Professor Bill Griffin

 

 2013–2023    2009–2012   1995–2008

 

Conference Presentations 2013–2023 (published as abstracts)


2023

G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y O’Reilly and L. Natapov. 2023. Widespread Archean lithosphere continental foundations – Hidden from view?. Abstract, 6th International Archean Symposium, Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia, 25-27 July 2023.

Q. Xiong, H.-K. Dai, J.-P. Zheng, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2023. Vertical depletion of ophiolitic mantle reflects melt focusing and interaction in sub-spreading-center asthenosphere. Abstract, Goldschmidt2023, Lyon, France, 9-14 July 2023,

 


2022

A. Giuliani, R.N. Drysdale, J.D. Woodhead, N.J. Planavsky, D. Phillips, J. Hergt, W. L. Griffin, S. Oesch, H. Dalton and G.R. Davies. 2022. Perturbation of the deep-Earth carbon cycle in response to the Cambrian Explosion. Abstract, EGU2022, Vienna, Austria & Online, 23-27 May 2022.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, J.C.Afonso and G.Begg. 2022. Imaging lithosphere structure for a sustainable future. Abstract, Earth Mantle Workshop (EMAW), Toulouse, France, 12-15 September 2022. Plenary Keynote

R. Tilhac, G.C. Begg, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2022. A global review of Hf-Nd isotopes: new perspectives on the chicken-and-egg debate on ancient mantle signatures. Abstract, Earth Mantle Workshop (EMAW), Toulouse, France, 12-15 September 2022.

 


2021

J.C. Afonso, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, W. Ben-mansour, F. Salajeghegh, I. Fomon, S. Foley, G. Begg, K. Selway. A Macdonald and A. Nyblade. 2021. Probing the physical state of the Earth’s interior with thermochemical tomography. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Keynote

G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2021. The architecture and evolution of continental lithosphere: Outcomes from multi-disciplinary mapping. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Plenary

H.-K. Dai, J.-P. Zheng, Q. Xiong, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2021. Deep lithosphere of the North China Craton archives the fate of the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Plenary

H.-K. Dai, Q. Xiong, Y. Xu, J.-P. Zheng, W.L. Griffin, J. Liu and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2021. Continental breakup-driven mantle growth: insights from the circum-Ordos mantle underneath the northern North China Craton. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Plenary

H. Henry, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and G. Begg. 2021. Tracking upper mantle heterogeneities using seismic anisotropy: the case of pyroxenite-rich domains. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021.

S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2021. The evolution and power of 4D lithospheric mapping. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Plenary

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and collaborators. 2021. Geodynamic and Geophysical consequences of stealth(y) mantle metasomatism: Craton evoluion and fluid pathways. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021. Keynote

Q. Xiong, J.-P. Zheng, L. Wang, L.-R. Tian, X. Zhou, Z.-Y. Li, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2021. Mantle dunitic melt plumbing system under oceanic slow-ultraslow spreading centres: Tibetan ophiolitic evidence. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021.

B. Xu. Z.-Q. Hou, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2021. Cenezoic lithosphere architecture and metallogenesis in Southeastern Tibet. Abstract, DEEP 2021, Virtual Meeting and International Everywhere, 1-2 November 2021.


2020

M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, R. Drysdale and X.-H. Li. 2020. Sampling the C of the Deep Earth: In situ C-O-Sr Isotopes of Kimberlitic Carbonates Worldwide. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

H.K. Dai, J.P. Zheng, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and Q. Xiong. 2020. Pyroxenite Xenoliths Record Episodic Metasomatism in Deep Lithosphere, Northwestern North China Craton. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

S.Y. O’Reilly, Q. Xiong, W.L. Griffin, H. Henry, J.-P. Zheng and N. Pearson. 2020. Chromitite in a Tibetan Ophiolite Records Deep Upper-Mantle Circulation and Episodic Subduction. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

L.B. Takenaka, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, M. Basei, C.E. Ganade and D. Jacob. 2020. Lithosphere Mapping in the South-Western Margin of the São Francisco Craton. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

R. Tilhac, G.C. Begg, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2020. Hf-Nd Isotope Decoupling in the Mantle: A Brief Review and New Geodynamic Perspectives. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

Q. Xiong, J.-P. Zheng, H.D. Zheng, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2020. Complex Formation Processes of the Yarlung Zangbo Ophiolites (Tibet). Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

B. Xu, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, Z.-Q. Hou, Y. Lu, E. Belousova, Z.-Y. Chen and J.-F. Xu. 2020. Recycled Volatiles Determine Fertility of Porphyry Deposits in Collisional Settings. Abstract, Goldschmidt Virtual 2020, 21-26 June 2020.

W. Ben Mansour, J. Carlos Afonso, S.F. Foley, S.Y. O'Reilly, W.L Griffin, K. Selway, A. Macdonald, N. Januszczak and F. Salajegheh. 2020. Craton evolution: a more complex story from thermochemical imaging of the lithospheric and sub-lithospheric mantle. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere, 1-17 December 2020.

L. Liu, S.S. Gao, K.H. Liu, W.L. Griffin, S. Li, S. Tong and J. Ning. 2020. Mesozoic Decratonization of the North China Craton Triggered by Dehydration of the Pacific Slab. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting, Online Everywhere, 1-17 December 2020.


2019

Z. Spetsius, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly, E. Belousova and I. Tretiakova. 2019. Dating of Rutile in Diamondiferous Eclogites from the Mir Pipe, Yakutia: Evidence for Late Metasomatic Origin. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

M. Chassé, M. Blanchard, D. Cabaret, A. Juhin, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly and G. Calas. 2019. Deciphering Molecular-Scale Mechanisms Governing Scandium Dynamics in the Critical Zone . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

H. Henry, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2019. Deformation Mechanisms Related to Olivine Megacrysts in Mantle Dunite . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

L. Patkó, N. Liptai, I.J. Kovács, L.E. Aradi, Q.-K. Xia, J. Ingrin, J. Mihály, S. O'Reilly, W. Griffin, V. Wesztergom and C. Szabó. 2019. Extremely Low Structural Hydroxyl Contents in Upper Mantle Xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin) . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

L. Takenaka and W. Griffin. 2019. Lithosphere Features from Garnet Xenocrysts of the Western Edge of São Francisco Craton, Brazil . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

A. Giuliani, L.A.J. Martin , A. Soltys and W.L. Griffin . 2019. Mantle-Like Oxygen Isotopes in Kimberlites Determined by in situ SIMS Analyses of Zoned Olivine . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

R. Tilhac,  B.F. Schaefer, G. Ceuleneer, B. Oliveira, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly and M. Grégoire . 2019. Metasomatic Re Addition Overprints Unradiogenic Os in Sub-Arc Mantle . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

T. Aiglsperger, J.M. González-Jiménez, J.A. Proenza, S. Galí, F. Longo, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O´Reilly. 2019. Mobility of Re and Os Isotopes in Platinum-Group Minerals during Laterization? . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

K.N. Malitch, E.A. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, I.Yu. Badanina, L.A.J. Martin and S.F. Sluzhenikin. 2019. Origin of Zircon from the Talnakh Economic Ultramafic-Mafic Intrusion (Noril’sk Province, Russia): Evidence from Oxygen Isotope Data . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

V. Malkovets, D. Rezvukhin, W. Griffin, I. Tretiakova, N. Pearson, A. Gibsher, E. Belousova, D. Zedgenizov and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2019. Re-Os Dating of Sulfide Inclusions in Cr-Pyropes from the Upper Muna Kimberlites . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

Q. Xiong, J.-P. Zheng, Y. Xu, J.-G. Liu, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2019. Sulfides in Ophiolitic Dunite Channels Cause Os-Isotope Decoupling between Oceanic Crust and Mantle . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2019. TerraneChron®’s Trajectory 2000-2030. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.   Keynote

W. Griffin and S. O’Reilly. 2019. The Lithosphere and Metallogeny: A 40-Year Evolution of Concepts. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.   Keynote

Q. Ma, Y.-G. Xu, S.-L. Chung, J.-H. Yang and W.L. Griffin. 2019. The Mantle Mega-Wedge beneath East Asia Formed ~145 Million Years ago . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2019. Zircon in Lithosphere Evolution Studies: Exploring the Weak Link . Abstract, Goldschmidt 2019, Barcelona, 18-23 August 2019.

Griffin W.L., Gain S.E.M., Camara F., Bindi L., Toledo V. and O’Reilly S.Y. 2019. Exotic mineralogy in an ultra-reduced magmatic system beneath Mt Carmel, Israel. Abstract, SIMP, SGI, SOGEI joint conference, Parma, Italy, 16-19 September 2019.

S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2019. Does continental crust grow significantly by collision and/or subduction. Abstract, IGCP 662 2nd Workshop, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 4-10 July 2019.   Invited


2018

K.-L. Wang, S. D’ril, S. O’Reilly, M.Kuzmin, W. Griffin and N. Pearson. 2018. Geochemical characteristics of mantle xenoliths from the Khamar Daban Ridge, south Russian Siberia. Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April 2018.

V. Brombin, C. Bonadiman, M. Coltorti, O. Alard, Y. Gréau, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and A. Marzoli. 2018. The “hidden” craton in the Adria plate: evidence from geochemistry and Re-Os of mantle xenoliths from Veneto Volcanic Province (North-East Italy). Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April 2018.

N. Liptai, L. Patkó, I. Kovács, L. Aradi, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly, V. Wesztergom and C. Szabó. 2018. ‘Water’ poor rock forming constituents in upper mantle xenoliths and their possible implications from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin). Abstract, EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April 2018.

G. Begg, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly, J. Hronsky and L. Natapov. 2018. Mapping the Whole Lithosphere: Uncovering Metallogenic Truths. Abstract, RFG 2018 Resources for Future Generations 2018, Vancouver, Canada, 16-22 June 2018.

G. Begg, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly and L. Natapov. 2018. A heterogeneous, ancient lithosphere – Constraints for more robust models. Abstract, RFG 2018 Resources for Future Generations 2018, Vancouver, Canada, 16-22 June 2018.

N. Liptai, L. Patkó, L.E. Aradi, I.J. Kovács, K. Hidas, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and Szabo, C. 2018. Neogene evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field. Abstract, Joint 5th Central European Mineralogical Conference (CEMC) - 7th Mineral Sciences in the Carpathians Conference (MSCC), Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia), 26-30 June 2018.

V. Brombin, C. Bonadiman, M. Coltorti, O. Alard, Y. Gréau, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and A. Marzoli. 2018. In-Situ Re-Os analyses of sulfides in mantle xenoliths: New constraints on the cratonic signature of the Veneto Volcanic Province (North-East Italy). Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

A. Giuliani, A. Soltys, E. Lim, H. Farr, D. Phillips, S.F.Foley and W.L. Griffin. 2018. Olivine, kimberlites and the modification of carbonated melts in the deep Earth. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

H. Henry, G. Ceuleneer, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, M.A. Kaczmarek, M. Gregoire and R. Tilhac. 2018. Microstructure of layered ultramafic cumulates: case study of the bear creek intrusion, Trinity ophiolite, California, USA. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

N. Liptai, Patkó L., O’Reilly S.Y., Griffin W.L., Szabó C. 2018. Reconstructing geochemical and deformation events in mantle xenoliths from the northern pannonian basin. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, Q. Xiong, J. Afonso and T. Satsukawa. 2018. Geochemical, microstructural and tectonic evidence for geodynamic processes during heroic collision events. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

L. Patkó, N. Liptai, I.J. Kovács, L. Aradi, Q. Xia, J. Ingrin, J. Mihály, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, V. Wesztergom and C. Szabó. 2018. Low water content in upper mantle xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin): Geodynamic implications and the role of post-eruptive water loss. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

W.L. Griffin, J. Huang, S. Gain, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2018. Sources and behaviour of carbon-rich fluids in the lithospheric mantle: Insights from off-craton. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

R. Tilhac, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, B.F. Schaefer, Ceuleneer G. and Grégoire M. 2018. Hafnium-neodynium isotopic decoupling during the formation of arc pyroxenites (Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain). Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, R. Drysdale , E. Thomassot, X. Ling and X. Li. 2018. Kimberlite carbonate petrogenesis from combined compositional and C-O-Sr isotope analysis: The benfontein case. Abstract, 3rd EMAW, European Mantle Workshop, Pavia, Italy, 26-28 June 2018.

S.E.M. Gain, E.A. Belousova, N.J. Pearson, I. Dainis and W.L. Griffin. 2018. Assessment of trace-element homogeneity in gem quality zircons from Mud Tank, NT. Abstract, Geoanalysis 2018, Sydney, Australia, 8-13 July 2018.

A. Giuliani, A. Soltys, E. Lim, H. Farr, D. Phillips, S.F. Foley and W.L. Griffin. 2018. Olivine, kimberlites and the modification of carbonated melts in the deep Earth. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2018, Boston, USA, 12-17 August 2018.

R. Shi, X. Huang, W. Griffin, S. O'Reilly, Q. Huang and S. Chen. 2018. The OCT-Type Ophiolite Recognized from the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone, Central Tibet. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2018, Boston, USA, 12-17 August 2018.

A. Burnham, B. Griffin and H. O'Neill. 2018. Hybrid lithologies in the source of diamonds from Copeton and Bingara, NSW, Australia. Abstract, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 August, 2018.

M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, R.M. Drysdale, X. Ling and X.H. Li. 2018. The origin of carbonates in the Benfontein kimberlite sills: an in situ C-O-Sr approach. Abstract, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 August, 2018.

W. Griffin, S. Gain, J. Huang, V. Toledo and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2018. Super-reducing conditions in a modern volcanic system: implications for the carbon budget of cratonic lithosphere. Abstract, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, 13-17 August, 2018.

S.E.M. Gain, W.L. Griffin, V. Toledo, M. Saunders, J.A. Shaw and S. Y.O’Reilly. 2018. A showcase of analytical techniques: V metal in hibonite. Abstract, IMC19, 19th International Microscopy Congress, Sydney, Australia, 9-14 September 2018.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, Q. Xiong, J-C. Afonso and T. Satsukawa. 2018. Geodynamic processes during heroic collisions: integration of geochemical, microstructural and geodynamic information. Abstract, First Workshop of Project IGCP-662 Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision, Beijing, China, 20-22 September 2018.

W. Griffin. 2018. Tethys session Chair Persons: Profs. Xenjiao Xiao and William Griffin. Abstract, First Workshop of Project IGCP-662 Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision, Beijing, China, 20-22 September 2018.

W. Griffin. 2018. Training Course and discussion meeting - Os-isotopes and the subcrustal mantle lithosphere. Abstract, First Workshop of Project IGCP-662 Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision, Beijing, China, 20-22 September 2018.

W. Griffin, J.-X. Huang, Q. Xiong, X.-H. Gong and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2018. UHP versus Super-Reducing parageneses in Tethyan ophiolites. Abstract, First Workshop of Project IGCP-662 Orogenic architecture and crustal growth from accretion to collision, Beijing, China, 20-22 September 2018.   Invited

G. Begg, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly and J.M.A. Hronsky. 2018. From geosystem to mineral system: Contextualising ore deposits. Abstract, AGCC Australian Geoscience Council Convention - Big issues and ideas in geoscience, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.   keynote

G. Begg, W. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2018. Continental architecture: The geosystem-mineral system connection. Abstract, National MT workshop and Auslamp SA Release Day, Adelaide, Australia, 5 December 2018.


2017

J.-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Moissanite (SiC) in Mt Carmel pyroclastics and alluvial deposits: Super-reduced conditions in volcanic systems. Abstract, Conference of the Israeli Geology Society, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 21 March, 2017.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, J.X. Huang, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. The Mt. Carmel birdshot assemblage: Immiscibility of metal, metal-oxide and silicate melts during basalt-methane interaction in a volcanic plumbing system. Abstract, Conference of the Israeli Geology Society, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 21 March, 2017.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, J.X. Huang, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. The hibonite-grossite-vanadium assemblage in Mt Carmel corundum: extreme desilication and reduction in a volcanic plumbing system. Abstract, Conference of the Israeli Geology Society, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 21 March, 2017.

N. Liptai, M. Berkesi, L. Patko, L.E. Aradi, R. Kaldos, S.Y.O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabo. 2017. Silicate melt inclusions recording metasomatism in an upper mantle lherzolite xenolith from the northern Pannonian Basin. Abstract, ECROFI 2017, Nancy, France, 23-29 June 2017.

B. Xu, W. Griffin, Q. Xiong, Z. Hou, S.Y. O'Reilly, Z. Guo, N.J. Pearson, Y. Gréau, Z.-M. Yang and Y. Zheng. 2017. Ultrapotassic Rocks and Xenoliths from South Tibet: Contrasting Styles of Interaction between Lithospheric Mantle and Asthenosphere during Continental Collision. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

J. Huang, Q. Xiong, W. Griffin, L. Martin, V. Toledo and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2017. Moissanite in Volcanic Systems: Super-Reduced Conditions in the Mantle. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

Y.-Y. Gao, W. Griffin, M.-F. Chu, S.Y. O'Reilly, N.J. Pearson, Q.-L. Li and X.-H. Li. 2017. Zircon O-Li Isotopic Constraints on the Origins of the Cretaceous Low-δ18O Nianzishan Granite, NE China. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

H. Henry, J.C. Afonso, T. Satsukawa, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly, M.-A. Kaczmarek, R. Tilhac, M. Gregoire and G. Ceuleneer. 2017. The unexplored potential impact of pyroxenitic layering on upper mantle seismic properties. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

S.Y. O'Reilly, W. Griffin, Q. Xiong, J.C. Afonso and T. Satsukawa. 2017. Geodynamic Processes during Heroic Collisions Revealed from Geochemical, Microstructural and Geodynamic Information. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

Y. Gréau, H. Henry, J.-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2017. Recrystallisation and Shorted-Lived Lattice Disruptions along Mantle Fluid Pathways. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

R. Tilhac, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly, G. Ceuleneer, B.F. Schaefer, H. Henry and M. Grégoire. 2017. Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry of Cabo Ortegal Pyroxenites: Origin and Age of a Sub-Arc Mantle Domain. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

Q. Xiong, W.L. Griffin, J.-P. Zheng, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2017. Episodic Subduction of Tethyan Slabs Recorded in a Tibetan Ophiolite. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

J.G. Lu, W.L. Griffin, Q. Xiong, S.Y. O'Reilly, J.-P. Zheng and N.J. Pearson. 2017. Garnet Pyroxenites in Southeastern Australia: Tracing Deep Lithospheric Events. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

J.M. Gonzalez-Jimenez , C. Marchesi, W.L. Griffin, F. Gervilla, E. Belousova, C.J. Garrido, R. Romero, C. Talavera, M. Leisen, S.Y. O'Reilly and F. Barra. 2017. Recycling and Growth of Zircons in Chromitites from the Subcontinental Listhospheric Mantle. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

J.A. Proenza, J.M. González-Jiménez, A. Garcia-Casco, E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, C. Talavera, Y. Rojas-Agramonte, T. Aiglsperger, D. Navarro-Ciruana, N. Pujol, F. Gervilla, C. Lazaro and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2017. Archean to Permian Zircons in Cretaceous Mantle-Hosted Ophiolitic Chromitites from Eastern Cuba. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, J. Huang, V. Toledo and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2017. CH4 Interaction with Basalt Magma: Super-Reducing Conditions beneath Mt Carmel, Israel. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

N. Liptai, K. Hidas, L. Patkó, S.Y. O'Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2017. Deformation and Tectonic Evolution of the Upper Mantle in the Northern Pannonian Basin. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

M. Chassé, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O'Reilly and G. Calas. 2017. Scandium Speciation in a World-Class Lateritic Deposit. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

B. Bonin, A. Azzouni-Sekkal, P. Bowden, E. Belousova, Y. Greau, W.L. Griffin and F. Bechiri-Benmerzoug. 2017. U-Pb and Lu-Hf Isotopic Systems in Zircon within Ediacaran – Paibian Granitoid “Taourirt”* Ring-Complexes (Silet Terrane, Tuareg Shield, Algeria, West Africa): Implications for Tectonic Setting and Regional Correlation. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

I. Badanina, E. Belousova, K. Malitch , W. Griffin and L. Martin. 2017. Origin of Zircons from the Kondyor Platinum-Bearing Massif (Russia): Evidence from U-Pb and Hf-O Isotopic Data. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2017 Conference, Paris, France, 13-18 August 2017.

A.L.Perchuk, V.O. Yupaskurt, Griffin, W.L., M.Yu. Shur and S.E.M. Gain. 2017. Major and trace element fluxes at carbonated metabasite-peridotite interface: insight from experimental modeling. Abstract, 12th International Eclogite Conference - High- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks - keys to lithosphere dynamics through geologic time, Áre, Sweden, 26-29 August 2017.

W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly 2017. Peridotites and eclogites in the SCLM: The evolution of an understanding. Abstract, 12th International Eclogite Conference - High- and ultrahigh-pressure rocks - keys to lithosphere dynamics through geologic time, Áre, Sweden, 26-29 August 2017.   keynote

B. Xu, W.L Griffin, Q. Xiong, Z.-Q. Hou, S. O’Reilly, Z. Guo, N. Pearson, Y. Gréau, Z.-M. Yang, and Y.-C. Zheng. 2017. Ultrapotassic rocks and xenoliths from South Tibet: Contrasting styles of interaction between lithospheric mantle and asthenosphere during continental collision. Abstract, SEG 2017. Ore Deposits of Asia: China and Beyond, Beijing, China, 17-20 September 2017.

M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, E. Thomassot and R.N. Drysdale. 2017. New constraints on the origin of carbonates in kimberlites using petrography, mineral chemistry and in situ stable isotope analysis. Abstract, 11th International Kimberlite Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, 18-22 September, 2017.

M. Castillo-Oliver, W.L. Griffin, J.C. Melgarejo, S. Galí, N.J. Pearson, V. Pervov and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Metasomatic evolution of the SCLM beneath the Lunda Norte province (NE Angola). Abstract, 11th International Kimberlite Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, 18-22 September, 2017.

A. Giuliani, Soltys A., Lim E., Farr H., Phillips D., Goemann K. and Griffin W.L. 2017. Olivine zoning and the evolution of kimberlite systems. Abstract, 11th International Kimberlite Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, 18-22 September, 2017.   keynote

M. Castillo-Oliver, A. Giuliani, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, E. Thomassot and R.N. Drysdale. 2017. New constraints on the origin of carbonates in kimberlites using petrography, mineral chemistry and in situ stable isotope analysis. Abstract, 11th International Kimberlite Conference, Gaborone, Botswana, 18-22 September, 2017.

