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Poland
2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
5875
World Ranking
7142
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Jan Środoń is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output encompasses 34 publications in this main field, with significant contributions to several subfields.

The subfields of study include:

  • Geophysics (18 publications)
  • Paleontology (7 publications)
  • Geochemistry and Petrology (6 publications)
  • Biomaterials (5 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (3 publications)

Their research covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis (30 publications)
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (14 publications)
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (10 publications)
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions (10 publications)
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 publications)
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (4 publications)
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials (4 publications)

Jan Środoń appears frequently in the journal Precambrian Research with seven publications, followed by multiple articles in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (3 publications), Clays and Clay Minerals (2 publications), Basin Research, and Chemical Geology. Key recent papers by Środoń include:

  • "Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf constraints on provenance and timing of deposition of the Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian sedimentary cover of the East European Craton, part II: Ukraine," 2021, Precambrian Research
  • "Precambrian paleosols on the Great Unconformity of the East European Craton: An 800 million year record of Baltica's climatic conditions," 2021, Precambrian Research
  • "Long-distance fluid migration defines the diagenetic history of unique Ediacaran sediments in the East European Craton," 2020, Basin Research
  • "Ages of the Ediacaran Volyn-Brest trap volcanism, glaciations, paleosols, Podillya Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms, and the Redkino-Kotlin boundary (East European Craton) constrained by zircon single grain U-Pb dating," 2023, Precambrian Research
  • "Sedimentary, climatic, and provenance controls of mineral and chemical composition of the Ediacaran and Cambrian mudstones from the East European Craton," 2022, Precambrian Research

The scientist has collaborated extensively with a consistent group of coauthors, notably:

  • Sirle Liivamägi (7 collaborations)
  • Maciej J. Bojanowski (6 collaborations)
  • Mariusz Paszkowski (5 collaborations)
  • Artur Kędzior (4 collaborations)
  • Marek Szczerba (4 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • QUANTITATIVE X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS OF CLAY-BEARING ROCKS FROM RANDOM PREPARATIONS

    Jan Środoń;Victor A. Drits;Douglas K. McCarty;Jean C.C. Hsieh

  • Precise identification of illite/smectite interstratifications by X-ray powder diffraction

    Jan Środoń

  • XRD measurement of mean crystallite thickness of illite and illite/smectite; reappraisal of the Kubler index and the Scherrer equation

    Victor A. Drits;Jan Srodon;D. D. Eberl

  • NATURE OF MIXED-LAYER CLAYS AND MECHANISMS OF THEIR FORMATION AND ALTERATION

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  • Deducing growth mechanisms for minerals from the shapes of crystal size distributions

    D. D. Eberl;V. A. Drits;Jan Srodon

  • Ostwald ripening of clays and metamorphic minerals.

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Środoń;Martin Kralik;Bruce E. Taylor

  • Sericite from the Silverton Caldera, Colorado; correlation among structure, composition, origin, and particle thickness

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Srodon;Mingchou Lee;P. H. Nadeau

  • Chemistry of illite/smectite and end-member illite

    Jan Srodon;D. J. Morgan;E. V. Eslinger;D. D. Eberl

  • Potassium Fixation in Smectite by Wetting and Drying

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Środoń;H. Roy Northrop

  • Ostwald ripening and interparticle-diffraction effects for illite crystals

    Dennis D. Eberl;Jan Srodon

  • SURFACE AREA AND LAYER CHARGE OF SMECTITE FROM CEC AND EGME/H2O-RETENTION MEASUREMENTS

    Jan Środoń;Douglas K. MaCarty

  • XRD measurement of mean thickness, thickness distribution and strain for illite and illite-smectite crystallites by the Bertaut-Warren-Averbach technique

    V. A. Drits;D. D. Eberl;Jan Srodon

  • MUDMASTER: A Program for Calculating Crystalline Size Distributions and Strain from the Shapes of X-Ray Diffraction Peaks

    D.D. Eberl;V.A. Drits;Jan Środoń;R. Nüesch

  • EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL-PARTICLE SIZE DURING ILLITIZATION OF SMECTITE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR REACTION MECHANISM

    J. Środoń;D. D. Eberl;V. A. Drits

  • INTERPRETATION OF INFRARED SPECTRA OF DIOCTAHEDRAL SMECTITES IN THE REGION OF OH-STRETCHING VIBRATIONS

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  • Identification and Quantitative Analysis of Clay Minerals

    J. Środoń

  • Direct High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopic Measurement Of Expandability Of Mixed-Layer Illite/Smectite In Bentonite Rock

    Jan Środoń

  • Diagenetic history of the Podhale-Orava Basin and the underlying Tatra sedimentary structural units (Western Carpathians) : evidence from XRD and K-Ar of illite-smectite

    J. Środoń;M. Kotarba;A. Biroň;P. Such

  • Diagenetic reorientation of phyllosilicate minerals in Paleogene mudstones of the Podhale Basin, southern Poland

    Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat;Andrew C. Aplin;Jan Środoń;Ben A. van der Pluijm

  • X-ray identification of randomly interstratified illite-smectite in mixtures with discrete illite

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  • Interpretation of K-Ar dates of illitic clays from sedimentary rocks aided by modeling

    Jan Środoń;Norbert Clauer;Dennis D.D. Eberl

  • THE CHARGE OF COMPONENT LAYERS OF ILLITE-SMECTITE IN BENTONITES AND THE NATURE OF END-MEMBER ILLITE

    Jan Środoń;Edwin Zeelmaekers;Arkadiusz Derkowski

  • Weathering of smectite and illite- smectite under temperate climatic conditions

    V. Šucha;J. Środoń;N. Clauer;F. Elsass

  • Use of clay minerals in reconstructing geological processes: recent advances and some perspectives

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  • K-Ar dating of the Lower Palaeozoic K-bentonites from the Baltic Basin and the Baltic Shield: implications for the role of temperature and time in the illitization of smectite

    J. Środoń;N. Clauer;W. Huff;T. Dudek

  • Diagenetic history of Lower Palaeozoic sediments in Pomerania (northern Poland), traced across the Teisseyre–Tornquist tectonic zone using mixed-layer illite-smectite

    J. Środoń;N. Clauer

  • Synthesis of mixed-layer kaolinite/smectite

    Jan Środoń

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Clauer
Norbert Clauer University of Strasbourg
Leszek Marynowski
Leszek Marynowski University of Silesia
Dennis D. Eberl
Dennis D. Eberl United States Geological Survey
Victor A. Drits
Victor A. Drits Russian Academy of Sciences
Warren D. Huff
Warren D. Huff University of Cincinnati
Andrew C. Aplin
Andrew C. Aplin Durham University
Grzegorz Racki
Grzegorz Racki University of Silesia
Daniel Beaufort
Daniel Beaufort University of Poitiers
Nick M.W. Roberts
Nick M.W. Roberts British Geological Survey
Andrew P. Brown
Andrew P. Brown University of Leeds

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