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Richard A. Ketcham is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily advances the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. They have contributed extensively to related subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science.

The scope of their work covers a range of scientific topics. These include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Nuclear Materials and Radiation Effects

Their recent research contributions encompass several peer-reviewed papers published between 2020 and 2023, including:

  • (U-Th)/He chronology: Part 2. Considerations for evaluating, integrating, and interpreting conventional individual aliquot data (2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • The Complexity of Nonlinear Flow and non-Fickian Transport in Fractures Driven by Three-Dimensional Recirculation Zones (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
  • The along-track etching structure of fission tracks in apatite: Observations and implications (2020, Chemical Geology)
  • Chemical abrasion: the mechanics of zircon dissolution (2023, Geochronology)

Richard A. Ketcham has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors across their studies. Notable repeated collaborators include Daniel F. Stöckli, Peter W. Reiners, Peter K. Zeitler, David L. Shuster, and Brian K. Horton.

Their publications appear predominantly in specialized scientific venues, with prominent contributions to:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Geochronology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • Acquisition, optimization and interpretation of X-ray computed tomographic imagery: applications to the geosciences

    Richard A. Ketcham;William D. Carlson

  • Forward and Inverse Modeling of Low-Temperature Thermochronometry Data

    Richard A. Ketcham

  • Apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry using a radiation damage accumulation and annealing model

    Rebecca M. Flowers;Richard A. Ketcham;David L. Shuster;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: III. Extrapolation to geological time scales

    Richard A. Ketcham;Raymond A. Donelick;Raymond A. Donelick;William D. Carlson

  • Improved modeling of fission-track annealing in apatite

    Richard A. Ketcham;Andrew Carter;Raymond A. Donelick;Jocelyn Barbarand

  • Apatite Fission-Track Analysis

    Raymond A. Donelick;Paul B. O’Sullivan;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: I. Experimental results

    William D. Carlson;Raymond A. Donelick;Raymond A. Donelick;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Helium diffusion in natural zircon: radiation damage, anisotropy, and the interpretation of zircon (U-TH)/He thermochronology

    William R. Guenthner;Peter W. Reiners;Richard A. Ketcham;Lutz Nasdala

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics; II, Crystallographic orientation effects

    Raymond A. Donelick;Richard A. Ketcham;William D. Carlson

  • Computational methods for quantitative analysis of three-dimensional features in geological specimens

    Richard A. Ketcham

  • Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous

    Julia A. Clarke;Julia A. Clarke;Claudia Patricia Tambussi;Jorge Ignacio Noriega;Gregory M. Erickson;Gregory M. Erickson

  • Accounting for long alpha-particle stopping distances in (U–Th–Sm)/He geochronology: Refinement of the baseline case

    Richard A. Ketcham;Cécile Gautheron;Laurent Tassan-Got

  • AFTSolve: A program for multi-kinetic modeling of apatite fission-track data

    Richard A. Ketcham;Raymond A. Donelick;Margaret B. Donelick

  • Improved measurement of fission-track annealing in apatite using c-axis projection

    Richard A. Ketcham;Andrew Carter;Raymond A. Donelick;Jocelyn Barbarand

  • Three-dimensional quantitative textural analysis of metamorphic rocks using high-resolution computed X-ray tomography: Part I. Methods and techniques.

    C. Denison;W. D. Carlson;R. A. Ketcham

  • Three-dimensional grain fabric measurements using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography

    Richard A. Ketcham

  • Computational Tools for Low-Temperature Thermochronometer Interpretation

    Todd A. Ehlers;Tehmasp Chaudhri;Santosh Kumar;Chris W. Fuller

  • Modification of the Local Cubic Law of fracture flow for weak inertia, tortuosity, and roughness

    Linchun Wang;M. Bayani Cardenas;Donald T. Slottke;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Migration of Cenozoic deformation in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia interpreted from fission track results and structural relationships: Implications for petroleum systems

    Andrés Mora;Brian K. Horton;Andrés Mesa;Jorge Rubiano

  • Pore‐scale trapping of supercritical CO2 and the role of grain wettability and shape

    Kuldeep Chaudhary;M. Bayani Cardenas;William W. Wolfe;Jessica A. Maisano

  • Reproducibility of apatite fission-track length data and thermal history reconstruction

    Richard A. Ketcham;Raymond A. Donelick;Maria Laura Balestrieri;Massimiliano Zattin

Frequent Co-Authors

William D. Carlson
William D. Carlson The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Cécile Gautheron
Cécile Gautheron University of Paris-Saclay
Mauricio Parra
Mauricio Parra Universidade de São Paulo
Brian K. Horton
Brian K. Horton The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter Birkbeck, University of London
M. Bayani Cardenas
M. Bayani Cardenas The University of Texas at Austin
Lionel Wilson
Lionel Wilson Lancaster University
Nicholas A. Peppas
Nicholas A. Peppas The University of Texas at Austin

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