G. Begg, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly and L. Natapov. 2017. Our Blind Side – Aligning Structural Geology, Tectonics, and a Whole of Lithosphere Reality. Abstract, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology, The Geological Society of Australia, Denmark, WA, 8-12 November, 2017.

E.A. Belousova, K.N. Malitch, W.L. Griffin, I.Yu. Badanina, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2017. New insights into mantle-crustal interaction in the Finero lithosphere from zircon and laurite isotopic studies. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

M. Castillo-Oliver, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly , A. Giuliani, R.N. Drysdale and E. Thomassot. 2017. The origin(s) of carbonates in kimberlites: isotopic constraints. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

S.E.M. Gain, W.L. Griffin, V. Toledo, M. Saunders, J.A. Shaw and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. A showcase of analytical techniques: V metal in hibonite. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

A. Giuliani, A. Soltys, E. Lim, H. Farr, D. Phillips, K. Goemann, S.F. Foley and W.L. Griffin. 2017. Olivine, kimberlites and the unavoidable contamination of carbonated melts in the deep Earth. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

H. Henry, B. Oliveira Bravo, R. Tilhac, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and G. Ceuleneer. 2017. The seismicity of subduction zones: Switch of fast-velocity direction from trench-normal to trench-parallel is assisted by layered-pyroxenite domains. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

J.-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin, T. Murphy, S.E.M. Gain, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Moissanite in volcanic systems: Super-reduced conditions in the mantle. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, J. Huang, Y. Greau, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Super-reducing conditions in ancient and modern volcanic systems: implications for the carbon budget of the deep lithosphere. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

Y. Gréau, H. Henry, T.D. Murphy, J-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Recrystallisation and “short-lived” lattice distortions along mantle fluid pathways. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

N. Liptai, K. Hidas, L. Patkó, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2017. Deformation and tectonic evolution of the upper mantle in the northern Pannonian Basin. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

N. Liptai, M. Berkesi, L.E. Aradi, L. Patkó, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and C. Szabó. 2017. FIB-SEM study of a silicate melt inclusion in upper mantle lherzolite. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

J.G. Lu, W.L. Griffin , S.Y. O’Reilly, Q. Xiong, J.X. Huang and J.P. Zheng. 2017. Garnet websterite xenoliths from Western Victoria: Tracing a deep lithospheric event. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

R.C. Murphy, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2017. Stabilising a craton: The 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi Batholith, Swaziland and South Africa. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

S.Y. O'Reilly, W. Griffin, Q. Xiong, J.C. Afonso, T. Satsukawa, J.X. Huang, G. Begg and the TARDIS Team. 2017. Geodynamic processes during heroic collisions: the power of integrating geochemical, microstructural and geodynamic information. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

X. Ping, J. Zheng, W.L. Griffin, H. Dai, S.Y. O’Reilly, Q. Xiong, H. Tang and Y. Su. 2017. Paleoarchean lower crust in western China: Eoarchean growth of the continental crust. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

R. Tilhac, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, G. Ceuleneer, B.F. Schaefer, H. Henry and M. Gregoire. 2017. Cadomian reworking of ancient SCLM during incipient arc magmatism? (Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain). Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

B. Xu, W.L. Griffin, E.A. Belousova, S.Y. O’Reilly and Z.-Q. Hou. 2017. Apatite trace-element compositions: An indicator for exploring covered post-collisional porphyry Cu±Au deposits?. Abstract, CCFS Whole-of-Centre Meeting, Cairns, Australia, 27-29 November 2017.

M. Kilgore, A.H. Peslier, A.D. Brandon, L.A. Schaffer, D.G. Pearson, S.Y. O'Reilly, M.G. Kopylova and W.L. Griffin. 2017. Water and metasomatism in the Slave cratonic lithosphere (Canada): an FTIR study. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, America, 11-15 Dec, 2017.


2016

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, D. Adams, J.-X. Huang, M. Saunders, V. Toledo, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2016. Heaven on Earth: tistarite (Ti2O3) and other "nebular" phases in corundum aggregates from Mt. Carmel volcanic rocks. Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Israel Geological Society (IGS), Eilat, Israel, 19-21 January 2016.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, D. Adams, V. Toledo, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2016. Deep-Earth Methane, mantle dynamics and mineral exploration: insights from northern Israel, southern Tibet and Kamchatka. Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Israel Geological Society (IGS), Eilat, Israel, 19-21 January 2016.   Plenary

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson. 2016. The role of the deep lithosphere in metallogeny. Abstract, Annual Meeting of the Israel Geological Society (IGS), Eilat, Israel, 19-21 January 2016.

G.C. Begg, J.M.A. Hronsky, S.Y. O'Reilly, W.L. Griffin and L. Natapov. 2016. Cratonic structure and regional controls on mineral systems. Abstract, NAC+ 2016 The North Atlantic Craton and surrounding belts: a craton-specific approach to exploration targeting, Edinburgh, UK 21–23 March 2016.

T. Satsukawa, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2016. Messengers from the deep: Fossil wadsleyite-chromite microstructures from the Mantle Transition Zone. Abstract, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, Makuhari Messe, Japan, 22-26 May 2016.

A. Giuliani, A. Soltys, W.L. Griffin, S. Foley, D. Phillips and A Greig. 2016. Trace element traverses across kimberlite olivine: A new tool to decipher the evolution of kimberlite magmas. Abstract, International Diamond School 2016, Edmond, Canada, 8 June 2016.  Invited

M. Chassé, H. Aral, S. van Huet, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, M. Gérard and G. Calas. 2016. Mineralogical and Geochemical Mechanisms Concentrating Scandium in Lateritic Deposits. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

M. Chassé, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and G. Calas. 2016. Insights into Mantle Geochemistry of Sc from the Main Carrier Minerals. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

J.-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin, L. Martin, V. Toledo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2016. Deep carbon: SiC in mantle- and mantle-generated rocks. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

N. Liptai, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2016. Small-Scale Geochemical Heterogeneity in the Upper Mantle of the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary – S-Slovakia). Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

J.-G. Lu, Q. Xiong, W.L. Griffin, J.-X. Huang, S.Y. O’Reilly, T. Satsukawa, J.-P. Zheng and N. Pearson. 2016. Upwelling of the SE Australian Lithosphere: Thermo-Tectonic Evolution of Garnet Pyroxenite Xenoliths from Western Victoria. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

T. Satsukawa, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2016. Messengers from the Deep: Fossil Wadsleyite-Chromite Microstructures from the Mantle Transition Zone. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

S. Skuzovatov, D. Zedgenizov, D. Howell and W.L. Griffin. 2016. High-Mg Carbonatitic to Water-Silicic Growth Environments of Cloudy Diamonds from the Malobotuobia Kimberlite Field (Siberian Craton). Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

Q. Xiong, W.L. Griffin, J.-P. Zheng, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2016. Two types of chromitites in a Tibetan ophiolite produced by two-stage accretion of Tethyan Arc lithosphere. Abstract, 26th Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan, 26 June - 1 July 2016.

V. Colás, C.S. Tassara, J.A. PadrónNavarta, J.M. González Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, I. Isabel Fanlo, S.Y. O’Reilly, F., Gervilla, J.A. Proenza, N.J. Pearson, A. Camprubí and M.P. Escayola. 2016. The effect of composition on minor and trace elements in spinels: Insights from exsolved chromite. Abstract, 2nd European Mineralogical Conference, emc2016 “Minerals, fluids and rocks: alphabet and words of planet Earth”, Palacongressi of Rimini, Italy, 11-15 September 2016.

N. Liptai, L. Patkó, I.J. Kovács, K. Hidas, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2016. Geochemical evolution of the upper mantle beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (N-Hungary – S-Slovakia) as reconstructed from spinel peridotite xenoliths. Abstract, 2nd European Mineralogical Conference, emc2016 “Minerals, fluids and rocks: alphabet and words of planet Earth”, Palacongressi of Rimini, Italy, 11-15 September 2016.

A. Giuliani, A. Soltys, W.L. Griffin, S. Foley, V.S. Kamenetsky, D. Phillips, A. Greig and K. Goemann, K. 2016. Trace element variations across olivine record the evolution of kimberlite melts: Case studies from the Kimberley kimberlites (South Africa). Abstract, 35 IGC 35th International Geological Cengress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 4 September 2016.  Keynote

V.G. Malkovets, E.A. Belousova, I.G. Tretiakova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O'Reilly. 2016. Timing of the Siberian craton kimberlite magmatism: evidences from the U-Pb dating of kimberlitic zircon. Abstract, 35 IGC 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 4 September 2016.

J.M. Batumike, R.T. Lubala, M. Chabu, L. Ferrière, K.P.Kaseti, W.L. Griffin and E. Belousova. 2016. Kimberlites from the Kundelungu Plateau (Southeast Democratic Republic of Congo): Age and Implication for regional tectonism and mineralisation. Abstract, 35 IGC 35th International Geological Cengress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 4 September 2016.

K.-L. Wang, O’Reilly, S.Y., Kuzmin, M.I., Kovach, V., D'Ril, S., Vorontrov, A., Yarmolyuk, V., Griffin, W.L. and Pearson, N.J. 2016. Ancient continents among the accretionary complexes of the Central Asia Orogenic Belt: in situ Os isotope evidence. Abstract, 35 IGC 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 4 September 2016.

J.M. Batumike, R.T. Lubala, M. Chabu, L. Ferriere, K. Kaseti, W.L. Griffin and E. Belousova. 2016. Kimberlites from the Kundelungu Plateau (southeast D.R. Congo): Age determination, implications for regional tectonism and mineralization. Abstract, 35 IGC 35th International Geological Cengress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August - 4 September 2016.


2015

G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, and L. Natapov. 2015. Geoscience data integration: Insights into mapping lithospheric architecture. Abstract, ASEG-PESA - 24th International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition in Perth, Western Australia, to be held from 15-18 February 2015.  Keynote

R. Tilhac, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson, G. Ceuleneer and M. Grégoire. 2015. Multi-stage supra-subduction metasomatism in the Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain. Abstract, European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria. 12-17 April 2015.

W.L. Griffin, N.M. McGowan, J.M. Gonzalez-Jimenez, E.A. Belousova, D. Howell, J.C. Afonso, J.S. Yang, R. Shi, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Transition-zone mineral assemblages in peridotite massifs, Tibet: Implications for collision-zone dynamics and orogenic peridotites. Abstract, IGCP-649 Workshop on: Ophiolites and related high-pressure rocks in the Qilian Mountains, Xining, China, 5-10 August 2015.

R.D. Shi, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, Q.S. Huang, D.L. Liu, X.H. Gong, S.S. Cheng, K. Wu and G.D. Yi. 2015. Ophiolitic Chromitites Originated from Ancient SCLM. Abstract, IGCP-649 Workshop on: Ophiolites and related high-pressure rocks in the Qilian Mountains, Xining, China, 5-10 August 2015.

J.S. Yang, R. Wirth, M. Wiedenbeck, W.L. Griffin, F.C. Meng, S.Y. Chen, W.J. Bai, X.X. Xu, A.B. Makeeve and N.I. BryanchanIiniova. 2015. Diamonds and highly reduced minerals from chromitite of the Ray-Iz Ophiolite of the Polar Urals: Deep origin of podiform chromitites and ophiolitic diamonds. Abstract, IGCP-649 Workshop on: Ophiolites and related high-pressure rocks in the Qilian Mountains, Xining, China, 5-10 August 2015.

Y. An, F. Huang, J. Huang, W.L. Griffin and C. Liu. 2015. Mg and Fe Isotope Geochemistry of Garnet Peridotites from the Kaapvaal and Siberia Cratons. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

E. Belousova, J.-M. González-Jiménez, I. Graham, W. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N. Pearson. 2015. A cautionary tale on zircon ages from mafic-ultramafic rocks: a case example from ophiolites, SE Australia. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

V. Colás, J.M. González-Jiménez, I. Fanlo, W.L. Griffin, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson and T. Kerestedjian. 2015. Thermodynamic modelling of the mobility of minor and trace elements in metamorphosed chromites. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

W.L. Griffin, J.C. Afonso, T. Satsukawa, N. McGowan, N. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2015. New insights into the lithospheric and deeper mantle. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015. Invited

J.-X. Huang, W. Griffin, Y. Xiang, L. Xie, N. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2015. Mg isotopes in Roberts Victor xenolithic eclogites: no crustal origin. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

N. Liptai, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2015. Geochemical signatures of spinel peridotite xenoliths from the northernmost locations of the Pannonian Basin. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

N. Pearson, W. Powell, Y. Gréau, R. Murphy, J. Payne, E. Belousova, W. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2015. U-Pb Geochronology of Zircon by Femtosecond Laser Ablation. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

T. Satsukawa, T. Mizukami, T. Morishita, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and K. Michibayashi. 2015. Mantle Wedge Heterogeneties Recorded by Microstructural Evolution. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

Z. Spetsius, W. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2015. C-Isotopes of Diamonds in Eclogites from the Nyurbinskaya Pipe, Yakutia: Evidence for Metasomatic Origin. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

R. Tilhac, M. Grégoire, G. Ceuleneer, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Metasomatized segregates of high-Ca boninites: Cabo Ortegal Pyroxenites. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

I. Tretiakova, E. Belousova, W. Griffin, V. Malkovets and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Crustal Evolution of the Markha Terrane, Siberian Craton: Evidence from U-Pb, Hf- and O-Isotope Data for Zircons from the Nakyn Kimberlites. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

K.L. Wang, S. D'rill, S.Y. O’Reilly, M. Kuzmin, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Composition of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Khamar Daban Ridge, South Russian Siberia: Constraints from mantle xenoliths. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

Q. Xiong, W.L. Griffin, S.Y, O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson and J.-P. Zheng. 2015. Two-layered Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithospheric mantle in a Tibetan ophiolite, China. Abstract, 2015 Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 16-21 August 2015.

I. Tretiakova, E. Belousova, W. Griffin, N. Pearson, V. Malkovets and S. Kostrovitsky. 2015. Evolution of the Siberian Craton lithosphere: evidence from U-Pb and Hf isotope data for zircons from kimberlites. Abstract, 13th SGA Conference, Nancy, France, 24-27 August 2015.

W.L. Griffin, S.E.M. Gain, V. Toledo, D. Adams, S.Y. O’Reilly, D.E. Jacob and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Super-reducing conditions in the upper mantle beneath the lower Galilee (Israel). Abstract, 2nd European Mantle Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2015.

N. Liptai, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and C. Szabó. 2015. Constraints on the geochemical properties and processes of the upper mantle beneath the northernmost part of the Pannonian Basin. Abstract, 2nd European Mantle Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2015.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson. 2015. Geodynamic and geophysical consequences of stealthy mantle metasomatism. Abstract, 2nd European Mantle Workshop, Wroclaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2015. Invited

N. Remaci-Benaouda, E. Belousova, Y. Greau, P. Bowden, J.Y. Cottin, D. Bouziani, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2015. Petrogenesis of the 2.09 Ga Laouni granitic magmatic granite basement (central Hoggar, southern Algeria): in-situ zircon U-Pb age and Nd-Hf isotopic constraints. Abstract, 8th Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related Rocks, Florianópolis, Brazil, 20-25 September 2015.

M.E. Holland, K.E. Karlstrom, M.F. Doe, T.A. Grambling, E.G. Gehrels, E. George, M. Pecha, W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, G.C. Begg and C.A. Mako. 2015. Growth of continental lithosphere by accretion of arc terranes along the Laurentian margin throughout the Proterozoic: evidence from Hf isotopes. Abstract, Geological Society of America Meeting, At Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1-4 November 2015.

H. Brueckner, E. Belousova, L. Medaris, S. Johnston, W. Griffin, E. Hartz, S. Hemming and R. Bubbico. 2015. A Sm-Nd eclogite and U-Pb detrital zircon study of a probable Baltic HP-UHP metamorphic terrane in the Greenland Caledonides. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015.

N.M. McGowan, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson, S.Y. O’Reilly, S.M. Clark, J. Roque-Rosell, M.A. Marcus and C.A. McCammon. 2015. The oxidation state of iron in chromite as a record of deep Earth processes. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14-18 December 2015.


2014

W.L. Griffin. 2014. Transition-Zone mineral assemblages in peridotite massifs, Tibet: Implications for collision-zone dynamics and orogenic peridotites. Abstract, International Workshop on: Ophiolites, Mantle Processes and Related Ore Deposits, Beijing, 14-15 April 2014.  Invited

L.E. Aradi, C. Szabó, J.-M. González-Jiménez, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2014. Major and trace element geochemistry, origin and timing of sulfide formation in ultramafic xenoliths from the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (northern Hungary – southern Slovakia). Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

W.L. Griffin, N.M. McGowan, D. Howell, J.M. Gonzalez-Jimenez, E. Belousova, J.C. Afonso, J.S. Yang, R. Shi, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2014. Transition-Zone mineral assemblages in peridotite massifs, Tibet: Implications for collision-zone dynamics and orogenic peridotites. Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson. 2014. Updating metasomatism concepts: Stealth, densification, and geophysical consequences. Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

T. Satsukawa, J.-M. González-Jiménez, V. Colás, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo, S.Y. O’Reilly, F. Gervilla and I. Fanlo. 2014. Fluid-induced deformation in chromite during metamorphism. Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

C. Szabó, L.E. Aradi, J.M. González-Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and K. Hattori. 2014. History of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian region. Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

J.S. Yang, F.C. Meng, S.Y. Chen, W.J. Bai, X.Z. Xu, Zh.M. Zhang, P. T. Robinson, Y. Dilek, W.L. Griffin, A. B. Makeeyev, and N.I.Bryanchaninova. 2014. Diamonds and highly reduced minerals from chromitite of the Ray-Iz ophiolite of the Polar Urals: deep origin of podiform chromitites and ophiolitic diamonds. Abstract, 6th Orogenic Lherzolite Conference, Morocco, 4-15 May 2014.

K.-L. Wang, V. Prikhodko, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N. Pearson, V. Kovach, Y. Iizuka and Y.-H. Chien. 2014. Proterozoic Mantle Lithosphere beneath the Khanka Massif in Far East Russia: In situ Re-Os Evidence. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 2633.

N. McGowan, W. Griffin, J.-M. González-Jiménez, E. Belousova, J.C. Afonso, R. Shi, C. McCammon, N. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2014. Tibetan Chromitites: Digging in the Slab Graveyard. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 1649.

N. Pearson, W. Powell, J. Payne, R. Murphy, E. Belousova, W. Griffin and S. O’Reilly. 2014. Laser Ablation of Zircon and Implications for U-Pb Geochronology. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 1922.

V. Colás, J.M. González-Jiménez, I. Fanlo, W.L. Griffin, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson and T. Kerestedjian. 2014. Taking Fingerprints of Metamorphism in Chromite Using Minor and Trace Elements. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 440.

J.M. González-Jiménez, F. Barra, M. Reich, E. Hernandez, F. Gervilla, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2014. PGE Remobilisation during Metamorphism of Chromitites in Central Chile. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 840.

Q.-S. Huang, R.-D. Shi, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and D.-L. Liu. 2014. Re-Os Isotopic Constraints on the Evolution of Bangong-Nujiang Tethyan Oceanic Mantle. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 1057.

P. Bowden, J.-Y. Cottin, E. Belousova, Y. Gréau, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly, A. Azzouni-Sekkal, N. Remaci-Benouda and F. Bechiri-Benmerzoug. 2014. Ediacaran Granites in the Tuareg Shield, West Africa: Alkalinity and End-Gondwanan Assembly. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 255.

J.-H. Yu, L. Wang, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and Q. Liu. 2014. Long Link of Cathaysia Block of South China with East Gondwana. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 2801.

L. Wang, J. Huang and W.L. Griffin. 2014. Time-Space Relationships of Ore-Related Igneous Activity: Lishui Basin, Middle and Lower Yangtze River. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2014 Conference, Sacremento, USA, 8-13 June 2014. 2634.

N.J. Pearson, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova and G. Begg. 2014. Building national infrastructure using TerraneChron® and Lithosphere mapping. Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

E. Belousova, J.M. González Jiménez, I. Graham, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2014. The enigma of crustal zircons in upper mantle rocks: Insights From U–Pb ages, Hf–O-isotopes and trace-element signatures (Tumut Region, SE Australia). Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, G. Begg, N.J. Pearson and J.M.A. Hronsky. 2014. Archean lithospheric mantle: The fount of all ores? Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

N. McGowan, W. Griffin, J.-M. González-Jiménez, E. Belousova, J. Afonso, N. Pearson, S. O’Reilly, C. McCammon and R. Shi. 2014. Tibetan chromitites: to the transition zone and back? Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

S. Tessalina, I. Puchtel, W. Griffin, A. Nemchin and V. Kamenetsky. 2014. Formation and alteration history of detrital chromites from Jack Hills sediments, Western Australia. Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

R. Tilhac, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson, M. Grégoire, D. Guillaume and G. Ceuleneer. 2014. How mantle heterogeneities control supra-subduction metasomatism: constraints from the Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain. Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

I. Tretiakova, E. Belousova, V. Malkovets and W.L. Griffin. 2014. Zircons from Yakutian kimberlites reveal Archean crust under the Eastern Siberian Craton. Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

W.L. Griffin, D.E. Jacob, D. Howell, S. Piazolo, M. Killburn and R. Wirth. 2014. Diamond fluids at work – nanoscale insights from polycrystalline diamond aggregates. Abstract, AESC Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Sustainable Australia, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 7-10 July 2014.

A.H. Peslier, A.D. Brandon, L.A. Schaffer, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, R.V. Morris, T.G. Graff and D.G. Agresti. 2014. Water in the Cratonic Mantle: Insights from FTIR Data on Lac de Gras Xenoliths (Slave Craton, Canada). Abstract, AGU Fall meeting, San Fancisco, CA, USA, 15-19 December 2014.

T. Satsukawa, S. Piazolo, J.-M. González-Jiménez, V. Colás, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, F. Gervilla and I. Fanlo. 2014. Chemical homogenization by fluid-present deformation in chromitites: An example from Golyamo Kamenyane chromitites, SE Bulgaria. Abstract, AGU Fall meeting, San Fancisco, CA, USA, 15-19 December 2014.

J. Yang, F. Xiong, X. Xu, T. Robinson, Y. Dilek and W.L. Griffin. 2014. Genesis of Diamond-bearing and Diamond-free Podiform Chromitites in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Tibet. Abstract, AGU Fall meeting, San Fancisco, CA, USA, 15-19 December 2014.


2013

S. Piazolo, E. Rubanova, W. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Deformation and recrystallization processes in polycrystalline diamond aggregates: Monitors of mantle processes. Abstract, 5th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Sydney, 5-10 May 2013.

