Basaltic volcanism in Ethiopia; Constraints on continental rifting and mantle interactions (with W.K. Hart, G. Wolde Gabrial, R.C. Walter). Journal of Geophysical Research 94, No. B6, pp. 7731-7748.;1990

Geochemistry of high-potassium rocks from the mid-Tertiary Guffey volcanic center, Thirtynine Mile volcanic field, central Colorado, (with R.A. Wobus, D. W. Mochel, et al.) Geology, v. 18, pp. 642-645. 1990

Nd-Sr-O isotopic evidence for source contamination and an unusual mantle component under Luzon Arc, (with CH. Chen, Y.N. Shieh, T. Lee, C.H. Chen). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Vol. 54, pp. 2473-2483. 1991

Petrogenesis of Challis volcanics from central and southwestern Idaho: Trace element and Pb isotopic evidence:(With Marc Norman). Jour. Geophy. Res., Vol. 96, No. B8, pp. 13279-13293. 1991

Geochemical and isotopic study of gneiss-associated metabasites at the Central Range, Taiwan (with Ching-Ying Lan, Typhoon Lee, Tsai-Way Wu, Bor-Ming Jahn, Tzen-Fu Yui, Jason Jiun-San Shen. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 233-264. 1992

Metasomatism of amphibolite enclaves in Yuantoushan and Fanoaochienshan areas, northeastern Taiwan (with C.Y. Lan and Bor-Ming Jahn) Jour. Geol. Soc. China Vol 35, No. 2, pp. 173-192. 1992.

Granites and rhyolites from the northwestern U.S.A. a temporal variation in magmatic processes and relations to tectonic setting (with Marc D. Norman and William P. Leeman). Geological Society of America Special Paper 272, pp. 71-81. 1993

The Sixth Keck Research Symposium in Geology - "Late Tertiary Volcanism in the Mt. McLoughlin-Upper Klamath Lake Region of the Southern Oregonian Cascades", pp. 124-128. 1993

Low-calcium garnet harzburgites from southern Africa: their relations to craton structure and diamond crystallization (with F.R. Boyd, D. G. Pearson, and P. H. Nixon), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, V. 113, pp. 352-366. 1994

Petrology, Geochemistry and Nd-Sr Isotope Geochemistry of Late Miocene Basalts in Liehyu and Chinmen, Fujian (with Ching-Ying Lan, Sun-Lin Chung, and Wen-Yu Hsu). Journal of the Geological Society of China, Vol. 37, pp.309-334. 1994

Petrology and Geochemistry of the Seoul Granitic Batholith: (with S. T. Kwon, D. L. Cho, C. Y. Land, K. B. Shin, and T. Lee). Jour. Petrol. Soc. Korea, V.3, No. 2, pp.109-127. 1995

LateTertiary Volcanism in the Region South of the Mt. McLoughlin and Brown Mountainin the Southern Oregonian Cascades: 8th Keck Research Symposium in Geology, pp. 38-41. 1995.

Isotopic Evidence on the Origin of Compositional Layering in and Epizonal Magma Body: (with P. O. Vesplanck, G. L. Farmer, M. McCurry, and L. W. Snee) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, V.36 (1-2), pp. 31-42. 1995

Mafic Dikes from Chinmen and Leihyu Islands off Southeastern China: Petrochemical Characteristics and Tectonic Implications (with C. Y. Lan, S. L. Chung, and C. H. Chen), J. Geol. Soc. China , V. 35, no. 3, pp. 183-213. 1996

Subduction-related Granitic Rocks of Taiwan (with Ching-Ying Lan, Bor-Ming Jahn, and Tsai-Way Wu). Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, V.14 (1-2), pp. 11-28. 1997

Composition of the Siberian Cratonic Mantle: Evidence from Udachnaya Peridotite Xenoliths: (with F. R. Boyd, N. P. Pokhilenko, D. G. Pearson, N. V. Sobolev, and L.W. Finger) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, V. 128, pp. 228-246. 1997

Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Granitic Rocks from Chinmen, Liehyu, and Dadan Islands, Fujian (with Ching-Ying Lan and Sun-Lin Chung). Journal of the Geological Society of China, V. 40, No. 3, pp.527-558. 1998

The Geology of the Klamath River Canyon Region: Eleventh Keck Research Symposium in Geology Proceedings, pp. 79-83. 1999

