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Martyn R. Drury is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on geophysics and related subfields.

Their scholarly work covers several core topics, including:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Drury's main fields of study consist of:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields in which they have published include:

  • Geophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Environmental Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Drury include:

  • Oliver Plümper
  • Ilka Weikusat
  • Maartje Hamers
  • Vasileios Chatzaras
  • Basil Tikoff

Martyn R. Drury has contributed to several publication venues multiple times, such as:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geology
  • Minerals

Their recent papers include:

  • Dislocation interactions during low-temperature plasticity of olivine and their impact on the evolution of lithospheric strength, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Using a composite flow law to model deformation in the NEEM deep ice core, Greenland - Part 2: The role of grain size and premelting on ice deformation at high homologous temperature, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Using a composite flow law to model deformation in the NEEM deep ice core, Greenland - Part 1: The role of grain size and grain size distribution on deformation of the upper 2207 m, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • The frictional strength and stability of spatially heterogeneous fault gouges, 2024, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Stress variations in space and time within the mantle section of an oceanic transform zone: Evidence for the seismic cycle, 2020, Geology

Best Publications

  • Deformation-related recrystallization processes

    Martyn R. Drury;Janos L. Urai

  • Relationships between dynamically recrystallized grain size and deformation conditions in experimentally deformed olivine rocks

    Dirk Van der Wal;Prame Chopra;Martyn Drury;John Fitz Gerald

  • Morphology-dependent zeolite intergrowth structures leading to distinct internal and outer-surface molecular diffusion barriers.

    Lukasz Karwacki;Marianne H. F. Kox;D. A. Matthijs de Winter;Martyn R. Drury

  • The development of microstructure in Al-5% Mg during high temperature deformation

    M.R. Drury;F.J. Humphreys

  • Microdiamonds in a megacrystic garnet websterite pod from Bardane on the island of Fjørtoft, western Norway: Evidence for diamond formation in mantle rocks during deep continental subduction

    Herman L.M. van Roermund;D. Anthony Carswell;Martyn R. Drury;Tjerk C. Heijboer

  • Evidence for dominant grain-boundary sliding deformation in greenschist- and amphibolite-grade polymineralic ultramylonites from the Redbank Deformed Zone, Central Australia

    Timon F. Fliervoet;Stanley H. White;Martyn R. Drury

  • Diffuse porous melt flow and melt-rock reaction in the mantle lithosphere at a slow-spreading ridge: A structural petrology and LA-ICP-MS study of the Othris Peridotite Massif (Greece)

    Arjan H. Dijkstra;Matthias G. Barth;Martyn R. Drury;Paul R. D. Mason

  • Tomography of insulating biological and geological materials using focused ion beam (FIB) sectioning and low-kV BSE imaging.

    D.A. Matthijs De Winter;C.T.W.M. Schneijdenberg;M.N. Lebbink;B. Lich

  • Deformation processes in a peridotite shear zone: reaction-softening by an H2O-deficient, continuous net transfer reaction

    Julie Newman;William M Lamb;Martyn R Drury;Reinoud L.M Vissers

  • Deep origin and hot melting of an Archaean orogenic peridotite massif in Norway

    Dirk Spengler;Herman L. M. van Roermund;Martyn R. Drury;Luisa Ottolini

  • Geochemistry of the Othris Ophiolite, Greece: Evidence for Refertilization?

    Matthias G. Barth;Paul R. D. Mason;Gareth R. Davies;Arjan H. Dijkstra

  • Large strain deformation studies using polycrystalline magnesium as a rock analogue. Part II: dynamic recrystallisation mechanisms at high temperatures

    M.R. Drury;F.J. Humphreys;S.H. White

  • Melt distribution in olivine rocks based on electrical conductivity measurements

    Saskia M. ten Grotenhuis;Martyn R. Drury;Chris J. Spiers;Colin J. Peach

  • Subsolidus Emplacement of Mantle Peridotites during Incipient Oceanic Rifting and Opening of the Mesozoic Tethys (Voltri Massif, NW Italy)

    E. H. Hoogerduijn Strating;E. Rampone;G. B. Piccardo;M. R. Drury

  • Shear localisation in upper mantle peridotites

    Martyn R. Drury;Reinoud L. M. Vissers;Dirk Van der Wal;Eilard H. Hoogerduijn Strating

  • Shear zones in the upper mantle: A case study in an Alpine Iherzolite massif

    R.L.M. Vissers;M. R. Drury;E. H. Hoogerduijn Strating;D. van der Wal

  • Mantle shear zones and their effect on lithosphere strength during continental breakup

    R.L.M. Vissers;M.R. Drury;E.H. Hoogerduijn^Strating;C.J. Spiers

  • Crystallographic preferred orientations and misorientations in some olivine rocks deformed by diffusion or dislocation creep

    Timon F Fliervoet;Martyn R Drury;Prame N Chopra

  • Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics: Current Status and Future Perspectives

    S. de Meer;M. R. Drury;J. H. P. de Bresser;G. M. Pennock

  • Electrical properties of fine-grained olivine: Evidence for grain boundary transport

    Saskia M. ten Grotenhuis;Martyn R. Drury;Colin J. Peach;Chris J. Spiers

  • Relict Majoritic Garnet Microstructures from Ultra-Deep Orogenic Peridotites in Western Norway

    H. L. M. Van Roermund;M. R. Drury;A. Barnhoorn;A. De Ronde

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Spiers
Christopher J. Spiers Utrecht University
Reinoud L.M. Vissers
Reinoud L.M. Vissers Utrecht University
H.L.M. van Roermund
H.L.M. van Roermund Utrecht University
Gareth R. Davies
Gareth R. Davies Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Basil Tikoff
Basil Tikoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul R.D. Mason
Paul R.D. Mason Utrecht University
Holger Stünitz
Holger Stünitz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
David J. Prior
David J. Prior University of Otago
John Wheeler
John Wheeler University of Liverpool

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