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Overview

Jenny S. Collier is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of research lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics as a subfield. Additional subfields in their work include Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Ocean Engineering, and Geology.

Collier's research covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

The scientist has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, 2020, Nature
  • Towards a process-based understanding of rifted continental margins, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Wide-Angle Seismic Imaging of Two Modes of Crustal Accretion in Mature Atlantic Ocean Crust, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Imaging slab-transported fluids and their deep dehydration from seismic velocity tomography in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent publication venues for Collier include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Collier collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Saskia Goes
  • Nicholas Harmon
  • Andreas Rietbrock
  • Catherine A. Rychert
  • T. Henstock

Best Publications

  • Catastrophic flooding origin of shelf valley systems in the English Channel

    Sanjeev Gupta;Jenny S. Collier;Andy Palmer-Felgate;Graeme Potter

  • Correlation of sidescan backscatter with grain size distribution of surficial seabed sediments

    J S Collier;Craig J Brown

  • Age of Seychelles–India break-up

    J.S. Collier;V. Sansom;O. Ishizuka;R.N. Taylor

  • Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise

    S. C. Singh;G. M. Kent;J. S. Collier;A. J. Harding

  • A seismic study of lithospheric flexure in the vicinity of Tenerife, Canary Islands

    A.B. Watts;C. Peirce;J. Collier;R. Dalwood

  • Seismic images of a magma chamber beneath the Lau Basin back-arc spreading centre

    Jenny Collier;Martin Sinha

  • Mapping benthic habitat in regions of gradational substrata: An automated approach utilising geophysical, geological, and biological relationships

    Craig J. Brown;Jenny S. Collier

  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc

    George F Cooper;George F Cooper;Colin G Macpherson;Jon D Blundy;Benjamin Maunder

  • The relationship between rifting and magmatism in the northeastern Arabian Sea

    Timothy A. Minshull;Christine I. Lane;Jenny S. Collier;Robert B. Whitmarsh

  • A seismic reflection and GLORIA study of compressional deformation in the Gorringe Bank region, eastern North Atlantic

    N. Hayward;A. B. Watts;G. K. Westbrook;J. S. Collier

  • Pleistocene subglacial tunnel valleys in the central North Sea basin: 3‐D morphology and evolution

    Lidia Lonergan;Susannah C. R. Maidment;Jenny S. Collier

  • Seismic mapping of a magma chamber beneath the Valu Fa Ridge, Lau Basin

    Jenny S. Collier;Martin C. Sinha

  • The importance of rift history for volcanic margin formation

    John J. Armitage;Jenny S. Collier;Tim A. Minshull

  • Detailed structure of the top of the melt body beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°40′N from waveform inversion of seismic reflection data

    J. S. Collier;S. C. Singh

  • Lithospheric response to volcanic loading by the Canary Islands: constraints from seismic reflection data in their flexural moat

    J. S. Collier;A. B. Watts

  • The role of arc migration in the development of the Lesser Antilles: A new tectonic model for the Cenozoic evolution of the eastern Caribbean

    R.W. Allen;J.S. Collier;A.G. Stewart;T. Henstock

  • Two-stage opening of the Dover Strait and the origin of island Britain

    Sanjeev Gupta;Jenny S. Collier;David Garcia-Moreno;David Garcia-Moreno;Francesca Oggioni

  • Seismic evidence for a hydrothermal layer above the solid roof of the axial magma chamber at the southern East Pacific Rise

    S. C. Singh;J. S. Collier;A. J. Harding;G. M. Kent

  • Deformation at plate boundaries around the Gulf of Oman

    T.A Minshull;R.S White;P.J Barton;J.S Collier

  • Towards a process-based understanding of rifted continental margins

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  • Factors influencing magmatism during continental breakup: New insights from a wide-angle seismic experiment across the conjugate Seychelles-Indian margins

    J.S. Collier;T.A. Minshull;James O.S. Hammond;R.B. Whitmarsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Timothy J. Henstock
Timothy J. Henstock University of Southampton
Saskia Goes
Saskia Goes Imperial College London
Nicholas Harmon
Nicholas Harmon Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London
Jamie J. Wilkinson
Jamie J. Wilkinson Imperial College London
J-M Kendall
J-M Kendall University of Oxford
Jon D Blundy
Jon D Blundy University of Oxford
Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University

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