Publications

Skemer, P., Warren, J.M., Hirth, G., (2012) The influence of deformation history on the interpretation of seismic anisotropy, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13:3, doi:10.1029/2011GC003988
Skemer, P., Sundberg, M., Hirth, G., Cooper, R., (2011), Torsion experiments on coarse-grained dunite: implications for microstructural evolution when diffusion creep is suppressed, Deformation Mechanism, Rheology & Tectonics: Microstructures, Mechanics & Anisotropy Geological Society of London Special Publication, 360:211-223
*Cull, S., Arvidson, R.E., Mellon, M.T., Skemer, P., Shaw, A., Morris, R.V., (2010) Composition of subsurface ices at the Mars Phoenix Landing Site, Geophysical Research Letters, 37:L24203, doi:10.1029/2010GL045372
Skemer, P., Warren, J.M., Kelemen, P.B., Hirth, J.G., (2010) Microstructural and rheological evolution of a mantle shear zone, Journal of Petrology, 51:43-53.
Skemer, P., Karato, S-i., (2008) Sheared lherzolite xenoliths revisited, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113: B07205, doi:10.1029/2007JB005286.
Karato, S-i., Jung, H., Katayama, I., Skemer, P., (2008) Geodynamic significance of seismic anisotropy of the upper mantle: New insights from laboratory studies, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 36:59–95.
Skemer, P., Karato, S-i., (2007) Effects of solute segregation on the grain-growth kinetics of orthopyroxene with implications for the deformation of the upper mantle, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors 164:186-196.
Skemer, P., Karato, S-i., (2007) Reply to Comment on “The misorientation index: Development of a new method for calculating the strength of lattice-preferred orientation,” Tectonophysics 441:119-120.
Skemer, P., Katayama, I., Karato, S-i., (2006) Deformation fabrics of the Cima di Gagnone Peridotite Massif, Central Alps, Switzerland: Evidence of deformation at low temperatures in the presence of water, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 152:43-51.
Skemer, P., Katayama, I., Jiang, Z., Karato, S-i., (2005) The misorientation index: Development of a new method for calculating the strength of lattice-preferred orientation, Tectonophysics 411:157-167.

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