L.A. Jimenez-Galindo, J.M. Gonzalez-Jimenez, A. Camprubi, M. Martini, E. Centeno-Garcia, J.A. Proenza, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2013. The chromite-bearing ultramafic-mafic complexes of the Vizcaíno Peninsula (Baja California Sur, Mexico), revisited for platinum-group minerals. Abstract, 12th SGA Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013.

V. Murgulov, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Crust-mantle interaction and genesis of the Kidston goldrich breccias pipe deposit in north-east Australia: U–Pb, Hf and Os isotope evidence. Abstract, 12th SGA Biennial Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12-15 August 2013.

L.E. Aradi, C. Szabó, J.-M. Gonzalez-Jimenez, W. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and K. Hattori. 2013. Ancient fragments in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 605.

G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, and J.M.A. Hronsky. 2013. Ore deposits and lithosphere evolution in the early Earth. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 676.

E.A. Belousova, J.M. González-Jiménez, I.T. Graham, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. New insights into the history of an ophiolite from zircons. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 683.

V. Colas, J.M. González-Jiménez, I. Fanlo, W.L. Griffin, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson and T. Kerestedjian. 2013. Trace-element fingerprints of chromites link ultramafic massifs of the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 903.

Y.-Y. Gao, X.-H. Li, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2013. Li isotopes in zircon: Effects of Li substitution and kinetic fractionation. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1140.

F. Gervilla, W.L. Griffin, J.M. González-Jiménez, J.A. Proenza, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2013. On the origins of Platinum-Group Minerals in ophiolitic chromitites. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1159.

J.M. González-Jiménez, C. Villaseca, W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, Z. Konc, E. Ancochea, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, C.J. Garrido and F. Gervilla. 2013. Neo-Archean domains in the Mediterranean and their implications. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1194.

W.L. Griffin, J.S. Yang, P. Robinson, D. Howell, R.D. Shi, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2013. Going up or going down? Diamonds and Super-Reducing UHP assemblages in ophiolitic mantle. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1215.

D. Howell, R.A. Stern, W.L. Griffin, R. Southworth, S. Mikhail, T. Stachel, A.B. Verchovsky, A.P.Jones, S. Y.O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson. 2013. Nitrogen isotope systematics and origins of mixed-habit diamonds. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1328.

J.-X. Huang, W.L. Griffin, Y. Greau, N.J. Pearson and S. Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Unmasking enigmatic xenolithic eclogites: Progressive metasomatism on a key Roberts Victor sample. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1337.

R. Mukherjee, S.K. Mondal, J.M. González-Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Trace-element fingerprints of chromites and sulfides from the Archean Nuggihalli greenstone belt, western Dharwar craton, India. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1802.

R.C. Murphy, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Stabilising a craton: The 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith (Swaziland / RSA). Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1813.

C. O’Neill V.Debaille and W.L. Griffin. 2013. What does Hadean mantle mixing tell us about Hadean geodynamics? Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1872.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, G.C. Begg, N.J. Pearson and J.M.A. Hronsky. 2013. Archean lithospheric mantle: The fount of all ores? Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1873.

N.J. Pearson, W.J. Powell, K.J. Grant, J.L. Payne, R.C. Murphy, E., Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. The hole story about laser ablation ICP-MS. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 1943.

A.L. Ragozin, V.S. Shatsky, D.A. Zedgenizov and W.L. Griffin. 2013. Growth medium and carbon source of unusual rounded diamonds from alluvial placers of the North-East of Siberian Platform. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2019.

J.E. Saunders, N.J. Pearson, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin. 2013. Mobility of Au in the mantle. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2140.

R.D. Shi, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, X.R. Zhang, Q.S. Huang, X.H. Gong and L. Ding. 2013. Geodynamic constraints on the recycling of ancient SCLM and genesis of Tibetan diamondiferous ophiolites. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2196.

K.-L. Wang, Y.-H. Chien, M.I. Kuzmin, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, A. Vorontsov and N.J. Pearson. 2013. Geochemical fingerprints in Siberian mantle xenoliths reveal progressive erosion of an Archean lithospheric root. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2434.

Y. Weiss, W.L. Griffin and O. Navon. 2013. Diamond-forming fluids: The trace-element perspective. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2478.

Q. Xiong, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and J.-P. Zheng. 2013. Multistage refertilization of an Archean peridotite massif, N. Qaidam orogen (NE Tibet, China). Abstract, Goldschmid2013Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2523.

D.A. Zedgenizov, A.L. Ragozini, V.S. Shatsky and W.L. Griffin. 2013. Parental growth media of Siberian diamonds – Relation to kimberlites. Abstract, Goldschmid2013 Conference, Florence Italy, 25-30 August 2013. 2583.

C. O’Neill, V. Debaille and W.L. Griffin. 2013. Was Earth stagnant in the Hadean? Abstract, International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, PR China, 6-9 October 2013.

W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, V. Malkovets, Z. Spetsius, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, and others. 2013. The World Turns Over: Hadean – Archean crust-mantle evolution. Abstract, International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, PR China, 6-9 October 2013.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L.Griffin, N.J. Pearson and G. Begg. 2013. A saga of crust-mantle relationships and evolution since Archean times: Geophysical and geochemical evidence tracked in mantle xenoliths from Arctic Norway and Cape Verde (Atlantic Ocean). Abstract, International Meeting on Precambrian Evolution and Deep Exploration of the Continental Lithosphere, Beijing, PR China, 6-9 October 2013.

H. Bruekner, L.G. Medaris Jr., W.L. Griffin, S.M. Johnston, R. Bubbico and E.H. Hartz. 2013. Peridotite- pyroxenite relationships in orogenic peridotites from Liverpool Land, Eastern Greenland caledonides: chemical metasomatism or mechanical mixing? Abstract, The GSA 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Expo, Denver, Colorado, USA, 27-30 October 2013.

J.C. Afonso, J.F., Y. Yang, N. Rawlinson, J. Connolly, A.G. Jones, W.L. Griffin and S. O’Reilly 2013. Thermochemical Tomography of the Lithosphere from Multi-observable Probabilistic Inversions. Abstract, CCFS Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, WA, Australia, 4 November 2013.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson G. Begg, J. Hronsky, TARDIS and Crut evolutions teams. 2013. Tackling the giant 4-D Sudoku of the lithosphere. Abstract, CCFS Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 4 November 2013.

W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, J.C. Afonso and G. Begg. 2013. Archean SCLM: What do we (think) we know? Abstract, CCFS Lithosphere Dynamics Workshop, Perth, Australia, 4 November 2013.

C. O’Neill, V. Debaille and W.L. Griffin. 2013. Was the Hadean Earth stagnant? Constraints from dynamic mixing models. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting San Francisco, 9-13 December, 2013.

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L Griffin and N.J Pearson. 2013. Geochemical Evolution of Cratonic Lithospheric Mantle: A 3.6 Ga Story of Persistence and Transformation. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting San Francisco, 9-13 December, 2013. Invited

W.L. Griffin, S. Tessalina and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2013. Majorite Garnet and Lithosphere Evolution: Kaapvaal Craton. Abstract, AGU Fall Meeting San Francisco, 9-13 December, 2013.


Conference Presentations 2012-2009

A.A. Gibsher, V.G. Malkovets, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly. 2012.   Petrogenesis of composite xenoliths from alkaline basalts (west Sangilen, Russia).  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

O. Navon, W.L. Griffin and Y. Weiss.  2012.  Tables vs. "benches": Trace elements in fibrous diamonds.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

Y. Weiss, W.L Griffin, D.R. Bell, and O. Navon.  2012.  High–mg carbonatitic hdfs, kimberlites and the SCLM.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

M. Kahoui, Y. Mahdjoub, M. Chabane, E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and F.V. Kaminsky. 2012.  Pyrope garnet from the El Kseibat area, Algeria and lithosphere beneath the north–eastern part of the West African Craton.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

Y. Weiss, I. Kiflawi, W.L. Griffin and O. Navon.  2012.  Fluid microinclusions in monocrystalline diamonds.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

T.A. Alifirova, L.N. Pokhilenko, V.G. Malkovets and W.L. Griffin.  2012.  Petrological inferences for the role of exsolution in upper mantle: evidence from the YakutianKimberlite xenoliths.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

V.G. Malkovets, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson, D.I. Rezvukhin, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.P. Pokhilenko, V.K. Garanin, Z.V. Spetsius and K.D. Litasov.  2012.  Late metasomatic addition of garnet to the sclm: os–isotope evidence.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

V.G. Malkovets, W.L. Griffin, N.P. Pokhilenko, S.Y. O’Reilly, A.I. Dak, A.V. Tolstov, I.V. Serov, I.S. Bazhan and D.V. Kuzmin.  2012.  Lithosphere mantle structure beneath the Nakyn Kimberlite Field, Yakutia.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

D.I. Rezvukhin, V.G. Malkovets, A.A. Gibsher, D.V. Kuzmin, W.L. Griffin, N.P. Pokhilenko and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  Mineral inclusions in pyropes from some kimberlite pipes of Yakutia.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

E.V. Rubanova, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo, S.Y O’Reilly, T. Stachel, R. Stern and A.C. Birnie.  2012. Geochemistry and microstructure of diamondites.  Abstract, The 10th International Kimberlite Conference, Bangalore, India, 6–11 February, 2012.

J.M. González–Jiménez, A. Camprubí, W.L. Griffin, E. Centeno–García, S.Y. O’Reilly, M. Martini, J.A. Proenza and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  108th A Mesozoic back–arc in the guerrero composite terrane (Mexico): evidence from trace elements and Re–Os isotopes in podiform chromitites from Loma Baya. Abstract, Annual GSA meeting, Cordillera Section, Querétaro, Mexico, March 2012

N. Vasković, E. Belousova, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, D. Srećković–Batoćanin, G. Christofides and A. Coroneos.  2012.  New U–Pb dating and Hf–isotope composition of the Gornjane Granitoids (South Carpathians, east Serbia). Abstract, 5th Conference in Mineral Science in the Carpathians (19–21 April 2012 / Miscolc, Hingary)

L. Aradi, K. Hattori, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly, A. Szabó and Cs. Szabó.  2012.  Distribution of platinum–group elements in upper mantle xenoliths from the Carpathian–Pannonian region.  Abstract, 5th Conference in Mineral Science in the Carpathians (19–21 April 2012 / Miscolc, Hingary)

J.C. Afonso, J. Fullea, Y. Yang, A.G. Jones, W.L. Griffin, J.A.D. Connolly, S.Y. O’Reilly and S. Lebedev.  2012.  The compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere from thermodynamically–constrained multi–observable probabilistic inversion.  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  EGU2012–6947    Invited Keynote

F. Ait–Hamou, R. Laloui, M. Gregoire, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’ Reilly, G. Ceuleneer, and H. Afafiz.  2012.  Petro–geochemical constraints for origin of pyroxenites xenoliths associated with mantle peridotites from Adrar N’ajjer caenozoic volcanics (NE Ahaggar, Algerian Sahara).  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  EGU2012–14194 

J.C. Afonso, J. Fullea, Y. Yang, A.G. Jones, W.L. Griffin, J.A.D. Connolly, S.Y. O’Reilly, and S. Lebedev.  2012.  The compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere from thermodynamically–constrained multi–observable probabilistic inversion.  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  EGU2012–6947 

M.–F. Chu, M. Scambelluri, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  Li isotopic constraints from the Erro–Tobbio serpentinites on Alpine subduction processes.  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  

K.N. Malitch, E.A. Belousova, I.Y. Badanina, and W.L. Griffin.  2012.  Zircon and baddeleyite from the economic ultramafic–mafic Noril’sk–1 intrusion (Russia): Hf–isotope constraints on source composition.  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012 EGU2012–8709

J.M. González–Jiménez, C. Marchesi, W.L. Griffin, R. Gutiérrez–Narbona, J.–P. Lorand, S.Y. O’Reilly, C.J. Garrido, F. Gervilla, and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  A 1–Ga history of melting in the western Mediterranean Subcontinetal Lithospheric Mantle recorded in chromitites from the Ojén Ultramafic Massif (SW Spain). Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  EGU2012–3893 

Z. Konc, C. Marchesi, C.J. Garrido, J.M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, O. Alard, K. Hidas, S.Y. O’Reilly and N. Pearson.  2012. Provenance and evolution of the western Mediterranean lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern Betics (S. Spain): insights from in–situ analyses of Os isotopes and platinum–group elements in sulphides from the Tallante mantle xenoliths.  Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22–27 April 2012.  EGU2012–12929 

E.A. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, Y.A. Kostitsyn , N.J. Pearson, G. Begg and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  The early formation of the continental crust: constraints from zircon Hf–isotope data.  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

W.L. Griffin, V. Malkovets, E.A. Belousova, S.Y. O’Reilly, and N.J. Pearson, 2012. The end of the Hadean: The world turns over.  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

L. Pokhilenko, V. Malkovets, A. Agashev and W. Griffin.  2012.  The geochemical features of the garnets from peridotites of Udachnaya pipe (Yakutia).  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012. 

K. Hattori, C. Szabo, W. Griffin, S. O’Reilly and L. Elod Aradi.  2012.   PGE abundances in upper mantle xenoliths from the Carpathian–Pannonian Region.  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

N.J. Pearson, W.L. Griffin, and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012. Development and application of LAICP–MS in the geosciences: past, present and future.  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012. Keynote

R. Shi, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, Q.S. Huang, X.R. Zhang and L. Ding.  2012.  Recycling of ancient SCLM constraints on the genesis of the Tethys ophiolitic podiform chromitites in Tibet.  Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

J.M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, M. Locmelis, S.Y.  O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  LA–ICP–MS analysis on spinel from chromitites of different tectonic settings: their contrasted minor–and trace–elements compositions Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

D. Howell, W.L. Griffin, W. Powell, P. Wieland, N. Pearson and S.Y O’Reilly.  2012.  Trace element partitioning in mixed–habit diamonds Abstracts, Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 24–29, 2012.

J.M. González–Jiménez, V. Colás, I. Sergeeva, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, F. Gervilla, T. Kerestedjian, I. Fanlo, M. Locmelis, N. Pearson and E. Belousova.  2012.  Back–arc Origin for Chromitites of the Dobromirtsi Ultramafic Massif.  Abstract, XXXII Reunión Cientifica de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía y XXII Reunión Cientifica de la Sociedad Española de Arcillas, Bilbao, Spain, 27–30 June 2012

E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, Y. Kostitsyn, G. Begg and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  Zircon Hf–isotope record for the evolution of the Continental crust since 4.5 Ga.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

N. Pearson, W. Griffin and S. O’Reilly.  2012.  Advances in in–situ Re–Os isotope ratio measurements by LA–MC–ICP–MS.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

J.–H. Yang, F.–Y. Wu, R. Zhu, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, S.A. Wilde.  2012. Destruction timing of the North China Craton.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.   Invited

M.P. Escayola, J.M. Gonzales–Jimenez, W.L. Griffin, J. Proenza, N. Pearce, D. Murphy, C. van Staal and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  Dating the geological history of the northwestern North American Plate: Re–Os isotopic analyses of sulfides from western Yukon ultramafic complexes.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

L. Wang, J. Yu, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  Early crustal evolution in the westernYangtze block: evidence from U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes on detrital zircons from sedimentary rocks.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

E.V. Rubanova, W.L. Griffin, S. Piazolo, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, R. Stern, T. Stachel and J. Cliff.  2012. Geochemistry and microstructure of diamondites.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

E.V. Rubanova, W.L. Griffin, Zdislav V. Spetsius, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, R. Stern, T. Stachel and J. Cliff.  2012.    Geochemistry of diamondiferous eclogites from Udachnaya Pipe, Siberia.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

J.E. Saunders, N.J. Pearson, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin.  2012.  Gold mobility in the mantle: constraints from sulfides in variably metasomatised peridotites.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

V. Colás, J.M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, M. Locmelis, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson2, I. Fanlo, T.N. Kerestedjian and I. Sergeeva.  2012.  LA–ICP–MS analysis on chromite: a guide for the geodynamic setting of formation of ultramafic massifs in the Bulgarian Rhodopes.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

J.–H. Yu, S.Y. O’Reilly, L. Wang, W.L. Griffin and Qian Liu.  2012.  Long–time linking of Cathaysia Block, south China with East Gondwanaland from Paleoproterozoic to early Paleozoic.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

J.–X. Huang, W.L. Griffin, Y. Gréau, S.Y. O’Reilly  and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  Multi–stage origin of Roberts Victor eclogites: progressive metasomatism.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

S. Tessalina, W. Griffin and S. O’Reilly.  2012.  Origin of depleted mantle xenoliths from South Africa.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

J.M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, N.J. Pearson, F. Gervilla and C. Marchesi.  2012.  Os isotopes in mantle–derived minerals: what can they really tell us?  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

W.L. Griffin, V. Malkovets, E.A. Belousova, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  The end of the Hadean: a global revolution.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

G.C. Begg, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and Lev Natapov.  2012.  The lithosphere, geodynamics and Archean mineral systems.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012. 

D. Howell, W. Griffin, W. Powell, P. Wieland, N. Pearson and S. O’Reilly.  2012.  Trace element partitioning in mixed–habit diamonds.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

S. O’Reilly, W. Griffin, N. Nicolic and N. Pearson.  2012.  Tracking coupling and decoupling during lithosphere evolution with geochemistry and geochronology: a case history from arctic Norway.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.  Invited

Q. Xiong, J. Zheng, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin.  2012.  Protoliths and ~ 440–Ma ultrahigh–pressure metamorphism of eclogite and gneiss in the north Qaidam orogen, NE Tibet: implications for deep subduction of the Qaidam Basin.  Abstract, 34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane, 5–10 August, 2012.

J.M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova, M Locmelis, F. Gervilla, S.Y. O’Reilly, T.N. Kerestedjian, I. Sergeeva, N.J. Pearson, V. Colás and I. Fanlo.  2012.  Tracking the evolution of the convecting mantle in ophiolites: the case of the Dobromirtsi Ultramafic Massif, Central Rhodope, Bulgaria.  Abstract, The First European Mineralogical Conference (EMC2012) – Planet Earth from Core to Surface, Frankfurt, Germany, 2–6 September 2012.

M.P. Escayola, J.M. Gonzales–Jimenez, W. Griffin, J. Proenza, N. Pearce, D. Murphy, C. Van Stall and S.Y. O’Reilly.  2012.  Dating the geological history of the northwestern North American plate: Re–Os isotopic analyses of sulfides from western Yukon ultramafic complexes. Abstract, IESCA–2012 International Earth Science Colloquium on the Aegean Region, İzmir/Turkey, 1–5 October 2012. 

W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly, G. Begg, E.A. Belousova and N.J. Pearson.  2012.  Lithospheric mapping, metallogenesis and the evolution of continents. Abstract, IESCA–2012 International Earth Science Colloquium on the Aegean Region, İzmir/Turkey, 1–5 October 2012.  Keynote

Jose M. González–Jiménez, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson.  2012. The use of trace elements and Os isotopes in chromite deposits to understand the origin and evolution of old upper mantle fragments within young ophiolites.  Abstract, IESCA–2012 International Earth Science Colloquium on the Aegean Region, İzmir/Turkey, 1–5 October 2012. 

S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson.  2012.  Ancient mantle domains stranded in ocean lithosphere add complexity to understanding Tethyan ophiolites.  Abstract, IESCA–2012 International Earth Science Colloquium on the Aegean Region, İzmir/Turkey, 1–5 October 2012. 

 

2011

Batumike, J.M., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Kimberlites from D.R. Congo: mantle structure and diamond potential 23rd Colloquium of African Geology University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, 8–14 January 2011.

Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Fluids in diamonds: samples from the deep lithosphere.  “Minerals at Extreme Conditions: Integrating Theory and Experiment”, Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference, Canberra, Australia (Australian Academy Of Science) 13–15 April, 2011.    Invited

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Zhang, M., Pearson, N.J., Zheng, J., XU, X., Yu, J. and Yang, J.–H.  Deep and ancient lithosphere rules supreme: a 3.6 Ga story of persistence, transformation, dispersal and re–assembly.  Abstracts, International Conference On Craton Formation And Destruction, Beijing China 25–29th April, 2011. Keynote

Griffin, W.L., Nikolic, N., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  Coupling, decoupling  and metasomatism: Crust–mantle relationships beneath NW Spitsbergen.  Abstracts, International Conference On Craton Formation And Destruction, Beijing China 25–29th April, 2011.   Invited

Zhang, M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Wang, K.–L. and Hronsky, J.  Tracking cratonic mantle evolution using Highly Siderophile Elements in Mantle Sulfides.  Abstracts, International Conference On Craton Formation And Destruction, Beijing China 25–29th April, 2011.

Zheng, J., Griffin, W.L., Yu, C., O’Reilly, S.Y., Tang, H., Ma, Q., Xiong, Q. and Zhang, M.  Continental accretion and reworking beneath the North China Craton: Evidence from deep–seated xenoliths.  Abstracts, International Conference On Craton Formation And Destruction, Beijing China 25–29th April, 2011.    Invited

Spetsius, Z.V., Taylor, L.A., Griffin, W.L. and Tarskhix, O.V.  SCLM of the Siberian Craton and subduction.  Abstracts, International Conference On Craton Formation And Destruction, Beijing China 25–29th April, 2011.

Murgulov, V., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Relationship between mantle events and crustal magmatism in northeast Australia: evidence from in situ sulfide and zircon isotope data.  Abstract, IUGG 2011 General Assembly, Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet, Melbourne, Australia, 28 June – 7 July 2011.

Rubanova, E., Piazolo, S., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Growth and Recrystallization of Diamond in the Upper Mantle.  Abstract, IUGG 2011 General Assembly, Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet, Melbourne, Australia, 28 June – 7 July 2011.

González–Jiménez, J.M., Griffin, W.L., Gervilla, F., Kerestedjian, T., O’Reilly, S.Y and Pearson, N.J.  Geodynamic implications of >1 Ga Re–Os model ages in PGM from the Dobromirtsi Ultramafic Massif, Central Rhodope, Bulgaria. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 934.

Griffin, W.L, Begg, G., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  Ore deposits and the SCLM Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 946.   Keynote

Howell, D., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., O’Neill, C., Pearson, N., Piazolo, S., Stachel, T., Stern, R. and Nasdala, L.  Mixed–habit diamonds: Evidence of a specific mantle fluid chemistry?  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1051.

Kiflawi, I., Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L. and Navon. O.  Fluid microinclusions in octahedral diamonds.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1182.

