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Alan D. Brandon is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to subfields including Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to geochemistry, geophysical processes, and paleoenvironmental studies. Notable papers include:

  • High resolution osmium data record three distinct pulses of magmatic activity during cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE-2), 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nd isotope variation between the Earth-Moon system and enstatite chondrites, 2022, Nature
  • Changing inputs of continental and submarine weathering sources of Sr to the oceans during OAE 2, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • A time-series of heavy metal geochemistry in sediments of Galveston Bay estuary, Texas, 2017-2019, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Metasomatic control of hydrogen contents in the layered cratonic mantle lithosphere sampled by Lac de Gras xenoliths in the central Slave craton, Canada, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Their frequent coauthors include James S Eldrett, Lucien Nana Yobo, Steven C. Bergman, Chris Holmden, and Kimberly V. Lau.

Alan D. Brandon has published primarily in the following venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Nature

Their main areas of study encompass:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Heavy metals in environment

Best Publications

  • A Cryogenian chronology: Two long-lasting synchronous Neoproterozoic glaciations

    Alan D. Rooney;Justin V. Strauss;Alan D. Brandon;Francis A. Macdonald

  • 190Pt–186Os and 187Re–187Os systematics of abyssal peridotites

    Alan D Brandon;Alan D Brandon;Jonathan E Snow;Richard J Walker;John W Morgan;John W Morgan

  • Coupled 186Os and 187Os evidence for core-mantle interaction

    A. D. Brandon;Richard Walker;John W. Morgan;Marc D. Norman

  • Constraints on the origin of the oxidation state of mantle overlying subduction zones: An example from Simcoe, Washington, USA

    Alan D. Brandon;David S. Draper

  • Osmium Recycling in Subduction Zones

    Alan D. Brandon;Robert A. Creaser;Steven B. Shirey;Richard W. Carlson

  • 186Os–187Os systematics of Hawaiian picrites

    Alan D. Brandon;Marc D. Norman;Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan;John W. Morgan

  • Coupled 142Nd-143Nd Isotopic Evidence for Hadean Mantle Dynamics

    Vickie C. Bennett;Alan D. Brandon;Allen P. Nutman

  • A younger age for ALH84001 and its geochemical link to shergottite sources in Mars.

    T. J. Lapen;M. Righter;A.D Brandon;Vinciane Debaille

  • Stagnant-lid tectonics in early Earth revealed by 142Nd variations in late Archean rocks

    Vinciane Debaille;Craig O'Neill;Alan A.D. Brandon;Pierre Haenecour

  • Coupled 142Nd-143Nd evidence for a protracted magma ocean in Mars.

    Vinciane Debaille;A.D Brandon;Qing-Zhu Yin;B. Jacobsen

  • The debate over core–mantle interaction

    Alan D. Brandon;Richard J. Walker

  • Highly Siderophile Elements in Earth, Mars, the Moon, and Asteroids.

    James M.D. Day;Alan D. Brandon;Richard J. Walker

  • 186 Os^ 187 Os systematics of Gorgona Island komatiites: implications for early growth of the inner core

    Alan D Brandon;Richard J Walker;Igor S Puchtel;Harry Becker

  • High water contents in the Siberian cratonic mantle linked to metasomatism: An FTIR study of Udachnaya peridotite xenoliths

    Luc Serge Doucet;Anne H. Peslier;Dmitri Ionov;Dmitri Ionov;Alan D. Brandon

  • Vanadium in peridotites as a proxy for paleo-fO2 during partial melting: prospects, limitations, and implications

    Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee;Alan D Brandon;Marc Norman

  • Siderophile elements in Earth's upper mantle and lunar breccias: Data synthesis suggests manifestations of the same late influx

    J. W. Morgan;J. W. Morgan;R. J. Walker;A. D. Brandon;A. D. Brandon;M. F. Horan

  • Re-Os isotopic evidence for early differentiation of the Martian mantle

    A.D. Brandon;A.D. Brandon;R.J. Walker;J.W. Morgan;J.W. Morgan;G.G. Goles

  • Evolution of the martian mantle inferred from the 187Re–187Os isotope and highly siderophile element abundance systematics of shergottite meteorites

    Alan D. Brandon;Igor S. Puchtel;Richard J. Walker;James M.D. Day;James M.D. Day

  • 182W evidence for core-mantle interaction in the source of mantle plumes

    Hanika Rizo;Denis Andrault;Neil Bennett;Munir Humayun

  • Martian mantle mineralogy investigated by the 176Lu–176Hf and 147Sm–143Nd systematics of shergottites

    Vinciane Debaille;Qing-Zhu Yin;A.D Brandon;B. Jacobsen

  • Isotopic constraints on time scales and mechanisms of slab material transport in the mantle wedge: evidence from the Simcoe mantle xenoliths, Washington, USA

    Alan D. Brandon;Harry Becker;Richard W. Carlson;Steven B. Shirey

Frequent Co-Authors

Munir Humayun
Munir Humayun Florida State University
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker University of Maryland, College Park
Qing-Zhu Yin
Qing-Zhu Yin University of California, Davis
Igor S. Puchtel
Igor S. Puchtel University of Maryland, College Park
Marc D. Norman
Marc D. Norman Australian National University
Craig O'Neill
Craig O'Neill Macquarie University
Anthony J. Irving
Anthony J. Irving University of Washington
Vickie C. Bennett
Vickie C. Bennett Australian National University
John W. Morgan
John W. Morgan University of Maryland, College Park

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