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David H. Cornell

David H. Cornell

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
4832
World Ranking
7590
National Ranking
67

Overview

David H. Cornell is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science, reflecting diverse expertise in geological and computational fields.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Their research topics cover Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Recent publications by David H. Cornell include the following papers:

  • Dating detrital zircon from the gold-bearing Ventersdorp Contact Reef in the Ventersdorp Supergroup of South Africa, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • Dating of Guperas Formation rhyolites changes the stratigraphy of the Mesoproterozoic Sinclair Supergroup of Namibia, 2020, South African Journal of Geology
  • New constraints on the age of ore at Black Mountain mine, Bushmanland Ore District, South Africa, 2022, South African Journal of Geology

David has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field, including:

  • Magnus Kristoffersen
  • P.G. Meintjes
  • W.A. van der Westhuizen
  • Dirk Frei
  • M. Harris

The majority of their publications have appeared in the South African Journal of Geology, with additional contributions to Precambrian Research, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Geoscience Frontiers, and arXiv (Cornell University).

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

  • Trace-element geochemistry of mantle olivine and application to mantle petrogenesis and geothermobarometry

    Jan C.M. De Hoog;Jan C.M. De Hoog;Louise Gall;David H. Cornell

  • The Ongeluk basaltic andesite formation in Griqualand West, South Africa: submarine alteration in a 2222 Ma proterozoic sea

    D.H. Cornell;S.S. Schütte;B.L. Eglington

  • The Namaqua-Natal Province

    D.H. Cornell;Robert James Thomas;R. Gibson;H.F.G. Moen

  • The Kibaran of southern Africa: Tectonic evolution and metallogeny

    R.J. Thomas;A.L.D. Agenbacht;D.H. Cornell;J.M. Moore

  • Geochronology of the Proterozoic Hartley Basalt formation, South Africa: constraints on the Kheis tectogenesis and the Kaapvaal Craton's earliest Wilson Cycle

    D.H. Cornell;R.A. Armstrong;F. Walraven

  • Ion-probe dating of 1.2 Ga collision and crustal architecture in the Namaqua-Natal Province of southern Africa

    Åsa Pettersson;David H. Cornell;Henri F.G. Moen;Steven Reddy

  • Apatite in early Archean Isua supracrustal rocks, southern West Greenland: its origin, association with graphite and potential as a biomarker

    Aivo Lepland;Gustaf Arrhenius;David Cornell

  • Sveconorwegian (-Grenvillian) deformation, metamorphism and leucosome formation in SW Sweden, SW Baltic Shield: constraints from a Mesoproterozoic granite intrusion

    Jenny Andersson;Ulf Söderlund;David Cornell;Leif Johansson

  • Rare earths from supernova to superconductor

    David H Cornell

  • Ion probe zircon dating of metasedimentary units across the Skagerrak: new constraints for early Mesoproterozoic growth of the Baltic Shield

    K.I Åhäll;D.H Cornell;R Armstrong

  • New Insights into the Geology of the Namaqua Tectonic Province, South Africa, from Ion Probe Dating of Detrital and Metamorphic Zircon

    Johann G. Raith;David H. Cornell;Hartwig E. Frimmel;Coenraad H. De Beer

  • Provenance age and metamorphic history of the Quha Formation, Natal metamorphic province; a U-Th-Pb zircon SHRIMP study

    R. J. Thomas;D. H. Cornell;R. A. Armstrong

  • Dating mafic-ultramafic intrusions by ion-microprobing contact-melt zircon: examples from SW Sweden

    Anders Scherstén;Hans Årebäck;David Cornell;Paul Hoskin

  • Sm-Nd study of precambrian crustal development in the Prieska-Copperton region, Cape province

    D. H. Cornell;Christopher J. Hawkesworth;P. Van Calsteren;W. D. Scott

  • A collision-related pressure-temperature-time path for Prieska copper mine, namaqua-natal tectonic province, South Africa

    D.H. Cornell;H. Humphreys;H.F.J. Theart;D.J. Scheepers

  • A volcanic-exhalative origin for the world's largest (Kalahari) Manganese field

    D. H. Cornell;S. S. Schütte

  • Ion probe zircon dating of metasediments from the Areachap and Kakamas Terranes, Namaqua-Natal Province and the stratigraphic integrity of the Areachap Group

    David H. Cornell;Åsa Pettersson

  • Protolith interpretation in metamorphic terranes: a back-arc environment with Besshi-type base metal potential for the Quha Formation, Natal Province, South Africa

    D. Cornell

  • Age of origin of the polymetamorphosed Copperton Formation, Namaqua-Natal Province, determined by single grain zircon Pb-Pb dating

    D. H. Cornell;A. Kroener;H. Humphreys;G. Griffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Frei
Dirk Frei University of the Western Cape
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong Australian National University
Robert J. Thomas
Robert J. Thomas Council for Geoscience
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen University of Oslo
Jan C.M. De Hoog
Jan C.M. De Hoog University of Edinburgh
Holly J. Stein
Holly J. Stein University of Oslo
Ólafur Ingólfsson
Ólafur Ingólfsson University of Iceland
Richard E. Hanson
Richard E. Hanson Texas Christian University
Ulf Söderlund
Ulf Söderlund Lund University

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