Malkovets, V.G., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., Rezvukhin, D.I., O’Reilly, S.Y., Pokhilenko, N.P., Garanin, V.K., Spetsius, Z.V. and Litasov, K.D.  Late metasomatic addition of garnet to the SCLM: Os–isotope evidence.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1395.

Navon, O., Griffin, W.L. and Weiss, Y.  "Table" vs "Bench": trace elements in fibrous diamonds.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1528. 

O’Reilly, S.Y., Nicolic, N., Griffin, W.L. and Pearson, N.J.  Coupling, decoupling and metasomatism: a saga of crustmantle relationships beneath NW Spitsbergen (Arctic Norway).  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1558.

Shatsky, V.S., Malkovets, V.G., Buzlukova, L., Griffin, W.L., Belousova, E.A. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Deep crust of the Siberian craton evidence from xenolith.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1850.

Spetsius, Z.V., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Ivanov, A.S.  Zircon from kimberlites of the Nyurbinskaya pipe as indicator of kimberlite emplacement and Lithosphere evolution.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 1922.

Villaseca, C., González–Jiménez, J.M., Griffin, W.L., Ancochea, E., Gervilla, F., O’Reilly, S.Y., Pearson, N.J. and Belousova, E.  Os isotopes in sulfides from xenoliths of the Campos de Calatrava Volcanic Field, Central Spain.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2090.

Wang, K.–L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., Kovach, V. and Yarmolyuk, V.  Primordial ages of lithospheric mantle vs ancient relicts in the asthenospheric mantle: in situ Os perspective.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2121. 

Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L., Bell, D.R. and Navon, O.  High–Mg carbonatitic HDFs, kimberlites and the SCLM.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2143. 

Yu, J.–H., O’Reilly, S.Y., Wang, L. and Griffin, W.L.  Formation of the oldest rocks in the Cathaysia Block, Southern China.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2232.

Yu, Y., Xu, X.S., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  Water contents in the Cenozoic subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Cathaysia block, SE China.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2234.

Zedgenizov, D.A., Ragozin, A.L., Shatsky, V.S., Kagi, H., Odake, S., Griffin, W.L., Araujo, D. and Yuryeva, O.P.  Evidence for evolution of growth media in superdeep diamonds from Sao–Luis (Brasil).  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, August 14–19, 2011, Mineralogical Magazine, June 2011, v. 75, p. 2244.

González–Jiménez, J.M., Proenza, J.A., Camprubí, A., Centeno–García, E., González–Partida, E., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  Chromite deposits at Loma Baya: petrogenesis and clues for the origin of the coastal Guerrero Composite Terrane in Mexico.  Abstracts, 11th Biennial SGA meeting, Antofagasta, Chile, 26–29 September, 2011.  

González–Jiménez, J.M., Griffin, W.L., Kerestedjian, T., Gervilla, F., O’Reilly S.Y., Proenza, J.A. and Pearson, N.J.  Re–Os systematics in chromite deposits from the Bulgarian Rhodopes: preliminary results.  Abstracts, 11th Biennial SGA meeting, Antofagasta, Chile, 26–29 September, 2011.

Bubbico, R., Brueckner, H.K., Hartz, E.H., Johnston, S.M. and Griffin, W.L.  The evolution of prograde–type orogenic peridotites from Liverpool Land, a HP terrane in the eastern Greenland Caledonides.  Abstract, 9th International Eclogite Conference, 2011, Mariánské LázNe, Czech Republic, August 6–9, 2011.

Griffin, W.L., Huang, J., Gréau, Y., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  Metasomatic hide and seek: The origins of Roberts Victor eclogites.  Abstract, 9th International Eclogite Conference, 2011, Mariánské LázNe, Czech Republic, August 6–9, 2011.

González–Jiménez, J.M., Gutiérrez–Narbona, R., Griffin, W.L., Gervilla, F., O’Reilly, S.Y., Pearson, N.J. and Lorand, J.P.  Re–Os isotope evidences of multiple melting event in the Ojén Ultramafic Massif. Abstract, XXXI Reunion de la Sociedad Españoloa de Mineralogía, Barcelona Spain, 7–10 September, 2011.

Afonso, J.C., Fullea, J., Yang, Y., Griffin, W.L., Jones, A.G., Connolly, J., Lebedev, S. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  3D multi–observable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and sublithospheric upper mantle.  Abstract, AGU’s 2011 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 5–9 December, 2011. DI53A–02



2010

Bickford, M.E., Karlstrom, K.E., Van Schmus, W.R., Mueller, P.A., Griffin, W.L., Kamenov, G.D., Begg, G.C. and Belousova, E.  2010.  Early Mesoproterozoic (1.5–1.3 ga) magmatic and tectonic evolution of the SE Laurentian Cratonic Margin: implications of U–PB, SM–ND, and LU–HF data. Abstract, The Geological Society of North America Joint Section Meeting GSA North–Central and South–Central Sections both Celebrating Their 44th Annual Meeting. GSA North–Central/South–Central, 11–13 April 2010, Branson, Missouri, USA. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 2.

Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G.C. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  TerraneChron® as exploration tool for regional terrane–scale evaluations.  Abstract, Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium 2010 'Giant Ore Deposits Down–Under', 13th, Adelaide, Australia, 6–9 April 2010.

Aït–Hamou, F., Grégoire, M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Coltorti, M.  2010.  Mantle xenolith–bearing volcanics from the Cainozoic Adrar N'ajjer Massif (North Central–oriental Hoggar, South Algeria): Petrological evidences.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.12, EGU2010–542–2.

Howell, D., Griffin, W.L., O’Neill, C., O’Reilly, S., Pearson, N. and Handley, H.  2010. An automated technique for detailed µ–FTIR mapping of diamond and spectral deconvolution.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.12, EGU2010–2057–1.

Kahoui, M., Griffin, W.L., Mahdjoub, Y., Belousova, E.A., Chabane, M. and Kaminsky, F.V.  2010.  Major and trace element chemistry of pyrope garnets from the El Kseibat area (Algeria): Implications for lithosphere features in the north–eastern part of the West African Craton Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.12, EGU2010–4428

Marchesi, C., Griffin, W.L., Garrido, C.J., Bodinier, J.–L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  2010.  Proterozoic Os model ages of sulfides in mantle peridotites from the Ronda massif (southern Spain): insights into the evolution of the W European subcontinental lithospheric mantle.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.12, EGU2010–4882–1.

Sevastjanova, I., Clements, B., Hall, R., Belousova, E., Pearson, N. and Griffin, W.L.  2010.  Detrital Zircon U–Pb and Hf–isotope Constrains on Basement Ages, Granitic Magmatism, and Sediment Provenance in the Malay Peninsula.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 May 2010.  Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.12, EGU2010–11191

Kiflawi, I. Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L. and Navon, O.  2010.  EPMA, FTIR and LA–ICP–MS determination of the composition of fluid microinclusions in diamonds.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Kostitsyn, Y. and Belousova, E.A.  2010.  Archean detrital zircon's age at the active East–Volcanic Zone of Kamchatka. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Malkovets, V., Griffin, W., Pokhilenko, N., O’Reilly, S. and Mishenin, S.  2010.  Thickness of Diamond–Bearing Metasomatic Aureoles in the Cratonic SCLM.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Navon, O., Weiss, Y. and Griffin, W.L.  2010.  Sources of diamond–forming fluids.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Shi, R., Griffin, W., O’Reillly, S., Zhi, X., Xia, Q., Huang, Q., Zhang, X. and Liu, D.  2010.  Melt/mantle Mixing Processes Form Podiform Chromite Deposits: Implications from Re–Os Systematics of the Dongqiao Neo–Tethyan Ophiolite, Northern Tibet. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Wang, L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Yu, J.  2010.  Early Crustal Evolution in the Western Yangtze Block: Evidence from U–Pb and Lu–Hf Isotopes on Detrital Zircons. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L. and Navon, O.  2010.  Looking for the keys under the lamppost: Trace elements in fibrous diamonds. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2010, Earth, Energy and the environment, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13–18 June 2010.

Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Begg, G. and Afonso, J.C.  2010.  Composition, Age and Extent of Archean Continental Lithosphere: an integrated seismic and geochemical approach.  Abstract, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June.

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., Zheng, J., Yu, J., Xu, X., Wang, K., Wang, L. and Yang, J.  2010.  Diverse Lithosphere Evolution Regimes in Eastern China Reveal Multiple Geodynamic Processes.  Abstract, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June.  Keynote

Pearson, N.J., Payne, J.L., Powell, W.J., Griffin, W.L., Belousova, E. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  Precision and contribution of uncertainties in isotope ratio measurements by LAM–ICPMS.  Abstract, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June.

Wang, K.S., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Pearson, N.  2010.  In Situ Sulfide Studies in Mantle Peridotites from Penghu Islands, Taiwan: Insight to Melt Percolation, HSE Fractionation and Lithospheric Evolution.  Abstract, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June.

Yang, J., Sun, J., Wu, F., O’Reilly, S.Y., Wilde, S., Griffin, W.L. and Belousova, E.  2010.  Triassic Decratonization of the North China Block: Zircon in–situ Hf isotopic evidence.  Abstract, 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June.

Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010. Minerals and energy resources: outcomes of lithosphere–mantle geodynamic coupling: Geological Society of Australia, 2010 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2010, Earth systems: change, sustainability, vulnerability. Abstract No 98 of the 20th Australian Geological Convention, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, July 4–8 July, p.235.  Keynote

González–Jiménez, J.M., Gervilla, F., Proenza, J.A. Augé, T., Griffin, W.L. O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  2010. Contemporaneous segregation of PGE– and BM–rich sulfide melts and chromite crystallization: the Caridad chromite deposit, Mayarí–Baracoa Ophiolitic Belt (eastern Cuba). Abstracts, 11th International Platinum Symposium. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. 18–29 June 2010.

Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  Composition and evolution of the SCLM, and the origin of its diamonds.  Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, vi.  Keynote

Howell, D., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., O’Neill, C., Pearson, N. and Grant, K.  2010. “Maltese–Cross” Diamonds: A spectroscopic approach to understanding formation conditions and element partitioning.  Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p177.

Howell, D., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., O’Neill, C., Wood, I., Dobson, D. and Jones, A.  2010.  Imaging Diamond: Using birefringence and Infrared to map strain and impurities.  Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p690.

Huang, J.–X., Greau, Y., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  Metasomatic hide and seek: Origins of the Roberts Victor eclogites, South Africa. Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p213.

O’Reilly, S.Y. and Griffin, W.L.  2010.  Archean Lithospheric mantle: its formation, composition and today’s remnants. Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p508.  Keynote

Shiryaev, A.A., Griffin, W.L., Tomshin, M.D. and Okrugin, A.  2010.  Natural silicon carbide from kimberlites: polytypes, trace elements, inclusions and speculations on its origin. Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p181.

Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L. and Navon, O.  2010.  Major and trace element composition of diamond–forming fluids: why do they tell us? Acta Mineralogica–Petrographica Abstract Series, V6, IMA2010 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association 21–27 August, 2010, p180.

Begg, G., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Belousova, E. and Natapov, L.  2010.  Understanding continental structure: Integrating crust and mantle information.  Abstract, 14th international Symposium on Deep Seismic Profiling of the Continents and Their Margins (Seismix2010), Cairns, Australia, August 29 – September 3, 2010.

Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Natapov, L.  2010.  The Lithosphere, Geodynamics and Metallogeny of the Early Earth. Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p253–255.   Keynote

Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  The TerraneChron® approach to crustal evolution studies and implications for continental growth.  Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p44–46.

Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Afonso, J.C. and Begg, G.C.  2010. The evolution and extent of Archean continental lithosphere: implications for tectonic models.  Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p21–24. Plenary

Kobussen, A.F., Afonso, J.C., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  What do current geophysical models of Archean lithosphere really tell us? – An example from southern Africa.  Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p80–82.

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Zhang, M., Begg, G.C. and Hronsky, J.  2010.  Persistence of Archean lithospheric mantle beneath continents and oceans. Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p112–115.

Pearson, N.J., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., and O. Alard.  2010.  Mantle geochronology and the age of the sub–cratonic lithosphere. Tyler, I.M. and Knox–Robinson, C.M. Fifth International Archean Symposium Abstracts: Gelogical Survey of Western Australia, Record 2010/14, p116–118.

Rubanova, E.V., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010.  Origin of Diamondites.  Abstract, International conference ‘Geochemistry of magmatic rocks’ as a part of the school ‘Geochemistry of Alkaline rocks’, Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, 12–16 September 2010.

González–Jiménez, J.M., Gervilla, F., Proenza, J.A., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Marchesi, C. and Pearson, N.J.  2010. The use of in–situ Os–Isotopes in understanding the segregation of immiscible sulphide melts in the Caridad chromite deposit, Cuba. Abstracts,  XXX. Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía SEM, Madrid, Spain, September 13–16 2010.

González–Jiménez, J.M., Villaseca, C., Griffin, W.L., Ancochea, E., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Gervilla, F.  2010. Sulphide mineralogy in peridotite xenoliths from the Calatrava volcanic field (central Spain). Abstracts,  XXX. Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Mineralogía SEM, Madrid, Spain, September 13–16 2010.

Begg, G.C., Hronsky, J.A.M., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Hayward, N.  2010.  Plumes, Cratons and  Ni–Cu–PGE Deposits. Abstract, Society of Economic Geologists, SEG 2010 Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 2–5 October 2010.

Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Natapov, L. and Hronsky, J.M.A.  2010. Gold, Seismic Tomography and an Emerging Regional Targeting Paradigm. Abstract, Society of Economic Geologists, SEG 2010 Conference, Keystone, Colorado, 2–5 October 2010.

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., Zhang, M, Zheng, J.P., Yu, J.H., Xu, X.S., Wang, K.L., Yang J.H. and Wang, L.J.  2010. Using geochronology to track the evolution of the deep crust and lithospheric mantle beneath eastern China.  5th SHRIMP Workshop and International Workshop on advances in high resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (HR–SIMS) and LA–ICPMD geochronology: application to geological  processes, Beijing, China, 12 – 13 October 2010.  Int. Association for Gondwana Research Conference Series 10 Supplement.    Invited

Griffin, W.L., Belousova, E., O’Reilly, S.Y., and Pearson, N.J.  2010, Zircon and Crustal Evolution or: Beyond U–Pb dating – how Hf isotopes can help you understand the Earth. International Zircon Geochronology Training Course, Beijing, China, 15 – 16 October 2010. Invited

Huang, J.–X., Griffin, W.L., Greau, Y. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2010. Metasomatic hide and seek: new results for the Roberts Victor eclogites, South Africa and implications for their origin. Abstract, 2010 Chinese National Symposium of Petrology and Geodynamics October 30 – November 2, Peking University, Beijing.

Wang, Q. Xia, Q., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin W.L. and Beyer, E.  2010.  Petrofabrics and Water Contents of Peridotites from the Western Gneiss Region (Norway): Implications for Fabric Transition of Olivine in Continental Subduction Zones.  Abstract V13D–2384, presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13–17 Dec.

 

2009

Saeed, A., Glen, R.A., Quinn, C.D., Belousova, E. and Griffin, W.L.  2009.  Basement to the Ordovician Macquarie Arc, Lachlan Orogen, NSW: constraints from zircon data.  Abstract, International Conference on Island Arc–Continent Collisions 2009 – "The Macquarie Arc Lachlan Orogen", Orange, NSW, Australia, 13 – 21 April 2009

Coltorti, M., Bonadiman, C., O’Reilly, S., Griffin, W. and Pearson, N.  2009.  Disrupted subcontinental mantle in an ocean basin: Sal Island, Cape Verde Arcipelago.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009–9447.

Gervilla, F., Marchesi, C., González–Jiménez, J.M., Proenza, J.A., Garrido, C.J., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S. and Pearson, N.J.  2009.  Different scales of Os isotopic heterogeneity in ophiolite chromitites from Sagua de Tánamo and Mayarí mining districts (Eastern Cuba).  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009–12876–1.

Zedgenizov, D.A., Shatsky, V.S., Araujo, D., Griffin, W.L. and Ragozin, A.L.  2009.  The composition of Yakutian diamond–forming liquids.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009–13387.

Weiss, Y., Kessel, R., Griffin, W.L., Kiflawi, I., Klein, O., Bell, D.R., Harris, J.W. and Navon, O.  2009.  A new model for the evolution of diamond–forming fluids.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009–795.

Weiss, Y., Griffin, W.L. and Navon, O.  2009.  Trace elements of fibrous diamonds.  Abstract, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 – 24 April 2009.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009–802.

Begg, G., Belousova, E., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Natapov, L.  2009.  Continental versus crustal growth: Resolving the paradox.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009.   Invited

Belousova, E.A., Kostitsyn, Y.A., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2009.  Testing models for Continental crustal growth: A TerraneChron® approach.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009.   Invited

Chevet, J., Gerbe, M–C., Grégoire, M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Cottin, J–Y. and Griffin, W.L.  2009.  Isotopic data (Sr–Nd–Hf–O) of intrusive rocks from the Kerguelen Islands (Indian Ocean).  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Coltorti, M., Bonadiman, C., Faccini, B., Melchiorre, M., O’Reilly, S., Griffin, W. and Pearson, N.  2009.  Deep lithosphere processes recorded for the West Antarctic Rift System.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Godard, M., Alard, O., Greau, Y., Lorand, J.–P., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2009.  Refertilization of oceanic mantle by old depleted melts: An in situ trace element and Os isotope study of ODP Site 1274 peridotites.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Griffin, W.L., Begg, G., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Afonso, J.C.  2009.  Paleo–Archean generation of the continental lithosphere.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009.  Invited

Malkovets, V.G., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Buzlukova, L.V., Shatsky, V.S., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pokhilenko, N.P.  2009.  U/Pb dating of zircons from the lower crustal xenoliths from Siberian kimberlites.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Marchesi, C., Griffin, W.L., Garrido, C.J., Bodinier, J.–L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Pearson, N.J.  2009. Persistence of mantle lithospheric  Re–Os signature during  lithosphere–asthenosphere interaction: Insights from in situ isotopic analysis of sulfides from the Ronda peridotite (S. Spain). Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009.

O’Reilly, S.Y., Zhang, M. and Griffin, W.L.  2009.  Ultradeep continental roots and their stranded oceanic remnants: A solution to the geochemical  ‘crustal reservoir’ problem?  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. Keynote

Pearson, N.J., Griffin, W.L., Alard, O., O’Reilly, S.Y., Schaefer, B.F. and Payne, J.L.  2009. The accuracy and precision of in situ Re–Os isotopic measurements by laser ablation MC–ICPMS. Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Wang, L.J., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Yu, J.H.  2009.  Crustal evolution of the Yangtze Block tracked by detrital zircons from sedimentary rocks.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. 

Yang, J.–H., Wu, F.–Y., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S. and Wilde, S.A.  2009.  Mesozoic decratonization of the North China Block: Evidence from Hf–Os isotopes.  Abstract, Goldschmidt 2009 – "Challenges to Our Volatile Planet", Davos, Switzerland, 21 – 26 June 2009. Keynote

Griffin, W.L., Araujo, D.P., Pearson N.J. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2009.  Diamond–forming fluids and their origins: Direct evidence from quantitative LAM–ICPMS microanalysis. Abstract, 60th De Beers Diamond Conference, Warwick (UK), July 2009.   Invited

Wang, K–L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Pearson, N.J.  2009.  Existence of microcontinent in the Central Asia Orogenic Belt: Evidence from the lithospheric mantle beneath the North Hangai Region, Central Mongolia.  Abstract, AOGS (Asia And Oceania Geological Society) 2009, 6th Annual General Meeting, Singapore, 11 – 15 August 2009.

Belousova, E., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2009.  TerraneChron®: application to crustal evolution studies and terrane–scale metallogenic potential assessments. In: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial SGA Meeting "Smart Science for Exploration and Mining" (edited by P.J. Williams et al.), Townsville Australia 17 – 20 August 2009, 2, 704–706.  Invited

Begg, G.,  Hronsky, J., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Hayward, N.  2009.  Plumes, Cratons and Nickel Sulphide Deposits. In: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial SGA Meeting "Smart Science for Exploration and Mining" (edited by P.J. Williams et al.), Townsville Australia 17 – 20 August 2009, 1, 147–148.  Plenary Keynote

Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Araujo, D., Afonso, J.C. and Begg, G.  2009.  Diamonds: How they form where they are.  In: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial SGA Meeting "Smart Science for Exploration and Mining" (edited by P.J. Williams et al.), Townsville Australia 17 – 20 August 2009, 2, 669–671.  Invited

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Zhang, M., Belousova, E.,  Pearson, N., Begg, G. and Hronsky, J.  2009.  Global lithospheric domains: a multidimensional framework to enhance mineral exploration targeting.  In: Proceedings of the 10th Biennial SGA Meeting "Smart Science for Exploration and Mining" (edited by P.J. Williams et al.), Townsville Australia 17 – 20 August 2009, 1, 25–27.  Plenary Keynote

Griffin W.L., Belousova, E.B., Begg G.C. and O’Reilly S.Y.  2009.  Growth of continental crust from the Archean to now.  Abstract, International Discussion Meeting on Continental Geology and Tectonics, Northwest University, Xian, China, September 6 – 12 2009.  Keynote

O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L., Begg, G. and Zhang, M.  2009.  Archean lithospheric mantle: formation, composition and fate through time.  Abstract, International Discussion Meeting on Continental Geology and Tectonics, Northwest University, Xian, China, September 6 – 12 2009.  Invited

Zhang, M., O’Reilly, S.Y., Griffin, W.L. and Wang, K–L.  2009.  High Siderophile Elements in Mantle Sulfides: Constraints on Archean Mantle Evolution and Ni–PGE Mineralization.  Abstract, International Discussion Meeting on Continental Geology and Tectonics, Northwest University, Xian, China, September 6 – 12 2009. Invited

Huang, J., Greau, Y., Griffin, W.L. and O’Reilly, S.Y.  2009.  Type I And Type II Eclogites From Roberts Victor, South Africa: A Metasomatic Model.  Abstract, 8th International Eclogite Conference (IEC–8) 2009, Xining City, China, August 25–September 3 2009.

Begg, G.C., Griffin, W.L., O’Reilly, S.Y. and Natapov, L., 2009. Lithospheric Mantle: The Architect of Major Ore Deposits: 7th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining Conference (FEM) 2009, 1–3 December, Rovaniemi, Finland, Abstracts with Program, p. 34–36.

Coltorti, M., Bonadiman, C., Faccini, B., Griffin, W., Melchiorre, M., O’Reilly, S. and Pearson, N.  2009.  The role of eclogite in the metasomatism and Cenozoic magmatism of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 14 – 18 December 2009.


