Areas of expertise

• Tectonics 040313
• Inorganic Geochemistry 040202
• Marine Geoscience 040305
• Volcanology 040314
• Animal Systematics And Taxonomy 060301
• Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology 040304
• Isotope Geochemistry 040203
• Mineralogy And Crystallography 040306
• Chemical Oceanography 040502
• Lens Based Practice 190503
• Geology 0403
• Other Earth Sciences 0499
• Geochemistry 0402

Publications

• Arculus, R, Ishizuka, O, Bogus, K et al 2016, 'Reply to 'Unclear causes for subduction'', Nature Geoscience, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 338-339.
• Sleeper, J & Martinez, F ,Arculus, R, 2016 'The Fonualei Rift and Spreading Center: Effects of ultraslow spreading and arc proximity on back-arc crustal accretion', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 121, no. 7, pp. 4814-4835.
• Arculus, R, Ishizuka, O, Bogus, K et al 2015, 'A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc', Nature Geoscience, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 728-733.
• Nebel, O, Sossi, P, Benard, A et al 2015, 'Redox-variability and controls in subduction zones from an iron-isotope perspective', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 432, pp. 142-151.
• Straub, S, Woodhead, J & Arculus, R 2015, 'Temporal evolution of the Mariana Arc: Mantle wedge and subducted slab controls revealed with a tephra perspective', Journal of Petrology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 409-439.
• Lupton, J, Rubin, K, Arculus, R et al 2015, 'Helium isotope, C/3He, and Ba-Nb-Ti signatures in the northern Lau Basin: Distinguishing arc, back-arc, and hotspot affinities', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1133-1155.
• Jenner, F, Hauri, E, Bullock, E et al 2015, 'The competing effects of sulfide saturation versus degassing on the behavior of the chalcophile elements during the differentiation of hydrous melts', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1490-1507.
• Nebel, O, Sossi, P, Benard, A et al 2015, 'Redox-variability and controls in subduction zones from an iron-isotope perspective', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 432, pp. 142-151.
• Nebel, O & Arculus, R 2015, 'Selective ingress of a Samoan plume component into the northern Lau backarc basin', Nature Communications, vol. 6, pp. 1-7pp.
• Tollan, P.M.E., O'Neill, H.S.C., Hermann, J., Benedictus, A. and Arculus, R.J., 2015, 'Frozen melt-rock reaction in a peridotite xenolith from sub-arc mantle recorded by diffusion of trace elements and water in olivine', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 422, pp. 169-181.
• Stamper, C, Melekhova, E, Blundy, J et al 2014, 'Oxidised phase relations of a primitive basalt from Grenada, Lesser Antilles', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 167, no. 1, p. 20.
• Stamper, C, Blundy, J, Arculus, R et al 2014, 'Petrology of plutonic xenoliths and volcanic rocks from Grenada, lesser antilles', Journal of Petrology, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1353-1387.
• Brown, J, Christy, A, Ellis, D et al 2014, 'Prograde sulfide metamorphism in blueschist and eclogite, new Caledonia', Journal of Petrology, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 643-670.
• Tanner, D, Mavrogenes, J, Arculus, R et al 2014, 'Trace element stratigraphy of the bellevue core, Northern Bushveld: Multiple magma injections obscured by diffusive processes', Journal of Petrology, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 859-882.
• Gallagher, S, Exon, N, Seton, M et al 2014, 'Exploring new drilling prospects in the southwest Pacific', Scientific Drilling, vol. 17, pp. 45-50.
• Kendrick, M, Arculus, R, Danyushevsky, L et al 2014, 'Subduction-related halogens (Cl, Br and I) and H₂O in magmatic glasses from Southwest Pacific Backarc Basins', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 400, pp. 165-176.
• Kendrick, M, Arculus, R, Burnard, P et al 2013, 'Quantifying brine assimilation by submarine magmas: Examples from the Galápagos Spreading Centre and Lau Basin', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 123, pp. 150-165.
• Park, J, Campbell, I & Arculus, R 2013, 'Platinum-alloy and sulfur saturation in an arc-related basalt to rhyolite suite: Evidence from the Pual Ridge lavas, the Eastern Manus Basin', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 101, pp. 76-95.
• Nebel, O, Arculus, R, van Westrenen, W et al 2013, 'Coupled Hf-Nd-Pb isotope co-variations of HIMU oceanic island basalts from Mangaia, Cook-Austral islands, suggest an Archean source component in the mantle transition zone', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 112, pp. 87-101.
• Buchs, D, Bagheri, S, Martin, L et al 2013, 'Paleozoic to Triassic ocean opening and closure preserved in Central Iran: Constraints from the geochemistry of meta-igneous rocks of the Anarak area', Lithos, vol. 172-173, pp. 267-287.
