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Emma L. Tomlinson

Emma L. Tomlinson

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
3483
World Ranking
8121
National Ranking
19

Overview

Emma L. Tomlinson is a researcher affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their publication record encompasses 51 papers within this discipline, with significant contributions to subfields such as Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Archeology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology. These themes are reflected in their range of studies and publications.

Several frequent co-authors collaborate regularly with Emma L. Tomlinson. These include Brendan C. Hoare, Vicki Smith, Christine Lane, Dan N. Barfod, and Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse.

Their research has appeared primarily in selected venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Nature
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Scientific Data
  • Chemical Geology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Emma L. Tomlinson illustrate the scope of their research interests and include:

  • "Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa," 2022, published in Nature
  • "A Thermodynamic Model for the Subsolidus Evolution and Melting of Peridotite," 2021, published in Journal of Petrology
  • "Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies-from collection through analysis," 2022, published in Scientific Data
  • "No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology," 2022, published in Climate of the Past
  • "Lake Ohrid's tephrochronological dataset reveals 1.36 Ma of Mediterranean explosive volcanic activity," 2021, published in Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

    John Lowe;Nick Barton;Simon Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Geochemistry of the Phlegraean Fields (Italy) proximal sources for major Mediterranean tephras: implications for the dispersal of Plinian and co-ignimbritic components of explosive eruptions

    Emma L. Tomlinson;Ilenia Arienzo;Lucia Civetta;Sabine Wulf

  • Co-existing fluid and silicate inclusions in mantle diamond

    E.L. Tomlinson;A.P. Jones;J.W. Harris

  • The Chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah Cave (Cyrenaica, Northeast Libya)

    Katerina Douka;Zenobia Jacobs;Christine Lane;Rainer Grun

  • Was the 12.1 ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind

    C.S. Lane;S.P.E. Blockley;J. Mangerud;J. Mangerud;V.C. Smith

  • The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe

    Emma L. Tomlinson;Victoria C. Smith;Paul G. Albert;Erkan Aydar

  • Microanalysis of tephra by LA-ICP-MS — Strategies, advantages and limitations assessed using the Thorsmörk ignimbrite (Southern Iceland)

    E.L. Tomlinson;T. Thordarson;W. Müller;M. Thirlwall

  • The 100-133 ka record of Italian explosive volcanism and revised tephrochronology of Lago Grande di Monticchio

    Sabine Wulf;Jörg Keller;Martine Paterne;Jens Mingram

  • First integrated tephrochronological record for the last ∼190 kyr from the Fucino Quaternary lacustrine succession, central Italy

    Biagio Giaccio;Elizabeth M. Niespolo;Elizabeth M. Niespolo;Alison Pereira;Sebastien Nomade

  • The Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy of annually laminated sediments from Meerfelder Maar, Germany

    Christine S. Lane;Christine S. Lane;Achim Brauer;Celia Martín-Puertas;Simon P.E. Blockley

  • A snapshot of mantle metasomatism: Trace element analysis of coexisting fluid (LA-ICP-MS) and silicate (SIMS) inclusions in fibrous diamonds

    E.L. Tomlinson;W. Müller;Eimf

  • Marine-continental tephra correlations: Volcanic glass geochemistry from the Marsili Basin and the Aeolian Islands, Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy

    P.G. Albert;E.L. Tomlinson;V.C. Smith;A. Di Roberto

  • The marine isotope stage 1-5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean region

    Sabine Wulf;Sabine Wulf;Sabine Wulf;Mark J. Hardiman;Richard A. Staff;Richard A. Staff;Andreas Koutsodendris

  • Age and geochemistry of tephra layers from Ischia, Italy: constraints from proximal-distal correlations with Lago Grande di Monticchio

    Emma L. Tomlinson;Paul G. Albert;Sabine Wulf;Richard J. Brown

  • A New Contribution to the Late Quaternary Tephrostratigraphy of the Mediterranean; Aegean Sea Core LC21

    Chris Satow;Emma Tomlinson;Katherine Grant;Paul Albert;Paul Albert

  • Trace element compositions of submicroscopic inclusions in coated diamond: A tool for understanding diamond petrogenesis

    Emma Tomlinson;Isabel De Schrijver;Katrien De Corte;Adrian P. Jones

  • Geochemical characterisation of the Late Quaternary widespread Japanese tephrostratigraphic markers and correlations to the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary archive (SG06 core)

    Paul G. Albert;Victoria C. Smith;Takehiko Suzuki;Danielle McLean

  • The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka

    John J. Lowe;Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Rupert A. Housley;Christine S. Lane

  • Revisiting the Y-3 tephrostratigraphic marker: a new diagnostic glass geochemistry, age estimate, and details on its climatostratigraphical context

    Paul G. Albert;Paul G. Albert;Mark Hardiman;Mark Hardiman;Jörg Keller;Emma L. Tomlinson;Emma L. Tomlinson

  • Clarifying the distal to proximal tephrochronology of the Millennium (B–Tm) eruption, Changbaishan Volcano, northeast China

    Xuan-Yu Chen;Simon P.E. Blockley;Pavel E. Tarasov;Yi-Gang Xu

  • Geochemical and isotopic insights into the assembly, evolution and disruption of a magmatic plumbing system before and after a cataclysmic caldera-collapse eruption at Ischia volcano (Italy)

    R. J. Brown;Lucia Civetta;Lucia Civetta;Ilenia Arienzo;Massimo D'Antonio;Massimo D'Antonio

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Menzies
Martin Menzies Royal Holloway University of London
Victoria C. Smith
Victoria C. Smith University of Oxford
Christine S. Lane
Christine S. Lane University of Cambridge
Sabine Wulf
Sabine Wulf University of Portsmouth
Adrian P. Jones
Adrian P. Jones University College London
Simon P.E. Blockley
Simon P.E. Blockley Royal Holloway University of London
Balz S. Kamber
Balz S. Kamber Queensland University of Technology
Giovanni Orsi
Giovanni Orsi University of Naples Federico II
Mauro Rosi
Mauro Rosi University of Pisa
J. John Lowe
J. John Lowe Royal Holloway University of London

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