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Paul J. Tackley

Paul J. Tackley

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
76
Citations
17238
World Ranking
685
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Paul J. Tackley is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to Physics and Astronomy. Their work focuses extensively on geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their research encompass geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, planetary science and exploration, earthquake and tectonic studies, astro and planetary science, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

The scientist has published numerous papers in several frequent venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Icarus
  • Solid Earth
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul J. Tackley include:

  • Plutonic-Squishy Lid: A New Global Tectonic Regime Generated by Intrusive Magmatism on Earth-Like Planets, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • The evolution and distribution of recycled oceanic crust in the Earth's mantle: Insight from geodynamic models, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • MANTLE CONVECTION AND THE THERMAL EVOLUTION OF VENUS, 2022, University of Arizona Press eBooks
  • The influence of bulk composition on the long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets, 2020, Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Dry late accretion inferred from Venus's coupled atmosphere and internal evolution, 2020, Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors working with Paul J. Tackley are:

  • Maxim Ballmer
  • Antoine Rozel
  • Diogo L. Lourenço
  • Gregor Golabek
  • Jiacheng Tian

Throughout their career, they have contributed to the fields of Earth and planetary sciences by exploring processes such as mantle convection, tectonic regimes, and planetary interior evolution. Their interdisciplinary work integrates geodynamics with atmospheric and material sciences.

Paul J. Tackley has been recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea since 2020 and was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Effects of an endothermic phase transition at 670 km depth in a spherical model of convection in the Earth's mantle

    Paul J. Tackley;David J. Stevenson;Gary A. Glatzmaier;Gerald Schubert

  • Mantle Convection and Plate Tectonics: Toward an Integrated Physical and Chemical Theory

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in time-dependent, three-dimensional mantle convection simulations

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Can we constrain the interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements

    Caroline Dorn;Amir Khan;Kevin Heng;James A. D. Connolly

  • A comparison of numerical surface topography calculations in geodynamic modelling: an evaluation of the ‘sticky air’ method

    F. Crameri;H. Schmeling;G.J. Golabek;G.J. Golabek;T. Duretz

  • Modelling compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid

    Paul J. Tackley

  • A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth's lowermost mantle

    John W. Hernlund;Christine Thomas;Paul J. Tackley

  • Effects of strongly variable viscosity on three-dimensional compressible convection in planetary mantles

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Three‐Dimensional Simulations of Mantle Convection with a Thermo‐Chemical Basal Boundary Layer: D″?

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Effects of multiple phase transitions in a three-dimensional spherical model of convection in Earth's mantle

    Paul J. Tackley;David J. Stevenson;Gary A. Glatzmaier;Gerald Schubert

  • Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in time-dependent, three-dimensional mantle convection simulations 2. Strain weakening and asthenosphere

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Self-consistent generation of tectonic plates in three-dimensional mantle convection

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Can we constrain interior structure of rocky exoplanets from mass and radius measurements

    Caroline Dorn;Amir Khan;Kevin Heng;Yann Alibert

  • Testing the tracer ratio method for modeling active compositional fields in mantle convection simulations

    Paul J. Tackley;Scott D. King

  • Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism

    A. B. Rozel;Gregor J. Golabek;C. Jain;Paul J. Tackley

  • Simulating the thermochemical magmatic and tectonic evolution of Venus's mantle and lithosphere: Two-dimensional models

    Marina Armann;Paul J. Tackley

  • Superplumes or plume clusters

    G Schubert;G Masters;P Olson;P Tackley

  • Strong heterogeneity caused by deep mantle layering

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Effects of strongly temperature‐dependent viscosity on time‐dependent, three‐dimensional models of mantle convection

    Paul J. Tackley

  • Plate tectonics on super-Earths: Equally or more likely than on Earth

    H.J. van Heck;P.J. Tackley

  • A free plate surface and weak oceanic crust produce single-sided subduction on Earth

    F. Crameri;P. J. Tackley;I. Meilick;T. V. Gerya

Frequent Co-Authors

Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Frédéric Deschamps
Frédéric Deschamps Academia Sinica
Nicolas Coltice
Nicolas Coltice École Normale Supérieure
Boris J. P. Kaus
Boris J. P. Kaus Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Sean N. Raymond
Sean N. Raymond University of Bordeaux
Gerald Schubert
Gerald Schubert University of California, Los Angeles
Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Garrett Ito
Garrett Ito University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dave A. May
Dave A. May University of Oxford

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