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Frances Cooper

@geofrances.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences at University College London (UCL) interested in tectonics & ore deposits 🌎 Associate Editor for AGU's Tectonics journal 📚 Chair of UCL Women in Earth Science (WiES) group 💫

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Byron Adams @transient-earth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks to @livescience.com for the news feature! Had a great time working on this with @geofrances.bsky.social, and @royalsociety.org 🧪⚒️. Original open access paper here www.science.org/doi/full/10.... @es-ucl.bsky.social
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Landscapes buried beneath large-volume ignimbrites reveal preeruptive uplift rates
Pyroclastic density currents from large explosive eruptions can generate expansive ignimbrite deposits with planar, low-angle surfaces. We demonstrate the utility of these surfaces for constraining pr...
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A vast volcanic deposit in northern Chile preserved clues to an Andean landscape from 22 million years ago. Its shape suggests rocks there rose no more than 0.26 kilometer per million years. doi.org/hcjc45
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Giant volcanic blanket reveals hidden 'Pompeii' of Andean landscapes
A vast sheet of volcanic rock in the Andes has preserved clues to a buried landscape that existed 22 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New paper in #ScienceAdvances! Led by @transient-earth.bsky.social at @es-ucl.bsky.social and building on longstanding research in northern Chile while we were at @bristoluni.bsky.social. 🌋🦩🦙
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Byron Adams @transient-earth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨New open access alert🚨 Have you ever wondered if magmatic heat was influencing your thermochronometry data? Check this article out from @geofrances.bsky.social @kvhodges.bsky.social, me, and others. Reassessing long-term exhumation rates in magmatic terranes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reassessing long-term exhumation rates in magmatic terranes
Crustal exhumation is central to mountain building, weathering, and sediment production processes, which significantly influence the composition and b…
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Leg 2 of my Min Soc UK Lecture tour was to Uni Bayreuth 🇩🇪. Had a great time catching up with @audreybouvier.bsky.social & seeing Hero Bain's garnet prep for dating work with Audrey. Plus Tony Withers showed me the fab experimental petrology labs! I may also have indulged in a little schnapps... 🌍🍸😈
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Had a great time on Friday co-hosting the UCL Earth Sciences Alumni Dinner. We welcomed back staff and students who worked and studied with us back in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. Lots of great stories and reunions (and fabulous photos!). Thanks to Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel for hosting! 🥂
Dr Frances Cooper, Prof Ian Wood, and Prof Lidunka Vočadlo standing in front of a screen advertising the UCL Earth Sciences Alumni DinnerDr Byron Adams, Dr Penelope Wilson, Prof Tom Mitchell, and Dr Frances Cooper sitting at a table.A number of people sitting around two circular dining tables and talking.
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Off to Manchester to kick-off my Min Soc UK & Ireland Distinguished Lecturer tour! Over the year I'll also visit Bayreuth, Galway, Camborne School of Mines, Bristol, Cardiff & Cambridge 🚂 ✈️ 🌍 🥴 I'm delighted to share this honour with Casey Bryce at Uni of Bristol! Full details at: bit.ly/4epkRpL
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Excited to see our #openaccess Nature Geoscience paper out! Great work led by Tom Lamont suggesting Laramide porphyry #Cu deposits in the western USA resulted from water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction. Huge thanks to BHP for funding! 🌟🌵🌎🇺🇸 nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01575-2
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Porphyry copper formation driven by water-fluxed crustal melting during flat-slab subduction - Nature Geoscience
Laramide flat-slab subduction releases fluids into the overlying crust that mediate water-fluxed melting of precursor arc lower crust, ultimately forming porphyry copper deposits, according to a geoch...
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Frances Cooper @geofrances.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Excited to be at the University of Liverpool to speak about “Tectonics, Climate, and Copper in the Central Andes” at the 51st Herdman Symposium on Energy and Sustainability with @mcnamadd.bsky.social! 🌍 🌋 🦩
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