Recent Publications

March 15, 2020

J Petrol: Non-sequential injection of PGE-rich ultramafic sills in the Platreef Unit at Akanani, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex: Evidence from Sr and Nd isotopic systematics

March 2, 2020

Scientific Reports: Monomineralic anorthosites in layered intrusions are indicators of the magma chamber replenishment by plagioclase-only-saturated melts

February 7, 2020

Geology: Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation

January 7, 2020

EPSL: How to make porphyry copper deposits

December 23, 2019

Computational Geosciences: A numerical study of multi-parameter full waveform inversion with iterative regularization using multi-frequency vibroseis data

December 5, 2019

ACS Earth and Space Chemistry: What Fractionates Oxygen Isotopes During Respiration? Insights from Multiple Isotopologue Measurements and Theory

December 2, 2019

Nature Geoscience: Great Oxidation and Lomagundi events linked by deep cycling and enhanced degassing of carbon

December 2, 2019

AJS: The contribution to exogenic CO2 by contact metamorphism at continental arcs: A coupled model of fluid flux and metamorphic decarbonation

December 2, 2019

SCIENCE: Illuminating seafloor faults and ocean dynamics with dark fiber distributed acoustic sensing

November 25, 2019

GRL: Size of the atmospheric blocking events: Scaling law and response to climate change

November 21, 2019

GCA: Sulfur extraction via carbonated melts from sulfide-bearing mantle lithologies – Implications for deep sulfur cycle and mantle redox

November 20, 2019

Frontiers in Marine Science: The Future of Reef Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico: Insights From Coupled Climate Model Simulations and Ancient Hot-House Reefs

November 3, 2019

JGR Solid Earth: Phase relations of a depleted peridotite fluxed by a CO2-H2O fluid – Implications for the stability of partial melts versus volatile-bearing mineral phases in the cratonic mantle

November 3, 2019

Cambridge University Press: A framework for understanding whole Earth carbon cycling

October 12, 2019

Cambridge University Press: Origin and Early Differentiation of Carbon and Associated Life-Essential Volatile Elements on Earth

October 2, 2019

EPSL: Recycling reduced iron at the base of magmatic orogens

August 30, 2019

CMP: Bushveld symplectic and sieve textured chromite is a result of coupled dissolution reprecipitation: a comparison with xenocrystic chromite reactions in arc basalt

August 26, 2019

Tectonophysics: Fracture-induced pore fluid pressure weakening and dehydration of serpentinite

August 26, 2019

JGR-Solid Earth: Upper Crustal Structure and Magmatism in Southwest Washington: V_p, V_s, and V_p/V_s Results From the iMUSH Active‐Source Seismic Experiment

August 26, 2019

GRL: Constraining crustal properties using receiver functions and the autocorrelation of earthquake‐generated body waves

June 12, 2019

Nature: Isotopic constraint on the twentieth-century increase in tropospheric ozone

June 11, 2019

GRL: Evaluating indices of blocking anticyclones in terms of their linear relations with surface hot extremes

June 5, 2019

RevPalBot: Sedimentary organic matter characterization of the Whitehill shales (Karoo Basin, South Africa): An integrated quantitative approach using FE-EPMA and LA-ICP-MS

June 3, 2019

Chem. Geol.: Effect of sulfate on the basaltic liquidus and Sulfur Concentration at Anhydrite Saturation (SCAS) of hydrous basalts – Implications for sulfur cycle in subduction zones.

May 14, 2019

PNAS: Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability

May 14, 2019

QSR: Evidence of Ice Age humans in eastern Beringia suggests early migration to North America

May 9, 2019

JAS: Quantifying the Annular Mode Dynamics in an Idealized Atmosphere

May 9, 2019

G-Cubed: Bubble Coalescence and Percolation Threshold in Expanding Rhyolitic Magma

May 9, 2019

JGR-Solid Earth: Predicting Homogeneous Bubble Nucleation in Rhyolite

May 9, 2019

Nature Geoscience: Seismic velocity reduction and accelerated recovery due to earthquakes on the Longmenshan fault

May 9, 2019

GRL: Precursory Stress Changes and Fault Dilation Lead to Fault Rupture: Insights From Discrete Element Simulations

