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D-Index
118
Citations
61715
World Ranking
46
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 - Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 2007 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 1996 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

T. Mark Harrison is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Paleontology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Planetary Science and Exploration

Harrison has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • Chemical Geology
  • Geology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Elements
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Harrison include:

  • "Constraining crustal silica on ancient Earth" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Impact of fault damage on eastern Tibet topography" (2020), published in Geology
  • "Reevaluating the evidence for a Hadean-Eoarchean dynamo" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "In situ 87Rb-87Sr analyses of terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples by LA-MC-ICP-MS/MS with double Wien filter and collision cell technologies" (2022), published in Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • "We don't know when plate tectonics began" (2024), published in Journal of the Geological Society

Frequent collaborators of Harrison include:

  • Elizabeth A. Bell
  • Heather M. Kirkpatrick
  • Cauê S. Borlina
  • B. P. Weiss
  • Eduardo A. Lima

Over their career, Harrison has received multiple recognitions including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011)
  • Arthur L. Day Medal from The Geological Society of America (2009)
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry (2007)
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1996)

Best Publications

  • Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison

  • Zircon saturation revisited: temperature and composition effects in a variety of crustal magma types

    E. Bruce Watson;T. Mark Harrison

  • Diffusion of 40Ar in hornblende

    T. Mark Harrison

  • Diffusion of 40Ar in biotite: Temperature, pressure and compositional effects

    T.Mark Harrison;Ian Duncan;Ian McDougall

  • Zircon saturation re-revisited

    Patrick Boehnke;E. Bruce Watson;Dustin Trail;T. Mark Harrison

  • The behavior of apatite during crustal anatexis: Equilibrium and kinetic considerations

    T.Mark Harrison;E.Bruce Watson

  • Oxygen-isotope Evidence From Ancient Zircons for Liquid Water at the Earth's Surface 4,300 Myr Ago

    Stephen J. Mojzsis;Stephen J. Mojzsis;T. Mark Harrison;Robert T. Pidgeon

  • Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

    A. Yin;P.E. Rumelhart;R. Butler;E. Cowgill

  • Cretaceous-Tertiary shortening, basin development, and volcanism in central Tibet

    Paul Kapp;An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;Lin Ding

  • New constraints on the structure, thermochronology, and timing of the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, SE Asia

    P. H. Leloup;N. Arnaud;R. Lacassin;J. R. Kienast

  • Late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the southern Chinese Tian Shan

    A. Yin;S. Nie;P. Craig;T. M. Harrison

  • Raising Tibet

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  • Pb diffusion in monazite: a combined RBS/SIMS study

    D.J Cherniak;E.Bruce Watson;Marty Grove;T.Mark Harrison

  • Did the Indo-Asian collision alone create the Tibetan plateau?

    M. A. Murphy;An Yin;T. M. Harrison;S. B. Dürr

  • The tectonic evolution of Asia

    An Yin;T. Mark Harrison

  • Diffusion of 40Ar in muscovite

    T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison;Julien Célérier;Amos B. Aikman;Joerg Hermann

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Shiquanhe area of western Tibet

    Paul Kapp;Paul Kapp;Michael A. Murphy;Michael A. Murphy;An Yin;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison

  • A tectonic model for Cenozoic igneous activities in the eastern Indo–Asian collision zone

    Jiang-Hai Wang;Jiang-Hai Wang;An Yin;T.Mark Harrison;Marty Grove

  • Geochronology and thermochronology by the [40]Ar/[39]Ar method

    Ian McDougall;T. Mark Harrison

  • The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry for slowly cooled samples having a distribution of diffusion domain sizes

    Oscar M. Lovera;Frank M. Richter;T. Mark Harrison

  • Tectonic evolution of the early Mesozoic blueschist-bearing Qiangtang metamorphic belt, central Tibet

    Paul Kapp;Paul Kapp;An Yin;Craig E. Manning;T. Mark Harrison;T. Mark Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Marty Grove
Marty Grove Stanford University
Oscar M. Lovera
Oscar M. Lovera University of California, Los Angeles
An Yin
An Yin University of California, Los Angeles
Craig E. Manning
Craig E. Manning University of California, Los Angeles
Axel K. Schmitt
Axel K. Schmitt Curtin University
Stephen J. Mojzsis
Stephen J. Mojzsis University of Bayreuth
Peter Copeland
Peter Copeland University of Houston
E. Bruce Watson
E. Bruce Watson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Kevin D. McKeegan
Kevin D. McKeegan University of California, Los Angeles

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