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Overview

Adrian A. Finch is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on geophysics, biomaterials, ecology, oceanography, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their work covers a range of main topics including geological and geochemical analysis, calcium carbonate crystallization and inhibition, coral and marine ecosystems studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, geochemistry and elemental analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Finch's research include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Radiation Measurements
  • Coral Reefs
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Adrian A. Finch are:

  • Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The sulfur isotope evolution of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids: insights into ore-forming processes, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Alkaline-Silicate REE-HFSE Systems, 2022, Economic Geology
  • Exploring sources of variation in thermoluminescence emissions and anomalous fading in alkali feldspars, 2021, Radiation Measurements
  • Mantle sources and magma evolution in Europe's largest rare earth element belt (Gardar Province, SW Greenland): New insights from sulfur isotopes, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Finch has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Nicola Allison, Kirsty Penkman, Roland Kröger, Matthieu Clog, and Anouk Borst, reflecting ongoing research partnerships and interdisciplinary study engagements.

Best Publications

  • Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits

    Anouk Margaretha Borst;Martin P. Smith;Adrian A. Finch;Guillaume Estrade

  • Magmatism of the mid-Proterozoic Gardar Province, South Greenland: chronology, petrogenesis and geological setting

    B.G.J Upton;C.H Emeleus;L.M Heaman;K.M Goodenough

  • Fenites associated with carbonatite complexes: A review

    H.A.L. Elliott;F. Wall;A.R. Chakhmouradian;P.R. Siegfried

  • From mantle to critical zone: A review of large and giant sized deposits of the rare earth elements

    Martin Smith;Kathryn Moore;Dora Kavecsánszki;Adrian Finch

  • U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope ratios of magmatic zircons from the Iberian Pyrite Belt

    D. R. N. Rosa;A. A. Finch;T. Andersen;C. M. C. Inverno

  • Coordination of Sr and Mg in calcite and aragonite

    A. A. Finch;N. Allison

  • The causes and petrological significance of cathodoluminescence emissions from alkali feldspars

    Adrian A. Finch;Jeanette Klein

  • Megacrysts and Associated Xenoliths: Evidence for Migration of Geochemically Enriched Melts in the Upper Mantle beneath Scotland

    B. G. J. Upton;R. W. Hinton;P. Aspen;A. Finch

  • Palaeoenvironmental records from fossil corals: The effects of submarine diagenesis on temperature and climate estimates

    Nicola Allison;Adrian A. Finch;Jody M. Webster;Jody M. Webster;David A. Clague

  • The sulfur isotope evolution of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids: insights into ore-forming processes

    William Hutchison;Adrian A. Finch;Adrian J. Boyce

  • High-resolution Sr/Ca records in modern Porites lobata corals: Effects of skeletal extension rate and architecture

    Nicola Allison;Adrian A. Finch

  • Corals concentrate dissolved inorganic carbon to facilitate calcification

    Nicola Allison;Itay Cohen;Adrian A. Finch;Jonathan Erez

  • Trace element variation in speleothem aragonite: potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

    Adrian A Finch;Paul A Shaw;Graham P Weedon;Karin Holmgren

  • δ11B, Sr, Mg and B in a modern Porites coral: the relationship between calcification site pH and skeletal chemistry

    Nicola Allison;Adrian A. Finch;Eimf

  • Mg structural state in coral aragonite and implications for the paleoenvironmental proxy

    Adrian Anthony Finch;Nicola Allison

  • Mg in aragonitic bivalve shells: Seasonal variations and mode of incorporation in Arctica islandica

    L.C. Foster;A.A. Finch;N. Allison;C. Andersson

  • Strontium heterogeneity and speciation in coral aragonite: implications for the strontium paleothermometer

    N. Allison;A.A. Finch;S.R. Sutton;M. Newville

  • Strontium in coral aragonite: 3. Sr coordination and geochemistry in relation to skeletal architecture

    Nicola Allison;Adrian A. Finch;Matthew Newville;Stephen R. Sutton

  • Strontium distribution in the shell of the aragonite bivalve Arctica islandica

    Laura C. Foster;Laura C. Foster;Nicola Allison;Adrian A. Finch;Carin Andersson

  • The Red to Near-Infrared Luminescence in Alkali Feldspar

    Robert J Brooks;Adrian A Finch;David E Hole;Peter D Townsend

  • Biotites as Indicators of Fluorine Fugacities in Late-Stage Magmatic Fluids: the Gardar Province of South Greenland

    Adrian A. Finch;Ian Parsons;Susan C. Mingard

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Townsend
Peter D. Townsend University of Sussex
Kathryn Goodenough
Kathryn Goodenough British Geological Survey
John T. S. Irvine
John T. S. Irvine University of St Andrews
Adrian J. Boyce
Adrian J. Boyce Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Martin Smith
Martin Smith Durham University
Frances Wall
Frances Wall University of Exeter
Jonathan Erez
Jonathan Erez Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Philip Lightfoot
Philip Lightfoot University of St Andrews
Brian G. J. Upton
Brian G. J. Upton University of Edinburgh

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