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
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Open access
Metasomatism is a source of methane on Mars
Rinaldi, M., Mikhail, S. & Sverjensky, D. A., 15 May 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 634, 9 p., 118672.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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. J., Liebmann, J., Spencer, C. J. & Bucholz, C. E., 17 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geology. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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Polycrystalline diamonds from kimberlites: snapshots of rapid and episodic diamond formation in the lithospheric mantle
Jacob, D. E. & Mikhail, S., 19 Dec 2022, Diamond: genesis, mineralogy and geochemistry. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 167-190 24 p. (Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry; vol. 88).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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. 33-38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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