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Fabian B. Wadsworth

Fabian B. Wadsworth

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
3807
World Ranking
6661
National Ranking
693

Overview

Fabian B. Wadsworth is a researcher affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research covers a variety of topics predominantly centered on geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, rock mechanics and modeling, glass properties and applications, and geological formations and processes.

Fabian B. Wadsworth has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent venues for publication include:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Volcanica
  • Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Notable recent papers by Wadsworth include:

  • Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering (2020), published in Science Advances
  • Can nanolites enhance eruption explosivity? (2020), published in Geology
  • The thermal properties of porous andesite (2020), published in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Volcanic Unrest at Taupō Volcano in 2019: Causes, Mechanisms and Implications (2021), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • The tensile strength of volcanic rocks: Experiments and models (2021), published in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Throughout their career, Wadsworth has frequently collaborated with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Jérémie Vasseur
  • Donald B. Dingwell
  • Michael J. Heap
  • Hugh Tuffen
  • Edward W. Llewellin

Best Publications

  • The evolution of pore connectivity in volcanic rocks

    Mathieu Colombier;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Lucia Gurioli;Bettina Scheu

  • Heterogeneity: The key to failure forecasting

    Jérémie Vasseur;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Yan Lavallée;Andrew F. Bell

  • Volcanic sintering: Timescales of viscous densification and strength recovery.

    Jérémie Vasseur;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Yan Lavallée;Kai-Uwe Hess

  • Universal scaling of fluid permeability during volcanic welding and sediment diagenesis

    Fabian B. Wadsworth;Jérémie Vasseur;Bettina Scheu;Jackie E. Kendrick

  • Microstructural and petrophysical properties of the Permo-Triassic sandstones (Buntsandstein) from the Soultz-sous-Forêts geothermal site (France)

    Michael J. Heap;Alexandra R. L. Kushnir;H. Albert Gilg;Fabian B. Wadsworth

  • Nonisothermal viscous sintering of volcanic ash

    Fabian B. Wadsworth;Jérémie Vasseur;Felix W. von Aulock;Kai-Uwe Hess

  • The thermal stability of Eyjafjallajökull ash versus turbine ingestion test sands

    Ulrich Kueppers;Corrado Cimarelli;Kai-Uwe Hess;Jacopo Taddeucci

  • Thermal vesiculation during volcanic eruptions

    Yan Lavallée;Donald B. Dingwell;Jeffrey B. Johnson;Corrado Cimarelli

  • Blowing Off Steam: Tuffisite Formation As a Regulator for Lava Dome Eruptions

    Jackie E. Kendrick;Yan Lavallée;Nick R. Varley;Fabian B. Wadsworth

  • Fusion characteristics of volcanic ash relevant to aviation hazards

    Wenjia Song;Kai-Uwe Hess;David E. Damby;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Fabian B. Wadsworth

  • Timescales for permeability reduction and strength recovery in densifying magma

    M.J. Heap;J.I. Farquharson;F.B. Wadsworth;S. Kolzenburg

  • Surface tension driven processes densify and retain permeability in magma and lava

    Ben M. Kennedy;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Jérémie Vasseur;C. Ian Schipper

  • From rock to magma and back again: The evolution of temperature and deformation mechanism in conduit margin zones

    Michael J. Heap;Marie Violay;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Jérémie Vasseur

  • Can nanolites enhance eruption explosivity

    Francisco Cáceres;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Bettina Scheu;Mathieu Colombier

  • Explosive-effusive volcanic eruption transitions caused by sintering.

    Fabian B. Wadsworth;Edward W. Llewellin;Jérémie Vasseur;James E. Gardner

  • Does an inter-flaw length control the accuracy of rupture forecasting in geological materials?

    Jerernie Vasseur;Fabian B. Wadsworth;Michael J. Heap;Ian G. Main

  • Vesiculation and Quenching During Surtseyan Eruptions at Hunga Tonga‐Hunga Ha'apai Volcano, Tonga

    M Colombier;B Scheu;FB Wadsworth;Shane Cronin

  • Disclosing the temperature of columnar jointing in lavas

    Anthony Lamur;Yan Lavallée;Fiona E. Iddon;Fiona E. Iddon;Adrian J. Hornby

  • The thermal properties of porous andesite

    Michael J. Heap;Alexandra R.L. Kushnir;Jérémie Vasseur;Fabian B. Wadsworth

  • Combined effusive-explosive silicic volcanism straddles the multiphase viscous-to-brittle transition.

    Fabian B. Wadsworth;Taylor Witcher;Caron E. J. Vossen;Kai-Uwe Hess

  • Cristobalite in the 2011–2012 Cordón Caulle eruption (Chile)

    C. Ian Schipper;Jonathan M. Castro;Hugh Tuffen;Fabian B. Wadsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald B. Dingwell
Donald B. Dingwell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael J. Heap
Michael J. Heap University of Strasbourg
Bettina Scheu
Bettina Scheu Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ben Kennedy
Ben Kennedy University of Canterbury
Kai-Uwe Hess
Kai-Uwe Hess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hugh Tuffen
Hugh Tuffen Lancaster University
Pierre Delmelle
Pierre Delmelle Université Catholique de Louvain
Ulrich Kueppers
Ulrich Kueppers Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Patrick Baud
Patrick Baud University of Strasbourg

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