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R. N. Thompson

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Most-Cited Works

→ An assessment of the relative roles of crust and mantle in magma genesis: an elemental approach(1984)723 cited
→ Magmatism of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province(1982)674 cited
→ The Late Cretaceous Impact of the Trindade Mantle Plume: Evidence from Large-volume, Mafic, Potassic Magmatism in SE Brazil(1995)439 cited
→ Transient high temperatures in mantle plume heads inferred from magnesian olivines in Phanerozoic picrites(2000)276 cited
→ Elemental mobility during zeolite facies metamorphism of the Tertiary basalts of eastern Iceland(1976)250 cited
→ Primary basalts and magma genesis(1974)247 cited

→ Subcontinental mantle plumes, hotspots and pre-existing thinspots(1991)

244 cited

→ Asthenospheric and lower-lithospheric mantle contributions to continental extensional magmatism: An example from the British Tertiary Province(1988)243 cited

→ High-Ti and low-Ti mafic potassic magmas: Key to plume-lithosphere interactions and continental flood-basalt genesis(1995)222 cited

→ Migrating Cretaceous-Eocene Magmatismin the Serra do Mar Alkaline Province,SE Brazil: Melts from the Deflected Trindade Mantle Plume?(1998)209 cited