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List of works by Raúl O.C. Fonseca

A remarkable discovery of electrum on the island of Sylt, northern Germany, and its Scandinavian origin

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

Chalcophile Elements and Sulfides in the Upper Mantle

scientific article published in April 2017

Competing effects of crystal chemistry and silicate melt composition on trace element behavior in magmatic systems: insights from crystal/silicate melt partitioning of the REE, HFSE, Sn, In, Ga, Ba, Pt and Rh

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

Concentrations of Pt, Pd, S, As, Se and Te in silicate melts at sulfide, arsenide, selenide and telluride saturation: evidence of PGE complexing in silicate melts?

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Constraining the process of intracontinental subduction in the Austroalpine Nappes: Implications from petrology and Lu‐Hf geochronology of eclogites

scientific article published on 6 October 2021

Corrigendum to “New constraints on the genesis and long-term stability of Os-rich alloys in the Earth’s mantle” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 87 (2012) 227–242]

scientific article published in July 2014

Dating the initiation of Piemonte-Liguria Ocean subduction: Lu–Hf garnet chronometry of eclogites from the Theodul Glacier Unit (Zermatt-Saas zone, Switzerland)

scientific article published on 28 March 2015

Development of a Bi/Tl separation scheme for the proof of 209Bi α-decay in old mineral samples

scientific article published on 8 July 2020

Devonian subduction and syncollisional exhumation of continental crust in Lofoten, Norway

scholarly article

Early Moon formation inferred from hafnium–tungsten systematics

scientific article

Fingerprinting fluid sources in Troodos ophiolite complex orbicular glasses using high spatial resolution isotope and trace element geochemistry

scientific article published in March 2017

Formation mechanisms of macroscopic globules in andesitic glasses from the Izu–Bonin–Mariana forearc (IODP Expedition 352)

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Fractionation of platinum, palladium, nickel, and copper in sulfide–arsenide systems at magmatic temperature

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Fractionation of rhenium from osmium during noble metal alloy formation in association with sulfides: Implications for the interpretation of model ages in alloy-bearing magmatic rocks

scientific article published in November 2017

High-pressure metamorphic age and significance of eclogite-facies continental fragments associated with oceanic lithosphere in the Western Alps (Etirol-Levaz Slice, Valtournenche, Italy)

scientific article published in May 2016

How chalcophile is rhenium? An experimental study of the solubility of Re in sulphide mattes

scientific article published in August 2007

Investigating metasomatic effects on the 187Os isotopic signature: A case study on micrometric base metal sulphides in metasomatised peridotite from the Letlhakane kimberlite (Botswana)

scientific article published in September 2015

Late Cretaceous eclogite in the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria): evidence for subduction under the Sredna Gora magmatic arc

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Lu–Hf garnet systematics of a polymetamorphic basement unit: new evidence for coherent exhumation of the Adula Nappe (Central Alps) from eclogite-facies conditions

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Lu–Hf geochronology of ultra-high-pressure eclogites from the Tromsø-Nappe, Scandinavian Caledonides: evidence for rapid subduction and exhumation

scientific article published in May 2020

Lu–Hf isotope evidence for Paleoproterozoic metamorphism and deformation of Archean oceanic crust along the Dharwar Craton margin, southern India

scientific article published in August 2013

Mesoarchean melting and Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic metasomatism during the formation of the cratonic mantle keel beneath West Greenland

scientific article published in April 2017

Micro-analytical uranium isotope and chemical investigations of zircon crystals from the Chernobyl “lava” and their nuclear fuel inclusions

scientific article published in August 2013

Middle Ordovician subduction of continental crust in the Scandinavian Caledonides: an example from Tjeliken, Seve Nappe Complex, Sweden

scholarly article by Kathrin Fassmer et al published 16 November 2017 in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Nanoscale variations in 187Os isotopic composition and HSE systematics in a Bultfontein peridotite

scholarly article

New constraints on the genesis and long-term stability of Os-rich alloys in the Earth’s mantle

scientific article published in June 2012

Noble metal nanoclusters and nanoparticles precede mineral formation in magmatic sulphide melts.

scientific article published on January 2013

Noble metals potential of sulfide-saturated melts from the subcontinental lithosphere

scholarly article

Oxygen solubility and speciation in sulphide-rich mattes

scientific article published in June 2008

Partition behavior of platinum-group elements during the segregation of arsenide melts from sulfide magma

