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Derek A. Wyman is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work predominantly focuses on geophysics, with significant contributions in artificial intelligence applications, geochemistry and petrology, geology, and paleontology. Their research topics span geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, elemental analysis, geological and geophysical studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Wyman has coauthored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including Qiang Wang, Wei Dan, Gong-Jian Tang, Lin Ma, and Xiu-Zheng Zhang. Their publishing record includes numerous papers in several scientific journals. The most common venues for their work include:

  • Geology
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Lithos

Among recent papers associated with Wyman's field are:

  • Komatiites From Mantle Transition Zone Plumes, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Ridge subduction, magmatism, and metallogenesis, 2020, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Subduction erosion and crustal material recycling indicated by adakites in central Tibet, 2021, Geology
  • Tibetan Plateau growth linked to crustal thermal transitions since the Miocene, 2022, Geology
  • Petrogenesis and tectonic implications of the 2.1-2.0 Ga granitoids in Fuping Complex, North China Craton: Constraints from petrology, geochemistry and zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopes, 2020, Precambrian Research

The range of topics Wyman covers includes geological and geochemical analysis, with a strong emphasis on high-pressure geophysics and the study of tectonic processes. Their work also involves detailed studies of geochemistry and geologic mapping approaches. Additionally, contributions to earthquake research and paleontological stratigraphy are present, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Petrogenesis of Cretaceous adakitic and shoshonitic igneous rocks in the Luzong area, Anhui Province (eastern China): Implications for geodynamics and Cu–Au mineralization

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Ji-Feng Xu;Zhen-Hua Zhao

  • Early Cretaceous adakitic granites in the Northern Dabie Complex, central China: Implications for partial melting and delamination of thickened lower crust

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Jifeng Xu;Ping Jian

  • Ridge subduction and crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Evidence from Late Carboniferous adakites and high-Mg diorites in the western Junggar region, northern Xinjiang (west China)

    Gongjian Tang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Eocene melting of subducting continental crust and early uplifting of central Tibet: Evidence from central-western Qiangtang high-K calc-alkaline andesites, dacites and rhyolites

    Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Jifeng Xu;Yanhui Dong

  • Petrogenesis of Carboniferous adakites and Nb-enriched arc basalts in the Alataw area, northern Tianshan Range (western China): Implications for Phanerozoic crustal growth in the Central Asia orogenic belt

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zhen-Hua Zhao;Ji-Feng Xu

  • Geodynamic setting of mesothermal gold deposits; an association with accretionary tectonic regimes

    Robert Kerrich;Derek Wyman

  • Os isotope systematics in ocean island basalts

    Laurie Reisberg;Alan Zindler;Franco Marcantonio;William White

  • Triassic Nb-enriched basalts, magnesian andesites, and adakites of the Qiangtang terrane (Central Tibet): evidence for metasomatism by slab-derived melts in the mantle wedge

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Jifeng Xu;Yusheng Wan

  • Geochemical diversity in oceanic komatiites and basalts from the late Archean Wawa greenstone belts, Superior Province, Canada: trace element and Nd isotope evidence for a heterogeneous mantle

    Ali Polat;Robert Kerrich;Derek A Wyman

  • Partial Melting of Thickened or Delaminated Lower Crust in the Middle of Eastern China: Implications for Cu-Au Mineralization

    Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Ji‐Feng Xu;Zhen‐Hua Zhao

  • Assembly of Archean cratonic mantle lithosphere and crust: plume–arc interaction in the Abitibi–Wawa subduction–accretion complex

    D.A. Wyman;R. Kerrich;A. Polat

  • Boninite series: low Ti-tholeiite associations from the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt

    R. Kerrich;D.A. Wyman;J. Fan;W. Bleeker

  • Trace element systematics of Mg-, to Fe-tholeiitic basalt suites of the Superior Province: implications for Archean mantle reservoirs and greenstone belt genesis

    R Kerrich;A Polat;D Wyman;P Hollings

  • Petrology, geochronology and geochemistry of ca. 780 Ma A-type granites in South China: Petrogenesis and implications for crustal growth during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia

    Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li;Zhi-Wei Bao

  • The late Archean Schreiber-Hemlo and White River-Dayohessarah greenstone belts, Superior Province: collages of oceanic plateaus, oceanic arcs, and subduction-accretion complexes

    A. Polat;R. Kerrich;D.A. Wyman

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks in the Lamasu-Dabate area, northwestern Tianshan (west China): Evidence for a tectonic transition from arc to post-collisional setting

    Gong-Jian Tang;Qiang Wang;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Min Sun

  • Late Cretaceous (100–89 Ma) magnesian charnockites with adakitic affinities in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: Partial melting of subducted oceanic crust and implications for crustal growth in southern Tibet

    Lin Ma;Qiang Wang;Derek A. Wyman;Zheng-Xiang Li

  • Asthenosphere–lithosphere interaction triggered by a slab window during ridge subduction: Trace element and Sr–Nd–Hf–Os isotopic evidence from Late Carboniferous tholeiites in the western Junggar area (NW China)

    Gong-Jian Tang;Derek A. Wyman;Qiang Wang;Jie Li

  • Komatiite–basalt–rhyolite volcanic associations in Northern Superior Province greenstone belts: significance of plume-arc interaction in the generation of the proto continental Superior Province

    P Hollings;D Wyman;R Kerrich

  • Early Late Cretaceous (ca. 93 Ma) norites and hornblendites in the Milin area, eastern Gangdese: Lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction during slab roll-back and an insight into early Late Cretaceous (ca. 100–80 Ma) magmatic “flare-up” in southern Lhasa (Tibet)

    Lin Ma;Qiang Wang;Zheng Xiang Li;Derek A. Wyman

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhen-Hua Zhao
Zhen-Hua Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert Kerrich
Robert Kerrich University of Saskatchewan
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
Jin-Hui Yang
Jin-Hui Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pete Hollings
Pete Hollings Lakehead University
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Xian-Hua Li
Xian-Hua Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ali Polat
Ali Polat University of Windsor
Ji-Feng Xu
Ji-Feng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaoping Xia
Xiaoping Xia Chinese Academy of Sciences

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