Susan Kieffer

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Susan Kieffer is affiliated with the following schools: California Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, University of California, Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Allegheny College, Arizona State University

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Susan Kieffer

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#629

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#1024

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#236

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Volcanology

#29

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#35

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#10

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According to Wikipedia, Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals. She has also contributed to the scientific understanding of meteorite impacts.

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Susan Kieffer's Published Works

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Cassini Observes the Active South Pole of Enceladus (2006) (992)
The role of volatiles and lithology in the impact cratering process. (1980) (385)
Thermodynamics and lattice vibrations of minerals: 5. Applications to phase equilibria, isotopic fractionation, and high‐pressure thermodynamic properties (1982) (288)
Thermodynamics and lattice vibrations of minerals: 3. Lattice dynamics and an approximation for minerals with application to simple substances and framework silicates (1979) (282)
Sound Speed in Liquid-Gas Mixtures' Water-Air and Water-Steam (1977) (279)
Shock metamorphism of the Coconino Sandstone at Meteor Crater, Arizona (1971) (255)
Thermodynamics and lattice vibrations of minerals: 1. Mineral heat capacities and their relationships to simple lattice vibrational models (1979) (243)
Shock processes in porous quartzite: Transmission electron microscope observations and theory (1976) (206)
Thermodynamics and Lattice Vibrations of Minerals, 2, Vibrational Characteristics of Silicates (Paper 8R1054) (1979) (188)
Thermodynamics and Lattice Vibrations of Minerals, 4, Application to Chain and Sheet Silicates and Orthosilicates (Paper 80R1044) (1980) (168)
A Clathrate Reservoir Hypothesis for Enceladus' South Polar Plume (2006) (151)
Laboratory studies of volcanic jets (1984) (147)
Triton's Geyser-Like Plumes: Discovery and Basic Characterization (1990) (139)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
The 1983 Hydraulic Jump in Crystal Rapid: Implications for River-Running and Geomorphic Evolution in the Grand Canyon (1985) (134)
Seismicity at Old Faithful Geyser: an isolated source of geothermal noise and possible analogue of volcanic seismicity (1984) (131)
Isotope fractionation in silicate melts by thermal diffusion (2010) (130)
Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Shocked Quartz from Chicxulub Crater (1995) (124)
Io in the near infrared: Near‐Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) results from the Galileo flybys in 1999 and 2000 (2001) (115)
Blast dynamics at Mount St Helens on 18 May 1980 (1981) (96)
The role of SO2 in volcanism on Io (1979) (95)
Estimate of pyroclastic flow velocities resulting from explosive decompression of lava domes (1993) (92)
From regolith to rock by shock (1975) (90)
Dynamics and thermodynamics of volcanic eruptions: implications for the plumes on Io. (1982) (87)
Shocked basalt from Lonar Impact Crater, India, and experimental analogues (1976) (87)
Prometheus: Io's wandering plume. (2000) (83)
A close-up look at Io from Galileo's near-infrared mapping spectrometer. (2000) (79)
Droplet Chondrules (1975) (75)
THE EMERGING FIELD OF GEOETHICS (2017) (70)
Erosional furrows formed during the lateral blast at Mount St. Helens, May 18, 1980 (1988) (70)
High-pressure researches in geosciences: Edited by W. Schreyer, E. Schweizerbork'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1982, 545 pp., 309 figures, 63 tables, $83.00 (1983) (69)
Effects of topography on facies and compositional zonation in caldera-related ignimbrites (1992) (65)
In situ observations of Old Faithful Geyser (1997) (60)
Hydraulics of the August 7,1980, pyroclastic flow at Mount St. Helens, Washington (1991) (50)
Factors governing the structure of volcanic jets. (1984) (50)
The rapids and waves of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1987) (46)
Low-velocity impact craters in ice and ice-saturated sand with implications for Martian crater count ages. (1979) (46)
Empirical and theoretical comparisons of the Chicxulub and Sudbury impact structures (2004) (44)
Chapter 3. HEAT CAPACITY and ENTROPY: SYSTEMATIC RELATIONS to LATTICE VIBRATIONS (1985) (44)
