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Antonio Simonetti is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics and Archaeology. Their research spans a wide range of subfields including Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers diverse main topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Antonio Simonetti has published in several frequent academic venues, notably:

  • Minerals
  • Chemical Geology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • Bioarchaeology International

Their recent research papers include:

  • Significance of hydrothermal reworking for REE mineralization associated with carbonatite: Constraints from in situ trace element and C-Sr isotope study of calcite and apatite from the Miaoya carbonatite complex (China), 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Temporal evolution of δ44/40Ca and 87Sr/86Sr of carbonatites: Implications for crustal recycling through time, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Boron isotopic investigation of the Bayan Obo carbonatite complex: Insights into the source of mantle carbon and hydrothermal alteration, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Metasomatized eclogite xenoliths from the central Kaapvaal craton as probes of a seismic mid-lithospheric discontinuity, 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Trace element and Pb and Sr isotope investigation of tooth enamel from archaeological remains at El-Kurru, Sudan: Evaluating the role of groundwater-related diagenetic alteration, 2021, Applied Geochemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Antonio Simonetti include:

  • Loretta Corcoran
  • Stefanie S. Simonetti
  • Michele R. Buzon
  • Kari A. Guilbault
  • Corinne Kuebler

Best Publications

  • Source of parental melts to carbonatites–critical isotopic constraints

    Keith Bell;Antonio Simonetti

  • U-Pb geochronology of the southern Brasília belt (SE-Brazil): Sedimentary provenance, Neoproterozoic orogeny and assembly of West Gondwana

    Claudio M Valeriano;Nuno Machado;Antonio Simonetti;Claudia S Valladares

  • Carbonatite Magmatism and Plume Activity: Implications from the Nd, Pb and Sr Isotope Systematics of Oldoinyo Lengai

    K. Bell;A. Simonetti

  • In situ petrographic thin section U-Pb dating of zircon, monazite, and titanite using laser ablation-MC-ICP-MS

    Antonio Simonetti;Larry M. Heaman;Thomas Chacko;Neil R. Banerjee;Neil R. Banerjee

  • U–Pb zircon dating by laser ablation-MC-ICP-MS using a new multiple ion counting Faraday collector array

    Antonio Simonetti;Larry M. Heaman;Russell P. Hartlaub;Robert A. Creaser

  • Carbonatites—Into the Twenty-First Century

    K. Bell;B. A. Kjarsgaard;A. Simonetti

  • Geochemical and Nd, Pb, and Sr Isotope Data from Deccan Alkaline Complexes— Inferences for Mantle Sources and Plume-Lithosphere Interaction

    A. Simonetti;S. L. Goldstein;S. S. Schmidberger;S. G. Viladkar

  • Symmetry versus Minimal Pentagonal Adjacencies in Uranium‐Based Polyoxometalate Fullerene Topologies

    Ginger E. Sigmon;Daniel K. Unruh;Jie Ling;Brittany Weaver

  • Isotopic data from the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Complex, west-central India: Evidence for an enriched mantle source

    A. Simonetti;K. Bell;S.G. Viladkar

  • Evolution of reworked Paleoproterozoic basement rocks within the Ribeira belt (Neoproterozoic), SE-Brazil, based on U–Pb geochronology: Implications for paleogeographic reconstructions of the São Francisco-Congo paleocontinent

    Mônica Heilbron;Beatriz Paschoal Duarte;Cláudio de Morisson Valeriano;Antonio Simonetti

  • Lu–Hf, in-situ Sr and Pb isotope and trace element systematics for mantle eclogites from the Diavik diamond mine: Evidence for Paleoproterozoic subduction beneath the Slave craton, Canada

    Stefanie S. Schmidberger;Antonio Simonetti;Larry M. Heaman;Robert A. Creaser

  • A Hf‐Nd isotopic correlation in ferromanganese nodules

    Francis Albarède;Antonio Simonetti;Jeffrey D. Vervoort;Janne Blichert-Toft

  • Migration in the Nile Valley during the New Kingdom period : a preliminary strontium isotope study

    Michele R. Buzon;Antonio Simonetti;Robert A. Creaser

  • In situ 87Sr/86Sr investigation of igneous apatites and carbonates using laser-ablation MC-ICP-MS

    Martin Bizzarro;Antonio Simonetti;R.K. Stevenson;Stephan Kurszlaukis

  • Hf isotope evidence for a hidden mantle reservoir

    Martin Bizzarro;Antonio Simonetti;Ross K. Stevenson;Jean David

  • Provenance of the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia: rifted margin of early Paleozoic Gondwana

    John W.F. WaldronJ.W.F. Waldron;Chris E. WhiteC.E. White;Sandra M. BarrS.M. Barr;Antonio SimonettiA. Simonetti

  • The newly discovered Jurassic Tikiusaaq carbonatite-aillikite occurrence, West Greenland, and some remarks on carbonatite-kimberlite relationships

    Sebastian Tappe;Agnete Steenfelt;Larry M. Heaman;Antonio Simonetti

  • IN‐SITU ELEMENTAL AND Sr ISOTOPE INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN TOOTH ENAMEL BY LASER ABLATION‐(MC)‐ICP‐MS: SUCCESSES AND PITFALLS*

    Antonio Simonetti;Michele R. Buzon;Robert A. Creaser

  • Craton formation in Late Archean subduction zones revealed by first Greenland eclogites

    Sebastian Tappe;Katie A. Smart;D. Graham Pearson;Agnete Steenfelt

  • U-Pb LA-MC-ICPMS geochronology of Cambro-Ordovician post-collisional granites of the Ribeira belt, southeast Brazil: Terminal Brasiliano magmatism in central Gondwana supercontinent

    Claudio de Morisson Valeriano;Miguel Tupinambá;Antonio Simonetti;Monica Heilbron

  • Tracing sources of atmospheric pollution in Western Canada using the Pb isotopic composition and heavy metal abundances of epiphytic lichens

    Antonio Simonetti;Clément Gariépy;Jean Carignan

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns University of Notre Dame
Larry M. Heaman
Larry M. Heaman University of Alberta
Robert A. Creaser
Robert A. Creaser University of Alberta
Clive R. Neal
Clive R. Neal University of Notre Dame
Harald Furnes
Harald Furnes University of Bergen
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt Florida State University
Keith Bell
Keith Bell Carleton University
Sebastian Tappe
Sebastian Tappe TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Clément Gariépy
Clément Gariépy University of Quebec at Montreal
Karlis Muehlenbachs
Karlis Muehlenbachs University of Alberta

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