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  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Dante Canil is a researcher affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics alongside interests spanning atmospheric science, artificial intelligence, paleontology, and geology.

Their scholarly work encompasses a range of topics related to geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and broader geological studies and exploration.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Dante Canil include:

  • Geothermometry using minor and trace elements in igneous and hydrothermal magnetite, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Xenoliths reveal a hot Moho and thin lithosphere at the Cordillera-craton boundary of western Canada, 2022, Geology
  • Hygrometric Control on the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary: A 28 Million Year Record From the Canadian Cordillera, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Canil include Rebecca Morris, R. D. Hyndman, Dominic Fode, and Rebecca Scholtysik.

Some of the primary venues for their publications are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geology
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Awards received by Canil include the designation as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011 within the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • MPI-DING reference glasses for in situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios

    Klaus Peter Jochum;Brigitte Stoll;Kirstin Herwig;Matthias Willbold

  • Mantle Samples Included in Volcanic Rocks: Xenoliths and Diamonds

    D.G. Pearson;D. Canil;S.B. Shirey

  • Similar V/Sc Systematics in MORB and Arc Basalts: Implications for the Oxygen Fugacities of their Mantle Source Regions

    Cin-Ty Aeolus Lee;William P. Leeman;Dante Canil;Zheng-Xue A Li

  • Vanadium in peridotites, mantle redox and tectonic environments: Archean to present

    Dante Canil

  • Vanadium partitioning and the oxidation state of Archaean komatiite magmas

    Dante Canil

  • Distribution of ferric iron in some upper-mantle assemblages

    Dante Canil;Hugh St. C. O'neill

  • Ferric iron in peridotites and mantle oxidation states

    D. Canil;H.St.C. O'Neill;D.G. Pearson;R.L. Rudnick

  • Kinetics of Ib to IaA nitrogen aggregation in diamond

    Wayne R. Taylor;Wayne R. Taylor;Dante Canil;H. Judith Milledge

  • Intensive Variables in Kimberlite Magmas, Lac de Gras, Canada and Implications for Diamond Survival

    Yana Fedortchouk;Dante Canil

  • Experimental calibration of aluminum partitioning between olivine and spinel as a geothermometer

    Zhihuan Wan;Laurence A. Coogan;Dante Canil

  • Mildly incompatible elements in peridotites and the origins of mantle lithosphere

    Dante Canil

  • Vanadium partitioning between orthopyroxene, spinel and silicate melt and the redox states of mantle source regions for primary magmas

    Dante Canil

  • Phase relations in peridotite+CO2 Systems to 12 GPa: Implications for the origin of kimberlite and carbonate stability in the Earth's upper mantle

    Dante Canil;Christopher M. Scarfe

  • THE NI-IN-GARNET GEOTHERMOMETER : CALIBRATION AT NATURAL ABUNDANCES

    Dante Canil

  • The role of amphibole in the evolution of arc magmas and crust: the case from the Jurassic Bonanza arc section, Vancouver Island, Canada

    Jeff Larocque;Dante Canil

  • OLIVINE-LIQUID PARTITIONING OF VANADIUM AND OTHER TRACE ELEMENTS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO MODERN AND ANCIENT PICRITES

    Dante Canil;Yana Fedortchouk

  • Oxide‐metal equilibria to 2500°C and 25 GPa: Implications for core formation and the light component in the Earth's core

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill;Hugh St. C. O'Neill;Dante Canil;Dante Canil;David C. Rubie

  • Garnet dissolution and the emplacement of kimberlites

    Dante Canil;Yana Fedortchouk

  • Ferric Iron in the Upper Mantle and In Transition Zone Assemblages: Implications for Relative Oxygen Fugacities in the Mantle

    H. St.C. O'Neill;D. C. Rubie;D. Canil;C. A. Geiger

  • Composition and thermal evolution of cratonic mantle beneath the central Archean Slave Province, NWT, Canada

    J. M. MacKenzie;D. Canil

  • Experimental study bearing on the absence of carbonate in mantle-derived xenoliths

    Dante Canil

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Johnston
Stephen T. Johnston University of Alberta
Roy D. Hyndman
Roy D. Hyndman University of Victoria
Hugh St. C. O'Neill
Hugh St. C. O'Neill Monash University
D.G. Pearson
D.G. Pearson University of Alberta
Laurence A. Coogan
Laurence A. Coogan University of Victoria
Weidong Sun
Weidong Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jonathan E. Snow
Jonathan E. Snow Louisiana State University
Cin-Ty A. Lee
Cin-Ty A. Lee Rice University
Richard M. Friedman
Richard M. Friedman University of British Columbia
Robert A. Creaser
Robert A. Creaser University of Alberta

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