Sources of unsteady column dynamics in pyroclastic flow eruptions (1991) (43)
Unified model of tectonics and heat transport in a frigid Enceladus (2007) (42)
Isentropic decompression of fluids from crustal and mantle pressures (1979) (42)
Impact conditions required for formation of melt by jetting in silicates (1977) (42)
Triton's plumes: Discovery, characteristics, and models (1995) (39)
A redetermination of the ice/vapor ratio of Enceladus' plumes: Implications for sublimation and the lack of a liquid water reservoir (2009) (37)
Open-ended shock tube flows : Influence of pressure ratio and diaphragm position (2007) (37)
Impact melt sheet formation on Mars and its implication for hydrothermal systems and exobiology (2006) (37)
Lattice thermal conductivity within the Earth and considerations of a relationship between the pressure dependence of the thermal diffusivity and the volume dependence of the Grüneisen parameter (1976) (37)
Clathrate Hydrates: Implications for Exchange Processes in the Outer Solar System (2013) (34)
Thermodynamics and Mass Transport in Multicomponent, Multiphase H2O Systems of Planetary Interest (2009) (34)
A constraint on impact theories of chondrule formation (1977) (30)
Experimental determination of the pressure dependence of the thermal diffusivity of teflon, sodium chloride, quartz, and silica (1976) (26)
Microscopic to macroscopic : atomic environments to mineral thermodynamics (1985) (25)
Impact and volcanism: A momentum scaling law for erosion (1993) (24)
Unsteady high‐pressure flow experiments with applications to explosive volcanic eruptions (2010) (23)
Extreme Volcanism on Jupiter’s Moon Io (2000) (18)
Numerical Models of Caldera-Scale Volcanic Eruptions on Earth, Venus, and Mars (1995) (16)
Enceladus--Oasis or Ice Ball? (2008) (15)
Volcanic mesocyclones (2009) (14)
Volcán Reventador's unusual umbrella (2005) (13)
I. Shock metamorphism of the Coconino sandstone at Meteor Crater, Arizona. II. The specific heat of solids of geophysical interest (1971) (13)
Huang et al. reply (2011) (11)
Introduction: geoethics goes beyond the geoscience profession (2021) (9)
Flow of supersonic jets across flat plates: Implications for ground‐level flow from volcanic blasts (2014) (9)
Simulating Irregular Source Geometries For Ionian Plumes (2011) (7)
Erosional Furrows Formed During the Lateral Blast (1988) (6)
Experimental Calibration of Shock Metamorphism of Basalt (1975) (6)
The dynamics disaster (2013) (6)
Concerning the meteoritic origin of the Puchezh-Katunki crater (1973) (6)
Experimental shock lithification of water-bearing rock powders (1982) (6)
Io’s theothermal (sulfur) – Lithosphere cycle inferred from sulfur solubility modeling of Pele’s magma supply (2014) (4)
Solid State Spectroscopy (1995) (4)
ON THE TERRESTRIAL ORIGIN OF THE TEPEXITL CRATER, MEXICO (1975) (3)
Lava channel formation via the viscoplastic indentation of hot substrates (2006) (3)
Sound speed in liquid--gas mixtures: water--air, water--steam (abstract) (1977) (3)
Hydraulic map of Lava Falls Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (3)
Celebrity meets science: Hollywood's environmentalism and its effect (2007) (3)
The mysterious grooves of Volcán Bárcena: a review of the role of streamwise counter-rotating vortices during erosion by dilute pyroclastic density currents (2021) (3)
International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG): an update on activities (2016) (3)
Megascale processes: Natural disasters and human behavior (2009) (2)
Evidence for a topographically controlled sulfur dioxide deposit at Chaac caldera, Io (2001) (2)
Researching the Earth—and a Few of Its Neighbors (2017) (2)
Debris-fan reworking during low-magnitude floods in the Green River canyons of the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah: COMMENT (2004) (2)
The concepts of beauty and creativity: Earth science thinking (2006) (2)
Lattice Thermal Conductivity Within the Earth and Considerations of a Relationship Between the Pressure Dependence of the Thermal Diffusivity and the Volume Dependence of the Grffneisen Parameter (1976) (2)
The Role of Volatiles in the Impact Process (1977) (2)
Risk Management and the Wisdom of Aldo Leopold (2010) (2)
FORMATION OF LINEAR GROOVES ON MARTIAN DOUBLE LAYERED EJECTA IMPACT CRATERS BY EROSIVE VORTICES (2017) (1)
About this title - Geoethics: Status and Future Perspectives (2021) (1)
Hydraulics and Sediment Transport of the Colorado River (2013) (1)
Hydraulic map of 24.5 Mile Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (1)
Chapter 1. SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE (1985) (1)
Volcanoes and atmospheres; catastrophic influences on the planets (1986) (1)
