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  • 2004 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Chris Harris is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has a research focus centered on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Oncology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Olivier Bachmann, Darren R. Carpizo, Valentín R. Troll, B. S. Ellis, and E.A. Cortes-Calderon.

Chris Harris has published in various scientific venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as Lithos, Cancer Research, the South African Journal of Geology, Earth-Science Reviews, and Economic Geology.

Recent papers authored by or involving Chris Harris include:

  • Low-δ18O silicic magmas on Earth: A review (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Hidden mechanical weaknesses within lava domes provided by buried high-porosity hydrothermal alteration zones (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Biotite as a recorder of an exsolved Li-rich volatile phase in upper-crustal silicic magma reservoirs (2022, Geology)
  • Evaluating the Potential of Rhyolitic Glass as a Lithium Source for Brine Deposits (2021, Economic Geology)
  • Constraints on Archean crust recycling and the origin of mantle redox variability from the δ44/40Ca - δ18O - fO2 signatures of cratonic eclogites (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Chris Harris was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Hydrochemical characteristics of aquifers near Sutherland in the Western Karoo, South Africa

    S Adams;R Titus;K Pietersen;G Tredoux

  • Origins of Large Volume Rhyolitic Volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia by Crustal Melting

    Teal R. Riley;Philip T. Leat;Robert J. Pankhurst;Chris Harris

  • Magmatic evolution of the Alboran region: The role of subduction in forming the western Mediterranean and causing the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Svend Duggen;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Chris Harris

  • A role for lower continental crust in flood basalt genesis? Isotopic and incompatible element study of the lower six formations of the western Deccan Traps

    Z.X Peng;J Mahoney;P Hooper;C Harris

  • Silica alteration zones in the Barberton greenstone belt: A window into subseafloor processes 3.5-3.3 Ga ago

    Axel Hofmann;Chris Harris

  • Magmatic origin of giant ‘Kiruna-type’apatite-iron-oxide ores in Central Sweden

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  • Magmatic origin of giant ‘Kiruna-type’ apatite-iron-oxide ores in Central Sweden

    Erik Jonsson;Valentin R. Troll;Karin Högdahl;Chris Harris

  • Field Relationships and Geochemical Constraints on the Emplacement of the Jinchuan Intrusion and its Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposit, Gansu, China

    Jérémie Lehmann;Nicholas Arndt;Brian Windley;Mei-Fu Zhou

  • Crustal Contamination and Fluid–Rock Interaction during the Formation of the Platreef, Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    Chris Harris;Jefferson B. Chaumba

  • The Petrology of Lavas and Associated Plutonic Inclusions of Ascension Island

    Chris Harris

  • Discriminating between pyroxenite and peridotite sources for continental flood basalts (CFB) in southern Africa using olivine chemistry

    Geoffrey H. Howarth;Chris Harris

  • Oxygen and hydrogen isotope geochemistry of S- and I-type granitoids: the Cape Granite suite, South Africa

    Chris Harris;Kevin Faure;Roger E. Diamond;Reyno Scheepers

  • Oxygen isotope composition of phenocrysts from Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island lavas: variation with fractional crystallization and evidence for assimilation

    Chris Harris;H. Stuart Smith;Anton P. le Roex

  • The oxygen isotope composition of Karoo and Etendeka picrites: High δ18O mantle or crustal contamination?

    Chris Harris;Petrus le Roux;Ryan Cochrane;Laure Martin

  • Oxygen isotope composition of garnet in the peninsula granite Cape granite suite South Africa:constraints on melting and emplacement mechanisms

    Christopher Harris;Jacques Vogeli

  • Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Stratigraphy of the Rustenburg Layered Suite, Bushveld Complex: Constraints on Crustal Contamination

    Chris Harris;Julie J. M. Pronost;Lewis D. Ashwal;R. Grant Cawthorn

  • Petrology of the Alkaline Core of the Messum Igneous Complex, Namibia: Evidence for the Progressively Decreasing Effect of Crustal Contamination

    Chris Harris;Julian S. Marsh;Simon C. Milner

  • Hydrogen and oxygen isotope geochemistry of Ascension Island lavas and granites: variation with crystal fractionation and interaction with sea water

    Simon M. F. Sheppard;Chris Harris

  • Deposition, Diagenesis, and Secondary Enrichment of Metals in the Paleoproterozoic Hotazel Iron Formation, Kalahari Manganese Field, South Africa

    Harilaos Tsikos;Nicolas J. Beukes;John M. Moore;Chris Harris

  • Global Fe-O isotope correlation reveals magmatic origin of Kiruna-type apatite-iron-oxide ores

    Valentin R. Troll;Franz A. Weis;Franz A. Weis;Erik Jonsson;Erik Jonsson;Ulf B. Andersson

  • Low-δ18O silicic magmas on Earth: A review

    Juliana Troch;Juliana Troch;Ben S. Ellis;Chris Harris;Olivier Bachmann

  • The origin of low δ18O granites and related rocks from the Seychelles

    Chris Harris;Lewis D. Ashwal

  • O- AND H-ISOTOPE RECORD OF CAPE TOWN RAINFALL FROM 1996 TO 2008, AND ITS APPLICATION TO RECHARGE STUDIES OF TABLE MOUNTAIN GROUNDWATER, SOUTH AFRICA

    C. Harris;C. Burgers;J. Miller;F. Rawoot

  • The production of large-volume, low-δ18O rhyolites during the rifting of Africa and Antarctica: The Lebombo Monocline, southern Africa

    Chris Harris;Anthony J Erlank

  • Structural and temporal evolution of a reactivated brittle-ductile fault - Part II: Timing of fault initiation and reactivation by K-Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite

    E. Torgersen;G. Viola;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;Horst Zwingmann;C.R. Harris

  • Early Cretaceous Basaltic and Rhyolitic Magmatism in Southern Uruguay Associated with the Opening of the South Atlantic

    Linda A. Kirstein;David W. Peate;Chris J. Hawkesworth;Simon P. Turner

  • Assimilation of carbonate country rock by the parent magma of the Panzhihua Fe-Ti-V deposit (SW China): Evidence from stable isotopes

    Clément Ganino;Chris Harris;Nicholas T. Arndt;Stephen A. Prevec

  • Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Mesozoic anorogenic complexes of Damaraland, northwest Namibia: evidence for crustal contamination and its effect on silica saturation

    Chris Harris

  • Magmatic differentiation processes at Merapi Volcano : inclusion petrology and oxygen isotopes

    Valentin R. Troll;Frances M. Deegan;Frances M. Deegan;Ester M. Jolis;Chris Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Valentin R. Troll
Valentin R. Troll Uppsala University
Anne Greenough
Anne Greenough King's College London
Åke Fagereng
Åke Fagereng Cardiff University
Jonathan T. Erichsen
Jonathan T. Erichsen Cardiff University
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Carmela Freda
Carmela Freda McGill University
Robert B. Trumbull
Robert B. Trumbull University of Potsdam
David R. Hilton
David R. Hilton University of California, San Diego
Thomas R. Walter
Thomas R. Walter University of Potsdam

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