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Christopher Fanning is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences, complemented by work in Computer Science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Computer Science

Their subfields of specialization cover a range of topics such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Paleontology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geology

Christopher Fanning's research primarily addresses themes within:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

They have contributed to a variety of recent papers, including:

  • The Devonian accretionary orogen of the North Patagonian cordillera, 2021, published in Gondwana Research
  • The closure of the Rocas Verdes Basin and early tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt, southern Patagonian Andes (52-54°S), 2020, published in Tectonophysics
  • Geology and geochronology of the Archean plutonic rocks in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, 2021, published in Precambrian Research
  • The European continental crust through detrital zircons from modern rivers: Testing representativity of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, 2022, published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Trace element composition of amphibole and petrogenesis of hornblendites and plutonic suites of Cretaceous magmatic arcs developed in the Fuegian Andes, southernmost South America, 2020, published in Lithos

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christopher Fanning include:

  • Francisco Hervé
  • Mauricio Calderón
  • R. J. Pankhurst
  • Paula Castillo
  • Heinrich Bahlburg

Key publication venues where Christopher Fanning's work regularly appears are:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Economic Geology

Best Publications

  • Growth, annealing and recrystallization of zircon and preservation of monazite in high-grade metamorphism: conventional and in-situ U-Pb isotope, cathodoluminescence and microchemical evidence

    Urs Schaltegger;C. M. Fanning;D. Günther;J. C. Maurin

  • Two Carboniferous Ages: A Comparison of Shrimp Zircon Dating with Conventional Zircon Ages and 40Ar/39Ar Analysis

    Jonathan C. Claoué-Long;William Compston;John Roberts;C. Mark Fanning

  • Episodic Silicic Volcanism in Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula: Chronology of Magmatism Associated with the Break-up of Gondwana

    R. J. Pankhurst;T. R. Riley;C. M. Fanning;S. P. Kelley

  • Deciphering igneous and metamorphic events in high-grade rocks of the Wilmington Complex, Delaware: Morphology, cathodoluminescence and backscattered electron zoning, and SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of zircon and monazite

    John N. Aleinikoff;William Schenck;Margaret Plank;LeeAnn Srogi

  • Gondwanide continental collision and the origin of Patagonia

    Robert J Pankhurst;Carlos W Rapela;Christopher Fanning;M. Marquez

  • The Río de la Plata craton and the assembly of SW Gondwana

    Carlos W Rapela;Robert J Pankhurst;Cesar Casquet;Christopher Fanning

  • The Pampean Orogeny of the southern proto-Andes: Cambrian continental collision in the Sierras de Cordoba

    C. W. Rapela;R. J. Pankhurst;C. Casquet;E. Baldo

  • The Famatinian magmatic arc in the central Sierras Pampeanas: an Early to Mid-Ordovician continental arc on the Gondwana margin

    R. J. Pankhurst;C. W. Rapela;J. Saavedra;E. Baldo

  • The South Patagonian batholith: 150 my of granite magmatism on a plate margin

    Francisco Herve;Robert J Pankhurst;Christopher Fanning;Mauricio Calderon

  • Development of the early Paleozoic Pacific margin of Gondwana from detrital-zircon ages across the Delamerian orogen

    T. R. Ireland;Thomas Flottmann;C. M. Fanning;G. M. Gibson

  • Cambrian Orogenic Belt in East Antarctica and Sri Lanka: Implications for Gondwana Assembly

    K. Shiraishi;D. J. Ellis;Y. Hiroi;C. M. Fanning

  • Age and origin of coeval TTG, I- and S-type granites in the Famatinian belt of NW Argentina

    Robert Pankhurst;C.W. Rapela;C.M. Fanning

  • Early Paleozoic tectonism within the East Antarctic craton: The final suture between east and west Gondwana?

    Steven D. Boger;Colin J Wilson;Christopher Fanning

  • Extraordinary transport and mixing of sediment across Himalayan central Gondwana during the Cambrian–Ordovician

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;John W. Goodge;C. Mark Fanning

  • Neoarchean greenstone volcanism and continental growth, Dharwar craton, southern India: Constraints from SIMS U–Pb zircon geochronology and Nd isotopes

    M. Jayananda;J-J Peucat;D Chardon;B. Krishna Rao

  • Refined Proterozoic evolution of the Gawler Craton, South Australia, through U-Pb zircon geochronology

    C.M. Fanning;R.B. Flint;A.J. Parker;K.R. Ludwig

  • The lower crust of the Dharwar Craton, Southern India: Patchwork of Archean granulitic domains

    Jean-Jacques Peucat;Mudlappa Jayananda;Dominique Chardon;Ramon Capdevila

  • Shrimp U–Pb zircon age evidence for Paleoproterozoic sedimentation and 2.05 Ga syntectonic plutonism in the Nyong Group, South-Western Cameroon: consequences for the Eburnean–Transamazonian belt of NE Brazil and Central Africa

    Cathérine Lerouge;Alain Cocherie;Sadrack F. Toteu;Joseph Penaye

  • U–Pb geochronology of zircon and polygenetic titanite from the Glastonbury Complex, Connecticut, USA: an integrated SEM, EMPA, TIMS, and SHRIMP study

    John N Aleinikoff;Robert P Wintsch;C.Mark Fanning;Michael J Dorais

  • Ages and origins of rocks of the Killingworth dome, south-central Connecticut: Implications for the tectonic evolution of southern New England

    John N. Aleinikoff;R P Wintsch;Richard P. Tollo;Daniel M. Unruh

  • SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, central Idaho: Implications for rifting of western Laurentia and synchroneity of Sturtian glacial deposits

    Karen Lund;John N. Aleinikoff;Karl V. Evans;C. Mark Fanning

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Pankhurst
Robert J. Pankhurst British Geological Survey
Carlos W. Rapela
Carlos W. Rapela National University of La Plata
Edgardo G. Baldo
Edgardo G. Baldo National University of Córdoba
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
César Casquet
César Casquet Complutense University of Madrid
Carmen Galindo
Carmen Galindo Complutense University of Madrid
John N. Aleinikoff
John N. Aleinikoff United States Geological Survey
Andrew C. Morton
Andrew C. Morton University of Cambridge
Ian L. Millar
Ian L. Millar British Geological Survey
John W. Goodge
John W. Goodge University of Minnesota

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