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Michael J. Branney is a researcher affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics, atmospheric science, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and astronomy and astrophysics as subfields. Their research covers a variety of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, earthquake detection and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, and seismology and earthquake studies.

Branney has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Discovery of two new super-eruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot track (USA): Is the Yellowstone hotspot waning? (2020), published in Geology
  • Deposit-Derived Block-and-Ash Flows: The Hazard Posed by Perched Temporary Tephra Accumulations on Volcanoes; 2018 Fuego Disaster, Guatemala (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Dynamics of a chemically pulsing mantle plume (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The upper Pleistocene (1.8-0.7 Ma) explosive eruptive history of Las Cañadas, ocean-island volcano, Tenerife (2023), published in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • The ad 79 Vesuvius eruption revisited: the pyroclastic density currents (2024), published in Journal of the Geological Society

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Jan Zalasiewicz
  • Gilda Risica
  • Mauro Rosi
  • Marco Pistolesi
  • Fabio Speranza

Michael J. Branney's work appears in publication venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Journal of the Geological Society

Branney has also authored a book titled Volcanoes: A Very Short Introduction (2020), published by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Pyroclastic density currents and the sedimentation of ignimbrites

    Michael J. Branney;Peter Kokelaar

  • Sustained high‐density turbidity currents and the deposition of thick massive sands

    Benjamin C. Kneller;Michael J. Branney

  • A reappraisal of ignimbrite emplacement: progressive aggradation and changes from particulate to non-particulate flow during emplacement of high-grade ignimbrite

    Michael J Branney;Peter Kokelaar

  • Downsag and extension at calderas: new perspectives on collapse geometries from ice-melt, mining, and volcanic subsidence

    Michael J. Branney

  • ‘Snake River (SR)-type’ volcanism at the Yellowstone hotspot track: distinctive products from unusual, high-temperature silicic super-eruptions

    M.J. Branney;B. Bonnichsen;G.D.M. Andrews;G.D.M. Andrews;B.S. Ellis

  • Volcanotectonic faulting, soft-state deformation, and rheomorphism of tuffs during development of a piecemeal caldera, English Lake District

    Michael J. Branney;Peter Kokelaar

  • Origin of accretionary lapilli within ground-hugging density currents: Evidence from pyroclastic couplets on Tenerife

    R.J. Brown;M.J. Branney;C. Maher;P. Dávila-Harris

  • The Bad Step Tuff: a lava-like rheomorphic ignimbrite in a calc-alkaline piecemeal caldera, English Lake District

    Michael J Branney;B Peter Kokelaar;Brian J McConnell

  • Event-stratigraphy of a caldera-forming ignimbrite eruption on Tenerife: the 273 ka Poris Formation

    Richard J. Brown;Michael J. Branney

  • Emplacement and rheomorphic deformation of a large, lava-like rhyolitic ignimbrite: Grey's Landing, southern Idaho

    Graham D.M. Andrews;Michael J. Branney

  • The Quaternary pyroclastic succession of southeast Tenerife, Canary Islands: Explosive eruptions, related caldera subsidence, and sector collapse

    R. J. Brown;T. L. Barry;M. J. Branney;M. S. Pringle

  • Giant bed from a sustained catastrophic density current flowing over topography: Acatlán ignimbrite, Mexico

    Michael J. Branney;Peter Kokelaar

  • Rhyolitic ignimbrites in the Rogerson Graben, southern Snake River Plain volcanic province: volcanic stratigraphy, eruption history and basin evolution

    Graham D. M. Andrews;Graham D. M. Andrews;Michael J. Branney;Bill Bonnichsen;Michael McCurry

  • The emplacement history of a remarkable heterogeneous, chemically zoned, rheomorphic and locally lava-like ignimbrite: 'TL' on Gran Canaria

    Janet M Sumner;Michael J Branney

  • High‐level peperitic sills in the English Lake District: Distinction from block lavas, and implications for borrowdale volcanic group stratigraphy

    Michael J. Branney;Roger J. Suthren

  • Ordovician volcano-tectonics in the English Lake District

    M. J. Branney;N. J. Soper

  • Sheathfolds in rheomorphic ignimbrites

    M.J. Branney;T.L. Barry;Martha Godchaux

  • Eruption and depositional facies of the Whorneyside Tuff Formation, English Lake District: An exceptionally large-magnitude phreatoplinian eruption

    Michael J. Branney

  • Fiamme formed by diagenesis and burial-compaction in soils and subaqeuous sediments

    M. J. Branney;R. S. J. Sparks

  • Petrologic constraints on the development of a large-volume, high temperature, silicic magma system: The Twin Falls eruptive centre, central Snake River Plain

    Ben S. Ellis;Tiffany Barry;Michael J. Branney;John A. Wolff

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Robert S. Coe
Robert S. Coe University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Storey
Michael Storey University of Copenhagen
Tiffany L. Barry
Tiffany L. Barry University of Leicester
Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez
Gerardo Carrasco-Núñez National Autonomous University of Mexico
Fabian B. Wadsworth
Fabian B. Wadsworth Durham University
Ben Kennedy
Ben Kennedy University of Canterbury
Yan Lavallée
Yan Lavallée Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rex N. Taylor
Rex N. Taylor University of Southampton
Martin R. Palmer
Martin R. Palmer University of Southampton

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