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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2003 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Michael Brown is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific expertise in geophysics, paleontology, artificial intelligence applications, geochemistry and petrology, and mechanics of materials.

Their work covers a range of main topics including geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and geologic mapping, laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, and plasma diagnostics and applications.

Recent publications by Michael Brown include the following:

  • "Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth," 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • "Evolution of geodynamics since the Archean: Significant change at the dawn of the Phanerozoic," 2020, Geology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Tim Johnson
  • Songjie Wang
  • Ross N. Mitchell
  • Christopher L. Kirkland
  • Lu Wang

Michael Brown has published regularly in several venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geology
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Throughout their career, they have received awards including:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020
  • Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association, 2003
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The generation, segregation, ascent and emplacement of granite magma: the migmatite-to-crustally-derived granite connection in thickened orogens

    Michael Brown

  • Metamorphic Conditions in Orogenic Belts: A Record of Secular Change

    M. Brown

  • Granite: From genesis to emplacement

    Michael Brown

  • Duality of thermal regimes is the distinctive characteristic of plate tectonics since the Neoarchean

    Michael Brown

  • Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;M. Brown;L.L. Perchuk;L.L. Perchuk

  • Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics

    Michael Brown;Tim Johnson

  • Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities

    Tim E. Johnson;Michael Brown;Boris J. P. Kaus;Boris J. P. Kaus;Jill A. VanTongeren

  • Shear-zone systems and melts: feedback relations and self-organization in orogenic belts

    Michael Brown;Gary S. Solar

  • Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction

    Tim E. Johnson;Michael Brown;Nicholas J. Gardiner;Christopher L. Kirkland

  • Crustal melting and melt extraction, ascent and emplacement in orogens: mechanisms and consequences

    Michael Brown

  • When the Continental Crust Melts

    Edward W. Sawyer;Bernardo Cesare;Michael Brown

  • Granite magma generation, ascent and emplacement within a transpressional orogen

    R. S. D’Lemos;M. Brown;R. A. Strachan

  • Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: A geodynamic modeling perspective

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;K. Stüwe;M. Brown

  • Granite ascent and emplacement during contractional deformation in convergent orogens

    Michael Brown;Gary S. Solar

  • Contrasting styles of Phanerozoic and Precambrian continental collision

    E. Sizova;T. Gerya;T. Gerya;M. Brown

  • P–T–t evolution of orogenic belts and the causes of regional metamorphism

    Michael Brown

  • Plate Tectonics and the Archean Earth

    Michael Brown;Tim Johnson;Tim Johnson;Nicholas J. Gardiner;Nicholas J. Gardiner

  • Melt segregation in migmatites

    Michael Brown;Yuri A. Averkin;Eileen L. McLellan;Edward W. Sawyer

  • Behaviour of zircon and monazite during crustal melting

    Chris Yakymchuk;Michael Brown

  • The contribution of metamorphic petrology to understanding lithosphere evolution and geodynamics

    Michael Brown

  • High-temperature Metamorphism and Crustal Anatexis

    J. R. Ashworth;M. Brown

  • Evolution and Differentiation of the Continental Crust

    Michael Brown;Tracy Rushmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim E. Johnson
Tim E. Johnson Curtin University
Philip M. Piccoli
Philip M. Piccoli University of Maryland, College Park
James M. Hagberg
James M. Hagberg University of Maryland, College Park
Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Robert E. Ferrell
Robert E. Ferrell University of Pittsburgh
Reinhardt A. Fuck
Reinhardt A. Fuck University of Brasília
Richard W. White
Richard W. White University of St Andrews
Edward W. Sawyer
Edward W. Sawyer Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Peter J. Treloar
Peter J. Treloar Kingston University
Richard A. Battye
Richard A. Battye University of Manchester

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