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 105 no. 12, December 2020

Partitioning of Se, As, Sb, Te and Bi between monosulfide solid solution and sulfide melt – Application to magmatic sulfide deposits

scientific article published in November 2010

Pattern Formation in Silicate Glass Corrosion Zones

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Petrogenesis of alkaline basalt-hosted sapphire megacrysts. Petrological and geochemical investigations of in situ sapphire occurrences from the Siebengebirge Volcanic Field, Germany

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Re-Os and HSE in individual base metal sulfide grains: Evaluating micro-analytical procedures using a sulfide reference material

scientific article published in August 2018

Redox controls on tungsten and uranium crystal/silicate melt partitioning and implications for the U/W and Th/W ratio of the lunar mantle

scholarly article

Redox dependent behaviour of molybdenum during magmatic processes in the terrestrial and lunar mantle: Implications for the Mo/W of the bulk silicate Moon

scientific article published in September 2017

Redox-dependent Ti stable isotope fractionation on the Moon: implications for current lunar magma ocean models

scholarly article

Reply 2 to Comment on “Ultra-high pressure and ultra-reduced minerals in ophiolites may form by lightning strikes”

scientific article published in September 2018

Reply to Comment on “Ultra-high pressure and ultra-reduced minerals in ophiolites may form by lightning strikes” by Griffin et al., 2018: No evidence for transition zone metamorphism in the Luobusa ophiolite

scientific article published in September 2018

Reply to: No 182W evidence for early Moon formation

scientific article published on 13 September 2021

Role of crustal assimilation and basement compositions in the petrogenesis of differentiated intraplate volcanic rocks: a case study from the Siebengebirge Volcanic Field, Germany

scientific article published in June 2016

Silicate Earth’s missing niobium may have been sequestered into asteroidal cores

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Solubility of Os and Ir in sulfide melt: Implications for Re/Os fractionation during mantle melting

scientific article published in November 2011

Solubility of Pt in sulphide mattes: Implications for the genesis of PGE-rich horizons in layered intrusions

scientific article published in October 2009

Solubility of palladium in picritic melts: 1. The effect of iron

scientific article published in May 2010

Spheroidal textures in igneous rocks – Textural consequences of H2O saturation in basaltic melts

scientific article published in October 2015

Sulfide oxidation as a process for the formation of copper-rich magmatic sulfides

scientific article published on 22 April 2012

The U/Pb ratio of the Earth's mantle—A signature of late volatile addition

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The behavior of Pt, Pd, Cu and Ni in the Se-sulfide system between 1050 and 700 °C and the role of Se in platinum-group elements fractionation in sulfide melts

scientific article published in November 2017

The effect of titanium on the partitioning behavior of high-field strength elements between silicates, oxides and lunar basaltic melts with applications to the origin of mare basalts

scientific article published in November 2016

The geological record of base metal sulfides in the cratonic mantle: A microscale 187Os/188Os study of peridotite xenoliths from Somerset Island, Rae Craton (Canada)

scientific article published in November 2017

The great sulfur depletion of Earth’s mantle is not a signature of mantle–core equilibration

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

The mechanism of borosilicate glass corrosion revisited

scholarly article

The redox dependence of titanium isotope fractionation in synthetic Ti-rich lunar melts

scientific article published on 28 February 2021

The solubility of palladium and ruthenium in picritic melts: 2. The effect of sulfur

scientific article published in May 2013

Ti K-edge XANES study on the coordination number and oxidation state of Titanium in pyroxene, olivine, armalcolite, ilmenite, and silicate glass during mare basalt petrogenesis

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Timing of eclogite-facies metamorphism of mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Pohorje Mountains (Eastern Alps, Slovenia) based on Lu–Hf garnet geochronometry

scientific article published in October 2016

Timing of high-pressure metamorphic events in the Bulgarian Rhodopes from Lu–Hf garnet geochronology

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

Two high-pressure metamorphic events, Variscan and Alpine, dated by Lu–Hf in an eclogite complex of the Austroalpine nappes (Schobergruppe, Austria)

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Two metamorphic gold mineralization events confirmed by Lu-Hf isotope dating of garnet in the Late Archean Storø Au deposit, Nuuk region of SW Greenland

Ultra-high pressure and ultra-reduced minerals in ophiolites may form by lightning strikes

scientific article

Understanding Re–Os systematics and model ages in metamorphosed Archean ultramafic rocks: A single mineral to whole-rock investigation

scientific article published in October 2015

Unravelling lunar mantle source processes via the Ti isotope composition of lunar basalts

scholarly article