Yale University - Department of Geology and Geophysics













Jay Ague
Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Curator-in-Charge of Mineralogy, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Office: 216 KGL
Phone: (203) 432-3171
Fax: (203) 432-3134
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Research Interests:
High-temperature petrology, geochemistry, and mineralogy. Emphasis on metamorphic, igneous and ore-forming processes that operate deep within mountain belts.

Current Courses:
G&G 205a Natural Resources and Their Sustainability
G&G 220b Petrology and Mineralogy
G&G 615a/b Fluid Flow and Chemical Reaction in Geologic Systems
G&G616a/b Advanced Petrology
G&G753a/b Seminar in Petrology

Students and Postdocs:
Megan Andrews
Insa Derrey
Simon Emmanuel
Tatiana Lioubetskaia
Sarah Vorhies

Selected Publication(s):
Philpotts, A.R., and Ague, J.J., 2009, Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (2nd Edition): Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 667 p.


Ague, J.J., and Baxter, E.F., 2007, Brief thermal pulses during mountain building recorded by Sr diffusion in apatite and multicomponent diffusion in garnet: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 261, p. 500-516.


Breeding, C. M., Ague, J. J., and Broecker, M., 2004, Fluid-metasedimentary rock interactions and the chemical composition of arc magmas: Geology, v. 32, p. 1041-1044.

Breeding, C. M., Ague, J. J., Grove, M., and Rupke, A., 2004, Isotopic and chemical alteration of zircon by metamorphic fluids; U-Pb age depth-profiling of zircons from Barrow's garnet zone, northeast Scotland: American Mineralogist, v. 89, p. 1067-1077.

Ague, J.J., 2003, Fluid Flow in the Deep Crust. In: The Crust (ed. R.L. Rudnick), vol 3., Treatise on Geochemistry (eds. H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian), Elsevier, Oxford, p. 195-228.