Research Interests

• Tectonics of convergent margin systems and magmatic arcs
• Chemical and physical evolution of magmatic systems
• Igneous Petrology
• Structural Geology

Selected Publications

• Farris, D.W., 2009, Construction and evolution of the Kodiak Talkeetna island arc crustal section, Crustal cross-sections from the western North America Cordillera and elsewhere: Implications for tectonic and petrologic processes, R. Miller and A. Snoke, eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 456, p. 69-96.


• Farris, D.W. and Paterson, S.R., 2009, Subduction of a segmented ridge along a curved continental margin: Variations between the western and eastern Sanak-Baranof belt, southern Alaska, Tectonophysics, 464, p. 137-163.


• Ayuso, R.A., Haeussler, P.J., Bradley, D.C., Farris, D.W., Foley, N.K., and Wandless, G.A., 2009, The role of ridge subduction in determining the geochemistry and Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic evolution of the Kodiak batholith in southern Alaska, Tectonophysics, 464, p. 137-163.


• Paterson, S.R., and Farris, D.W, 2008, Downward host rock transport and the formation of rim monoclines during the emplacement of Cordilleran batholiths, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 97, p. 397-413.


• Paterson, S.R., Farris, D., Memeti, V., Miller, R, Pignotta, G., Yoshinobu, A., Vernon, R.H., and Zak, J., 2008, Comment of “Is stoping a volumetrically significant pluton emplacement process?” by Glazner, A. and Bartley, J., Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, no. 7/8 p. 1075-1079.


• Farris, D.W. and Paterson, S.R., 2007, Physical contamination of silicic magmas and fractal fragmentation of xenoliths in Paleocene plutons on Kodiak Island, AK, Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 45, p. 107-129.


• Farris, D.W., Haeussler, P., Friedman, R., Paterson, S.R., Saltus, R.W., Ayuso, R., 2006, Emplacement of the Kodiak batholith: A consequence of slab-window migration, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 11/12, p. 1360-1376.


• Craddock, J.P., Farris, D.W., and Roberson, A., 2004, Calcite twinning constraints on stress-strain fields along the mid-Atlantic ridge, Iceland, Geology, vol. 32, no 1, p. 49-52.