 

 
Conference Presentations since 1995 – 2008  (published as abstracts)

No list of abstracts prior to 1995 is included, since most of these (>200) are later published as articles. I have given papers at a number of GSA and AGU meetings, Norsk Geologisk Forening meetings, Nordic Geological Meetings etc., as well as at the following (*   Invited speaker).

Int'l Geochem. Congress, Moscow 1971

First Int'l Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town 1973

*Nordic Research Seminar on Magma Genesis Reykjavik 1976

2nd Int'l Kimberlite Conference, Santa Fe 1977

*Geol. Soc. London, Dec. 1977

*Nordic Carbonatite Conference, Alno 1978 (organizer)

E.C.O.G. V, Lillehammer 1979

First Int'l Eclogite Conference, Clermont–Ferrand 1982

3rd Int'l Kimberlite Conference, Clermont–Ferrand 1982

Eurpoean Union of Geosciences, Strasbourg 1983

*Penrose Conf. on mantle metasomatism, Arizona 1984

*Geol. Soc. London 1984, special meeting (Lower Crust).

*Australian National University Seminar 1985.

*U.S.G.S./Stanford Univ. Workshop on the Lower Crust 1985.

2nd Int. Eclogite Conference, Vienna, 1985.

4th Int'l Kimberlite Conference, Perth 1986.

*Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, London 1986.

*Int'l Conf. on Continental and Oceanic Lithospheres, London 1987.

Nuclear Techniques of Analysis (V), Lucas Heights, Sydney, 1987.

9th Australian Geological Conference, Brisbane,1987.

Seismic Probing of the Continents ,Symposium, Canberra, 1988.

MinPet 89 symposium, Sydney, 1989

Third Int'l Eclogite Conference, Wurzburg, 1989.

*Symposium, Metamorphism under Extreme Conditions, 28th IGC, 1989

*Diamond Workshop, 28th Int'l Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., 1989.

Second Aust. Conference on Geochronology, North Ryde, 1989

Nuclear Techniques of Analysis (VI), Lucas Heights, Sydney, 1989

10th Australian Geological Conference, Hobart, 1990

*International Field Seminar (Kimberlites), Novosibirsk/Mirny, 1990

ICOG 7, Canberra, 1990

*Nuclear Techniques of Analysis (V), Melbourne, 1992

*5th International Kimberlite Conference, Brazil, 1991

*Goldschmidt Conference on Trace Element Geochemistry, Washington, 1992

*International Symposium on Cenozoic Volcanism and Xenoliths, Beijing, 1992

*Conference on Diamond Exploration and Mining, New Delhi, 1992

*Workshop on Diamond Explor., Prospectors' and Developers Assoc., Toronto, 1993

*USGS Workshop, Microanalysis and Megathinking, Soda Springs, CA , 1993

*IAVCEI, Canberra, 1993

*Rastatt Lithosphere Symposium, 1994

 

13TH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CONVENTION, CANBERRA, FEBRUARY 1996

Thermal State of the Lithosphere Beneath Mongolia and Southern Baikal Area: Implications for Lithospheric Structure and Mantle Dynamics in Central Asia 
Dmitri A. Ionov1, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1 and William L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie,   2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Tertiary Lithosphere Erosion in Eastern China 
Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1, Xisheng Xu2, Andi Zhang3 And W.L. Griffin1,4
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Dept. of Geology, Nanjing University, 3. Ministry of Geology, Beijing, China, 4. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Laser Ablation ICPMS: Applications to Diamond Exploration 
N.J. Pearson1, M. Norman1, A. Sharma1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Secular Evolution of Sub–Continental Mantle 
W.L Griffin1,2, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly2, Dmitri A. Ionov2 and C.G. Ryan1
1. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 2. GEMOC Macquarie

 

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (WESTERN PACIFIC GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING), BRISBANE, JULY 1996

Secular Evolution of Sub–Continental Mantle: Geophysical Effects 
W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1, O. Gaul1, D. Ionov1 and C. G.Ryan2
1. GEMOC Macqarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Geophysical Consequences of Lithosphere Erosion: Eastern Sino–Korean Craton 
W. L. Griffin1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, A. Zhang2 and C. G. Ryan3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Institute of Mineral Deposits, CAGS, Beijing, China, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

4–D Lithosphere Mapping: the integration of geological and geophysical datasets 
Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1 and W L Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macqaurie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Evidence for the Existence of Oceanic Mantle in the Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle of Eastern Australia 
J M McCarron, S Y O’Reilly, W L Griffin and M D Norman
GEMOC Macquarie

 

30TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, BEIJING, AUGUST, 1996

Lower Crust Geotherms 
N.J. Pearson1, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Secular Evolution of Sub–Continental Mantle 
W.L. Griffin1,2, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1, Dmitri A. Ionov1 and C.G. RYAN2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Thermal and redox states of subcontinental lithospheric mantle: Constraints from basalt–borne mantle xenoliths in East China 
Xisheng Xu1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly2, Xinmin Zhou1, W.L. Griffin2,3 and Ming Zhang2
1. Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China, 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

4–D Lithosphere Mapping: methodology, applications and implications 
Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Tertiary Lithosphere Erosion in Eastern China 
Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1, Xisheng Xu2, Andi Zhang3 and W.L. Griffin1,4
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Department of Geology, Nanjing University, China, 3. Ministry of Geology, Beijing, China 4. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, SPECIAL SESSION ON ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGIES AND GEOCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS OF LASER ABLATION ICPMS, SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 1996

Laser Microprobe ICPMS: A Robust and Cost Effective Microbeam Technique for In Situ Quantitative Trace Element Analysis 
M.D. Norman1, N.J. Pearson1, A. Sharma1, and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

4TH AUSTRALASIAN SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED ICP–MASS SPECTROMETRY, 11–15 MAY 1997

LAM–ICPMS analysis of resistate minerals: applications to mineral exploration
W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly, GEMOC, Macquarie

Counting statistics and a method for reducing lower limits of detection in LAM–ICPMS analysi
N.J. Pearson and W.L. Griffin, GEMOC, Macquarie

Chromite as a petrogenetic indicator in ultramafic rocks
S. Yao, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly,  GEMOC, Macquarie

 

GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA/MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA MEETING, OTTAWA, 19–21 MAY 1997

Carbonate–Bearing Mantle Xenoliths in Alkali Basalts: Phase Relationships, Mineral Compositions and Implications for Mantle Carbonate Metasomatism
D. Ionov1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and V. Malkovets3
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Inst. Mineralogy and Petrography, Novosibirsk

 

SEVENTH V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF GEOCHEMISTRY, TUSCON, ARIZONA, 2–6 JUNE 1997

Mantle Apatite Revisited: Major Reservoir for U and Th in the Mantle and Reflector of Mantle Fluid Sources
Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, P. Morgan1,3, D.A. Ionov1 and M.D. Norman1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM. 3. Dept of Geology, Uni. Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

Secular Variation in the Composition of Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, C.G. Ryan2, O. Gaul1 and D.A. Ionov1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

A New Type of Mantle Metasomatism? Trace Element Composition of Feldspar–Bearing Peridotite Xenoliths in Basalts from Southern Siberia
D.A. Ionov1, W.L. Griffin1, V.S. Prikhodko2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far–Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Mantle Domains and Crust–Mantle Coupling in SE Siberia (Russia) and Mongolia 
D.A. Ionov1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL ECLOGITE CONFERENCE, ASCONA, 1–5 SEPTEMBER 1997

Peridotite massifs and the evolution of subcontinental mantle
O’Reilly, S.Y1 and Griffin, W.L. 1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Mineral growth and reactions in some eclogites: an in–situ trace element study using Laser Ablation ICP–MS
N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

WORKSHOP ON CONTINENTAL ROOTS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND MASSACHUSSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, OCTOBER 10–13 OCTOBER 1997

The Secular Evolution of the Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle and its implications
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and M. Gregoire1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

COLLOQUIUM SPECTROSCOPICUM INTERNATIONALE, MELBOURNE, OCTOBER 1997

Laser Microprobe ICPMS: A Robust and Cost Effective Microbeam Technique for Quantitative Trace Element Analysis of Solids
Norman M.D., Pearson N.J., Sharma A., and Griffin W.L., GEMOC, Macquarie

 

1997 AGU FALL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, 8–12 DECEMBER 1997

From mountains to basin: A Tibetan model for the post–collisional magmatic and tectonic evolution in North China
Sun–Lin Chung1, Ching–Hua Lo1, Xianhua Li2, W.L. Griffin3,4, S.Y. O’Reilly3 and Chen–Hong Chen5
1. Dept. Geol., Natl. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan, 2. Guangzhou Inst. Geochem., Chinese Acad. Sci., 3. GEMOC, Macquarie, 4. CSIRO EM, 5. Inst. Earth Sci., Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

 

7TH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE, CAPE TOWN, 13–17 APRIL 1998

Trace element composition and cathodoluminescence properties of kimberlitic zircons
E. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Kimberlites, accelerated erosion and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton during the mid–Cretaceous

R.W. Brown1, K. Gallagher2, W.L. Griffin3, C.G. Ryan4, M.C.J. de Wit4, D.X. Belton1 and R. Harmon2
1. Vict. Institute Earth & Planetary Sci., La Trobe, 2. Dept of Geology, Imperial College, London, 3. GEMOC Macquarie and CSIRO EM, 4. De Beers Consolidated Mines, South Africa

Diamonds from Zarnitsa and Dalnaya kimberlites (Yakutia): their nature, growth history, and lithospheric mantle source
G.P. Bulanova1, W.L. Griffin2,3, F.V. Kaminsky1, R. Davies2, C.G. Ryan3, A. Andrew4, Z.V. Spetsius5, and O.D. Zahkarchenko1
1. TsNIGRI, Moscow, Russia, 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO EM, 4. CSIRO Petr. Expl. 5. Yakutniproalmaz, Yakutia

Diamonds from the deep:  Pipe DO–27, Slave Craton, Canada
R.M. Davies1, W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, A. Andrew3, B.J. Doyle4 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3.CSIRO Petr. Expl., 4. Kennecott Canada Inc.

Characteristics of alluvial diamonds from Bingara and Wellington, eastern Australia
R.M. Davies1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Dynamic growth structures in diamonds from Bingara, NSW, Australia
R.M. Davies1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Lithosphere Mapping in eastern Australia
O. Gaul1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Lithosphere structure and mantle terranes:  Slave craton, Canada
W.L. Griffin1,2, B.J. Doyle3, C.G. Ryan2,1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, L. Natapov1, K. Kivi4, U. Kretschmar6 and J. Ward6
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc., B.C., 4. Kennecott Canada Inc., Ontario, 5. Kretschmar Geoscience, Ontario, 6. Ashton Mining, Canada Inc.

Diamonds from Myanmar and Thailand: characteristics and possible origins
W.L. Griffin1,2, T.T. Win2, R.M. Davies1, P. Wathanakul3, A. Andrew4 and I. Metcalfe5
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Faculty of Sci., Kasetsart Uni., Bangkok, 4. CSIRO Petr. Expl., 5. Div. Earth Sci., UNE

Garnet peridotite xenoliths in alkali basalts from Siberia and Mongolia: a comparison of lithospheric mantle compositions in cratonic and younger terrains
D.A. Ionov1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

A P–T–composition cross–section of spinel and garnet facies lithospheric mantle in the Minusa region SW of the Siberian Craton
V.G. Malkovets1, D.A. Ionov2,  W.L. Griffin2,3, S.Y. O’Reilly2, N.P. Pokhilenko1 and K.D. Litasov1
1. Instit. Mineralogy & Petrography, Russian Acad. Sci., 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO EM

Geodynamic controls on the distribution of diamondiferous kimberlites
L. Natapov1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Are lithospheres forever?
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

The age and origin of eastern Australian diamonds: Re–Os isotope evidence from sulfide inclusions in two diamonds from Wellington, New South Wales
D.G. Pearson1, R. M. Davies2, S.B. Shirey3, R.W. Carlson3 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. Dept of Geological Sciences, Durham University, 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Xenoliths from kimberlite pipes of the Lac de Gras area, Slave craton, Canada
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1,2, B.J. Doyle3, S.Y. O’Reilly1, E. van Achterbergh1 and K. Kivi4
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc., B.C., 4. Kennecott Canada Inc., Ontario

Trace element discrimination of garnets from diamondiferous kimberlites and lamproites
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1,2, F.V. Kaminsky3, E. van Achterbergh1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. KM Diamond Expl. Ltd., B.C., Canada

Trace element composition of garnet kelyphites in xenoliths from Udachnaya as evidence of their origin
Z.V. Spetsius1 and W.L.Griffin2,3
1. Inst. Diamond Industry, Yakutia, 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO EM

Xenoliths from the Letlhakane kimberlite: geochemistry and implications for mantle processesE. van Achterbergh1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and J. Stiefenhofer3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. AARL, South Africa

Natural trace element distribution coefficients for garnet, clino– and orthopyroxene: variations with temperature and pressure
E. van Achterbergh1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.R. Shee3, B.A. Wyatt3 and A.L. Sharma1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Stockdale Prospecting Ltd.

Garnets in a polymict xenolith from the Bultfontein Mine, South Africa: new preliminary geochemical and textural data
B.A. Wyatt1, l. Morfi2, B. Harte2, N.J. Pearson3 and W.L.Griffin3,4
1. Stockdale Prospecting Ltd,  2. Grant Inst, Edinburgh, UK,3. GEMOC Macquarie, 4. CSIRO EM

Trace elements in chromites from kimberlites and related rocks: relation to temperature and mantle composition
S. Yao1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Conditions of diamond formation beneath the Sino–Korean craton: paragenesis, temperatures and the isotopic composition of carbon
A. Zhang1,2, W.L. Griffin2,3, C.G. Ryan3 and A. Andrew4 
1. Flat 1707, Blg 8 Maolinju, Muxidi 100038, China, 2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO EM, 4. CSIRO Petr. Res.

 

AUSTRALIAN GEODYNAMICS CO–OPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (AGCRC) SYMPOSIUM ON MINERAL SYSTEMS AND THE CRUST – UPPER MANTLE OF SE AUSTRALIA, 20–22 APRIL 1998

Are lithospheres forever?  Some applications of 4–D lithosphere mapping
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, O. Gaul1 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

ACTIVE TECTONIC CONTINENTAL BASINS, GHENT, BELGIUM, 30 APRIL – 2 MAY 1998

Petrologic and geochemical data on mantle xenoliths in basalts from southern Siberia and Mongolia and their relevance to geodynamic models
D.A. Ionov1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

14TH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CONVENTION, TOWNSVILLE, 6–10 JULY 1998

Are lithospheres forever?
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Chemical tomography: imaging compositional variation within the lithospheric mantle
W.L. Griffin1,2, C.G. Ryan2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Cathodoluminescence and geochemical properties of kimberlitic and lamproitic zircons: application to diamond exploration
E.A. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1,2  and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Trace elements in chromites from kimberlites and related rocks: relation to temperature and mantle composition
S. Yao1, W. L. Griffin1,2  and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

The lithosphere beneath the Lac De Gras area, Slave craton, Canada: a xenolith study
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1,2, B.J. Doyle3, S.Y. O’Reilly1, E. van Achterbergh1 and K. Kivi4
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., BC Canada, 4. Kennecott Canada
Exploration Inc., Ontario, Canada

The laser ablation microprobe (LAM)–ICP–MS: applications to ore systems and mineral exploration
S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Characteristics and possible origins of diamonds from Wellington and Bingara NSW
R.M. Davies1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie  2. CSIRO EM

Southern Australia and Siberia: a comparison of two lithospheric transects
O.F. Gaul11, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1 GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Preliminary results of lithosphere mapping of the eastern part of the Siberian Platform
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, W.L. Griffin1,2, L. Natapov1, S.Y. O’Reillyand Y. Erinchek3
1. GEMOC Macquarie 2. CSIRO EM, 3. VSEGEI, St Petersburg, Russia

Sulfur–content in Australian sub–continental lithosphere: preliminary results 
O.F. Alard1, J. Lorand2, W.J. Powell1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1
1. GEMOC Maquarie, 2. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Paris, France

 

AGU WESTERN PACIFIC GEOPHYSICS MEETING, TAIPEI, 21–24 JULY 1998

Tertiary lithosphere replacement beneath the eastern Sino–Korean Craton:  density considerations
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Lithospheric mantle types in eastern China
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and X. Xu1.3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Earth Sciences, Univ. of Nanjing, China

 

IGCP PROJECT 420 FIRST WORKSHOP, XINJIANG, CHINA, 27 JULY – 3 AUGUST 1998

Lithosphere mapping and crust–mantle connections
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Mantle evolution in the East Central Asia Orogenic Belt: heat sources for granite generation
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, D.A. Ionov1, Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1 and V.G. Malkovets3,1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Inst. of Mineralogy and Petrography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Nature of the lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern part of the Xing'an – Mongolia Foldbelt: evidence from both potassic volcanic rocks and mantle xenoliths
M. Zhang1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, TOULOUSE, 30 AUGUST – 3 SEPTEMBER 1998

Are lithospheres forever?
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W,L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

The composition of sub–continental lithospheric mantle: garnet–based estimates 
W.L. Griffin1,2 , S.Y. O’Reilly1 and C.G. Ryan2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Further insights on S content and behaviour in the lithospheric mantle
O.F. Alard1, A. Luguet2, J.P. Lorand2, W.J. Powell1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,3
1. GEMOC Maquarie, 2. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, France, 3. CSIRO EM

 

WORKSHOP ON PROGRESS IN KERGUELEN ISLANDS GEOLOGY, SAINT–ETIENNE, FRANCE, 7 – 8 SEPTEMBER 1998

The GEMOC facility for integrated microanalysis
W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, C.G. Ryan2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Some applications of 4–D Lithosphere Mapping
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, O. Gaul1 and Y. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR MICROPROBE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS, CAPE TOWN, OCTOBER 1998

The CSIRO/GEMOC nuclear microprobe: A high–performance system based on a new highly integrated design
C.G. Ryan1,3, D.N. Jamieson2, W.L. Griffin3,1, S.H. Sie1, G. Cripps1 and G.F. Suter1,
1. CSIRO EM, 2. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, 3. GEMOC Macquarie.

 

THE BRUCE CHAPPELL SYMPOSIUM, CANBERRA, 23 & 24 NOVEMBER 1998

Trace elements in accessory zircon & apatite: application to petrogenesis & mineral exploration
E.A. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

How the mantle makes granites
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

VIEPS WORKSHOP ON LASER ABLATION ICP–MS, MELBOURNE, 25 – 27 NOVEMBER 1998

GLITTER: on–line interactive data reduction for the LA–ICPMS microprobe\
E. van Achterbergh1, C.G. Ryan2 and W.L. Griffin1,2
2.GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

Poster display: “GEMOC laser ablation multicollector ICPMS”
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, A. Burrows3 and S. Shuttleworth4
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. Nu Instruments,  4. Merchantek Co

 

5TH AUSTRALASIAN SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED ICP–MS SPECTROMETRY, PERTH, 30 NOVEMBER – 3 DECEMBER 1998

GLITTER: on–line interactive data reduction for the LA–ICPMS microprobe
E. van Achterbergh1, C.G. Ryan2, W.L. Griffin1,2 and N.J. Pearson1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM

 

EGS XXIV GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAGUE, 19 – 23 APRIL 1999

The elastic thickness of Fennoscandia: reflection of the tectonothermal age of the lithospheric mantle
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, J.D. Fairhead2 and W.L. Griffin1,3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

22ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS, BIRMINGHAM, 18 – 30 JULY 1999

Secular evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and C.G. Ryan2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Petrologic and geophysical characteristics of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary through earth's evolution
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2 and Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Mapping lithosphere–scale structure in the eastern Siberian platform
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, W.L. Griffin1,2, L.M. Natapov1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1 and Y. Erincheck3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO EM, 3. VSEGEI, St. Petersburg

 

NINTH ANNUAL V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, AUGUST 22–27 1999

Mapping the subcontinental lithosphere with garnet populations
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, N.I. Fisher1,3, J.H. Friedman1,4, C.G. Ryan1,2 and E. van Achterbergh1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining,, 3. CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, 4. Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University

Carbonatites at 200km: quenched melt inclusions in megacrystalline lherzolite xenoliths, Slave Craton, Canada
E. van Achterbergh1, W.L. Griffin1, K. Kivi2, N.J. Pearson1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc.

GLITTER: on–line interactive data reduction for the laser ablation ICP–MS microprobe
E. van Achterbergh1, C.G. Ryan21,2 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Determination of high precision isotope ratios by LA–MC–ICP–MS
S.E. Jackson1, W.L. Griffin1,2, and N.J. Pearson1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Hf, Pb and Sr isotopes in LIMA from the Jagersfontein kimberlite: in–situ analysis by LAM–MC–ICPMS
W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, S.E. Jackson1, M. Zhang1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and Z. Wang3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Geologisk Inst., Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden

Highly siderophile elements in mantle sulfides: in–situ LAM–ICPMS analysis
O. Alard1, W.L. Griffin1, J.P. Lorand2, S.E. Jackson1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ESA CNRS n°7058, 61 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.

Quantitative LAM–ICPMS analysis of trace elements in diamonds
S.E. Jackson1, R.M. Davies2, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1., B. Doyle3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining,, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc.

The Hf isotope composition of cratonic mantle: LAM–MC–ICPMS analysis of zircon megacrysts in kimberlites
W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, E. Belousova1, S.E. Jackson1, E. van Achterbergh1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and S.R. Shee3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining,, 3. Stockdale Prospecting Ltd.

 

INTERNATIONAL MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION COMMISSION ON ORE MINERALOGY SHORT COURSE ON "e;MODERN APPROACHES TO ORE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY"e;, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 1999

Applications of LAM–ICP–MS to ore mineralogy, ore genesis, and mineral exploration
S.E. Jackson1, W.L. Griffin1, N.J. Pearson1 and R.P. Taylor2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Ottawa Carleton Geoscience Centre, Carleton University, Canada

 

THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OROGENIC LHERZOLITES AND MANTLE PROCESSES, PAVIa (ITALY), SEPTEMBer 12–15 1999

Secular evolution of subcontinental lithospheric mantle
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, O.F. Gaul1 and C.G. Ryan2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining

Petrologic and geophysical characteristics of the lithosphere and the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary through time
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining

 

BEYOND 2000 NEW FRONTIERS IN ISOTOPE GEOSCIENCE, LORNE, VICTORIA, 30 JANUARY–4 FEBRUARY 2000

Residual and mobile mantle sulfides: LAM–MC–ICPMS analysis of Re–Os isotopes
O. Alard, N.J. Pearson, W.L. Griffin, S. Graham and S.E. Jackson, GEMOC Macquarie

New insights into Re–Os systematics in the lithospheric mantle from in–situ analysis of sulfide phases
O. Alard1, L. Reisberg2, W.L. Griffin1,3, J.–P. Lorand4, S.Y. O’Reilly1, N.J. Pearson1 and S. Graham1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CRPG, CNRS, France, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 4 Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France.

