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Shen-Su Sun was affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering.

The scientist contributed to subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Mechanical Engineering, and Geophysics. Their work addressed key topics such as Geological formations and processes, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

Sun's publication record includes a paper titled Rajahmundry Basalts, East Coast of India: Intra-canyon Flows or In situ Eruptions?, which appeared in 2025 in the Journal of the Geological Society of India.

  • Κ. V. Subbarao
  • J. N. Walsh
  • A. M. Dayal
  • K. Gopalan

  • Journal of the Geological Society of India

Their research collaborations involved these frequent co-authors:

  • Κ. V. Subbarao
  • J. N. Walsh
  • A. M. Dayal
  • K. Gopalan

Best Publications

  • Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts. Implications for Mantle Composition and Processes

    S.-s. Sun;S.-s. Sun;W. F. McDonough;W. F. McDonough

  • The composition of the Earth

    W.F. McDonough;S.-s. Sun

  • Lead isotopic study of young volcanic rocks from mid-ocean ridges, ocean islands and island arcs

    S. s. Sun

  • Collision of the North China and Yangtse Blocks and formation of coesite-bearing eclogites: Timing and processes☆

    Shuguang Li;Yilin Xiao;Deliang Liou;Yizhi Chen

  • Geochemical characteristics of mid-ocean ridge basalts

    Shen-Su Sun;Robert W. Nesbitt;Anatoly Ya. Sharaskin

  • Chemical composition and origin of the earth's primitive mantle

    Shen-Su Sun

  • Potassium, rubidium, and cesium in the Earth and Moon and the evolution of the mantle of the Earth

    W.F McDonough;W.F McDonough;S.-S Sun;A.E Ringwood;E Jagoutz;E Jagoutz

  • Petrogenesis of Archaean ultrabasic and basic volcanics: Evidence from rare earth elements

    Shen Su Sun;Robert W. Nesbitt

  • Chemical heterogeneity of the Archaean mantle, composition of the earth and mantle evolution

    Shen-Su Sun;Robert W. Nesbitt

  • The origins of ultrapotassic rocks as inferred from Sr, Nd and Pb isotopes

    David R Nelson;Malcolm T McCulloch;Shen-Su Sun

  • Geochemical regularities and genetic significance of ophiolitic basalts

    Shen-Su Sun;Robert W. Nesbitt

  • Geochemistry of Archaean spinifex-textured peridotites and magnesian and low-magnesian tholeiites

    Robert W. Nesbitt;Shen-Su Sun

  • Isotopic and geochemical systematics in Tertiary-Recent basalts from southeastern Australia and implications for the evolution of the sub-continental lithosphere

    W.F McDonough;M.T McCulloch;S.S Sun

  • Pb and Sr isotopes in volcanic rocks from the Aleutian Islands and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

    R. W. Kay;S. S. Sun;C. N. Lee-Hu

  • Late Cenozoic basaltic volcanism around the Taiwan Strait, SE China: Product of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction during continental extension

    Sun-Lin Chung;Shen-su Sun;Kan Tu;Kan Tu;Cheng-Hong Chen;Cheng-Hong Chen

  • Geochemical Constraints for the Genesis of Post-collisional Magmatism and the Geodynamic Evolution of the Northern Taiwan Region

    Kuo-Lung Wang;Sun-Lin Chung;Suzanne Y. O'reilly;Shen-Su Sun

  • Lead and strontium isotopes in post-glacial basalts from Iceland

    S.-S. Sun;S.-S. Sun;Bor-ming Jahn

  • Chemical geodynamics in a back arc region around the Sea of Japan: Implications for the genesis of alkaline basalts in Japan, Korea, and China

    Eizo Nakamura;Ian H. Campbell;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Shen-Su Sun

  • The influence of subduction processes on the geochemistry of Japanese alkaline basalts

    Eizo Nakamura;Ian H. Campbell;Ian H. Campbell;Shen Su Sun

  • Rare earth element evidence for differentiation of McMurdo volcanics, Ross Island, Antarctica

    Shen Su Sun;Gilbert N. Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. McDonough
William F. McDonough University of Maryland, College Park
Robert W. Nesbitt
Robert W. Nesbitt University of Southampton
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Bor-ming Jahn
Bor-ming Jahn National Taiwan University
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
Ian H. Campbell
Ian H. Campbell Australian National University
Cheng-Hong Chen
Cheng-Hong Chen National Taiwan University
L. P. Black
L. P. Black Australian National University
A.E. Ringwood
A.E. Ringwood Australian National University
Albrecht W. Hofmann
Albrecht W. Hofmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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