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James E. Mungall

James E. Mungall

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
6358
World Ranking
5281
National Ranking
261

Overview

James E. Mungall is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Earth-Surface Processes. The focus areas in their work feature Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, as well as Geological and Geophysical Studies.

The body of their published work includes significant contributions to various respected journals with frequent publications in Economic Geology, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, and Nature Communications.

Recent notable papers by James E. Mungall include:

  • The Rustenburg Layered Suite formed as a stack of mush with transient magma chambers (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Linking the Siberian Flood Basalts and Giant Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposits at Norilsk (2021) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Flotation mechanism of sulphide melt on vapour bubbles in partially molten magmatic systems (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The komatiite-mantle platinum-group element paradox (2021) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Testing emplacement models for the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex with numerical heat flow models and plagioclase geospeedometry (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Their collaborative work involves frequent coauthors such as Zhuosen Yao, Richard E. Ernst, M. Christopher Jenkins, Samuel J. Robb, and Jingao Liu, reflecting a broad network in geoscience research.

Best Publications

  • Roasting the mantle: Slab melting and the genesis of major Au and Au-rich Cu deposits

    James E. Mungall

  • Partitioning of platinum-group elements and Au between sulfide liquid and basalt and the origins of mantle-crust fractionation of the chalcophile elements

    James E. Mungall;James M. Brenan

  • Partitioning of Cu, Ni, Au, and platinum-group elements between monosulfide solid solution and sulfide melt under controlled oxygen and sulfur fugacities

    James E. Mungall;David R.A. Andrews;Louis J. Cabri;Paul J. Sylvester

  • Transport of metals and sulphur in magmas by flotation of sulphide melt on vapour bubbles

    James.E. Mungall;James M. Brenan;B Godel;S.J. Barnes

  • Empirical models relating viscosity and tracer diffusion in magmatic silicate melts

    James E. Mungall

  • Experiments and Models Bearing on the Role of Chromite as a Collector of Platinum Group Minerals by Local Reduction

    Craig S. Finnigan;James M. Brenan;James E. Mungall;W. F. McDonough

  • U-Pb geochronology documents out-of-sequence emplacement of ultramafic layers in the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa.

    James E. Mungall;Sandra L. Kamo;Stewart McQuade

  • Interfacial tension between magmatic sulfide and silicate liquids: Constraints on kinetics of sulfide liquation and sulfide migration through silicate rocks

    James E. Mungall;Shanguo Su;Shanguo Su

  • Ore Deposits of the Platinum-Group Elements

    James E. Mungall;Anthony J. Naldrett

  • Sulfide-silicate textures in magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore deposits: Disseminated and net-textured ores

    Stephen J. Barnes;James E. Mungall;Margaux Le Vaillant;Belinda Godel

  • Platinum group elements in mantle melts and mantle samples

    Stephen J. Barnes;James E. Mungall;Wolfgang D. Maier

  • Physical constraints on the migration of immiscible fluids through partially molten silicates, with special reference to magmatic sulfide ores

    Hye-Yoon Chung;James E. Mungall

  • Distribution and Processing of Highly Siderophile Elements in Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere

    Sonja Aulbach;James E. Mungall;D. Graham Pearson

  • Kinetic Controls on the Partitioning of Trace Elements Between Silicate and Sulfide Liquids

    J. E. Mungall

  • Petrogenesis of basalt-comendite and basalt-pantellerite suites, Terceira, Azores, and some implications for the origin of ocean-island rhyolites

    J. E. Mungall;R. F. Martin

  • Chemical diffusivities of 18 trace elements in granitoid melts

    J.E. Mungall;J.E. Mungall;D.B. Dingwell;M. Chaussidon

  • Evidence from meimechites and other low-degree mantle melts for redox controls on mantle-crust fractionation of platinum-group elements

    James E. Mungall;Jacob J. Hanley;Nicholas T. Arndt;Anne Debecdelievre

  • Fluid and Halide Melt Inclusions of Magmatic Origin in the Ultramafic and Lower Banded Series, Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA

    J.J. Hanley;J.E. Mungall;Thomas Pettke;E.T.C. Spooner

  • The solubility of platinum and gold in NaCl brines at 1.5 kbar, 600 to 800°C: A laser ablation ICP-MS pilot study of synthetic fluid inclusions

    Jacob J. Hanley;Thomas Pettke;James E. Mungall;Edward T.C. Spooner

  • Ore metal redistribution by hydrocarbon–brine and hydrocarbon–halide melt phases, North Range footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario, Canada

    J. J. Hanley;J. E. Mungall;Thomas Pettke;E. T. C. Spooner

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Brenan
James M. Brenan Dalhousie University
Stephen Barnes
Stephen Barnes University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas Pettke
Thomas Pettke University of Bern
Richard E. Ernst
Richard E. Ernst Carleton University
Anthony J. Naldrett
Anthony J. Naldrett University of Toronto
Kezhang Qin
Kezhang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bélinda Godel
Bélinda Godel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shaun K. Frape
Shaun K. Frape University of Waterloo
Richard S. Smith
Richard S. Smith Laurentian University
David J. Ellis
David J. Ellis Australian National University

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