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Andrew George Tomkins

Andrew George Tomkins

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
5541
World Ranking
5882
National Ranking
295

Overview

Andrew George Tomkins is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy, producing a significant body of work focused on geophysical and planetary phenomena.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these broad domains, they have contributed extensively to specific subfields such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ecology
  • Mechanics of Materials

Tomkins has addressed diverse research topics, which cover:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

The scientist has published in multiple well-known academic venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Geology

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and diversity of their research:

  • "A Global Fireball Observatory," 2020, Planetary and Space Science
  • "Cobalt concentration in a sulfidic sea and mobilization during orogenesis: Implications for targeting epigenetic sediment-hosted Cu-Co deposits," 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "The alteration history of the CY chondrites, investigated through analysis of a new member: Dhofar 1988," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Metamorphic Fluids in Orogenic Settings," 2020, Elements
  • "Evaporite-bearing orogenic belts produce ligand-rich and diverse metamorphic fluids," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Collaboration is notable in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Joël Brugger
  • Nick Wilson
  • Colin M. MacRae
  • Alan Salek
  • Dougal G. McCulloch

Best Publications

  • Windows of metamorphic sulfur liberation in the crust: Implications for gold deposit genesis

    Andrew George Tomkins

  • PARTIAL MELTING OF SULFIDE ORE DEPOSITS DURING MEDIUM- AND HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM

    B. Ronald Frost;John A. Mavrogenes;Andrew G. Tomkins

  • Bimodal Distribution of Gold in Pyrite and Arsenopyrite: Examples from the Archean Boorara and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

    Anthony Alexander Morey;Andrew George Tomkins;Frank Bierlein;Roberto Ferrez Weinberg

  • Gold remobilisation and formation of high grade ore shoots driven by dissolution-reprecipitation replacement and Ni substitution into auriferous arsenopyrite

    Denis Fougerouse;Denis Fougerouse;Steven Micklethwaite;Steven Micklethwaite;Andrew G. Tomkins;Yuan Mei;Yuan Mei

  • On the source of orogenic gold

    Andrew George Tomkins

  • On the Initiation of Metamorphic Sulfide Anatexis

    Andrew G. Tomkins;Andrew G. Tomkins;David R. M. Pattison;B. Ronald Frost

  • The Hemlo Gold Deposit, Ontario: An Example of Melting and Mobilization of a Precious Metal-Sulfosalt Assemblage during Amphibolite Facies Metamorphism and Deformation

    Andrew G. Tomkins;David R. M. Pattison;Eva Zaleski

  • Mobilization of Gold as a Polymetallic Melt during Pelite Anatexis at the Challenger Deposit, South Australia: A Metamorphosed Archean Gold Deposit

    Andrew George Tomkins;J A Mavrogenes

  • Fate of gold and base metals during metamorphic devolatilization of a pelite

    Richen Zhong;Richen Zhong;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Andrew G. Tomkins;Yanjing Chen

  • Upper Temperature Limits of Orogenic Gold Deposit Formation: Constraints from the Granulite-Hosted Griffin’s Find Deposit, Yilgarn Craton

    Andrew George Tomkins;Catherine Grundy

  • Magmatic Sulfide Formation by Reduction of Oxidized Arc Basalt

    Andrew George Tomkins;Kyle Rebryna;Roberto Ferrez Weinberg;Bruce Franklin Schaefer

  • Separate zones of sulfate and sulfide release from subducted mafic oceanic crust

    Andrew G. Tomkins;Katy A. Evans

  • Redistribution of Gold within Arsenopyrite and Löllingite during Pro- and Retrograde Metamorphism: Application to Timing of Mineralization

    Andrew George Tomkins;J A Mavrogenes

  • The relationship between subduction zone redox budget and arc magma fertility

    Katy Evans;Andrew Tomkins

  • Arsenic evolution as a tool for understanding formation of pyritic gold ores

    Yanlu Xing;Joël Brugger;Andrew Tomkins;Yuri Shvarov

  • Insights into subduction zone sulfur recycling from isotopic analysis of eclogite-hosted sulfides

    Katy Anne Evans;Andrew George Tomkins;John Cliff;Marco Fiorentini

  • Implications of pyrite geochemistry for gold mineralisation and remobilisation in the Jiaodong gold district, northeast China

    Stephanie E. Mills;Andrew G. Tomkins;Roberto F. Weinberg;Hong-Rui Fan

  • Insights into the Liquid Bismuth Collector Model Through Analysis of the Bi-Au Stormont Skarn Prospect, Northwest Tasmania

    Amy Beth Donovan Cockerton;Andrew George Tomkins

  • Gold in the oceans through time

    Ross R. Large;Daniel D. Gregory;Jeffrey A. Steadman;Andrew G. Tomkins

  • Multiple crust-mantle interactions for the destruction of the North China Craton: Geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic evidence from the Longbaoshan alkaline complex

    Ting-Guang Lan;Hong-Rui Fan;Fang-Fang Hu;Andrew G. Tomkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto F. Weinberg
Roberto F. Weinberg Monash University
Siobhan A. Wilson
Siobhan A. Wilson University of Alberta
Joël Brugger
Joël Brugger Monash University
John Mavrogenes
John Mavrogenes Australian National University
Katy Evans
Katy Evans Curtin University
Alexander R. Cruden
Alexander R. Cruden Monash University
Hong-Rui Fan
Hong-Rui Fan Chinese Academy of Sciences
David R. M. Pattison
David R. M. Pattison University of Calgary
Tim E. Johnson
Tim E. Johnson Curtin University
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University

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