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Thomas G. Blenkinsop

Thomas G. Blenkinsop

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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
5546
World Ranking
5351
National Ranking
573

Overview

Thomas G. Blenkinsop is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable works in related subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Earth-Surface Processes, Ocean Engineering, and Geology.

The central themes of their research involve Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geological formations and processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Erin S. Thompson, David A. Holwell, Iain McDonald, Marc Reichow, and Hannah S.R. Hughes.

Blenkinsop has contributed to various scientific journals, with multiple publications appearing in Mineralium Deposita. Other frequent venues include Economic Geology, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Gondwana Research, and the Journal of Structural Geology.

Their recent papers include:

  • Timing of Triassic tectonic division and postcollisional extension in the eastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula (2020, Gondwana Research)
  • Fragment size distributions in brittle deformed rocks (2021, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • Evidence for olivine deformation in kimberlites and other mantle-derived magmas during crustal emplacement (2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology)
  • The Dvoinoye and September Northeast high-grade epithermal Au-Ag veins, Vodorazdelnaya district, Chukotka region, Russia (2021, Mineralium Deposita)
  • Structural context of the Flatreef in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex (2024, Mineralium Deposita)

Best Publications

  • Deformation Microstructures and Mechanisms in Minerals and Rocks

    Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Cataclasis and processes of particle size reduction

    Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Coeval Large-Scale Magmatism in the Kalahari and Laurentian Cratons During Rodinia Assembly

    Richard E. Hanson;James L. Crowley;Samuel A. Bowring;Jahandar Ramezani

  • Precise U–Pb mineral ages, Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd systematics for the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe—constraints on late Archean events in the Zimbabwe craton and Limpopo belt

    Thomas Oberthür;Donald W. Davis;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;Axel Höhndorf

  • High CO2 content of fluid inclusions in gold mineralisations in the Ashanti Belt, Ghana: A new category of ore forming fluids?

    A. S. Mumm;T. Oberthur;U. Vetter;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Southern African topography and erosion history: plumes or plate tectonics?

    Andy Moore;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;Fenton Cotterill

  • Combining fractal analysis of mineral deposit clustering with weights of evidence to evaluate patterns of mineralization: Application to copper deposits of the Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland, Australia

    Arianne Ford;TG Blenkinsop

  • The Bilila‐Mtakataka fault in Malaŵi: An active, 100‐km long, normal fault segment in thick seismogenic crust

    James Jackson;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Mesoproterozoic intraplate magmatism in the Kalahari Craton:a review

    R. E. Hanson;R. E. Harmer;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;D. S. Bullen

  • Relationships between faults, extension fractures and veins, and stress

    Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Definition of low-grade metamorphic zones using illite crystallinity

    Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • THE Malaŵi Earthquake of March 10, 1989: DEep faulting within the East African Rift System

    James Jackson;Thomas Blenkinsop

  • Controls on post-Gondwana alkaline volcanism in Southern Africa

    Andy Moore;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;Fenton Cotterill

  • Proterozoic Transpressive Deformation in the Northern Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, Zimbabwe

    B. S. Kamber;T. G. Blenkinsop;Igor Maria Villa;P. S. Dahl

  • The magmatic, metamorphic and tectonic evolution of the Northern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt in Zimbabwe

    H. Rollinson;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • High-precision dating of the Kalkarindji large igneous province, Australia, and synchrony with the Early–Middle Cambrian (Stage 4–5) extinction

    F. Jourdan;K. Hodges;B. Sell;B. Sell;U. Schaltegger

  • Local to regional scale structural controls on mineralisation and the importance of a major lineament in the eastern Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Review and analysis with autocorrelation and weights of evidence

    J. R. Austin;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • The Cloncurry Lineament: Geophysical and geological evidence for a deep crustal structure in the Eastern Succession of the Mount Isa Inlier

    J. R. Austin;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Tectonic evolution of the Zambezi orogenic belt: geochronological, structural, and petrological constraints from northern Zimbabwe

    Ulysses S Hargrove;Richard E Hanson;Mark W Martin;Thomas G Blenkinsop

  • Ensialic origin for the Ngezi Group, Belingwe greenstone belt, Zimbabwe

    Tom G. Blenkinsop;Christopher M. Fedo;Michael J. Bickle;Kenneth A. Eriksson

  • Polymodal faulting: Time for a new angle on shear failure

    David Healy;Thomas G. Blenkinsop;Nicholas E. Timms;Philip G. Meredith

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul H.G.M. Dirks
Paul H.G.M. Dirks James Cook University
Nicholas H.S. Oliver
Nicholas H.S. Oliver James Cook University
Timothy R. Baker
Timothy R. Baker University of Leeds
Nick Kusznir
Nick Kusznir University of Liverpool
Zhaoshan Chang
Zhaoshan Chang Colorado School of Mines
Tiago Marcos Alves
Tiago Marcos Alves Cardiff University
Eric M. Roberts
Eric M. Roberts James Cook University
Richard E. Hanson
Richard E. Hanson Texas Christian University
Peter J. Treloar
Peter J. Treloar Kingston University
Kenneth A. Eriksson
Kenneth A. Eriksson Virginia Tech

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