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Robert T. Pidgeon

Robert T. Pidgeon

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Earth Science

D-Index
63
Citations
13049
World Ranking
1613
National Ranking
101

Overview

Robert T. Pidgeon is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on Geophysics and Materials Chemistry.

Their research work spans several specialized topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Nuclear materials and radiation effects, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

They have recently published two papers:

  • Reliability of petrogenetic information obtained from the distribution of trace elements in zircon in light of the complex infusion by foreign-element-bearing low temperature solutions, 2023, Chemical Geology
  • Metallic lead (Pb) nanospheres discovered in Hadean and Eoarchean zircon crystals at Jack Hills, 2023, Scientific Reports

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert T. Pidgeon include A. A. Nemchin, Malcolm P. Roberts, Paul Guagliardo, Denis Fougerouse, and Monika A. Kusiak.

Their work is documented in notable scientific venues such as Chemical Geology and Scientific Reports. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research that intersects geophysics and inorganic chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Nature of the Earth's earliest crust from hafnium isotopes in single detrital zircons

    Yuri Amelin;Der-Chuen Lee;Alex N. Halliday;Robert T. Pidgeon

  • Oxygen-isotope Evidence From Ancient Zircons for Liquid Water at the Earth's Surface 4,300 Myr Ago

    Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;Robert T. Pidgeon

  • Recrystallisation of oscillatory zoned zircon: some geochronological and petrological implications

    R. T. Pidgeon

  • Jack Hills, evidence of more very old detrital zircons in Western Australia

    W. Compston;R. T. Pidgeon

  • Hadean crustal evolution revisited: New constraints from Pb-Hf isotope systematics of the Jack Hills zircons

    Ais Kemp;SA Wilde;Chris J Hawkesworth;Chris J Hawkesworth;Christopher D Coath

  • Internal structures of zircons from Archaean granites from the Darling Range batholith: implications for zircon stability and the interpretation of zircon U-Pb ages

    R. T. Pidgeon;A. A. Nemchin;G. J. Hitchen

  • Experimental hydrothermal alteration of partially metamict zircon

    Thorsten Geisler;Thorsten Geisler;Thorsten Geisler;Robert T. Pidgeon;Reinhardt Kurtz;Wilhelm van Bronswijk

  • Low-temperature hydrothermal alteration of natural metamict zircons from the Eastern Desert, Egypt

    T. Geisler;A. A. Rashwan;M. K. W. Rahn;U. Poller

  • Transport of uranium, thorium, and lead in metamict zircon under low-temperature hydrothermal conditions

    T. Geisler;R.T. Pidgeon;W. van Bronswijk;R. Kurtz

  • Zircon ages for high pressure granulites from South Bohemia, Czech Republic, and their connection to Carboniferous high temperature processes

    A. Kröner;P. J. O'Brien;A. A. Nemchin;R. T. Pidgeon

  • Single zircon ages for granitoid gneisses in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, Southern Africa and geodynamic significance

    A. Kröner;P. Jaeckel;G. Brandl;A. A. Nemchim

  • Uranium and Lead Isotopic Stability in a Metamict Zircon under Experimental Hydrothermal Conditions.

    R. T. Pidgeon;James R. O'Neil;Leon T. Silver

  • Timing of crystallization of the lunar magma ocean constrained by the oldest zircon

    Alexander Nemchin;Nicholas Eric Timms;Robert Pidgeon;T. Geisler

  • Leaching and differential recrystallization of metamict zircon under experimental hydrothermal conditions

    Thorsten Geisler;Marcus Ulonska;Helmut Schleicher;Robert T. Pidgeon

  • Archaean to Neoproterozoic magmatic events in the Kaoko belt of NW Namibia and their geodynamic significance

    B. Seth;B. Seth;A. Kröner;Klaus Mezger;A.A. Nemchin

  • Th–U–Pb isotopic systems and internal structures of complex zircons from an enderbite from the Pium Complex, Carajás Province, Brazil: evidence for the ages of granulite facies metamorphism and the protolith of the enderbite

    R.T. Pidgeon;M.J.B. Macambira;J.-M. Lafon

  • Metamictization and U-PB isotopic discordance in single zircons: a combined Raman microprobe and SHRIMP ion probe study

    L. Nasdala;R. T. Pidgeon;D. Wolf;G. Irmer

  • Inherited zircon and titanite UPb systems in an Archaean syenite from southwestern Australia: implications for UPb stability of titanite

    R.T. Pidgeon;D. Bosch;O. Bruguier

  • Precambrian and Palaeozoic pegmatites in the Moines of northern Scotland

    O. Van Breemen;R. T. Pidgeon;M. R. W. Johnson

  • 3450-m.y.-old volcanics in the Archaean layered greenstone succession of the Pilbara Block, Western Australia

    R.T. Pidgeon

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander A. Nemchin
Alexander A. Nemchin Curtin University
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Thorsten Geisler
Thorsten Geisler University of Bonn
Simon A. Wilde
Simon A. Wilde Curtin University
Nicholas E. Timms
Nicholas E. Timms Curtin University
Steven M. Reddy
Steven M. Reddy Curtin University
William Compston
William Compston Australian National University
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia
Lutz Nasdala
Lutz Nasdala University of Vienna

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