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Hugh St. C. O'Neill

Hugh St. C. O'Neill

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Earth Science

D-Index
89
Citations
24489
World Ranking
291
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2007 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 1939 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hugh St. C. O'Neill is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans fields including Geophysics, Ceramics and Composites, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geochemistry and Petrology. The scientist's work covers topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Glass properties and applications, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Astro and Planetary Science, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, and Mineralogy and Gemology Studies.

O'Neill has contributed scholarly articles to several prominent publication venues. Frequent journals include Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, European Journal of Mineralogy, and Space Science Reviews.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by O'Neill include:

  • Redox state of Earth's magma ocean and its Venus-like early atmosphere (2020), Science Advances
  • The Thermodynamic Controls on Sulfide Saturation in Silicate Melts with Application to Ocean Floor Basalts (2021), Geophysical Monograph
  • Stochastic accretion of the Earth (2022), Nature Astronomy
  • Diffusion and partition coefficients of minor and trace elements in magnetite as a function of oxygen fugacity at 1150 ºC (2020), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • The sulfate capacities of silicate melts (2022), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

O'Neill frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include Andrew J. Berry, Paolo A. Sossi, Ingo Stotz, Seth A. Jacobson, and Alessandro Morbidelli.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards and fellowships, including Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1939, Geochemistry Fellow Honor by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2007, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2008, Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2012, and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Cosmochemical Estimates of Mantle Composition

    Herbert Palme;Hugh O'Neill

  • Simple spinels; crystallographic parameters, cation radii, lattice energies, and cation distribution

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE AND OXYGEN FUGACITY ON THE SOLUBILITY OF SULFIDE IN MAFIC MAGMAS

    John A Mavrogenes;Hugh St.C O’Neill

  • The transition between spinel lherzolite and garnet lherzolite, and its use as a Geobarometer

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill

  • An experimental study of Fe-Mg partitioning between garnet and olivine and its calibration as a geothermometer

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill;B. J. Wood

  • The Olivine—Orthopyroxene—Spinel Oxygen Geobarometer, the Nickel Precipitation Curve, and the Oxygen Fugacity of the Earth's Upper Mantle

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  • Analysis of 60 elements in 616 ocean floor basaltic glasses

    Frances E. Jenner;Frances E. Jenner;Hugh St. C. O'Neill

  • The origin of the moon and the early history of the earth—A chemical model. Part 1: The moon

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  • The crystal/melt partitioning of V during mantle melting as a function of oxygen fugacity compared with some other elements (Al, P, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ga, Y, Zr and Nb)

    Guilherme Mallmann;Hugh St. C. O’Neill

  • The Magnetite Crisis in the Evolution of Arc-related Magmas and the Initial Concentration of Au, Ag and Cu

    Frances E. Jenner;Hugh St. C. O’Neill;Richard J. Arculus;John A. Mavrogenes

  • Thermodynamic data from redox reactions at high temperatures. I. An experimental and theoretical assessment of the electrochemical method using stabilized zirconia electrolytes, with revised values for the Fe-“FeO”, Co-CoO, Ni-NiO and Cu-Cu2O oxygen buffers, and new data for the W-WO2 buffer

    Hugh St. C. O'Neill;Mark I. Pownceby

  • The Sulfide Capacity and the Sulfur Content at Sulfide Saturation of Silicate Melts at 1400°C and 1 bar

    Hugh St. C. O’Neill;John A. Mavrogenes

  • Distribution of ferric iron in some upper-mantle assemblages

    Dante Canil;Hugh St. C. O'neill

  • The effect of melt composition on trace element partitioning: an experimental investigation of the activity coefficients of FeO, NiO, CoO, MoO2 and MoO3 in silicate melts

    Hugh St.C. O'Neill;Stephen M. Eggins

  • The near-solidus transition from garnet lherzolite to spinel lherzolite

    Stephan Klemme;Hugh St C. O'Neill

  • XANES calibrations for the oxidation state of iron in a silicate glass

    Andrew J. Berry;Hugh St.C. O’Neill;Kasthuri D. Jayasuriya;Stewart J. Campbell

  • Quartz-fayalite-iron and quartz-fayalite-magnetite equilibria and the free energy of formation of fayalite (Fe 2 SiO 4 ) and magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 )

    Hugh S. C. O'Neill

  • High pressure Raman spectroscopy of spinel-type ferrite ZnFe2O4

    Zhongwu Wang;Zhongwu Wang;David Schiferl;Yusheng Zhao;H.St.C. O'Neill

  • Ferric iron in peridotites and mantle oxidation states

    D. Canil;H.St.C. O'Neill;D.G. Pearson;R.L. Rudnick

  • Collisional erosion and the non-chondritic composition of the terrestrial planets.

    Hugh St.C O'Neill;Herbert Palme

  • The effect of temperature on the equilibrium distribution of trace elements between clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, olivine and spinel in upper mantle peridotite

    Gudrun Witt-Eickschen;Hugh St.C. O'Neill

  • Experimental petrochemistry of some highly siderophile elements at high temperatures, and some implications for core formation and the mantle's early history

    H.St.C. O'Neill;D.B. Dingwell;A. Borisov;B. Spettel

  • Diffusion and partition coefficients of minor and trace elements in San Carlos olivine at 1,300°C with some geochemical implications

    Carl Spandler;Hugh St.C. O’Neill

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Berry
Andrew J. Berry Australian National University
Paolo A. Sossi
Paolo A. Sossi ETH Zurich
John Mavrogenes
John Mavrogenes Australian National University
Ian H. Campbell
Ian H. Campbell Australian National University
Stephan Klemme
Stephan Klemme University of Münster
Joerg Hermann
Joerg Hermann University of Bern
Simon A. T. Redfern
Simon A. T. Redfern Nanyang Technological University
David H. Green
David H. Green University of Tasmania
José Alberto Padrón-Navarta
José Alberto Padrón-Navarta Spanish National Research Council
Stephen Eggins
Stephen Eggins Australian National University

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