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2022

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Earth Science

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100
Citations
27010
World Ranking
139
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Matthew F. Thirlwall is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in fields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing.

Recent scholarly publications by Matthew F. Thirlwall include:

  • Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific Subduction Beneath SW Borneo: U-Pb Geochronology of the Schwaner Granitoids and the Pinoh Metamorphic Group (2020, Frontiers in Earth Science)
  • Spatially-Resolved Ca Isotopic and Trace Element Variations in Human Deciduous Teeth Record Diet and Physiological Change (2020, Environmental Archaeology)
  • Ages and character of igneous rocks of the Da Lat Zone in SE Vietnam and adjacent offshore regions (Cuu Long and Nam Con Son basins) (2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences)
  • Chemical characteristics of modern deep-sea metalliferous sediments in closed versus open basins, with emphasis on rare-earth elements and Nd isotopes (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Caledonian and Pre-Caledonian orogenic events in Shetland, Scotland: evidence from garnet Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd geochronology (2020, Geological Society London Special Publications)

Frequent co-authors associated with Matthew F. Thirlwall's work include:

  • H. Tim Breitfeld
  • Juliane Hennig-Breitfeld
  • Anna Bird
  • J.M. McArthur
  • Lorin Davies

The most common venues for publication are:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Environmental Archaeology
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geological Society London Special Publications

Best Publications

  • Petrogenetic evolution of late Cenozoic, post-collision volcanism in western Anatolia, Turkey

    E Aldanmaz;Julian A. Pearce;M.F Thirlwall;J.G Mitchell

  • Adakites without slab melting: High pressure differentiation of island arc magma, Mindanao, the Philippines

    Colin G. Macpherson;Scott T. Dreher;Matthew F. Thirlwall

  • Arsenic in groundwater: Testing pollution mechanisms for sedimentary aquifers in Bangladesh

    J. M. McArthur;P. Ravenscroft;S. Safiulla;M. F. Thirlwall

  • Long-term reproducibility of multicollector Sr and Nd isotope ratio analysis

    M.F. Thirlwall

  • High Field Strength Element Anomalies in Arc Lavas: Source or Process?

    M. F. Thirlwall;T. E. Smith;A. M. Graham;N. Theodorou

  • Paleoceanographic changes of the Late Pliensbachian-Early Toarcian interval: a possible link to the genesis of an Oceanic Anoxic Event

    T. R. Bailey;Yair Rosenthal;J. M. McArthur;B. van de Schootbrugge

  • Strontium isotope profile of the early Toarcian (Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event, the duration of ammonite biozones, and belemnite palaeotemperatures

    J.M. McArthur;D.T Donovan;M.F. Thirlwall;B.W. Fouke

  • Neogene–Quaternary magmatism and geodynamics in the Carpathian–Pannonian region: a synthesis

    Ioan Seghedi;Hilary Downes;Alexandru Szakács;Paul R.D. Mason

  • Cretaceous Basaltic Terranes in Western Colombia: Elemental, Chronological and Sr-Nd Isotopic Constraints on Petrogenesis

    Andrew Craig Kerr;G. F. Marriner;J. Tarney;A. Nivia

  • Multicollector ICP-MS analysis of Pb isotopes using a 207pb-204pb double spike demonstrates up to 400 ppm/amu systematic errors in Tl-normalization

    M.F Thirlwall

  • An assessment of mass discrimination in MC-ICPMS using Nd isotopes

    Derek Vance;Matthew Thirlwall

  • Interaction between Continental Lithosphere and the Iceland Plume—Sr-Nd-Pb Isotope Geochemistry of Tertiary Basalts, NE Greenland

    M. F. Thirlwall;B. G. J. Upton;C. Jenkins

  • Inter-laboratory and other errors in Pb isotope analyses investigated using a 207Pb–204Pb double spike

    M.F. Thirlwall

  • Petrogenesis of the Largest Intraplate Volcanic Field on the Arabian Plate (Jordan): a Mixed Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Source Activated by Lithospheric Extension

    Julia E. Shaw;Joel A. Baker;Martin A. Menzies;Matthew F. Thirlwall

  • Strontium isotopes in the investigation of early glass production: Byzantine and early islamic glass from the Near East

    Ian Charles Freestone;K.A. Leslie;M. Thirlwall;Y. Gorin-Rosen

  • Petrogenesis of Quaternary Intraplate Volcanism, Sana'a, Yemen: Implications for Plume-Lithosphere Interaction and Polybaric Melt Hybridization

    J.A. Baker;M.A. Menzies;M.F. Thirlwall;C.G. MacPherson

  • Franciscan subduction off to a slow start: evidence from high-precision Lu-Hf garnet ages on high grade-blocks

    Robert Anczkiewicz;Robert Anczkiewicz;John P. Platt;Matthew F. Thirlwall;John Wakabayashi

  • STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE ASMARI FORMATION (OLIGOCENE - LOWER MIOCENE), SW IRAN

    S. N. Ehrenberg;N. A. H. Pickard;G. V. Laursen;S. Monibi

  • Almandine garnet in calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the northern Pannonian Basin (eastern-central Europe): Geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications

    Sz Harangi;H. Downes;L. Kósa;C. S. Szabó

  • Multidynamic isotope ratio analysis using MC–ICP–MS and the causes of secular drift in Hf, Nd and Pb isotope ratios

    M.F. Thirlwall;R. Anczkiewicz;R. Anczkiewicz

  • Potassic volcanic rocks in NE China: Geochemical constraints on mantle source and magma genesis

    Ming Zhang;Paul Suddaby;Robert N. Thompson;Matthew F. Thirlwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilary Downes
Hilary Downes Birkbeck, University of London
John M. McArthur
John M. McArthur University College London
Martin Menzies
Martin Menzies Royal Holloway University of London
David Lowry
David Lowry Royal Holloway University of London
Bramley J. Murton
Bramley J. Murton National Oceanography Centre
Rex N. Taylor
Rex N. Taylor University of Southampton
Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University
Julian A. Pearce
Julian A. Pearce Cardiff University
Joel A. Baker
Joel A. Baker University of Washington
Folkmar Hauff
Folkmar Hauff GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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