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Charles R. Stern is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, featuring a strong focus on Geophysics, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Paleontology as notable subfields of study.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of geological and environmental subjects. These include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Archaeological and Geological Studies, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Charles R. Stern include Markus B. Raschke, Julien Allaz, Ryan Abernathey, M. Alexandra Skewes, and Philip M. Persson.

Most publications by the scientist appear in several key venues, among which Magallania is the most frequent, followed by The Cryosphere, Gondwana Research, Geoscientific Model Development, and Rocky Mountain Geology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Charles R. Stern include the following:

  • The role of subduction erosion in the generation of Andean and other convergent plate boundary arc magmas, the continental crust and mantle (2020), published in Gondwana Research

Other recent papers in related areas, illustrating the broader context of research in which Stern's work appears, include:

  • Divergence of apparent and intrinsic snow albedo over a season at a sub-alpine site with implications for remote sensing (2022), The Cryosphere
  • Cloud-based framework for inter-comparing submesoscale-permitting realistic ocean models (2022), Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulk composition of a zoned rare-earth minerals-bearing pegmatite in the Pikes Peak granite batholith near Wellington Lake, central Colorado, U.S.A. (2021), Rocky Mountain Geology
  • Distal ash fall from the mid-Holocene eruption of Mount Hudson (H2) discovered in the Falkland Islands: New possibilities for Southern Hemisphere archive synchronisation (2021), Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Role of the subducted slab, mantle wedge and continental crust in the generation of adakites from the Andean Austral Volcanic Zone

    C. R. Stern;Rolf Kilian

  • Active Andean volcanism: its geologic and tectonic setting

    Charles R. Stern

  • Subduction erosion: Rates, mechanisms, and its role in arc magmatism and the evolution of the continental crust and mantle

    Charles R. Stern

  • Rapid magma ascent recorded by water diffusion profiles in mantle olivine

    Sylvie Demouchy;Steven D. Jacobsen;Fabrice Gaillard;Charles R. Stern

  • Subduction zone melting of pelagic sediments constrained by melting experiments

    Geoff T. Nichols;Peter J. Wyllie;Charles R. Stern

  • Oxygen isotope evidence for slab melting in modern and ancient subduction zones

    I. N. Bindeman;I. N. Bindeman;J. M. Eiler;G. M. Yogodzinski;Y. Tatsumi

  • Role of subduction erosion in the generation of Andean magmas

    Charles R. Stern

  • Trace-element and Sr, Nd, Pb, and O isotopic composition of Pliocene and Quaternary alkali basalts of the Patagonian Plateau lavas of southernmost South America

    Charles R. Stern;Fred A. Frey;Kiyoto Futa;Robert E. Zartman

  • Holocene tephrochronology record of large explosive eruptions in the southernmost Patagonian Andes

    Charles R. Stern

  • Geochemistry of Mesozoic marginal basin floor igneous rocks from southern Chile

    Andrew D. Saunders;John Tarney;Charles R. Stern;Ian W. D. Dalziel

  • Field and geochemical data bearing on the development of a mesozoic volcano-tectonic rift zone and back-arc basin in southernmost South America

    Ronald L. Bruhn;Charles R. Stern;Maarten J. De Wit

  • Holocene palaeoclimates of southern Patagonia: limnological and environmental history of Lago Cardiel, Argentina:

    Vera Markgraf;J. Platt Bradbury;Antje Schwalb;Stephen J. Burns

  • Holocene explosive activity of Hudson Volcano, southern Andes

    José A. Naranjo;Charles R. Stern

  • Basalt-andesite-rhyolite-H2O: Crystallization intervals with excess H2O and H2O-undersaturated liquidus surfaces to 35 kolbras, with implications for magma genesis

    Charles R. Stern;Charles R. Stern;Charles R. Stern;Wuu-Liang Huang;Wuu-Liang Huang;Wuu-Liang Huang;Peter J. Wyllie;Peter J. Wyllie;Peter J. Wyllie

  • The relation of the mid-Tertiary coastal magmatic belt in south-central Chile to the late Oligocene increase in plate convergence rate

    Jorge Muñoz;Rosa Troncoso;Paul Duhart;Pedro Crignola

  • Holocene tephrochronology of the southernmost part (42°30'-45°S) of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone

    José A. Naranjo;Charles R. Stern

  • Sr and Nd isotopic and trace element compositions of Quaternary volcanic centers of the Southern Andes

    Kiyoto Futa;Charles R. Stern

  • Granitic magmas: possible and impossible sources, water contents, and crystallization sequences

    Peter J. Wyllie;Wuu-Liang Huang;Charles R. Stern;Sven Maaløe

  • Rocas Verdes ophiolites, southernmost South America: remnants of progressive stages of development of oceanic-type crust in a continental margin back-arc basin

    Charles R. Stern;Maarten J. De Wit

  • Renewed glacial activity during the Antarctic cold reversal and persistence of cold conditions until 11.5 ka in southwestern Patagonia

    P.I. Moreno;M.R. Kaplan;J.P. François;R. Villa-Martínez

Frequent Co-Authors

G. Lang Farmer
G. Lang Farmer University of Colorado Boulder
Markus B. Raschke
Markus B. Raschke University of Colorado Boulder
Peter J. Wyllie
Peter J. Wyllie California Institute of Technology
Maarten J. de Wit
Maarten J. de Wit Nelson Mandela University
Patricio I. Moreno
Patricio I. Moreno University of Chile
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Keiko Hattori
Keiko Hattori University of Ottawa
Enrico Bonatti
Enrico Bonatti Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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