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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
115
Citations
73035
World Ranking
50
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1990 - Japan Prize for the initiation of the theory of plate tectonics and contributions to its development.
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1989 - Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1975 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1975 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Dan McKenzie is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in the subfield of Geophysics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • "On the role of Earth's lithospheric mantle in global volatile cycles," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Relations between earthquake distributions, geological history, tectonics and rheology on the continents," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "The thermal and anisotropic structure of the top 300 km of the mantle," 2023, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "The formation of continental roots," 2020, Geology
  • "The structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East," 2020, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dan McKenzie include:

  • Keith Priestley
  • James Jackson
  • Sally Gibson
  • Tak Ho
  • John F. Rudge

Their publications have appeared most frequently in the following venues:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geology
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Bird Study

Dan McKenzie has received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Japan Prize, 1990, for the initiation of the theory of plate tectonics and contributions to its development
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1990
  • Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America, 1989
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1988
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 1976
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1975
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1975
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins

    Dan McKenzie

  • Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region

    Dan McKenzie

  • Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts

    Robert White;Dan McKenzie

  • The Volume and Composition of Melt Generated by Extension of the Lithosphere

    D. McKENZIE;M. J. Bickle

  • Partial melt distributions from inversion of rare earth element concentrations

    Dan McKENZIE;R. K. O'nions

  • The Generation and Compaction of Partially Molten Rock

    Dan McKENZIE

  • Active tectonics of the Alpine—Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions

    Dan McKenzie

  • Active tectonics of the Alpine—Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan

    James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • Oceanic crustal thickness from seismic measurements and rare earth element inversions

    Robert S. White;Dan McKenzie;R. Keith O'Nions

  • Speculations on the Consequences and Causes of Plate Motions

    D. P. McKenzie

  • Convective instability of a thickened boundary layer and its relevance for the thermal evolution of continental convergent belts

    G. A. Houseman;D. P. McKenzie;Peter Molnar

  • Active tectonics of the north and central Aegean Sea

    Tuncay Taymaz;James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East

    James Jackson;Dan McKenzie

  • The Evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous

    Dan McKenzie;John G. Sclater

  • A thin viscous sheet model for continental deformation

    Philip England;Dan McKenzie

  • Thermal structure of oceanic and continental lithosphere

    Dan McKenzie;James Jackson;Keith Priestley

  • Convection in the earth's mantle: towards a numerical simulation

    D. P. Mckenzie;J. M. Roberts;N. O. Weiss

  • Plate tectonics of the Mediterranean region.

    McKenzie Dp

  • The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere

    D. P. McKenzie;R. L. Parker

  • Some remarks on the movement of small melt fractions in the mantle

    Dan McKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Priestley
Keith Priestley University of Cambridge
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
Karl Grönvold
Karl Grönvold University of Iceland
John G. Sclater
John G. Sclater University of California, San Diego
Robert S. White
Robert S. White University of Cambridge
Francis Nimmo
Francis Nimmo University of California, Santa Cruz
Andreas Stracke
Andreas Stracke University of Münster
John Maclennan
John Maclennan University of Cambridge
Nicky White
Nicky White University of Cambridge
Alex Copley
Alex Copley University of Cambridge

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