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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Joseph L. Wooden is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science, with a significant focus on Geophysics and Artificial Intelligence as subfields.

The scientist has contributed to studies in numerous topics within geology and geosciences, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Notable recent papers by Joseph L. Wooden include:

  • Trace elements in zircon record changing magmatic processes and the multi-stage build-up of Archean proto-continental crust, 2024, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Destabilization of Long-Lived Hadean Protocrust and the Onset of Pervasive Hydrous Melting at 3.8 Ga, 2022, AGU Advances
  • Heterogeneous Hadean crust with ambient mantle affinity recorded in detrital zircons of the Green Sandstone Bed, South Africa, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Testing models of Laramide orogenic initiation by investigation of Late Cretaceous magmatic-tectonic evolution of the central Mojave sector of the California arc, 2021, Geosphere
  • Leveraging detrital zircon geochemistry to study deep arc processes: REE-rich magmas mobilized by Jurassic rifting of the Sierra Nevada arc, 2021, Results in Geochemistry

Joseph L. Wooden frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • AGU Advances
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Geosphere

They collaborate often with other researchers, including:

  • Andrew P. Barth
  • Nadja Drabon
  • Gary R. Byerly
  • Benjamin L. Byerly
  • Donald R. Lowe

Joseph L. Wooden holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Trace element chemistry of zircons from oceanic crust: A method for distinguishing detrital zircon provenance

    Craig B. Grimes;Barbara E. John;P.B. Kelemen;F.K. Mazdab

  • “Fingerprinting” tectono-magmatic provenance using trace elements in igneous zircon

    C. B. Grimes;J. L. Wooden;M. J. Cheadle;B. E. John

  • Tracking magmatic processes through Zr/Hf ratios in rocks and Hf and Ti zoning in zircons: An example from the Spirit Mountain batholith, Nevada

    L. Lowery Claiborne;C. F. Miller;B. A. Walker;J. L. Wooden

  • Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet

    Martina Schwab;Martina Schwab;Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Siebel;Michael McWilliams

  • Isotopic and trace-element constraints on mantle and crustal contributions to Siberian continental flood basalts, Noril'sk area, Siberia

    Joseph L Wooden;Gerald K Czamanske;Valeri A Fedorenko;Nicholas T Arndt

  • Trace element composition of igneous zircon: a thermal and compositional record of the accumulation and evolution of a large silicic batholith, Spirit Mountain, Nevada

    Lily L. Claiborne;Calvin F. Miller;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Chronology and petrogenesis of young achondrites, Shergotty, Zagami, and ALHA77005 - Late magmatism on a geologically active planet

    C.-Y. Shih;L.E. Nyquist;D.D. Bogard;G.A. McKay

  • ZIRCON COMPOSITIONAL EVIDENCE FOR SULFUR-DEGASSING FROM ORE-FORMING ARC MAGMAS

    John H. Dilles;Adam J.R. Kent;Joseph L. Wooden;Richard M. Tosdal

  • On the occurrence, trace element geochemistry, and crystallization history of zircon from in situ ocean lithosphere

    Craig B. Grimes;Craig B. Grimes;Barbara E. John;Michael J. Cheadle;Frank K. Mazdab

  • Thermometers and Thermobarometers in Granitic Systems

    J. Lawford Anderson;Andrew P. Barth;Joseph L. Wooden;Frank Mazdab

  • Mantle and crustal contributions to continental flood volcanism

    Nicholas T. Arndt;Gerald K. Czamanske;Joseph L. Wooden;Valeri A. Fedorenko

  • Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California: Evolution of an arc-forearc system

    Kathleen DeGraaff-Surpless;Stephan A. Graham;Joseph L. Wooden;Michael O. McWilliams

  • Detrital zircon provenance from three turbidite depocenters of the Middle-Upper Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China: Record of collisional tectonics, erosional exhumation, and sediment production

    A.L. Weislogel;S.A. Graham;E.Z. Chang;J.L. Wooden

  • Zircon reveals protracted magma storage and recycling beneath Mount St. Helens

    Lily L. Claiborne;Calvin F. Miller;Daniel M. Flanagan;Michael A. Clynne

  • Initiation of the Magallanes foreland basin: Timing of the southernmost Patagonian Andes orogeny revised by detrital zircon provenance analysis

    Andrea Fildani;Tim D. Cope;Stephan A. Graham;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Transcontinental Proterozoic provinces

    J. Lawford Anderson;E. Erik Bender;Raymond R. Anderson;Paul W. Bauer

  • Discovery of metamorphic diamonds in central China: an indication of a > 4000‐km‐long zone of deep subduction resulting from multiple continental collisions

    Jingsui Yang;Zhiqin Xu;Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya;Harry W. Green

  • Monazite paragenesis and U-Pb systematics in rocks of the eastern Mojave Desert, California, U.S.A.: implications for thermochronometry

    James A. Kingsbury;Calvin F. Miller;Joseph L. Wooden;T.Mark Harrison

  • How was the Triassic Songpan-Ganzi basin filled? A provenance study

    Eva Enkelmann;Amy Weislogel;Lothar Ratschbacher;Elizabeth Eide

  • Age and duration of eclogite-facies metamorphism, North Qaidam HP/UHP terrane, Western China

    C.G. Mattinson;J.L. Wooden;J.G. Liou;D.K. Bird

  • Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming craton: implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains

    David A. Foster;Paul A. Mueller;David W. Mogk;Joseph L. Wooden

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Mueller
Paul A. Mueller University of Florida
Calvin F. Miller
Calvin F. Miller Vanderbilt University
David A. Foster
David A. Foster University of Florida
C. Page Chamberlain
C. Page Chamberlain Stanford University
Michael J. Cheadle
Michael J. Cheadle University of Wyoming
Stephan A. Graham
Stephan A. Graham Stanford University
Barbara E. John
Barbara E. John University of Wyoming
Michael McWilliams
Michael McWilliams Stanford University
Juhn G. Liou
Juhn G. Liou Stanford University
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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