Published
Wise, M.A., Throckmorton, C.S., Harmon, R.S., Curry, A.C., Hark, R.H., 2025, Discriminating granitic pegmatites by LIBS analysis of potassium feldspar, The Canadian Journal of Mineralogy and Petrology, 63 (6), 583-588.
Harmon, R.S., Lu, L., Curry, A., Murray, R.M., Richter, D., 2025, LIBS as a tool for Li-pegmatite exploration and prospect evaluation: Soil mica and soil analysis from the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, Applied Geochemistry, 191 (106534), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2025.106534.
Curry, A., Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., 2025, Trace element geochemistry of Li-rich pegmatites in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, North Carolina, USA: implications for petrogenesis and exploration, Economic Geology, Special Volume on Lithium (invited).
Wise, M.A., Curry, A.C., Harmon, R.S., 2024, Reevaluation of the K/Rb-Li Systematics in Muscovite as a Potential Exploration Tool for Identifying Li Mineralization in Granitic Pegmatites, Minerals, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/min14010117.
Harmon, R.S., Wise, M.A., Curry, A., Mistele, J.S., Mason, M.S., Grimac, Z., 2023, Rapid Analysis of Muscovites on a Lithium Pegmatite Prospect by Handheld LIBS, Minerals, 13 (697), doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/min13050697.
Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., Curry, A., Jennings, M., Grimac, Z., Khashchevskaya, D., 2022, Handheld LIBS for Li Exploration: An Example from the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA, Minerals, 12 (77), doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/min12010077. (Editor’s Choice Article)
Curry, A., Caricchi, L., Lipman, P., 2021a, Magmatic evolution of zoned and unzoned ignimbrites: evidence for a complex crustal architecture feeding four rapid-sequence, caldera-forming eruptions in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, Journal of Petrology, v. 62 (5), p. 1-37, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egab006.
Curry, A., Gaynor, S.P., Davies, J.H.F.L., Ovtcharova, M., Gaynor, G., Simpson, G., Caricchi, L., 2021b, Timescales and thermal evolution of large silicic magma reservoirs during an ignimbrite flare-up: perspectives from zircon, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 176 (12), p. 1-27, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01862-w.
In Press
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In Review
Curry, A., Singer, M., Musu, A., Caricchi, L., Supervised and unsupervised machine learning applied to an ignimbrite flare-up in the central San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences.
In Prep
Lewbart, G.A., Curry, A., Cohen, E.B., Muñoz-Pérez, J.P., Lohmann, K.J., Hirschfeld, M., Hyland, E., Soldati, A., Iguana Rocks: The occurrence of enteroliths in marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) from the Galápagos archipelago, PeerJ (intended journal for submission).
Curry, A., Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., Using spodumene trace element chemistry and Li isotopes for pegmatite petrogenesis and as a geochemical fingerprint, Colorado, Geology (intended journal for submission).
Curry, A., Davies, J.H.F.L., Caricchi, L., Lipman, P., Gaynor, S.P., Zircon Hf and O isotopes during a rapid ignimbrite flare-up, central San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, Geology (intended journal for submission).
Chapters
Curry, A.C., 2010, Geochemical Investigation of the Red Cinder Point Area of Makushin Volcano, Unalaska, Alaska, in Keck Geology Consortium Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology, 328-334, https://keckgeology.org/files/pdf/symvol/23rd/Unalaska/Curry.pdf.
Conference Abstracts (talks)
Curry, A., Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., 2024, Using trace element geochemistry of spodumene to understand pegmatite petrogenesis and as a geochemical fingerprint, Abstract V24A-03, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 9-13 December.
Lewbart, G.A., Muñoz-Pérez, J.P., Lohmann, K.J., Hirschfeld, M., Alarcon-Ruales, D., Valle, C., Páez-Rosas, D., Bolanos, J., Loyola, A., Townsend, K., Soldati, A., Curry, A., Hyland, E., Cohen, E.B., 2024, Iguana rocks: the occurrence of enteroliths in Galapagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus Cristatus), 6th Galapagos Symposium on Research and Conservation, San Cristobal, Galapagos, Ecuador, 15-16 July.
Curry, A.C., Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., 2024, Trace element mineral chemistry of Li-rich pegmatites in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, North Carolina, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024SE-398434.
Harmon, R.S., Curry, A.C. (speaker), Wise, M.A., 2024, Analysis of muscovite from the Spruce Pine Pegmatite District by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024SE-398437.
Curry, A.C., 2022, Petrology and geochronology of the last gasp of the central San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, Abstract 381163, GSA Connects, Denver, Colorado, 9-12 October (invited).
