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Eleanor Jennings

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Experimental studies (including analytical technique development) examining trace element partitioning between liquid metal and silicate at high pressure, which is used to interpret the Bulk Silicate Earth composition in terms of accretion and core segregation.
    • Analytical work and thermodynamic modelling to determine the origin of ferropicrite. This rare but important magma type derives from the partial melting of recycled basaltic material in the mantle, with implications for the interaction of plumes and subducted slabs in the deep Earth.
    • Tracking igneous fractionation processes and crystallisation conditions from the compositions of mineral inclusions, melt inclusions, and their host minerals.

    Research overview

    I study the origin and evolution of the Earth, and the various geodynamic processes that occur within it, using geochemical methods. Planetary differentiation processes operating at various scales and points in time will leave a geochemical imprint on the materials involved. Whether we look at the core segregating from magma oceans on the growing Earth, melts separating from their mantle source, or gases leaving volcanoes, each process can be investigated if we can measure the compositions of the products and know about the geochemistry of the system. Experimental petrology and thermodynamics help us to better constrain how fractionation depends on intrinsic and extrinsic variables.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Planetary Materials
    • Planetary Interiors
    • Comets, Asteroids and Meteorites (Level 6)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Rubie, D.C. and Dale, K.I. and Nathan, G. and Nakajima, M. and Jennings, Eleanor and Golabek, G.J. and Jacobson, S.A. and Morbidelli, A. (2025) . Earth and Planetary Science Letters 651 (119139), pp. 1-12. ISSN 0012-821X.
    • Rogmann, E.-M. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Ross, J. and Miyajima, N. and Walter, M.J. and Kohn, S.C. and Lord, O.T. (2024) . Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 179 (5), pp. 52. ISSN 0010-7999.
    • Anenburg, M. and Panikorovskii, T.L. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Shendrik, R.Y. and Antonov, A.A. and Gavrilenko, V. (2024) . Inorganic Chemistry ISSN 0020-1669.
    • Bhanot, K.K. and Downes, Hilary and Rider-Stokes, B.G. and Jennings, Eleanor and Anand, M. and Snape, J. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2024) . Meteoritics & Planetary Science 59 (12), pp. 3129-3149. ISSN 1086-9379.
    • Zhang, Y. and Namur, O. and Li, W. and Shorttle, O. and Gazel, E. and Jennings, Eleanor and Thy, P. and Grove, T. and Charlier, B. (2023) . Journal of Petrology 64 (11), pp. 1-28. ISSN 0022-3530.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Coull, P. (2023) . Meteoritics & Planetary Science pp. 1-13. ISSN 1086-9379.
    • Blanchard, I. and Rubie, D.C. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Franchi, I.A. and Zhao, X. and Petitgirard, S. and Miyajima, N. and Jacobson, S.A. and Morbidelli, A. (2022) . Earth and Planetary Science Letters 580 (117374), ISSN 0012-821X.
    • Petitgirard, S. and Sahle, C.J. and Malfait, W.J. and Spiekermann, G. and Blanchard, I. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Cotte, M. and Murakami, M. (2022) . Physical Review B 105 (13), pp. 1-11. ISSN 2469-9969.
    • Ezad, I.S. and Dobson, D.P. and Thomson, A.R. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Hunt, S.A. and Brodholt, J.P. (2022) . Journal of Petrology 63, pp. 1-22. ISSN 0022-3530.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Jacobson, S.A. and Rubie, D.C. and Nakajima, Y. and Vogel, A.K. and Rose-Weston, L.A. and Frost, D.J. (2021) . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293, pp. 40-69. ISSN 0016-7037.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Wade, J. and Laurenz, V. and Petitgirard, S. (2019) . Microscopy and Microanalysis 25 (1), pp. 1-10. ISSN 1431-9276.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Gibson, S.A. and Maclennan, J. (2019) . Chemical Geology 529, pp. 119287. ISSN 0009-2541.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Wade, J. and Llovet, X. (2019) . Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124 (12), pp. 12837-12844. ISSN 0148-0227.
    • Vogel, A.K. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Laurenz, V. and Rubie, D.C. and Frost, D.J. (2018) . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 237, pp. 275-293. ISSN 0016-7037.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Gibson, S.A and Maclennan, J. and Heinonen, J.S. (2017) . Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 196, pp. 36-57. ISSN 0016-7037.
    • Petitgirard, S. and Malfait, W.J. and Journaux, B. and Collings, I.E. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Blanchard, I. and Kantor, I. and Kurnosov, A. and Cotte, M. and Dane, T. and Burghammer, M. and Rubie, D.C. (2017) . Physical Review Letters 119 (21), ISSN 0031-9007.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Holland, T.J.B. and Shorttle, O. and Maclennan, J. and Gibson, S.A. (2016) . Journal of Petrology 57 (11-12), pp. 2289-2310. ISSN 0022-3530.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Holland, T.J.B. (2015) . Journal of Petrology 56 (5), pp. 869-892. ISSN Print ISSN 0022-3530 - Online ISSN 1460-2415.
    • Heinonen, J.S. and Jennings, Eleanor S. and Riley, T.R. (2015) . Chemical Geology 411, pp. 26-35. ISSN 0009-2541.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Marschall, H.R. and Hawkesworth, C.J. and Storey, C.D. (2011) . Geology 39 (9), pp. 863-866. ISSN 0091-7613.
    • Jennings, Eleanor S. and Montgomery, W. and Lerch, Ph. (2010) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114 (48), pp. 15753-15758. ISSN 1520-6106.

    Book section

    • Jenner, F.E. and Jennings, Eleanor (2024) . In: Anbar, A.D. and Weis, D. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry, Third Edition. Elsevier. ISBN 9780323997621.

    Conference item

    • Jennings, Eleanor (2020) . EMAS 2019 Workshop - 16th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis, 2020, Trondheim, Norway