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Overview

Sonja Aulbach is a researcher affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their work primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Geophysics and related subfields.

The research areas covered by Aulbach's publications include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

The scholarly output spans a variety of publication venues, frequently including:

  • Lithos
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Among recent published papers with notable citation counts are:

  • "Ultramafic Carbonated Melt- and Auto-Metasomatism in Mantle Eclogites: Compositional Effects and Geophysical Consequences," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Wehrlites from continental mantle monitor the passage and degassing of carbonated melts," 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Other influential works in the broader field, though not explicitly authored solely by Aulbach, include:

  • "Mineral Inclusions in Lithospheric Diamonds," 2022, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • "Deep carbon through time: Earth's diamond record and its implications for carbon cycling and fluid speciation in the mantle," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Geochronology of Diamonds," 2022, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

The research collaboration network of Aulbach includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Axel Gerdes
  • Thomas Stachel
  • Fanus Viljoen
  • Jacek Puziewicz
  • Magdalena Matusiak-Małek

These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting cooperation across various studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences domain.

Aulbach's extensive contributions demonstrate a sustained engagement with geophysical processes at depth, including mantle dynamics and the geochemical implications of diamond records. The body of work covers both fundamental scientific questions and applied geoscience topics.

Best Publications

  • The origin and evolution of Archean lithospheric mantle

    W.L Griffin;W.L Griffin;S.Y O’Reilly;N Abe;S Aulbach

  • The trace element composition of silicate inclusions in diamonds: a review

    Thomas Stachel;Sonja Aulbach;Gerhard P. Brey;Jeff W. Harris

  • Mantle formation and evolution, Slave Craton: constraints from HSE abundances and Re–Os isotope systematics of sulfide inclusions in mantle xenocrysts

    Sonja Aulbach;William L. Griffin;William L. Griffin;Norman J. Pearson;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

  • Evidence for a reducing Archean ambient mantle and its effects on the carbon cycle

    Sonja Aulbach;Vincenzo Stagno

  • Origins of Xenolithic Eclogites and Pyroxenites from the Central Slave Craton, Canada

    Sonja Aulbach;Norman J. Pearson;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly;Buddy J. Doyle

  • Distribution and Processing of Highly Siderophile Elements in Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere

    Sonja Aulbach;James E. Mungall;D. Graham Pearson

  • Eclogitic and websteritic diamond sources beneath the Limpopo Belt - is slab-melting the link?

    Sonja Aulbach;Thomas Stachel;Stephanus K. Viljoen;Gerhard P. Brey

  • Subcontinental lithospheric mantle origin of high niobium/tantalum ratios in eclogites

    Sonja Aulbach;Suzanne Y. O’Reilly;William. L. Griffin;Norman J. Pearson

  • Mineral Inclusions in Lithospheric Diamonds

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  • Origins of cratonic mantle discontinuities: A view from petrology, geochemistry and thermodynamic models

    Sonja Aulbach;Malcolm Massuyeau;Fabrice Gaillard

  • Craton nucleation and formation of thick lithospheric roots

    Sonja Aulbach

  • Kankan diamonds (Guinea) III: δ13C and nitrogen characteristics of deep diamonds

    Thomas Stachel;J.W Harris;S Aulbach;P Deines

  • Nature and timing of metasomatism in the stratified mantle lithosphere beneath the central Slave craton (Canada)

    Sonja Aulbach;William L. Griffin;Norman J. Pearson;Suzanne Y. O'Reilly

  • Major- and trace-elements in cratonic mantle eclogites and pyroxenites reveal heterogeneous sources and metamorphic processing of low-pressure protoliths

    Sonja Aulbach;Dorrit E. Jacob

  • Sulphide survival and diamond genesis during formation and evolution of Archaean subcontinental lithosphere: A comparison between the Slave and Kaapvaal cratons

    Sonja Aulbach;Thomas Stachel;Robert A. Creaser;Larry M. Heaman

  • Li-Sr-Nd isotope signatures of the plume and cratonic lithospheric mantle beneath the margin of the rifted Tanzanian craton (Labait)

    Sonja Aulbach;Sonja Aulbach;Roberta L. Rudnick;William F. McDonough

  • Lithium isotope analysis of olivine by SIMS: Calibration of a matrix effect and application to magmatic phenocrysts

    David R. Bell;Richard L. Hervig;Peter R. Buseck;Sonja Aulbach

  • Eclogite xenoliths from the Lace kimberlite, Kaapvaal craton: From convecting mantle source to palaeo-ocean floor and back

    S. Aulbach;K.S. Viljoen

  • Origins of non-equilibrium lithium isotopic fractionation in xenolithic peridotite minerals: Examples from Tanzania

    Sonja Aulbach;Roberta L. Rudnick

  • Genesis and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Buffalo Head Terrane, Alberta (Canada)

    S. Aulbach;W.L. Griffin;W.L. Griffin;S.Y. O'Reilly;Tom E. McCandless

  • Eclogites as palaeodynamic archives: Evidence for warm (not hot) and depleted (but heterogeneous) Archaean ambient mantle

    Sonja Aulbach;Nicholas T. Arndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Stachel
Thomas Stachel University of Alberta
William L. Griffin
William L. Griffin Macquarie University
Larry M. Heaman
Larry M. Heaman University of Alberta
Axel Gerdes
Axel Gerdes Goethe University Frankfurt
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly
Suzanne Y. O'Reilly Macquarie University
Norman J. Pearson
Norman J. Pearson Macquarie University
Theodoros Ntaflos
Theodoros Ntaflos University of Vienna
Robert A. Creaser
Robert A. Creaser University of Alberta
Steven B. Shirey
Steven B. Shirey Carnegie Institution for Science
Jeff W. Harris
Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow

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