Curry, A.C., Wise, M.A., Coleman, D.S., Harmon, R.S., Grimac, Z., 2022, Petrogenesis and classification of pegmatites in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA, Abstract 381197, GSA Connects, Denver, Colorado, 9-12 October.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., Davies, J.H.F.L., and Ovtcharova, M., 2019, Zircon petrochronology of four rapid-succession, caldera-forming eruptions in the central San Juan caldera cluster, Abstract V44A-08, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 9-13 December.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., Davies, J.H.F.L., and Ovtcharova, M., 2019, Zircon petrochronology of four rapid-succession, caldera-forming eruptions in the central San Juan caldera cluster, 17th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, 22-23 November.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., and Lipman, P., 2017, Determining the physical and chemical processes behind four caldera-forming eruptions in rapid succession in the San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, USA, Abstract ME42A-1, IAVCEI Scientific Assembly, Portland, Oregon, 14-18 August.
Conference Abstracts (posters; *=student mentee)
Ramos Jr., R.M.*, Harmon, R.S., Curry, A.C., 2025, Determination of K/Rb-Li systematics of microcline from handheld LIBS Analysis, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025SE-407923.
Hanna, H., Pelt, K.E., Chapman, J.S., Veach, D.M., Curry, A., Preliminary results from a critical minerals characterization of Tungsten Queen Mine tailings, Vance County, North Carolina, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025SE-407825.
Bradley, P., Curry, A.C., Thompson, G.J., Zhang, Q., New problems from new data - an example from the Carolina Terrane in North Carolina and bearing on interstate correlation, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025SE-407549.
Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., Curry, A.C., 2024, Quantitative laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) of muscovite: assessing potential lithium mineralization in pegmatites of North Carolina, Abstract V21B-3255, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 9-13 December.
Lu, L., Richter, D., Kelly, L., Mason, M. S., Dossou, A., Curry, A., & Harmon, R., 2024, The Fate of Lithium in Pedogenesis Above Spodumene-Rich Pegmatites at Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, North Carolina, USA. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2024am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/163857.
Curry, A., Wise, M.A., Harmon, R.S., 2023, Geochemistry of Lithium-rich Pegmatites in the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, USA, Abstract V41C-0131, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 11-15 December.
Murray, R.M.*, Harmon, R.S., Curry, A.C., Mistele, J.S.*, Mason, M.S., Grimac, Z., Richter, D.D., 2023, Soil Analysis by Handheld Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Identification of Buried Pegmatite, Abstract 389566, GSA Connects, Pittsburgh, PA, 15-18 October.
Mistele, J.S.*, Curry, A.C., Harmon, R.S., Murray, R.M.*, Wise, M.A., Jennings, M., 2022, Quantitative analysis of Li, K, Rb, and Cs in rare-element pegmatite muscovite and the rapid determination of pegmatite fractionation by handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), Abstract 379076, GSA Connects, Denver, Colorado, 9-12 October.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., 2020, A data-driven approach to the petrological study of an ignimbrite flare-up in the central San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, Abstract V003-0001, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California (virtual), 1-17 December.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., and Lipman, P., 2018, Rapid, distinct magma generation preceding four caldera-forming eruptions in the Southern Rocky Mountain Volcanic Field, 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 30 November-1 December.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., and Lipman, P., 2017, Determining the physical and chemical processes behind four caldera-forming eruptions in rapid succession in the San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, USA, Abstract V11C-0364, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11-15 December.
Curry A., Caricchi L., Sheldrake T., Simpson G. Lipman P., 2017, Determining the physical and chemical processes behind four caldera-forming eruptions in rapid succession in the San Juan caldera cluster, Colorado, USA, 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, 17-18 November.
Curry, A.C., Caricchi, L., and Lipman, P., 2017, Determining the physical processes behind four large eruptions in rapid sequence in the San Juan caldera cluster (Colorado, USA), Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 19, EGU2017-18630, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
Curry, A.C., 2013, The role of shear heating in obsidian formation within volcanic conduits, Abstract V21B-2716, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 9-13 December.
Curry, A.C., 2013, The role of shear heating in the formation of obsidian: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 45, no. 6, 14-15
Nicolaysen, K.E., Curry, A.C., Goldberg, A., Wobus, R.A., Lackey, J.S., Hazlett, R.W., and Bindeman, I.N., 2010, Thermobarometry, argon dating and oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Pleistocene Pt. Tebenkof ignimbrite, Makushin Volcano, AK, Abstract V11D-2334, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 13-17 December.
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