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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Trevor Ireland is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy. Their work encompasses various subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas, notably Astro and Planetary Science, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Planetary Science and Exploration, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and High-pressure Geophysics and Materials.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu, 2021, Nature Astronomy
  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, 2022, Science
  • Pebbles and sand on asteroid (162173) Ryugu: In situ observation and particles returned to Earth, 2022, Science
  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, 2022, Science Advances
  • A Global Fireball Observatory, 2020, Planetary and Space Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Trevor Ireland include:

  • A. N. Nguyen
  • Tomohiro Usui
  • Shogo Tachibana
  • Hisayoshi Yurimoto
  • K. Nagashima

The scholar regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Science Advances
  • Chemical Geology
  • Nature Astronomy
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Among the recognitions received, Trevor Ireland was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling–Dabie Orogen, China

    Bradley R. Hacker;Lothar Ratschbacher;Laura Webb;Trevor Ireland

  • Rare earth element chemistry of zircon and its use as a provenance indicator

    Paul W.O. Hoskin;Trevor R. Ireland

  • Tectonics of the Qinling (Central China): tectonostratigraphy, geochronology, and deformation history

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Bradley R. Hacker;Andrew Calvert;Laura E. Webb

  • Exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure continental crust in east central China: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic tectonic unroofing

    Bradley R. Hacker;Lothar Ratschbacher;Laura Webb;Michael O. McWilliams

  • Considerations in Zircon Geochronology by SIMS

    Trevor R. Ireland;Ian S. Williams

  • Exhumation of the ultrahigh‐pressure continental crust in east central China: Cretaceous and Cenozoic unroofing and the Tan‐Lu fault

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Bradley R. Hacker;Laura E. Webb;Michael McWilliams

  • Ion microprobe identification of 4,100–4,200 Myr-old terrestrial zircons

    D. O. Froude;T. R. Ireland;P. D. Kinny;I. S. Williams

  • The link between reduced porphyry copper deposits and oxidized magmas

    Wei-dong Sun;Hua-ying Liang;Ming-xing Ling;Mei-zhen Zhan

  • Development of the early Paleozoic Pacific margin of Gondwana from detrital-zircon ages across the Delamerian orogen

    T. R. Ireland;Thomas Flottmann;C. M. Fanning;G. M. Gibson

  • Three-Dimensional Structure of Hayabusa Samples: Origin and Evolution of Itokawa Regolith

    Akira Tsuchiyama;Masayuki Uesugi;Takashi Matsushima;Tatsuhiro Michikami

  • Determining high precision, in situ, oxygen isotope ratios with a SHRIMP II: Analyses of MPI-DING silicate-glass reference materials and zircon from contrasting granites

    Ryan Ickert;Joe Hiess;Ian Williams;Peter Holden

  • U-Pb, Th-Pb and Ar-Ar geochronology from the southern Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina: implications for the Palaeozoic tectonic evolution of the western Gondwana margin

    J. P. Sims;T. R. Ireland;A. Camacho;P. Lyons

  • Carbon, nitrogen, magnesium, silicon, and titanium isotopic compositions of single interstellar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite

    Peter Hoppe;Sachiko Amari;Ernst Zinner;Trevor Ireland

  • U-Pb chronology of the Solar System's oldest solids with variable 238 U/ 235 U

    Yuri Amelin;Angela Kaltenbach;Tsuyoshi Iizuka;Claudine H. Stirling

  • Unsupported radiogenic Pb in zircon: a cause of anomalously high Pb-Pb, U-Pb and Th-Pb ages

    I. S. Williams;W. Compston;L. P. Black;T. R. Ireland

  • High-uranium matrix effect in zircon and its implications for SHRIMP U-Pb age determinations

    Lloyd T White;Trevor R Ireland

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of pre-Jurassic superterranes in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica

    R. J. Pankhurst;S. D. Weaver;J. D. Bradshaw;B. C. Storey

  • Pebbles and sand on asteroid (162173) Ryugu: In situ observation and particles returned to Earth

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  • Trace elements in diamond inclusions from eclogites reveal link to Archean granites

    Trevor R. Ireland;Roberta L. Rudnick;Zdislav Spetsius

  • Geochronology and geochemistry of a Mesozoic magmatic arc system, Fiordland, New Zealand

    R. J. Muir;T. R. Ireland;S. D. Weaver;J. D. Bradshaw

  • Low δ18O zircons, U-Pb dating, and the age of the Qinglongshan oxygen and hydrogen isotope anomaly near Donghai in Jiangsu Province, China

    Douglas Rumble;David Giorgis;Trevor Ireland;Zeming Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Zolensky
Michael E. Zolensky National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Yuri Amelin
Yuri Amelin Australian National University
S. D. Weaver
S. D. Weaver University of Canterbury
William Compston
William Compston Australian National University
Hiroshi Naraoka
Hiroshi Naraoka Kyushu University
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Hisayoshi Yurimoto Hokkaido University
Weidong Sun
Weidong Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tomoki Nakamura
Tomoki Nakamura Tohoku University
Akira Tsuchiyama
Akira Tsuchiyama Ritsumeikan University

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