Water-rock interactions, orthopyroxene growth, and Si-enrichment in the mantle: evidence in xenoliths from the Colorado Plateau, southwestern United States (with D. Smith and J. C. A. Riter) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, V.165, pp. 45-54 1999

The Chemical and Isotopic Differentiation of an Epizonal Magma Body: Organ Needle Pluton, New Mexico (with P. L. Verplanck, G. L. Farmer, and M. McCurry) Journal of Petrology, Vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 653-678 1999

Spinel-facies Peridotites From the Kaapvaal Root. In Gurney J.J., Gurney J.L., Pascoe, M.D. and Richardson S.H. (eds), The J.B. Dawson Volume - Proceedings of the VIIth International Kimberlite Conference. Cape Town: RedRoof Design, Vol I, pp.40-48 2000

Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics of granitic rocks from northern Vietnam (with C.Y. Lan) for the Special Issue of the Journal of Asian Earth Sciences entitled: Lithosphere Dynamics and Natural Resources in East Indochina and Adjacent Areas; Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 267-280 (2000) 2000

Mineralogy, composition, and alteration of Mars Pathfinder rocks and soils: Evidence from multispectral, elemental, and magnetic data of terrestrial analogue, SNC meteorite, and Pathfinder samples.( with R.V. Morris, D.C. Golden, J.F. Bell, T.D. Shelfer, A. Scheinost, N.W. Hinman, G. Furniss, J.L.Bishop, D.W. Ming, C.C. Allen, and D.T. Britt: Jour. Geophys. Res., Vol. 105, No. E1, pp. 1757-1817, January 25 , 2000.

K-Ar results from the southern Oregon - northern California Cascade Range. S. A. Mertzman. Oregon Geology, V. 62, no.4, p. 99-122 (2000)

Petrology of Cedar Butte Volcano: Implications for Quaternary High-Silica Rhyolite Magmatism on the Eastern Snake River Plain (with M. McCurry, K. Hayden, and W.R. Hackett). Geological Society of America Field Guide, 2000.

Phyllosilicate-poor palagonitic dust from Mauna Kea Volcano (Hawaii): A mineralogical analogue for magnetic Martian Dust? R. V. Morris, D. C. Golden, D. W. Ming, T. D. Shelfer, L. C. Jorgesen, J. F. Bell, T. G. Graff, and S, A. Mertzman: Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 106, NO. E3, p. 5057-5083 (2001)

Cloutis, E.A., P.M. Asher, and S.A. Mertzman, (2002), Spectral reflectance properties of zeolites and remote sensing implications, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (E9), 5067, DOI: 10.1029/2000JE1467, pp. 5-1 to 5-19.

Lan, C. Y., Lee, C. S., Shen, J. J. S., Lu, C. Y., Mertzman, S. A., and Wu., T. W., (2002), Nd–Sr isotopic composition and geochemistry of sediments from Taiwan and their implications. Western Pacific Earth Sciences, 2, no. 2, pp. 205.

Lane, M. D., R. V. Morris, S. A. Mertzman, and P. R. Christensen, (2002), Evidence for Platy Hematite Grains in Sinus Meridiani, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (E12), 5126, DOI:10.1029/2001JE001832, pp. 9-1 to 9-15.

Lan, C. Y., Chung, S. L., Long, T. V., Lo, C. H., Lee, T. Y., and Mertzman, S. A., 2002, Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic constraints from the Kontum massif, central Vietnam for the crustal evolution of the Indochina block. Precambrian Research

Keno Quadrangle, 1:24000 Geologic Map; for the State of Oregon Mis. Invest. Series (with Frank Hladky) Under review by David Sherrod of the USGS. December 2002.

The Medford 1:100,000 Sheet Geologic Map; for the State of Oregon 1:100,000 Geologic Map Series (with Frank Hladky and 2 other geologists) In Review.

Lan, C. Y., Chung, S. L., Long, T. V., Lo, C. H., Lee, T. Y., Mertzman, S. A., Shen, J. J. S., (2003), Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic constraints from the Kontum massif, central Vietnam on the crustal evolution of the Indochina block. Precambrian Research, 122, pp. 7-27.

Geologic Map of the Keno Quadrangle, Klamath County, Oregon: Frank R. Hladky and Stanley A. Mertzman, GMS-102, 1:24,000, ISSN 0270-952X, 2001. Issued by the State of Oregon, Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, December, 2002.

