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Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor, Geosciences

Geosciences
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10+ Collaborators
$2.4M / $4M Funding
8+ Grants
110+ Publications

Research Area

geochronology, geology, geochemistry, tectonics, zircon, isotope geochemistry, isotope fractionation, zirconium, mineralogy, materials science, colombia, petrology, magmatism, thermochronology, laser ablation, magmatic processes, isotope analysis, ediacaran, amazonian craton, crystallography, geodynamo, geodynamics, earth science, geomagnetic field

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    Dating the Chengue/Arroyo de Piedra formation of the northern San Jacinto foldbelt: Results of the application of in situ U-Pb carbonate geochronology in NW Colombia

    2025

    Near-collapse of the geomagnetic field may have contributed to atmospheric oxygenation and animal radiation in the Ediacaran Period

    2024
    geomagnetic field, atmospheric oxygenation, animal radiation, ediacaran period, near-collapse

    Setting uyour Geochemistry Laboratory

    2024

    High-precision zirconium isotope analysis of Pacific seawater reveals large mass-dependent fractionations in the ocean

    2024
    zirconium isotopes, pacific seawater, mass-dependent fractionation, ocean analysis, high-precision analysis

    A lunar core dynamo limited to the Moon’s first~ 140 million years

    2024
    dynamo, geodynamo, planetary magnetic fields

    Sub-nanometer resolution of zirconium isotopes in zircon and baddeleyite by Atom Probe Tomography

    2024
    materials science

    Optimization of Age and Compositional Mapping of Zircon by single collector LA-ICP-MS: Methodology and application to Jack Hills Quartzite zircon

    2024
    geochronology, analytical chemistry, mineralogy, geochemistry, geology

    Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Late Neoproterozoic gabbroic intrusions from the Taba-Nuweiba district, Sinai, Egypt

    2024
    geochronology, petrogenesis, tectonic implications, neoproterozoic

    Constraining the viscosity structure of actively foundering lithosphere using naturally deformed crustal and mantle xenoliths

    2024
    lithosphere, viscosity

    Discrimination of tectonic provinces using zircon U-Pb ages from bedrock and detrital samples in the northern Andes

    2024
    northern andes

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    • Geology Field Camp

    • Geochronology and Thermochronology

    • Introduction to Geochemistry

    • Mineralogy

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