Dr Sami Mikhail

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Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3915

Email

sm342@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

The motivation for my research is to understand how the interior of a planet affects and controls the composition of its surface, and how volcanic degassing relates to long-term habitability.  For more information visit my personal website: www.samimikhail.com 

PhD supervision

• Fawn Holland

Selected publications

• A primary magmatic source of nitrogen to the Earth’s crust

  Boocock, T. J., Mikhail, S., Boyce, A. J., Prytulak, J., Savage, P. S. & Stueeken, E. E., Jun 2023, In: Nature Geoscience. 16, p. 521–526 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation

  Boocock, T. J., Stüeken, E. E., Bybee, G. M., König, R., Boyce, A. J., Prytulak, J., Buisman, I. & Mikhail, S., 1 Sept 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 356, p. 116-128 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Polycrystalline Diamonds from Kimberlites: Snapshots of Rapid and Episodic Diamond Formation in the Lithospheric Mantle

  Jacob, D. E. & Mikhail, S., 3 May 2023, Diamond: Genesis, Mineralogy and Geochemistry. de Gruyter, p. 167-190 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Strongly peraluminous granites provide independent evidence for an increase in biomass burial across the Precambrian-Phanerozoic boundary

  Mikhail, S., Stueeken, E. E., Boocock, T. J., Athey, M., Mappin, N., Boyce, A., Liebmann, J., Spencer, C. & Bucholz, C., 17 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geology. Early View

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The importance of carbon to the formation and composition of silicates during mantle metasomatism

  Rinaldi, M., Mikhail, S., Sverjensky, D. A. & Kalita, J., 1 Sept 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 356, p. 105-115 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Identification and Quantification of Fluorine Speciation in CMAS Silicate Melts via 19F MAS NMR

  Formoso, F., Dawson, D. M., Mikhail, S., Ashbrook, S. E., Melai, C., Joachim-Mrosko, B. & Mare, E. R., 2 Jun 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• Open access

  Polycrystalline diamonds from kimberlites: snapshots of rapid and episodic diamond formation in the lithospheric mantle

  Jacob, D. E. & Mikhail, S., 5 Jul 2022, In: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 88, 1, p. 167-189 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A genetic metasomatic link between eclogitic and peridotitic diamond inclusions

  Mikhail, S., Rinaldi, M., Mare, E. R. & Sverjensky, D., 24 Mar 2021, In: Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 17, p. 33-38

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Hydrothermal recycling of sedimentary ammonium into oceanic crust and the Archean ocean at 3.24 Ga

  Stueeken, E. E., Boocock, T. J., Robinson, A., Mikhail, S. & Johnson, B., 1 Jul 2021, In: Geology. 49, 7, p. 822-826 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Investigating the mechanics of fluorine speciation in low-pressure silicate melts using ¹⁹F magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance

  Formoso, F., Joachim-Mrosko, B., Konzett, J., Bromiley, G., Dawson, D. M., Ashbrook, S. E. & Mikhail, S., 8 Jul 2021.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

 

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