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Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

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Earth Science

D-Index
70
Citations
19692
World Ranking
966
National Ranking
458

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2000 - GSA Distinguished Service Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Oceanography.

The scientist's primary research topics span Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Journal of Petrology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geology

Recent papers featuring their work are:

  • Lower crustal control in the iron isotope systematics of plutonic xenoliths from Adak Island, Central Aleutians, with implications for arc magma geochemistry, 2024, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • What drives Fe depletion in calc-alkaline magma differentiation: Insights from Fe isotopes, 2022, Geology
  • The Cuyano proto-ocean between the Chilenia and Cuyania terranes: rifting and plume interaction during the Neoproterozoic - early Palaeozoic evolution of the SW Gondwana margin, 2021, Geological Magazine
  • Barium isotope systematics of subduction zones, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-O isotopic constraints on the Neoproterozoic to Miocene upper and mid crust in central Chile and western Argentina and trench sediments (33°-35°S), 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Their work includes collaborations with several frequent co-authors:

  • Beatríz Coira
  • Emma Sosa
  • Claire E. Bucholz
  • Juan David Hernández-Montenegro
  • François Tissot

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay has received recognition including the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011 and the GSA Distinguished Service Award from The Geological Society of America in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Delamination and delamination magmatism

    R.W. Kay;S. Mahlburg Kay

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE ALTIPLANO-PUNA PLATEAU OF THE CENTRAL ANDES

    Richard W. Allmendinger;Teresa E. Jordan;Suzanne M. Kay;Bryan L. Isacks

  • Magnesian andesite in the western Aleutian Komandorsky region: Implications for slab melting and processes in the mantle wedge

    G. M. Yogodzinski;R. W. Kay;O. N. Volynets;A. V. Koloskov

  • Paleozoic terranes of the central Argentine-Chilean Andes

    V. A. Ramos;T. E. Jordan;R. W. Allmendinger;C. Mpodozis

  • Episodic arc migration, crustal thickening, subduction erosion, and magmatism in the south-central Andes

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Estanislao Godoy;Andrew Kurtz

  • Evidence in Cerro Pampa volcanic rocks for slab-melting prior to ridge-trench collision in southern South America

    S. Mahlburg Kay;V. A. Ramos;M. Marquez

  • Central Andean Ore Deposits Linked to Evolving Shallow Subduction Systems and Thickening Crust

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis

  • Magmatism as a probe to the Neogene shallowing of the Nazca plate beneath the modern Chilean flat-slab

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis

  • Late Paleozoic to Jurassic silicic magmatism at the Gondwana margin: Analogy to the Middle Proterozoic in North America?

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Victor A. Ramos;Constantino Mpodozis;Patricia Sruoga

  • Young mafic back arc volcanic rocks as indicators of continental lithospheric delamination beneath the Argentine Puna Plateau, central Andes

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Beatriz Coira;Jose Viramonte

  • Evidence for Cenozoic extensional basin development and tectonic inversion south of the flat-slab segment, southern Central Andes, Chile (33°–36°S.L.)

    R Charrier;O Baeza;S Elgueta;J.J Flynn

  • Southern Patagonian plateau basalts and deformation: Backarc testimony of ridge collisions

    Victor A. Ramos;Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

  • Magma source variations for mid–late Tertiary magmatic rocks associated with a shallowing subduction zone and a thickening crust in the central Andes (28 to 33°S)

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis;Victor A. Ramos;Francisco Munizaga

  • Neogene Patagonian plateau lavas: Continental magmas associated with ridge collision at the Chile Triple Junction

    Matthew L. Gorring;Suzanne M. Kay;Peter K. Zeitler;Victor A. Ramos

  • Magmatic evidence for Neogene lithospheric evolution of the central Andean “flat-slab” between 30°S and 32°S

    S.M. Kay;J.M. Abbruzzi

  • Shallowing and steepening subduction zones, continental lithospheric loss, magmatism, and crustal flow under the Central Andean Altiplano-Puna Plateau

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Beatriz L Coira

  • Triassic rifting and associated basalts in the Cuyo basin, central Argentina

    Victor A. Ramos;Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

  • Late Paleozoic to Triassic evolution of the Gondwana margin: Evidence from Chilean Frontal Cordilleran batholiths (28°S to 31°S)

    Constantino Mpodozis;Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

  • Neogene Magmatism, Tectonism, and Mineral Deposits of the Central Ande (22° to 33° S Latitude)

    Suzanne Mahlburg Kay;Constantino Mpodozis;Beatriz Coira

  • UPPER CENOZOIC MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE PUNA—A MODEL FOR CHANGING SUBDUCTION GEOMETRY

    B. Coira;S. Mahlburg Kay;J. Viramonte

  • Mantle Processes and Sources of Neogene Slab Window Magmas from Southern Patagonia, Argentina

    Matthew L. Gorring;Suzanne M. Kay

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Kay
Robert W. Kay Cornell University
Constantino Mpodozis
Constantino Mpodozis University of Chile
Victor A. Ramos
Victor A. Ramos University of Buenos Aires
Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown Cornell University
Brian R. Jicha
Brian R. Jicha University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eric Sandvol
Eric Sandvol University of Missouri
Brad S. Singer
Brad S. Singer University of Wisconsin–Madison
Xiaohui Yuan
Xiaohui Yuan University of Potsdam
Rainer Kind
Rainer Kind Freie Universität Berlin
José Viramonte
José Viramonte National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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