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Allan H. Wilson is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with additional work in Computer Science. Within these fields, their subfield expertise includes geophysics, artificial intelligence, paleontology, geochemistry and petrology, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The focus of Wilson's research covers various scientific topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Wilson has contributed to numerous publications, with several recent papers including:

  • The tungsten-182 record of kimberlites above the African superplume: Exploring links to the core-mantle boundary, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Long-term preservation of Hadean protocrust in Earth's mantle, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotope systematics of Transvaal Supergroup - Constraints for the geodynamic evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton and its hinterland between 2.65 and 2.06 Ga, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Zircon melt inclusions in mafic and felsic rocks of the Bushveld Complex - Constraints for zircon crystallization temperatures and partition coefficients, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Zircon formation in mafic and felsic rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Constraints from composition, zoning, Th/U ratios, morphology, and modelling, 2020, Chemical Geology

Wilson frequently collaborates with multiple scholars. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Robert Bolhar
  • Sebastian Tappe
  • Armin Zeh
  • Axel Hofmann
  • C.R. Anhaeusser

Their research is frequently published in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Chemical Geology
  • South African Journal of Geology
  • Lithos
  • Economic Geology

Best Publications

  • The Bushveld Complex was emplaced and cooled in less than one million years – results of zirconology, and geotectonic implications

    Armin Zeh;Maria Ovtcharova;Allan H. Wilson;Urs Schaltegger

  • The Geology of the Great 'Dyke', Zimbabwe: The Ultramafic Rocks

    A. H. Wilson

  • PGE Tenor and Metal Ratios within and below the Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex: Implications for its Genesis

    A. J. Naldrett;Allan Wilson;Judith Kinnaird;Gordon Chunnett

  • The origin of chromitites and related PGE mineralization in the Bushveld Complex: new mineralogical and petrological constraints

    A. J. Naldrett;Allan Wilson;Judith Kinnaird;Marina Yudovskaya

  • A Chill Sequence to the Bushveld Complex: Insight into the First Stage of Emplacement and Implications for the Parental Magmas

    Allan H. Wilson

  • Felsic igneous rocks within the 3.3- to 3.5-Ga Barberton Greenstone Belt: High crustal level equivalents of the surrounding Tonalite-Trondhjemite Terrain, emplaced during thrusting

    Maarten J. de Wit;Richard Armstrong;Rodger J. Hart;Allan H. Wilson

  • A New Model for Barberton Komatiites: Deep Critical Melting with High Melt Retention

    Christophe C. M. Robin-Popieul;Nicholas T. Arndt;Catherine Chauvel;Gary R. Byerly

  • Chromite composition and PGE content of Bushveld chromitites: Part 1 – the Lower and Middle Groups

    A. J. Naldrett;J. Kinnaird;A. Wilson;M. Yudovskaya

  • Trace-element and Sr–Nd isotopic geochemistry of the PGE-bearing Xinjie layered intrusion in SW China

    Hong Zhong;Hong Zhong;Yong Yao;Stephen A. Prevec;Allan H. Wilson

  • Archaean ultra-depleted komatiites formed by hydrous melting of cratonic mantle

    A. H. Wilson;S. B. Shirey;R. W. Carlson

  • Deep hydrous mantle reservoir provides evidence for crustal recycling before 3.3 billion years ago

    Alexander V. Sobolev;Alexander V. Sobolev;Evgeny V. Asafov;Andrey A. Gurenko;Nicholas T. Arndt

  • The great dyke of Zimbabwe : I- tectonic setting, stratigraphy, petrology, structure, emplacement and crystallization

    A.H Wilson;M.D Prendergast

  • A multielement geochronologic study of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe: significance of the robust and reset ages

    S.B. Mukasa;A.H. Wilson;R.W. Carlson

  • Horizontal and vertical variations in noble-metal distribution in the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe: A model for the origin of the PGE mineralization by fractional segregation of sulfide

    A.J. Naldrett;A.H. Wilson

  • Concentration of PGE in the Earth's Crust with Special Reference to the Bushveld Complex

    Tony Naldrett;Judith Kinnaird;Allan Wilson;Gordon Chunnett

  • A new class of silica enriched, highly depleted komatiites in the southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

    A.H Wilson

  • A Sm-Nd and Pb isotope study of Archaean greenstone belts in the southern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

    A.H. Wilson;R.W. Carlson

  • The Great Dyke of Zimbabwe

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  • The great dyke of Zimbabwe : II- mineralization and mineral deposits

    M.D Prendergast;A.H Wilson

  • SHRIMP Zircon U-Pb Age, Geochemistry, and Nd-Sr Isotopes of the Gaojiacun Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusive Complex, Southwest China

    W.-G. Zhu;H. Zhong;H.-L. Deng;A. H. Wilson

  • The Geology of the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe: Crystallization, Layering, and Cumulate Formation in the P1 Pyroxenite of Cyclic Unit 1 of the Darwendale Subchamber

    Allan H. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas T. Arndt
Nicholas T. Arndt Grenoble Alpes University
Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann University of Johannesburg
Armin Zeh
Armin Zeh Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Judith A. Kinnaird
Judith A. Kinnaird University of the Witwatersrand
Alexander V. Sobolev
Alexander V. Sobolev Grenoble Alpes University
Gary R. Byerly
Gary R. Byerly Louisiana State University
Anthony J. Naldrett
Anthony J. Naldrett University of Toronto
Sebastian Tappe
Sebastian Tappe TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Maxim Portnyagin
Maxim Portnyagin GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Hong Zhong
Hong Zhong Chinese Academy of Sciences

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