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Marvin D. Lilley is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, with a particular focus on methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geochemical analysis, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Marvin D. Lilley has published in numerous well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Nature Communications

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Gretchen L. Früh-Green
  • Tamara Baumberger
  • J. E. Lupton
  • Susan Q. Lang
  • S. L. Walker

Selected recent papers by Marvin D. Lilley include:

  • Diversity of magmatism, hydrothermal processes and microbial interactions at mid-ocean ridges, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Methane thermometry in deep-sea hydrothermal systems: Evidence for re-ordering of doubly-substituted isotopologues during fluid cooling, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • The rocky road to organics needs drying, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Multi-stage evolution of the Lost City hydrothermal vent fluids, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Time series of hydrothermal vent fluid chemistry at Main Endeavour Field, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Remote sampling using the NEPTUNE cabled observatory, 2022, Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Best Publications

  • A Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystem: The Lost City Hydrothermal Field

    Deborah S. Kelley;Jeffrey A. Karson;Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Dana R. Yoerger

  • An off-axis hydrothermal vent field near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 30° N

    Deborah S. Kelley;Jeffrey A. Karson;Donna K. Blackman;Gretchen L. Früh-Green

  • Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field.

    Giora Proskurowski;Giora Proskurowski;Marvin D. Lilley;Jeffery S. Seewald;Gretchen L. Früh-Green

  • Volcanic eruption of the mid-ocean ridge along the East Pacific Rise crest at 9°45-52'N: Direct submersible observations of seafloor phenomena associated with an eruption event in April, 1991

    R.M. Haymon;D.J. Fornari;K. L. Von Damm;M.D. Lilley

  • Temporal and spatial patterns of biological community development at nascent deep-sea hydrothermal vents (9°50 N, East Pacific Rise)

    Timothy M. Shank;Daniel J. Fornari;Karen L. Von Damm;Marvin D. Lilley

  • Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents

    C. L. Van Dover;S. E. Humphris;D. Fornari;C. M. Cavanaugh

  • Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

    Susan Q. Lang;David A. Butterfield;Mitch Schulte;Deborah S. Kelley

  • Anomalous CH 4 and NH 4 + concentrations at an unsedimented mid-ocean-ridge hydrothermal system

    M. D. Lilley;D. A. Butterfield;E. J. Olson;J. E. Lupton

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from Axial Seamount hydrothermal emissions study vent field, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Subseafloor boiling and subsequent fluid‐rock interaction

    David A. Butterfield;Gary J. Massoth;Russell E. McDuff;John E. Lupton

  • Low temperature volatile production at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field, evidence from a hydrogen stable isotope geothermometer

    Giora Proskurowski;Marvin D. Lilley;Deborah S. Kelley;Eric J. Olson

  • Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry

    D. A. Butterfield;I. R. Jonasson;G. J. Massoth;R. A. Feely

  • Gradients in the composition of hydrothermal fluids from the Endeavour segment vent field: Phase separation and brine loss

    David A. Butterfield;Russell E. McDuff;Michael J. Mottl;Marvin D. Lilley

  • Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in hydrothermal vent chemistry

    Marvin D. Lilley;David A. Butterfield;David A. Butterfield;John E. Lupton;Eric J. Olson

  • Rapid growth at deep-sea vents

    Richard A. Lutz;Timothy M. Shank;Daniel J. Fornari;Rachel M. Haymon

  • Methane oxidation in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes of the endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

    M.A. de Angelis;M.D. Lilley;J.A. Baross

  • Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge

    Rolf B. Pedersen;Hans Tore Rapp;Ingunn H. Thorseth;Marvin D. Lilley

  • The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges.

    J. R. Delaney;D. S. Kelley;M. D. Lilley;D. A. Butterfield

  • Direct observation of the evolution of a seafloor 'black smoker' from vapor to brine

    K.L. Von Damm;L.G. Buttermore;S.E. Oosting;A.M. Bray

  • Dissolved Organic Carbon in Ridge-Axis and Ridge-Flank Hydrothermal Systems

    Susan Q. Lang;David A. Butterfield;Marvin D. Lilley;H. Paul Johnson

  • Warm springs discovered on 3.5 Ma oceanic crust, eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

    M. J. Mottl;G. Wheat;E. Baker;N. Becker

  • Submarine venting of phase-separated hydrothermal fluids at axial volcano, Juan de Fuca ridge

    G. J. Massoth;D. A. Butterfield;J. E. Lupton;R. E. McDuff

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Butterfield
David A. Butterfield University of Washington
John E. Lupton
John E. Lupton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Joseph A. Resing
Joseph A. Resing University of Washington
Rolf B. Pedersen
Rolf B. Pedersen University of Bergen
Ingunn H. Thorseth
Ingunn H. Thorseth University of Bergen
Deborah S. Kelley
Deborah S. Kelley University of Washington
Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Timothy M. Shank
Timothy M. Shank Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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