My History

Education

• B.S., University of Tennessee, Geology, 1963

• Ph.D., Columbia University, Marine Geology, 1968

Professional Experience

• Chairman, Geology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1986-1996.

• Professor, Geology Department, and Professor, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1983-present.

• Acting Department Chairman, Geology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1981-82.

• Acting Department Chairman, Geology Department, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Spring 1980.

• Associate Professor, Geology Department and Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1975-1983.

• Assistant Professor, Geology Department, and Assistant Professor, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1970-1975.

• National Research Council Postdoctoral Resident Research Associate, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, February 1970 to August 1970.

• Captain U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Research Assignment, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, April 1968 to February 1970.

• Mineralogy Instructor, Hunter College, New York City, New York, Spring Term 1967.

• Graduate Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 1964-68.

• Student Trainee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Summer 1962 and 1963.

Professional Activities

• Professional Memberships:
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
  American Geophysical Union
  Geological Society of America (Fellow)
  International Astronomical Union
  Meteoritical Society (Fellow)
  National Association of Geology Teachers
  Sigma Xi

Honors and Awards

• Schlumberger Upper Class Scholarship Award in Geology, 1962-63

Graduate:

• Ford Predoctoral Fellowship in Oceanography
• 1963-64 Nininger Meteorite Award, 1967-68

Post-Doctoral:

• Awarded the Antarctic Service Medal
• 1979 Advisory Board Award for Research Publication - College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware
• 1979 SEPM Excellence of Presentation Award for 1983

Publications

• Glass, B. P., (1982) Introduction to Planetary Geology (New York, Cambridge) 469 pp.

• Heezen, B. C., B. P. Glass, and H. W. Menard (1966) The Manihiki Plateau, Deep-Sea Research 13, 445-458.

• Opdyke, N. D., B. P. Glass, J. D. Hays, and J. Foster (1966) Paleomagnetic Study of Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores, Science 154, 349-357.

• Glass, B. P. (1967) Microtektites in Deep-Sea Sediments, Nature 214, 372-374.

• Glass, B. P. (1967) Tektites and Geomagnetic Reversals, Nature 214, 372.

• Glass, B. P., D. B. Ericson, B. C. Heezen, N. D. Opdyke, and J. A. Glass (1967) Geomagnetic Reversals and Pleistocene Chronology, Nature 216, 437-442.

• Glass, B. P. and B. C. Heezen (1967) Tektites and Geomagnetic Reversals, Scientific American 217, 32-38.

• Glass, B. P. and B. C. Heezen (1967) Letter to the Editor, Scientific American 217, 18-22.

• Glass, B. P. (1968) Glass Objects (Microtektites?) From Deep-Sea Sediments Near the Ivory Coast, Science 161, 891-893.

• Cassidy, W. A., B. P. Glass, and B. C. Heezen (1969) Physical and Chemical Properties of Australasian Microtektites, Journal of Geophysical Research 74, 1008-1025.

• Glass, B. P. (1969) Silicate Spherules from the Tunguska Impact Area: Electron Microprobe Analysis, Science 164, 547-549.

• Opdyke, N. D. and B. P. Glass (1969) The Paleomagnetism of Sediment Cores from the Indian Ocean, Deep-Sea Research 16, 249-261.

• Glass, B. P. (1969) Chemical Composition of Ivory Coast Microtektites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 33, 1135-1147.

• Glass, P. B. (1969) Reworking of Deep-Sea Sediments as Indicated by the Vertical Dispersion of the Australasian and Ivory Coast Microtektite Horizons, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 6, 409-415.

• Gentner, B., B. P. Glass, D. Storzer, and G. A. Wagner (1970) Fission Track Ages and Ages of Deposition of Deep-Sea Microtektites, Science 168, 3 59-361.

• Glass, B. P. (1970) Zircon and Chromite Crystals in a Muong Nong-Type Tektite, Science 169, 766-769.

• Glass, B. P. (1970) Comparison of the Chemical Variation in a Flanged Australite with the Chemical Variation Among "Normal" Microtektites, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 9, 240-246.

• Glass, B. P. (1971) Investigation of Glass Recovered from Apollo Sample No. 12057, Journal of Geophysical Research 72, 5649-5657.

• Glass, B. P. (1972) Micrometeorite Craters on Lunar Glass Particles: The Relationship Between Radial Fracture Zones and Spall Zones, Meteoritics 7, 47-49.

• Glass, B. P. (1972) Australasian Microtektites in Deep-Sea Sediments, American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series l9, 335-347.

• Glass, B. P., D. Storzer, and G. A. Wagner (1972) Chemistry and Particle-Track Studies of Apollo 14 Glasses, in Proc. Third Lunar Science Conference. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supple. 2, Vol. l, 927-937.

• Glass, B. P. (1972) Crystalline Inclusions in a Muong Nong-Type Indochinite, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 16, 23-26.

• Glass, B. P. (1972) Bottle-Green Microtektites, Journal of Geophysical Research 77, 7057-7064.

• Glass, B. P. (1973) Major Element Compositions of Lunar 20 Glass Particles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 37, 841-846.

