Professor Hugh Rollinson
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Job title: Head of Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: h.rollinson@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 1786
Room: N718
Recent publications
Rollinson, H.R. and Whitehouse, M.J. 2011. The growth of the Zimbabwe Craton during the late Archaean: a new zircon U-Pb ion-microprobe study. Journal Geological Society of London. 168, 1-12. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492010-156.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2010. Coupled evolution of Archean continental crust and subcontinental lithospheric mantle. Geology 38, 1083-1086. doi: 10.1130/G31159.1. [Highlighted in Nature Geoscience Jan 2011] ROLLINSON, H.R., REID, C. and WINDLEY, B.F., 2010. C hromitites from the Fiskenæsset anorthositic complex, West Greenland: clues to late Archaean mantle processes. In: (eds) Kusky, T.M., Zhai, M-G. and Xiao, W., The Evolving Continents: Understanding Processes of Continental Growth. Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub. 338, 197-212.
Wheeler, J., Beach, A, Park, R.G. and Rollinson, H.R., 2010. The Lewisian Complex: insights into deep crustal evolution. In: (eds) Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R.E., Krabbendam, M. and Strachan, R.A., Continental tectonics and mountain building: the legacy of Peach and Horne. Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. 335, 51-79.
Nasir, S., Al-Khirbash, S., Rollinson, H.R., Al-Harthy, A., Al-Sayigh, A. Al-Lazki, A., Theye, T., Massonne, H-J. and Belousova, E., 2011. Petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous carbonatite and ultramafic lamprophyres in a diatreme in the Batain nappes, eastern Oman continental margin. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 161, 47-74. doi: 10.1007/s 00410-010-0521-3.
Nasir, S. and Rollinson, H.R., 2009. The nature of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath the Arabian Shield: mantle xenoliths from southern Syria. Precambrian Research. 172, 323-333. [Corresponding author]
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2009 New models for the genesis of plagiogranites in the Oman ophiolite. Lithos.112, 603-614.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2008. The geochemistry of mantle chromitites from the northern part of the Oman ophiolite - inferred parental melt compositions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 156, 273-288. doi: 10.1007/s00410-008-0284-2
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2008. Ophiolitic trondhjemites: an analogue for the formation of Hadean felsic 'crust'. Terra Nova. 20, 364-369; doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00829.x
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2008. The secular evolution of the continental crust: implications for crust-evolution models. G-cubed.doi:10.1029/2008GC002262.
Experience in Industry
Geological Survey of Sierra Leone 1972-5
Department: Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Science
Subject Area: Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subject Head of Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Professor of Earth Sciences.
Teaching responsibilities
Teaching in areas of igneous and metamorphic petrology, crustal tectonics, mineralogy and geological fieldwork.
Professional interests
I joined the University of Derby in September 2008. From 2002-2008 I was Professor of Earth Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University in the Sultanate of Oman. Before that I was Professor of Geology at the University of Gloucestershire.
Research interests
Research topics: Geochemistry; Archaean Geology; Crustal evolution; Mantle geochemistry; Chromite mineralisation. Over the past 30 years my research has focused on two main themes - namely geochemistry and the very early part of Earth history - the period of time we call the Archaean. My work has been summarised in two text books which cover these two themes:
ROLLINSON H.R., 1993, Using Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation, Longman, UK. 352 pp. [Co-published by J. Wiley & Sons. Inc. in the USA]. IBSN 0 582 0 6701 4. Reprinted 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998. Printed in Chinese 2000.http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0582067014-TOC,00.html
ROLLINSON H.R. 2007. Early Earth Systems: a geochemical approach. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. 296 pp. ISBN: 1405122552. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/contents.asp?ref=1405122552&site=1
International Experience
I have worked in western and southern Africa and the Middle East
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Membership of Learned Societies:
- Member of the American Geophysical Union
- Member of the Mineralogical Society
- Mineralogical Society Council 2001-2002
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London
- Chair Geochemistry Group of the Mineralogical and Geological Societies 2001-2002
- Committee member of the Geochemistry Group of the Mineralogical and Geological Societies 1995-8
- Member of the Geological Society of America
- Member of the International Association of Mathematical Geologists 1999-2005
- Member of IAMG Awards Committee 2001-5.
Editorial Board Memberships:
- Journal of the Geological Society 1995 - 1998; (Associate Editor 2008- )
- Geology (Geological Society of America) 1998 -2000; 2001-2003
- Journal of African Earth Sciences 1999
- Precambrian Research 1999.
Recent Conferences
Invited talks
May 2010
Mineralogical Society of Berlin, Frei University of Berlin [invited keynote speaker]
April 2011
European Geoscience Union, Vienna Austria. Symposium on the early Earth.
Are plumes an appropriate mechanism for Archean continent creation? [invited talk]
Recent Public Presentations
January 2010
Manchester Geological Society, University of Manchester
East Midlands Geological Society, Nottingham University
February 2010
Christian in Science, Nottingham University
March 2010
Leicester Lit and Phil, Geological Section. Day Symposium on Plate tectonics
May 2010
Department Seminar University of Liverpool
October 2010
Departmental Seminar, University of Keele
March 2011
East Midland Geological Society
April 2011
European Geoscience Union, Vienna, Austria
LILE-depletion in the Archaean lower continental crust: the Lewisian granulites revisited.
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA Geology, Oxford University
Research qualifications
- PhD in Geochemistry, University of Leicester
Research posts
| Institution | Project | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Research Fellow | Archaean Geochemistry | 1979-1981 |