T. H. See, F. Horz, D. W. Mittlefehldt, L. Varley, S. A. Mertzman, and D. Roddy, (2003) Major element analyses of the target rocks at Meteor crater, Arizona, NASA/TM-2002-210787, 23 pp.

J. J. Marques, D. G. Schulze, N. Curi, and S. A. Mertzman, (2004) Major element geochemistry and geomorphic relations in Brazilian Cerrado soils, Geoderma, V. 119, no. 3-4, pp. 179-195.

J. J. Marques, D. G. Schulze, N. Curi, and S. A. Mertzman, (2004), Trace element geochemistry in Brazilian Cerrado soils, Geoderma 121, pp. 31-43

D. W. Mittlefehldt, F. Horz, T. H. See, E. R. Scott, and S. A. Mertzman, (2005), Geochemistry of target rocks, impact-melt particles and metallic spherules from Meteor Crater, Arizona: Empirical evidence on the impact process, Geological Society of America Special Paper 384—Large Meteorite Impacts, pp. 367-390.

J. F. Lindsay, M. D. Brasier, N. McLoughlin, O. R. Green, M. Fogel, A, Steele, and S. A. Mertzman, 2005), The problem of deep carbon – an Archean paradox, Precambrian Research 143, pp. 1-22.

R. V. Morris, D. W. Ming, T. G. Graff, R. E. Arvidson, J. F. Bell, S. A. Mertzman, J. E. Gruener, D. C. Golden, L. Le, and G. A. Robinson, (2005), A terrestrial analogue for hematite spherules and sulfate in the Burns formation at Meridiani Planum, Mars: Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240, Issue 1, pp. 168-178.

D. C. Golden, D. W. Ming, R. V. Morris, and S. A. Mertzman, (2005), Laboratory simulated acid-sulphate weathering of basaltic materials: Implications for formation of sulphates at Meridiani Planum and Gusev Crater, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), 110, E12S07, doi:10.1029/2005JE002451, 2005

Detection and Discrimination of Sulfate Minerals Using Reflectance Spectroscopy, Edward A. Cloutis, Michael A. Craig, John F. Mustard, Diana . Blaney, James F. Bell III, Faith Vilas, Frank C. Hawthorne, Stanley A. Mertzman, Johnathon Strong, and Dione Marcino, Accepted with revisions, December15, 2005 to the journal Icarus

Abstracts Published (1990 - present)

1991. Evolution of crustal magma sources through time: granites and rhyolites from the northwestern U.S.A.:(with M. Norman and W.P. Leeman). Hutton Symposium: Symposium Volume: p. 16-17.

1991. Magnesian quartz tholeiites from the Mesozoic Appalachian Aulacogen in southeastern PA. GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, V. 23, no. 5, p. A391.

1992. The geology of the Mt. McLoughlin-Brown Mountain region, southern Oregon (with S. Weaver and R. Hazlett) GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 24, no. 5, p. A70.

1992. Eruptive and petrogenetic history of the Jordan Craters volcanic field, southeastern Oregon (with W. Hart and W. Hackett) GSA Abstracts with programs, Vol. 24, no. 5, p. A32.

1992. Research in geology at the sophomore level: Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) National Meeting at Hope College, June, 1992. Conference Proceedings, p. 7.

1992. Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic compositions of Mesozoic high-magnesium andesites from Pennsylvania (with James K. Meen). GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 24, no. 7, p. A261.

1992. Geology and petrology of Cedar Butte Volcano, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Hayden, K. P., McCurry, M., Hackett, W. R., and Mertzman, S. A.:GSA Rocky Mountain Section, Abstracts with programs, Vol. 24, no. 6, p. 18.

1992. The geology of uplifted rocks on Big Southern Butte: implications for the strategraphy and geochemistry of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho: Fishel, M. L., McCurry, M., Hackett, W. R., and Mertzman, S. A.: GSA Rocky Mountain Section, Abstracts with programs, Vol. 24, no. 6, p. 18.

1992. Goosenest volcano, southern Oregon: High K2O, Ba, and Sr basaltic andesite extrusives: GSA Annual Mtg. Abstracts with programs, Vol. 24, no. 7, p. A262.

1993. Petrology of the Organ Needle Pluton Implications for Open System Evolution of Large Volume Compositionally Zoned Magma Bodies (with M. McCurry, G.L. Farmer, P. Verplank, D. Cole), Amer. Geophy. Union Meeting, Vol. 74, no. 16, p. 334.