• Glass, B. P., R. N. Baker, D. Storzer, and G. A. Wagner (1973) North American Microtektites from the Caribbean Sea and their Fission Track Age. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 19, 184-192.

• Baker, R. N. and B. P. Glass (1974) Microtektites and Test Components of Caribbean Arenaceous Foraminifera, Micropaleontology 20, 231-235.

• Glass, B. P. (1974) Microtektite Surface Sculpturing, Geological Society of America Bulletin 85, 1305-1314.

• Glass, B. P. (1974) Investigation of a Luna 16 Glass Bead, in Vinogradov, A.P. (Ed.) Lunar Soil from Sea of Fertility, Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, p. 236-238.

• John, C. and B. P. Glass (1974) Clinopyroxene-Bearing Glass Spherules Associated with North American Microtektites, Geology 2, 599-602.

• Glass, B. P. (1974) High-Magnesium Glasses Associated with North American Microtektites in a Caribbean Deep-Sea Sediment Core, Meteoritics 9, 345-347.

• Glass, B. P. (1976) Major Element Composition of Glasses from Apollo ll, 16, and 17 Soil Samples, in Proc. Lunar Science Conference 7th. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Suppl. 7, Vol. 1, 679-694.

• Glass, B. P. (1976) High-Silica (> 60 %) Lunar Glasses in an Apollo 14 Soil Sample: Evidence for Silicic Lunar Volcanism?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 33, 7985.

• Maurrassee, F. and B. P. Glass (1976) Radiolarian stratigraphy and North American microtektites in Caribbean core RC9-58: Implications concerning late Eocene radiolarian chronology and the age of the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. 7th Caribbean Geol. Conf. Proc., July 1974, Guadeloupe, p. 205-212.

• Glass, B. P. and M. J. Zwart (1977) North American Microtektites, Radiolarian Extinctions and the Age of the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary, in F. M. Swain (ed.) Stratigraphic Micropaleontology of Atlantic Basin and Borderlands, (Elsevier, New York) p. 553-568.

• Glass, B. P. (1978) Australasian Microtektites and the Stratigraphic Age of the Australites, Bulletin Geological Society of America 89, 1455-1458.

• Glass, B. P. and R. A. Barlow (1979) Mineral Inclusions in Muong Nong-Type Indochinites: Implications Concerning Parent Material and Process of Formation, Meteoritics 14 (1), 55-67.

• Glass, B. P. and M. J. Zwart (1979) North American Microtektites in Deep-Sea Drilling Project Cores from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, Bulletin Geological Society of America Part 1, Vol. 90, 595-602.

• Glass, B. P. and P. A. Zwart (1979) The Ivory Coast Microtektite Strewn Field: New Data, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 43, 336-342.

• Glass, B. P. (1979) Zhamanshin Crater, A Possible Source of Australasian Tektites?, Geology 7, 351-353.

• Glass, B. P. (1979) Major Element Compositions of Luna 20 Glass Particles, in Barsukov, V. L. and Yu. A. Surkov (eds.) Regolith from the Highland Region of the Moon. Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, p. 413-416.

• Glass, B. P. M. B. Swincki, and P. A. Zwart (1979) Australasian, Ivory Coast and North American Tektite Strewn Fields: Size, Mass and Correlation with Geomagnetic Reversals and Other Earth Events, Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf. 10th, 2535-2545.

• Ruddiman, W. F., G. A. Jones, T.-H. Peng, L. K. Glover, B. P. Glass, and P. J. Liebertz (1980) Tests for size and shape dependency in deep-sea mixing. Sedimentary Geology 25, 257-276.

• Van Patter, D. M., C. P. Swann, and B. P. Glass (1981) Proton Probe Analysis of an Irghizite and a High-Magnesium Java Tektite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45, 229-234.

• Glass, B. P. and J. R. Crosbie (1982) Age of the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary Based on Extrapolation from the North American Microtektite Layer. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 66, 471-476.

• Glass, B. P. (1982) Possible Correlations Between Tektite Events and Climatic Changes? Proceedings of the Conference on Large Body Impacts. Geological Society of America Special Paper 90, 251-256.

• Glass, B. P., D. L. DuBois, and R. Ganapathy (1982) Relationship Between an Iridium Anomaly and the North American Microtektite Layer in Core RC9-58 from the Caribbean Sea, Proceedings Lunar and Planetary Science Conf. 13th. Journal of Geophysical Research, 87, supplement, A425-A428.

• Glass, B. P., K. Fredrikson, and P. V. Florensky (1983) Microirghizites Recovered from a Sediment Sample from the Zhamanshin Impact Structure, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, B319-B330.

• Glass, B. P. (1984) Tektites, Proceedings of the Conference on Glass in Planetary and Geological Phenomena. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 67, 333-344.

• Glass, B. P. (1984) Solution of Naturally-Occurring Glasses in the Geological Environment, Proceedings of the Conference on Glass in Planetary and Geological Phenomena. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 67, 265-286.

• Sanfilipo, A., W. R. Riedel, B.P. Glass, and F. T. Kyte (1985) Late Eocene Microtektites and Radiolarian Extinction on Barbados, Nature, 314, 613-615.

