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Bert De Waele publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bert De Waele sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 66 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Bert De Waele D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bert De Waele sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bert De Waele is affiliated with Fortescue Metals Group Limited in Australia. Their primary focus lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable concentration in subfields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's research covers multiple topics, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Crystal Structures and Properties

Bert De Waele has contributed to several publications, frequently collaborating with coauthors such as Alan S. Collins, Justin L. Payne, Subhash Singh, Anjali Shukla, and B. H. Umasankar.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bert De Waele include:

  • Tectonic Fabric, Geochemistry, and Zircon-Monazite Geochronology as Proxies to Date an Orogeny: Example of South Delhi Orogeny, NW India, and Implications for East Gondwana Tectonics, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Proterozoic Basin Evolution and Tectonic Geography of Madagascar: Implications for an East Africa Connection During the Paleoproterozoic, 2021, Tectonics
  • Palaeoproterozoic reworking of early Archaean lithospheric blocks: Rocks and zircon records from charnockitoids in Volgo-Uralia, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • A newly discovered 2030-2010 Ma magmatic suite records the dawn of Proterozoic extension on the southern margin of the Yilgarn Craton, 2023, Precambrian Research
  • Proterozoic Tectonostratigraphy and Paleogeography of Central Madagascar Derived from Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Populations, 2021, UNC Libraries

Among the publication venues where Bert De Waele has appeared most frequently are Precambrian Research, Frontiers in Earth Science, Tectonics, and UNC Libraries.

Best Publications

  • Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

    Z.X. Li;Z.X. Li;S.V. Bogdanova;A.S. Collins;A. Davidson

  • The 1375 Ma "Kibaran event" in Central Africa: Prominent emplacement of bimodal magmatism under extensional regime

    L. Tack;Michael Wingate;Michael Wingate;B. De Waele;J. Meert

  • Palaeoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic growth and evolution of the eastern Congo Craton: Its role in the Rodinia puzzle

    B. De Waele;S. Johnson;Sergei Pisarevsky

  • The Mesoproterozoic Karagwe-Ankole Belt (formerly the NE Kibara Belt): The result of prolonged extensional intracratonic basin development punctuated by two short-lived far-field compressional events

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  • New geochronological constraints on the geological evolution of Espinhaço basin within the São Francisco Craton—Brazil

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  • Isotopic and geochemical evidence of proterozoic episodic crustal reworking within the irumide belt of south-central Africa, the southern metacratonic boundary of an Archaean Bangweulu Craton

    Bert De Waele;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Alexander A. Nemchin;Francis Tembo

  • The Mesoproterozoic Irumide belt of Zambia

    B. De Waele;A.B. Kampunzu;B.S.E. Mapani;F. Tembo

  • Untying the Kibaran knot: A reassessment of Mesoproterozoic correlations in southern Africa based on SHRIMP U-Pb data from the Irumide belt

    Bert De Waele;Michael T.D. Wingate;Ian C.W. Fitzsimons;Benjamin S.E. Mapani

  • Tectonic setting of the Balaram-Kui-Surpagla-Kengora granulites of the South Delhi Terrane of the Aravalli Mobile Belt, NW India and its implication on correlation with the East African Orogen in the Gondwana assembly

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  • Sveconorwegian massif-type anorthosites and related granitoids result from post-collisional melting of a continental arc root

    J. Vander Auwera;O. Bolle;B. Bingen;J.-P. Liégeois

  • Palaeomagnetic, geochronological and geochemical study of Mesoproterozoic Lakhna Dykes in the Bastar Craton, India: Implications for the Mesoproterozoic supercontinent

    Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Tapas Kumar Biswal;Xuan-Ce Wang;Bert De Waele

  • Late Ediacaran geological evolution (575–555 Ma) of the Djanet Terrane, Eastern Hoggar, Algeria, evidence for a Murzukian intracontinental episode

    Nassima Fezaa;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Nachida Abdallah;El Hadi Cherfouh

  • Geological evolution of the Neoproterozoic Bemarivo Belt, northern Madagascar

    Ronald J. Thomas;B. De Waele;D. I. Schofield;K. M. Goodenough

  • Geochronology of the Zambezi Supracrustal Sequence, Southern Zambia: A Record of Neoproterozoic Divergent Processes along the Southern Margin of the Congo Craton

    S. P. Johnson;B. De Waele;D. Evans;W. Banda

  • SHRIMP geochronology for the 1450 Ma Lakhna dyke swarm: Its implication for the presence of Eoarchaean crust in the Bastar Craton and 1450-517 Ma depositional age for Purana basin (Khariar), Eastern Indian Peninsula

    Kamleshwar Ratre;Bert De Waele;Tapas Kumar Biswal;Suspa Sinha

  • Post-collisional magmatism in the central East African Orogen: The Maevarano Suite of north Madagascar

    K. M. Goodenough;Ronald J. Thomas;B. De Waele;R. M. Key

  • The Temaguessine Fe-cordierite orbicular granite (Central Hoggar, Algeria): U–Pb SHRIMP age, petrology, origin and geodynamical consequences for the late Pan-African magmatism of the Tuareg shield

    Nachida Abdallah;Jean-Paul Liégeois;Bert De Waele;Nassima Fezaa

  • The nature and timing of Palaeoproterozoic sedimentation at the southeastern margin of the Congo Craton; zircon U-Pb geochronology of plutonic, volcanic and clastic units in northern Zambia

    B. De Waele;I.C.W. Fitzsimons

  • Paleomagnetism and U–Pb age of the 2.4 Ga Erayinia mafic dykes in the south-western Yilgarn, Western Australia: Paleogeographic and geodynamic implications

    Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Sergei A. Pisarevsky;Bert De Waele;Sarah Jones;Ulf Söderlund;Ulf Söderlund

  • Geological evolution of the Antongil Craton, NE Madagascar

    D. I. Schofield;Ronald J. Thomas;K. M. Goodenough;B. De Waele

  • Provenance and tectonic significance of the Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary successions of central and northern Madagascar

    B. De Waele;Ronald J. Thomas;P.H. Macey;M.S.A. Horstwood

  • Genesis of the Tonian Imorona–Itsindro magmatic Suite in central Madagascar: Insights from U–Pb, oxygen and hafnium isotopes in zircon

    Donnelly B. Archibald;Alan S. Collins;John D. Foden;Justin L. Payne

  • Neoarchaean magmatism and metamorphism of the western granulites in the central domain of the Mozambique belt, Tanzania: U–Pb shrimp geochronology and PT estimates

    S.P Johnson;H.N.C Cutten;S Muhongo;B De Waele

  • The Late Triassic Kataev volcanoplutonic association in western Transbaikalia, a fragment of the active continental margin of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean

    T.V. Donskaya;D.P. Gladkochub;A.M. Mazukabzov;B. De Waele

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Thomas
Robert J. Thomas Council for Geoscience
Kathryn Goodenough
Kathryn Goodenough British Geological Survey
Alan S. Collins
Alan S. Collins University of Adelaide
Justin L. Payne
Justin L. Payne University of South Australia
John Foden
John Foden University of Adelaide
Jean-Paul Liégeois
Jean-Paul Liégeois Royal Museum for Central Africa
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University
Sandra Piazolo
Sandra Piazolo University of Leeds
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Xuan-Ce Wang
Xuan-Ce Wang Yunnan University

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