About
Martin Grove is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Geology from the University of California, Los Angeles, obtained in 1993 and 1987 respectively, and a B.S. in Geology from California State University, Long Beach, earned in 1983. His research focuses on geochronology, as indicated by his association with the Geochronology SHRIMP-RG Noble Gas Lab. He is involved in teaching and research within the department, contributing to the understanding of Earth's processes through his expertise in geology.
Research topics
- Geochemistry
- Paleontology
- Geology
- Petrology
Selected publications
Geology · 2026-04-06
articleA previously unrecognized, 160-km-long belt of small (0.5−7.2 km2) monogenetic adakite volcanic domes crops out in the southern California−northern Baja California coastal region. The belt appears related to Neogene transrotational rifting of the inner southern California borderland caused by propagation of the East Pacific Rise into the region. Volcanism from 18 Ma to 14 Ma attended peak rifting within the borderland. Adakites that erupted along the eastern rift flank are somewhat younger based on new 40Ar/39Ar data (14−8 Ma). The adakite domes are compositionally distinct from the mostly calc-alkaline borderland volcanics in having higher Na- and Al-contents, higher Na/K, depleted heavy rare earth elements, depleted Y, and elevated Sr and Sr/Y. We propose that they were generated by lateral heat transfer from upwelling asthenosphere beneath the inner borderland into the rift flank, where low volume adakite magmas were produced by partial melting of the Cretaceous subduction complex beneath the western Peninsular Ranges arc. This conductive heat transfer operated at slower time scales, lagging behind the more rapid advective processes active within the rifted borderland. Partial melts likely formed at 20−30 km depths for up to 6 m.y. after the main phase of borderland rifting. A similar process may have produced petrogenetically related rocks along the opposing rift flank in the northern Channel Islands and Santa Monica Mountains.
A PORTAL TO THE PAST: TIMING OF SEDIMENT UNDERPLATING AT PORTAL RIDGE, CALIFORNIA
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
articleAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
articleSenior authorAge, composition and history of the rifted Southern California mafic forearc basement
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
articleAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
articleAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2025-01-01
articleAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024-01-01
articleAbstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2024-01-01
articleModulation of Deformation by Magmatic Tempo, Coast Mountains Batholith, British Columbia, Canada
Tectonics · 2024-11-01 · 3 citations
articleOpen accessAbstract The tectonomagmatic evolution of the southern Coast Mountains batholith, British Columbia reveals the relation of magmatic tempo, deformation, and relative plate motions which inform models for growth of continental crust and convergent plate dynamics. Magmatism in the southern batholith is episodic, derived primarily from the mantle, and reflects lower‐plate dynamics (Cecil et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007874 , 2021, https://doi.org/10.1130/ges02361.1 ). New field, structural, geochronologic, and geobarometric results from the southern batholith document three episodes of deformation, each spatially and temporally coincident with a high magmatic flux event (HFE). Sinistral faulting (<117–103 Ma) and penetrative deformation (110–90 Ma) occurred only within two distinct areas affected by a HFE at 114–102 Ma. Following a magmatic lull, crustal shortening occurred after 90 Ma and before 72 Ma within the region affected by a second HFE (85–70 Ma). After 70 Ma and before 53 Ma, >100 km of dextral slip occurred on the Coast shear zone and minor shortening affected 64–62 Ma plutons, overlapping with the 64–61 Ma HFE. Thus, at the crustal level exposed in the southern batholith, the timing and location of deformation is linked to magmatic tempo and the style of deformation varies through time. These results suggest that magmatic HFE modulate the timing and location of deformation while relative plate motions during HFE influence the style of deformation. Periods of deformation in batholiths may thus record high‐flux magmatic events and coeval plate motion but do not necessarily signal changes in plate motions.
Recent grants
NSF · $82k · 2012–2014
NSF · $112k · 2011–2015
NSF · $145k · 2010–2013
Frequent coauthors
- 82 shared
T. Mark Harrison
University of California, Los Angeles
- 63 shared
Oscar M. Lovera
Planetary Science Institute
- 37 shared
Carl E. Jacobson
- 33 shared
J. K. Hourigan
University of California System
- 33 shared
An Yin
- 30 shared
David L. Kimbrough
- 26 shared
Andrew P. Barth
- 20 shared
George E. Gehrels
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