Researchers 2010

Tapani Rämö
Ph.D., professor
Field: rapakivi granites
Phone: +358-9-191-50810
tapani.ramo@helsinki.fi

Arto Luttinen
Ph.D., docent
(Finnish Museum of Natural History)
Field: flood basalts
Phone: +358-9-191-28745
arto.luttinen@helsinki.fi

Jussi Heinonen
M.Sc., doctoral candidate
Field: ferropicrites
Phone: +358-9-191-50802
jussi.s.heinonen@helsinki.fi

Ilona Romu
M.Sc., doctoral candidate
Field: alkaline rocks and crustal xenoliths
Phone: +358-9-191-50841
ilona.romu@helsinki.fi

Matti Kurhila
M.Sc., doctoral candidate
Field: U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating
Phone: +358-9-191-50809
matti.kurhila@helsinki.fi

Elina Lehtonen
graduate student
Field: LA-ICP-MS -mineral analytics
elina.lehtonen@helsinki.fi

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Doctoral Theses

Vuori, S.K., 2004. Petrogenesis of the Jurassic gabbroic intrusions of Vestfjella, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. University of Helsinki, 25 p.

Luttinen, A.V., 2000. Origin of Jurassic Vestfjella flood basalts, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. University of Helsinki, 106 p.


Master's Theses

Romu, I., 2006. Petrography and mineral chemistry of lamproite-hosted xenoliths from Kjakebeinet, western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 104 p.

Lehtinen, A., 2006. Jäätikön pinnanalaisten järvien hydrogeokemiallinen tutkimus läntisellä Kuningatar Maudin Maalla, Etelämantereella. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 97 p. (In Finnish)

Kallio, A., 2003. Low-grade metamorphism of a Jurassic continental flood basalt flow in Vestfjella, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 96 p.

Räisänen, M., 1996. Utpostanen ja Murenin gabrointruusiot Kuningatar Maudin maalla Antarktiksella. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 83 p. (In Finnish)

Luttinen, A., 1994. Basenin laakiobasalttisukkessio Kuningatar Maudin maalla Antarktiksella. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 113 p. (In Finnish)

Pennanen, M., 1993. Antarktiksen Williams Hills'in ja Schmidt Hills'in basalttisten kivien petrografiasta ja geokemiasta. Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, 79 p. (In Finnish)


Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Heinonen, J.S., Luttinen, A.V., in press. Mineral chemical evidence for extremely magnesian subalkaline melts from the Antarctic extension of the Karoo large igneous province. Mineralogy and Petrology.

Heinonen, J.S., Luttinen, A.V., 2008. Jurassic dikes of Vestfjella, western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: Geochemical tracing of ferropicrite sources. Lithos 105 (3–4), 347–364.

Leat, P.T., Luttinen, A.V., Storey, B.C., Millar, I.L., 2006. Sills of the Theron Mountains, Antarctica: evidence for long distance transport of mafic magmas during Gondwana break-up. In: Hanski, E.J., Mertanen, S., Rämö, O.T., Vuollo, J. (Eds.), Dyke Swarms: Time Markers of Crustal Evolution. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, pp. 183–199.

Luttinen, A.V., Vuori, S.K., 2006. Geochemical correlations between Jurassic gabbros and basaltic rocks in Vestfjella, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. In: Hanski, E.J., Mertanen, S., Rämö, O.T., Vuollo, J. (Eds.), Dyke Swarms: Time Markers of Crustal Evolution. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, pp. 201–212.

Vuori, S.K., Luttinen, A.V., 2003. The Jurassic gabbroic intrusion of Utpostane and Muren: insights into Karoo-related plutonism in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 15 (2), 283–301.

Zhang, X., Luttinen, A.V., Elliot, D.H., Larsson, K., Foland, K.A., 2003. Early stages of Gondwana breakup: the 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Jurassic basaltic rocks from western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, and implications for the timing of magmatic and hydrothermal events. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (B9), 2449. Doi:10.1029/2001JB001070

Luttinen, A.V., Zhang, X., Foland, K.A., 2002. 159 Ma Kjakebeinet lamproites (Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica) and their implications for Gondwana breakup processes. Geological Magazine 139 (5), 525–539.

Luttinen, A.V., Furnes, H., 2000. Flood basalts of Vestfjella: Jurassic magmatism across an Archaean-Proterozoic lithospheric boundary in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Journal of Petrology 41 (8), 1271–1305.

Luttinen, A.V., Rämö, O.T., Huhma, H., 1998. Neodymium and strontium isotopic and trace element composition of a Mesozoic CFB suite from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: Implications for lithosphere and asthenosphere contributions to Karoo magmatism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62 (15), 2701–2714.

Luttinen, A.V., Siivola, J.U., 1997. Geochemical characteristics of Mesozoic lavas and dikes from Vestfjella, Dronning Maud Land: recognition of three distinct chemical types. In: Ricci, C.A. (Ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. Siena: Terra Antarctica Publications, Italy, pp. 495–503.


Other publications

Heinonen, J., Romu, I., 2008. Juonikivitutkimukset Vestfjellan vuoristossa Etelämantereella. Geologi 3, 48–57. (In Finnish with English abstract)

Luttinen, A., 2002. Geologiaa Etelämantereella. Geologi 4–5, 88–93. (In Finnish with English abstract)

Luttinen, A., 1998. Jäätyneet tulivuoret. pHi 1, 12–13. (In Finnish)


Presentations at international meetings

2009
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
2008
- American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA
- International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior, General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Gondwana 13 Conference, Dali, China
- Congress of the International Polar Year 2007/08, Espoo, Finland
- 9th International Kimberlite Conference , Frankfurt, Germany
- Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada
2007
- 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, USA
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