1993. Evolution and Genesis of Late Intrusive Phases of the Organ Mountains Batholith, South-Central New Mexico (with E. G. Fontenot-Durfee, M. McCurry, G. L. Farmer, P. Verplanck), Amer. Geophy. Union Meeting, Vol. 74, no. 16, p. 334.

1993. Cratonic Mantle Composition: Evidence from Siberian Xenoliths (with F. R. Boyd, D. G. Pearson, N. P. Pokhilenko), Amer. Geophy. Union Meeting, Vol. 74, no. 16, p. 321.

1994. Kohala Volcano, Hawaii: New K-Ar Ages and Whole-Rock Geochemistry (with S. Morescalchi, O. Chadwick, C. Elliott). Abstracts with Programs, NE section meeting of the GSA, Vol. 26, no. 3, p. 64.

1994. The Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field of Central Colorado: the Guffey volcanic center and surrounding areas: (with R. A. Wobus and G. Kroeger). Abstracts with Programs, Rocky Mountain section meeting of the GSA, Vol. 26, no. 6, p. 54.

1997. Widespread Late Pleistocene Landsliding Event in the Area of Secret Spring Volcano, Southern Oregon (With R. Hazlett, E. Bilstrom, B. Cross, and G. Kormeier) Abstracts with Program 1997 GSA Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah. (October, 1997)

1998. Major Element Fractionation During Hydrolytic and Sulfuric Weathering on Mauna Kea Volcano: Implications for Weathering on Mars (with R. V. Morris, D. C. Golden, C. C. Allen, D. Ming, and D. R. Thompson). 29th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. (March 16-20, 1998)

1998. K-Ar Results From a Swath of the Cascade Mountains Between Macdoel, Ca. and Sky Lakes Wilderness, Or. Annual Meeting of the Geol. Soc. of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, p. A388, 1998.

1999. Age and Origin of Trachyandesite Lavas Capping Upper and Lower Table Rock, Jackson County, Oregon: (With F. R. Hladky and C. Mitchell) Cordilleran Section Meeting of the Geol. Soc. of America, April, 1999.

2000. Chemical and Mineralogical Purity of Sinus Meridiani Hematite. R.V. Morris, M.D. Lane, S. Mertzman, T.D. Shelfer, P.R. Christensen: Abstracts of the 31st Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, March, 2000, Houston, TX.

2000. Spectral-Compositional Properties of Zeolites. E.A. Cloutis, P.M. Asher, S.A. Mertzman, and M. Guerin: Abstracts of the 31st Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, March, 2000, Houston, TX.

2000. Spectral Reflectance Properties of Common Zeolites. E.A. Cloutis, P.M.Asher, S.A. Mertzman, and M. Guerin: Abstracts of the 31st Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, March, 2000, Houston, TX.

2000. Acid Sulphate Alteration Products of a Tholeiitic Basalt: Implications for Interpretation of Martian Thermal Emission Spectra. R.V. Morris, T. Graff,M.D. Lane, D.C. Golden, C.S. Schwandt, T.D. Shelfer, D.W. Ming, S.A.Mertzman, J.F. Bell, J. Crisp, P.R. Christensen: Abstracts of the 31st Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, March, 2000, Houston, TX.

Spectral Reflectance and Compositional Properties of Common Zeolites. E.A. Cloutis, P.M. Asher, S.A. Mertzman, and M. Guerin: Abstracts for Meetings, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, October, 2000.

Spectral Reflectance Properties of Zeolite Group Minerals. E.A. Cloutis, P.M. Asher, S.A. Mertzman, and M. Guertin: Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, LPI, March, 2001.

Mineralogical Ground Truth for AVIRIS Hyperspectral Observations of Cinder Cones on the Summit of Mauna Kea Volcano. Ming, D., Morris, R., Graff, T., Arvidson, R., Joliff, B., Guiness, E., Seelos, F., Bell, J., Mertzman, S.: American Geophy. Union Fall Meeting, 2002

Abiotic Earth; Establishing a baseline for earliest life: data from the Archean of Western Australia. J. F. Lindsay, M. D. Brasier, N. McLoughlin, O. R. Green, M. Fogel, K. M. McNamara,, A. Steele, and S. A. Mertzman. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March, 2003.

Geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic constraints on the genesis of Mesozoic alkaline magmatism in the Tu Le basin, northern Vietnam. Tran, T. A., Tran, T. H., Lan, C. Y., Chung, S. L., Lo, C. H., Wang, P. L., Lee, T. Y., and Mertzman, S. A.: EGS-AGU-EUG Meeting, Nice, France, April, 2003.

Geochemical and Nd-Sr isotopic characteristics of Permo-triassic arc magmatism, northern Vietnam. Lan, C.Y., Tran, T.H., Tran, T.A., Mertzman, S. A., Wang, P. L., Lo, C. H., and Lee, T. Y.: EGS-AGU-EUG Meeting, Nice, France, April, 2003.

Palagonitic Mars - from rock rinds to dust: Evidence from visible, near-IR, and thermal emission spectra of poorly crystalline materials. R. V. Morris, T. G. Graff, S. A. Mertzman, M. D. Lane, and P. R. Christensen. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March, 2003.

Hydrothermal alteration on basaltic Mauna Kea volcano as a template for identification of hydrothermal alteration on basaltic Mars. R. V. Morris, T. G. Graff, D. W. Ming, S. A. Mertzman, and J. F. Bell. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas, March, 2003.

Palagonitic (not andesitic) Mars: Evidence from thermal emission and VNIR spectra of palagonitic alteration rinds on basaltic rock: R. V. Morris, T. G. Graff, S. A. Mertzman, M. D. Lane, P. R. Christiansen. Mars 6 Conference (2003)

PLATY HEMATITE AND METAMORPHISM ON MARS. M. D. Lane, R. V. Morris, W. K. Hartmann, P. R. Christensen, and S. A. Mertzman. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas,, 2002.

Non-Magmatic Avalanche Amphitheater Formation at Secret Spring Volcano, Oregon-California Border. R. W. Hazlett and S. A. Mertzman. Third Northwest Pacific Tectonics, Volcanology, Seismology Worksop, June, 2002, Fairbanks, Alaska

Palagonitic Mars: A basalt centric view of surface composition and aqueous alteration. R. V. Morris, T. G. Graf, D. W. Ming, J. F. Bell, S. A. Mertzman, and P. R. Christensen. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March, 2004, NASA, Houston, TX.

Chicxulub impact melts: geochemical signatures of target lithology mixing and post-impact hydrothermal fluid processes. D. A. Kring, L. Zurcher, F. Horz, and S. A. Mertzman. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 2004, NASA, Houston, TX.

Archean hydrothermal systems and the nature of the abiotic / biotic boundary, J. F. Lindsey, M. D. Brasier, N. McLoughlin, O. R. Green, M. Fogel, S. Mertzman, and A. Steele. Geological Society of America National Meeting, Seattle, WA. Abstracts with Program vol. 35. no. 6, November, 2003.

Trace element geochemistry in Brazilian Cerrado soils, J. J. Marques, D. G. Schulze, N. Curi, and S. A. Mertzman, Soil Science Society of Americal National Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2 – 6, 2003.

Palagonitic (not andesitic) Mars: Evidence from thermal emission and VNIR spectra of palagonitic alteration rinds on basaltic rock, R. V. Morris, T. G. Graff, S. A. Mertzman, M. D. Lane, and P. R. Christensen. Sixth International conference on Mars, Pasadena, CA. July 20 – 25, 2003. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/sixthmars2003

Responding to public requests for analyses: lessons learned from the Statesboro meteorite: M. S. Kelley, P. M. Asher, K. C. Welten, and S. Mertzman, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5, p.217, 2004.

Analysis of the Statesboro, Georgia shock-darkened L5 chondrite. M. S. Kelley, P. M. Asher, K. C. Welten, M. Roden, S. A. Mertzman, and E. F. Albin. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXXV, March, 2005.

Detection and discrimination of sulfate minerals using optical spectroscopy in the OMEGA and CRISM wavelength ranges: Implications for reconstructing Mars’ geological history, Cloutis, E. A., Hawthorne, F. W., Mertzman, S. A., and Krenn, K., Canadian Space Exploration Workshop, May 12-13, 2005, Montreal, Canada.

X-Ray Analysis on Mars: An Adventure with Spirit and Opportunity; Stanley A. Mertzman, Powder Diffraction V. 20, no. 3, p. 263, September, 2005.

The Geology of the Western Margin of the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon; Stanley A. Mertzman, AGU National Meeting, San Francisco, December, 2005 Published in Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (EOS)