Ananya Mallik
- Assistant Professor, Geosciences
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- (520) 621-6000
- Gould-Simpson, Rm. 208
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- mallika@arizona.edu
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
Interests
Research
Subduction zone magmatismDeep volatile cycling in the EarthThe Moon’s interior evolution
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)
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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., Schwinger, S., Moitra, P., & Roy, A. (2022). Constraining bulk water of the Moon: the effect of hydrogen partitioning on lunar magma ocean crystallization. Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
- 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