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Richard M. Palin is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study lies in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on geophysics. Their work spans several subfields including artificial intelligence, astronomy and astrophysics, economics and econometrics, and mechanics of materials.

The scientific research of Richard M. Palin covers a range of topics primarily concentrated on geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and earthquake and tectonic studies. Other significant topics in their research include geochemistry and geologic mapping, planetary science and exploration, astro and planetary science, and the geochemistry and geochronology of Asian mineral deposits.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Lithos, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth-Science Reviews, and Gondwana Research.

Some of the recent papers authored by Richard M. Palin are:

  • Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Plate tectonics: What, where, why, and when?, 2020, Gondwana Research

Richard M. Palin has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Zeming Zhang, Huixia Ding, Xin Dong, Zuolin Tian, and Fatemeh Sepidbar.

Best Publications

  • Activity–composition relations for the calculation of partial melting equilibria in metabasic rocks

    E. C. R. Green;R. W. White;J. F. A. Diener;R. Powell

  • Quantifying geological uncertainty in metamorphic phase equilibria modelling; a Monte Carlo assessment and implications for tectonic interpretations

    Richard M. Palin;Owen M. Weller;David J. Waters;Brendan Dyck

  • Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth

    Richard M. Palin;M. Santosh;M. Santosh;Wentao Cao;Shan-Shan Li

  • High-grade metamorphism and partial melting of basic and intermediate rocks

    Richard M. Palin;Richard W. White;Eleanor C. R. Green;Johann F. A. Diener

  • Partial melting of metabasic rocks and the generation of tonalitic–trondhjemitic–granodioritic (TTG) crust in the Archaean: Constraints from phase equilibrium modelling

    Richard M. Palin;Richard W. White;Eleanor C.R. Green

  • Integrated pressure-temperature-time constraints for the Tso Morari dome (Northwest India): implications for the burial and exhumation path of UHP units in the western Himalaya

    M. R. St-Onge;N. Rayner;R. M. Palin;M. P. Searle

  • Emergence of blueschists on Earth linked to secular changes in oceanic crust composition

    Richard M. Palin;Richard W. White

  • Plate tectonics: What, where, why, and when?

    Richard M. Palin;M. Santosh;M. Santosh

  • Geological, geophysical and plate kinematic constraints for models of the India-Asia collision and the post-Triassic central Tethys oceans

    Andrew J. Parsons;Kasra Hosseini;Richard M. Palin;Karin Sigloch

  • Quantifying Barrovian metamorphism in the Danba Structural Culmination of eastern Tibet

    O. M. Weller;M. R. St-Onge;D. J. Waters;N. Rayner

  • A geochronological and petrological study of anatectic paragneiss and associated granite dykes from the Day Nui Con Voi metamorphic core complex, North Vietnam: constraints on the timing of metamorphism within the Red River shear zone

    R. M. Palin;M. P. Searle;D. J. Waters;R. R. Parrish

  • Quartz Solubility in the H2O-NaCl System: A Framework for Understanding Vein Formation in Porphyry Copper Deposits

    Thomas Monecke;Jochen Monecke;T. James Reynolds;Subaru Tsuruoka

  • The lower crust of the Gangdese magmatic arc, southern Tibet, implication for the growth of continental crust

    Zeming Zhang;Huixia Ding;Richard M. Palin;Xin Dong

  • Phase equilibria modelling of retrograde amphibole and clinozoisite in mafic eclogite from the Tso Morari massif, northwest India: constraining the P–T–M(H2O) conditions of exhumation

    R. M. Palin;R. M. Palin;M. R. St-Onge;D. J. Waters;M. P. Searle

  • The formation of lithium-rich pegmatites through multi-stage melting

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  • A comparison of observed and thermodynamically predicted phase equilibria and mineral compositions in mafic granulites

    Jacob B. Forshaw;David J. Waters;David R. M. Pattison;Richard M. Palin

  • Monazite geochronology and petrology of kyanite- and sillimanite-grade migmatites from the northwestern flank of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis

    R.M. Palin;M.P. Searle;M.R. St-Onge;D.J. Waters

  • Combined thermobarometry and geochronology of peraluminous metapelites from the Karakoram metamorphic complex, North Pakistan; New insight into the tectonothermal evolution of the Baltoro and Hunza Valley regions

    R. M. Palin;M. P. Searle;D. J. Waters;M. S. A. Horstwood

  • A revised petrological model for subducted oceanic crust: Insights from phase equilibrium modelling

    David Hernández‐Uribe;Richard M. Palin

  • High-grade metamorphism and partial melting in Archean composite grey gneiss complexes

    Richard W. White;R.M. Palin;Eleanor C.R. Green

  • Subduction metamorphism in the Himalayan ultrahigh-pressure Tso Morari massif: An integrated geodynamic and petrological modelling approach

    Richard M. Palin;Richard M. Palin;Georg S. Reuber;Richard W. White;Boris J.P. Kaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. White
Richard W. White University of St Andrews
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
David J. Waters
David J. Waters University of Oxford
Boris J. P. Kaus
Boris J. P. Kaus Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Nick M.W. Roberts
Nick M.W. Roberts British Geological Survey
Zeming Zhang
Zeming Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matthew S.A. Horstwood
Matthew S.A. Horstwood British Geological Survey
Randall R. Parrish
Randall R. Parrish University of Portsmouth
Kamini Singha
Kamini Singha Colorado School of Mines

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