Neil Bennett

Neil Bennett

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Neil
Last Name: 
Bennett
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Assistant Professor
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ES 4117, Department of Earth Sciences, 22 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1
Education: 
PhD, Geology, University of Toronto
MSc, Geology, University of Birmingham
Personal Website: 
https://www.neilrbennett.com

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My research uses high pressure and temperature experiments to investigate how elements distribute themselves during geologic processes. This information has wide-ranging applications in petrology for studies that span the microscopic to the planetary scale. To date, I have focused on the latter of these scales – using highly siderophile elements to constrain the conditions of core-formation, the quantity of late-accreted material added to Earth’s mantle, and the effects of core-mantle interaction.

Planned areas of future study include:

– Trace element partitioning in highly (up to ~40 wt%) REE-enriched melts
– Fluoride melt formation in the upper mantle
– Fe-isotope fractionation in iron meteorites
– Siderophile element partitioning between oxide and metal melts

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Assistant Professor of economic geology, high pressure and temperature petrology and geochemistry