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Paterno R. Castillo is affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics, environmental chemistry, ocean engineering, geochemistry and petrology, and artificial intelligence. The scientist's work encompasses a wide range of specialized topics including geological and geochemical analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

The scientist has contributed numerous publications to several venues, with a notable number appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Chemical Geology, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Lithos.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paterno R. Castillo include:

  • An iron isotope perspective on back-arc basin development: Messages from Mariana Trough basalts (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Mid-Cretaceous Wake seamounts in NW Pacific originate from secondary mantle plumes with Arago hotspot composition (2021, Chemical Geology)
  • Long-lived low Th/U Pacific-type isotopic mantle domain: Constraints from Nd and Pb isotopes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean mantle (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • The geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic ratios of high 3He/4He Afar and MER basalts indicate a significant role of the African Superplume in EARS magmatism (2020, Lithos)
  • Co-Occurrence of HIMU and EM1 Components in a Single Magellan Seamount: Implications for the Formation of West Pacific Seamount Province (2022, Journal of Petrology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paterno R. Castillo include Gilbert Camoin, Yasufumi Iryu, David McInroy, Ryuji Asami, and Hendrik Braaksma.

Best Publications

  • Petrology and geochemistry of Camiguin Island, southern Philippines: insights to the source of adakites and other lavas in a complex arc setting

    Paterno R. Castillo;Philip E. Janney;Renato U. Solidum

  • An overview of adakite petrogenesis

    Paterno R. Castillo

  • Trace element behavior in hydrothermal experiments: Implications for fluid processes at shallow depths in subduction zones

    C.-F. You;P.R. Castillo;J.M. Gieskes;L.H. Chan

  • Geochemical and Nd–Pb isotopic characteristics of the Tethyan asthenosphere: implications for the origin of the Indian Ocean mantle domain

    Ji-Feng Xu;Ji-Feng Xu;Paterno R. Castillo

  • Evidence for Extreme Climatic Warmth from Late Cretaceous Arctic Vertebrates

    J. A. Tarduno;D. B. Brinkman;P. R. Renne;R. D. Cottrell

  • Origin of the adakite–high-Nb basalt association and its implications for postsubduction magmatism in Baja California, Mexico

    Paterno R. Castillo

  • Extreme 3He/4He ratios in northwest Iceland: constraining the common component in mantle plumes

    David R. Hilton;Karl Grönvold;Colin G. Macpherson;Paterno R. Castillo

  • Geochemistry of late Paleozoic mafic igneous rocks from the Kuerti area, Xinjiang, northwest China: implications for backarc mantle evolution

    Ji-Feng Xu;Ji-Feng Xu;Paterno R Castillo;Fan-Rong Chen;He-Cai Niu

  • The late Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective

    Quanshu Yan;Xuefa Shi;Paterno R. Castillo

  • MORB-type rocks from the Paleo-Tethyan Mian-Lueyang northern ophiolite in the Qinling Mountains, central China: implications for the source of the low 206Pb/204Pb and high 143Nd/144Nd mantle component in the Indian Ocean

    Ji-feng Xu;Ji-feng Xu;Paterno R. Castillo;Xian-hua Li;Xue-yuan Yu

  • Origin of high field strength element enrichment in volcanic arcs: Geochemical evidence from the Sulu Arc, southern Philippines

    P.R. Castillo;S.J. Rigby;R.U. Solidum

  • Pin-pricking the elephant: Evidence on the origin of the Ontong Java Plateau from Pb-Sr-Hf-Nd isotopic characteristics of ODP Leg 192 basalts

    Maria Luisa Tejada;John Mahoney;Paterno Castillo;Stéphanie Ingle;Stéphanie Ingle

  • The recycling of marine carbonates and sources of HIMU and FOZO ocean island basalts

    Paterno R. Castillo

  • Origin of high field strength element enrichment in the Sulu Arc, southern Philippines, revisited

    P.R. Castillo;R.U. Solidum;R.S. Punongbayan

  • Major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotope signatures of lavas from the Central Lau Basin: Implications for the nature and influence of subduction components in the back-arc mantle

    Liyan Tian;Paterno R. Castillo;James W. Hawkins;David R. Hilton

  • Geochemical Constraints on Possible Subduction Components in Lavas of Mayon and Taal Volcanoes, Southern Luzon, Philippines

    P. R. Castillo;Christopher G Newhall

  • Anomalously young volcanoes on old hot-spot traces: I. Geology and petrology of Cocos Island

    P. Castillo;R. Batiza;D. Vanko;E. Malavassi;E. Malavassi

  • Petrology and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope geochemistry of mid‐ocean ridge basalt glasses from the 11°45′N to 15°00′N segment of the East Pacific Rise

    P. R. Castillo;P. R. Castillo;E. Klein;J. Bender;C. Langmuir

  • Geochemistry of Mesozoic Pacific mid-ocean ridge basalt: Constraints on melt generation and the evolution of the Pacific upper mantle

    Philip E. Janney;Paterno R. Castillo

  • 22. LOW-TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF JURASSIC OCEAN CRUST, SITE 801

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Christian France-Lanord;P. A. Floyd;Paterno Castillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ji-Feng Xu
Ji-Feng Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter A. Floyd
Peter A. Floyd Keele University
David R. Hilton
David R. Hilton University of California, San Diego
Rodey Batiza
Rodey Batiza University of Hawaii at Manoa
Peter Lonsdale
Peter Lonsdale University of California, San Diego
Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
James W. Hawkins
James W. Hawkins Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jeffrey C. Alt
Jeffrey C. Alt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David A. Clague
David A. Clague Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Colin G. Macpherson
Colin G. Macpherson Durham University

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