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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Steven B. Shirey is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology.

Their work covers a range of main topics that include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Earthquake and Tectonic Studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Astro and Planetary Science, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Among their recent published works are:

  • Hafnium isotopes in zircons document the gradual onset of mobile-lid tectonics, 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • A Review of the Geology of Global Diamond Mines and Deposits, 2022, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • Slab Transport of Fluids to Deep Focus Earthquake Depths-Thermal Modeling Constraints and Evidence From Diamonds, 2021, AGU Advances
  • 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 scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Michael J. Walter
  • L. S. Wagner
  • Peter E. van Keken
  • Anat Shahar

Their publications are often found in venues such as Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and Science Advances.

Recognition for their contributions includes being named Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and receiving the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, both awarded in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Carius tube digestion for low-blank rhenium-osmium analysis

    Steven B. Shirey;Richard J. Walker

  • THE Re-Os ISOTOPE SYSTEM IN COSMOCHEMISTRY AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE GEOCHEMISTRY

    Steven B. Shirey;Richard J. Walker

  • Os, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope systematics of southern African peridotite xenoliths: Implications for the chemical evolution of subcontinental mantle

    R.J Walker;R.W Carlson;S.B Shirey;Boyd F.R

  • Mantle Samples Included in Volcanic Rocks: Xenoliths and Diamonds

    D.G. Pearson;D. Canil;S.B. Shirey

  • Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon

    Steven B. Shirey;Pierre Cartigny;Daniel J. Frost;Shantanu Keshav

  • Start of the Wilson Cycle at 3 Ga Shown by Diamonds from Subcontinental Mantle

    Steven B. Shirey;Stephen H. Richardson

  • Mantle-derived Archaean monozodiorites and trachyandesites

    Steven B. Shirey;Steven B. Shirey;Gilbert N. Hanson

  • Stabilisation of Archaean lithospheric mantle: A ReOs isotope study of peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton

    D.G. Pearson;R.W. Carlson;S.B. Shirey;F.R. Boyd

  • ReOs, SmNd, and RbSr isotope evidence for thick Archaean lithospheric mantle beneath the Siberian craton modified by multistage metasomatism

    D.G. Pearson;S.B. Shirey;R.W. Carlson;F.R. Boyd

  • Deep mantle cycling of oceanic crust: evidence from diamonds and their mineral inclusions.

    Michael J Walter;Simon C Kohn;D Araujo;G Bulanova

  • Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth’s deep mantle

    Evan M. Smith;Steven B. Shirey;Fabrizio Nestola;Emma S. Bullock

  • Petrogenesis of mantle-derived, LILE-enriched Archean monzodiorites and trachyandesites (sanukitoids) in southwestern Superior Province: Reply

    Richard A. Stern;Gilbert N. Hanson;Steven B. Shirey

  • Osmium Recycling in Subduction Zones

    Alan D. Brandon;Robert A. Creaser;Steven B. Shirey;Richard W. Carlson

  • Residual platinum-group minerals from highly depleted harzburgites of the Lherz massif (France) and their role in HSE fractionation of the mantle

    Ambre Luguet;Ambre Luguet;Steven B. Shirey;Jean-Pierre Lorand;Mary F. Horan

  • Archaean Re–Os age for Siberian eclogites and constraints on Archaean tectonics

    D. G. Pearson;D. G. Pearson;G. A. Snyder;S. B. Shirey;L. A. Taylor

  • Mantle heterogeneity and crustal recycling in Archean granite-greenstone belts: Evidence from Nd isotopes and trace elements in the Rainy Lake area, Superior Province, Ontario, Canada

    Steven B. Shirey;Gilbert N. Hanson

  • A Reduced Organic Carbon Component in Martian Basalts

    A. Steele;F. M. McCubbin;F. M. McCubbin;M. Fries;L. Kater

  • Lithium isotopes in global mid-ocean ridge basalts

    Paul B. Tomascak;Charles H. Langmuir;Petrus J. le Roux;Steven B. Shirey

  • Sulphide inclusions in diamonds from the Koffiefontein kimberlite, S Africa: Constraints on diamond ages and mantle Re-Os systematics

    D.G. Pearson;S.B. Shirey;J.W. Harris;R.W. Carlson

  • Archean subduction recorded by Re–Os isotopes in eclogitic sulfide inclusions in Kimberley diamonds

    S.H. Richardson;S.B. Shirey;J.W. Harris;R.W. Carlson

  • geochemistry: Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth's deep mantle

    Evan M. Smith;Steven B. Shirey;Fabrizio Nestola;Emma S. Bullock

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W. Carlson
Richard W. Carlson Carnegie Institution for Science
Stephen H. Richardson
Stephen H. Richardson University of Cape Town
D.G. Pearson
D.G. Pearson University of Alberta
Jeff W. Harris
Jeff W. Harris University of Glasgow
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Fabrizio Nestola
Fabrizio Nestola University of Padua
Richard J. Walker
Richard J. Walker University of Maryland, College Park
Erik H. Hauri
Erik H. Hauri Carnegie Institution for Science
John J. Gurney
John J. Gurney University of Cape Town
Richard A. Stern
Richard A. Stern University of Alberta

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