 78, no. 46, supplement, p. F833, V52A-1, 1997.
  • Bolton, E.W., A. Luttge, D.M. Rye, and A.C. Lasaga, A 2D model of kinetic metamorphic “isograds” for the system CaO-SiO2-MgO-H2O-CO2, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, vol. 78, no. 46, supplement, p. F835, V52A-19, 1997.
  • Luttge, A., U. Winkler, E.W. Bolton, and A.C. Lasaga, The dynamics of dissolution as observed by near atomic scale scanning white light interferometry, Geologic Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 30, no. 7, p. A-187, 1998.
  • Bolton, E.W., A. Luttge, D.M. Rye, and A.C. Lasaga, Kinetic control of contact metamorphism, Geologic Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 30, no. 7, p. A-280, 1998.
  • Lees, J.M., and E.W. Bolton, Pressure cookers as volcano analogues, (invited poster) EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, vol. 79, no. 45, supplement, p. F620, S22C-10, 1998.
  • Bolton, E.W., D.M. Rye, and A.C. Lasaga, A Model for Isotopic Changes During Metamorphism, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, vol. 80, no. 46, supplement, p. F1157, V32D-04, 1999.
  • Bolton, E.W., A. Luttge, D.M. Rye, and A.C. Lasaga, Kinetic modeling of contact metamorphism: Recent results for siliceous carbonates, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, vol. 81, no. 48, supplement, p. F482, H72E-08, INVITED, 2000.
  • Bolton, E.W., On the use of effective stress in granular media, Am. Geoph. Union, Fall Meeting, San Francisco, H71B-0816, 2002.
  • Bolton, E.W.; Wildman, R.A., Jr.; Berner, R.A.; Eckert, J.O., Jr.; Petsch, S.T.; Mok, U.; and Evans, B., Black shale weathering: An integrated field and numerical modeling study, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, Geophysical Research Abstracts, No. EAE03-A-04423, Vol. 5, April 2003.
  • Chakraborty, S., S. Neogi, and E.W. Bolton, Formation and Segregation of Melts in the Continental Crust: Time Scales From Trace Element Modeling of Rocks From the Sikkim Himalaya, India, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, supplement, V42F-06, INVITED, Fall, 2003.
  • Bolton, E.W., A. Luttge, D.M. Rye, and J.J. Ague, Unexpected Temperature-Fluid Composition Paths in Kinetic Models of Contact Metamorphism of Siliceous Dolomites, EOS, Trans of Am. Geoph. Union, V42G-05, Fall, 2003.
  • Bolton, E.W., D.M. Rye, J.J. Ague, and A. Luttge, (2004) Modeling contact metamorphism of siliceous dolomite via kinetic control of overall reactions, Water-Rock Interaction, Vol. 1, R.B. Wanty and R.R. Seal II, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 27 June -2 July 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, pp. 269-272.
  • Berner, R.A., E.W. Bolton, R.A. Wildman, and S.T. Petsch, (2004) Organic matter weathering and atmospheric oxygen: A field and modeling study of black shale oxidation, Water-Rock Interaction, Vol. 1, R.B. Wanty and R.R. Seal II, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, 27 June -2 July 2004, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, pp. 805-808.
  • Bolton, E.W., and R.A. Berner, Oxygen diffusion and consumption in eroding black shales: A control on long-term atmospheric oxygen, INVITED, 15th annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, ID, May 2005, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, (10), Suppl. 1, p. 173.
  • Bolton, E.W., Fluid-Rock Interaction Models: Code Release and Results, EOS, Trans. of Am. Geophys. Union, Supplement, V31B-0592, Fall Meeting, 2006.
  • Bolton, E.W., Rob Rye, (2007) Reactive transport modeling of weathering, with applications to paleosols, Geological Society of America meeting, Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6. Session: 2. Hydrogeology 28 October 2007, Denver CO.
  • Bolton, E.W., Bolton, E.W., D.M. Rye, J.J. Ague, and A. Luttge, (2007) Modeling metamorphism: Current results and future directions, INVITED, Geological Society of America meeting, Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6. Session: 127. Numerical Modeling Of Hydrothermal Fluids, 30 October 2007
  • Rye, Rob, and E.W. Bolton (2007) Reconstructing Archean climate with hard and modified KINFLOW, Geological Society of America meeting, Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6. Session: 121. Precambrian Geology, 30 October 2007, Denver CO.
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