Determination of copper isotope ratios by LA–MC–ICP–MS
A. Botfield, S.E. Jackson, W.L. Griffin and N.J. Pearson, GEMOC Macquarie

Integrated in–situ U–Pb, Hf–isotope and trace–element analysis of detrital zircons: event signatures in the Pur–Banera Belt, Rajastan
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.E. Jackson1,  E. A. Belousova1 and S. Walters3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3.  GeoDiscovery Group

Tracking magma mixing and crust–mantle interaction with in–situ Hf–isotope analysis of zircons: Pingtan mafic–felsic complex, SE China
W.L. Griffin1,2, X. Wang3, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and X. Xu3
1.  GEMOC Macquarie, 2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3.  Dept. of Geology, Nanjing University

 

CARBONATITE WORKSHOP, UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES MINES, SAINT ETIENNE, FEBRUARY 21–22 2000.

Carbonatites at 200 km: Quenched melt inclusions in megacrystalline lherzolite xenoliths, Slave Craton, Canada. 
A.E. van Achterbergh1, A.E., W.L. Griffin1,2, K. Kivi3, N.J. Pearson1, and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining,, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc

 

15TH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CONVENTION, SYDNEY, 3–7 JULY 2000

Multiple origins of the eastern Australian alluvial diamonds
R.M. Davies1, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Tracking magma mixing: in–situHf–isotope analysis of zircons
W.L. Griffin1,2, X. Wang1,3, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and X. Xu1,3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Department of Geology, Nanjing University

4–D Lithosphere Mapping in Australia and global comparisons
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1.2, O. Gaul1 and N. Pearson1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Regional lithospheric domains in Australia from gravity modelling
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1.2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

Was the continental lithosphere desperately flat in the Archaean? 
P.F.Rey1, Poudjam Djomani2, G. Houseman3, Y.H. Suzanne Y. O’Reillyand W.L. Griffin2,
1. School of GeoSciences, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia, 2. GEMOC, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia, 3. School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS 29JT, UK

 

GOLDSCHMIDT 2000, OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM, 3–8 SEPTEMBER 2000

In–situ analysis of Highly siderophile trace elements and Re–Os isotopes by LAM –ICPMS and LAM–MC–ICPMS reveal the residual and mobile nature of mantle sulfides.
Alard O.1, Griffin W.L.1,2, Lorand, J.P.3, Pearson N.J.1 and O’Reilly S.Y1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Os isotope systematics of the Massif Central mantle lithosphere: In–situ and whole–rock studies
Alard O.1, Pearson N.J.1, Reisberg L.2, Lorand J.–P.3, Griffin W.L.1 and O’Reilly S.Y.1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CRPG–CNRS, Nancy–les–Vandoeuvre, France, 3. Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Progress in the application of laser ablation microprobe (LAM)–ICP–MS to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology
Simon E. Jackson, William Griffin, Ashwini Sharma and Elena Belousova, GEMOC Macquarie

Tracking magma mixing: in–situ Hf–isotope analysis of zircons
W.L. Griffin1,2, X. Wang1,3, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and X. Xu1,3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Department of Geology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

LAM–MC–ICPMS analysis of mantle–derived sulfides:  the key to Re–Os systematics of mantle peridotites
Pearson, N.J., Alard, O., Griffin, W.L., Graham, S. and Jackson, S.E., GEMOC Macquarie

Structure and composition of the mantle beneath the Minusa region SW of the Siberian Craton: A Sr–Nd isotope and trace element study.
V.G. Malkovets1, D.A. Ionov2, A. Agashev3,  Y. Litasov4, Y. Orihashi5, S.Y. O’Reilly6 and W.L. Griffin6,7
1. Instit. Mineralogy & Petrography, Russian Acad. Sci., 2 Dépt. Géologie, Université JM,Saint–Etienne, France, 3 Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, 4 United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk, Russia, 5 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 6. GEMOC Macquarie, 7. CSIRO EM

 

6TH AUSTRALASIAN SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED ICP MASS SPECTROMETRY, UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, DECEMBER 4–8, 2000

In–situ analysis of highly siderophile trace elements by LAM–ICPMS and Re–Os isotopes by LAM–MC–ICPMS reveals the residual and mobile nature  of mantle sulphides 
O.Alard1, N.J. Pearson1, W.L.Griffin1,2, J.P. Lorand,3, S.E.  Jackson, 1 and  S.Y. O’Reilly 1.
1, GEMOC Macquarie  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining 3. Laboratoire de Mineralogie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Mass fractonation in the Nu Plasma MC–ICPMS
N.J. Pearson, W.L.Griffin, S.E.  Jackson,  and  S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC Macquarie

A comparison of 213 vs. 266 nm laser ablation for the analysis of rock–forming minerals\
S.E.  Jackson1, A. Sharma1, N.J. Pearson1 and William Griffin1,2
1, GEMOC Macquarie  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

AGU 2000 FALL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 15–19 DECEMBER 2000

Secular geochemical variations of mafic rocks in the Jiyang Basin: tracking the destruction of old lithospheric mantle beneath the Sino–Korean Craton, north China
M. Zhang1, W. Fan1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1
1, GEMOC Macquarie, 2, Changsha Institute of Geotectonics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hunan, China

Multiple sulfide generations in mantle peridotites:  interpreting Re–Os "depletion ages"
W.L. Griffin., O. Alard, N.J. Pearson, and  S.Y.O’Reilly, 
GEMOC Macquarie

 

EUROPEAN UNION OF GEOSCIENCES CONFERENCE, STRASBOURG, FRANCE, 8–12 APRIL 2001

Multiple sulfide generations in mantle peridotites: Delineating lithospheric mantle terranes and dating mantle events
W.L. Griffin, O. Alard, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC Macquarie

Tracking petrologic and geophysical and geophysical characteristics in the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary through Earth's evolution
S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, Y. Poudjom Djomani and P. Morgan
GEMOC Macquarie

Structure of the lithosphere from integrated analysis of geophysical and geochemical data.  Examples from Siberia and Fennoscandia.
Y. Poudjom Djomani, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and L. Natapov
GEMOC Macquarie

 

2001: A HYDROTHERMAL ODYSSEY, TOWNSVILLE, QUEENSLAND,17 – 19 MAY 2001

Crustal Evolution and Crust–Mantle Interaction in the Mount Isa Eastern Succession: TerraneChron Analysis of Detrital Zircons
E.A. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.G. Walters1,3, and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. GeoDiscovery Group, Queensland, Australia

 

11TH V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA, USA, 20 – 24 MAY 2001

Age and formation of thick Cratonic mantle, Slave Craton, Canada: constraints from in–situ Re–Os analysis of silicate–hosted sulfides
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, B.J. Doyle3 and K. Kivi3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc.

Geochemical remote sensing of the deep earth: tales of longevity, transformation and destruction
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1 and P. Morgan1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3.  Dept. of Geology, N. Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, USA

Chemical tomography: structure and origin of continental keels
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and N.I. Fisher1,3.
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, 3. CSIRO Math. & Inform. Sciences, Macquarie University

Re–Os isotopic contraints on the generation of the low–Cr megacryst suite
S. Graham1, W.L. Griffin1, S.R. Shee2 and D.D. Lambert3.
1.GEMOC Macquarie, 2. DeBeers Australia Exploration Limited, Victoria, Australia, 3. VIEPS Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Re–Os isotopes in sulfides in mantle peridotites:  a record of melt depletion and metasomatism
N.J. Pearson1, O. Alard1,2, W.L. Griffin1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Dept. of Earth Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

Oxidation during metasomatism: implications for the survival of diamond
C.A. McCammon1, W.L. Griffin2, S.R. Shee3 and H.St.C. O’Neill4
1. Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universitat Bayreuth, Germany, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Stockdale Prospecting Ltd, Victoria, Australia, 4. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

 

PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF LASER ABLATION–MASS SPECTROMETRY IN THE EARTH SCIENCES, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA, 26 – 27 MAY 2001

In situ isotope ratio determination using LA–MC–ICP–MS
S.E. Jackson, N.J. Pearson and W.L. Griffin, GEMOC Macquarie

Data Reduction Software for LA–ICP–MS
E. van Achterbergh1, C.G. Ryan2, S.E. Jackson1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS, 15TH GEOPHYSICAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION, BRISBANE, 6–8 AUGUST 2001

Lithospheric boundaries on the eastern Siberian platform
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, L. Natapov1, Y. Erinchek3 and J. Hronsky4

1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. VSEGEI, St. Petersburg, Russia, 4. WMC Resources, Belmont, W.A.

 

CHAPMAN CONFERENCE: EXPLORATION GEODYNAMICS, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 19–24 AUGUST, 2001

Composition, thermal structure and density of lithospheric mantle: implications for tectonics and geophysics W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly 1, Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1 and P. Morgan1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Dept of Geology, N. Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.A.

 

SLAVE–KAAPVAAL WORKSHOP, MERRICKVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA,   5–9  SEPTEMBER, 2001

Lithospheric mantle beneath southern Africa: composition,  structure and evolution
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and L.M. Natapov1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining

In–situ Re–Os analysis of mantle sulfides: a new microanalytical technique to unravel the evolution of the lithospheric mantle
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1,2, Z. Spetsius3 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Institute of Diamond Industry, ALROSA Co. Ltd., Mirny, Yakutia, Russia

Re–Os isotope evidence for Meso–Archaean mantle beneath 2.7 GA Contwoyto Terrane, Slave Craton, Canada: implications for the tectonic history of the Slave Craton
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, B.J. Doyle3 and K. Kivi3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada

The mantle beneath the Slave  Craton (Canada): composition   and architecture
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, Yvette Poudjom Djomani1, L.M. Natapov1, N.J. Pearson1, R.M. Davies1,B.J. Doyle3 and K.Kivi4
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc., Vancouver, 4. Kennecott Canada Inc., Thunder Bay, Ontario

 

DYNAMIQUE DU MANTEAU TERRESTRE, UNIVERSITE BLAISE PASCAL–CNRS, CLERMONT–FERRAND, FRANCE, 10–11 SEPTEMBER 2001

Poikiloblastic Harzburgites from Kerguelen Islands (Indian Ocean): record of extensive partial melting and two different types of metasomatism
G. Delpech1,2, M. Grégoire1,3, J.Y Cottin1,2, G. Michon2 and S.Y O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Département de Géologie, Université Jean Monnet, Saint–Etienne, France, 3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 

4TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEAN SYMPOSIUM, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 24–28 SEPTEMBER, 2001

Geophysical and geochemical signatures of Archaean and Proterozoic lithosphere in Siberia and Fennoscandia
Y.H. Poudjom Djomani1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, L. Natapov1 and J. Hronsky3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. WMC Resources, WA, Australia

Dating mantle events by in situ Re–Os analysis of sulfides: Slave Craton, Canada
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, B.J. Doyle3 and K. Kivi3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc

Archean crust–mantle interaction in the northern Yilgarn Craton: Hf–isotope evidence
E.A. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1,2, S.R. Shee3 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. De Beers Australia Exploration Ltd, Australia

The origin and evolution of Archean lithospheric mantle
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, N. Abe1, N.J. Pearson1, S. Aulbach1 and B.J. Doyle3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Heterogeneity of Archean continental roots: evidence from Chemical Tomography
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, B. Doyle3, N.J. Pearson1, O. Gaul1 and C.G. Ryan2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, 3. Kennecott Canada Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The impact of body forces on Archaean Continental Lithosphere
P.F. Rey1, G. Houseman2, Y.H. Poudjom Djomani3, W.L. Griffin3 and S.Y. O’Reilly3
1. School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, 2. School of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK, 3. GEMOC Macquarie

The Brockman Creek Kimberlite, East Pilbara, Australia
B.A. Wyatt1, M. Mitchell1, B. White2, S.R. Shee1, W.L. Griffin3 and N. Tomlinson4
1. DeBeers Australia Exploration Ltd, Bassendean, W.A., Australia, 2. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia, 3. GEMOC Macquarie, 4. GeoScience Centre, DeBeers Corporate Headquarters, Theta, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

12TH V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 2002

The Mesoproterozoic continental margin of the Baltic Shield: Geochemical evidence for a Cordillera–type setting
T. Andersen 1 and W. L. Griffin 2
1. Department of Geology, University of Oslo, Norway, 2. GEMOC Macquarie

Sulfides from the lower mantle?
S. Aulbach 1, W. L. Griffin 1, 2, S. Y. O’Reilly and K. Kivi 3
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, 3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Canada

Archean mantle hidden in Proterozoic crust in SW Norway
E. E. Beyer, W. L. Griffin, N. J. Pearson and S. Y. O’Reilly, GEMOC Macquarie

Magnesium isotopic composition of the lithospheric mantle: an in–situ study of mantle–derived olivine
N. J. Pearson, W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly and G. Delpech, GEMOC Macquarie

Trace element distribution between coexisting clinopyroxene and amphibole in xenoliths from western Victoria, Australia
W. J. Powell 1, S. Y. O’Reilly 1, W. L. Griffin 1 and M. Tiepolo 2
1. GEMOC Macquarie, 2. C. N. R. –Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse – Pavia, Italy

U–Pb geochronology from the Howard Peaks Intrusive Complex (Northern Victoria Land – Antarctica): new evidence for magmatic age and U–Pb resetting in zircons
R. M. Bomparola1, L. Dallai2, E. Belousova3, C. Ghezzo1, W. L. Griffin3 and S. Y. O’Reilly3
2.Dip. Sci. Terra, Univ. Siena, Italy, 2. CNR–CSQuEA, Univ. Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, 3. GEMOC ARC Nat. Key Centre, Dept. Earth Planet Sci., Macquarie University, Australia

In–situ Cu and Fe isotope evidence for ignoranic and organic components in the HYC Pb–Zn ores
S. Graham, W. L. Griffin, S. E. Jackson, M. R. Walter and N. J. Pearson
GEMOC Key Centre and ACA, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia 2109.

In situ Re–Os dating of sulfides in Kaapvaal xenoliths
W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly, N. J. Pearson and S. Graham
GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia

Contamination of OIB by underlying ancient continental lithosphere: U–Pb and Hf isotopes in zircons question EM1 and EM2 mantle components
U. Schaltegger1,2, H. Amundsen3,4, B. Jamtveit4, M. Frank2, W. L. Griffin5, K. Gronvold6, R. Tronnes6 and T. Torsvik7
1. University of Geneva, Maraichers 13, CH–1205 Geneva, 2. Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstr 5, CH–8092 Zurich, 3. Earth and Planetary Exploration Services, N–0364 Oslo, 4. Department of Physics and Geology, PO Box 1048, N–0316 Oslo, 5. GEMOC< Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, 6. Nordic Volcanological Institute, Grensasvegur 50, IS–108 Reykjavik, 7. Department of Physics and Geology, PO Box 1048, N–0316 Oslo

 

HSE 2002 NANCY, FRANCE, AUGUST 26–28, 2002

Mantle event signatures and lithosphere mapping using in–situ Re–Os analyses of mantle sulfides
W. L. Griffin1,2, N. J. Pearson1, Z. Spetsius3 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Key Centre, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia  3. Institute of Diamond Industry, ALROSA Co. Ltd, Mirny, Yakutia, 678170, Russia

 

4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OROGENIC LHERZOLITES AND MANTLE PROCESSES, SAMANI, JAPAN, AUGUST 26– SEPTEMBER 3,  2002

Upper versus lower boundary intrusion of peridotite into subducted continental crust: the case for both in the Western Gneiss Region of the Scandinavian Caledonides.
H.K. Brueckner1,2, D.A Carswell3, W.L. Griffin4
1. Queens College and The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA, 2. Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA, 3. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK, 4. GEMOC Macquarie

In situ Re–Os dating of sulfides in mantle peridotites: new insights into the subcontinental lithospheric mantle
W.L. Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, N.J. Pearson1, E.E. Beyer1 and Z.V. Spetsius2
1.  GEMOC Macquarie, 2. Institute of Diamond Industry, ALROSA Ltd., Russia

Patterns of geochemical reservoirs in the lithospheric mantle.
S.Y. O’Reilly1, M. Zhang1, W.L. Griffin.2 and W. Powell1.
1.  GEMOC Macquarie, 2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH RESOLUTION SECTOR FIELD ICPMS, ATLANTA GEORGIA, USA, 2–4 OCTOBER 2002

In–situ high precision isotope ratio measurement: isobaric interference and mass fractionation corrections using a MC–ICPMS
N. J. Pearson1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. E. Jackson1 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1.  GEMOC Macquarie University, 2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining

 

ALICE WAIN MEMORIAL WEST NORWAY ECLOGITE FIELD SYMPOSIUM 2003, SELJE, WESTERN NORWAY, 21–28 JUNE 2003

Origin of Western Gneiss Region garnet peridotites: refertilization of Archean lithosphere?  Evidence from the Almklovdalen peridotite body.
E. E. Beyer, W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly and N. J. Pearson
GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia

 

8TH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE, VICTORIA CANADA, 22–27 JUNE 2003

Taking the pulse of the Earth: lithosphere events tracked by in–situ geochronology
S. Y. O’Reilly and W. L. Griffin
GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia

Melt inclusions from the deep Slave lithosphere: Constraints on the origin and evolution of mantle–derived carbonatite and kimberlite
E. van Achterbergh1,2, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1, C. G. Ryan2, N. J. Pearson1, K. Kivi3 and B. J. Doyle4
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan R. O. C.  4. Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan R. O. C.

Natural trace element distribution between immiscible silicate and carbonate melts imaged by nuclear microprobe
E. van Achterbergh1,2, C. G. Ryan2, W. L. Griffin1,2 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia.

Geochemical characteristics of mantle xenoliths from Penghu Islands, Taiwan Straits, SE Asian Margin
K. Wang1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Chung3 and W. Juang4
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan R. O. C.  4. Department of Geology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan R. O. C.

Magnesium isotopic composition of olivine from the lithospheric mantle
N. J. Pearson1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1 and G. Delpech1
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

Inclusions in diamonds from the K10 and K14 kimberlites, Buffaloa Hills, Canada: Diamond growth in a plume?
R. M. Davies1,2, W. L. Griffin2,3, S. Y. O’Reilly2 and T. E. McCandless4
1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA  2. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  4. Ashton Mining of Canada, Canada

Geochemical characteristics of microdiamonds from kimberlites at Lac de Gras, Central Slave Craton
R. M. Davies1,2, W. L. Griffin2,3, S. Y. O’Reilly2 and B. J. Doyle4
1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA  2. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  4. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Canada

Trace element analysis of diamond by LAM ICPMS: preliminary results
S. Rege1, R. M. Davies1,2, W. L. Griffin1,3, S. E. Jackson1 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

The lithospheric mantle beneath the Buffalo Head Terrane, Alberta: xenoliths from the Buffalo Hills kimberlites
S. Aulbach1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1 and T. E. McCandless3
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Ashton Mining Canada Inc., North Vancouver, Canada

Origins of eclogites beneath the Central Slave Craton
S. Aulbach1, W. L. Griffin1,2, N. J. Pearson1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, K. Kivi3 and B. J. Doyle4
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Thunder Bay, Canada  4. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Vancouver, Canada

Mineralogical and geochemical characteristic of a unique mantle xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe
S. Kuligin1, V. Malkovets1, N. Pokhilenko1, M. Vavilov1, W. L. Griffin2,3 and S. Y. O’Reilly3
1. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography SB RAS, Russia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Peridotites from the Grib kimberlite pipe, Arkhangelsk, Russia
V. G. Malkovets1,2,3, L. A. Taylor2, W. L. Griffin3, S. Y. O’Reilly3, N. J. Pearson3, N. P. Pokhilenko1, E. M. Verichev4, N. N. Golovin5 and K. D. Litasov6
1. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia  2. Planetary Geosciences Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA  3. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  4. Arkhangelskgeolrazvedka, Arkhangelsk, Russia  5. Arkhangelskgeoldobycha, Arkhangelsk, Russia  6. Dept. Mineral. Petrol. Econ. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Geophysical analysis of the lithosphere beneath the Slave Cratonv
Y. H. Poudjom Djomani1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1,2 and B. J. Doyle3
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Vancouver, Canada

Lithospheric mapping beneath the north American plate
W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1, B. J. Doyle3, K. Kivi3 and H. G. Coopersmith4
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia  3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Vancouver, Canada  4. Great Western Diamond Co., Fort Collins, CO 80522, USA

Late vendian aerial alkaline volcanism in winter coast kimberlite area (Arkhangelsk Diamondiferous Province)
V. S. Shchukin1, S. M. Sablukov2, L. I. Sablukov2, E. A. Belousova3 and W. L. Griffin3
1. JSC Arkhangelsk Diamonds, Russia  2. Central Research Institute of Geological Prospecting (TsNIGRI), Russia  3. ARC National Key Centre GEMOC, Australia

Pyropes and chromites of the Snap Lake/King Lake kimberlite dyke system in relation to the problem of the southern Slave Craton lithospheric mantle structure and composition
N. Pokhilenko1,2, W. L. Griffin3,4, N. Shimizu5, C. McLean1, V. Malkovets2,3, L. Pokhilenko2 and E. Malygina2
1. Diamondex Resources Ltd, Canada  2. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, Russia  3. GEMOC Key Centre, Macquarie University, Australia  4. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Australia  5. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

The Brockman creek kimberlite, East Pilbara, Australia
B. A. Wyatt1, M. Mitchell2, S. R. Shee2, W. L. Griffin3, N. Tomlinson4 and B. White5
1. De Beers Exploration Inc., Canada  2. De Beers Australia Exploration Limited, Australia  3. GEMOC, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia  4. GeoScience Centre, De Beers, South Africa  5. University of Melbourne, Australia

Diamond inclusions from Snap Lake, NWT Canada
P. Promprated1, L. Taylor1, C. Floss2, V. Malkovets1, M. Anand1, W. L. Griffin3, N. Pokhilenko4 and N. Sobolev4
1. Planetary Geosciences Institute, Dept. Geological Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN37996  2. McDonnell Center of Space Science, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO 63130  3. GEMOC National Key Centre, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia  4. Inst. Of Mineralogy and Petrography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090 Russia

Cartonic conditions beneath Arkhangelsk, Russia: Garnet peridotites from the Grib kimberlite
V. Malkovets1,2,3, L. Taylor2, W. L. Griffin3, S. Y. O’Reilly3, N. Pearson3, N. Pokhilenko1, E. Verichev4, N. Golovin5 and K. Litasov6
1. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography SB RAS, Russia  2. Planetary Geoscience Institute, Univ. of Tennessee, USA  3. GEMOC National Key Centre, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia  4. Arkhangelskgeolrazvedka Ltd, Russia  5. Arkhangelskgeoldobycha Ltd, Russia  6. Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Tohoku University, Japan

Eclogites from the Grib kimberlite pipe, Arkhangelsk, Russia
V. Malkovets1,2,3, L. Taylor2, W. L. Griffin3, S. Y. O’Reilly3, N. Pokhilenko1, E. Verichev4, N. Golovin5, K. Litasov6, J. Valley7 and M. Spicuzza7
1. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography SB RAS, Russia  2. Planetary Geoscience Institute, Univ. of Tennessee, USA  3. GEMOC National Key Centre, School of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia  4. Arkhangelskgeolrazvedka Ltd, Russia  5. Arkhangelskgeoldobycha Ltd, Russia  6. Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Tohoku University, Japan  7. University of Wisconcin, Madison, USA

 

13TH V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, KURASHIKI, JAPAN, 7–12 SEPTEMBER 2003

Proterozoic mantle lithosphere beneath the extended margin of the South China block: In situ Re–Os evidence
K.–L. Wang1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S.–L. Chung3 and N. J. Pearson1
1. ARC National Key Centre for GEMOC, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia  3. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R. O. C.

