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Marc D. Norman is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's publication record includes a focus on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Marc D. Norman has published in various well-regarded scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5 (2021), Science
  • A new method for U-Pb geochronology of cassiterite by ID-TIMS applied to the Mole Granite polymetallic system, eastern Australia (2020), Chemical Geology
  • Constraining the formation and transport of lunar impact glasses using the ages and chemical compositions of Chang'e-5 glass beads (2022), Science Advances
  • Kīlauea's Pu'u 'Ō'ō Eruption (1983-2018): A synthesis of magmatic processes during a prolonged basaltic event (2021), Chemical Geology
  • A SIMS U-Pb (zircon) and Re-Os (molybdenite) isotope study of the early Paleozoic Macquarie Arc, southeastern Australia: Implications for the tectono-magmatic evolution of the paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin (2020), Gondwana Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Michael O. Garcia
  • A. A. Nemchin
  • Martin J. Whitehouse
  • Patrick Carr
  • Phillip L. Blevin

Best Publications

  • Reaction between slab-derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa

    R.P Rapp;N Shimizu;M.D Norman;G.S Applegate;G.S Applegate

  • Further characterisation of the 91500 zircon crystal

    Michael Wiedenbeck;John M. Hanchar;William H. Peck;Paul Sylvester

  • Growth of early continental crust by partial melting of eclogite

    Robert P. Rapp;Robert P. Rapp;Nobumilchi Shimizu;Marc D. Norman

  • QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS BY LASER ABLATION ICPMS: INSTRUMENTAL OPERATING CONDITIONS AND CALIBRATION VALUES OF NIST GLASSES

    M.D. Norman;N.J. Pearson;A. Sharma;W.L. Griffin;W.L. Griffin

  • Routine quantitative multi-element analysis of sulphide minerals by laser ablation ICP-MS: Standard development and consideration of matrix effects

    Leonid Danyushevsky;Phillip Robinson;Sarah Gilbert;Marc Norman

  • Coupled 186Os and 187Os evidence for core-mantle interaction

    A. D. Brandon;Richard Walker;John W. Morgan;Marc D. Norman

  • Age and composition of young basalts on the Moon, measured from samples returned by Chang'e-5.

    Xiaochao Che;Alexander Nemchin;Dunyi Liu;Tao Long

  • Quantitative analysis of trace element abundances in glasses and minerals: a comparison of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, solution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, proton microprobe and electron microprobe data

    Marc D. Norman;William L. Griffin;Norman J. Pearson;Michael O. Garcia

  • Melting and metasomatism in the continental lithosphere: laser ablation ICPMS analysis of minerals in spinel lherzolites from eastern Australia

    Marc D. Norman

  • Primitive magmas and source characteristics of the Hawaiian plume: petrology and geochemistry of shield picrites

    Marc D Norman;Marc D Norman;Michael O Garcia

  • Geochemical Evidence for Excess Iron in the Mantle Beneath Hawaii

    Munir Humayun;Liping Qin;Marc D. Norman

  • 186Os–187Os systematics of Hawaiian picrites

    Alan D. Brandon;Marc D. Norman;Richard J. Walker;John W. Morgan;John W. Morgan

  • The Late Heavy Bombardment

    William F. Bottke;Marc D. Norman

  • Chronology, geochemistry, and petrology of a ferroan noritic anorthosite clast from Descartes breccia 67215: Clues to the age, origin, structure, and impact history of the lunar crust

    Marc D. Norman;Lars E. Borg;Lawrence E. Nyquist;Donald D. Bogard

  • Meta-igneous (non-gneissic) tonalites and quartz-diorites from an extensive ca. 3800 Ma terrain south of the Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland: constraints on early crust formation

    Allen P. Nutman;Vickie C. Bennett;Clark R. L. Friend;Marc D. Norman

  • Continent Formation in the Archean and Chemical Evolution of the Cratonic Lithosphere: Melt-Rock Reaction Experiments at 3-4 GPa and Petrogenesis of Archean Mg-Diorites (Sanukitoids)

    Robert Rapp;Robert Rapp;Robert Rapp;Marc Norman;D Laporte;D Laporte;Gregory Yaxley

  • The origin of shoshonites: new insights from the Tertiary high-potassium intrusions of eastern Tibet

    Ian H. Campbell;Aleksandr S. Stepanov;Hua-Ying Liang;Hua-Ying Liang;Charlotte M. Allen

  • Cryptic speciation and the circumpolarity debate: A case study on endemic Southern Ocean octopuses using the COI barcode of life

    A. Louise Allcock;A. Louise Allcock;Iain Barratt;Marc Eléaume;Katrin Linse

  • The composition and thickness of the crust of Mars estimated from rare earth elements and neodymium-isotopic compositions of Martian meteorites

    Marc D. Norman

  • 39Ar40Ar age and petrology of Chico: Large-scale impact melting on the L chondrite parent body

    D.D. Bogard;D.H. Garrison;M. Norman;E.R.D. Scott;E.R.D. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Vickie C. Bennett
Vickie C. Bennett Australian National University
Michael O. Garcia
Michael O. Garcia University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lawrence A. Taylor
Lawrence A. Taylor University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alan D. Brandon
Alan D. Brandon University of Houston
Vadim S. Kamenetsky
Vadim S. Kamenetsky Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gregory M. Yaxley
Gregory M. Yaxley Australian National University
Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Sune G. Nielsen
Sune G. Nielsen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Clark R.L. Friend
Clark R.L. Friend Oxford Brookes University

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