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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Samuel B. Mukasa is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research covers a range of subfields including Geophysics, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Artificial Intelligence, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to geological studies.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Samuel B. Mukasa has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Lithosphere

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Samuel B. Mukasa include:

  • Basalts From the Chukchi Borderland: 40Ar/39Ar Ages and Geochemistry of Submarine Intraplate Lavas Dredged From the Western Arctic Ocean, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • John Shervais' Contributions to Our Understanding of Upper Mantle Structure and Chemical Heterogeneities, 2025, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Samuel B. Mukasa frequently collaborates with peers in their research. The most common coauthors based on publication frequency are:

  • John W. Shervais
  • Sung Hi Choi
  • Igor S. Puchtel
  • Alexandre V. Andronikov
  • Kelley Brumley

Throughout their career, Samuel B. Mukasa has received recognition including the titles:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2006
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms and Sources of Mantle Metasomatism: Major and Trace Element Compositions of Peridotite Xenoliths from Spitsbergen in the Context of Numerical Modelling

    Dimitri Ionov;Jean-Louis Bodinier;Samuel S.B. Mukasa;Alberto Zanetti

  • Uranium-lead isotopic ages of plagiogranites from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, and their tectonic significance

    Samuel B. Mukasa;John N. Ludden

  • Supra-subduction and abyssal mantle peridotites of the Coast Range ophiolite, California

    Sung Hi Choi;John W. Shervais;Samuel B. Mukasa

  • Sr, Nd, Pb and Hf isotopic compositions of late Cenozoic alkali basalts in South Korea: Evidence for mixing between the two dominant asthenospheric mantle domains beneath East Asia

    Sung Hi Choi;Samuel B. Mukasa;Sung Tack Kwon;Alexandre V. Andronikov

  • Antarctica-New Zealand rifting and Marie Byrd Land lithospheric magmatism linked to ridge subduction and mantle plume activity

    S. D. Weaver;B. C. Storey;R. J. Pankhurst;S. B. Mukasa

  • Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Evolution of Gondwana's Pacific margin constrained by zircon U-Pb geochronology and feldspar common-Pb isotopic compositions

    Samuel B. Mukasa;Ian W. D. Dalziel

  • 40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar data bearing on the metamorphic and tectonic history of western New England

    John F. Sutter;Nicholas M. Ratcliffe;Samuel B. Mukasa

  • Age of Variscan magmatism from the Balkan sector of the orogen, central Bulgaria

    Charles W. Carrigan;Samuel B. Mukasa;Ivan Haydoutov;Kristina Kolcheva

  • Southernmost Andes and South Georgia Island, North Scotia Ridge: Zircon U-Pb and muscovite 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on tectonic evolution of Southwestern Gondwanaland

    Samuel B. Mukasa;Ian W.D. Dalziel

  • Zircon U-Pb ages of super-units in the Coastal batholith, Peru: Implications for magmatic and tectonic processes

    Samuel B. Mukasa

  • Pb-isotopic compositions of volcanic rocks in the West and East Philippine island arcs: presence of the Dupal isotopic anomaly

    Samuel B. Mukasa;Robert McCabe;James B. Gill

  • Mantle dynamics beneath East Asia constrained by Sr, Nd, Pb and Hf isotopic systematics of ultramafic xenoliths and their host basalts from Hannuoba, North China

    Sung Hi Choi;Samuel B. Mukasa;Xin-Hua Zhou;Xiangyang Helena Xian

  • The Balmuccia Orogenic Lherzolite Massif, Italy

    John W. Shervais;Samuel B. Mukasa

  • Growth of subcontinental lithosphere: evidence from repeated dike injections in the balmuccia lherzolite massif, Italian Alps

    Samuel B. Mukasa;John W. Shervais

  • Large-scale Mechanical Redistribution of Orthopyroxene and Plagioclase in the Basement Sill, Ferrar Dolerites, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Petrological, Mineral-chemical and Field Evidence for Channelized Movement of Crystals and Melt

    Jean H. J. Bédard;Bruce D. Marsh;Taber G. Hersum;H. Richard Naslund

  • Zircon UPb and hornblende 40Ar39Ar ages for the Dufek layered mafic intrusion, Antarctica: Implications for the age of the Ferrar large igneous province

    David R. Minor;Samuel B. Mukasa

  • Petrology, isotope characteristics, and K-Ar ages of the Maranhão, northern Brazil, Mesozoic basalt province

    R. V. Fodor;A. N. Sial;S. B. Mukasa;E. H. McKee

  • Sr–Nd–Pb isotope and trace element systematics of mantle xenoliths from Late Cenozoic alkaline lavas, South Korea

    Sung Hi Choi;Sung Hi Choi;Sung Tack Kwon;Samuel B. Mukasa;Hee Sagong

  • Melt extraction and melt refertilization in mantle peridotite of the Coast Range ophiolite: an LA–ICP–MS study

    Marlon M. Jean;John W. Shervais;Sung Hi Choi;Samuel B Mukasa

  • Sr–Nd–Pb Isotopic Compositions of Peridotite Xenoliths from Spitsbergen: Numerical Modelling Indicates Sr–Nd Decoupling in the Mantle by Melt Percolation Metasomatism

    Dimitri Ionov;Samuel S.B. Mukasa;Jean-Louis Bodinier

  • Intrinsic Nd, Pb, and Sr Isotopic Heterogeneities Exhibited by the Lherz Alpine Peridotite Massif, French Pyrenees

    S. B. Mukasa;J. W. Shervais;H. G. Wilshire;J. E. Nielson

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Shervais
John W. Shervais Utah State University
Eric J. Essene
Eric J. Essene University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jean H. Bédard
Jean H. Bédard Geological Survey of Canada
Bruce D. Marsh
Bruce D. Marsh Johns Hopkins University
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers The Open University
Simon L. Harley
Simon L. Harley University of Edinburgh
Larry A. Mayer
Larry A. Mayer University of New Hampshire
Yasuhito Osanai
Yasuhito Osanai Kyushu University
Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller Stanford University

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