Research Interests
My current research is focused on understanding and quantifying the partitioning behavior, abundance and distribution of trace elements in the modern mantle, as well as assessing the allocation and rate of radiogenic heat production in the Earth, as determined by the concentration of radioactive elements within the planet's major silicate reservoirs.
Published Papers
Arevalo Jr., R., McDonough, W.F., and Luong, M. (2009) The K/U ratio of the silicate Earth: Insights into mantle composition, structure and thermal evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (278), 361-369.
Ireland, T.J., Arevalo Jr., R.D., Walker, R.J. and McDonough, W.F. (2009) Tungsten in Hawaiian picrites: a compositional model for the sources of Hawaiian lavas. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (73), 4517-4530.
Arevalo Jr., R. and McDonough, W.F. (2008) Tungsten geochemistry and implications for understanding the Earth's interior. Earth and Planetary Science Letters (272), 656-665.
McDonough, W.F. and Arevalo Jr., R. (2008) Uncertainties in the composition of Earth, its core and silicate sphere. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. (136), 022006.
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