• Ngo, H. H., G. J. Wasserburg, and B. P. Glass (1985) Nd and Sr Isotopic Compositions of Tektite Material from Barbados and Their Relationship to North American Tektites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 49, 1479-1485.

• Glass, B. P., C. A. Burns, J. R. Crosbie, and D. L. DuBois (1985) Late Eocene North American Microtektites and Clinopyroxene-Bearing Spherules, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1. Journal of Geophysical Research. 90, D 175-D 196.

• Glass, B. P. (1986) Lunar Sample 14425: Not a Lunar Tektite, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 50, 111-113.

• Glass, B. P., C. M. Hall, and D. York (1986) 40Ar/39Ar Laser-Probe Dating of North American Tektite Fragments from Barbados and the Age of the Eocene- Oligocene Boundary, Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section) 59, 181-186.

• Glass, B. P. (1986) No Evidence for a 0.8-0.9 m.y. Old Micro-Australite Layer in DeepSea Cores, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 77, 428-433.

• Glass, B. P. (1986) Late Eocene Microtektites and Clinopyroxene-Bearing Spherules, in Pomerol, Ch. and I. Premoli-Silva (eds.) Terminal Eocene Events. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V., Amsterdam, p. 395-401.

• Glass, B. P. (1986) Solution of Natural Glasses in the Geological Environment, Advances in Ceramics. 20: Nuclear Waste Management 11, 723-732.

• Glass, B. P. and C. A. Burns (1987) Late Eocene Crystal-Bearing Spherules: Two Layers or One? Meteoritics 22, 265-279.

• Glass, B. P. and C. A. Burns (1988) Microkyrstites: A New Term for Impact-Produced Glassy Spherules Containing Primary Crystallites. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 455-458.

• Koeberl, C. and B. P. Glass (1988) Chemical composition of North American Microtektites and Tektite Fragments from Barbados and DSDP Site 612 on the Continental Slope off New Jersey, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 87, 286-292.

• Glass, B. P., F. E. Senftle, D. W. Muenow, K. E. Aggrey and A. N. Thorpe (1988) Atomic bomb glass beads: Tektite and microtektite analogs, in Konta J. (ed.) 2nd International Conf. on Natural Glasses. Prague. September 21-25. 1987, (Charles University, Prague), p. 361-369.

• Glass, B. P. and C. Koeberl (1989) Trace Element Study of High- and Low-refractive Index Muong Nong-type Tektites from Indochina. Meteoritics 24, 143-146.

• Glass, B. P. (1989) North American Tektite Debris and Impact Ejecta from DSDP Site 612. Meteoritics 24, 209-218.

• Glass, B. P., J. T. Wasson and D. S. Futrell (1990) A Layered Moldavite Containing Baddeleyite. Proc. of the Twentieth Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., 415-420.

• Glass, B. P. (1990) Tektites and Microtektites: Key Facts and Inferences. Proceedings of the Workshop on Cryptoexplosions and Catastrophes in the Geological Record. Tectonophysics 171, 393-404.

• Glass, B. P., D. V. Kent, D. A. Schneider, and L. Tauxe (1991) Ivory Coast Microtektite strewn field: Description and Relation to the Jaramillo Geomagnetic Event. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 107, 182- 196.

• Glass, B. P. and J. Wu (1992) Search for Microaustralites in Deep-Sea Sediments less than 20,000 years old., Meteoritics 27, 605-608.

• Glass, B. P. and J. Wu (1993) Coesite and Shocked Quartz Discovered in the Australasian and North American Microtektites Layers. Geology 21, 435-438.

• Deutch, A. et al. (1994) The Impact-Flood Connection: Does it Exist?, Terra Nova 6, 644-650.

• Glass, B. P. and J.E. Pizzuto (1994) Geographical Variation in Australasian Microtektite Concentration: Implications concerning the location and size of the source crater. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 19,075-19,081.

• Glass, B. P., C. Koeberl, J. D. Blum, F. Senttle, G. A. Izett, B. J. Evans, A. N. Thorpe, H. Povenmire, and R. L. Strange (1995) A Muong Nong-type Georgia Tektite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59, 4071-4082.

• Bohor, B. F. and B. P. Glass (1995) Origin and diagenesis of K/T Impact Spherules - From Haiti to Wyoming and Beyond. Meteoritics 30, 182-198.

• Glass, B. P., D. R. Chapman, and M. Shyam Prasad (1996) Ablated Tektite from the Central Indian Ocean. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 31, 365-369.

• Glass, B. P., D. W. Muenow, B. F. Bohor, and G. P. Meeker (1997) Fragmentation and hydration of tektites and microtektites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 32, 333-341.

• Koeberl, C., R. Bottomley, B. P. Glass, and D. Storzer (1997) Geochemistry and age of Ivory Coast tektites and microtektites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61 1745-1772.

• Glass, B. P., C. Koeberl, J. D. Blum, and C. M. G. McHugh (1998) Upper Eocene tektite and impact ejecta layer on the continental slope off New Jersey. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 33, 229-241.

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