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Overview

Phil Shane is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including Accounting, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology.

The scientist's work has been published across several reputable venues. Frequent publication outlets include the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, the Journal of Petrology, the International Journal of Corporate Governance, Bulletin of Volcanology, and Lithos.

The main topics addressed in their research involve Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Phil Shane include Shane J. Cronin, Georg F. Zellmer, Malcolm Reid, Claudine H. Stirling, and May Sas.

The following are selected recent papers demonstrating the scope of their research activity:

  • Genesis of Recent Mafic Magmatism in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Insights into the Birth and Death of Very Large Volume Rhyolitic Systems? (2020, Journal of Petrology)
  • Mush, Melts and Metasediments: a History of Rhyolites from the Okataina Volcanic Centre, New Zealand, as Captured in Plagioclase (2021, Journal of Petrology)
  • Constraints on assembly of Tongariro and Ruapehu andesite magmas based on Sr-isotope compositions of plagioclase and groundmass (2021, Lithos)
  • Priming and eruption of andesite magmas at Taranaki volcano recorded in plagioclase phenocrysts (2023, Bulletin of Volcanology)
  • A History of Andesite Production via Magma Mixing and Mingling Revealed Microscopically at Ngauruhoe Volcano (2022, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)

Best Publications

  • Fingerprints and age models for widespread New Zealand tephra marker beds erupted since 30,000 years ago: a framework for NZ-INTIMATE

    David J. Lowe;Phil A.R. Shane;Brent V. Alloway;Rewi M. Newnham

  • Tephrochronology: a New Zealand case study

    Phil Shane

  • The INTAV intercomparison of electron-beam microanalysis of glass by tephrochronology laboratories: Results and recommendations

    Stephen C. Kuehn;Duane G. Froese;Phil A. R. Shane

  • All toba tephra occurrences across peninsular India belong to the 75,000 yr B.P. eruption

    John A. Westgate;Philip A. R. Shane;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;William T. Perkins

  • Trends in rhyolite geochemistry, mineralogy, and magma storage during the last 50 kyr at Okataina and Taupo volcanic centres, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Victoria C. Smith;Phil Shane;Ian A. Nairn

  • Re-anchoring the late Pleistocene tephrochronology of New Zealand based on concordant radiocarbon ages and combined 238U/230Th disequilibrium and (U–Th)/He zircon ages

    Martin Danišík;Martin Danišík;Phil A.R. Shane;Axel K. Schmitt;Alan G. Hogg

  • Eruption recurrence rates in a basaltic volcanic field based on tephra layers in maar sediments: Implications for hazards in the Auckland volcanic field

    Catherine Molloy;Philip Shane;Paul Augustinus

  • Sequential eruption of alkaline and sub-alkaline magmas from a small monogenetic volcano in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

    Andrew John Needham;J Lindsay;I E M Smith;P Augustinus

  • New Geochemical Evidence for the Youngest Toba Tuff in India

    Phil Shane;John Westgate;Martin Williams;Ravi Korisettar

  • Distal record of multi-sourced tephra in Onepoto Basin, Auckland, New Zealand: implications for volcanic chronology, frequency and hazards

    Phil Shane;Joy Hoverd

  • Warm storage for arc magmas

    Mélanie Barboni;Patrick Boehnke;Axel K Schmitt;T Mark Harrison

  • New occurrence of Youngest Toba Tuff in abyssal sediments of the Central Indian Basin

    J.N Pattan;Phil Shane;V.K Banakar

  • Upper-ocean-to-atmosphere radiocarbon offsets imply fast deglacial carbon dioxide release

    Kathryn A. Rose;Elisabeth L. Sikes;Thomas P. Guilderson;Thomas P. Guilderson;Phil Shane

  • Testing the reliability of ESR dating of optically exposed buried quartz sediments

    W.J. Rink;J. Bartoll;H.P. Schwarcz;P. Shane

  • Zircon trace element chemistry at sub-micrometer resolution for Tarawera volcano, New Zealand, and implications for rhyolite magma evolution

    Sonja Storm;Axel K. Schmitt;Phil Shane;Jan M. Lindsay

  • Dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation in basalts due to reactions with carbonic acid

    Shreya Kanakiya;Ludmila Adam;Lionel Esteban;Michael C. Rowe

  • A 28 000–6600 cal yr record of local and distal volcanism preserved in a paleolake, Auckland, New Zealand

    Anna Sandiford;Brent Alloway;Phil Shane

  • The application of laser ablation ICP-MS to the analysis of volcanic glass shards from tephra deposits : bulk glass and single shard analysis

    Nicholas J.G. Pearce;John A. Westgate;William T. Perkins;Warren J. Eastwood

  • Submarine silicic volcanism of the Healy caldera, southern Kermadec arc (SW Pacific): I – volcanology and eruption mechanisms

    Ian C. Wright;John A. Gamble;Phil A. R. Shane

  • Correlation of rhyolitic pyroclastic eruptive units from the Taupo volcanic zone by Fe-Ti oxide compositional data

    Phil Shane

  • Multiple rhyolite magmas and basalt injection in the 17.7 ka Rerewhakaaitu eruption episode from Tarawera volcanic complex, New Zealand

    Phil Shane;S.B. Martin;V.C. Smith;K.F. Beggs

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria C. Smith
Victoria C. Smith University of Oxford
Jan M. Lindsay
Jan M. Lindsay University of Auckland
Axel K. Schmitt
Axel K. Schmitt Curtin University
Georg F. Zellmer
Georg F. Zellmer University of Bonn
John A. Westgate
John A. Westgate University of Toronto
David J. Lowe
David J. Lowe University of Waikato
Scott L. Nichol
Scott L. Nichol Geoscience Australia
Brent Alloway
Brent Alloway University of Auckland
Jim Cole
Jim Cole University of Canterbury
Thomas P. Guilderson
Thomas P. Guilderson University of California, Santa Cruz

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