S. Christopher Caran

724 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 589 citations indexed

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S. Christopher Caran is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Christopher Caran has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 589 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Geophysics, 3 papers in Atmospheric Science and 2 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in S. Christopher Caran's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (8 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (7 papers). S. Christopher Caran is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (10 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (8 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (7 papers). S. Christopher Caran collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom. S. Christopher Caran's co-authors include S. Demirdag, H. Yavuz, Hakan Çoban, Orhan Karslı, Bin Chen, Abdurrahman Dokuz, Raif Kandemir, Kamil Yılmaz, Mohammad Ali Rajabzadeh and James A. Neely and has published in prestigious journals such as Tectonophysics, Geological Society of America Bulletin and Lithos.

In The Last Decade

S. Christopher Caran

17 papers receiving 567 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Thermal effect on the physical properties of carbonate rocks

2009 329 citations H. Yavuz, S. Demirdag et al. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences profile →

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Colette Sirieix France

Maciej J. Mendecki Poland

Axel Vollbrecht Germany

Brian McConnell Ireland

T. Y. Irfan United Kingdom

Marcus R. Dobbs United Kingdom

Katherine A. Daniels United Kingdom

Afroz Ahmad Shah Brunei

Jianqiang Chen China

Judith Sippel Germany

Colette Sirieix France

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273 ×1.0

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39 ×0.3

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318 ×2.6

141 ×1.3

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Christopher Caran

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17 of 17 papers shown

Aysal, Namık, et al.. (2024). Mineral chemistry and P–T conditions of the winchite-bearing metabasic rocks in the NE edge of the Menderes Massif (Western Türkiye). Geochemistry. 84(4). 126126–126126. 1 indexed citations

Caran, S. Christopher, et al.. (2022). Petrology of Mt. Kıra continental alkali lavas with arc-like signature, Batman, SE Anatolia, Turkey: Evidence for mafic juvenile lower crust assimilated intraplate basalts in the collision- and mantle flow-driven geodynamic setting of Arabian Foreland. Lithos. 416-417. 106645–106645. 1 indexed citations

Çoban, Hakan, Orhan Karslı, S. Christopher Caran, & Kamil Yılmaz. (2020). Sediment-derived melt-related metasomatized mantle wedge as a source of post-subduction Quaternary adakitic porphyries associated with absarokite-shoshonite from the Karadağ stratovolcano (Karaman, Central Anatolia, Turkey). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 196. 104380–104380. 5 indexed citations

Karslı, Orhan, et al.. (2020). Melting of the juvenile lower crust in a far-field response to roll-back of the southern Neotethyan oceanic lithosphere: the Oligocene adakitic dacites, NE Turkey. Lithos. 370-371. 105614–105614. 15 indexed citations

Caran, S. Christopher, et al.. (2019). Investigation on Geological Features and Economical Potential of Commercial Marble Around Yarışlı Lake, Burdur (SW Turkey). 9(1). 46–49. 1 indexed citations

Çoban, Hakan, Orhan Karslı, S. Christopher Caran, & Kamil Yılmaz. (2018). What processes control the genesis of absarokite to shoshonite-banakite series in an intracontinental setting, as revealed by geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data of Karadağ Stratovolcano in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Lithos. 324-325. 609–625. 11 indexed citations

Caran, S. Christopher. (2016). Mineralogy and petrology of leucite ankaratrites with affinities to kamafugites and carbonatites from the Kayıköy area, Isparta, SW Anatolia, Turkey: Implications for the influences of carbonatite metasomatism into the parental mantle sources of silica-undersaturated potassic magmas. Lithos. 256-257. 13–25. 15 indexed citations

Rajabzadeh, Mohammad Ali, et al.. (2012). Mineralogy, geochemistry and geotectonic significance of mantle peridotites with high-Cr chromitites in the Neyriz ophiolite from the outer Zagros ophiolite belts, Iran. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 78. 1–15. 31 indexed citations

Karslı, Orhan, S. Christopher Caran, Abdurrahman Dokuz, et al.. (2011). A-type granitoids from the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey: Records for generation of hybrid A-type rocks in a subduction-related environment. Tectonophysics. 530-531. 208–224. 80 indexed citations

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Yavuz, H., S. Demirdag, & S. Christopher Caran. (2009). Thermal effect on the physical properties of carbonate rocks. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 47(1). 94–103. 329 indexed citations breakdown →

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Caran, S. Christopher, Hakan Çoban, Martin F. J. Flower, Chris J. Ottley, & Kamil Yılmaz. (2009). Podiform chromitites and mantle peridotites of the Antalya ophiolite, Isparta Angle (SW Turkey): Implications for partial melting and melt–rock interaction in oceanic and subduction-related settings. Lithos. 114(3-4). 307–326. 40 indexed citations

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Caran, S. Christopher & James A. Neely. (2006). Hydraulic Engineering in Prehistoric Mexico. Scientific American. 295(4). 78–85. 13 indexed citations

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Caran, S. Christopher. (1998). Quaternary Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Reconstruction: A Discussion and Critique, with Examples from the Southern High Plains. Plains Anthropologist. 43(164). 111–124. 12 indexed citations

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Winsborough, Barbara, S. Christopher Caran, James A. Neely, & Salvatore Valastro. (1996). Calcified microbial mats date prehistoric canals—Radiocarbon assay of organic extracts from travertine. Geoarchaeology. 11(1). 37–50. 11 indexed citations

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Caran, S. Christopher, et al.. (1996). A late paleo-Indian/Early archaic water well in Mexico—Possible oldest water-Management feature in the new world. Geoarchaeology. 11(1). 1–35. 5 indexed citations

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Caran, S. Christopher, et al.. (1994). Birds and Other Wildlife of South Central Texas. University of Texas Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Caran, S. Christopher, et al.. (1990). Quaternary stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Texas Rolling Plains. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 102(6). 768–785. 15 indexed citations

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