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Dr Javier Cuadros PhD

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  • Researcher Clay Mineralogy
  • Earth Sciences department
  • ES Economic and Environmental Earth Sciences
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD

Biography

Awards

12th George Brown Lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Employment history

November 2000 to date: Natural History Museum, London, UK

September 1996 to October 2000: Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada, Spain

September 1994 to August 1996: Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Qualifications

Ph.D.: Clay Mineral Processes, University of Granada (Spain), 1994

Graduate in Chemistry, University of Málaga (Spain), 1985

Professional Roles

Editorial Board

Member of the Editorial Board of Clay Minerals. November 2010 to date.

External committees

Clay Minerals Group of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 2001 to June 2011.

Editorial work

2010. Interstratified Clay Minerals: Origin, Characterization and Geochemical Significance. S. Fiore, J. Cuadros and F.J. Huertas, editors. AIPEA (International Association for the Study of Clays) Educational Series, Pub. No. 1, Digilabs, Bari, Italy, 190 pp.

2009. Invited editor for Clay Minerals, vol. 44, issue 4. Devoted to papers presented in the Mid-European Clay Conference 2008 (Zakopane, Poland).

2004. Invited editor for the special issue of Applied Clay Science: Volume 26, Issues 1-4, Pages 1-542. Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement (Reims, France, December 2002).

Research

Interests

  • Clay processes (transformation, dissolution, growth) and their mechanisms
  • Crystal-chemistry of clays
  • Clay on Mars
  • Clay-life interaction
  • Adsorption and exchange reactions on the surface and interlayer space of clay

Present Projects

  • Co-evolution of plants and soils – a comparative approach: Investigation of the evolution of plants and soils in early terrestrial ecosystems. Funded by the Natural History Museum.
  • Clay transformations in Brazilian Mangroves. In collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo.
  • A possible hydrothermal origin of Martian phyllosilicates: Exploring the talc/saponite-nontronite system. Funded by the Marie Curie Programme of the European Community.
  • Mechanism of kaolinite transformation into dickite in a diagenetic environment. Partially funded by the Erasmus Programme of the European Community.
  • Genetic and environmental study of the origin of podoconiosis in Ethiopia. In collaboration with the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, Buea (Cameroon), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and National Institutes of Health (USA). Funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Publications

