Prof Chris Hawkesworth

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

Chris.Hawkesworth@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Research interests - isotope and trace element geochemistry

• The generation and evolution of the continental crust.
• The nature of the geological record, and the extent to which it is biased by sedimentary and tectonic processes.
• The effects of meteorite bombardment on the Earth?s crust, and the differentiation of impact melt sheets.
• The use of transition metal isotopes to investigate processes at the interface between biological and inorganic geochemistry, and the extent to which the latter may have influenced biological evolution.
• High-resolution continental records of archaeology and environmental change.
• The processes of melt generation in large igneous provinces, with links to the causes of break-up of mega-continents, and the conditions of formation of the associated base metal sulphides.

Selected publications

• Carbonated mantle domains at the base of the Earth's transition zone

  Sun, W., Hawkesworth, C. J., Yao, C., Zhang, C., Huang, R., Liu, X., Sun, X., Ireland, T., Song, M., Ling, M., Ding, X., Zhang, Z., Fan, W. & Wu, Z., 5 Feb 2018, In : Chemical Geology. 478, p. 69-75

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Continental crustal volume, thickness and area, and their geodynamic implications

  Cawood, P. A. & Hawkesworth, C. J., 7 Nov 2018, In : Gondwana Research. In press

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

  Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C. J., Pisarevsky, S. A., Dhuime, B., Capitanio, F. A. & Nebel, O., 13 Nov 2018, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 376, 2132, 30 p., 20170405.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Continental growth seen through the sedimentary record

  Dhuime, B., Hawkesworth, C. J., Delavault, H. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jul 2017, In : Sedimentary Geology. 357, p. 16-32 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Contrasting Cu?Au and Sn?W granite metallogeny through the zircon record

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Whitehouse, M. J., Roberts, N. M. W., Kirkland, C. L. & Evans, N. J., 31 Mar 2017, In : Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Abstract

• Contrasting granite metallogeny through the zircon record: a case study from Myanmar

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Whitehouse, M. J., Roberts, N. M. W., Kirkland, C. L. & Evans, N. J., 7 Apr 2017, In : Scientific Reports. 7, 9 p., 748.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Earth's continental lithosphere through time

  Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., Dhuime, B. & Kemp, T. I. S., Jun 2017, In : Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Short episodes of crust generation during protracted accretionary processes

  Tang, G-J., Chung, S-L., Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., Wang, Q., Wyman, D. A., Xu, Y-G. & Zhao, Z-H., 15 Apr 2017, In : Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 464, p. 142-154 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The origin of the Palaeoproterozoic AMCG complexes in the Ukrainian Shield: new U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes in zircon

  Shumlyanskyy, L., Hawkesworth, C., Billström, K., Bogdanova, S., Mytrokhyn, O., Romer, R., Dhuime, B., Claesson, S., Ernst, R., Whitehouse, M. & Bilan, O., May 2017, In : Precambrian Research. 292, p. 216-239 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Zircons and granite metallogeny

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Kemp, A. I. S., Delavault, H. & Dhuime, B., 30 Mar 2017, In : Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science. 126, 2, 1 p.

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