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Ross N. Mitchell is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications totaling 291 in this field. Their work spans several subfields, notably Geophysics, Paleontology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics are diverse but centered around geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and astro and planetary science.

Ross N. Mitchell has published recent papers including:

  • The supercontinent cycle (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago (2020, Science Advances)
  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent (2020, Geology)
  • The role of megacontinents in the supercontinent cycle (2020, Geology)
  • Distinct formation history for deep-mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences (2020, Nature Geoscience)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christopher J. Spencer
  • Peng Peng
  • Xian-Hua Li
  • Uwe Kirscher
  • J. Brendan Murphy

The scientist's research is published in a variety of venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Nature Communications
  • Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Assembly and breakup of the core of Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna

    David A.D. Evans;Ross N. Mitchell

  • Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time

    Ross N. Mitchell;Taylor M. Kilian;David A. D. Evans

  • The supercontinent cycle

    Ross N. Mitchell;Nan Zhang;Johanna Salminen;Yebo Liu

  • Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity

    C. Brenhin Keller;C. Brenhin Keller;Jon M. Husson;Ross N. Mitchell;William F. Bottke

  • Extinction patterns, δ18 O trends, and magnetostratigraphy from a southern high-latitude Cretaceous–Paleogene section: Links with Deccan volcanism

    Thomas S. Tobin;Peter D. Ward;Eric J. Steig;Eduardo B. Olivero

  • Decoding Earth’s rhythms: Modulation of supercontinent cycles by longer superocean episodes

    Z.X. Li;R.N. Mitchell;C.J. Spencer;R. Ernst;R. Ernst

  • Oceanic anoxic cycles? Orbital prelude to the Bonarelli Level (OAE 2)

    Ross N. Mitchell;David M. Bice;Alessandro Montanari;Laura C. Cleaveland

  • A Palaeoproterozoic tectono-magmatic lull as a potential trigger for the supercontinent cycle

    Christopher J. Spencer;J. Brendan Murphy;J. Brendan Murphy;Christopher L. Kirkland;Yebo Liu

  • Seismological evidence for the earliest global subduction network at 2 Ga ago.

    Bo Wan;Xusong Yang;Xiaobo Tian;Huaiyu Yuan;Huaiyu Yuan

  • Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent

    Uwe Kirscher;Uwe Kirscher;Ross N. Mitchell;Ross N. Mitchell;Yebo Liu;Adam R. Nordsvan;Adam R. Nordsvan

  • The role of megacontinents in the supercontinent cycle

    Chong Wang;Chong Wang;Ross N. Mitchell;J. Brendan Murphy;Peng Peng

  • Linking the rise of atmospheric oxygen to growth in the continental phosphorus inventory

    Grant M. Cox;Timothy W. Lyons;Ross N. Mitchell;Derrick Hasterok

  • Archean cratonic mantle recycled at a mid-ocean ridge

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  • The Gregory Rift Valley and Neogene-Recent Volcanoes of Northern Tanzania

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  • Fusible mantle cumulates trigger young mare volcanism on the cooling Moon

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  • Distinct formation history for deep-mantle domains reflected in geochemical differences

    Luc S. Doucet;Zheng-Xiang Li;Hamed Gamal El Dien;Hamed Gamal El Dien;Amaury Pourteau

  • A Great late Ediacaran ice age

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  • South Australian U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation

    Grant M. Cox;Vincent Isakson;Paul F. Hoffman;Thomas M. Gernon

  • SUTTON HOTSPOT: RESOLVING EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN TECTONICS AND TRUE POLAR WANDER FOR LAURENTIA

    Ross N. Mitchell;Taylor M. Kilian;Timothy D. Raub;David A. D. Evans

  • Mechanisms to generate ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism

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  • Enigmatic Mid-Proterozoic Orogens: Hot, Thin, and Low

    Christopher J. Spencer;Ross N. Mitchell;Michael Brown

  • Paleomagnetism of the Hart Dolerite (Kimberley, Western Australia) ─ A two-stage assembly of the supercontinent Nuna?

    U. Kirscher;Y. Liu;Z.X. Li;R.N. Mitchell

  • Rapid Early Cambrian rotation of Gondwana

    Ross N. Mitchell;David A.D. Evans;Taylor M. Kilian

  • Coronation loop resurrected: Oscillatory apparent polar wander of Orosirian (2.05-1.8 Ga) paleomagnetic poles from Slave craton

    Ross N. Mitchell;Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;David A.D. Evans

  • Coupled supercontinent–mantle plume events evidenced by oceanic plume record

    Luc S. Doucet;Zheng-Xiang Li;Richard E. Ernst;Richard E. Ernst;Uwe Kirscher;Uwe Kirscher

  • PLATE TECTONICS BEFORE 2.0 Ga: EVIDENCE FROM PALEOMAGNETISM OF CRATONS WITHIN SUPERCONTINENT NUNA

    Ross N. Mitchell;Ross N. Mitchell;Wouter Bleeker;Otto van Breemen;Tony N. Lecheminant

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
Zheng-Xiang Li
Zheng-Xiang Li Curtin University
J. Brendan Murphy
J. Brendan Murphy St. Francis Xavier University
Grant M. Cox
Grant M. Cox University of Adelaide
David Evans
David Evans Yale University
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Chong Wang
Chong Wang University of Helsinki
Richard E. Ernst
Richard E. Ernst Carleton University

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