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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter E. van Keken is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses extensively on geophysics and involves significant contributions to artificial intelligence, geology, mechanics of materials, and computational mechanics within this broader discipline.

The scientist's research covers various specialized topics including:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Peter E. van Keken has published extensively, with notable recent papers as follows:

  • "Slab Transport of Fluids to Deep Focus Earthquake Depths-Thermal Modeling Constraints and Evidence From Diamonds," 2021, AGU Advances
  • "Deep decoupling in subduction zones: Observations and temperature limits," 2020, Geosphere
  • "Subducted oceanic crust as the origin of seismically slow lower-mantle structures," 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • "Burying Earth's Primitive Mantle in the Slab Graveyard," 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: III-Comparison between models and observations," 2023, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • C. R. Wilson
  • Nathan Sime
  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Steven B. Shirey
  • L. S. Wagner

Publications by Peter E. van Keken are often found in these venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Recognition of their scientific work includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The global range of subduction zone thermal models

    Ellen M. Syracuse;Peter E. van Keken;Geoffrey A. Abers

  • Subduction factory: 4. Depth-dependent flux of H2O from subducting slabs worldwide

    Peter E. van Keken;Bradley R. Hacker;Ellen M. Syracuse;Geoff A. Abers

  • High‐resolution models of subduction zones: Implications for mineral dehydration reactions and the transport of water into the deep mantle

    Peter E. van Keken;Boris Kiefer;Simon M. Peacock

  • B-type olivine fabric in the mantle wedge: Insights from high-resolution non-Newtonian subduction zone models

    Erik A. Kneller;Peter E. van Keken;Shun-ichiro Karato;Jeffrey Park

  • MANTLE MIXING: The Generation, Preservation, and Destruction of Chemical Heterogeneity

    Peter E. van Keken;Erik H. Hauri;Chris J. Ballentine

  • A comparison of methods for the modeling of thermochemical convection

    P. E. van Keken;S. D. King;H. Schmeling;U. R. Christensen

  • The thermal structure of subduction zones constrained by seismic imaging: Implications for slab dehydration and wedge flow

    Geoffrey A. Abers;Peter E. van Keken;Erik A. Kneller;Aaron Ferris

  • Middle Archean continent formation by crustal delamination

    Tanja E. Zegers;Peter E. van Keken

  • Seismic imaging of subduction zone metamorphism

    Stéphane Rondenay;Geoffrey A. Abers;Peter E. van Keken

  • The structure and dynamics of the mantle wedge

    Peter E van Keken

  • A community benchmark for subduction zone modeling

    Peter E. van Keken;Claire Currie;Scott D. King;Mark D. Behn

  • Fluid flow in subduction zones: The role of solid rheology and compaction pressure

    Cian R. Wilson;Marc Spiegelman;Marc Spiegelman;Peter E. van Keken;Bradley R. Hacker

  • Thermal structure of the Costa Rica – Nicaragua subduction zone

    Simon M. Peacock;Peter E. van Keken;Stephen D. Holloway;Bradley R. Hacker

  • Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth's lower mantle by solid-state convection

    Allen K. McNamara;Peter E. Van Keken;Shun Ichiro Karato

  • The cold and relatively dry nature of mantle forearcs in subduction zones

    G. A. Abers;P. E. van Keken;B. R. Hacker

  • Thermal–petrological controls on the location of earthquakes within subducting plates

    Geoffrey A. Abers;Junichi Nakajima;Peter E. van Keken;Saeko Kita

  • Origin of cross‐chain geochemical variation in Quaternary lavas from the northern Izu arc: Using a quantitative mass balance approach to identify mantle sources and mantle wedge processes

    Jun Ichi Kimura;Adam J R Kent;Michael C. Rowe;Michael C. Rowe;Maiko Katakuse

  • Effect of three‐dimensional slab geometry on deformation in the mantle wedge: Implications for shear wave anisotropy

    Erik A. Kneller;Peter E. van Keken

  • Whole-mantle versus layered mantle convection and the role of a high-viscosity lower mantle in terrestrial volatile evolution

    Peter E. van Keken;Chris J. Ballentine

  • Trench-parallel flow and seismic anisotropy in the Mariana and Andean subduction systems

    Erik A. Kneller;Peter E. van Keken

  • The effects of a composite non-Newtonian and Newtonian rheology on mantle convection

    Arie P. van den Berg;Peter E. van Keken;David A. Yuen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun-Ichi Kimura
Jun-Ichi Kimura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Bradley R. Hacker
Bradley R. Hacker University of California, Santa Barbara
James B. Gill
James B. Gill University of California, Santa Cruz
Chris J. Ballentine
Chris J. Ballentine University of Oxford
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen Columbia University
Geoffrey A. Abers
Geoffrey A. Abers Cornell University
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott D. King
Scott D. King Virginia Tech
Allen K. McNamara
Allen K. McNamara Michigan State University
Shun-ichiro Karato
Shun-ichiro Karato Yale University

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