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James N. Connelly

James N. Connelly

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Earth Science

D-Index
53
Citations
9251
World Ranking
2901
National Ranking
29

Overview

James N. Connelly is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses various topics related to Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

James N. Connelly has been involved in multiple peer-reviewed publications, including the following recent papers:

  • The internal structure and geodynamics of Mars inferred from a 4.2-Gyr zircon record (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Pb-Pb ages and initial Pb isotopic composition of lunar meteorites: NWA 773 clan, NWA 4734, and Dhofar 287 (2020), published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Uranium isotope compositions of biogenic carbonates - Implications for U uptake in shells and the application of the paleo-ocean oxygenation proxy (2020), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Recommendations for the reporting and interpretation of isotope dilution U-Pb geochronological information (2024), published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Improved methods for high-precision Pb-Pb dating of extra-terrestrial materials (2021), published in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

The frequent publication venues for Connelly's work include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Co-authors with whom James N. Connelly has collaborated multiple times include:

  • Martin Bizzarro
  • Ninna K. Jensen
  • A. A. Nemchin
  • Maria Mafalda Costa
  • Martin J. Whitehouse

Best Publications

  • The Absolute Chronology and Thermal Processing of Solids in the Solar Protoplanetary Disk

    James N. Connelly;Martin Bizzarro;Alexander N. Krot;Åke Nordlund

  • Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1,400 million years ago

    Shuichang Zhang;Xiaomei Wang;Huajian Wang;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • An orphaned basement block: The Arequipa-Antofalla Basement of the central Andean margin of South America

    Staci L. Loewy;James N. Connelly;Ian W.D. Dalziel

  • EVIDENCE FOR MAGNESIUM ISOTOPE HETEROGENEITY IN THE SOLAR PROTOPLANETARY DISK

    Kirsten K. Larsen;Anne Trinquier;Chad Paton;Martin Schiller

  • Early planetesimal melting from an age of 4.5662 Gyr for differentiated meteorites

    Joel Baker;Martin Bizzarro;Nadine Wittig;James Connelly

  • Chronological evidence that the Moon is either young or did not have a global magma ocean

    Lars E. Borg;James N. Connelly;Maud Boyet;Richard W. Carlson

  • Origin and chronology of chondritic components: A review

    Alexander Krot;Yuri Amelin;P Bland;F.J. Ciesla

  • The age of the carbonates in martian meteorite ALH84001.

    Lars E. Borg;James N. Connelly;Larry E. Nyquist;Chi-Y. Shih

  • Duration of Late Cretaceous–early Tertiary magmatism in east-central Sonora, Mexico

    Fred W. McDowell;Jaime Roldán-Quintana;James N. Connelly

  • Early formation of planetary building blocks inferred from Pb isotopic ages of chondrules

    Jean Bollard;James N. Connelly;Martin J. Whitehouse;Emily A. Pringle

  • The Nagssugtoqidian Orogen of West Greenland: tectonic evolution and regional correlations from a West Greenland perspective

    Jeroen A.M. van Gool;James N. Connelly;Mogens Marker;Flemming C. Mengel

  • Orbital forcing of climate 1.4 billion years ago

    Shuichang Zhang;Xiaomei Wang;Emma U Hammarlund;Huajian Wang

  • Eastern Laurentia in Rodinia: constraints from whole-rock Pb and U/Pb geochronology

    Staci L Loewy;James N Connelly;Ian W.D Dalziel;Charles F Gower

  • Degree of preservation of igneous zonation in zircon as a signpost for concordancy in U/Pb geochronology

    James N Connelly

  • Uranium isotopes distinguish two geochemically distinct stages during the later Cambrian SPICE event.

    Tais W. Dahl;Richard A. Boyle;Donald E. Canfield;James N. Connelly

  • Chronology of the Solar System’s Oldest Solids

    James N. Connelly;James N. Connelly;Yuri Amelin;Alexander N. Krot;Martin Bizzarro

  • Episodic rapakivi magmatism due to distal orogenesis?: Correlation of 1.69–1.50 Ga orogenic and inboard, “anorogenic” events in the Baltic Shield

    Karl-Inge Åhäll;James N. Connelly;Tim S. Brewer

  • Evidence for extremely rapid magma ocean crystallization and crust formation on Mars

    Laura C. Bouvier;Maria M. Costa;James N. Connelly;Ninna K. Jensen

  • A method for purifying Lu and Hf for analyses by MC-ICP-MS using TODGA resin

    J.N. Connelly;D.G. Ulfbeck;K. Thrane;M. Bizzarro

  • Evidence for a Late Supernova Injection of 60Fe into the Protoplanetary Disk

    Martin Bizzarro;David Garf Ulfbeck;Anne Marie-Pierre Emilie Trinquier;Kristine Thrane

  • Early accretion of protoplanets inferred from a reduced inner solar system 26Al inventory.

    Martin Schiller;James N. Connelly;Aslaug C. Glad;Takashi Mikouchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Bizzarro
Martin Bizzarro University of Copenhagen
Alexander N. Krot
Alexander N. Krot University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lars E. Borg
Lars E. Borg Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alexander A. Nemchin
Alexander A. Nemchin Curtin University
William D. Carlson
William D. Carlson The University of Texas at Austin
Ian W. D. Dalziel
Ian W. D. Dalziel The University of Texas at Austin
Åke Nordlund
Åke Nordlund University of Copenhagen
Yuri Amelin
Yuri Amelin Australian National University
Joel A. Baker
Joel A. Baker University of Washington
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History

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