Latest (2010-present) and selection of previous publications 

2013
  • Javier Cuadros, Beytullah Afsin, Premroy Jadubansa, Mahmoud Ardakani, Carmen Ascaso and Jacek Wierzchos ( 2013 ) Microbial and inorganic control on the composition of clay from volcanic glass alteration experiments. American Mineralogist 98 : 319-334 . doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2013.4272
  • Javier Cuadros, Joseph R. Michalski ( 2013 ) Investigation of Al-rich clays on Mars:evidence for kaolinite-smectite mixed-layer versus mixture of end-member phases. Icarus 222 : 296-306 . doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.11.006
  • Joseph R. Michalski, Javier Cuadros, Paul B. Niles, John Parnell, A. Deanne Rogers and Shawn P.Wright ( 2013 ) Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere. Nature Geoscience 6 : 133-138 . doi 10.1038/ngeo1706
2012
  • Javier Cuadros ( 2012 ) Clay crystal-chemical adaptability and transformation mechanisms  (The 12th George Brown Lecture of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland). Clay Minerals 47 : 147-164 . doi: 10.1180/claymin.2012.047.2.01
  • Javier Cuadros, Beytullah Afsin, Joseph R. Michalski, Mahmoud Ardakani ( 2012 ) Fast, microscale-controlled weathering of rhyolitic obsidian to quartz and alunite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 353-354 : 156-162 . doi 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.009
2011
  • Eric Ferrage, Olivier Vidal, Regine Mosser-Ruck, Michel Cathelineau, and Javier Cuadros ( 2011 ) A reinvestigation of smectite illitization in experimental hydrothermal conditions: Results from X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. American Mineralogist 96 : 207-223 . doi: 10.2138/am.2011.3587
  • Javier Cuadros, Vesselin M. Dekov, Xabier Arroyo, Fernando Nieto ( 2011 ) Smectite formation in submarine hydrothermal sediments: samples from the HMS Challenger expedition (1872-1876). Clays and Clay Minerals 59 : 147-164 . doi: 10.1346/CCMN.2011.0590204
  • Nancy K. McKeown, Janice L. Bishop, Javier Cuadros, Stephen Hillier, Elena Amador, Heather D. Makarewicz, Mario Parente, and Eli A. Silver ( 2011 ) Interpretation of reflectance spectra of clay mineral-silica mixtures: implications for Martian clay mineralogy at Mawrth Vallis. Clays and Clay Minerals 59 : 400-415 . doi: 10.1346/CCMN.2011.0590404
2010
  • Chelo S. Pascua, Masato Ohnuma, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Kenji Tamura, Hirohisa Yamada, Javier Cuadros, Jinhua Ye ( 2010 ) Synthesis of monodisperse Zn-smectite. Applied Clay Science 49 : 55-59 . doi: 10.1016/j.clay.2009.12.016
  • J.M. Huggett and J. Cuadros ( 2010 ) Glauconite formation in lacustrine/palaeosol sediments, Isle of Wight (Hampshire basin), UK. Clay Minerals 45 : 35-49 . doi: 10.1180/claymin.2010.045.1.35
  • Javier Cuadros, Baruch Spiro, William Dubbin, Premroy Jadubansa ( 2010 ) Rapid microbial stabilization of unconsolidated sediment against wind erosion and dust generation. Journal of Soils and Sediments 10 : 1415-1426 . Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • Vesselin M. Dekov, Javier Cuadros, George D. Kamenov, Dominik Weiss, Tim Arnold, Chandranath Basak, Pierre Rochette ( 2010 ) Metalliferous sediments from the H.M.S. Challenger voyage (1872–1876). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 : 5019-5038 . doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.001
2009
  • D.M. Deocampo, J. Cuadros, T. Wing-Dudek, J. Olives, and M. Amouric ( 2009 ) Saline lake diagenesis as revealed by coupled mineralogy and geochemistry of multiple ultrafine clay phases: Pliocene Olduvai gorge, Tanzania. American Journal of Science 309 : 834-868 . doi: 10.2475/09.2009.03
  • Javier Cuadros, Fernando Nieto, Teresa Wing-Dudek ( 2009 ) Crystal-chemical changes of kaolinite-smectite mixed-layer with progressive kaolinization, as investigated by TEM-AEM and HRTEM. Clays and Clay Minerals 57 : 742-750 .
  • Javier Cuadros, Luca Aldega, Jonathan Vetterlein, Kurt Drickamer, William Dubbin ( 2009 ) Reactions of lysine with montmorillonite at 80 ºC: implications for optical activity, H+ transfer and lysine-montmorillonite binding. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 333 : 78-84 . doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2009.01.031
  • Luca Aldega, Javier Cuadros, Angela Laurora and Antonio Rossi ( 2009 ) Weathering of phlogopite to beidellite in a karstic environment. American Journal of Science 309 : 687-710 . doi:10.2475/08.2009.03
2008
  • Javier Cuadros, Vesselin M. Dekov, Saverio Fiore. ( 2008 ) Crystal-chemistry of the mixed-layer sequence talc–talc-smectite–smectite from submarine hydrothermal vents. American Mineralogist 93 : 1338-1348 .
  • V. M. Dekov, J. Scholten, C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg, R. Botz, J. Cuadros, M. Schmidt, P. Stoffers. ( 2008 ) Hydrothermal sediment alteration at a seafloor vent field: Grimsey Graben, Tjörnes Fracture Zone, north of Iceland. Journal of Geophysical Research 113 : B11101 . doi:10.1029/2007JB005526
  • Vesselin M. Dekov, Javier Cuadros, Wayne C. Shanks, Randolph A. Koski. ( 2008 ) Deposition of talc—kerolite-smectite—smectite at seafloor hydrothermal vent fields: Evidence from mineralogical, geochemical and oxygen isotope studies. Chemical Geology 247 : 171-194 .
2007
  • Anita Parbhakar, Javier Cuadros, Mark A. Sephton, William Dubbin, Barry J. Coles, Dominik Weiss. ( 2007 ) Adsorption of L-lysine on montmorillonite. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 307 : 142-149 .
2006
  • Javier Cuadros. ( 2006 ) Modeling of smectite illitization in burial diagenesis environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 : 4181-4195 .
  • S.J. Needham, R.H. Worden and J. Cuadros. ( 2006 ) Sediment ingestion by worms and the production of bio-clays: a study of macrobiologically enhanced weathering and early diagenetic processes. Sedimentology 53 : 567-579 .
  • Teresa Dudek, Javier Cuadros, and Saverio Fiore. ( 2006 ) Interstratified kaolinite-smectite: Nature of the layers and mechanism of smectite kaolinization. American Mineralogist 91 : 159-170 .
2005
  • J.M. Huggett and J. Cuadros. ( 2005 ) Low-temperature illitization of smectite in the late Eocene and early Oligocene of the Isle of Wight (Hampshire basin), UK. American Mineralogist 90 : 1192-1202 .
2004
  • James Wilson, Javier Cuadros, Gordon Cressey. ( 2004 ) An in situ time-resolved XRD-PSD investigation into Na-montmorillonite interlayer and particle rearrangement during dehydration. Clays and Clay Minerals 52 : 180-191 .
2002
  • J. Cuadros. ( 2002 ) Structural insights from the study of Cs-exchanged smectites submitted to wetting-and-drying cycles. Clay Minerals 37 : 473-486 .
2001
  • C. I. Sainz-Díaz, J. Cuadros, A. Hernández-Laguna. ( 2001 ) Analysis of cation distribution in the octahedral sheet of dioctahedral 2:1 phyllosilicates by using inverse Monte Carlo methods. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 28 : 445-454 .
2000
  • F. Javier Huertas, Javier Cuadros, Francisco Huertas, and José Linares. ( 2000 ) Experimental study of the hydrothermal formation of smectite in the beidellite-saponite series. American Journal of Science 300 : 504-527 .
1999
  • Javier Cuadros, Claro I. Sainz-Díaz, Rafael Ramírez, and Alfonso Hernández-Laguna. ( 1999 ) Analysis of Fe segregation in the octahedral sheet of bentonitic illite-smectite by means of FTIR, 27Al MAS NMR, and reverse Monte Carlo simulations. American Journal of Science 299 : 289-308 . American Journal of Science
1998
  • Javier Cuadros and Stephen P. Altaner. ( 1998 ) Compositional and structural features of the octahedral sheet in mixed-layer illite/smectite from bentonites. European Journal of Mineralogy 10 : 111-124 .
1997
  • Javier Cuadros. ( 1997 ) Interlayer cation effects on the hydration state of smectite. American Journal of Science 297 : 829-841 .
1996
  • J. Cuadros and J. Linares. ( 1996 ) Experimental kinetic study of the smectite-to-illite transformation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60 : 439-453 .
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