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Rob M. Ellam

Rob M. Ellam

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Earth Science

D-Index
60
Citations
11537
World Ranking
1930
National Ranking
123

Overview

Rob M. Ellam is affiliated with Tianjin University in China. Their research contributions span Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive focus on related subfields such as Geophysics, Pollution, Artificial Intelligence, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientific work of Rob M. Ellam includes significant engagement in key research topics: Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Heavy metals in environment, Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, Arsenic contamination and mitigation, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Rob M. Ellam's publication record features papers across multiple specialized venues. Notable journal appearances include:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Precambrian Research
  • Global Change Biology

Among the recent research papers are:

  • Silicon (Si) modification of biochars from different Si-bearing precursors improves cadmium remediation, 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • New insight into the mechanisms of preferential encapsulation of metal(loid)s by wheat phytoliths under silicon nanoparticle amendment, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Iron and silicon modified biochar for enhancing cadmium removal from water: Unveiling the crucial role of iron-induced silicon dissolution, 2024, Bioresource Technology
  • The role of crustal contamination in magma evolution of Neoproterozoic metaigneous rocks from Southwest Svalbard, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • Petrogenesis of the Loch Bà ring-dyke and Centre 3 granites, Isle of Mull, Scotland, 2021, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Linan Liu, Jingchun Tang, Zhaoliang Song, Xinzuo Yang, and Qiang Li, indicating a cooperative approach within interdisciplinary teams.

Best Publications

  • Variability in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Through a Glacial-Interglacial Cycle

    Alexander W. Tudhope;Alexander W. Tudhope;Colin P. Chilcott;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Edward R. Cook

  • Continental mantle lithosphere, and shallow level enrichment processes in the Earth's mantle

    C.J. Hawkesworth;P.D. Kempton;N.W. Rogers;R.M. Ellam

  • Lithospheric thickness as a control on basalt geochemistry

    R.M. Ellam

  • Elemental and isotopic variations in subduction related basalts: evidence for a three component model

    R. M. Ellam;C. J. Hawkesworth

  • Element Fluxes Associated with Subduction Related Magmatism

    Christopher John Hawkesworth;J. M. Hergt;R. M. Ellam;F. McDermott

  • High 3He/4He ratios in picritic basalts from Baffin Island and the role of a mixed reservoir in mantle plumes.

    Finlay M Stuart;Solveigh Lass-Evans;J Godfrey Fitton;Robert M Ellam

  • Rift relocation — A geochemical and geochronological investigation of a palaeo-rift in northwest Iceland

    B.S. Hardarson;B.S. Hardarson;J.G. Fitton;R.M. Ellam;M.S. Pringle

  • SAHARAN WIND REGIMES TRACED BY THE Sr–Nd ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC SEDIMENTS: LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM vs TODAY

    F.E. Grousset;M. Parra;A. Bory;P. Martinez

  • Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

    Rachel Flecker;Wout Krijgsman;Walter Capella;Cesar de Castro Martíns

  • An interpretation of Karoo picrite basalts in terms of interaction between asthenospheric magmas and the mantle lithosphere

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  • The volcanism of southern Italy: Role of subduction and the relationship between potassic and sodic alkaline magmatism

    R. M. Ellam;C. J. Hawkesworth;M. A. Menzies;N. W. Rogers

  • Evidence from Re–Os isotopes for plume–lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis

    R. M. Ellam;R. W. Carlson;S. B. Shirey

  • Evolving east Asian river systems reconstructed by trace element and Pb and Nd isotope variations in modern and ancient Red River‐Song Hong sediments

    Peter D. Clift;Peter D. Clift;Hoang Van Long;Hoang Van Long;Richard Hinton;Robert M. Ellam

  • Abiotic pyrite formation produces a large Fe isotope fractionation

    Romain Guilbaud;Ian B. Butler;Rob M. Ellam

  • Is average continental crust generated at subduction zones

    Robert M. Ellam;Christopher J. Hawkesworth

  • The transition from calc-alkaline to potassic orogenic magmatism in the Aeolian Islands, Southern Italy

    R. M. Ellam;M. A. Menzies;C. J. Hawkesworth;W. P. Leeman

  • Helium isotopes in early Iceland plume picrites: constraints on the composition of high 3 He/ 4 He mantle

    Natalie A. Starkey;Finlay M. Stuart;Robert M. Ellam;J. Godfrey Fitton

  • A Proterozoic lithospheric source for Karoo magmatism: evidence from the Nuanetsi picrites

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  • Modelling the effect of evaporation on the salinity- 87 Sr/ 86 Sr relationship in modern and ancient marginal-marine systems: the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Rachel Flecker;S de Villiers;RM Ellam

  • Pulses of carbon dioxide emissions from intracrustal faults following climatic warming

    Niko Kampman;Neil M. Burnside;Zoe K. Shipton;Hazel J. Chapman

  • High-precision 41K/39K measurements by MC-ICP-MS indicate terrestrial variability of δ41K

    Leah E. Morgan;Danielle P. Santiago Ramos;Brett Davidheiser-Kroll;John Faithfull

  • Helium–strontium isotope constraints on mantle evolution beneath the Roman Comagmatic Province, Italy

    M. Martelli;M. Martelli;P.M. Nuccio;P.M. Nuccio;F.M. Stuart;R. Burgess

  • Oxygen isotope constraints on the crustal contribution to the subduction-related magmatism of the Aeolian Islands, southern Italy

    R.M. Ellam;R.S. Harmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Finlay M. Stuart
Finlay M. Stuart University of Glasgow
Valentin R. Troll
Valentin R. Troll Uppsala University
Rudy Swennen
Rudy Swennen KU Leuven
Rachel Flecker
Rachel Flecker University of Bristol
Anthony E. Fallick
Anthony E. Fallick University of Glasgow
Angus B. MacKenzie
Angus B. MacKenzie Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Chris J. Hawkesworth
Chris J. Hawkesworth University of Bristol
John G. Farmer
John G. Farmer University of Edinburgh
Lotte Melchior Larsen
Lotte Melchior Larsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Brian G. J. Upton
Brian G. J. Upton University of Edinburgh

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