Research Interests
Oxide deposits in mafic and ultramafic
rocks.
PGE and Ni-Cu deposits and their relationship
to ultramafic rocks.
Chemistry of disseminated chromite and
its relation to Ni-Cu ores. Formation of ultramafic rocks.
Representative Publications:
Hauck, S., Severson, M., Zanko,
L., Barnes, S-J, Morton, P., Alminas, H., Foord, EE, Dahlberg,
E.H., A review of Sulfide, 1995, Platinum Group element and oxide
Mineralization along the Western Contact of the Duluth Complex:
As related to Structural Development. R. W. Ojakangas et al.,
(eds.), Basement Tectonics 10, 47-54, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Hauck, S. A., Severson, M.,
Zanko, L., Morton, P.,Barnes, S.J., Alminas,H., Foord, E., and
Dahlberg, H., 1997. An overview of oxide, sulfide, and platinum
group elements, and oxide mineralization along the western and
northern contacts of the Duluth Complex, Geological Society of
America Special Paper 312, pp 137-186.
Morton, P., and Hauck, S.A.,
1987. PGE, Au and Ag contents of Cu-Ni Sulfides Found at the Base
of the Duluth Complex, Northeastern Minnesota, Technical Report
NRRI/GMIN-TR-87-04, NRRI-UMD, 85 pp.
Morton, P., and Hauck, S.A.,
1991. A Review of the Significance of the Duluth Complex. In Precambrian
Geology of the Southern Canadian Shield and the Eastern Baltic
Shield, R.W.Ojakangas Ed., Minnesota Geological Survey Information
Circular 34, pp 73-82.
Schaefer, S., and Morton,
P. 1991, Two komatiitic pyroclastic units, Superior Province,
NW Ontario: their geology, petrography and correlation. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, V 28: 1455-70.