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John Wheeler is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and has a research focus encompassing engineering and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily falls within the subfields of geophysics, mechanics of materials, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials chemistry.

The researcher's studies address topics such as geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, rock mechanics and modeling, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, and microstructure and mechanical properties.

Wheeler has published articles in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Journal of Structural Geology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Wheeler cover a range of themes and publication years, including:

  • Microstructural constraints on magmatic mushes under Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Temperature and strain controls on ice deformation mechanisms: insights from the microstructures of samples deformed to progressively higher strains at −10, −20 and −30 °C, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • A unifying basis for the interplay of stress and chemical processes in the Earth: support from diverse experiments, 2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Potassium silicate alteration in porphyry copper-gold deposits: a case study at the giant maar-diatreme hosted Grasberg deposit, Indonesia, 2022, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Interactions between deformation and dissolution-precipitation reactions in plagioclase feldspar at greenschist facies, 2021, Lithos

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including David D. McNamara, David J. Prior, Joe Gardner, Benjamin M. Storey, and Richard H. Worden.

Best Publications

  • The application of electron backscatter diffraction and orientation contrast imaging in the SEM to textural problems in rocks

    David J. Prior;Alan P. Boyle;Frank Brenker;Michael C. Cheadle

  • The petrological significance of misorientations between grains

    J. Wheeler;D. J. Prior;Z. Jiang;R. Spiess

  • Some garnet microstructures: an illustration of the potential of orientation maps and misorientation analysis in microstructural studies

    David J. Prior;John Wheeler;Luca Peruzzo;Richard Spiess

  • EBSD in the Earth Sciences: Applications, Common Practice, and Challenges

    David J. Prior;Elisabetta Mariani;John Wheeler

  • Importance of pressure solution and coble creep in the deformation of polymineralic rocks

    John Wheeler

  • Simple shear deformation and quartz crystallographic fabrics: a possible natural example from the Torridon area of NW Scotland

    R.D Law;S.M Schmid;J Wheeler

  • Grain boundary hierarchy development in a quartz mylonite

    Patrick W Trimby;David J Prior;John Wheeler

  • Albite crystallographic preferred orientation and grain misorientation distribution in a low-grade mylonite: implications for granular flow

    Zhenting Jiang;David J Prior;John Wheeler

  • A 40Ar/39Ar laser probe study of micas from the Sesia Zone, Italian Alps: implications for metamorphic and deformation histories

    S. M. Reddy;S. P. Kelley;J. Wheeler

  • Criteria for identifying structures related to true crustal extension in orogens

    J. Wheeler;R.W.H. Butler

  • Dramatic effects of stress on metamorphic reactions

    J Wheeler

  • Quantifying the anisotropy and tortuosity of permeable pathways in clay-rich mudstones using models based on X-ray tomography.

    Nils R. Backeberg;Francesco Iacoviello;Martin Rittner;Thomas M. Mitchell

  • Analysis of dynamic recrystallization and nucleation in a quartzite mylonite

    Angela Halfpenny;David J. Prior;John Wheeler

  • Kinematic reworking and exhumation within the convergent Alpine Orogen

    S.M. Reddy;J. Wheeler;R.W.H. Butler;R.A. Cliff

  • Development of garnet porphyroblasts by multiple nucleation, coalescence and boundary misorientation-driven rotations

    R. Spiess;L. Peruzzo;D. J. Prior;J. Wheeler

  • Crystal plasticity of natural garnet: New microstructural evidence

    David J. Prior;John Wheeler;Frank E. Brenker;Ben Harte

  • STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY ALGORITHMS: VECTORS AND TENSORS

    John Wheeler

  • Feldspar fabrics in a greenschist facies albite-rich mylonite from electron backscatter diffraction

    David J Prior;John Wheeler

  • Structural evolution of a subducted continental sliver: the northern Dora Maira massif, Italian Alps

    J. Wheeler

  • DIFFARG: a program for simulating argon diffusion profiles in minerals

    J. Wheeler

  • The significance of grain-scale stresses in the kinetics of metamorphism

    J. Wheeler

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Prior
David J. Prior University of Otago
Daniel R. Faulkner
Daniel R. Faulkner University of Liverpool
Sandra Piazolo
Sandra Piazolo University of Leeds
Nick Kusznir
Nick Kusznir University of Liverpool
Quentin Crowley
Quentin Crowley Trinity College Dublin
Philip A. Bland
Philip A. Bland Curtin University
Peter J. Treloar
Peter J. Treloar Kingston University
Urs Klötzli
Urs Klötzli University of Vienna
George A. Wolff
George A. Wolff University of Liverpool
Martyn R. Drury
Martyn R. Drury Utrecht University

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