• Nebel, O, Arculus, R, Ivanic, T et al 2013, 'Lu-Hf isotopic memory of plume-lithosphere interaction in the source of layered mafic intrusions, Windimurra Igneous Complex, Yilgarn Craton, Australia', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 380, pp. 151-161.
• Kendrick, M, Arculus, R, Burnard, P et al 2013, 'Quantifying brine assimilation by submarine magmas: Examples from the Galápagos Spreading Centre and Lau Basin', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 123, pp. 150-165.
• Nebel, O, Arculus, R, Sossi, P et al 2013, 'Iron isotopic evidence for convective resurfacing of recycled arc-front mantle beneath back-arc basins', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 22, pp. 5849-5853.
• Nebel, O, Arculus, R, Ivanic, T et al 2013, 'Upper zone of the Archean Windimurra layered mafic intrusion, Western Australia: Insights into fractional crystallisation in a large magma chamber', Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen, vol. 191, no. 1, pp. 83-107.
• Escrig, S, Bezos, A, Langmuir, C et al 2012, 'Characterizing the effect of mantle source, subduction input and melting in the Fonualei Spreading Center, Lau Basin: Constraints on the origin of the boninitic signature of the back-arc lavas', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1-29.
• Jenner, F, Arculus, R, Mavrogenes, J et al 2012, 'Chalcophile element systematics in volcanic glasses from the northwestern Lau Basin', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1-25.
• Lupton, J, Arculus, R, Evans, L et al 2012, 'Mantle hotspot neon in basalts from the Northwest Lau Back-arc Basin', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 1-6.
• Dale, C, Macpherson, C, Pearson, D et al 2012, 'Inter-element fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the Tonga Arc due to flux melting of a depleted source', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, vol. 89, pp. 202-225.
• Lytle, M, Lytle, M, Kelley, K et al 2012, 'Tracing mantle sources and Samoan influence in the northwestern Lau back-arc basin', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 13, no. 10.
• Caulfield, J, Caulfield, J, Turner, S et al 2012, 'Mantle flow, volatiles, slab-surface temperatures and melting dynamics in the north Tonga arc-Lau back-arc basin', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 117, no. 11.
• Lupton, J, Arculus, R, Resing, J et al 2012, 'Hydrothermal activity in the Northwest Lau Backarc Basin: Evidence from water column measurements', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
• Heyworth, Z, Knesel, K, Turner, S et al 2011, 'Pb-isotopic evidence for rapid trench-parallel mantle flow beneath Vanuatu', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 265-271.
• Sun, W, Ding, X, Hu, Y et al 2011, 'The fate of subducted oceanic crust: A mineral segregation model', International Geology Review, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 879-893.
• Price, R, Spandler, C, Arculus, R et al 2011, 'The Longwood Igneous Complex, Southland, New Zealand: A Permo-Jurassic, intra-oceanic, subduction-related, I-type batholithic complex', Lithos, vol. 126, no. 1-2, pp. 1-21.
• Buchs, D, Arculus, R, Baumgartner, P et al 2011, 'Oceanic intraplate volcanoes exposed: Example from seamounts accreted in Panama', Geology, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 335-338.
• Arculus, R 2011, 'Submarine volcanism: deeply explosive', Nature Geoscience, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 737-738.
• Jenner, F, O'Neill, H, Arculus, R et al 2010, 'The magnetite crisis in the evolution of arc-related magmas and the initial concentration of Au, Ag and Cu', Journal of Petrology, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2445-2464.
• Cooper, L, Plank, T, Arculus, R et al 2010, 'High-Ca boninites from the active Tonga Arc', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 115, no. B10206, p. 23.
• Buchs, D, Arculus, R, Baumgartner, P et al 2010, 'Late cretaceous arc development on the SW margin of the caribbean plate: insights form the Golfito, Costa Rica, and Azuero, Panama, complexes', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 11, no. 7, p. 35.
• Tambiah, C & Arculus, R 2010, Alteration halos, Alteration halos, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, Canberra/Acton ACT.
• Cunningham, H, Turner, S, Dosseto, A et al 2009, 'Temporal variations in U-series disequilibria in an active caldera, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea', Journal of Petrology, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 507-529.
• Arculus, R, Campbell, I, McLennan, S et al 2009, 'Asteroids and andesites', Nature, vol. 459, no. 2009, pp. E1.
• Lupton, J, Arculus, R, Greene, R et al 2009, 'Helium isotope variations in seafloor basalts from the Northwest Lau Backarc Basin: Mapping the influence of the Samoan hotspot', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 36, pp. L17313.1-5.
• Keller, N, Arculus, R, Hermann, J et al 2008, 'Submarine back-arc lava with arc signature: Fonualei spreading center, northeast Lau Basin, Tonga', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. B08S07.
