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Ananya Mallik

  • Assistant Professor, Geosciences
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-6000
  • Gould-Simpson, Rm. 208
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • mallika@arizona.edu
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  • Scholarly Contributions

Biography

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

     

College/University                                          Major                                      Degree & Year

Jadavpur University, India                             Geology                                  B.Sc, 2006

Jadavpur University, India                             Applied Geology                    M.Sc, 2008

Rice University, TX                                      Earth Science                         PhD, 2014      

 

APPOINTMENTS

 

2020- present:             Assistant Professor (The RealReal Inc. Endowed Chair in Gem Science), Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

2019-2020:                  Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island

2018:                           Postdoctoral Research Associate, DEEPS, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

2016-2018:                  Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Bayersiches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany

2015-2016:                  Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Bayerisches Geoinstutut, Bayreuth, Germany

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Interests

Teaching

Petrology (GEOS 356) - Spring 2021Early Earth rock-climate interaction (GEOS 596A) - Spring 2021Introduction to Gems and Minerals - starting Fall 2021 (developed new course)Petrology of Gems - starting Spring 2022 (new course under development)

Research

Subduction zone magmatismDeep volatile cycling in the EarthThe Moon’s interior evolution

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2025)
  • Earth Stories: Dynamic Planet
    GEOS 170A1 (Fall 2025)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 399 (Fall 2025)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Summer I 2025)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Summer I 2025)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2025)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Petrology
    GEOS 356 (Spring 2025)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2025)
  • Senior Capstone
    GEOS 498 (Spring 2025)
  • Teaching Geosciences
    GEOS 397A (Spring 2025)
  • Tpcs Structure+Tectonics
    GEOS 496E (Spring 2025)
  • Tpcs Structure+Tectonics
    GEOS 596E (Spring 2025)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2024)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2024)
  • Earth Stories: Dynamic Planet
    GEOS 170A1 (Fall 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2024)
  • Senior Capstone
    GEOS 498 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Summer I 2024)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2024)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2024)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Fall 2023)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2023)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Intro to Gems and Minerals
    GEOS 260 (Fall 2023)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2023)
  • Structure-Tectonics
    GEOS 596E (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2023)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2023)
  • Mineral-Petrol-Geochem
    GEOS 596A (Spring 2023)
  • Petrology of Gems
    GEOS 462 (Spring 2023)
  • Petrology of Gems
    GEOS 562 (Spring 2023)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2023)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2022)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro to Gems and Minerals
    GEOS 260 (Fall 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Summer I 2022)
  • Internship
    GEOS 393 (Summer I 2022)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2022)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2022)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2022)
  • Mineral-Petrol-Geochem
    GEOS 596A (Spring 2022)
  • Petrology of Gems
    GEOS 462 (Spring 2022)
  • Petrology of Gems
    GEOS 562 (Spring 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Internship
    GEOS 393 (Summer I 2021)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2021)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2021)
  • Mineral-Petrol-Geochem
    GEOS 596A (Spring 2021)
  • Petrology
    GEOS 356 (Spring 2021)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2021)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2020)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2020)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Ducea, M., Currie, C., Balica, C., Lazar, I., Mallik, A., Petrescu, L., & Vlasceanu, M. (2022). Diapirism of Carbonate Platforms Subducted into the Upper Mantle.. Geology.
  • Mallik, A., Lambart, S., & Chin, E. (2021). Tracking the evolution of magmas from heterogeneous mantle sources to eruption. “Mantle Convection and Surface Expressions”, AGU Publications. doi:10.1002/9781119528609.ch6
  • Mallik, A., Ejaz, T., Shcheka, S., & Garapic, G. (2019). A petrologic study on the effect of mantle overturn: Implications for evolution of the lunar interior.. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.014
  • Mallik, A., Yaxley, G., Ghosh, S., Kiseeva, E., Spandler, C., Thomson, A., & Walter, M. (2019). CO2-Rich Melts in Earth. Deep Carbon: Past to Present. doi:10.1017/9781108677950.006
  • Mallik, A., Li, Y., & Wiedenbeck, M. (2018). Nitrogen evolution within the Earth's atmosphere–mantle system assessed by recycling in subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.045
  • Mallik, A., Dasgupta, R., Tsuno, K., & Nelson, J. (2016). Effects of water, depth and temperature on partial melting of mantle-wedge fluxed by hydrous sediment-melt in subduction zones. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.08.018
  • Mallik, A., Garapic, G., Dasgupta, R., & Jackson, M. (2015). Oceanic lavas sampling the high-3He/4He mantle reservoir: Primitive, depleted, or re-enriched?. American Mineralogist. doi:10.2138/am-2015-5154
  • Mallik, A., Nelson, J., & Dasgupta, R. (2015). Partial melting of fertile peridotite fluxed by hydrous rhyolitic melt at 2–3 GPa: implications for mantle wedge hybridization by sediment melt and generation of ultrapotassic magmas in convergent margins. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. doi:10.1007/s00410-015-1139-2
  • Mallik, A., & Dasgupta, R. (2014). Effect of variable CO2 on eclogite-derived andesite and lherzolite reaction at 3 GPa - Implications for mantle source characteristics of alkalic ocean island basalts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1002/2014GC005251
  • Mallik, A., & Dasgupta, R. (2013). Reactive Infiltration of MORB-Eclogite-Derived Carbonated Silicate Melt into Fertile Peridotite at 3 GPa and Genesis of Alkalic Magmas. Journal of Petrology. doi:10.1093/petrology/egt047
  • Mallik, A., Dasgupta, R., Tsuno, K., Withers, A., Hirth, G., & Hirschmann, M. (2013). Carbon-dioxide-rich silicate melt in the Earth’s upper mantle. Nature. doi:10.1038/ nature11731
  • Mallik, A., & Dasgupta, R. (2012). Reaction between MORB-eclogite derived melts and fertile peridotite and generation of ocean island basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 329–330. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.007

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