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Edward W. Sawyer is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific expertise spanning several subfields and topics within this domain.

They have contributed notably to the subfields of:

  • Geophysics
  • Biomaterials
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Mechanics of Materials

Within these areas, their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
  • Mining and Gasification Technologies

Edward W. Sawyer's publication record features articles in well-regarded journals such as the Journal of Petrology and Lithos. Selected recent papers include:

  • Petrogenesis of Secondary Diatexites and the Melt Budget for Crustal Reworking, 2020, Journal of Petrology
  • Partial melting of granodiorite: insights from ediacaran granulite-facies metamorphism in Southern Brazil, 2021, Journal of Petrology
  • Changes in the composition of anatectic melt and its complementary residue by forward-modelling using THERMOCALC, 2021, Lithos
  • Corrigendum to "Changes in the composition of anatectic melt and its complementary residue by forward-modelling using thermocalc" [Lithos 396-397 (2021) 106220], 2021, Lithos

The scientist often collaborates with others in their field. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Mauricio Pavan
  • Renato Moraes
  • Frederico Meira Faleiros

Publication venues important to their work are:

  • Journal of Petrology
  • Lithos

Best Publications

  • Atlas of Migmatites

    Edward W. Sawyer

  • Melt segregation in the continental crust: distribution and movement of melt in anatectic rocks

    E. W. Sawyer

  • Archaean subduction inferred from seismic images of a mantle suture in the Superior Province

    A. J. Calvert;E. W. Sawyer;W. J. Davis;W. J. Davis;J. N. Ludden

  • When the Continental Crust Melts

    Edward W. Sawyer;Bernardo Cesare;Michael Brown

  • Criteria for the recognition of partial melting

    E.W. Sawyer

  • Melt segregation in the continental crust

    E. W. Sawyer

  • On the Pseudomorphing of Melt-filled Pores During the Crystallization of Migmatites

    Marian B. Holness;Edward W. Sawyer

  • Melt segregation in migmatites

    Michael Brown;Yuri A. Averkin;Eileen L. McLellan;Edward W. Sawyer

  • Disequilibrium Melting and the Rate of Melt-Residuum Separation During Migmatization of Mafic Rocks from the Grenville Front, Quebec

    E. W. Sawyer

  • Formation and Evolution of Granite Magmas During Crustal Reworking: the Significance of Diatexites

    E. W. Sawyer

  • Pervasive granitoid magma transfer through the lower–middle crust during non‐coaxial compressional deformation

    W. J. Collins;E. W. Sawyer

  • The influence of source rock type, chemical weathering and sorting on the geochemistry of clastic sediments from the Quetico metasedimentary belt, Superior Province, Canada

    E.W. Sawyer

  • Melted Rocks under the Microscope: Microstructures and Their Interpretation

    Marian B. Holness;Bernardo Cesare;Edward W. Sawyer

  • The Role of Partial Melting and Fractional Crystallization in Determining Discordant Migmatite Leucosome Compositions

    E. W. Sawyer

  • Migmatites formed by water-fluxed partial melting of a leucogranodiorite protolith: Microstructures in the residual rocks and source of the fluid

    E.W. Sawyer

  • Nickel-copper occurrences in the Belleterre-Angliers Belt of the Pontiac Subprovince and the use of Cu-Pd ratios in interpreting platinum-group element distributions

    Sarah-Jane Barnes;Jean-François Couture;Edward W. Sawyer;Chakib Bouchaib

  • Formation of Diatexite Migmatite and Granite Magma during Anatexis of Semi-pelitic Metasedimentary Rocks: an Example from St. Malo, France

    I. Milord;E. W. Sawyer;M. Brown

  • Melt segregation and magma flow in migmatites: implications for the generation of granite magmas

    E. W. Sawyer

  • Large‐scale melt‐depletion in granulite terranes: an example from the Archean Ashuanipi Subprovince of Quebec

    S. Guernina;E. W. Sawyer

  • An alternative model for the Damara Mobile Belt: Ocean crust subduction and continental convergence

    Sarah-Jane Barnes;Edward W. Sawyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah-Jane Barnes
Sarah-Jane Barnes Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Michael Brown
Michael Brown University of Maryland, College Park
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Bernardo Cesare
Bernardo Cesare University of Padua
Marian B. Holness
Marian B. Holness University of Cambridge
John Ludden
John Ludden Heriot-Watt University
Clément Gariépy
Clément Gariépy University of Quebec at Montreal
Jean-François Moyen
Jean-François Moyen Jean Monnet University
Olivier Vanderhaeghe
Olivier Vanderhaeghe University of Lorraine
William J. Davis
William J. Davis Geological Survey of Canada

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