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Overview

Dennis D. Eberl is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with particular attention to biomaterials, civil and structural engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, and water science and technology.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass:

  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Calcium carbonate crystallization and inhibition
  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • Minerals flotation and separation techniques
  • Magnetic and electromagnetic effects

Dennis D. Eberl has contributed to several scientific articles, notably including:

  • "Crystal growth according to the law of proportionate effect," published in 2023 in American Mineralogist
  • "On the formation of Martian blueberries," published in 2021 in American Mineralogist
  • "Methods for Determination of the Layer Charge of Smectites: A Critical Assessment of Existing Approaches," published in 2023 in Clays and Clay Minerals (authored by George E. Christidis, with whom Eberl frequently collaborates)

The primary publication venues for their work include American Mineralogist and Clays and Clay Minerals. Their collaboration network involves frequent co-authors such as George E. Christidis, Georgios D. Chryssikos, Arkadiusz Derkowski, Reiner Dohrmann, and Emmanuel Joussein.

Best Publications

  • QUANTITATIVE X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS OF CLAY-BEARING ROCKS FROM RANDOM PREPARATIONS

    Jan Środoń;Victor A. Drits;Douglas K. McCarty;Jean C.C. Hsieh

  • User Guide to RockJock - A Program for Determining Quantitative Mineralogy from X-Ray Diffraction Data

    D.D. Eberl

  • Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: I. Long-term versus short-term weathering fluxes

    Art F. White;Alex E. Blum;Marjorie S. Schulz;Davison V. Vivit

  • Role of Microbes in the Smectite-to-Illite Reaction

    Jinwook Kim;Hailiang Dong;Jennifer Seabaugh;Steven W. Newell

  • The nature of porosity in organic-rich mudstones of the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation, North Sea, offshore United Kingdom

    Neil S. Fishman;Paul C. Hackley;Heather A. Lowers;Ronald J. Hill

  • Kinetics of illite formation

    Dennis Eberl;John Hower

  • XRD measurement of mean crystallite thickness of illite and illite/smectite; reappraisal of the Kubler index and the Scherrer equation

    Victor A. Drits;Jan Srodon;D. D. Eberl

  • Deducing growth mechanisms for minerals from the shapes of crystal size distributions

    D. D. Eberl;V. A. Drits;Jan Srodon

  • What Makes a Natural Clay Antibacterial

    Lynda B. Williams;David W. Metge;Dennis D. Eberl;Ronald W. Harvey

  • Ostwald ripening of clays and metamorphic minerals.

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Środoń;Martin Kralik;Bruce E. Taylor

  • Late Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentation patterns in the western Arctic Ocean

    Leonid Polyak;Jens Bischof;Joseph D. Ortiz;Dennis A. Darby

  • Direct observation of heavy metal-mineral association from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex: Implications for metal transport and bioavailability

    Michael F. Hochella;Johnnie N. Moore;Christine V. Putnis;Andrew Putnis

  • Sericite from the Silverton Caldera, Colorado; correlation among structure, composition, origin, and particle thickness

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Srodon;Mingchou Lee;P. H. Nadeau

  • Report of the Association Internationale pour l’Etude des Argiles (AIPEA) Nomenclature Committee for 2001: Order, disorder and crystallinity in phyllosilicates and the use of the ‘Crystallinity Index’

    S. Guggenheim;D. C. Bain;F. Bergaya;M. F. Brigatti

  • Chemistry of illite/smectite and end-member illite

    Jan Srodon;D. J. Morgan;E. V. Eslinger;D. D. Eberl

  • Clay mineral formation and transformation in rocks and soils

    D.D. Eberl

  • Synthesis of illite-smectite from smectite at Earth surface temperatures and high pH

    D. D. Eberl;Bruce Velde;T. C. McCormick

  • Potassium Fixation in Smectite by Wetting and Drying

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Środoń;H. Roy Northrop

  • Control of Fe(III) site occupancy on the rate and extent of microbial reduction of Fe(III) in nontronite

    Deb P. Jaisi;Ravi K. Kukkadapu;Dennis D. Eberl;Hailiang Dong

  • Ostwald ripening and interparticle-diffraction effects for illite crystals

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Srodon

  • Alkali cation selectivity and fixation by clay minerals

    Dennis D. Eberl

Frequent Co-Authors

Hailiang Dong
Hailiang Dong China University of Geosciences
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews University of Colorado Boulder
Anne E. Jennings
Anne E. Jennings University of Colorado Boulder
Victor A. Drits
Victor A. Drits Russian Academy of Sciences
Lynda B. Williams
Lynda B. Williams Arizona State University
Jan Środoń
Jan Środoń Polish Academy of Sciences
Anders A. Bjørk
Anders A. Bjørk University of Copenhagen
Norbert Clauer
Norbert Clauer University of Strasbourg
Ronald W. Harvey
Ronald W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Hongchen Jiang
Hongchen Jiang China University of Geosciences

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