John Rudge

My research interests encompass a broad spread of geophysics and geochemistry. I use techniques from continuum mechanics, numerical analysis and statistics to tackle various problems in the Earth Sciences.

Publications

Rudge J.F., Maclennan J., Stracke A. The geochemical consequences of mixing melts from a heterogeneous mantle (2013) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 114:112-143 [PDF final] [PDF preprint] [Elsevier version]
Katz R.F., Rudge J.F. The energetics of melting fertile heterogeneities within the depleted mantle (2011) Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 12:Q0AC16 [PDF Final] [PDF preprint] [AGU version]
Kelemen P.B., Matter J., Streit L., Rudge J.F., Curry B., Blusztajn J. Rates and mechanisms of mineral carbonation in peridotite: Natural processes and recipes for enhanced, in situ CO2 capture and storage (2011) Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 39:545-576 [Annual Reviews version]
Kleine T., Rudge J.F. Chronometry of meteorites and the formation of the Earth and Moon (2011) Elements 7:41-46 [PDF Final] [Elements version]
Rudge J.F., Bercovici D., Spiegelman M. Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle (2011) Geophys. J. Int. 184:699-718 [PDF Final] [PDF preprint] [Wiley version]
Rudge J.F., Kleine T., Bourdon B. Broad bounds on Earth's accretion and core formation constrained by geochemical models (2010) Nature Geosci. 3:439-443 [PDF Final] [PDF Final supplementary material] [PDF preprint] [Nature version]
Rudge J.F., Kelemen P. B., Spiegelman M. A simple model of reaction induced cracking applied to serpentinization and carbonation of peridotite (2010) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 291:215-227 [PDF Final] [PDF preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F., Reynolds B.C., Bourdon B. The double spike toolbox (2009) Chem. Geol. 265:420-431 [PDF Final] [PDF preprint] [Elsevier version] [software download]
Rudge J.F. Finding peaks in geochemical distributions: a re-examination of the helium-continental crust correlation (2008) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 274:179-188 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F., Holness M. B., Smith G. C. Quantitative textural analysis of packings of elongate crystals (2008) Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 156:413-429 [PDF] [PDF Preprint] [Springer version]
Rudge J.F., Shaw Champion M. E., White N., McKenzie D., Lovell B. A plume model of transient diachronous uplift at the Earth's surface (2008) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 267:146-160 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F. Mantle pseudo-isochrons revisited (2006) Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 249(3-4):494-513 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]
Rudge J.F. Scattering past a cylinder with weak circulation (2005) Proceedings of the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program (Pages 157-179) [PDF]
Rudge J.F., McKenzie D., Haynes P.H. A theoretical approach to understanding the isotopic heterogeneity of mid-ocean ridge basalt (2005) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 69(15):3873-3887 [PDF Final] [PDF Preprint] [Elsevier version]

Unpublished Work

Geochemical Implications of Stirring and Mixing in the Earth's Mantle (2006) PhD thesis [Web PDF (single spaced)] [Print PDF (double spaced)] (I was supervised by Dan McKenzie at the Bullard Laboratories, Earth Sciences, and Peter Haynes at DAMTP)
Completion of Oil Wells (Part III computational project) (2003) [PDF]
Friction Stir Welding (with John Hinch) (2002) [PDF]