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Overview

Janet R. Muhling is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields including Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The main topics of their work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Mineralogy and Gemology Studies.

Frequent publication venues for Janet R. Muhling include:

  • Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Science Advances

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors including:

  • Birger Rasmussen
  • Jian-Wei Zi
  • Woodward W. Fischer
  • Nicholas J. Tosca
  • Ian R. Fletcher

Selected recent papers demonstrate the focus and scope of their research:

  • Widespread deposition of greenalite to form Banded Iron Formations before the Great Oxidation Event, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Greenalite and its role in the genesis of early Precambrian iron formations - A review, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Apatite nanoparticles in 3.46-2.46 Ga iron formations: Evidence for phosphorus-rich hydrothermal plumes on early Earth, 2021, Geology
  • In situ U-Pb and geochemical evidence for ancient Pb-loss during hydrothermal alteration producing apparent young concordant zircon dates in older tuffs, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • U-Pb dating of overpressure veins in late Archean shales reveals six episodes of Paleoproterozoic deformation and fluid flow in the Pilbara craton, 2020, Geology

Best Publications

  • Monazite begets monazite: evidence for dissolution of detrital monazite and reprecipitation of syntectonic monazite during low-grade regional metamorphism

    Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling

  • Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt.

    Stefan Bengtson;Birger Rasmussen;Magnus Ivarsson;Janet Muhling;Janet Muhling

  • Deposition of 1.88-billion-year-old iron formations as a consequence of rapid crustal growth

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Andrey Bekker;Janet R. Muhling

  • In situ U–Pb dating and element mapping of three generations of monazite: Unravelling cryptic tectonothermal events in low-grade terranes

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Janet R. Muhling

  • Prolonged history of episodic fluid flow in giant hematite ore bodies: Evidence from in situ U Pb geochronology of hydrothermal xenotime

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Janet R. Muhling;Warren S. Thorne

  • Bunbury Basalt: Gondwana breakup products or earliest vestiges of the Kerguelen mantle plume?

    Hugo K.H. Olierook;Hugo K.H. Olierook;Fred Jourdan;Renaud E. Merle;Renaud E. Merle;Nicholas E. Timms

  • Two collisions, two sutures: Punctuated pre-1950 Ma assembly of the West Australian Craton during the Ophthalmian and Glenburgh Orogenies

    S.P. Johnson;S. Sheppard;B. Rasmussen;M.T.D. Wingate

  • Metamorphic replacement of mineral inclusions in detrital zircon from Jack Hills, Australia: Implications for the Hadean Earth

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Janet R. Muhling;Courtney J. Gregory

  • Precipitation of iron silicate nanoparticles in early Precambrian oceans marks Earth's first iron age

    Birger Rasmussen;Bryan Krapež;Janet R. Muhling;Janet R. Muhling;Alexandra Suvorova

  • Iron silicate microgranules as precursor sediments to 2.5-billion-year-old banded iron formations

    Birger Rasmussen;D. Meier;Bryan Krapez;J. Muhling

  • Reactions destroying detrital monazite in greenschist-facies sandstones from the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa

    Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling

  • Greenalite precipitation linked to the deposition of banded iron formations downslope from a late Archean carbonate platform

    Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling;Alexandra Suvorova;Bryan Krapež

  • Grenvillian-aged orogenesis in the Palaeoproterozoic Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia: 1030-950 Ma reworking of the Proterozoic Capricorn Orogen

    S Sheppard;B Rasmussen;Janet Muhling;TR Farrell

  • Thermal history recorded by the Apollo 17 impact melt breccia 73217

    Marion Grange;Alexander Nemchin;Robert Pidgeon;Nicholas Eric Timms

  • In situ U–Th–Pb geochronology of monazite and xenotime from the Jack Hills belt: Implications for the age of deposition and metamorphism of Hadean zircons

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Janet R. Muhling;Simon A. Wilde

  • In situ U-Pb geochronology of xenotime and monazite from the Abra polymetallic deposit in the Capricorn Orogen, Australia: Dating hydrothermal mineralization and fluid flow in a long-lived crustal structure

    Jian-Wei Zi;Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling;Janet R. Muhling;Ian R. Fletcher

  • Structural and geochronological studies on the Liba goldfield of the West Qinling Orogen, Central China

    Qingtao Zeng;T. Campbell McCuaig;Craig J. R. Hart;Fred Jourdan

  • Bushveld-aged fluid flow, peak metamorphism, and gold mobilization in the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa: Constraints from in situ SHRIMP U-Pb dating of monazite and xenotime

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Janet R. Muhling;Andreas G. Mueller

  • Dust to dust: Evidence for the formation of “primary” hematite dust in banded iron formations via oxidation of iron silicate nanoparticles

    Birger Rasmussen;Janet R. Muhling;Alexandra Suvorova;Bryan Krapež

  • Low‐Fe(III) Greenalite Was a Primary Mineral From Neoarchean Oceans

    Jena E. Johnson;Jena E. Johnson;Janet R. Muhling;Janet R. Muhling;Julie Cosmidis;Julie Cosmidis;Birger Rasmussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen University of Western Australia
Ian R. Fletcher
Ian R. Fletcher Curtin University
Jian-Wei Zi
Jian-Wei Zi Curtin University
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia
Ian R. Fletcher
Ian R. Fletcher Curtin University
Bryan Krapež
Bryan Krapež Guilin University of Technology
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Alexander A. Nemchin
Alexander A. Nemchin Curtin University
Allen K. Kennedy
Allen K. Kennedy Curtin University
Christopher L. Kirkland
Christopher L. Kirkland Curtin University

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