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Stephen Eggins is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has a research focus that spans several areas within Earth and Environmental Sciences. Their work predominantly falls under Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with subfields including Geophysics, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics as well, specifically Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stephen Eggins include:

  • Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution (2020, Nature)
  • Micro-characterisation of cassiterite by geology, texture and zonation: A case study of the Karagwe Ankole Belt, Rwanda (2020, Ore Geology Reviews)
  • Constraining multiple controls on planktic foraminifera Mg/Ca (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Sequential changes in ocean circulation and biological export productivity during the last glacial-interglacial cycle: a model-data study (2021, Climate of the past)
  • Variable mafic recharge across a caldera cycle at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea (2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research)

Stephen Eggins frequently publishes in scientific venues such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Nature, Ore Geology Reviews, and Climate of the past.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Eggins has worked multiple times with coauthors including Michael J. Ellwood, Kate Holland, Laura L. Haynes, Bärbel Hönisch, and Bradley N. Opdyke.

Best Publications

  • Zircon Hf-isotope analysis with an excimer laser, depth profiling, ablation of complex geometries, and concomitant age estimation

    Jonathan Woodhead;Janet Hergt;Michael Shelley;Stephen Eggins

  • Deposition and element fractionation processes during atmospheric pressure laser sampling for analysis by ICP-MS

    S.M. Eggins;L.P.J. Kinsley;J.M.G. Shelley

  • A simple method for the precise determination of ≥ 40 trace elements in geological samples by ICPMS using enriched isotope internal standardisation

    S.M. Eggins;J.D. Woodhead;L.P.J. Kinsley;G.E. Mortimer

  • Hafnium isotope evidence for ‘conservative’ element mobility during subduction zone processes

    J.D. Woodhead;J.M. Hergt;J.P. Davidson;S.M. Eggins

  • High field strength and transition element systematics in island arc and back-arc basin basalts: Evidence for multi-phase melt extraction and a depleted mantle wedge

    Jon Woodhead;Steve Eggins;John Gamble;John Gamble

  • The composition of peridotites and their minerals: a laser-ablation ICP–MS study

    S.M Eggins;R.L Rudnick;W.F McDonough

  • Earliest evidence of modern human life history in North African early Homo sapiens

    Tanya M. Smith;Paul Tafforeau;Donald J. Reid;Rainer Grün

  • Magma Genesis in the New Britain Island Arc: Further Insights into Melting and Mass Transfer Processes

    J. D. Woodhead;S. M. Eggins;R. W. Johnson

  • U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul

    Rainer Grün;Chris Stringer;Frank McDermott;Roger Nathan

  • Zirconium abundance in granulite-facies minerals, with implications for zircon geochronology in high-grade rocks

    Geoffrey Fraser;David Ellis;Stephen Eggins

  • The effect of melt composition on trace element partitioning: an experimental investigation of the activity coefficients of FeO, NiO, CoO, MoO2 and MoO3 in silicate melts

    Hugh St.C. O'Neill;Stephen M. Eggins

  • Mg/Ca variation in planktonic foraminifera tests: implications for reconstructing palaeo-seawater temperature and habitat migration

    Stephen Eggins;Patrick De Deckker;John Marshall

  • The origin of island arc high-alumina basalts

    A. J. Crawford;T. J. Falloon;S. Eggins

  • In situ U-series dating by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS: new prospects for Quaternary geochronology

    Stephen M. Eggins;Rainer Grün;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Alistair W.G. Pike

  • Multiple mantle plume components involved in the petrogenesis of subduction‐related lavas from the northern termination of the Tonga Arc and northern Lau Basin: Evidence from the geochemistry of arc and backarc submarine volcanics

    Trevor J. Falloon;Leonid V. Danyushevsky;Tony J. Crawford;Roland Maas

  • Combined Separation of Cu, Fe and Zn from Rock Matrices and Improved Analytical Protocols for Stable Isotope Determination

    Paolo A Sossi;Paolo A Sossi;Galen Pippa Halverson;Galen Pippa Halverson;Oliver Nebel;Stephen Malcolm Eggins

  • H2O Abundance in Depleted to Moderately Enriched Mid-ocean Ridge Magmas; Part I: Incompatible Behaviour, Implications for Mantle Storage, and Origin of Regional Variations

    Leonid V. Danyushevsky;Stephen M. Eggins;Trevor J. Falloon;David M. Christie

  • Laser Ablation ICP-MS Analysis of Geological materials prepared as Lithium Borate Glasses

    Stephen M. Eggins

  • Modulation and daily banding of Mg/Ca in Orbulina universa tests by symbiont photosynthesis and respiration: A complication for seawater thermometry?

    Stephen M. Eggins;Aleksey Sadekov;Patrick De Deckker

  • Origin and differentiation of picritic arc magmas, Ambae (Aoba), Vanuatu

    S. M. Eggins

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
Richard J. Arculus
Richard J. Arculus Australian National University
Howard J. Spero
Howard J. Spero University of California, Davis
Bärbel Hönisch
Bärbel Hönisch Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Anthony J. Crawford
Anthony J. Crawford University of Tasmania
Vadim S. Kamenetsky
Vadim S. Kamenetsky Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France

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