Re–Os isotopes in sulfides of mantle peridotites from SE China: age constraints and evolution of lithospheric mantle
X. Xu1,2, W. L. Griffin2, S. Y. O’Reilly2 and N. J. Pearson2
1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China  2. ARC National Key Centre for GEMOC, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia

Paleozoic upper mantle of the southern frame of the Siberian platform: Structure and composition
V. G. Malkovets1, A. A. Gibsher1, Y. D. Litasov2, S. Y. O’Reilly3 and W. L. Griffin3
1. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia  2. Institute of Geology, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia  3. ARC National Key Centre for GEMOC, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia

 

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION FALL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 8–12 DECEMBER 2003

Navajo garnetites and rock–wall interaction in the mantle
D. Smith1 and W. L. Griffin2
1. University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, Austin  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

 

17TH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL CONVENTION, HOBART, TASMANIA, 8 – 13 FEBRUARY 2004

Zircon as a multi–faceted tool for petrogenic modeling: applications to eastern Australian granitoids.
E. A. Belousova1, W. L. Griffin1,2 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia

Archean mantle fragments in proterozoic crust, western gneiss region, Norway: In–situ and whole–rock Re–Os evidence.
E. Beyer, S. Y. O’Reilly and W. L. Griffin
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

TerranechroneTM: A new way to explore crustal evolution
W. L. Griffin, E. A. Belousova, S. Y. O’Reilly and S. G. Walters
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Magnesium isotopic composition of olivine by laser ablation multiple collector ICPMS
N. J. Pearson, W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly and G. Delpech
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Trace element analysis of diamond by LAM–ICPMS: Methodology and preliminary results
S. Rege1, R. Davies2, W. L. Griffin1,3, S. Jackson1, N. Pearson1 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024  3.  CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia

Petrobenesis of Tasmanian Tertiary Basalts
M. Zhang1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, J. L. Everard2 and W. L. Griffin1,3
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. Tasmanian Geological Survey, PO Box 56, Rosny Park 7018  3. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 1067, Australia

 

SEISMIC HETEROGENEITY IN THE EARTH'S MANTLE: THERMO–PETROLOGIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS SYMPOSIUM, COPENHAGEN, 26–28 FEBRUARY 2004

Imaging Petrological and Thermal Heterogeneity in the Lithospheric Mantle: Implications for interpretation of geophysical data
W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly and Y. Poudjom Djomani
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

 

GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA–MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, JOINT ANNUAL MEETING, BROCK UNIVERSITY, ST CATHERINES, ONTARIO, CANADA, 12–14 MAY 2004

Combined U–Pb and Hf isotopic study of zircon provenance from till samples northerwestern Superior Province, Manitoba
K. Y. Tomlinson1, W. L. Griffin1,2, B. J. Doyle3 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde NSW 2113, Australia  3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. 200 Granville Str, Vancouver, V6C 1S4, BC, Canada

 

AGU JOINT ASSEMBLY 2004, MONTREAL, CANADA, 17–21 MAY 2004

Correlations between Os isotopic composition and trace element abundance in Chinese Cu–Ni deposit sulfides
S. Graham1,2, W. J. Griffin2, S. J. Barnes1 and G. Begg3
1. UQAC, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi, Canada  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  3. WMC Resources, Belmont, Perth, Australia

Cu and Fe isotope variation in Candelaria Sulfides: Tracing to origins of fluid components in a stratiform ore deposit
S. Graham1,3, W. L. Griffin1, N. J. Pearson1, S. Jackson1, S. Y. O’Reilly1 and R. Rutherford2
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. Phelps Dodge, Sydney, Australia  3. UQAC, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi, Canada

 

14TH ANNUAL V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, OSTERVOLDGADE, DENMARK, 5–11 JUNE 2004

Os isotopes systematic of magmatic sulfides in abyssal peridotites
O. Alard1, A. Luguet2, J. P. Lorand3, N. J. Pearson4, W. L. Griffin4 and S. Y. O’Reilly4
1. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK  2. DTM–Carnegie, Washington, USA  3. MNHN, Paris, France  4. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Sveconorwegian underplanting and grantic magmatism in the Baltic Shield: LAM–ICPMS Hf isotope evidence
T. Andersen1, W. L. Griffin2 and A. G. Sylvester3
1. Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, N–0316 Oslo, Norway  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  3. Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Earliest stages of formation of oceanic lithosphere in the central Atlantic Ocean: The oceanic plate beneath the Canary Islands
E.–R. Neumann1, R. Vannucci2, M. Tiepolo2, W. L. Griffin3 and N. J. Pearson3
1. Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, Blindern, NO–0316 Oslo, Norway  2. CNR–Istituto – Institute of Geosciences & Earth Resources, 27100 Pavia, Italy  3. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

In–situ high pressure Hf isotope ratio measurement using laser ablation MC–ICPMS: Mass bias and isobaric interference corrections
N. J. Pearson1, W. L. Griffin1,2, and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113

Geochemistry and origin of mantle sulfides in spinel peridotites xenoliths from Penghu Islands, Taiwan
K.–L. Wang, S. Y. O’Reilly, W. L. Griffin, N. J. Pearson and M. Zhang
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Heterogeneous & metasomatised mantle recorded by mineral trace elements in Donghai garnet peridotites of the Sulu UHP terrane eastern China
J. Zheng1,2,3, R. Y. Zhang2, J. G. Liou2, W. L. Griffin3 and S. Y. O’Reilly3
1. Earth Sciences, Univ. of Geosci., Wuhan 430074, China  2. Geol. And Env. Sci., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA  3. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

 

DE BEERS DIAMOND CONFERENCE, WARWICK, 5th–7th JULY 2004

Trace element analyses of diamond by LAM ICPMS: Standardisation, results and directions
W. L. Griffin1,3, S. Rege1, R. M. Davies1,2, S. Jackson1 and S. Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia  2.  Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA  3. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

 

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS 17TH GEOPHYSICAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION, DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, 15–19 AUGUST 2004

The integration of geophysics and geochemistry reveals the nature of the lithosphere beneath the Slave Craton (Canada)
Y. Poudjom Djomani1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1, L. M. Natapov1, N. J. Pearson1 and B. J. Doyle21. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. Kennecott Canada Exploration Ltd, Vancouver, Canada

 

2004 WESTERN PACIFIC GEOPHYSICS MEETING, HONOLULU, HAWAII, 16–20 AUGUST 2004

Rare Earth Element Chemistry of Apatites from the Cretaceous to Paleogene Granitoids, Southeastern Tibet
M.F. Chu1, S.L. Chung1, X.R. Liang2, W.L. Griffin3, N.J. Pearson3, Yoshiyuki Iizuka4, X.H. Li2, Y.Q. Zhang2
1. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,  2. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China,  3. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  4. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

 

32ND INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, FLORENCE, ITALY, 20–28 AUGUST 2004

Origin and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Slave Craton (Canada)
S. Aulbach1, W. L. Griffin1, N. J. Pearson1, S. Y. O’Reilly1 and K. Kivi2
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. Kennecott Canada Exploration Ltd, Vancouver, Canada

Origin of garnet peridotites from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway: Refertilisation of depleted Archean lithosphere
E. E. Beyer, W. L. Griffin and S. Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Composition of clinopyroxenes from mantle xenoliths as indicator of lithospheric evolution
C. Bonadiman, 1 M. Coltorti1, W. L. Griffin2 and S. Y. O’Reilly2
1. Department of Earth Sciences, Ferrara University, Italy,  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Imaging Petrological and thermal heterogeneity in the lithospheric mantle: Tectonic and geophysical implications
W. L. Griffin, S. Y. O’Reilly and Y. Poudjom Djomani
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Cenozoic thermal and compositional structure of the lithosphere in eastern China: xenolith derived profile of the uppermost mantleH.–W. Ma1, S. Y. O’Reilly2, F.–X. Lu3 and W.L.Griffin4
1. National Laboratory of Mineral Materials, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China,  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  3. Department of Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China,  4. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde

The upper mantle beneath the Canary Islands: from passive margin to intra–plate magmatism
E. R. Neumann1, W. L.Griffin2 and N. J.Pearson2  
1. PGP, University of Oslo, Norway,  2. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Origin and evolution of continental lithospheric mantle: Buoyant blobs, intracratonic eddies and fertile upwellings?
S. Y. O’Reilly and W. L. Griffin
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

The isotopic composition of magnesium in mantle olivine: Records of depletion and metasomatism
N. J. Pearson1, W. L. Griffin1,2, S. Y. O’Reilly1 and G. Delpech1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia,  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113

Nature of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Slave Craton (Canada) from an integration of geophysics and mantle petrology
Y. Poudjom Djomani1, S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1,2, L. M. Natapov1, N. J Pearson1 and B. J. Doyle3
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia,  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde, NSW 2113,  3. Kennecott Canada Exploration Ltd, Vancouver, Canada

Mechanism of lithosphere extension beneath the eastern margin of the South China Block
K.–L. Wang, S. Y. O’Reilly, W. L. Griffin, N. J. Pearson and M. Zhang
GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

Hf isotopes, U–Pb ages and trace elements of zircons in intermediate granulite xenoliths from Cenozoic Hannuoba basalts: significance for petrogenesis and Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic crust–mantle interaction beneath the North China Sea
J. Zheng1, W. L. Griffin2, S. Y. O’Reilly2 and M. Zhang2
1. Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China,  2.  GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

 

SEG 2004 PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY UNDER COVER, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 27 SEP – 1 OCT 2004

Thermal histories of Indonesian porphyry copper–gold deposits determined by U–Th–He, U–Pb, Re–Os, K–Ar and Ar–Ar methods
B. I. A. McInnes1, N.J. Evans1, D. Sukarna2, S. Permanadewi2, S. Garwin3, E. Belousova4, W. L.Griffin4 and F. Fu5
1. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Bentley, WA, Australia,  2. Geological Research and Development Centre, Bundung, Indonesia,  3. Geoinformatics Exploration Australia, West Perth, Australia,  4.  GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  5. Dept of Geosciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

TerraneChronTM: Delivering a competitive edge in exploration
S. Y. O’Reilly1, W. L. Griffin1,2 and E. A. Belousova1
1.  GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia  2. CSIRO Exploration & Mining, North Ryde,  NSW 2113

 

LITHOPROBE – THE CELEBRATORY CONFERENCE, TORONTO, CANADA, 12–15 OCT 2004

Evolution of the Slave Province and Abitibi Subprovince based on U–Pb dating and Hf isotopic composition of zircon
John W.F. Ketchum1, Wouter Bleeker2, William L. Griffin1, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly1, Norman J. Pearson1 and John A. Ayer3
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia,  2. Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0E8, Canada,  3. Ontario Geological Survey, 933 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, On, P3E 6B5, Canada

 

JOINT MEETING OF THE GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, THE MINERALOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS AND THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCES (GAC/MAC), HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA,15–18 MAY 2005

Origin and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Central Slave Craton (Canada) 
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin 1, N.J. Pearson 1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and K. Kivi 2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia,  2. Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Thunder Bay, ONT., Canada

 

15TH ANNUAL V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOSCOW, IDAHO USA, 20–25 MAY 2005

The eclogite mantle reservoir: 176Hf/177Hf, Nb/Ta and Zr/Hf of rutile
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia, 2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

Os–Hf–Nd isotope constraints on subcontinental lithospheric mantle evolution, Slave Craton (Canada)
S. Aulbach1, W.L. Griffin1,2, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and K. Kivi3
1.  GEMOC, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia,  3.  Kennecott Canada Expl. Inc., Thunder Bay, ONT, Canada

Mantle and crustal metasomatism of garnet–bearing peridotite in the Western Gneiss Region of the Norwegian Caledonides
H. Brueckner1,2, D.A. Carswell3, W.L. Griffin4, L.G. Medaris Jr. and E. Beyer4
1. Queens College and The Graduate Center of CUNY, USA,  2. Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, USA,  3. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK,  4. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 5. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin—Madison,
Madison, Wisconsin

In–situ U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotope analyses of the Rayner Complex, east Antarctica
J.A. Halpin1, C.L. Gerakiteys1, G.L. Clarke1, E.A. Belousova2 and W.L Griffin2,3
1. School of geosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,  2. GEMOC Key Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

Laser ablation MC–ICP–MS: shedding new light on in–situ isotope ratio measurement
N. Pearson 1, W.L. Griffinand S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,

Proterozoic mantle lithosphere beneath the East African Rift (Southern Ethiopia): In situ Re–Os evidence 
K.L. Wang1,2., S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1, N. Pearson1, R. Matsumura3 and R. Shinjo3
1. GEMOC, Dept, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  2. Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,  3. Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903–0213, Japan

 

EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2005 VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 24 – 29 APRIL 2005

The age of Os isotope reason in the sub–continental lithospheric mantle
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1, O. Alard1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1,
1.   GEMOC Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia,  2.  CNRS, Université de Montpellier,  34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

 

AGU 2005 JOINT ASSEMBLY, NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA, 23–27 MAY

A sharp continent–ocean transition in the area of the Canary Islands: Evidence from upper mantle and lower crustal xenoliths
E.–R. Neumann1, R. Vannucci2,3, M. Tiepolo3, W.L. Griffin4, N.J. Pearson4 and S.Y. O’Reilly4
1.  Physics of Geological Processes, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway,  2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy,  3. CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georsisorse, sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy,  4. Department of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

 

IUGS–SECE, THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION AND PRESENT STATE OF SUBCONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE CONFERENCE, CHINA, JUNE 25–30, 2005

Mapping the Lithospheric Mantle: Tomography meets Geochemistry and Geothermics
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, T. Deen1, G. Begg3  and Y. Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC ARC Key Centre, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia,  2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia,  3. WMC Resources Ltd., Belmont, WA, Australia

Persistence of ancient lithospheric mantle: consequences for geodynamics and basalt geochemistry
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, M. Zhang1 and Y.Poudjom Djomani1
1. GEMOC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia,  2.  CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

Re–Os isotopes in mantle xenoliths from SE China: age constraints and evolution of lithospheric mantle
X. Xu1,2, W.L.Griffin2, S.Y. O’Reilly2, and N.J. Pearson2
1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China,  2. GEMOC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia

Secular (136 to 0 Ma) chemical variation of mantle–derived mafic magmas in the Sino–Korean Craton: constraints on mantle evolution
M. Zhang1, W. Fan1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, J. Zheng1,3 and W.L. Griffin1,4  
1. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW Australia,  2. Lab of Lithospheric tectonic Evolution, Institute of Geology & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Beijing, China,  3. Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China,  4, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia 

Late Mesozoic–Eocene mantle replacement beneath the eastern North China Craton: evidences from the Paleozoic and Cenozoic peridotite xenoliths
J. Zheng1, W.L. Griffin2,3, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and F. Lu1
1.  State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China,  2. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Mineral chemistry of garnet peridotites from Paleozoic and Cenozoic lithosphere and Mesozoic UHP terrain: constraints on lithospheric evolution, east China
J. Zheng1, W.L. Griffin2,3, R.Y. Zhang4, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and J.G. Liou4
1.  State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China,  2. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia,  4. Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA

 

8TH BIENNIAL SGA MEETING, MINERAL DEPOSIT RESEARCH: MEETING THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE, BEIJING, CHINA, AUGUST 18–21, 2005

Upper mantle composition: tools for smarter diamond exploration
W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1, Gemoc Key Centre, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia,  2. Csiro Exploration And Mining, North Ryde, Nsw 2113, Australia

The evolution of lithospheric domains: a new framework to enhance mineral exploration targeting
S.Y. O’Reilly1, J. Hronsky2,  W.L. Griffin1,3 and G. Begg2
1. GEMOC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia,  2. WMC Resources Ltd., PO Box 91, Belmont, WA, Australia,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW

 

EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2006, VIENNA, AUSTRIA, APRIL 2–7, 2006

TerraneChron® applications in the crustal evolution studies: Australian ancient and young terranes  Keynote
E.A. Belousova1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Armalcolite and rutile–bearing mantle peridotites, Vitim volcanic field, South Russia: petrography and mineralogy
V.G. Malkovets1, K.D. Litasov2, W.L. Griffin1,3 and S.Y. O’Reilly1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Institute of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

New insights into mantle metasomatism using in–situ isotopic analysis   Keynote
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and O. Alard1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

The Archean Salma eclogites, Kola Peninsula, Russia: Petrology, geochronology and significance for insight into the Archean crust–forming processes
A. Shchipansky1, A. Konilov1, M. Mints1, E. Belousova2, L. Natapov2, W.L. Griffin2 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. Geological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia,  2. GEMOC Macquarie University, NSW, Australia

Characterisation of metasomatic agents using in–situ trace–element and stable isotope compositions in mantle xenoliths from Devès, Massif Central (France)
S. Touron1,2, C. Renac2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, J.Y. Cottin2  and W.L. Griffin1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Laboratoire Transferts lithosphériques, Université Jean Monnet, St–Etienne, France

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTINENTAL VOLCANISM – IAVCEI 2006, GUANGZHOU, CHINA, MAY 14–18

Ubiquitous old depleted mantle in the oceanic mantle.
O. Alard1,2, Y. Gréau2, A. Luguet3, J.–P. Lorand4, M. Godard2, W.L. Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1.
1. GEMOC, Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  2. Lab. Tectonophysique, CNRS UMR5569, Universite de Montpellier II, France,  3.  Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, UK,  4. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, CNRS, France

Eclogites in the SCLM: The subduction myth    Keynote
W.L. Griffin1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia view pdf

SCLM age, composition and evolution    Invited
W.L. Griffin1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, G. Begg1, E.A. Belousova1, E. Beyer1, J. Hronsky1, X. Xu1 and J. Zheng1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Ultradeep and oceanic domains of ancient lithospheric blobs: consequences for basalt source regions and geodynamics     Invited
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,2, M. Zhangand S. Grand3
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia,  3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA

New insights into the age, composition and evolution of the lithospheric mantle using in–situ isotopic analysis    Invited
N.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and O. Alard1,2
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Multiple events in the Neo–Tethyan Oceanic upper mantle: Ru–Os–Ir alloys in the Luobusa and Dongqiao ophiolitic podiform chromitites, Tibet
R. Shi1,2, X. Zhi1, S.Y. O’Reilly3, W.L. Griffin3, N.J. Pearson3, W. Bai4, Q. Fang4, O. Alard3 and M. Zhang3
1. CAS Key Laboratory of Crust–Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China,  2. State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposit Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing,  3. GEMOC Macquarie,  4. Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China

Mantle composition and processes beneath the Taiwan Strait, SE Asia     Invited
K.L. Wang1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1,3, N.J. Pearson1 and M. Zhang1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

Modification of sub–continental lithospheric mantle in SE China     Invited
X. Xu1,2, W.L. Griffin2, D. Zhao3 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposit Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing,  2. GEMOC Macquarie,  3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, SC, USA

Are all mantle plumes equal in Nickel and PGE potential   Invited
M. Zhang1, K.–L. Wang1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, J. Hronsky1,2 and W.L. Griffin1,3
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. BHP Billiton, Perth, WA, Australia,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Mineral chemistry of peridotites from Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic lithosphere: constraints on lithospheric mantle evolution, eastern China
J.P. Zheng1,2, W.L. Griffin2,3, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and M. Zhang2
1. China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China,  2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, NSW, Australia

 

AOGS, ASIA OCEANIA GEOSCIENCES SOCIETY 3RD ANNUAL MEETING, SINGAPORE, 10–14 JULY 2006

The age and evolution of the SCLM   Keynote
W.L Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, G. Begg1,2, E. Belousova1, E. Beyer1, J. Hronsky1,2, X. Xu1,3 and J. Zheng1,4
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. BHP Billiton, Perth, WA, Australia,  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R. China,  4. Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Geochemical and geophysical evidence for lithospheric processes    Invited
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1, S. Grand2, G. Begg1 and J. Hronsky1 
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Evolution of lithospheric mantle beneath SE margin of South China Block: in situ Re–Os evidence    Invited
K.–L. Wang1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1,  W.L. Griffin1,3, N.J. Pearson1 and  M. Zhang1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan,  3. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, North Ryde, Australia

 

16TH ANNUAL V. M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, 27 AUGUST –1 SEPTEMBER 2006

Proterozoic rejuvenation of the Archean crust tracked by U–Pb and Hf–isotopes in detrital zircon
E.A. Belousova1, A.J. Reid2, W.L. Griffin1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA, SA, Australia

Archean to Proterozoic depletion in Cape Verde lithospheric mantle
C. Bonadiman1, M. Coltorti1, F. Siena1, S.Y. O’Reilly2, W.L. Griffin2 and N.J. Pearson2
1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy,  2. GEMOC Macquarie

Infrared investigation of Timber Creek 01 Kimberlite diamonds
S.A. Cooper1,2, W.L. Griffin1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Trace element and isotopic composition of GJ–red zircon standard by laser ablation
S. Elhlou, E. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, N.J. Pearson and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC Macquarie

