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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3454
World Ranking
8975
National Ranking
2907

Best Publications

  • Impact Event at the Permian-Triassic Boundary: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Fullerenes

    Luann Becker;Robert J. Poreda;Andrew G. Hunt;Theodore E. Bunch

  • Magnetic measurements and heavy metals in atmospheric particulates of anthropogenic origin

    A. Hunt;J. Jones;F. Oldfield

  • Source of radiogenic helium 4 in shallow aquifers: Implications for dating young groundwater

    D. K. Solomon;A. Hunt;R. J. Poreda

  • Origin of the sedimentary magnetic record at Ocean Drilling Program Sites on the Owen Ridge, western Arabian Sea

    J. Bloemendal;J. W. King;A. Hunt;P. B. Demenocal

  • Site Characterization Using 3H/3 He Ground‐Water Ages, Cape Cod, MA

    D. K. Solomon;R. J. Poreda;P. G. Cook;A. Hunt

  • Magnetic differentiation of atmospheric dusts

    Frank Oldfield;A Hunt;M.D.H. Jones;R. Chester

  • Prodigious degassing of a billion years of accumulated radiogenic helium at Yellowstone

    Jacob B. Lowenstern;William C. Evans;D. Bergfeld;Andrew G. Hunt

  • Sources of nitrogen and methane in Central American geothermal settings: Noble gas and 129I evidence for crustal and magmatic volatile components

    Glen Snyder;Glen Snyder;Robert Poreda;Udo Fehn;Andrew Hunt;Andrew Hunt

  • Regional variations in volatile composition: Isotopic evidence for carbonate recycling in the Central American volcanic arc

    Glen Snyder;Robert Poreda;Andrew Hunt;Udo Fehn

  • Volatile emissions and gas geochemistry of Hot Spring Basin, Yellowstone National Park, USA

    C. Werner;S. Hurwitz;William C. Evans;J. B. Lowenstern

  • Determining the source and genetic fingerprint of natural gases using noble gas geochemistry: A northern Appalachian Basin case study

    Andrew G. Hunt;Thomas H. Darrah;Robert J. Poreda

  • The Helium Isotopic Chemistry of Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Timing of Late Holocene Climate Change in Antarctica

    Robert J. Poreda;Andrew G. Hunt;Andrew G. Hunt;W. Berry Lyons;Kathleen A. Welch

  • The application of mineral magnetic methods to atmospheric aerosol discrimination

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  • Origins of geothermal gases at Yellowstone

    Jacob B. Lowenstern;Deborah Bergfeld;William C. Evans;Andrew G. Hunt

  • Old groundwater in parts of the upper Patapsco aquifer, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Maryland, USA: evidence from radiocarbon, chlorine-36 and helium-4

    L. N. Plummer;J. R. Eggleston;D. C. Andreasen;J. P. Raffensperger

  • Methane and Benzene in Drinking-Water Wells Overlying the Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, and Haynesville Shale Hydrocarbon Production Areas

    Peter B. McMahon;Jeannie R.B. Barlow;Mark A. Engle;Kenneth Belitz

  • Dissolved gases in hydrothermal (phreatic) and geyser eruptions at Yellowstone National Park, USA

    Shaul Hurwitz;Laura E. Clor;R. Blaine McCleskey;D. Kirk Nordstrom

  • Mineral Thermometry and Fluid Inclusion Studies of the Pea Ridge Iron Oxide-Apatite–Rare Earth Element Deposit, Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains Terrane, Southeast Missouri, USA

    Albert H. Hofstra;Corey J. Meighan;Xinyu Song;Iain Samson

  • Methane in groundwater from a leaking gas well, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA.

    Peter B. McMahon;Judith C. Thomas;John T. Crawford;Mark M. Dornblaser

  • Temporal variations of geyser water chemistry in the Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, USA

    Shaul Hurwitz;Andrew G. Hunt;William C. Evans

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