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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Jon P. Davidson was affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a concentration in Geophysics. Other areas of study included Ocean Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's work covered several key topics, notably Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Davidson contributed to multiple publications between 2020 and 2021. Significant papers included:

  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, 2020, Nature
  • Surface Composition Dependence on the Ice Nucleating Ability of Potassium-Rich Feldspar, 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Author Correction: Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, 2020, Nature
  • Passive seismic dataset to "Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc" by Cooper et al., 2020, Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Data for "Variation in Upper Plate Crustal and Lithospheric Mantle Structure in the Greater and Lesser Antilles from Ambient Noise Tomography", 2021, ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)

Their frequent co-authors included George F. Cooper, Colin G. Macpherson, Jon Blundy, Benjamin Maunder, and Robert Allen.

Davidson published frequently in journals and repositories such as Nature, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Spiral (Imperial College London), and ePrints Soton (University of Southampton).

They received recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Amphibole “sponge” in arc crust?

    Jon Davidson;Simon Turner;Heather Handley;Colin Macpherson

  • Hafnium isotope evidence for ‘conservative’ element mobility during subduction zone processes

    J.D. Woodhead;J.M. Hergt;J.P. Davidson;S.M. Eggins

  • Microsampling and Isotopic Analysis of Igneous Rocks: Implications for the Study of Magmatic Systems

    J.P. Davidson;D.J. Morgan;B.L.A. Charlier;R. Harlou

  • High Field Strength Element Anomalies in Arc Lavas: Source or Process?

    M. F. Thirlwall;T. E. Smith;A. M. Graham;N. Theodorou

  • Magma Generation at a Large, Hyperactive Silicic Volcano (Taupo, New Zealand) Revealed by U–Th and U–Pb Systematics in Zircons

    B. L. A. Charlier;C. J. N. Wilson;J. B. Lowenstern;S. Blake

  • Dy/Dy*: Variations Arising from Mantle Sources and Petrogenetic Processes

    Jon Davidson;Simon Turner;Terry A. Plank

  • Crustal contamination versus subduction zone enrichment: Examples from the Lesser Antilles and implications for mantle source compositions of island arc volcanic rocks

    Jon P Davidson

  • Methods for the microsampling and high-precision analysis of strontium and rubidium isotopes at single crystal scale for petrological and geochronological applications

    B.L.A. Charlier;B.L.A. Charlier;C. Ginibre;C. Ginibre;D. Morgan;G.M. Nowell

  • Magma Mixing, Recharge and Eruption Histories Recorded in Plagioclase Phenocrysts from El Chichón Volcano, Mexico

    F. J. Tepley;J.P. Davidson;R.I. Tilling;Joseph G. Arth

  • Recharge in Volcanic Systems: Evidence from Isotope Profiles of Phenocrysts

    Jon P. Davidson;Frank J. Tepley

  • Trace-element fractionation in plumes and the origin of HIMU mantle beneath the Cameroon line

    Alex N. Halliday;Jon P. Davidson;Jon P. Davidson;Peter Holden;Peter Holden;Charles DeWolf

  • Deciphering Mantle and Crustal Signatures in Subduction Zone Magmatism

    Jon P. Davidson

  • Magmatic interactions as recorded in plagioclase phenocrysts of Chaos Crags, Lassen Volcanic Center, California

    F. J. Tepley;J. P. Davidson;M. A. Clynne

  • Magma recharge, contamination and residence times revealed by in situ laser ablation isotopic analysis of feldspar in volcanic rocks

    Jon Davidson;Frank Tepley;Zenon Palacz;Simon Meffan-Main

  • Evidence for long residence times of rhyolitic magma in the Long Valley magmatic system: the isotopic record in precaldera lavas of Glass Mountain

    A. N. Halliday;Gail A. Mahood;Gail A. Mahood;Peter Holden;J. M. Metz

  • Modelling the petrogenesis of high Rb/Sr silicic magmas

    Alexander N. Halliday;Jon P. Davidson;Jon P. Davidson;W. Hildreth;Peter Holden;Peter Holden

  • Dubious case for slab melting in the Northern volcanic zone of the Andes

    Jennifer M. Garrison;Jon P. Davidson

  • Partial assimilative recycling of the mafic plutonic roots of arc volcanoes: An example from the Chilean Andes

    Michael A. Dungan;Jon Davidson

  • The Nevados de Payachata volcanic region (18°S/69°W, N. Chile) II. Evidence for widespread crustal involvement in Andean magmatism

    Jon P. Davidson;Nancy J. McMillan;Stephen Moorbath;Gerhard Wörner

  • Crustal forensics in arc magmas

    Jon P. Davidson;John M. Hora;Jennifer M. Garrison;Michael A. Dungan

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University
Simon Turner
Simon Turner Macquarie University
Geoff Nowell
Geoff Nowell Durham University
Shanaka L. de Silva
Shanaka L. de Silva Oregon State University
D.G. Pearson
D.G. Pearson University of Alberta
Alex N. Halliday
Alex N. Halliday Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Clive R. Neal
Clive R. Neal University of Notre Dame
Valentin R. Troll
Valentin R. Troll Uppsala University
Dougal A. Jerram
Dougal A. Jerram University of Oslo
Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences

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