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John Platt

Academic Title: Professor

Name: John Platt

Personal Website: http://earth.usc.edu/~jplatt

 

Department: Department of Earth Sciences

Department Website: http://www.usc.edu/dept/earth/

Institution: University of Southern California

 

Address: 3651 Trousdale Pkwy
Los Angeles, California 90089-0740

 

Highest Degree: PhD

Date of Degree: 1973

Degree Institution: University of California at Santa Barbara

 

E-mail: Contact by e-mail?

 

Expertise: Research methods include mechanical analysis of large-scale dynamic systems such as thrust belts and collisional plateaux, map-scale to microscale structural analysis, thermobarometry and geochronology to define pressure-temperature-time paths of rocks, paleomagnetism to determine the rotational history, and microstructural analysis of deformational mechanisms in rocks and their implications for rock rheology.

 

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