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Overview

Richard W. White is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work addresses several main topics, notably Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, as well as specialized topics such as Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties, Magnetic Properties and Applications, and Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of Metamorphic Geology, Journal of Petrology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and Gondwana Research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard W. White include:

  • Tuneable structure and magnetic properties in Fe3−V Ge alloys, 2020, Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Plume - Lid interactions during the Archean and implications for the generation of early continental terranes, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Insights into the Compositional Evolution of Crustal Magmatic Systems from Coupled Petrological-Geodynamical Models, 2020, Journal of Petrology
  • Late Eocene-Oligocene granulite facies garnet-sillimanite migmatites from the Mogok Metamorphic belt, Myanmar, and implications for timing of slip along the Sagaing Fault, 2021, Lithos
  • The Fate of Accessory Minerals and Key Trace Elements During Anatexis and Magma Extraction, 2020, Journal of Petrology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Richard M. Palin, Thomas N. Lamont, M. P. Searle, Boris Kaus, and David J. Waters.

Best Publications

  • Progress relating to calculation of partial melting equilibria for metapelites

    R. W. White;R. Powell;T. J. B. Holland

  • New mineral activity-composition relations for thermodynamic calculations in metapelitic systems

    R. W. White;R. Powell;T. J. B. Holland;T. E. Johnson

  • The interpretation of reaction textures in Fe-rich metapelitic granulites of the Musgrave Block, central Australia: constraints from mineral equilibria calculations in the system K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-TiO2-Fe2O3

    R. W. White;Roger Powell;G. L. Clarke

  • Calculation of partial melting equilibria in the system Na2O–CaO–K2O–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O (NCKFMASH)

    R. W. White;R. Powell;T. J. B. Holland

  • 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

  • A new thermodynamic model for clino- and orthoamphiboles in the system Na2O?CaO?FeO?MgO?Al2O3?SiO2?H2O?O

    J. F. A. Diener;R. Powell;R. W. White;T. J. B. Holland

  • The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites revisited: new a–x relations for manganese-bearing minerals

    R. W. White;R. Powell;T. E. Johnson

  • Melt loss and the preservation of granulite facies mineral assemblages

    R. W. White;R. Powell

  • An in situ metatexite–diatexite transition in upper amphibolite facies rocks from Broken Hill, Australia

    R. W. White;N. E. Pomroy;R. Powell

  • A thermodynamic model for Ca–Na clinoamphiboles in Na2O–CaO–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O–O for petrological calculations

    J. Dale;R. Powell;R. W. White;F. L. Elmer

  • Spatially-focussed melt formation in aluminous metapelites from Broken Hill, Australia

    R. W. White;R. Powell;J. A. Halpin

  • Ultramafic inclusions in basaltic rocks from Hawaii

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  • 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

  • Prograde Metamorphic Assemblage Evolution during Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Rocks at Low Pressures: Migmatites from Mt Stafford, Central Australia

    R. W. White;Roger Powell;G. L. Clarke

  • 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

  • Calculated phase equilibria in K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O for sapphirine-quartz-bearing mineral assemblages

    D. E. Kelsey;R. W. White;T. J. B. Holland;R. Powell

  • Phase equilibria modelling of kyanite‐bearing anatectic paragneisses from the central Grenville Province

    A. Indares;R. W. White;R. Powell

  • A mineral equilibria study of the hydrothermal alteration in mafic greenschist facies rocks at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

    R. W. White;R. W. White;R. Powell;G. N. Phillips;G. N. Phillips

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

    Richard M. Palin;Richard W. White

  • Devolatilization of metabasic rocks during greenschist-amphibolite facies metamorphism

    F. L. Elmer;R. W. White;R. Powell

  • Retrograde melt–residue interaction and the formation of near-anhydrous leucosomes in migmatites

    R. W. White;R. Powell

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Powell
Roger Powell University of Melbourne
Tim E. Johnson
Tim E. Johnson Curtin University
Boris J. P. Kaus
Boris J. P. Kaus Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Richard M. Palin
Richard M. Palin University of Oxford
Geoffrey L. Clarke
Geoffrey L. Clarke University of Sydney
Tim Holland
Tim Holland University of Cambridge
Michael Brown
Michael Brown University of Maryland, College Park
David E. Kelsey
David E. Kelsey University of Adelaide
Jacqueline A. Halpin
Jacqueline A. Halpin University of Tasmania
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford

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