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Overview

J. Stephen Daly is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Artificial Intelligence. Their research encompasses a diverse range of topics that include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, and geological and geophysical studies.

Their recent published works illustrate involvement in multidisciplinary research across various high-impact venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Barriers and Enablers for Continuous Improvement Methodologies within the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry" (2021, Processes)
  • "Sedimentary provenance perspectives on the evolution of the major rivers draining the eastern Tibetan Plateau" (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Ultrapotassic magmatism in the heyday of the Variscan Orogeny: the story of the Třebíč Pluton, the largest durbachitic body in the Bohemian Massif" (2020, International Journal of Earth Sciences)
  • "Formation of the Three Gorges (Yangtze River) no earlier than 10 Ma" (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems" (2020, Nature Geoscience)

Daly frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Eszter Badenszki, David Chew, Gary O'Sullivan, Zengjie Zhang, and Yuntao Tian. These partnerships have contributed to multiple publications across various topics and fields.

Their work has appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Chemical Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The Lapland-Kola orogen: Palaeoproterozoic collision and accretion of the northern Fennoscandian lithosphere

    J. Stephen Daly;Victor V. Balagansky;Martin J. Timmerman;Martin J. Whitehouse

  • The Grenville Orogenic Cycle (ca. 1350-1000 Ma): an Adirondack perspective

    James McLelland;J.Stephen Daly;Jonathan M. McLelland

  • Ion microprobe UPb zircon geochronology and isotopic evidence for a trans-crustal suture in the Lapland–Kola Orogen, northern Fennoscandian Shield

    J.S Daly;V.V Balagansky;M.J Timmerman;M.J Timmerman;M.J Whitehouse

  • Provenance and terrane evolution of the kalak nappe complex, norwegian caledonides : Implications for neoproterozoic paleogeography and tectonics

    Christopher L. Kirkland;J. Stephen Daly;Martin J. Whitehouse

  • Zircon texture and chemical composition as a guide to magmatic processes and mixing in a granitic environment and coeval volcanic system

    Damien Gagnevin;J. Stephen Daly;Andreas Kronz

  • Timing of ophiolite obduction in the Grampian orogen

    D. M. Chew;J. S. Daly;T. Magna;T. Magna;L. M. Page

  • Baltica in the Cryogenian, 850–630 Ma

    Victoria Pease;J.S. Daly;S-Å. Elming;Risto Kumpulainen

  • Microchemical and Sr Isotopic Investigation of Zoned K-feldspar Megacrysts: Insights into the Petrogenesis of a Granitic System and Disequilibrium Crystal Growth

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  • Geochronological evidence from discordant plutons for a late Proterozoic orogen in the Caledonides of Finnmark, northern Norway

    J. S. Daly;J. S. Daly;S. J. Aitcheson;R. A. Cliff;R. A. Gayer

  • Basement–cover relationships of the Kalak Nappe Complex, Arctic Norwegian Caledonides and constraints on Neoproterozoic terrane assembly in the North Atlantic region

    Christopher L. Kirkland;J. Stephen Daly;Martin J. Whitehouse

  • Chemical heterogeneity in the upper mantle recorded by peridotites and chromitites from the Shetland Ophiolite Complex, Scotland

    Brian O'Driscoll;James M.D. Day;James M.D. Day;Richard J. Walker;J. Stephen Daly

  • Cr-spinel Seam Petrogenesis in the Rum Layered Suite, NW Scotland: Cumulate Assimilation and in situ Crystallization in a Deforming Crystal Mush

    Brian O’Driscoll;C. Henry Emeleus;Colin H. Donaldson;J. Stephen Daly

  • SmNd evidence for late Archaean crust formation in the Lapland-Kola Mobile Belt, Kola Peninsula, Russia and Norway

    Martin J. Timmerman;J.Stephen Daly

  • Western Grenville Province holds key to midcontinental Granite‐Rhyolite Province enigma

    T. Slagstad;N. G. Culshaw;J. S. Daly;R. A. Jamieson

  • Contrasting magmatic arcs in the Palaeoproterozoic of the south-western Baltic Shield

    Tim S Brewer;J.Stephen Daly;Karl-Inge Åhäll

  • Practical guidelines and recent advances in the Itrax XRF core-scanning procedure.

    Ludvig Löwemark;Menno Bloemsma;Ian Croudace;J. Stephen Daly

  • Sm-Nd and U-Pb Isotopic Evidence of Juvenile Crust in the Adirondack Lowlands and Implications for the Evolution of the Adirondack Mts.

    James M. McLelland;J. Stephen Daly;Jeffrey Chiarenzelli

  • Age and composition of crystalline basement rocks on the Norwegian continental margin: offshore extension and continuity of the Caledonian–Appalachian orogenic belt

    Trond Slagstad;Børre Davidsen;J.Stephen Daly

  • A precise U-Pb zircon age for the Inishtrahull syenitic gneiss, County Donegal, Ireland

    J. S. Daly;R. J. Muir;R. A. Cliff

  • Detrital zircon, detrital titanite and igneous clast U–Pb geochronology and basement–cover relationships of the Colonsay Group, SW Scotland: Laurentian provenance and correlation with the Neoproterozoic Dalradian Supergroup

    Claire A. McAteer;J. Stephen Daly;Michael J. Flowerdew;James N. Connelly;James N. Connelly

  • The tectonothermal evolution and provenance of the Tyrone Central Inlier, Ireland: Grampian imbrication of an outboard Laurentian microcontinent?

    D M Chew;M J Flowerdew;Laurence Page;Q G Crowley

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
David Chew
David Chew Trinity College Dublin
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day University of California, San Diego
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher L. Kirkland
Christopher L. Kirkland Curtin University
Craig Storey
Craig Storey University of Portsmouth
Andreas Kronz
Andreas Kronz University of Göttingen
Richard Alan Spikings
Richard Alan Spikings University of Geneva
Ralf Gertisser
Ralf Gertisser Keele University
Dirk Frei
Dirk Frei University of the Western Cape

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