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.
SEGH2011 – The International Conference on Environmental and health
The characterisation of airborne inorganic particulate matter in western Derby, Derbyshire UK (with Adetunji, J., Greenwood, M. and Souch, G.)
January 2012
Geology of the Arabian Plate, Muscat, Oman
- 1. Chromite from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: insights into the mantle redox state
- 2. Plagiogranites from the mantle section of the Oman Ophiolite: models for early crustal evolution
February 2012
Café Scientifique, Nottingham
May 2012
Departmental seminar, University of Durham
November 2012
South Peak geology Group, Worksworth.
September 2013
Mineralogical Society Building Strong Continents Conference (Univ. Portsmouth) Plagiogranites from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: models for early crustal evolution.
November 2013
South Peak geology Group, Worksworth.
Department Seminar, University of Leicester
March 2014
North Atlantic Craton Conference, University of St Andrews
April 2014
International workshop on ophiolites and related mineral deposits, Beijing, China. Chromite in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Oman ophiolite (invited talk).
December 2014
Lapworth Lecture, University of Birmingham. Why the Oman ophiolite did not form at a mid-ocean ridge.
Recent publications
Books
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.
ROLLINSON H.R. 2007. Early Earth Systems: a geochemical approach. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. 296 pp. ISBN: 1405122552.
Edited books
Rollinson, H.R., Searle, M.P., Abbasi, I., Al-Lazki, A.I. and Al-Kindi M.H., 2013. Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains. Special Publication of the Geological society.
Edited volumes
ROLLINSON, H.R., AFFATON, P., AYONGHE, S., TREDOUX, M. AND WALSH, K. (Guest Editors) 1999. Earth Science Education in Africa. Special Issue of: Journal of African Earth Sciences (vol. 28, part 4. pp.773-917)
ROLLINSON, H.R. and WHITEHOUSE, M (Guest Editors), 2001, Archaean Crustal Evolution. Special Issue of Precambrian Research (vol 112, Issue 1-2. pp. 1-164).
ROLLINSON, H.R and MARTIN, H. (Guest Editors), 2005. Geodynamic controls on adakite, TTG and sanukitoid genesis: implications for models of crust formation. Lithos, 79, No. 1.
Journal articles
LENAZ, D., ADETUNJI, J. and ROLLINSON, H.R. 2014 The oxidation state of the sub-oceanic mantle: insights from the petrology and crystal chemistry of chromitites from the Oman ophiolite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 167:958 doi 10.1007/s00410-013-958-2
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2014. Classic localities explained 15: A virtual field excursion through the Oman Ophiolite. Geology Today, 30, 112-120.
ROLLINSON, H.R. 2014. Plagiogranites from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: models for early crustal evolution. In (eds) ROLLINSON, HR, SEARLE, M, ABASSI, I, AL-LAZKI, A. and AL_KINDI, M. Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains. Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. London. Pp 245-258.
ROLLINSON, H.R., Searle, M.P., Abbasi, I., Al-Lazki, A.I. and Al-Kindi M.H., 2014. Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains: an introduction. In (eds) ROLLINSON, HR, SEARLE, M, ABASSI, I, AL-LAZKI, A. and AL_KINDI, M. Tectonic Evolution of the Oman Mountains. Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. London. Pp. 1-8
ADETUNJI, J., EVERITT, S. and ROLLINSON, H.R., 2013. New Mossbauer Measurements of Fe3+/SFe ratios in chromites from the early Proterozoic Bushveld Comples, South Africa. Precambrian Research,
ROLLINSON, H.R. and ADETUNJI, J. 2013. The geochemistry and oxidation state of podiform chromitites from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: a review. Gondwana Research. Doi 10.1016/j.gr.2013.07.013
ROLLINSON, H.R. and ADETUNJI, J. 2013. Mantle podiform chromitites do not form beneath ocean ridges: a case study from the Moho transition zone of the Oman ophiolite. Lithos doi 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.07.004
ROLLINSON, H.R. and GRAVESTOCK, P., 2012. The trace element geochemistry of clinopyroxenes from pyroxenites in the Lewisian of NW Scotland: insights into light rare earth element mobility during granulite facies metamorphism. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 163, 319-335. doi 10.1007/s00410-011-0674-8
ROLLINSON, H.R., Adetunji, J., Yousif, A.A and Gimelseed, A.M., 2012. New Mossbauer measurements of Fe3/SFe in chromites from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: evidence for the oxidation of the sub-oceanic mantle. Mineralogical Magazine, 76, 579-596.
Johnson, T.E., Fischer, S., White, R.W., Brown, M. and ROLLINSON, H.R., 2012 Intracrustal differentiation from partial melting of metagabbro – field and geochemical eviodence from the central region of the Neoarchaean Lewisian complex, NW Scotland. J. Petrology.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2012. Geochemical constraints on the composition of Archaean lower continental crust: partial melting in the Lewisian granulites. Earth and Planet Sci Lett., 351-352, 1-12.
Fowler, M. and ROLLINSON, H.R., 2012. Phanerozoic sanukitoids from Caledonian Scotland: implications for Archaean subduction. Geology. Doi 10.1130/G33371.1
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
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, 941-952. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492010-156
ROLLINSON, H.R., REID, C. and WINDLEY, B.F., 2010. Chromitites 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.
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]
Other publications
ROLLINSON, H.R. (2013) Review of Harmon and Parker. Frontiers in geochemistry. Geological Journal. (book review)
ROLLINSON, H.R. (2012) Review of Foulger, G.R. Plates vs Plumes: a geological controversy. Geology Today, 28, 39-40. (Book review)
ROLLINSON, H.R., Adetunji, J., Souch,G., Greenwood, M. 2012. ‘Derby dust’ – the geochemical characterisation of airborne inorganic particulate matter in western Derby. Mercian Geologist 18, 41-46.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 2011. The origins of Life and the RNA world. Geology Today, 27, 87-88.
Papers on the geology of Sierra Leone
ROLLINSON, H.R., 1978, Zonation of supracrustal relics in the Archaean of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast. Nature 272, 440-2.
ROLLINSON, H.R. & CLIFF, R.A., 1982, New rubidium-strontium age determinations on the Archaean basement of Sierra Leone. Precambrian Research17, 63-72.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 1982, P-T conditions in coeval greenstone belts and granulites from the Archaean of Sierra Leone. Earth Planetary Sci. Lett. 59, 177-191.
ROLLINSON, H.R., 1983, The geochemistry of mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Archaean greenstone belts of Sierra Leone. Mineral. Mag., 47, 267-80.
ROLLINSON, HR. 1997. Eclogite xenoliths in West African kimberlites are residues from Archaean granitoids. Nature 389, 173-6.
ROLLINSON, HR. 1999. Petrology and geochemistry of metamorphosed komatiites and basalts from the Sula Mountains greenstone belt, Sierra Leone. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 134, 86-101