• Spandler, C, Hermann, J, Faure, K et al 2008, 'The importance of talc and chlorite "hybrid" rocks for volatile recycling through subduction zones; evidence fromthe high-pressure subduction melange of New Caledonia', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 155, no. 2, pp. 181-198.
• Pepper, M, Doughty, P, Arculus, R et al 2008, 'Landforms predict phylogenetic structure on one of the world's most ancient surfaces', BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 8, no. 152, pp. 1-7.
• Sun, W, Hu, Y, Kamenetsky, V et al 2008, 'Constancy of Nb/U in the mantle revisited', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 72, pp. 3542-3549.
• Dale, C, Macpherson, C, Boyce, A et al 2008, 'Variable H and O isotopes in Tongan basaltic glasses: Source or degassing?', V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2008, Pergamon Press, United Kingdom, pp. A195.
• Graham, I, Reyes, A, Wright, I et al 2008, 'Structure and petrology of newly discovered volcanic centers in the northern Kermadec-southern Tofua arc, South Pacific Ocean', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, pp. 1-24.
• Massoth, G, Baker, E, Worthington, T et al 2007, 'Multiple hydrothermal sources along the south Tonga arc and Valu Fa Ridge', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1-26.
• Sun, W, Binns, R, Fan, A et al 2007, 'Chlorine in submarine volcanic glasses from the eastern Manus basin', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 1542-1552.
• Park, S, Lee, S & Arculus, R 2006, 'Geochemistry of basalt from the Ayu Trough, equatorial western Pacific', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 248, pp. 700-714.
• Kamenetsky, V, Elburg, M, Arculus, R et al 2006, 'Magmatic origin of low-Ca olivine in subduction-related magmas: Co-existence of contrasting magmas', Chemical Geology, vol. 233, pp. 346-357.
• Davidson, J & Arculus, R 2006, 'The significance of Phanerozoic arc magmatism in generating continental crust', in Brown, M. and Rushmer, T. (ed.), Evolution and Differentiation of the Continental Crust, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 135-172.
• Brown, J, Ellis, D, Arculus, R et al 2006, 'Prograde sulfide metamorphism and sulfide-silicate phase relations in blueschist and eclogite, New Caledonia', V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2006, ed. Conference Program Committee, Elsevier, United Kingdom, pp. A69.
• Price, R, Ireland, T, Maas, R et al 2006, 'SHRIMP ion probe zircon geochronology and Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry for southern Longwood Range and Bluff Peninsula intrusive rocks of Southland, New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 49, pp. 291-303.
• Berly, T, Hermann, J, Arculus, R et al 2006, 'Supra-subduction zone pyroxenites from San Jorge and Santa Isabel (Solomon Islands)', Journal of Petrology, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 1531-1555.
• Spandler, C, Mavrogenes, J & Arculus, R 2005, 'Origin of chromitites in layered intrusions: Evidence from chromite-hosted melt inclusions from the Stillwater Complex', Geology, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 893-896.
• McConachy, T, Arculus, R, Yeats, C et al 2005, 'New hydrothermal activity and alkalic volcanism in the backarc Coriolis Troughs, Vanuatu', Geology, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 61-64.
• Baker, E, Massoth, G, Nakamura, K et al 2005, 'Hydrothermal activity on near-arc sections of back-arc ridges: Results from the Mariana Trough and Lau Basin', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 1-14.
• Okamura, S, Arculus, R & Martynov, Y 2005, 'Cenozoic Magmatism of the North-Eastern Eurasian Margin: The Role of Lithosphere Versus Asthenosphere', Journal of Petrology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 221-253.
• Spandler, C, Worden, K, Arculus, R et al 2005, 'Igneous rocks of the Brook Street Terrane, New Zealand: implications for Permian tectonics of eastern Gondwana and magma genesis in modern intra-oceanic volcanic arcs', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 167-183.
• Sun, W, Arculus, R, Kamenetsky, V et al 2004, 'Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization', Nature, vol. 431, pp. 975--978.
• Arculus, R 2004, 'Evolution of Arc Magmas and their Volatiles', in Robert Stephen John Sparks and Christopher Johns Hawkesworth (ed.), The State of the Planet: Frontiers and Challenges in Geophysics, American Geophysical Union, Washington, USA, pp. 95-108.
• Spandler, C, Mavrogenes, J & Arculus, R 2004, 'The subduction blender; the role of slab-derived hybrid rocktypes for volatile and trace element recycling in subduction zones', Australian Geological Convention 2004, ed. Jocelyn McPhie and Peter McGoldrick, Geological Society of Australia, Hobart, p. 292.
• Spandler, C, Mavrogenes, J & Arculus, R 2004, 'Melt inclusions in chromitite from the Stillwater igneous complex, preliminary results but significant implications', Australian Geological Convention 2004, ed. Jocelyn McPhie and Peter McGoldrick, Geological Society of Australia, Hobart, p. 292.
