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Crisogono Vasconcelos

Crisogono Vasconcelos

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
9167
World Ranking
5696
National Ranking
129

Overview

Crisogono Vasconcelos is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses on topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geological Modeling and Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

The scientist has published in several fields with notable concentration in Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology. Their frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 16 publications, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University with 4 publications, as well as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Minerals, and the Journal of the Geological Society.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vasconcelos include Gilbert Camoin, Yasufumi Iryu, David McInroy, Ryuji Asami, and Hendrik Braaksma, each having coauthored around 20 publications together.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Crisogono Vasconcelos cover various aspects of geosciences and environmental processes. These include:

  • Organic matter diagenesis and precipitation of Mg-rich carbonate and dolomite in modern hypersaline lagoons linked to climate changes (2022), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Tracking Organomineralization Processes from Living Microbial Mats to Fossil Microbialites (2020), published in Minerals
  • Dolomite formation during penecontemporaneous subaerial diagenesis: evidence from modern dolomite crusts forming in lagoon Brejo do Espinho, Brazil (2024), published in Journal of the Geological Society
  • Building an isoscape based on tooth enamel for human provenance estimation in Brazil (2021), published in Forensic Science International
  • Holocene paleo-redox conditions in a microbial dolomitic lake using benthic foraminifera as bioindicators (2023), published in Marine Micropaleontology

Best Publications

  • Microbial mediation as a possible mechanism for natural dolomite formation at low temperatures

    Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie;Stefano Bernasconi;Djordje Grujic

  • Microbial Mediation of Modern Dolomite Precipitation and Diagenesis Under Anoxic Conditions (Lagoa Vermelha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

    Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Bacterially induced dolomite precipitation in anoxic culture experiments

    Rolf Warthmann;Yvonne van Lith;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Calibration of the δ18O paleothermometer for dolomite precipitated in microbial cultures and natural environments

    Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie;Rolf Warthmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Dolomite formation within microbial mats in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

    Tomaso R. R. Bontognali;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Rolf J. Warthmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Sulphate-reducing bacteria induce low-temperature Ca-dolomite and high Mg-calcite formation

    Yvonne Van Lith;Rolf Warthmann;Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. Mckenzie

  • Microbial fossilization in carbonate sediments: a result of the bacterial surface involvement in dolomite precipitation

    Yvonne Van Lith;Rolf Warthmann;Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Microbially catalyzed dolomite formation: From near-surface to burial

    Daniel A. Petrash;Or M. Bialik;Tomaso R.R. Bontognali;Crisógono Vasconcelos

  • Aerobic microbial dolomite at the nanometer scale : Implications for the geologic record

    Mónica Sánchez-Román;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Thomas Schmid;Maria Dittrich

  • Lithifying microbial mats in Lagoa Vermelha, Brazil: Modern Precambrian relics?

    Crisógono Vasconcelos;Rolf Warthmann;Judith A. McKenzie;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Dolomite formation and biogeochemical cycles in the Phanerozoic

    Stephen J. Burns;Judith A. Mckenzie;Crisogono Vasconcelos

  • Microbial biomineralization processes forming modern Ca:Mg carbonate stromatolites

    Alessandra Spadafora;Edoardo Perri;Judith A. Mckenzie;Crisógono Vasconcelos

  • Calibration of the dolomite clumped isotope thermometer from 25 to 350 °C, and implications for a universal calibration for all (Ca, Mg, Fe)CO3 carbonates

    Magali Bonifacie;Magali Bonifacie;Damien Calmels;Damien Calmels;John M. Eiler;Juske Horita

  • Microbes produce nanobacteria-like structures, avoiding cell entombment

    Tomaso R.R. Bontognali;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Rolf J. Warthmann;Christophe Dupraz

  • Presence of sulfate does not inhibit low-temperature dolomite precipitation

    Mónica Sánchez-Román;Mónica Sánchez-Román;Mónica Sánchez-Román;Judith A. McKenzie;Angela de Luca Rebello Wagener;Maria A. Rivadeneyra

  • Dolomite Mountains and the origin of the dolomite rock of which they mainly consist: historical developments and new perspectives

    Judith A. Mckenzie;Crisogono Vasconcelos

  • Microbially influenced formation of Mg‐calcite and Ca‐dolomite in the presence of exopolymeric substances produced by sulphate‐reducing bacteria

    Tomaso R. R. Bontognali;Judith A. McKenzie;Rolf J. Warthmann;Crisogono Vasconcelos

  • Formation processes of methane-derived authigenic carbonates from the Gulf of Cadiz

    Vitor H. Magalhães;Luis M. Pinheiro;Michael K. Ivanov;Elena Kozlova

  • Biomineralization of carbonate and phosphate by moderately halophilic bacteria

    Mónica Sánchez-Román;Maria A. Rivadeneyra;Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Amorphous organic matter — Experimental data on formation and the role of microbes

    Muriel Pacton;Georges E. Gorin;Crisogono Vasconcelos

  • Dolomite formation in the dynamic deep biosphere: results from the Peru Margin

    Patrick Meister;Judith A. Mckenzie;Crisogono Vasconcelos;Stefano Bernasconi

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Gutjahr
Marcus Gutjahr GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Daniel Ariztegui
Daniel Ariztegui University of Geneva
Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag Harvard University
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
John M. Ferry
John M. Ferry Johns Hopkins University
Liane G. Benning
Liane G. Benning Freie Universität Berlin
Luis Somoza
Luis Somoza Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council

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