Prof Chris Hawkesworth
Emeritus Professor
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
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Open access
Metal anomalies in zircon as a record of granite-hosted mineralization
Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Mulder, J. A., Wainwright, A. N. & Cawood, P. A., 20 Dec 2021, In: Chemical Geology. 585, 120580.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Petrogenesis of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to early crustal evolution
Robb, L. J., Meyer, F. M., Hawkesworth, C. J. & Gardiner, N. J., 19 Apr 2021, In: South African Journal of Geology. 124, 1, p. 111-140 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Using zircon in mafic migmatites to disentangle complex high-grade gneiss terrains – Terrane spotting in the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland
Fischer, S., Prave, A., Johnson, T., Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C., Horstwood, M. & EIMF, Apr 2021, In: Precambrian Research. 355, 106074.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
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. 69-75Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Continental crustal volume, thickness and area, and their geodynamic implications
Cawood, P. A. & Hawkesworth, C. J., 7 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gondwana Research. In pressResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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Open access
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 › peer-review
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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, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Abstract › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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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 › peer-review