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Richard L. Hervig is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within physics, astronomy, and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on astro and planetary science as well as geological and geochemical analysis.

Hervig has contributed to the following main fields of study:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work covers several subfields, including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Geophysics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Ecology

The primary topics in Hervig's research include:

  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on planetary science and geochemical processes, including:

  • Diffusion anisotropy of Ti in zircon and implications for Ti-in-zircon thermometry (2021), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • A deuterium-poor water reservoir in the asteroid 4 Vesta and the inner solar system (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Uniform initial 10Be/9Be inferred from refractory inclusions in CV3, CO3, CR2, and CH/CB chondrites (2022), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Magnesium isotopes of the bulk solar wind from Genesis diamond-like carbon films (2020), published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Cooperative formation of porous silica and peptides on the prebiotic Earth (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent coauthors in Hervig's work include:

  • Maitrayee Bose
  • M. Wadhwa
  • A. J. G. Jurewicz
  • K. D. Rieck
  • C. T. Olinger

Hervig publishes regularly in several scientific venues, with a concentration in:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Best Publications

  • Trace element partitioning between amphibole, phlogopite, and basanite melt

    Tom LaTourrette;Richard L. Hervig;John R. Holloway

  • Unifying natural and laboratory chemical weathering with interfacial dissolution–reprecipitation: A study based on the nanometer-scale chemistry of fluid–silicate interfaces

    Roland Hellmann;Richard Wirth;Damien Daval;Jean-Paul Barnes

  • Explosive basaltic volcanism from Cerro Negro volcano: Influence of volatiles on eruptive style

    Kurt Roggensack;Richard L. Hervig;Steven B. McKnight;Stanley N. Williams

  • Partitioning of Ru, Rh, Pd, Re, Ir, and Au between Cr-bearing spinel, olivine, pyroxene and silicate melts

    K. Righter;A. J. Campbell;M. Humayun;Richard Hervig

  • Analytical methods for volatiles in glasses

    Phillip D. Ihinger;Richard L. Hervig;Paul F. McMillan

  • Melt-vapor solubilities and elemental partitioning in peraluminous granite-pegmatite systems: experimental results with Macusani glass at 200 MPa

    David London;David London;Richard L. Hervig;Richard L. Hervig;George B. Morgan;George B. Morgan

  • Partitioning of lithophile trace elements between H 2 O and H 2 O + CO 2 fluids and topaz rhyolite melt

    J. D. Webster;J. R. Holloway;Richard Hervig

  • The pressure and temperature dependence of carbon dioxide solubility in tholeiitic basalt melts

    Vivian Pan;John R. Holloway;Richard L. Hervig

  • High-resolution 23Na, 27Al and 29Si NMR spectroscopy of framework Aluminosilicate glasses

    Richard Oestrike;Wang hong Yang;R. James Kirkpatrick;Richard L. Hervig

  • Isotopic and elemental partitioning of boron between hydrous fluid and silicate melt

    Richard L. Hervig;Gordon M. Moore;Lynda B. Williams;Simon M. Peacock

  • Diffusion kinetics of samarium and neodymium in garnet, and a method for determining cooling rates of rocks

    J. Ganguly;M. Tirone;Richard Hervig

  • Boron isotope geochemistry during diagenesis. Part I. Experimental determination of fractionation during illitization of smectite

    Lynda B Williams;Richard L Hervig;John R Holloway;Ian Hutcheon

  • Vapor-undersaturated experiments with Macusani glass+H 2 O at 200 MPa, and the internal differentiation of granitic pegmatites

    David London;George B. Morgan;Richard L. Hervig

  • An EFTEM/HRTEM high-resolution study of the near surface of labradorite feldspar altered at acid pH: evidence for interfacial dissolution-reprecipitation

    Roland Hellmann;J.M. Penisson;R.L. Hervig;J.H. Thomassin

  • Experimental evidence for a hydrous transition zone in the early Earth's mantle

    Tatsuhiko Kawamoto;Richard L. Hervig;John R. Holloway

  • Boron isotopic composition of subduction-zone metamorphic rocks

    Simon M Peacock;Richard L Hervig

  • Hydrogen partitioning between nominally anhydrous upper mantle minerals and melt between 3 and 5 GPa and applications to hydrous peridotite partial melting

    Travis J. Tenner;Marc M. Hirschmann;Anthony C. Withers;Richard L. Hervig

  • Experiments on crystal/liquid partitioning of Ru, Rh and Pd for magnetite and hematite solid solutions crystallized from silicate melt

    Christopher J. Capobianco;Richard L. Hervig;Michael J. Drake

  • Lithium and boron isotopes in illite-smectite : The importance of crystal size

    Lynda B. Williams;Richard L. Hervig

  • Reference Minerals for the Microanalysis of Light Elements

    M. Darby Dyar;Michael Wiedenbeck;David Robertson;Laura R. Cross

  • Rare earth diffusion kinetics in garnet: Experimental studies and applications

    Massimiliano Tirone;Massimiliano Tirone;Jibamitra Ganguly;Ralf Dohmen;Falko Langenhorst

Frequent Co-Authors

Lynda B. Williams
Lynda B. Williams Arizona State University
John R. Holloway
John R. Holloway Arizona State University
David R. Bell
David R. Bell Nelson Mandela University
Penelope L. King
Penelope L. King Australian National University
Alexandra Navrotsky
Alexandra Navrotsky Arizona State University
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Meenakshi Wadhwa Arizona State University
Kevin D. McKeegan
Kevin D. McKeegan University of California, Los Angeles
Peter R. Buseck
Peter R. Buseck Arizona State University
Roger C. Wiens
Roger C. Wiens Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thomas G. Sharp
Thomas G. Sharp Arizona State University

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