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Robert B. Trumbull

Robert B. Trumbull

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
9685
World Ranking
2314
National Ranking
152

Overview

Robert B. Trumbull is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on Geophysics. Their research spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology.

Their work covers various topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics, and Political Theology and Sovereignty.

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include:

  • Axel K. Schmitt
  • Alejandro Cisneros de León
  • Steffen Kutterolf
  • Julie Schindlbeck-Belo
  • Walter Hernández

They have contributed to multiple publications across scientific venues, with notable ones including:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Mineralium Deposita
  • Lithos
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • Economic Geology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Boron isotope variations in tourmaline from hydrothermal ore deposits: A review of controlling factors and insights for mineralizing systems" (2020), published in Ore Geology Reviews
  • "The imprint of hydrothermal fluids on trace-element contents in white mica and tourmaline from the Panasqueira W-Sn-Cu deposit, Portugal" (2020), published in Mineralium Deposita
  • "Li and B isotopic fractionation at the magmatic-hydrothermal transition of highly evolved granites" (2020), published in Lithos
  • "Three-stage formation of greenstone-hosted orogenic gold deposits in the Val-d'Or mining district, Abitibi, Canada: Evidence from pyrite and tourmaline" (2020), published in Ore Geology Reviews
  • "Zircon and Melt Extraction From a Long-Lived and Vertically Extensive Magma System Underneath Ilopango Caldera (El Salvador)" (2021), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

In addition to scientific article contributions, Robert B. Trumbull has authored books published by Fordham University Press eBooks. Their works include multiple editions of From Life to Survival, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Late-Collisional Granites in the Variscan Erzgebirge, Germany

    H.-J. Förster;G. Tischendorf;R. B. Trumbull;B. Gottesmann

  • Deep structure of the Namibia continental margin as derived from integrated geophysical studies

    Klaus Bauer;Sönke Neben;Bernd Schreckenberger;Rolf Emmermann

  • An evaluation of the Rb vs. (Y + Nb) discrimination diagram to infer tectonic setting of silicic igneous rocks

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  • Magmatic Evolution of the La Pacana Caldera System, Central Andes, Chile: Compositional Variation of Two Cogenetic, Large-Volume Felsic Ignimbrites

    J. M. Lindsay;A. K. Schmitt;R. B. Trumbull;S. L. De Silva

  • The origin and significance of crustal minerals in ophiolitic chromitites and peridotites

    Paul T. Robinson;Robert B. Trumbull;Axel Schmitt;Jing-Sui Yang

  • A petrogenetic study of anorogenic felsic magmatism in the Cretaceous Paresis ring complex, Namibia: evidence for mixing of crust and mantle-derived components

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  • Complex patterns of fluid and melt transport in the central Andean subduction zone revealed by attenuation tomography

    B. Schurr;G. Asch;A. Rietbrock;R. Trumbull

  • Tourmaline as a Recorder of Ore-Forming Processes

    John F. Slack;Robert B. Trumbull

  • Composition and density model of the continental crust at an active continental margin—the Central Andes between 21° and 27°S

    Friedrich Lucassen;Raul Becchio;Russell Harmon;Simone Kasemann

  • Numerical models of crustal scale convection and partial melting beneath the Altiplano–Puna plateau

    A. Yu Babeyko;S. V. Sobolev;R. B. Trumbull;O. Oncken

  • Large ignimbrite eruptions and volcano-tectonic depressions in the Central Andes: a thermomechanical perspective

    Shanaka De Silva;George Zandt;Robert Trumbull;José G. Viramonte

  • Chemical and boron-isotope variations in tourmalines from an S-type granite and its source rocks: the Erongo granite and tourmalinites in the Damara Belt, Namibia

    R. B. Trumbull;M.-S. Krienitz;B. Gottesmann;M. Wiedenbeck

  • The Time-Space Distribution of Cenozoic Volcanism in the South-Central Andes: a New Data Compilation and Some Tectonic Implications

    Robert B. Trumbull;Ulrich Riller;Onno Oncken;Ekkehard Scheuber

  • La Pacana caldera, N. Chile: a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and volcanology of one of the world's largest resurgent calderas

    J.M Lindsay;S de Silva;R Trumbull;R Emmermann

  • Distinguishing crustal recycling and juvenile additions at active continental margins: the Paleozoic to recent compositional evolution of the Chilean Pacific margin (36–41°S) ☆

    Friedrich Lucassen;Robert Trumbull;Gerhard Franz;Christian Creixell

  • Petrogenesis and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Brandberg Complex, Namibia: Evidence for a Major Mantle Contribution in Metaluminous and Peralkaline Granites

    A. K. Schmitt;R. Emmermann;R. B. Trumbull;B. Bühn

  • Tourmaline B-isotopes fingerprint marine evaporites as the source of high-salinity ore fluids in iron oxide copper-gold deposits, Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil)

    Roberto Perez Xavier;Michael Wiedenbeck;Robert B. Trumbull;Ana M. Dreher

  • Slab-derived boron isotope signatures in arc volcanic rocks from the Central Andes and evidence for boron isotope fractionation during progressive slab dehydration

    Martin Rosner;Joerg Erzinger;Gerhard Franz;Robert B. Trumbull

  • Magmatic evolution of Li–F, rare-metal granites: a case study of melt inclusions in the Khangilay complex, Eastern Transbaikalia (Russia)

    E.V. Badanina;I.V. Veksler;R. Thomas;L.F. Syritso

  • Evidence for Late Miocene to Recent contamination of arc andesites by crustal melts in the Chilean Andes (25–26°S) and its geodynamic implications

    R.B Trumbull;R Wittenbrink;K Hahne;R Emmermann

  • The carbon isotope composition of natural SiC (moissanite) from the Earth’s mantle: New discoveries from ophiolites

    Robert B. Trumbull;Jing-Sui Yang;Paul T. Robinson;Simonpietro Di Pierro

  • Chemical and boron isotopic composition of magmatic and hydrothermal tourmalines from the Sinceni granite–pegmatite system in Swaziland

    Robert B. Trumbull;Marc Chaussidon

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Wiedenbeck
Michael Wiedenbeck University of Potsdam
Ilya V. Veksler
Ilya V. Veksler Perm State University
Rolf L. Romer
Rolf L. Romer University of Potsdam
Axel K. Schmitt
Axel K. Schmitt Curtin University
Wolfgang Siebel
Wolfgang Siebel University of Freiburg
Chris Harris
Chris Harris University of Cape Town
Jan M. Lindsay
Jan M. Lindsay University of Auckland
Gerhard Franz
Gerhard Franz Technical University of Berlin
John F. Slack
John F. Slack United States Geological Survey
José Viramonte
José Viramonte National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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