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Cristiano Lana is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and encompasses significant work in Computer Science related to these domains.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these broad fields, Cristiano Lana focuses on several subfields, such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Paleontology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Their research topics frequently address geological and geochemical analysis, with particular attention to aspects such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Cristiano Lana has contributed extensively to the scientific community with numerous publications. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Precambrian Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Gondwana Research

Some notable recent papers authored by Lana include:

  • "Neoproterozoic magmatic arc volcanism in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil: possible flare-ups and lulls and implications for western Gondwana assembly" (2020) in Gondwana Research
  • "Goldilocks at the dawn of complex life: mountains might have damaged Ediacaran-Cambrian ecosystems and prompted an early Cambrian greenhouse world" (2021) in Scientific Reports
  • "Assessing the U-Pb, Sm-Nd and Sr-Sr Isotopic Compositions of the Sumé Apatite as a Reference Material for LA-ICP-MS Analysis" (2021) in Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • "New U-Pb (SHRIMP) and first Hf isotope constraints on the Tonian (1000-920 Ma) Cariris Velhos event, Borborema Province, NE Brazil" (2020) in Brazilian Journal of Geology
  • "Integrated ophiolite and arc evolution, southern Brasiliano Orogen" (2020) in Precambrian Research

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Lana's scientific activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gláucia Queiroga
  • Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares
  • Fabrício de Andrade Caxito
  • Ricardo Scholz
  • Marcus Vinícius Dorneles Remus

Best Publications

  • The ancestry and magmatic evolution of Archaean TTG rocks of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero province, southeast Brazil.

    Cristiano Lana;Fernando F. Alkmim;Richard Armstrong;Ricardo Scholz

  • A new appraisal of sri lankan bb zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing.

    Maristella M. Santos;Cristiano Lana;Ricardo Scholz;Ian Buick

  • Stabilization of the southern portion of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil, through a long-lived period of potassic magmatism

    Rafael Cotta Romano;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Gary Stevens

  • The Neoarchean transition between medium- and high-K granitoids : Clues from the Southern São Francisco Craton (Brazil)

    Federico Farina;Capucine Albert;Cristiano Lana

  • The Ediacaran Rio Doce magmatic arc revisited (Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, SE Brazil)

    Mahyra Tedeschi;Tiago Novo;Antônio Pedrosa-Soares;Ivo Dussin

  • An assessment of monazite from the Itambé pegmatite district for use as U-Pb isotope reference material for microanalysis and implications for the origin of the ``Moacyr'' monazite

    Guilherme O. Gonçalves;Cristiano Lana;Ricardo Scholz;Ian S. Buick

  • The Archean-Paleoproterozoic evolution of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero (Brasil): Current models and open questions

    F. Farina;C. Albert;C. Martínez Dopico;C. Aguilar Gil

  • Palaeoproterozoic assembly of the São Francisco craton, SE Brazil : new insights from U–Pb titanite and monazite dating.

    Carmen Aguilar;Fernando Flecha de Alkmim;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Federico Farina;Federico Farina

  • Sedimentation, metamorphism and granite generation in a back-arc region: Records from the Ediacaran Nova Venécia Complex (Araçuaí Orogen, Southeastern Brazil)

    Fabiana Richter;Cristiano Lana;Gary Stevens;Ian Buick

  • Analyses of shocked quartz at the global K-P boundary indicate an origin from a single, high-angle, oblique impact at Chicxulub

    Joanna Morgan;Cristiano Lana;Anton Kearsley;Barry Coles

  • Geochronological constraints on the age of a Permo–Triassic impact event: U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar results for the 40 km Araguainha structure of central Brazil

    Eric Tohver;C Lana;P. A. Cawood;P. A. Cawood;I R Fletcher

  • Quartz plastic segregation and ribbon development in high-grade striped gneisses

    J Hippertt;A Rocha;C Lana;M Egydio-Silva

  • Constraints on the Statherian evolution of the intraplate rifting in a Paleo-Mesoproterozoic paleocontinent : new stratigraphic and geochronology record from the eastern São Francisco craton.

    A. Danderfer Filho;C.C. Lana;H.A. Nalini Júnior;A.F.O. Costa

  • Granites of the intracontinental termination of a magmatic arc: an example from the Ediacaran Araçuaí orogen, southeastern Brazil

    Leonardo Gonçalves;Fernando F. Alkmim;Antônio C. Pedrosa-Soares;Ivo A. Dussin

  • Archean crustal structure of the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa – evidence from the Vredefort dome

    Cristiano Lana;Roger L. Gibson;Alexander F.M. Kisters;W.Uwe Reimold

  • The detrital zircon record of an Archaean convergent basin in the Southern São Francisco Craton, Brazil.

    Hugo Moreira;Cristiano Lana;Hermínio Arias Nalini

  • Evolution of Neoproterozoic ophiolites from the southern Brasiliano Orogen revealed by zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes and geochemistry

    Karine R. Arena;Léo A. Hartmann;Cristiano Lana

  • U–Pb ages and Hf-isotope data of detrital zircons from the late Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic Minas Basin, SE Brazil

    Carmen Irene Martinez Dopico;Cristiano de Carvalho Lana;Hugo Souza Moreira;Lucas F. Cassino

  • Rhyacian-Orosirian isotopic records from the basement of the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (SE Brazil): Links in the Congo-São Francisco palaeocontinent

    Reik Degler;Antonio Pedrosa-Soares;Tiago Novo;Mahyra Tedeschi

  • Impact tectonics in the core of the Vredefort dome, South Africa: Implications for central uplift formation in very large impact structures

    C. Lana;R. L. Gibson;W. U. Reimold

  • Exhumation of Mesoarchean TTG gneisses from the middle crust: Insights from the Steynsdorp core complex, Barberton granitoid-greenstone terrain, South Africa

    Cristiano Lana;Alex Kisters;Gary Stevens

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim
Fernando Flecha de Alkmim Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Yunfei Xi
Yunfei Xi Queensland University of Technology
Ray L. Frost
Ray L. Frost Queensland University of Technology
Ricardo I.F. Trindade
Ricardo I.F. Trindade Universidade de São Paulo
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Léo Afraneo Hartmann
Léo Afraneo Hartmann Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ian S. Buick
Ian S. Buick Stellenbosch University
Roger L. Gibson
Roger L. Gibson University of the Witwatersrand
Eric Tohver
Eric Tohver Universidade de São Paulo

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