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William Lowrie

William Lowrie

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Earth Science

D-Index
64
Citations
13674
World Ranking
1504
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1990 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

William Lowrie is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods

William Lowrie has published in the Cambridge University Press eBooks venue, with their most recent paper titled Index published in 2020. This publication is associated with the book Fundamentals of Geophysics released by Cambridge University Press in 2020, a work that has received 481 citations.

Frequent co-authorship has been with Andreas Fichtner, with whom they have collaborated on 14 publications.

Throughout their career, Lowrie has been recognized through memberships and fellowships including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2000)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1990)

Best Publications

  • Identification of ferromagnetic minerals in a rock by coercivity and unblocking temperature properties

    W. Lowrie

  • Fundamentals of Geophysics

    William Lowrie

  • On the alternating field demagnetization characteristics of multidomain thermoremanent magnetization in magnetite

    William Lowrie;Michael Fuller

  • One hundred million years of geomagnetic polarity history

    William Lowrie;Walter Alvarez

  • Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy V. Type section for the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene geomagnetic reversal time scale

    Walter Alvarez;Michael A. Arthur;Alfred G. Fischer;William Lowrie

  • Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico.

    Jan Smit;Alessandro Montanari;Nicola H.M. Swinburne;Walter Alvarez

  • Magnetic properties of marine limestones

    W. Lowrie;F. Heller

  • Stability of Anhysteretic Remanent Magnetization in Fine and Coarse Magnetite and Maghemite Particles

    H. P. Johnson;William Lowrie;Dennis V. Kent

  • Tethyan magnetostratigraphy from Pizzo Mondello (Sicily) and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Piero Di Stefano

  • Magnetic susceptibility anisotropy, strain, and progressive deformation in Permian sediments from the Maritime Alps (France)

    Roy Kligfield;W.H. Owens;W. Lowrie

  • Paleogene magnetic stratigraphy in Umbrian pelagic carbonate rocks: The Contessa sections, Gubbio

    William Lowrie;Walter Alvarez;Giovanni Napoleone;Katharina Perch-Nielsen

  • Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540.

    Walter Alvarez;Jan Smit;William Lowrie;Frank Asaro

  • Timing of diagenetic haematite growth in red pelagic limestones from Gubbio (Italy)

    J.E.T. Channell;R. Freeman;F. Heller;W. Lowrie

  • Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene magnetic stratigraphy at Gubbio, Italy III. Upper Cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy

    William Lowrie;Walter Alvarez

  • Formation of spaced cleavage and folds in brittle limestone by dissolution

    Walter Alvarez;Terry Engelder;William Lowrie

  • Details of magnetic polarity transitions recorded in a high deposition rate deep-sea core

    Neil D. Opdyke;Dennis V. Kent;William Lowrie

  • EFFECT OF PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION ON REMANENT MAGNETIZATION OF PERMIAN REDBEDS FROM THE ALPES MARITIMES (FRANCE)

    R. Kligfield;W. Lowrie;A. Hirt;A.W.B. Siddans

  • Magnetic anisotropy, rock fabrics and finite strain in deformed sediments of SW Sardinia (Italy)

    Catalina M. Lüneburg;Stephan A. Lampert;Hermann D. Lebit;Ann M. Hirt

  • Middle and early cretaceous magnetic stratigraphy from the Cismon section, northern Italy

    J.E.T. Channell;W. Lowrie;F. Medizza

  • Magnetic susceptibility anisotropy as a strain indicator in the sudbury basin, Ontario

    Roy Kligfield;William Lowrie;Ian W.D. Dalziel

  • Timescales of the Paleomagnetic Field

    James E.T. Channell;Dennis V. Kent;William Lowrie;Joseph G. Meert

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Ann M. Hirt
Ann M. Hirt ETH Zurich
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Giovanni Muttoni
Giovanni Muttoni University of Milan
James E T Channell
James E T Channell University of Florida
Luca Lanci
Luca Lanci University of Urbino
Philippe Claeys
Philippe Claeys Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Miriam Kastner
Miriam Kastner University of California, San Diego
Alessandro Montanari
Alessandro Montanari Mines ParisTech

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