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D-Index
98
Citations
35352
World Ranking
150
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter B. Kelemen is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's work includes contributions to topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, and Drilling and Well Engineering.

Recent publications by Peter B. Kelemen include:

  • Engineered carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks for CO2 removal from air: Review and new insights (2020, Chemical Geology)
  • Deep continental roots and cratons (2021, Nature)
  • Ambient weathering of magnesium oxide for CO2 removal from air (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars (2022, Science)
  • Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars-implications for organic geochemistry (2022, Science)

Peter B. Kelemen frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • D.A.H. Teagle
  • Juerg Matter
  • Marguerite Godard
  • Juan Carlos de Obeso
  • J. A. Coggon

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Peter B. Kelemen has contributed to book publications including the "Proceedings of the Oman Drilling Project" (2020), which is part of the Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition reports.

Awards earned by Peter B. Kelemen include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry (2013)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2004)

Best Publications

  • One View of the Geochemistry of Subduction-Related Magmatic Arcs, with an Emphasis on Primitive Andesite and Lower Crust

    P.B. Kelemen;K. Hanghøj;A.R. Greene

  • Trace element chemistry of zircons from oceanic crust: A method for distinguishing detrital zircon provenance

    Craig B. Grimes;Barbara E. John;P.B. Kelemen;F.K. Mazdab

  • Extraction of mid-ocean-ridge basalt from the upwelling mantle by focused flow of melt in dunite channels

    Peter B. Kelemen;Nobumichi Shimizu;Vincent J. M. Salters

  • Formation of harzburgite by pervasive melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle

    Peter B. Kelemen;Henry J. B. Dick;James E. Quick

  • The role of H2O during crystallization of primitive arc magmas under uppermost mantle conditions and genesis of igneous pyroxenites: an experimental study

    Othmar Müntener;Peter B. Kelemen;Timothy L. Grove

  • Genesis of high Mg# andesites and the continental crust

    Peter B. Kelemen

  • In situ carbonation of peridotite for CO2 storage

    Peter B. Kelemen;Jürg Matter

  • Geochemistry and magmatic history of eclogites and ultramafic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drill hole: Subduction and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism of lower crustal cumulates

    Yongsheng Liu;Yongsheng Liu;Keqing Zong;Peter B. Kelemen;Shan Gao

  • A review of melt migration processes in the adiabatically upwelling mantle beneath oceanic spreading ridges

    P. B. Kelemen;G. Hirth;N. Shimizu;M. Spiegelman

  • Permanent storage of carbon dioxide in geological reservoirs by mineral carbonation

    Jürg M. Matter;Peter B. Kelemen

  • Reevaluating carbon fluxes in subduction zones, what goes down, mostly comes up.

    Peter B. Kelemen;Craig E. Manning

  • Reaction Between Ultramafic Rock and Fractionating Basaltic Magma I. Phase Relations, the Origin of Calc-alkaline Magma Series, and the Formation of Discordant Dunite

    Peter. B. Kelemen

  • Silica enrichment in the continental upper mantle via melt/rock reaction

    Peter B Kelemen;Stanley R Hart;Stefan Bernstein

  • Relative depletion of niobium in some arc magmas and the continental crust : partitioning of K, Nb, La, and Ce during melt/rock reaction in the upper mantle

    Peter B. Kelemen;Nobumichi Shimizu;Todd Dunn

  • On the conditions for lower crustal convective instability

    M. Jull;P. B. Kelemen

  • Differentiation of the continental crust by relamination

    Bradley R. Hacker;Peter B. Kelemen;Mark D. Behn

  • Crustal structure of the southeast Greenland margin from joint refraction and reflection seismic tomography

    J. Korenaga;W. S. Holbrook;G. M. Kent;P. B. Kelemen

  • An Overview of the Status and Challenges of CO2 Storage in Minerals and Geological Formations

    Peter Kelemen;Sally M. Benson;Hélène Pilorgé;Peter Psarras

  • Rates and mechanisms of mineral carbonation in peridotite: natural processes and recipes for enhanced, in situ CO2 capture and storage

    Peter B. Kelemen;Juerg Matter;Elisabeth E. Streit;John F. Rudge

  • Along‐Strike Variation in the Aleutian Island Arc: Genesis of High Mg# Andesite and Implications for Continental Crust

    Peter B. Kelemen;Gene M. Yogodzinski;David W. Scholl

  • High-field-strength element depletions in arc basalts due to mantle–magma interaction

    P. B. Kelemen;K. T. M. Johnson;R. J. Kinzler;A. J. Irving

  • Geochemistry of gabbro sills in the crust-mantle transition zone of the Oman ophiolite: implications for the origin of the oceanic lower crust

    Peter Kelemen;Kenneth Koga;Nobu Shimizu

Frequent Co-Authors

Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi
Katsuyoshi Michibayashi Nagoya University
Greg Hirth
Greg Hirth Brown University
Marguerite Godard
Marguerite Godard University of Montpellier
Mark D. Behn
Mark D. Behn Boston College
Craig E. Manning
Craig E. Manning University of California, Los Angeles
Bradley R. Hacker
Bradley R. Hacker University of California, Santa Barbara
Marc Spiegelman
Marc Spiegelman Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Kenneth W.W. Sims
Kenneth W.W. Sims University of Wyoming
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University

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