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Graham Pearson
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Latest papers
Depositional age and provenance of Siderian metasedimentary rocks in the Nonacho Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for the correlation of crustal domains in the western Rae province
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · 2026 · senior author
Linking detrital minerals to their source: The use of U-Pb-Hf data to untangle Laurentian and Gondwanan (Ganderian) sources
Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2025
Hydrogen content and isotopic composition in diamond by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
2025
Latest funding
- $3,565,420
Microscale records of Earth resources – from formation to environmental impacts and remediation
CFI · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $410,000
Tracing Early Earth Evolution
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $800,000
Canada’s Arctic cratons, kimberlites and diamonds
CFI · 2011 · Principal investigator
122 publications.
Depositional age and provenance of Siderian metasedimentary rocks in the Nonacho Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada: implications for the correlation of crustal domains in the western Rae province
Benjamin Neil, Thomas Chacko, Larry M. Heaman, Rebecca Canam, Edith Martel, Graham D. Pearson
Linking detrital minerals to their source: The use of U-Pb-Hf data to untangle Laurentian and Gondwanan (Ganderian) sources
Morgann Perrot, John W.F. Waldron, Yan Luo, Massimo Chiaradia, Dustin R. L. Dahn, Graham D. Pearson, Joshua H.F.L. Davies
Hydrogen content and isotopic composition in diamond by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Émilie Thomassot, Blas Barbera, Maxwell Day, Pierre Cartigny, Dorrit E. Jacob, Simon C. Kohn, Graham D. Pearson, Fabrizio Nestola, Martha Giovanna Pamato, LG-SIMS Nancy LG-SIMS Nancy
A subduction-modified source for the parental melts to MARID assemblages from the Kaapvaal craton lithosphere and their formation via hybridisation with wall-rock peridotite
Jason Hinde, P. E. Janney, Hélène Legros, Yan Luo, Sarah Woodland, Graham D. Pearson
A common source for strongly silica-undersaturated magmas: New insights from Zn-Fe isotopes of kimberlites
Ronghua Cai, Andrea Giuliani, Paolo A. Sossi, Graham D. Pearson, Yongsheng He, Jingao Liu, Stephen Foley, Tianhao Wu
Corundum inclusions in diamonds: a new tool for diamond geobarometry
Fabrizio Nestola, Chiara Anzolini, Andrea Curtolo, Mattia Gilio, Matteo Alvaro, Graham D. Pearson, Davide Novella, Martha Pamato, Maxwell Day, Suzette Timmerman, Jeffrey W. Harris
RamanCrystalHunter : a new program and database for processing, analysis, and identification of Raman spectra
A. Barbaro, Maxwell Day, Qiwei Zhang, Ivano Rocchetti, Fabrizio Nestola, Sofia Lorenzon, Martha Giovanna Pamato, Claudio Bendazzoli, Davide Novella, C. Mazzoli, Raffaele Sassi, Graham D. Pearson, Evan M. Smith, Mike Scott, Frank E. Brenker, Simone Molinari, Kai Qu, Yanjuan Wang, Radek Škoda, Matteo Alvaro, Mattia Gilio, Mara Murri, Anatoly V. Kasatkin
Insights from Super-Deep Diamonds: Evidence of Ca-Rich Environments in the Lower Mantle
Eduardo Novais Rodrigues, Fabrizio Nestola, Maxwell Day, Martha Giovanna Pamato, Davide Novella, Graham D. Pearson, Thomas Stachel, Robert W. Luth, Jeffrey W. Harris
Beyond Acasta: Newly identified Palaeo-Eoarchaean Terranes in the Slave Craton
Rory Changleng, Joshua M. Garber, Erik J. Schoonover, Andy Smye, Graham D. Pearson, Jesse Reimink
Devonian plutons in the eastern Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf, and O isotopic compositions, age, and petrogenetic implications
Donnelly B. Archibald, Sandra M. Barr, Chris E. White, Shae J. Nickerson, Richard A. Stern, Yan Luo, Graham D. Pearson
Microscale records of Earth resources – from formation to environmental impacts and remediation
Principal investigators: Britta Jensen, Graham Pearson
Keywords: critical minerals, earth processes, remediation, environmental impact Electron microprobe, mass spectrometer, X-ray diffraction, Raman, laser ablation
Tracing Early Earth Evolution
Principal investigators: Pearson, Graham
Canada’s Arctic cratons, kimberlites and diamonds
Principal investigators: Pearson, Graham
Keywords: Diamonds, radiogenic isotopes, earth's mantle, mass spectrometry, osmium isotopes,
Conditions of Diamond Formation and Preservation beneath the Slave and Superior Cratons
Principal investigators: Stachel, Thomas
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Philip Heron and Phil Heron: 100 shared papers
- Larry Heaman and Thomas Chacko: 32 shared papers
- Thomas Stachel and Larry Heaman: 12 shared papers
- Thomas Stachel and Thomas Chacko: 11 shared papers
- Joshua Davies and Larry Heaman: 8 shared papers
- Claire Currie and Martyn Unsworth: 8 shared papers
- Joshua Davies and John Waldron: 7 shared papers
- Thomas Stachel and Graham Pearson: 7 shared papers
- Joshua Davies and Alessandro Ielpi: 5 shared papers
- John Waldron and Larry Heaman: 4 shared papers
- Thomas Chacko and Graham Pearson: 4 shared papers
- Martyn Unsworth and Larry Heaman: 3 shared papers
- John Waldron and Graham Pearson: 3 shared papers
- Joshua Davies and Graham Pearson: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Stachel and Alessandro Ielpi: 2 shared papers
- Claire Currie and Thomas Chacko: 2 shared papers
- Martyn Unsworth and Thomas Chacko: 2 shared papers
- Larry Heaman and Graham Pearson: 2 shared papers
- Philip Heron and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- William Shotyk and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- Thomas Stachel and Claire Currie: 1 shared paper
- Claire Currie and Alessandro Ielpi: 1 shared paper
- Claire Currie and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- Martyn Unsworth and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- John Waldron and Donnelly Archibald: 1 shared paper
- Alessandro Ielpi and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- Donnelly Archibald and Graham Pearson: 1 shared paper
- Graham Pearson and Phil Heron: 1 shared paper
- Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
- Physics
- Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
- Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
- Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Earth Sciences - Science de la terre
- Other
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Thomas Stachel
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
7 shared papers, latest 2025
Thomas Chacko
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
4 shared papers, latest 2026
John Waldron
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin
3 shared papers, latest 2025
Larry Heaman
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Joshua Davies
Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Phil Heron
Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Claire Currie
Physics
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Martyn Unsworth
Physics
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Alessandro Ielpi
Earth Sciences - Science de la terre
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Donnelly Archibald
Earth Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Philip Heron
Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2019
William Shotyk
Renewable Resources Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Robert Luth
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Sandra Barr
Earth and Environmental Science
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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