April 16, 2019

Geochemical Perspectives Letters: Exchange catalysis during anaerobic methanotrophy revealed by ¹²CH₂D₂ and ¹³CH₃D in methane

April 4, 2019

Environmental Science & Technology: In situ quantification of biological N₂ production using naturally occurring ¹⁵N¹⁵N

March 4, 2019

GCA: The fate of nitrogen during core-mantle separation on Earth

March 3, 2019

Contrib Mineral Petrol: Subduction relics in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle: evidence from variation in the δ¹⁸O value of eclogite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal Craton

February 22, 2019

Marine Chemistry: Kinetic and equilibrium fractionation of O₂ isotopologues during air-water gas transfer and implications for tracing oxygen cycling in the ocean

February 7, 2019

EPSL: The influence of plate tectonic style on melt production and CO₂ outgassing flux at mid-ocean ridges

January 28, 2019

Mineralogy and Petrology: Clinopyroxene megacrysts from Marion Island, Antarctic Ocean: evidence for a late stage shallow origin

January 28, 2019

Nature Communications: Nb/Ta systematics in arc magma differentiation and the role of arclogites in continent formation

January 24, 2019

Science Advances: Delivery of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur to the silicate Earth by a giant impact

January 21, 2019

GRL: Nitrogen in the Earth’s outer core

November 26, 2018

SuperComputing (SC’18): Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver

November 1, 2018

Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology: PRYSM v2.0: A Proxy System Model for Lacustrine Archives

November 1, 2018

GRL: Fluid controls on the heterogeneous seismic characteristics of the Cascadia margin

October 31, 2018

EPSL: Slab-mantle interaction, carbon transport, and kimberlite generation in the deep upper mantle

October 16, 2018

SEG Special Publications, Chapter 9: Anhydrite assimilation by ultramafic melts of the Bushveld Complex, and its consequences to petrology and mineralization

October 15, 2018

EPSL: Sulfur isotopic compositions of deep arc cumulates

October 4, 2018

JPet: Sulfur inventory of ocean island basalt source regions constrained by modeling the fate of sulfide during decompression melting of a heterogeneous mantle

September 18, 2018

Geochemical Perspectives Letters: Redox state of the convective mantle from CO₂-trace element systematics of oceanic basalts

August 21, 2018

Chemistry of Materials: A non-van der Waals 2D Material from natural titanium mineral ore Ilmenite

August 20, 2018

ChemGeol: Trace elements and U-Pb ages in petrified wood as indicators of paleo-hydrologic events

August 16, 2018

Chemistry of Materials: Impurity controlled crystal growth in low dimensional bismuth telluride

August 10, 2018

RCMS: Scale distortion from pressure baselines as a source of inaccuracy in triple-isotope measurements

August 3, 2018

GCA: Core-mantle fractionation of carbon in Earth and Mars: The effects of sulfur

June 29, 2018

PLOS ONE: Effect of freeze-thaw cycling on grain size of biochar

June 29, 2018

JGR-Biogeosciences: Short-Term Changes in Physical and Chemical Properties of Soil Charcoal Support Enhanced Landscape Mobility

June 29, 2018

Scientific Reports: Carbon sequestration potential and physicochemical properties differ between wildfire charcoals and slow-pyrolysis biochars

June 29, 2018

EST: Valuing the Air Quality Effects of Biochar Reductions on Soil NO Emissions

June 29, 2018

JGR-Biogeosciences: Plant species, not climate, controls aboveground biomass O2:CO2 exchange ratios in deciduous and coniferous ecosystems

June 29, 2018

Chem Geo: Decarbonation in the Ca-Mg-Fe carbonate system at mid-crustal pressure as a function of temperature and assimilation with arc magmas – Implications for long-term climate

June 6, 2018

Geomorphology: Submerged reef terraces in the Maldivian Archipelago (Indian Ocean)

May 16, 2018

Science Advances: The redox “filter” beneath magmatic orogens and the formation of continental crust

May 3, 2018

Chem Geo: A CO2 solubility model for silicate melts from fluid saturation to graphite or diamond saturation

April 19, 2018

EPSL: A low-angle detachment fault revealed: Three-dimensional images of the S-reflector fault zone along the Galicia passive margin

March 25, 2018

Scientific Reports: Volcanic ash as a driver of enhanced organic carbon burial in the Cretaceous

March 25, 2018

EPSL: An imbalance in the deep water cycle at subduction zones: The potential importance of the fore-arc mantle

March 9, 2018

G-cubed: High-Pressure Phase Relations of a Depleted Peridotite Fluxed by CO2-H2O-Bearing Siliceous Melts and the Origin of Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity

March 6, 2018

AJS: Volatile-bearing partial melts beneath oceans and continents – Where, how much, and of what compositions?

