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Neal J. McNaughton

Neal J. McNaughton

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Earth Science

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83
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19341
World Ranking
444
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36

Overview

Neal J. McNaughton is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Geochemistry and Petrology, Molecular Biology, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of geological and geochemical areas, including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Mineralogy and Gemology Studies

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Birthplace of the São Francisco Craton, Brazil: Evidence from 3.60 to 3.64 Ga Gneisses of the Mairi Gneiss Complex (2020) published in Terra Nova
  • Rutile as a pathfinder for metals exploration (2020) published in Ore Geology Reviews
  • Geology and geochronology of the Archean plutonic rocks in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (2021) published in Precambrian Research
  • The 4D evolution of the Teutonic Bore Camp VHMS deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia (2020) published in Ore Geology Reviews
  • Petrogenesis of Meso-Neoarchean granitoids from the Chitradurga Greenstone Belt: Implications on crustal growth and reworking of the Dharwar Craton, southern India (2022) published in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Neal J. McNaughton include Svetlana Tessalina, Cristina Talavera, Noreen J. Evans, Bradley J. McDonald, and J.M. Kabete.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Terra Nova

Best Publications

  • First evidence of >3.2 Ga continental crust in the Yangtze craton of south China and its implications for Archean crustal evolution and Phanerozoic tectonics

    Yumin M. Qiu;Shan Gao;Neal J. McNaughton;David I. Groves

  • A New Understanding of the Provinces of the Amazon Craton Based on Integration of Field Mapping and U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology

    João Orestes Schneider Santos;Léo Afraneo Hartmann;Henri Eugene Gaudette;David Ian Groves

  • West African provenance for Saxo-Thuringia (Bohemian Massif): Did Armorica ever leave pre-Pangean Gondwana? – U/Pb-SHRIMP zircon evidence and the Nd-isotopic record

    Ulf Linnemann;Neal J. McNaughton;Rolf L. Romer;Michael Gehmlich

  • Constraints on crustal evolution and gold metallogeny in the Northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, China, from SHRIMP U–Pb zircon studies of granitoids

    L.G. Wang;Y.M. Qiu;Neal Mcnaughton;David Groves

  • Nature, age, and tectonic setting of granitoid-hosted, orogenic gold deposits of the Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern North China craton, China

    Yumin Qiu;David I. Groves;Neal J. McNaughton;Liang-gen Wang

  • The neoproterozoic Mantiqueira Province and its African connections: a zircon-based U-Pb geochronologic subdivision for the Brasiliano/Pan-African systems of orogens

    Luiz Carlos da Silva;Neal J. McNaughton;Richard Armstrong;Léo Afraneo Hartmann

  • Record of emergent continental crust ∼3.5 billion years ago in the Pilbara craton of Australia

    Roger Buick;J. R. Thornett;N. J. McNaughton;J. B. Smith

  • 1.6 Ga U-Pb zircon age for the Chorhat Sandstone, lower Vindhyan, India: Possible implications for early evolution of animals

    Birger Rasmussen;Pradip K. Bose;Subir Sarkar;Santanu Banerjee

  • The Sholl Shear Zone, West Pilbara: evidence for a domain boundary structure from integrated tectonostratigraphic analyses, SHRIMP UPb dating and isotopic and geochemical data of granitoids

    J.B. Smith;Mark Barley;David Groves;B. Krapez

  • Advances in SHRIMP geochronology and their impact on understanding the tectonic and metallogenic evolution of southern Brazil

    L.A. Hartmann;J.A.D. Leite;L.C. Da Silva;M.V.D. Remus

  • Age and autochthonous evolution of the Sunsás Orogen in West Amazon Craton based on mapping and U–Pb geochronology

    J.O.S. Santos;G.J. Rizzotto;P.E. Potter;N.J. McNaughton

  • Early Archean crust in Bastar Craton, Central India—a geochemical and isotopic study

    G. Sarkar;F. Corfu;D.K. Paul;N.J. McNaughton

  • Pre-Variscan geological events in the Austrian part of the Bohemian Massif deduced from U-Pb zircon ages

    Gertrude Friedl;Fritz Finger;Jean-Louis Paquette;Albrecht von Quadt

  • Archean-Proterozoic Evolution of Indian Charnockites: Isotopic and Geochemical Evidence from Granulites of the Eastern Ghats Belt

    D. K. Paul;T. Ray Barman;N. J. McNaughton;I. R. Fletcher

  • Deducing the ancestry of terranes: SHRIMP evidence for South America–derived Gondwana fragments in central Europe

    Gertrude Friedl;Fritz Finger;Neal J. McNaughton;Ian R. Fletcher

  • Age, source, and regional stratigraphy of the Roraima Supergroup and Roraima-like outliers in northern South America based on U-Pb geochronology

    João Orestes Schneider Santos;Paul Edwin Potter;Nélson Joaquim Reis;Léo Afraneo Hartmann

  • Petrogenesis of the Bunbury Basalt, Western Australia: interaction between the Kerguelen plume and Gondwana lithosphere?

    Frederick A. Frey;Neal J. McNaughton;David R. Nelson;John R. deLaeter

  • Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old.

    Birger Rasmussen;Stefan Bengtson;Ian R. Fletcher;Neal J. McNaughton

  • Geology and SHRIMP U-Pb Geochronology of the Igarapé Bahia Deposit, Carajás Copper-Gold Belt, Brazil: An Archean (2.57 Ga) Example of Iron-Oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE) Mineralization

    Fernando H. B. Tallarico;Bernardino R. Figueiredo;David I. Groves;Natalie Kositcin

  • Dating low-grade metamorphic events by SHRIMP U-Pb analysis of monazite in shales

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Neal J. McNaughton

  • Provenance and age delimitation of Quadrilátero Ferrífero sandstones based on zircon U-Pb isotopes

    Leo Afraneo Hartmann;Issamu Endo;Marcos Tadeu de Freitas Suita;João Orestes Schneider Santos

Frequent Co-Authors

David I. Groves
David I. Groves University of Western Australia
Ian R. Fletcher
Ian R. Fletcher Curtin University
Léo Afraneo Hartmann
Léo Afraneo Hartmann Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
João Orestes Schneider Santos
João Orestes Schneider Santos University of Western Australia
Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen University of Western Australia
Ian R. Fletcher
Ian R. Fletcher Curtin University
Elson P. Oliveira
Elson P. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Mark Barley
Mark Barley University of Western Australia
Anthony E. Fallick
Anthony E. Fallick University of Glasgow
Bryan Krapež
Bryan Krapež Guilin University of Technology

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