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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Richard E. Hanson is affiliated with Texas Christian University in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions across several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological Studies and Exploration, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Richard E. Hanson has published research in a number of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Geology
  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hanson include:

  • Integrating zircon trace-element geochemistry and high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology to resolve the timing and petrogenesis of the late Ediacaran-Cambrian Wichita igneous province, Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, USA (2020) - Geology
  • Congo-São Francisco craton in Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna (2024) - Precambrian Research
  • Miocene long-runout debris-avalanche deposits in the Eastern Pamir foreland basin record cataclasis and fragmentation mechanisms (2020) - Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Chronostratigraphic correlation of the volcanic 1.21 Ga Barby and Haiber Flats Formations in the Sinclair Supergroup of Namibia (2021) - Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • The Mutare-Fingeren dyke swarm: the enigma of the Kalahari Craton's exit from supercontinent Rodinia (2023) - Geological Society London Special Publications

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers over multiple projects. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Yvette D. Kuiper
  • Benjamin Magnin
  • Sandra S. Brake
  • V. E. Langenheim
  • Richard A. Schweickert

Richard E. Hanson is recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Their career reflects extensive engagement in research at the intersection of geological processes, geochemical techniques, stratigraphy, and tectonic investigations.

Best Publications

  • Proterozoic geochronology and tectonic evolution of southern Africa

    R. E. Hanson

  • Coeval Large-Scale Magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian Cratons During Rodinia Assembly

    Richard E. Hanson;James L. Crowley;Samuel A. Bowring;Jahandar Ramezani

  • Timing and structural expression of the Nevadan orogeny, Sierra Nevada, California

    Richard A. Schweickert;Nicholas L. Bogen;Gary H. Girty;Richard E. Hanson

  • Were aspects of Pan-African deformation linked to Iapetus opening?

    Anne Grunow;Richard Hanson;Terry Wilson

  • Paleoproterozoic intraplate magmatism and basin development on the Kaapvaal Craton: Age, paleomagnetism and geochemistry of ~1.93 to ~1.87 Ga post-Waterberg dolerites

    R.E. Hanson;W.A. Gose;J.L. Crowley;J. Ramezani

  • UPb zircon ages from the Hook granite massif and Mwembeshi dislocation: constraints on Pan-African deformation, plutonism, and transcurrent shearing in Central Zambia

    Richard E. Hanson;Melissa S. Wardlaw;Terry J. Wilson;Giddy Mwale

  • Geochronology of basement rocks in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics

    Steven J Singletary;Richard E Hanson;Mark W Martin;James L Crowley

  • Geologic evolution of the neoproterozoic Zambezi orogenic belt in Zambia

    Richard E. Hanson;Terry J. Wilson;Hubert Munyanyiwa

  • Large-scale rhyolite peperites (Jurassic, southern Chile)

    Richard E. Hanson;Terry J. Wilson

  • U-Pb zircon age for the Umkondo dolerites, eastern Zimbabwe: 1.1 Ga large igneous province in southern Africa–East Antarctica and possible Rodinia correlations

    Richard E. Hanson;Mark W. Martin;Samuel A. Bowring;Hubert Munyanyiwa

  • Gondwana assembly: The view from Southern Africa and East Gondwana

    T.J. Wilson;A.M. Grunow;R.E. Hanson

  • Mesoproterozoic intraplate magmatism in the Kalahari Craton:a review

    R. E. Hanson;R. E. Harmer;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;D. S. Bullen

  • Characterizing the U–Pb systematics of baddeleyite through chemical abrasion: application of multi-step digestion methods to baddeleyite geochronology

    Matthew Rioux;Samuel Bowring;Frank Dudás;Richard Hanson

  • Intraplate magmatism related to opening of the southern Iapetus Ocean: Cambrian Wichita igneous province in the Southern Oklahoma rift zone

    Richard E. Hanson;Robert E. Puckett;G. Randy Keller;Matthew E. Brueseke

  • Tectonic evolution of the Zambezi orogenic belt: geochronological, structural, and petrological constraints from northern Zimbabwe

    Ulysses S Hargrove;Richard E Hanson;Mark W Martin;Thomas G Blenkinsop

  • Coats Land crustal block, East Antarctica: A tectonic tracer for Laurentia?

    S.L. Loewy;I.W.D. Dalziel;S. Pisarevsky;S. Pisarevsky;S. Pisarevsky;J.N. Connelly

  • Processes of magma/wet sediment interaction in a large-scale Jurassic andesitic peperite complex, northern Sierra Nevada, California

    Richard E. Hanson;Ulysses S. Hargrove

  • Chilling and Brecciation of a Devonian Rhyolite Sill Intruded into Wet Sediments, Northern Sierra Nevada, California

    Richard E. Hanson;Richard A. Schweickert

  • Deformed batholiths in the Pan-African Zambezi belt, Zambia: Age and implications for regional Proterozoic tectonics

    Richard E. Hanson;Terry J. Wilson;Melissa S. Wardlaw

  • Quenching and hydroclastic disruption of andesitic to rhyolitic intrusions in a submarine island-arc sequence, northern Sierra Nevada, California

    Richard E. Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry Wilson
Terry Wilson The Ohio State University
Mark D. Schmitz
Mark D. Schmitz Boise State University
James L. Crowley
James L. Crowley Boise State University
Ian W. D. Dalziel
Ian W. D. Dalziel The University of Texas at Austin
David H. Cornell
David H. Cornell University of Gothenburg
David Evans
David Evans Yale University
Thomas G. Blenkinsop
Thomas G. Blenkinsop Cardiff University
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University

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