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Andrew C Kerr

Professor of Petrology, Cardiff University
Verified email at cf.ac.uk
Cited by 13146

The amount of recycled crust in sources of mantle-derived melts

…, MO Garcia, AA Gurenko, VS Kamenetsky, AC Kerr… - science, 2007 - science.org
Plate tectonic processes introduce basaltic crust (as eclogite) into the peridotitic mantle. The
proportions of these two sources in mantle melts are poorly understood. Silica-rich melts …

[PDF][PDF] Are we now living in the Anthropocene?

…, P Gibbard, FJ Gregory, MW Hounslow, AC Kerr… - Gsa Today, 2008 - academia.edu
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval
of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. …

Classification of altered volcanic island arc rocks using immobile trace elements: development of the Th–Co discrimination diagram

AR Hastie, AC Kerr, JA Pearce… - Journal of petrology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Many diagrams conventionally used to classify igneous rocks utilize mobile elements, which
commonly renders them unreliable for classifying rocks from the geological record. The K 2 …

The north Atlantic igneous province

AD Saunders, JG Fitton, AC Kerr… - Geophysical …, 1997 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The North Atlantic Igneous Province extends from eastern Canada to the British Isles, a pre-drift
distance of almost 2000 km. The igneous rocks are predominantly basaltic, but …

[PDF][PDF] Olanzapine versus aprepitant for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting: a randomized phase III trial

RM Navari, SE Gray, AC Kerr - The journal of supportive oncology, 2011 - infekt.ch
BACKGROUND: The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of olanzapine (OLN)
and aprepitant (APR) for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and …

Oceanic plateau formation: a cause of mass extinction and black shale deposition around the Cenomanian–Turonian boundary?

AC Kerr - Journal of the Geological Society, 1998 - lyellcollection.org
The Cenomanian–Turonian boundary (90.4 Ma) represents a major period of worldwide
environmental disturbance. The physical manifestations of this are: elevated atmospheric and …

Cretaceous Basaltic Terranes in western Columbia: elemental, chronological and Sr–Nd isotopic constraints on petrogenesis

AC Kerr, GF Marriner, J Tarney, A Nivia… - Journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Accreted terranes comprising Mid to Late Cretaceous picrites, basalts and dolerites occur in
three north–south trending belts in western Colombia, in the Central Cordillera, Western …

Ocelot: a dynamic optimization framework for bulk-synchronous applications in heterogeneous systems

GF Diamos, AR Kerr, S Yalamanchili… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Ocelot is a dynamic compilation framework designed to map the explicitly data parallel
execution model used by NVIDIA CUDA applications onto diverse multithreaded platforms. …

Frequency of the sit to stand task: an observational study of free-living adults

PM Dall, A Kerr - Applied ergonomics, 2010 - Elsevier
The sit to stand movement is a key determinant of functional independence. Knowledge of
the frequency with which the sit to stand movement is performed throughout the day could …

Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

…, MW Hounslow, AC Kerr… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity
on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using …