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Overview

Craig O'Neill is a researcher affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their research topics cover areas such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Astro and Planetary Science, earthquake and tectonic studies, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

O'Neill has contributed extensively to scientific literature with notable recent papers including:

  • "A Global Fireball Observatory" (2020, Planetary and Space Science)
  • "On the Distribution and Variation of Radioactive Heat Producing Elements Within Meteorites, the Earth, and Planets" (2020, Space Science Reviews)
  • "Bushveld superplume drove Proterozoic magmatism and metallogenesis in Australia" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "The effect of galactic chemical evolution on terrestrial exoplanet composition and tectonics" (2020, Icarus)
  • "Destabilization of deep oxidized mantle drove the Great Oxidation Event" (2022, Science Advances)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with O'Neill include Tim Johnson, Michael Brown, Stephen Foley, Christopher L. Kirkland, and Serena Chandler-Ho.

O'Neill's work has been published in several scientific venues with higher publication counts in Scientific Reports, arXiv (Cornell University), Planetary and Space Science, Nature, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

    G. C. Begg;W. L. Griffin;L. M. Natapov;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

  • On the uncertainties in hot spot reconstructions and the significance of moving hot spot reference frames

    Craig O'Neill;Craig O'Neill;Dietmar Müller;Bernhard Steinberger

  • Evidence and implications for a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on Earth

    Kent C. Condie;Craig O'Neill;Richard C. Aster

  • Episodic Precambrian subduction

    Craig O'Neill;Adrian Lenardic;Louis-Noel Moresi;Trond Helge Torsvik;Trond Helge Torsvik

  • Stagnant-lid tectonics in early Earth revealed by 142Nd variations in late Archean rocks

    Vinciane Debaille;Craig O'Neill;Alan A.D. Brandon;Pierre Haenecour

  • The world turns over: Hadean-Archean crust-mantle evolution

    W.L. Griffin;E.A. Belousova;C. O'Neill;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

  • Geological consequences of super‐sized Earths

    C. O'Neill;A. Lenardic

  • Conditions for the onset of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets and moons

    C. O'Neill;A.M. Jellinek;A. Lenardic

  • The evolution of Hadean-Eoarchaean geodynamics

    C. O'Neill;Vinciane Debaille

  • Impact-driven subduction on the Hadean Earth

    Craig O'Neill;Simone Marchi;Siqi Zhang;William F. Bottke

  • The Archean-Proterozoic boundary: 500 my of tectonic transition in Earth history

    Kent C. Condie;Craig O’Neill

  • Geodynamic implications of moving Indian Ocean hotspots

    Craig O’Neill;Dietmar Müller;Bernhard Steinberger

  • Early martian mantle overturn inferred from isotopic composition of nakhlite meteorites

    Vinciane Debaille;Vinciane Debaille;A.D Brandon;C. O'Neill;Qing-Zhu Yin

  • A window for plate tectonics in terrestrial planet evolution

    Craig O'Neill;Adrian Lenardic;Matthew Weller;Louis Moresi;Louis Moresi

  • Continents, supercontinents, mantle thermal mixing, and mantle thermal isolation: Theory, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments

    Adrian Lenardic;Louis-Noel Moresi;A Jellinek;C. O'Neill

  • Dynamics of cratons in an evolving mantle

    C.J. O'Neill;A. Lenardic;W.L. Griffin;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

  • The role of episodic overturn in generating the surface geology and heat flow on Enceladus

    Craig O’Neill;Francis Nimmo

  • μ-FTIR mapping: Distribution of impurities in different types of diamond growth

    D. Howell;C.J. O'Neill;K.J. Grant;W.L. Griffin

  • Melt propagation and volcanism in mantle convection simulations, with applications for Martian volcanic and atmospheric evolution

    C. O'Neill;C. O'Neill;A. Lenardic;A. M. Jellinek;W. S. Kiefer

  • Ellipsis 3D: A particle-in-cell finite-element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation

    Craig O'Neill;Louis Moresi;Dietmar Müller;Rich Albert

  • The effects of internal heating and large scale climate variations on tectonic bi-stability in terrestrial planets

    M.B. Weller;A. Lenardic;C. O'Neill

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Lenardic
Adrian Lenardic Rice University
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Louis Moresi
Louis Moresi Australian National University
Alan D. Brandon
Alan D. Brandon University of Houston
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University
Qing-Zhu Yin
Qing-Zhu Yin University of California, Davis
Louis-Noel Moresi
Louis-Noel Moresi University of Melbourne
Trond H. Torsvik
Trond H. Torsvik University of Oslo
Kent C. Condie
Kent C. Condie New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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