Publications
“Beautiful is what we see,
more beautiful, what we know,
but by far the most beautiful
is what we do not know”
- Nicolas Steno -
Journal Publications
LEUNG, D.D.V., TINKHAM, D.K., & MCDONALD, A.M. (2024) Application of thermodynamic modelling (activity diagrams) to carbonated ultramafic rocks associated with orogenic gold environments. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology (in press).
LEUNG, D.D.V. & MCDONALD, A.M. (2023) The where of mineral names: Windmountainite, Wind Mountain, Otero County, New Mexico. Rocks & Minerals 98(6), 560–565.
LEUNG, D.D.V. & DEPOLO, P.E. (2023) GC Insights: The crystal structures behind mineral properties – a case study of using TotBlocks in an undergraduate optical mineralogy lab. Geoscience Communication 6, 125–129.
LEUNG, D.D.V. & MCDONALD, A.M. (2023) Picture-perfect petrography: Affordable thin-section scanning for geoscientists in the digital era. Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology 61(5), 1045–1050.
LEUNG, D.D.V. & DEPOLO, P.E. (2022) TotBlocks: Exploring the relationships between modular rock-forming minerals with 3D-printed interlocking brick modules. European Journal of Mineralogy 34, 523–538.
CARTWRIGHT-TAYLOR, A., MANGRIOTIS, M.-D., MAIN, I.G., BUTLER, I.B., FUSSEIS, F., LING, M., ANDÒ, E., CURTIS, A., BELL, A.F., CRIPPEN, A., RIZZO, R.E., MARTI, S., LEUNG, D.D.V., & MAGDYSYUK, O.V. (2022) Seismic events miss important grain-scale mechanisms governed by kinetics during shear failure of porous rock. Nature Communications 13, 6169.
LEUNG, D.D.V. & MCDONALD, A.M. (2022) Taking rocks for granite: An integrated geological, mineralogical, and textural study of curling stones used in international competition. The Canadian Mineralogist 60(1), 171–199.
LEUNG, D.D. & MCDONALD, A.M. (2020) Windmountainite, â–¡Fe3+2Mg2Si8O20(OH)2(H2O)4·4H2O, a new modulated, layered Fe3+-Mg-silicate-hydrate from Wind Mountain, New Mexico: Characterisation and origin, with comments on the classification of palygorskite-group minerals. The Canadian Mineralogist 58(4), 477–509.