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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1981 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

John G. Sclater is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their career encompasses significant involvement in scientific research and academia.

Sclater has been recognized with several prestigious awards throughout their career. These include being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1981, a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 1982, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • An analysis of the variation of ocean floor bathymetry and heat flow with age

    Barry Parsons;John G. Sclater

  • Continental stretching: An explanation of the Post-Mid-Cretaceous subsidence of the central North Sea Basin

    John G. Sclater;P. A. F. Christie

  • The heat flow through oceanic and continental crust and the heat loss of the Earth

    J. G. Sclater;C. Jaupart;D. Galson

  • Digital isochrons of the world's ocean floor

    R. Dietmar Müller;Walter R. Roest;Jean-Yves Royer;Lisa M. Gahagan

  • The Evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous

    Dan McKenzie;John G. Sclater

  • The Implications of Terrestrial Heat Flow Observations on Current Tectonic and Geochemical Models of the Crust and Upper Mantle of the Earth

    John G. Sclater;Jean Francheteau

  • A model for the evolution of the Indian Ocean and the breakup of Gondwanaland

    I. O. Norton;J. G. Sclater

  • Elevation of ridges and evolution of the central Eastern Pacific.

    John G. Sclater;Roger N. Anderson;M. Lee Bell

  • Evolution of the East: Central Indian Ocean, with Emphasis on the Tectonic Setting of the Ninetyeast Ridge

    John G. Sclater;Robert L. Fisher

  • The Paleobathymetry of the Atlantic Ocean from the Jurassic to the Present

    John G. Sclater;Steven Hellinger;Christopher Tapscott

  • Continental Margin Subsidence and Heat Flow: Important Parameters in Formation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

    Leigh Royden;J. G. Sclater;R. P. Von Herzen

  • Oceans and continents: Similarities and differences in the mechanisms of heat loss

    John G. Sclater;Barry Parsons;Claude Jaupart

  • The mechanisms of heat transfer through the floor of the Indian Ocean

    Roger N. Anderson;Marcus G. Langseth;John G. Sclater

  • The Galapagos Spreading Centre: Lithospheric Cooling and Hydrothermal Circulation

    David L. Williams;R. P. Von Herzen;J. G. Sclater;R. N. Anderson

  • Some comments on two-layer extensional models for the evolution of sedimentary basins

    Steven J. Hellinger;John G. Sclater

  • Age and spreading history of the Cayman Trough as determined from depth, heat flow, and magnetic anomalies

    Eric Rosencrantz;Malcolm I. Ross;John G. Sclater

  • Evolution of the Central Indian Ridge, Western Indian Ocean

    Robert L Fisher;John G Sclater;Dan P McKENZIE

  • The North China Basin: An example of a Cenozoic rifted intraplate basin

    Hong Ye;K. M. Shedlock;S. J. Hellinger;J. G. Sclater

  • The relationship between depth, age and gravity in the oceans

    A. G. Crosby;D. McKenzie;J. G. Sclater

  • The formation of the intra-Carpathian basins as determined from subsidence data

    J.G. Sclater;L. Royden;F. Horvath;B.C. Burchfiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan McKenzie
Dan McKenzie University of Cambridge
R. P. Von Herzen
R. P. Von Herzen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Roger N. Anderson
Roger N. Anderson Columbia University
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Lawrence A. Lawver
Lawrence A. Lawver The University of Texas at Austin
Jean Francheteau
Jean Francheteau University of California, San Diego
Victor D. Vacquier
Victor D. Vacquier University of California, San Diego
David T. Sandwell
David T. Sandwell University of California, San Diego
Robert N. Harris
Robert N. Harris Oregon State University
Christopher G. A. Harrison
Christopher G. A. Harrison University of Miami

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