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., Bercovici D., Spiegelman M. Disequilibrium melting of a two phase multicomponent mantle (2010) in review [PDF preprint]
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 preprint on request] [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Unpublished Work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]