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83
Citations
20384
World Ranking
442
National Ranking
236

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1984 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1981 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1975 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter J. Wyllie is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their career reflects a sustained involvement in scientific research and scholarship.

Throughout their professional life, Peter J. Wyllie has been recognized with several honors. These include election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1981, appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1984, recognition as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1996, and distinction as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1975.

The available data does not list specific recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, book publications, or detailed fields and subfields of study. However, the documented awards indicate a career acknowledged by key scientific institutions.

The scientist's work is affiliated with notable academic and scientific communities, reflecting an established record within their field. The interaction with prominent scholarly societies highlights a long-term engagement with geophysical and earth sciences or related disciplines, as suggested by the fellowship with the AGU.

Best Publications

  • Dehydration-melting of amphibolite at 10 kbar: the effects of temperature and time

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  • Crustal anatexis: An experimental review

    Peter J. Wyllie

  • Magmas and volatile components

    Peter J. Wyllie

  • Partitioning of Cu, Sn, Mo, W, U, and Th between melt and aqueous fluid in the systems haplogranite-H2O−HCl and haplogranite-H2O−HF

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  • Melting of Gabbro (Quartz Eclogite) with Excess Water to 35 Kilobars, with Geological Applications

    I. B. Lambert;P. J. Wyllie

  • Carbonation and melting reactions in the system CaO–MgO–SiO2–CO2 at mantle pressures with geophysical and petrological applications

    Peter J. Wyllie;Wuu Liang Huang

  • Ultramafic and related rocks

    Peter J. Wyllie

  • The System CaO–CO2–H2O and the Origin of Carbonatites

    P. J. Wyllie;O. F. Tuttle

  • The formation of mantle phlogopite in subduction zone hybridization

    Peter J. Wyllie;Toshimori Sekine

  • The Habit of Apatite in Synthetic Systems and Igneous Rocks

    P. J. Wyllie;K. G. Cox;G. M. Biggar

  • Subduction zone melting of pelagic sediments constrained by melting experiments

    Geoff T. Nichols;Peter J. Wyllie;Charles R. Stern

  • Subsolidus and melting relationships for calcite, magnesite and the join CaCO3-MgCO3 36 kb

    Anthony J. Irving;Peter J. Wyllie

  • Petrologic history of the moon inferred from petrography, mineralogy, and petrogenesis of Apollo 11 rocks

    J. V. Smith;A. T. Anderson;R. C. Newton;E. J. Olsen

  • The origin of kimberlite

    Peter J. Wyllie

  • Role of fluids in transport and fractionation of uranium and thorium in magmatic processes

    Hans Keppler;Hans Keppler;Peter J. Wyllie

  • Melting of vapour-absent tonalite at 10 kbar to simulate dehydration–melting in the deep crust

    Michael J. Rutter;Peter J. Wyllie

  • Constraints imposed by experimental petrology on possible and impossible magma sources and products

    Peter John Wyllie

  • Amphibolite dehydration-melting: sorting out the solidus

    Peter J. Wyllie;Michael B. Wolf

  • Dehydration-melting of solid amphibolite at 10 kbar: Textural development, liquid interconnectivity and applications to the segregation of magmas

    M. B. Wolf;P. J. Wyllie

  • Experimental investigation of silicate systems containing two volatile components; Part 2, The effects of NH 3 and HF, in addition to H 2 O on the melting temperatures of albite and granite

    Peter John Wyllie;Orville Frank Tuttle

  • Peridotite, kimberlite, and carbonatite explained in the system CaO-MgO-SiO2-CO2

    Peter J. Wyllie;Wuu-Liang Huang

  • Mantle Fluid Compositions Buffered in Peridotite-CO_2-H_2O by Carbonates, Amphibole, and Phlogopite

    Peter J. Wyllie

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Stern
Charles R. Stern University of Colorado Boulder
Adrian P. Jones
Adrian P. Jones University College London
Joseph V. Smith
Joseph V. Smith University of Chicago
Michael B. Baker
Michael B. Baker California Institute of Technology
Edward M. Stolper
Edward M. Stolper California Institute of Technology
Youxue Zhang
Youxue Zhang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Allen K. Kennedy
Allen K. Kennedy Curtin University
Michael R. Carroll
Michael R. Carroll University of Camerino
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke University of Houston
George R. Helz
George R. Helz University of Maryland, College Park

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