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Massimo Chiaradia

Massimo Chiaradia

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
11069
World Ranking
2066
National Ranking
58

Overview

Massimo Chiaradia is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Geochemistry and Petrology. This breadth reflects a multidisciplinary approach to studying geological phenomena.

Chiaradia's work centers on topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Recent publications by or involving Chiaradia include:

  • Gold endowments of porphyry deposits controlled by precipitation efficiency, 2020, Nature Communications
  • How Much Water in Basaltic Melts Parental to Porphyry Copper Deposits?, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science

Other notable papers in their research circle, though authored by collaborators, demonstrate related thematic concerns in geology and geochemistry:

  • Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • MESOZOIC Mo MINERALIZATION IN NORTHEASTERN CHINA DID NOT REQUIRE REGIONAL-SCALE PRE-ENRICHMENT, 2021, Economic Geology
  • Redox state of southern Tibetan upper mantle and ultrapotassic magmas, 2020, Geology

Chiaradia frequently collaborates with researchers such as Alexey Ulianov, Richard Spikings, Hadi Shafaii Moghadam, Andrea Marzoli, and Robert Moritz. These collaborations have contributed to a collective body of work in related geological disciplines.

Publications involving or connected to Chiaradia have appeared in several recurring scientific venues, including:

  • Lithos
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Economic Geology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Chiaradia's research integrates techniques and insights from artificial intelligence with traditional geophysical and geochemical methods, indicating an openness to interdisciplinary approaches within Earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Copper enrichment in arc magmas controlled by overriding plate thickness

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  • Crustal thickness control on Sr/Y signatures of recent arc magmas: an Earth scale perspective.

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  • How Accurately Can We Date the Duration of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Events in Porphyry Systems?—An Invited Paper

    Massimo Chiaradia;Urs Schaltegger;Richard Spikings;Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw

  • High temperature (>350°C) thermochronology and mechanisms of Pb loss in apatite

    Ryan Cochrane;Richard Alan Spikings;David Michael Chew;Joern Frederik Wotzlaw

  • Why large porphyry Cu deposits like high Sr/Y magmas?

    Massimo Chiaradia;Alexey Ulianov;Kalin Kouzmanov;Bernardo Beate

  • Adakite-like magmas from fractional crystallization and melting-assimilation of mafic lower crust (Eocene Macuchi arc, Western Cordillera, Ecuador)

    Massimo Chiaradia

  • Adakite-like volcanism of Ecuador: lower crust magmatic evolution and recycling

    Massimo Chiaradia;Othmar Muntener;Bernardo Beate;Denis André Fontignie

  • Local to regional scale industrial heavy metal pollution recorded in sediments of large freshwater lakes in central Europe (lakes Geneva and Lucerne) over the last centuries.

    Florian Thevenon;Neil D. Graham;Massimo Chiaradia;Philippe Arpagaus

  • The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP): A Review

    Andrea Marzoli;Andrea Marzoli;Sara Callegaro;Jacopo Dal Corso;Joshua H. F. L. Davies

  • Re–Os and Pb–Pb geochronology of the Archean Salobo iron oxide copper–gold deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil

    Karin Requia;Holly Stein;Lluís Fontboté;Massimo Chiaradia;Massimo Chiaradia

  • Zircon petrochronology reveals the temporal link between porphyry systems and the magmatic evolution of their hidden plutonic roots (the Eocene Coroccohuayco deposit, Peru)

    Cyril Chelle-Michou;Massimo Chiaradia;Maria Ovtcharova;Alexey Ulianov

  • Early-Middle Jurassic intra-oceanic subduction in the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Ocean, Northern Turkey

    Ömer Faruk Çelik;Andrea Marzoli;Robert Marschik;Massimo Chiaradia

  • Stochastic modelling of deep magmatic controls on porphyry copper deposit endowment.

    Massimo Chiaradia;Luca Caricchi

  • Compositional diversity of Eocene-Oligocene basaltic magmatism in the Eastern Rhodopes, SE Bulgaria: implications for genesis and tectonic setting

    Peter Marchev;Raya Raicheva;Hilary Downes;Orlando Vaselli

  • Permo-Triassic anatexis, continental rifting and the disassembly of western Pangaea

    Ryan Cochrane;Richard Spikings;Axel Gerdes;Axel Gerdes;Alexey Ulianov

  • Crustal magmatic controls on the formation of porphyry copper deposits

    Jung-Woo Park;Ian H. Campbell;Massimo Chiaradia;Hongda Hao

  • Sulfide Minerals in Hydrothermal Deposits

    Lluís Fontboté;Kalin Kouzmanov;Massimo Chiaradia;Gleb S. Pokrovski

  • 40Ar/39Ar ages and Sr–Nd–Pb–Os geochemistry of CAMP tholeiites from Western Maranhão basin (NE Brazil)

    Renaud E. merle;Andrea Marzoli;Hervé Bertrand;Laurie Reisberg

  • Rapid transition to long-lived deep crustal magmatic maturation and the formation of giant porphyry-related mineralization (Yanacocha, Peru)

    Massimo Chiaradia;Daniel Merino;Richard Spikings

  • Enriched Basaltic Andesites from Mid-crustal Fractional Crystallization, Recharge, and Assimilation (Pilavo Volcano, Western Cordillera of Ecuador)

    Massimo Chiaradia;Othmar Müntener;Bernardo Beate

  • Origin of fluids in iron oxide-copper-gold deposits: constraints from δ 37 Cl, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr i and Cl/Br

    Massimo Chiaradia;Massimo Chiaradia;Dave Banks;Robert Cliff;Robert Marschik

  • How Accurately Can We Date the Duration of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Events in Porphyry Systems?

    Massimo Chiaradia;Urs Schaltegger;Richard Alan Spikings;Joern Frederik Wotzlaw

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Marzoli
Andrea Marzoli University of Padua
Richard Alan Spikings
Richard Alan Spikings University of Geneva
Lluis Fontboté
Lluis Fontboté University of Geneva
Robert Moritz
Robert Moritz University of Geneva
Fred Jourdan
Fred Jourdan Curtin University
Urs Schaltegger
Urs Schaltegger University of Geneva
Hervé Bertrand
Hervé Bertrand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Brian Gulson
Brian Gulson Macquarie University
Hadi Shafaii Moghadam
Hadi Shafaii Moghadam Karadeniz Technical University
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne

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