Ian D. Somerville

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
228 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Ian D. Somerville is a scholar working on Geophysics, Paleontology and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian D. Somerville has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Geophysics, 112 papers in Paleontology and 70 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Ian D. Somerville's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (109 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (109 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (64 papers). Ian D. Somerville is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (109 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (109 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (64 papers). Ian D. Somerville collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, China and Spain. Ian D. Somerville's co-authors include Pedro Cózar, Sanzhong Li, Yanhui Suo, Shujuan Zhao, Peter Strogen, Shan Yu, Xiyao Li, Huahua Cao, Sergio Rodríguez and Shengyao Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ian D. Somerville

223 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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Closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean and Early Paleozoic amalgamation of microcontinental blocks in East Asia

2017 534 citations Sanzhong Li, Huahua Cao et al. profile →

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Peter A. Ziegler Switzerland

Jan Golonka Poland

Gérard M. Stampfli Switzerland

Malcolm S. Pringle United Kingdom

C.Mca. Powell Australia

Ian Millar United Kingdom

István Dunkl Germany

Wei Shi China

Alastair H.F. Robertson United Kingdom

Yong Il Lee South Korea

Peter A. Ziegler Switzerland

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gao, Peng, Ian D. Somerville, Sanzhong Li, et al.. (2025). Apatite Geochemical Perspectives on the Maturation of Continental Arc Crust via Mush‐Facilitated Processes During Magmatic Flare‐Up. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 26(1).

Hounslow, Mark W., Pedro Cózar, Ian D. Somerville, & Andrew J. Biggin. (2024). Rock Magnetic‐Based Cyclic Expression in Late Visean Ramp Carbonates and an Astrochronology for the Late Asbian From Northwest England. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(3). 3 indexed citations

Chen, Long, et al.. (2023). Geochemical comparison between oceanic and continental arc volcanic rocks: Insights to arc magmatism. Geological Journal. 59(1). 113–136. 4 indexed citations

Cao, Xianzhi, Yanhui Suo, Ruixin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Subduction-derived microplates: Complex evolution of the footwall in the subduction system. Tectonophysics. 862. 229972–229972. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Long, Dongyong Li, J. Deng, et al.. (2023). Fe–Mg Isotopes Trace the Mechanism of Crustal Recycling and Arc Magmatic Processes in the Neo‐Tethys Subduction Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(9). 12 indexed citations

Singh, A. Krishnakanta, Sun‐Lin Chung, & Ian D. Somerville. (2022). Petrogenesis of mantle peridotites in Neo‐Tethyan ophiolites from the Eastern Himalaya and Indo‐Myanmar Orogenic Belt in the geo‐tectonic framework of Southeast Asia. Geological Journal. 57(12). 4886–4919. 5 indexed citations

Cózar, Pedro, Ian D. Somerville, Mohamed El Houicha, et al.. (2022). Contrasting reef patterns during the evolution of the carboniferous azrou-khenifra basin (Moroccan Meseta). Facies. 69(1). 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Suhua, Gang Wang, Sanzhong Li, et al.. (2020). Potential deep-buried petroleum systems in Meso-Neoproterozoic rifts of the southwestern North China Craton revealed by gravity anomalies. Precambrian Research. 346. 105764–105764. 9 indexed citations

Cózar, Pedro, Ian D. Somerville, Daniel Vachard, et al.. (2015). Upper Mississippian to lower Pennsylvanian biostratigraphic correlation of the Sahara Platform successions on the northern margin of Gondwana (Morocco, Algeria, Libya). Gondwana Research. 36. 459–472. 21 indexed citations

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Rodríguez, Sergio, Ismail Said, Ian D. Somerville, Pedro Cózar, & Ismael Coronado. (2015). Description of the Serpukhovian rugose and tabulate corals from Idmarrach and Tirhela Formations (Adarouch, Morocco). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. 109(1). 71–101. 4 indexed citations

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Somerville, Ian D., et al.. (2013). Palaeobiogeographical constraints on the distribution of foraminifers and rugose corals in the Carboniferous Tindouf Basin, South Morocco. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28 indexed citations

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Cózar, Pedro, et al.. (2013). The Tindouf Basin, a marine refuge during the Serpukhovian (Carboniferous) mass extinction in the northwestern Gondwana platform. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 394. 12–28. 36 indexed citations

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Somerville, Ian D., Sergio Rodríguez, Ismail Said, & Pedro Cózar. (2012). Mississippian coral assemblages from Tabainout mud-mound complex, Khenifra area, Central Morocco. Geologica Belgica. 7 indexed citations

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Cózar, Pedro, Sergio Rodríguez, & Ian D. Somerville. (2007). Late Visean rugose coral faunas from South-Eastern Ireland: composition, depositional setting and palaeoecology of Siphonodendron biostromes. ISBN. 17. 307–328. 9 indexed citations

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Somerville, Ian D., et al.. (2005). Nota sobre los primeros registros de las algas calcáreas Paraepimastopora y Archaeolithophyllum en materiales del Mississippiense. 55(55). 7–20. 2 indexed citations

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Cózar, Pedro & Ian D. Somerville. (2005). A new species of Mississipian Diploporaceae alga (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales) in southeastern Ireland. Revista española de micropaleontología. 37(3). 419–430. 2 indexed citations

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Cózar, Pedro & Ian D. Somerville. (2005). Significance of calcareous algae from the recognition of the Asbian and Brigantian stages (Mississippian) in Ireland and Great Britain. Revista española de micropaleontología. 37(1). 71–94. 16 indexed citations

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Cózar, Pedro, Daniel Vachard, & Ian D. Somerville. (2004). Fasciella and Praedonezella (Mississippian-early Pennsylvanian algae): revision and new species. Revista española de micropaleontología. 36(2). 263–278. 12 indexed citations

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Somerville, Ian D., et al.. (2001). Stratigraphy of Dinantian rocks in WB3 borehole, Co. Armagh. 19. 51–78. 6 indexed citations

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Strogen, Peter, et al.. (1996). Recent advances in Lower Carboniferous geology. 54 indexed citations

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