Hydraulic map of Horn Creek Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (1)
Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact (2001) (1)
Impact Crater Hydrothermal Niches for Life on Mars: Question of Scale (2000) (1)
Ice/Vapor Ratio of Enceladus' Plume: Implications for Sublimation (2009) (1)
Hydraulic map of House Rock Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (1)
Hydraulic map of Bright Angel Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (1)
MULTIPHASE FLOW IN EXPLOSIVE VOLCANIC AND GEOTHERMAL ERUPTIONS (1989) (1)
Numerical Models of Caldera-Scale Volcanic Eruptions on the Earth, Venus, Mars, Triton and Io (1995) (1)
Geoethics and Professional Societies (2014) (0)
Dependence on Initial Conditions in a Numerical Model of River Network Formation (2009) (0)
Rayleigh-Taylor instability in rotating volcanic umbrellas (2008) (0)
Planet Earth: Its Past, Our Present, A Future (?) (2012) (0)
Hydraulic map of Crystal Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (0)
Rapids of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1986) (0)
Eugene M. Shoemaker (1928-1997) (1997) (0)
Dependence of river network scaling on initial conditions (2009) (0)
Geologic tubes: explosion pipes. (1989) (0)
Researching the earth: living it, loving it, sharing it (1993) (0)
Geology: The Bifocal Science (2018) (0)
Io's Volcanic Activity as Seen by the Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer on Galileo (2000) (0)
Hydraulic map of Deubendorff Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (0)
Stealth Disasters and Geoethics (2013) (0)
Complete 1999 Program (2021) (0)
Deviations from power-law scaling in river networks (2009) (0)
Annular waves on the surface of impact-formed tektites (2006) (0)
Morphological Transition in Rapidly Expanding Magmas (2008) (0)
Plume Models and Pyroclastic Flow on Io (2001) (0)
Bringing Geoethics into Society (2015) (0)
Supercomputer modeling of volcanic eruption dynamics (1995) (0)
Parallel Drainage Patterns and the Origin of Scaling in River Networks (2009) (0)
Measured Fluid Flow in an Active H2O-CO2 Geothermal Well as an Analog to Fluid Flow in Fractures on Mars: Preliminary Report (2004) (0)
From regolith to rock by shock. [lithification model for terrestrial and lunar regolith (1975) (0)
Tepexitl crater, Mexico: not meteoritic (1975) (0)
A Momentum Scaling Law for Volcanic and Impact Erosion (2001) (0)
Experimental simulation of volcanic steam blasts and jets at high pressure ratios (2008) (0)
As Ethics is a Core Attribute of Science, So Geoethics Must Be at the Core of Geoscience (2015) (0)
Correction to: The mysterious grooves of Volcán Bárcena: a review of the role of streamwise counter-rotating vortices during erosion by dilute pyroclastic density currents (2021) (0)
Geoethics and the Role of Professional Geoscience Societies (2014) (0)
Experimental simulations of the May 18, 1980 directed blast at Mount St. Helens, WA (2009) (0)
Hydraulic Log of the Colorado River From Lees Ferry to Diamond Creek, Arizona (2013) (0)
Geologic Tubes: Explosion Pipes . Vladimir A. Milashev. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988. x, 249 pp. $27. Translated from the Russian edition (Leningrad, 1984) by R. E. Sorkina. (1989) (0)
Fluid dynamics of multiphase flow in volcanic environments on the Earth, Io, and other planets (1991) (0)
Fortran program for calculation of thermodynamic properties of minerals from vibrational spectra (1986) (0)
On modeling volcanic eruptions with open-ended shock tubes (2005) (0)
A Comparison of Terrestrial and Martian Gravity Conditions on the Behavior of CO2-driven Aqueous Flow (2006) (0)
Geoethics: what can we learn from existing bio-, ecological, and engineering ethics codes? (2014) (0)
Volcanos and Atmospheres; Catastrophic Influences on Planets (1985) (0)
The Blast at Mount St. Helens: What Happened? (1981) (0)
Experiments on the Gas Dynamics of the Mt. St. Helens 1980 Lateral Blast (2007) (0)
DSMC Simulations of Irregular Source Geometries for Io's Pele Plume (2010) (0)
The deadly dynamics of landslides (2014) (0)
Glass production by shock waves in terrestrial and lunar rocks and implications regarding the origin of chondrules (1974) (0)
A Close-Up View of Io in the Infrared: NIMS Results from the Galileo Fly-Bys (2000) (0)
Lattice Dynamics, Vibrational Spectra, Thermodynamic and Heat Properties of Minerals (1994) (0)
Low velocity impact craters in ice and permafrost with implications for martian crater-count ages (1979) (0)
Active volcanism on Io: results from Galileo (2000) (0)
Hydraulic map of Granite Rapids, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1988) (0)

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