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James M. Brenan

James M. Brenan

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
9069
World Ranking
4877
National Ranking
230

Overview

James M. Brenan is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work concentrates on several specialized subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, earthquake and tectonic studies, Clay minerals and soil interactions, and Glass properties and applications.

James M. Brenan has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Recent papers include:

  • The solubility of gold and palladium in magmatic brines: Implications for PGE enrichment in mafic-ultramafic and porphyry environments, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • The solubility of platinum in magmatic brines: Insights into the mobility of PGE in ore-forming environments, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Iron isotope fractionation at the core-mantle boundary by thermodiffusion, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • UPGRADING OF MAGMATIC SULFIDES, REVISITED, 2020, Economic Geology
  • Speciation of arsenic and antimony in basaltic magmas, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Frequent co-authors collaborating with James M. Brenan include:

  • Bryan J. Maciag
  • Neal A. Sullivan
  • Zoltán Zajacz
  • Alexandra Tsay
  • Charles E. Lesher

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Journal of Petrology
  • American Mineralogist
  • Economic Geology

Best Publications

  • Fluids in the lithosphere, 1. Experimentally-determined wetting characteristics of CO2H2O fluids and their implications for fluid transport, host-rock physical properties, and fluid inclusion formation

    E. Bruce Watson;James M. Brenan

  • Mineral-aqueous fluid partitioning of trace elements at 900°C and 2.0 GPa: Constraints on the trace element chemistry of mantle and deep crustal fluids

    J.M. Brenan;H.F. Shaw;F.J. Ryerson;D.L. Phinney

  • Rutile-aqueous fluid partitioning of Nb, Ta, Hf, Zr, U and Th: implications for high field strength element depletions in island-arc basalts

    J.M. Brenan;H.F. Shaw;D.L. Phinney;F.J. Ryerson

  • 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

  • HIGH-TEMPERATURE STABILITY OF LAURITE AND Ru–Os–Ir ALLOY AND THEIR ROLE IN PGE FRACTIONATION IN MAFIC MAGMAS

    James M. Brenan;David Andrews

  • The role of aqueous fluids in the slab-to-mantle transfer of boron, beryllium, and lithium during subduction: experiments and models

    James M. Brenan;Frederick J. Ryerson;Henry F. Shaw

  • Behaviour of boron, beryllium, and lithium during melting and crystallization: Constraints from mineral-melt partitioning experiments

    J.M. Brenan;E. Neroda;C.C. Lundstrom;H.F. Shaw

  • Magmatic oxygen fugacity estimated using zircon-melt partitioning of cerium

    Duane J. Smythe;James M. Brenan

  • Experimental evidence for the origin of lead enrichment in convergent-margin magmas

    James M. Brenan;Henry F. Shaw;Frederick J. Ryerson

  • Experimental determination of trace-element partitioning between pargasite and a synthetic hydrous andesitic melt

    J.M. Brenan;H.F. Shaw;F.J. Ryerson;D.L. Phinney

  • 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

  • An experimental study of the solubility and partitioning of iridium, osmium and gold between olivine and silicate melt

    James M. Brenan;William F. McDonough;Richard Ash

  • 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

  • Experimental constraints on the partitioning of rhenium and some platinum-group elements between olivine and silicate melt

    J.M. Brenan;W.F. McDonough;C. Dalpé

  • Diffusion of osmium in pyrrhotite and pyrite: implications for closure of the Re–Os isotopic system

    James M. Brenan;Daniele J. Cherniak;Lesley A. Rose

  • Experimental Constraints on the Sulfide- and Chromite-Silicate Melt Partitioning Behavior of Rhenium and Platinum-Group Elements

    Parisa Sattari;James M. Brenan;Ingo Horn;William F. McDonough

  • PHASE-EQUILIBRIUM CONSTRAINTS ON THE MAGMATIC ORIGIN OF LAURITE + Ru–Os–Ir ALLOY

    David R.A. Andrews;James M. Brenan

  • Effect of pressure, temperature, and oxygen fugacity on the metal-silicate partitioning of Te, Se, and S: Implications for earth differentiation

    Lesley Rose-Weston;James M. Brenan;Yingwei Fei;Richard A. Secco

  • Partitioning of platinum-group elements (PGE) and chalcogens (Se, Te, As, Sb, Bi) between monosulfide-solid solution (MSS), intermediate solid solution (ISS) and sulfide liquid at controlled fO2–fS2 conditions

    Yanan Liu;James Brenan

  • Kinetics of fluorine, chlorine and hydroxyl exchange in fluorapatite

    James Brenan

  • Experimental constraints on the partitioning of Ru, Rh, Ir, Pt and Pd between chromite and silicate melt: The importance of ferric iron

    James M. Brenan;Craig F. Finnigan;William F. McDonough;Veronika Homolova;Veronika Homolova

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. McDonough
William F. McDonough University of Maryland, College Park
Frederick J. Ryerson
Frederick J. Ryerson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
James E. Mungall
James E. Mungall Carleton University
Yingwei Fei
Yingwei Fei Carnegie Institution for Science
Kenneth T. Koga
Kenneth T. Koga Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stephen Barnes
Stephen Barnes University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bélinda Godel
Bélinda Godel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Steven D. Scott
Steven D. Scott University of Toronto
David W. Andrews
David W. Andrews Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
David L. Paterson
David L. Paterson University of Queensland

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