February 8, 2018

Nature Communication: Platinum-bearing chromite layers are caused by pressure reduction during magma ascent

November 27, 2017

GCA: New high pressure experiments on sulfide saturation of high-FeO* basalts with variable TiO2 contents – Implications for the sulfur inventory of the lunar interior

November 17, 2017

Science Advances: Extreme enrichment in atmospheric ¹⁵N¹⁵N

November 7, 2017

EPSL: Low oxygen and argon in the Neoproterozoic atmosphere at 815 Ma

October 19, 2017

Nature Comm: Coralgal reef morphology records punctuated sea-level rise during the last deglaciation

October 3, 2017

“Data report: reanalysis of interstitial water barium, iron, and sulfur concentrations at Sites U1426 and U1427”, by Clint Miller and Gerald Dickens, in Volume 346 of the Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

August 4, 2017

Regional background O3 and NOx in the Houston–Galveston–Brazoria (TX) region: a decadal-scale perspective

July 6, 2017

Pore water geochemistry along continental slopes north of the East Siberian Sea: inference of low methane concentrations

June 27, 2017

EPSL: High pore fluid pressures stabilize faults

June 26, 2017

Bounds on Geologically Current Rates of Motion of Groups of Hotspots

June 26, 2017

The rigid-plate and shrinking-plate hypotheses: Implications for the azimuths of transform faults

June 25, 2017

Comparison of full wavefield synthetics with frequency-dependent traveltimes calculated using wavelength-dependent velocity smoothing

June 25, 2017

Detecting a known near-surface target through application of frequency-dependent traveltime tomography and full waveform inversion to P- and SH-wave seismic refraction data

June 22, 2017

IGR: Deep mantle roots and continental emergence: implications for whole-Earth elemental cycling, long-term climate, and the Cambrian explosion

June 15, 2017

JGR-Planets: Carbon contents in reduced basalts at graphite saturation: Implications for the degassing of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon

June 7, 2017

Geomorphology: Stepwise morphological evolution of the active Yellow River (Huanghe) delta lobe (1976–2013): Dominant roles of riverine discharge and sediment grain size

June 6, 2017

Nature Comm: Lithospheric foundering and underthrusting imaged beneath Tibet

May 30, 2017

EPSL: Coupled magmatism-erosion in continental arcs: reconstructing the history of the Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith, southern California through detrital hornblende barometry in forearc sediments

May 12, 2017

Sci.Adv.: The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China

May 10, 2017

EPSL: Effects of crustal thickness on magmatic differentiation in subduction zones

April 25, 2017

Rise of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon

March 23, 2017

Experimental determination of CO2 content at graphite saturation along a natural basalt-peridotite melt join: Implications for the fate of carbon in terrestrial magma oceans

February 20, 2017

JGR-ES: Morphodynamic modeling of fluvial channel fill and avulsion time scales during early Holocene transgression, as substantiated by the incised valley stratigraphy of the Trinity River, Texas

February 17, 2017

CO2 content of andesitic melts at graphite-saturated upper mantle conditions with implications for redox state of oceanic basalt source regions and remobilization of reduced carbon from subducted eclogite

February 3, 2017

How habitable zones and super-Earths lead us astray

January 13, 2017

Episodic nature of continental arc activity since 750 Ma: A global compilation

January 13, 2017

The relative abundances of resolved ¹²CH₂D₂ and ¹³CH₃D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases

December 14, 2016

Plate tectonics: A supercontinental boost

December 2, 2016

The fate of sulfide during decompression melting of peridotite – implications for sulfur inventory of the MORB-source depleted upper mantle

December 2, 2016

Scaling relationships and physics for mixed heating convection in planetary interiors: Isoviscous spherical shells

December 2, 2016

The Energetics and Convective Vigor of Mixedmode Heating: Velocity Scalings and Implications for the Tectonics of Exoplanets

November 18, 2016

A window for plate tectonics in terrestrial planet evolution?

