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South Africa
2025

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Earth Science

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48
Citations
8267
World Ranking
3822
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Ian S. Buick is affiliated with Stellenbosch University in South Africa and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their research spans diverse topics primarily centered around geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and related areas.

The scientist has focused on subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence, geochemistry and petrology, inorganic chemistry, and atmospheric science. Their work crosses into various specific themes such as geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and elemental analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, radioactive element chemistry and processing, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and mineralogy and gemology studies.

The publication record of Ian S. Buick includes numerous articles in several well-known venues. Frequent publication sites are:

  • Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Chemical Geology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ian S. Buick include:

  • Assessing the U-Pb, Sm-Nd and Sr-Sr Isotopic Compositions of the Sumé Apatite as a Reference Material for LA-ICP-MS Analysis, 2021, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • U-Pb Saturn: New U-Pb/Pb-Pb Data Reduction Software for LA-ICP-MS, 2022, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • Reconstructing the metamorphic evolution of the Araçuaí orogen (SE Brazil) using in situ U-Pb garnet dating and P-T modelling, 2021, Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • Khan River and Bear Lake: Two Natural Titanite Reference Materials for High-Spatial Resolution U-Pb Microanalysis, 2022, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of rutiles associated with hydrothermal mineralization along the southern Araçuaí Belt, SE Brazil, 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Ian S. Buick has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Cristiano Lana
  • Ricardo Scholz
  • Ariela Mazoz
  • Sandra L. Kamo
  • G. Gonçalves

Best Publications

  • Zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the Reynolds Range, central Australia

    Daniela Rubatto;Ian S. Williams;Ian S. Buick

  • An extended episode of early Mesoproterozoic metamorphic fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, central Australia*

    I. S. Williams;I. S. Buick;I. Cartwright

  • The timing of partial melting, Barrovian metamorphism and granite intrusion in the Naxos metamorphic core complex, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece

    Sue Keay;Gordon Lister;Ian Buick

  • Temperature and Bulk Composition Control on the Growth of Monazite and Zircon During Low-pressure Anatexis (Mount Stafford, Central Australia)

    Daniela Rubatto;Jörg Hermann;Ian S. Buick

  • Precise U-Pb titanite age constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    Ian Samuel Buick;Roland Maas;R L Gibson

  • A new appraisal of sri lankan bb zircon as a reference material for LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotope tracing.

    Maristella M. Santos;Cristiano Lana;Ricardo Scholz;Ian Buick

  • The trace element compositions of S-type granites: evidence for disequilibrium melting and accessory phase entrainment in the source

    Arnaud Villaros;Gary Stevens;Jean-François Moyen;Ian S. Buick

  • The late Alpine evolution of an extensional shear zone, Naxos, Greece

    I. S. Buick

  • Isotopic variations in S-type granites: an inheritance from a heterogeneous source?

    Arnaud Villaros;Arnaud Villaros;I.S. Buick;G. Stevens

  • The Proterozoic magmatic and metamorphic history of the Banded Gneiss Complex, central Rajasthan, India: LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon constraints

    Ian Buick;Charlotte M Allen;M Pandit;Daniela Rubatto

  • Mechanisms of Crustal Anatexis: a Geochemical Study of Partially Melted Metapelitic Enclaves and Host Dacite, SE Spain

    Antonio Acosta-Vigil;Ian Buick;Jörg Hermann;Bernardo Cesare

  • Tracking S-type granite from source to emplacement: Clues from garnet in the Cape Granite Suite

    Arnaud Villaros;Gary Stevens;Ian S. Buick

  • A SHRIMP U–Pb and LA-ICP-MS trace element study of the petrogenesis of garnet–cordierite–orthoamphibole gneisses from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa

    Ian S. Buick;Jörg Hermann;Ian S. Williams;Roger L. Gibson

  • Constraints on the Proterozoic evolution of the Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic belt (NW India) from monazite geochronology and mineral trace element geochemistry

    Ian Buick;C Clark;Daniela Rubatto;Joerg Hermann

  • Continental reactivation and reworking: an introduction

    R. E. Holdsworth;M. Handa;J. A. Miller;I. S. Buick

  • Continental Reactivation and Reworking

    J. A. Miller;R. E. Holdsworth;I. S. Buick;M. Hand

  • An assessment of monazite from the Itambé pegmatite district for use as U-Pb isotope reference material for microanalysis and implications for the origin of the ``Moacyr'' monazite

    Guilherme O. Gonçalves;Cristiano Lana;Ricardo Scholz;Ian S. Buick

  • Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Eastern Tibet Plateau: Evidence from the Central Songpan–Garzê Orogenic Belt, Western China

    Mingguo Huang;Ian Samuel Buick;Linda Hou

  • Crustal response to continental collisions between the Tibet, Indian, South China and North China Blocks: geochronological constraints from the Songpan‐Garzê Orogenic Belt, western China

    Mingguo Huang;Roland Maas;Ian Samuel Buick;Ian S Williams

  • Wollastonite—Scapolite Assemblages as Indicators of Granulite Pressure-Temperature-Fluid Histories: The Rauer Group, East Antarctica

    Simon L. Harley;Ian S. Buick

  • Mylonite fabric development on Naxos, Greece

    I.S Buick

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Cartwright
Ian Cartwright Monash University
Cristiano Lana
Cristiano Lana Stellenbosch University
Gary Stevens
Gary Stevens Stellenbosch University
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
Martin Hand
Martin Hand University of Adelaide
Roger L. Gibson
Roger L. Gibson University of the Witwatersrand
John D. Clemens
John D. Clemens Stellenbosch University
Dirk Frei
Dirk Frei University of the Western Cape
Sandra L. Kamo
Sandra L. Kamo University of Toronto
Roland Maas
Roland Maas University of Melbourne

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