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Overview

Jason Phipps Morgan is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their primary research field lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on the subfield of Geophysics. They have also contributed to areas such as Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Jason Phipps Morgan has authored numerous papers published in high-impact journals. Recent contributions include:

  • "Spatial variations of incoming sediments at the northeastern Japan arc and their implications for megathrust earthquakes," 2020, Geology
  • "Extensional tectonics and two-stage crustal accretion at oceanic transform faults," 2021, Nature
  • "Lithospheric Strength and Rift Migration Controls on Synrift Stratigraphy and Breakup Unconformities at Rifted Margins: Examples From Numerical Models, the Atlantic and South China Sea Margins," 2020, Tectonics
  • "Paired EMI-HIMU hotspots in the South Atlantic-Starting plume heads trigger compositionally distinct secondary plumes?," 2020, Science Advances
  • "New constraints on Cenozoic subduction between India and Tibet," 2023, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ingo Grevemeyer
  • Liang Liu
  • Yi-Gang Xu
  • Yanan Shi
  • Lars Rüpke

Jason Phipps Morgan's research has been published repeatedly in some key scientific venues, demonstrating a broad engagement across various journals. These include:

  • Geology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the Middle America trench

    C. R. Ranero;J. Phipps Morgan;K. McIntosh;C. Reichert

  • Serpentine and the subduction zone water cycle

    Lars H Rüpke;Jason Phipps Morgan;Matthias Hort;Matthias Hort;James A.D Connolly

  • Deep roots of the Messinian salinity crisis

    Svend Duggen;Svend Duggen;Kaj Hoernle;Paul van den Bogaard;Lars Rüpke

  • Mantle Flow and Melt Generation at Mid-Ocean Ridges

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Donna K. Blackman;John M. Sinton

  • The genesis of oceanic crust - Magma injection, hydrothermal circulation, and crustal flow

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Y. John Chen

  • Three-dimensional flow and temperature perturbations due to a transform offset: Effects on oceanic crustal and upper mantle structure

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Donald W. Forsyth

  • The spreading rate dependence of three‐dimensional mid‐ocean ridge gravity structure

    Jian Lin;Jason Phipps Morgan

  • Testing the fixed hotspot hypothesis using Ar-40/Ar-39 age progressions along seamount trails.

    Anthony A.P. Koppers;Jason Phipps Morgan;Jason W. Morgan;Hubert Staudigel

  • Relationship between bend-faulting at trenches and intermediate-depth seismicity

    César R. Ranero;Antonio Villaseñor;Jason Phipps Morgan;Wilhelm Weinrebe

  • Hotspot melting generates both hotspot volcanism and a hotspot swell

    Jason Phipps Morgan;W. Jason Morgan;Evelyn Price

  • Dependence of ridge-axis morphology on magma supply and spreading rate

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Y. John Ghen

  • Are the regional variations in Central American arc lavas due to differing basaltic versus peridotitic slab sources of fluids

    Lars H. Rüpke;Jason Phipps Morgan;Matthias Hort;James A.D. Connolly

  • Melt migration beneath mid‐ocean spreading centers

    Jason Phipps Morgan

  • Mechanisms for the origin of mid‐ocean ridge axial topography: Implications for the thermal and mechanical structure of accreting plate boundaries

    Jason Phipps Morgan;E. M. Parmentier;J. Lin

  • Two-stage melting and the geochemical evolution of the mantle: a recipe for mantle plum-pudding

    Jason Phipps Morgan;W.Jason Morgan

  • Crustal redistribution, crust-mantle recycling and Phanerozoic evolution of the continental crust

    Peter D. Clift;Paola Vannucchi;Jason Phipps Morgan

  • Thermodynamics of pressure release melting of a veined plum pudding mantle

    Jason Phipps Morgan

  • Observational hints for a plume-fed, suboceanic asthenosphere and its role in mantle convection

    Jason Phipps Morgan;W. Jason Morgan;Yu-Shen Zhang;Walter H. F. Smith

  • Existence of complex spatial zonation in the Galápagos plume

    Kaj Hoernle;Reinhard Werner;Jason Phipps Morgan;Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

  • Flattening of the sea-floor depth-age curve as a response to asthenospheric flow

    Jason Phipps Morgan;Walter H. F. Smith

  • Causes and rate-limiting mechanisms of ridge propagation: A fracture mechanics model

    Jason Phipps Morgan;E. M. Parmentier

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingo Grevemeyer
Ingo Grevemeyer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
César R. Ranero
César R. Ranero Spanish National Research Council
Shuichi Kodaira
Shuichi Kodaira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
E. M. Parmentier
E. M. Parmentier Brown University
W. Jason Morgan
W. Jason Morgan Princeton University
Kaj Hoernle
Kaj Hoernle GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Colin W. Devey
Colin W. Devey GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University
Martin Menzies
Martin Menzies Royal Holloway University of London
Shigeaki Ono
Shigeaki Ono Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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