November 18, 2016

The importance of temporal stress variation and dynamic disequilibrium for the initiation of plate tectonics

November 18, 2016

The Solar System of Forking Paths: Bifurcations in Planetary Evolution and the Search for Life-Bearing Planets in Our Galaxy

November 18, 2016

Climate-tectonic coupling: Variations in the mean, variations about the mean, and variations in mode

October 26, 2016

Isotopic ordering in atmospheric O₂ as a tracer of ozone photochemistry and the tropical atmosphere

October 14, 2016

Effect of melt composition on crustal carbonate assimilation: Implications for the transition from calcite consumption to skarnification and associated CO2 degassing

September 5, 2016

Carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by accretion of differentiated planetary embryos

August 29, 2016

Effects of water, depth and temperature on partial melting of mantle-wedge fluxed by hydrous sediment-melt in subduction zones

August 26, 2016

Charcoal Disrupts Soil Microbial Communication Through a Combination of Signal Sorption and Hydrolysis

August 26, 2016

New methods to track microbes’ behavior in the environment

August 26, 2016

A compressive sensing approach to the high-resolution linear Radon transform: Application on teleseismic wavefields

August 7, 2016

QSR: Marine record of Holocene climate, ocean, and cryosphere interactions: Herbert Sound, James Ross Island, Antarctica

August 7, 2016

Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

July 11, 2016

Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different

June 17, 2016

EPSL: Critical porosity of melt segregation during crustal melting: Constraints from zonation of peritectic garnets in a dacite volcano

May 18, 2016

GSAB: Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River Delta, Baikal Rift basin, Russia

May 16, 2016

PNAS: A lead isotope perspective on urban development in ancient Naples

May 16, 2016

NATURE GEOSCIENCE: Two step rise of atmospheric oxygen

May 4, 2016

NATURE: Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting

May 3, 2016

SCIENCE: Continental Arc Volcanism driving greenhouse-icehouse variability

February 18, 2016

PNAS: Widespread collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf during the late Holocene

February 10, 2016

Impacts of biochar concentration and particle size on hydraulic conductivity and DOC leaching of biochar–sand mixtures

February 4, 2016

Role of arc magmatism and lower crustal foundering in controlling elevation history of the Nevadaplano and Colorado Plateau: A case study of pyroxenitic lower crust from central Arizona, USA

January 27, 2016

Chemical and Isotopic Thresholds in Charring: Implications for the Interpretation of Charcoal Mass and Isotopic Data

January 26, 2016

Deformation of Indian Ocean lithosphere: Evidence for a highly nonlinear rheological law

January 25, 2016

The rise and fall of continental arcs

October 18, 2015

Combinatorial effects on clumped isotopes and their significance in biogeochemistry

September 26, 2015

Mixed Carbonate–Siliciclastic Sedimentation Along the Great Barrier Reef Upper Slope: A Challenge to the Reciprocal Sedimentation Model

September 25, 2015

The onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum at Branch Stream, Clarence River valley, New Zealand

September 24, 2015

An Experimental Study of Trace Element Fluxes from Subducted Oceanic Crust

September 4, 2015

Geochemistry and thermodynamics of an earthquake: A case study of pseudotachylites within mylonitic granitoid

August 28, 2015

Insight to the enigmatic origin of the Hangai Dome in central Mongolia

August 12, 2015

Hydrous basalt–limestone interaction at crustal conditions: Implications for generation of ultracalcic melts and outflux of CO₂ at volcanic arcs

April 24, 2015

SCIENCE: Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂

April 3, 2015

The effects of internal heating and large scale variations on tectonic bi-stability in terrestrial planets

Events Calendar

Tue 07

Thesis Defense: Johnny Seales, Ph.D. Candidate

April 7 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm CDT

Wed 08

Thesis Defense: Alana Semple, Ph.D. Candidate

April 8 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm CDT

Mon 13

Thesis Defense: Sahand Hajimirza, Ph.D. Candidate

April 13 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT

Tue 14

Thesis Defense: Trevor Cole, Master’s Candidate

April 14 @ 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm CDT

Wed 15

Thesis Defense: Chenliang Wu, Ph.D. Candidate

April 15 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm CDT