• Spandler, C, Hermann, J, Arculus, R et al 2004, 'Reply to comments on Redistribution of trace elements during prograde metamorphism from lawsonite blueschist to eclogite facies: implications for deep subduction zone processes', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 148, pp. 506-509.
• Spandler, C, Hermann, J, Arculus, R et al 2004, 'Geochemical heterogeneity and element mobility in deeply subducted oceanic crust; insights from high-pressure mafic rocks from New Caledonia', Chemical Geology, vol. 206, no. 1-2, pp. 21-42.
• Spandler, C, Hermann, J, Arculus, R et al 2003, 'Redistribution of trace elements during prograde metamorphism from lawsonite blueschist to eclogite facies; implications for deep subduction-zone processes', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 146, no. 2, pp. 205-222.
• Zhang, L, Ellis, D, Arculus, R et al 2003, 'Forbidden zone subduction of sediments to 150 km depth - the reaction of dolomite to magnesite + aragonite in the UHPM metapelites from western Tianshan, China', Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 21, pp. 523-529.
• Sun, W, Arculus, R, Bennett, V et al 2003, 'Evidence for rhenium enrichment in the mantle wedge from submarine arc-like volcanic glasses (Papua New Guinea)', Geology, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 845-848.
• Parkinson, I, Arculus, R & Eggins, S 2003, 'Peridotite xenoliths from Grenada, Lesser Antilles Island Arc', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 146, pp. 241-262.
• Arculus, R 2003, 'Use and Abuse of the Terms Calcalkaline and Calcalkalic', Journal of Petrology, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 929-935.
• Sun, W, Bennett, V, Eggins, S et al 2003, 'Enhanced mantle-to-crust rhenium transfer in undegassed arc magmas', Nature, vol. 422, pp. 294-297.
• Bryant, C, Arculus, R & Eggins, S 2003, 'The geochemical evolution of the Izu-Bonin arc system: A perspective from tephras recovered by deep-sea drilling', Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 1-37.
• Sun, W, Bennett, V, Eggins, S et al 2003, 'Rhenium systematics in submarine MORB and back-arc basin glasses: laser ablation ICP-MS results', Chemical Geology, vol. 196, pp. 259-281.
• Spandler, C, Arculus, R, Eggins, S et al 2003, 'Petrogenesis of the Greenhills Complex, Southland, New Zealand: magmatic differentiation and cumulate formation at the roots of a Permian island-arc volcano', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 144, no. 6, pp. 703-721.
• Kamenetsky, V, Sobolev, A, Eggins, S et al 2002, 'Olivine-enriched melt inclusions in chromites from low-Ca boninites, Cape Vogel, Papua New Guinea: evidence for ultramafic primary magma, refractory mantle source and enriched components', Chemical Geology, vol. 183, pp. 287-303.
• Arculus, R 2002, 'Igneous Geology', in R A Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (3rd ed), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 567-581.
• Frost, B, Barnes, C, Collins, W et al 2001, 'A Geochemical Classification for Granitic Rocks', Journal of Petrology, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2033-2048.
• Spandler, C, Eggins, S, Arculus, R et al 2000, 'Using melt inclusions to determine parent-magma compositions of layered intrusions: Application to the Greenhills Complex (New Zealand), a platinum group minerals�bearing, island-arc intrusion', Geology, vol. 28, pp. 991-994.
• Arculus, R 1999, 'Geochemical window into subduction and accretion processes: Raspas metamorphic complex, Ecuador.', Geology, vol. 27, pp. 547-550.
• Arculus, R 1999, 'Origins of the Continental Crust.', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 132, pp. 83-110.
• Bryant, C, Arculus, R & Eggins, S 1999, 'Laser ablation-ICP-MS and tephras; a new approach to understanding arc magma genesis.', Geology, vol. 27, pp. 1119-1122.
• Parkinson, I & Arculus, R 1999, 'The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites.', Chemical Geology, vol. 160, pp. 409-423.

Projects and Grants

Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.

• Australian Membership of the International Ocean Discovery Program (Primary Investigator)
• The oxidation state of mantle-derived arc magmas (Primary Investigator)
• Magnetite and metal-rich sulfides in arc magmas (Secondary Investigator)
• The Windimurra-Narndee Layered Complexes, Western Australia (Secondary Investigator)
• Magmatic processes, volatiles and ore formation (Secondary Investigator)
• Properties of Hydrous Fluids and Silicate Melts at Very High Temperature and Pressures (Secondary Investigator)
• Investigation of Hydrothermally Active Submarine Island Arc Volcanoes in the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni Group and Solomon Islands (Primary Investigator)
• Sources and Fate of Metals in Riverine, Coastal, and Marine Sedimentary Environments of Papua New Guinea (Secondary Investigator)
• Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents (Primary Investigator)