Trace–element patterns of diamond: Toward a unified genetic model    Keynote
W.L. Griffin1, S. Rege1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, D. Zedgenizov2 and G. Kurat3
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Inst. Mineralogy and Petrography, Novosibirsk, Russia,  3. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Use of in situ Hf–isotope analyses of zircon to interpret granitoid magma genesis
V. Murgulov, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC Macquarie

Crust–mantle evolution in NW Spitsbergen: Re–Os, U–Pb and Hf isotope data
N. Nikolic, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin
GEMOC Macquarie

Ancient lithosphere domains in ocean basins are key geochemical “reservoirs”    Invited
S.Y. O’Reilly1, M. Zhang1, W.L. Griffin1, G. Begg1,2 and J. Hronsky1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. BHP Billiton, Perth, WA, Australia

Linking crustal and mantle events using in situ trace–element and isotope analysis   Invited
N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1, O. Alard1,2 and E. Belousova1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie, 2. CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France

Enriched mantle component in high Sr/Y (“TTG”) granites: Hf, Sr, Nd, O, isotopic compositions of Cretaceous arc magmas from New Zealand
A.J. Tulloch1, W.L. Griffin2, D.L. Kimbrough3,  K. Faure4 and A. Saeed2
1. GNS Science, Dunedin, NZ,  2. GEMOC Macquarie,  3. San Diego State University,  4. GNS Science, Lower Hutt, NZ

The origin of fertile enstatite by deep–seated carbonatite metasomatism
E. Van Achterbergh1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L. Griffin1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. Rio Tinto OTX, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

In situ Os dating of peridotite xenoliths, Tariat, northern Mongolia
K.–L. Wang1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly2, W.L. Griffin2 and N.J. Pearson2
1. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan,  2. GEMOC Macquarie

Emplacement, uplift and exhumation histories of Tibetan porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposits 
J.–F. Xu1,  B.I.A. McInnes2, N.J. Evans2 and W.L. Griffin3
1. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China,  2. CSIRO Exploration and Mining, ARRC, Kensington, WA, Australia,  3. GEMOC Macquarie

Modification of subcontinental lithospheric mantle in SE China
X. Xu1,2, W.L. Griffin2, D. Zhao3 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposit Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, P.R. China,  2. GEMOC Macquarie, 3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, USA

 

7TH BIENNIAL EXPLORATION MANAGERS CONFERENCE "MAKING COLLABORATIVE R&D AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE EXPLORATION BUSINESS", BAROSSA VALLEY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, MARCH 26–29, 2007

Global lithospheric domains: A multidimensional framework to enhance mineral exploration targeting
S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin     Invited
GEMOC, Macquarie

 

INTERNATIONAL ECLOGITE FIELD SYMPOSIUM, LOCHALASH, SCOTLAND, JUNE 29– JULY 6, 2007 

Eclogites in the SCLM:  Are any subducted? 
W.L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly and N.J. Pearson
GEMOC, Macquarie  

 

THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP AND FIELD EXCURSION FOR IGCP 480, BEIJING SHRIMP CENTRE, BEIJING, AUGUST 6–15, 2007

The problem of continental margin turbidites: examples from the Lachlan Orogen, Tasmanides, SE Australia
R.A. Glen1,2 A. Saeed2, W. Griffin2
1. Geological Survey of NSW, Dept of Primary Industries, 2 GEMOC, Macquarie

 

6TH HUTTON SYMPOSIUM ON THE ORIGIN OF GRANITES AND RELATED ROCKS. INTERNATIONAL HUTTON 2007 CONFERENCE, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA, 2–7 JULY, 2007 

The assembly of magma chambers: Evidence from detailed zircon investigations 
E.A. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, S.Y. O’Reilly and V. Murgulov
GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney  

 

GOLDSCHMIDT 2007, COLOGNE, GERMANY, AUGUST 19 – 24, 2007

The first record of allochthonous kimberlite within the Batain Nappes, Eastern Oman 
S. Nasir1., S. Al–Khirbash1, A. Al–Sayigh1, A. Alharthy1, A. Mubarek1, H. Rollinson1, A. Lazki1, E. Belousova2, W. Griffin2 and F. Kaminsky31. 
Department of Earth Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University,  2.GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. KM Diamond Exploration Ltd. Vancouver, Canada 

Mass bias: a comparison of solution and laser ablation MC–ICPMSN.J. Pearson1, W.L. Griffin1, H.–R. Kuhn1, O. Alard 1,2, K.J. Grant1, S.E. Jackson1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France 

Trace elements in garnets of diamondiferous xenoliths from the Nurbinskaya pipe, Yakutia  
Z. V. Spetsius1, W.L. Griffin2, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and V.I. Banzeruck 
1. YANIGP CNIGRI, ALROSA Co. Ltd., Mirny, Yakutia, Russia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie 

Fractionation of Fe and O isotopes in the mantle: Implications for the origins of eclogites and the source regions of mantle plumes 
H.M. Williams1,2, S.G. Nielsen1,2, C. Renac3, C.A. McCammon4, W.L. Griffin1 and S.Y. O’Reilly1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Australia,  2. Dept of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, UK,  3. Dept de Géologie de l'Université Jean Monnet, France,  4. Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Germany 

The age and reworking of Cathaysia crustal basement 
X. Xu1,2, S.Y. O’Reilly2, W.L. Griffin2, X. Wang1,2, N.J. Pearson2 and Z. He1
1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie 

 

EUROPEAN MANTLE WORKSHOP (EMAW): PETROLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE: FROM ARCHEAN TO PRESENT DAY, FERRARA UNIVERSITY, FERRARA ITALY, AUG 29, 2007 – AUG 31, 2007 

Trace–element patterns of diamond: clues to mantle processes
W.L. Griffin, S. Rege, D. Araujo, S. Jackson and N. Pearson
GEMOC, Macquarie 

Archean lithospheric mantle: the refertilised remains 
S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and G. Begg
GEMOC, Macquarie

Linking crustal and mantle events using in–situ U–Pb, LU–Hf and Re–Os isotope analysis 
N. Pearson, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin, O. Alard and E. Belousova
GEMOC, Macquarie

Geochemical features of spinel peridotites in the Upper Miocene Valle Guffari Diatreme (Hyblean Plateau, Sicily): Implications on evolution of south–eastern Sicily lithosphere
C. Perinelli1, G.T. Sapienza2, P. Armienti1, L. Morten*3, W.L. Griffin4 and S.Y. O’Reilly4
1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Italy,  2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico–Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Italy,  3. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico–Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Italy; * deceased, Nov 18 2006,  4. GEMOC, Macquarie

Characterisation of the metasomatic agent in mantle xenoliths from Deves, massif central (France) using coupled in–situ trace element and O, Sr, Nd isotopic compositions 
C. Renac1, S. Touron1, J.–Y. Cottin1, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and W.L.Griffin2
1. Departement de Geologie, Faculté de Sciences et Tecniques, Université Jean Monnet – France,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie

 

EXPLORATION 07: FIFTH DECENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINERAL EXPLORATION, TOTONTO CANADA, SEPT 9–12 2007

Workshop 3: Indicator mineral methods in mineral exploration 
Mineral chemistry
W.L. Griffin
GEMOC Macquarie

Crustal history and metallogenic fertility: Terrane–scale assessment with detrital zircons
W.L. Griffin, E. Belousova and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquarie

 

7TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 10 – 14, 2007

Crustal architecture in the Mozambique Belt, northeastern Mozambique: Perspective from U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotopes in zircon
B. Bingen1, G. Viola1, W. L. Griffin2, J. Jacobs3, R. Boyd1, R. Thomas4, X. Daudi5, I. Henderson1, E. Beyer2, A. Engvik1, R. Key4, A. Solli1, J.S. Sandsad1, E. Tveten1, T. Bjerkgård1, D. Jamal6
1. Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie ,  3. Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Norway,  4. British Geological Survey, UK,  5. National Directorate for Geology, Maputo, Mozambique,  6. Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

 

AGS–2007 SYMPOSIUM: ORES AND OROGENESIS: CIRCUM–PACIFIC TECTONICS, GEOLOGIC EVOLUTION, AND ORE DEPOSITES, A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF WILLIAM R. DICKINSON , TUCSON ARIZONA, USA, 24 – 30 SEPTEMBER, 2007

Living with Archean lithosphere 
G. Begg1, W.L. Griffin2, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and L. Natapov2  Invited
Carnarvon Crescent, Coolbinia, Australia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie

Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic lithospheres: Preservation,  modification or delamination?
W.L. Griffin1, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and G. Begg1,2    Invited
1. GEMOC, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia,  2. BHP Billiton, Perth, Australia

 

THE 2007 GSA (THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA) ANNUAL MEETING, DENVER, USA, OCTOBER 28 – 31, 2007

Episodic granitic magmatism in space and time: constrains from igneous and detrital zircon age spectra
K.C. Condie, E.A. Belousova, and W.L Griffin
GEMOC, Macquarie

 

XVIII SYMPOSIUM ON ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, NOVEMBER 12 –16, 2007

TerraneChron® methodology: detrital zircons as a new tool in crustal evolution studies
E.A. Belousova, W.L. Griffin, and S.Y. O’Reilly    Invited
GEMOC, Macquarie

 

AGU FALL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER 10–14, 2007 

Proterozoic mantle lithosphere beneath the Tariat Depression and Dariganga Plateau, Mongolia: in situ Re–Os evidence
K.–L. Wang1,2 , S.Y. O’Reilly2, W.L. Griffin2, N. Pearson2 and M. Zhang2
1. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN,  2. GEMOC , Macquarie

 

RST (RÉUNION DES SCIENCES DE LA TERRE), NANCY, FRANCE, 21 – 24 APRIL, 2008

Nouvelles données isotopiques (Sr–Nd–Hf, O) des roches gabbroïques de l’Archipel de Kerguelen (Océan Indien)
J. Chevet1, M.–C. Gerbe2, M. Grégoire3, J.–Y. Cottin2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and W.L.Griffin1
1. GEMOC , Macquarie,  2. Magmas et Volcans, Université Jean Monnet, Saint–Etienne, France,  3. Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Université Toulouse, Toulouse, France

 

THE 18TH V.M. GOLDSCHMIDT CONFERENCE: FROM SEA TO SKY, VANCOUVER, CANADA, 13–18 JULY, 2008

How primitive is the "primitive" mantle?
O. Alard1,2*, V. Le Roux1,2. J.L Bodinier1, J.P Lorand3, W.L. Griffin2 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. Géosciences Montpellier, U. Montpellier II, UMR 5243 CNRS, Montpellier, France,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,  3. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, France

Sulfides, diamonds and eclogites: Their link to peridotites and Slave Craton tectonothermal evolution
S. Aulbach1, R. A. Creaser1, L. M. Heaman1,  S. S. Simonetti1, W. L. Griffin2 and T. Stachel1
1. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Australia

U–Pb age, Hf–isotope and trace–element composition of zircon megacrysts from the Juina kimberlites, Brazil
E.A. Belousova1, F.V. Kaminsky2  and W.L. Griffin1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Australia,  2. KM Diamond Exploration Ltd., West Vancouver, Canada

An outline of juvenile crust formation and recycling history in the Archaean Western Dharwar craton, from zircon in situ U–Pb dating and  Hf–isotopic compositions
Y.J. Bhaskar Rao1, W.L. Griffin2, J. Ketchum2, N.J. Pearson2, E. Beyer2 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Australia

Contrasting magma sources in ultramafic–mafic intrusions of the Noril’sk area (Russia):  Hf–isotope evidence from zircon
K.N. Malitch1, E.A. Belousova2, W.L. Griffin2, I.Y. Badanina1, O.V. Petrov1 and N.J. Pearson2
1. All–Russia Geological Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia,  2. GEMOC ARC National Key Centre, Macquarie University, Australia

Precision of in situ isotope ratio measurements by LAM–MC–ICPMS
N.J. Pearson, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquarie University, Australia

 

AUSTRALIAN EARTH SCIENCE CONVENTION, PERTH, 20 – 24 JULY, 2008

TerraneChron® approach to the crustal evolution studies and implications for continental growth
E.A. Belousova, W.L. Griffin and S.Y O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquariey 

The proterozoic: Hiding Archean in the basementy
W.L Griffin
GEMOC, Macquarie

 

33RD IGC INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS, OSLO, 6–14 AUGUST 2008

 Juvenile and old components in Proterozoic crust; examples from Lu–Hf isotopes in zircon from magmatic Svecofennian and rapakivi rocks in Sweden
U.B. Andersson1, W.L. Griffin2, G. Begg3 and K. Hogdahl4
1. , Swedish Museum of Natural History (Sweden),  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Minerals Targeting International PL,Australia, 4. Lund University (Sweden)

Gondwana Assembly: Geochronological and Hf isotope constraints from the east African orogen in NE Mozambique
B. Bingen1, G. Viola1, W.L. Griffin2, J. Jacobs3, A.K. Engvik1, I.H.C. Henderson1, R. Boyde1, R.J. Thomas, 4 E. Daudi5, O. Skar1, R. M. Key4, A. Solli1, J.S. Sandstad1, M. Smethurst1 and T. Bjerkgerd1
1. Geological Survey of Norway, Norway,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. University of Bergen, Norway, 4. British Geological Survey, UK,  5. National Directorate for Geology, Mozambique

Geochemical evidence for subcontinental lithospheric mantle in oceanic domain (Sal, Cape Verde Archipelago)
C. Bonadiman1, M. Coltorti1, L. Beccaluva1, W.L. Griffin2, S.Y. O’Reilly2 and N. Pearson2
1.  University of Ferrara, Italy,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie

Heterogeneity in the oceanic lithosphere as evidenced by mantle xenoliths from Sal island (Cape Verde Archipelago)
M. Coltorti, C. Bonadiman, S.Y. O’Reilly, W.L. Griffin and N. Pearson
1.  University of Ferrara, Italy,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie 

The continental LAB: Can we sample it?
W. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquarie

Hf–isotope constrains on contrasting magma sources in economic and non–economic ultramafic–mafic intrusions of the Noril’sk area (Russia): Evidence from zircon
K. Malich1, E. Belousova2, W. Griffin2, N. Pearson2 and V. Khalenev1
1. A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) Russian Federation,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie

Advances in mantle geochronology
N. Pearson1, S. O’Reilly1, W. Griffin1 and O. Alard2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France

The Proterozoic Kibaran Belt in central Africa: intracratonic 1375 Ma emplacement of a LIP
L. Tack1, M.T.D.  Wingate2, B. De Waele2, J. Meert3, E. Belousova4, W. Griffin4, A. Tahon1, M. Fernandez–Alonso1, D. Baudet1, H.N.C. Cutten2 and S. Dewaele1
1. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium,  2. TSRC, The University of Western Australia, Australia,  3. University of Florida, United States,  4. GEMOC, Macquarie

 

9TH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE, FRANKFURT, GERMANY, 10–15 AUGUST 2008

Kimberlitic sources of super–deep diamonds in the Juina area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
P. Andreazza1, F.V. Kaminsky2, S.M. Sablukov2, E.A. Belousova3, M. Tremblay1 and W.L. Griffin3
1. Diagem Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada,  2. KM Diamond Exploration Ltd., West Vancouver, Canada,  3. GEMOC, Macquarie

Carbonatitic to silicic melt inclusions in lherzolite xenoliths from Lac de Gras, Slave Craton – Melt differentiation and mantle metasomatism
D.P. Araújo, W.L. Griffin and  S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquari 

Micro–inclusions in monocrystalline octahedral diamonds from Diavik, Slave Craton: Clues to diamond genesis
D.P. Araújo, W.L. Griffin and  S.Y. O’Reilly,
GEMOC, Macquarie

Combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf analysis of megacrystic zircons from the Kalyandurg–4 kimberlite pipe, S. India: Implications for the emplacement age and Hf isotopic composition of the cratonic mantle                          
E.V.S.S.K. Babu1,2, W.L. Griffin1, A. Mukherjee3, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and  E.A. Belousova1
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, Indi,  3. NMDC Ltd., Khanij Bhavan, Masab Tank, Hyderabad, India

Eclogite xenoliths from the kimberlites of the Eastern Dharwar Craton, South India: Material representing ancient crust of the Western Dharwar Craton?  
E.V.S.S.K. Babu1,2, W.L. Griffin1, S. Panda2, S.Y. O’Reilly1 and Y.J. Bhaskar Rao2
1. GEMOC Macquarie,  2. National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India

Peridotitic garnet geochemistry: key to the understanding of lithospheric structures and kimberlites diamond potential in Southern Congo
J.M. Batumike, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L. Griffin
GEMOC, Macquarie

Isotopic Studies of minerals and their host kimberlites from Australia and Southern Africa
S.A. Cooper12, Y.A. Kostitsyn3, E.A. Belousova1 and W.L. Griffin1
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,   2. Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, Burwood, Vic, Australia,  3. Laboratory of Isotopic Geochemistry and Geochronology, GEOKHI RAS, Russia

Age of FS66 kimberlite beneath Murray Basin, South Australia:  Laser ablation ICP–MS dating of kimberlitic zircon, perovskite, and rutile
S.A. Cooper1,2, E.A. Belousova1, W.L. Griffin1, and B.J. Morris3
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. Orogenic Exploration Pty Ltd, Burwood, Vic, Australia,  3. South Australia Geological Survey, PIRSA, Adelaide, SA, Australia

The kimberlites and related rocks of the Kuruman Kimberlite Province, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa
C.L. Donnelly, S.Y. O’Reilly and W.L Griffin
GEMOC, Macquarie

An evidence for the composition of the Ordovician upper mantle beneath West Sangilen (Southeast Tuva, Russia)
A. Gibsher1, V. Malkovets1, Y. Litasov1, W. Griffin2 and S. O’Reilly2
1. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia,  2. GEMOC Macquarie

Petrology and geochemistry of eclogitic sulfides:  a new insight on the origin of mantle eclogites?
Y. Greau1,2, W.L. Griffin2, O. Alard1,2 and S.Y. O’Reilly2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. Geosciences Montpellier, CNRS UMR–5243, Equipe Manteau–Noyau, Universite Montpellier II, France

Diamonds and carbonatites in the deep lithosphere: Evidence of genetic links
W.L. Griffin1, D. Araujo1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, S. Rege1 and E. van Achterbergh2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. Rio Tinto Technology and Innovation, Bundoora, Vic, Australia

 Contrasting lithospheric mantle across the suture between the Eastern and Western Dharwar Cratons, central India 
W.L. Griffin1, A. F. Kobussen1, E.V.S.S.K. Babu2, S.Y. O’Reilly1, R. Norris3, P. Sengupta3
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2.  National Geophysical Research Inst., Hyderabad, India,  3. Rio Tinto Exploration India, Whitefield, Bangalore, India

Super–deep diamonds from kimberlites in the Juina area,  Mato Grosso State, Brazil
F.V. Kaminsky1,3, G.K. Khachatryan1, P. Andreazza2, D. Araujo3 and W.L. Griffin3
1. KM Diamond Exploration Ltd., West Vancouver, Canada,  2. Diagem do Brasil Mineração Ltda., Brazil,  3. GEMOC, Macquarie 

The scale and scope of Cretaceous refertilisation of the Kaapvaal lithospheric mantle, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa
A.F. Kobussen, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquarie 

Diamondiferous microxenoliths and xenocrysths from the Nyurbinskaya kimberlite pipe, Yakutia
V.Malkovets1,2, D. Zedgenizov1, W. Griffin2, A. Dak3, S. O’Reilly2, N. Pokhilenko1, and S. Mityukhin4
1. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Savannah Diamonds Limited, Tanzania,  4. ALROSA Co. Ltd, Mirny, Russia

Archean lithospheric mantle: its formation, its composition and today’s refertilised remains                
S.Y. O’Reilly1, W.L. Griffin1, M. Zhang1 and G. Begg1,2
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. Minerals Targeting International PL, West Perth, WA, Australia.

In–situ isotope ratio measurement: a decade of development of applications for mantle peridotites and kimberlites
N.J. Pearson, W.L. Griffin and S.Y. O’Reilly
GEMOC, Macquarie

Trace–element geochemistry of diamond
S. Rege1, W.L. Griffin1, S.E. Jackson1, N.J. Pearson1, S.Y. O’Reilly1, D. Zedgenizov2 and G. Kurat3
1. GEMOC, Macquarie,  2. Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Novosibirsk, Russia,  3. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Natural silicon carbide from different geological settings: polytypes, trace elements, inclusions
A.A. Shiryaev1, W.L. Griffin2,  E. Stoyanov3,4 and H. Kagi5
1. Institute of Crystallography, Moscow, Russia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Bayerisches Geoinstitute, Bayreuth, Germany,  4. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA,  5. Tokyo University, Japan

Trace elements and oxygen isotopes in garnets from diamondiferous xenoliths, Nurbinskaya pipe, Yakutia: Implications for diamond genesis 
Z. V. Spetsius1, W.L. Griffin2, L. A. Taylor3, S.Y. O’Reilly2, S.I. Mityukhin4, J.W.Valley5 and M. Spicuzza5
1. YaNIGP CNIGRI, ALROSA Co. Ltd., Mirny, Yakutia, Russia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Planetary Geosciences Institute, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee, USA,  4. ALROSA Co. Ltd., Mirny, Yakutia, Russia,  5. Dept.of Geosciences and Geophysics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Diamond–forming fluids and kimberlites: The trace element perspective
Y. Weiss1, W. L. Griffin2, J. W. Harris3 and O. Navon1
1. Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Diamond forming fluids from Kankan, Guinea: major and trace element study
Y. Weiss1, R. Kessel1, W.L. Griffin2, I. Kiflawi1, D.R. Bell3, J.W. Harris4 and O. Navon1
1. Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA,  4. Division of Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

Carbonatitic to hydrous–silicic growth medium of diamonds from Internatsionalnaya kimberlite pipe (Yakutia)
D.A. Zedgenizov1, D. Araujo2, A.L. Ragozin1, V.S. Shatsky1, H.Kagi3 and W.L. Griffin2
1. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk, Russia,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie,  3. Geochemical Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

2008 JOINT MEETING OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY, CROP SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, GULF COAST ASSOCIATION OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES WITH THE GULF COAST SECTION OF SEPM, HOUSTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 5–9, 2008

The 4–D Evolution of the Lithosphere Recorded by Xenoliths, Isostasy, Volcanism and Other Thermally Related Data
P. Morgan1, S.Y. O’Reilly2, and W.L. Griffin2
1. Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Denver, CO,  2. GEMOC, Macquarie University