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Richard A. Stern

Richard A. Stern

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Earth Science

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56
Citations
11011
World Ranking
2425
National Ranking
115

Overview

Richard A. Stern is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly contributions span several specialized subfields, including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research engages with multiple main topics, among which are Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Richard A. Stern include:

  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Thomas Stachel
  • Jeff W. Harris
  • Matthew F. Hardman
  • Fabrizio Nestola

This researcher has published repeatedly in several venues. Prominent among these are:

  • Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Lithos
  • Precambrian Research
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard A. Stern include:

  • The formation of Neoarchean continental crust in the south-east Superior Craton by two distinct geodynamic processes (2021, Precambrian Research)
  • Oxidized sulfur-rich arc magmas formed porphyry Cu deposits by 1.88 Ga (2021, Nature Communications)
  • The lithospheric-to-lower-mantle carbon cycle recorded in superdeep diamonds (2020, Nature)
  • Deep carbon through time: Earth's diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • The age and origin of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) as constrained by zircon U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry, and O-Hf isotopes (2022, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Archean High-Mg Granodiorite: A Derivative of Light Rare Earth Element-enriched Monzodiorite of Mantle Origin

    Richard A. Stern;Gilbert N. Hanson

  • Measurement of SIMS Instrumental Mass Fractionation of Pb Isotopes During Zircon Dating

    Richard A. Stern;Richard A. Stern;Richard A. Stern;Simon Bodorkos;Sandra L. Kamo;Arthur H. Hickman

  • The GSC Sensitive High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP): analytical techniques of zircon U-Th-Pb age determinations and performance evaluation

    R A Stern

  • Assessment of errors in SIMS zircon U-Pb geochronology using a natural zircon standard and NIST SRM 610 glass

    Richard A Stern;Yuri Amelin

  • U–Pb geochronology of Riphean sandstone and gabbro from southeast Siberia and its bearing on the Laurentia–Siberia connection

    Robert H Rainbird;Richard A Stern;Andrei K Khudoley;Anatoly P Kropachev

  • Petrogenesis of mantle-derived, LILE-enriched Archean monzodiorites and trachyandesites (sanukitoids) in southwestern Superior Province: Reply

    Richard A. Stern;Gilbert N. Hanson;Steven B. Shirey

  • Incomplete retention of radiation damage in zircon from Sri Lanka

    Lutz Nasdala;Peter W. Reiners;John I. Garver;Allen K. Kennedy

  • Earth’s earliest evolved crust generated in an Iceland-like setting

    Jesse R. Reimink;Thomas Chacko;Richard A. Stern;Larry M. Heaman

  • Sedimentary evolution of the Riphean–Vendian basin of southeastern Siberia

    A.K Khudoley;R.H Rainbird;R.A Stern;A.P Kropachev

  • Intraoceanic tectonics and the development of continental crust: 1.92-1.84 Ga evolution of the Flin Flon Belt, Canada

    S. B. Lucas;R. A. Stern;E. C. Syme;B. A. Reilly

  • Paleoproterozoic (1.90–1.86 Ga) arc volcanism in the Flin Flon Belt, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada

    Richard A. Stern;Eric C. Syme;Alan H. Bailes;Stephen B. Lucas

  • Monazite U-Pb and Th-Pb geochronology by ion microprobe, with an application to in situ dating of an Archean metasedimentary rock

    Richard A Stern;Robert G Berman

  • Age of the World's Oldest Rocks Refined Using Canada's SHRIMP: The Acasta Gneiss Complex, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Richard A. Stern;Wouter Bleeker

  • Grain-scale variations in trace element composition of fluid-altered zircon, Acasta Gneiss Complex, northwestern Canada

    N. Rayner;R. A. Stern;S. D. Carr

  • Kisseynew metasedimentary gneiss belt, Trans-Hudson orogen (Canada): Back-arc origin and collisional inversion

    Kevin M. Ansdell;Stephen B. Lucas;Karen Connors;Richard A. Stern

  • The role of Indian and Tibetan lithosphere in spatial distribution of Cenozoic magmatism and porphyry Cu–Mo deposits in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet

    Rui Wang;Jeremy P. Richards;Li-min Zhou;Zeng-qian Hou

  • Rapid heterogeneous assembly of multiple magma reservoirs prior to Yellowstone supereruptions

    Joern Frederik Wotzlaw;Joern Frederik Wotzlaw;Ilya N. Bindeman;Richard A. Stern;Francois-Xavier D'Abzac

  • Geochemistry of 1.9 Ga MORB- and OIB-like basalts from the Amisk collage, Flin Flon Belt, Canada: Evidence for an intra-oceanic origin

    Richard A. Stern;Eric C. Syme;Stephen B. Lucas

  • Minto block, Superior province: Missing link in deciphering assembly of the craton at 2.7 Ga

    J. A. Percival;R. A. Stern;T. Skulski;K. D. Card

  • TECTONOMETAMORPHISM AT ca. 2.35 AND 1.85 Ga IN THE RAE DOMAIN, WESTERN CHURCHILL PROVINCE, NUNAVUT, CANADA: INSIGHTS FROM STRUCTURAL, METAMORPHIC AND IN SITU GEOCHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN COMMITTEE BAY BELT

    Robert G. Berman;Mary Sanborn-Barrie;Richard A. Stern;Chris J. Carson

  • No evidence for Hadean continental crust within Earth’s oldest evolved rock unit

    J. R. Reimink;J. R. Reimink;Joshua Davies;T. Chacko;R. A. Stern

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Stachel
Thomas Stachel University of Alberta
Larry M. Heaman
Larry M. Heaman University of Alberta
D.G. Pearson
D.G. Pearson University of Alberta
Thomas Chacko
Thomas Chacko University of Alberta
Steven B. Shirey
Steven B. Shirey Carnegie Institution for Science
Jeff W. Harris
Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow
Dorrit E. Jacob
Dorrit E. Jacob Macquarie University
Ilya N. Bindeman
Ilya N. Bindeman University of Oregon
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University

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