Areas of expertise

• Isotope Geochemistry 040203
• Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology 040304
• Geochronology 040303
• Geochemistry 0402

Publications

• Murphy, D, Wiemer, D, Bennett, V et al. 2021, 'Paleoarchean variole-bearing metabasalts from the East Pilbara Terrane formed by hydrous fluid phase exsolution and implications for Archean greenstone belt magmatic processes', Precambrian Research, vol. 357.
• Nutman, A, Scicchitano, M, Friend, C et al. 2021, 'Isua (Greenland) ~3700 Ma meta-serpentinite olivine Mg# and δ¹⁸O signatures show connection between the early mantle and hydrosphere: Geodynamic implications', Precambrian Research, vol. 361, pp. 1-18.
• Carr, P, Norman, M, Bennett, V et al. 2021, 'Tin Enrichment in Magmatic-Hydrothermal Environments Associated with Cassiterite Mineralization at Ardlethan, Eastern Australia: Insights from Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd Isotope Compositions in Tourmaline', Economic Geology; Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 147-167.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2021, 'In support of rare relict similar to 3700 Ma stromatolites from Isua (Greenland)', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 562.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2021, 'Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism', Precambrian Research, vol. 367, pp. 1-28.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C, Bennett, V et al. 2021, 'GEODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE CA. 3800 MA OUTER ARC GROUP, ISUA (GREENLAND)', American Journal of Science, vol. 321, no. 6, pp. 643-679.
• Carr, P, Zink, S, Bennett, V et al. 2020, 'A new method for U-Pb geochronology of cassiterite by ID-TIMS applied to the Mole Granite polymetallic system, eastern Australia', Chemical Geology, vol. 539.
• Zhang, Q, Nutman, A, Buckman, S et al. 2020, 'What is underneath the juvenile Ordovician Macquarie Arc (eastern Australia)? A question resolved using Silurian intrusions to sample the lower crust', Gondwana Research, vol. 81, pp. 362-377.
• Gauthiez-Putallaz, L, Nutman, A, Bennett, V et al. 2020, 'Origins of high δ¹⁸O in 3.7�3.6 Ga crust: A zircon and garnet record in Isua clastic metasedimentary rocks', Chemical Geology, vol. 537, no. 0009-2541.
• Zhao, L, Zhai, M, Nutman, A et al. 2020, 'Archean basement components and metamorphic overprints of the Rangnim Massif in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and tectonic implications for the Sino-Korean Craton', Precambrian Research, vol. 344, pp. -.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2020, 'Eoarchean contrasting ultra-high-pressure to low-pressure metamorphisms (< 250 to > 1000 degrees C/GPa) explained by tectonic plate convergence in deep time', Precambrian Research, vol. 344, pp. 1-17.
• Ling, M, Zhan, R, Wang, G et al. 2020, 'An extremely brief end Ordovician mass extinction linked to abrupt onset of glaciation [Solid Earth Sciences volume 4 of 4]', Solid Earth Sciences, vol. 5, pp. 82-82.
• Saktura, W, Buckman, S, Nutman, A et al. 2020, 'Late Jurassic Changmar Complex from the Shyok ophiolite, NW Himalaya: A prelude to the Ladakh Arc', Geological Magazine, vol. -, no. -, pp. 1-22.
• Anenburg, M, Mavrogenes, J & Bennett, V 2020, 'The Fluorapatite P-REE-Th Vein Deposit at Nolans Bore: Genesis by Carbonatite Metasomatism', Journal of Petrology, vol. 61, no. 1.
• Zhang, Q, Buckman, S, Bennett, V et al. 2019, 'Inception and early evolution of the Ordovician Macquarie Arc of Eastern Gondwana margin: Zircon U-Pb-Hf evidence from the Molong Volcanic Belt, Lachlan Orogen', Lithos, vol. 326-327, pp. 513-528.
• Timmerman, S, Honda, M, Burnham, A et al. 2019, 'Primordial and recycled helium isotope signatures in the mantle transition zone', Science, vol. 365, no. 6454, pp. 692-694.
• DAndres, J, Kendrick, M, Bennett, V et al. 2019, 'Halogens in serpentinites from the Isua supracrustal belt, Greenland: An Eoarchean seawater signature and biomass proxy?', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 262, pp. 31-59.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2019, 'Cross-examining Earth's oldest stromatolites: Seeing through the effects of heterogeneous deformation, metamorphism and metasomatism affecting Isua (Greenland)∼3700 Ma sedimentary rocks', Precambrian Research, vol. 331.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Hidaka, H et al. 2019, 'The Archean Victoria Fjord terrane of northernmost Greenland and geodynamic interpretation of Precambrian crust in and surrounding the Arctic Ocean', Journal of Geodynamics, vol. 129, pp. 3-23.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2019, 'The Eoarchean legacy of Isua (Greenland) worth preserving for future generations', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 198, no. 102923, pp. 1-9.
• Zhang, Q, Buckman, S, Bennett, V et al. 2019, 'Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia: Triangle Formation Records the Late Ordovician Arrival of the Macquarie Arc Terrane at the Margin of Eastern Gondwana', Tectonics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 3373-3393.
• Ling, M, Zhan, R, Wang, G et al. 2019, 'An extremely brief end Ordovician mass extinction linked to abrupt onset of glaciation', Solid Earth Sciences, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 190-198.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C, Bennett, V et al. 2019, 'Reconstruction of a 3700 Ma transgressive marine environment from Isua (Greenland): Sedimentlogy, stratigraphy and geochemical signatures', Lithos, vol. 346, no. 0.
• Buckman, S, Aitchison, J, Nutman, A et al. 2018, 'The Spongtang Massif in Ladakh, NW Himalaya: An Early Cretaceous record of spontaneous, intra-oceanic subduction initiation in the Neotethys', Gondwana Research, vol. 63, pp. 226-249.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V & Friend, C 2017, 'Seeing through the magnetite: Reassessing Eoarchean atmosphere composition from Isua (Greenland) =3.7 Ga banded iron formations', Geoscience Frontiers (Previously Earth Science Frontiers), vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1233-1240.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V & Friend, C 2017, 'Seeing through the magnetite: Reassessing Eoarchean atmosphere composition from Isua (Greenland) =3.7 Ga banded iron formations', Geoscience Frontiers (Previously Earth Science Frontiers), vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1233-1240.
• Ismail, S, Ali, S, Nutman, A et al. 2017, 'The Pushtashan juvenile suprasubduction zone assemblage of Kurdistan (northeastern Iraq): A Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Neo-Tethys missing link', Geoscience Frontiers (Previously Earth Science Frontiers), vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1073-1087pp..
• Manton, R, Buckman, S, Nutman, A et al. 2017, 'Exotic island arc Paleozoic terranes on the eastern margin of Gondwana: Geochemical whole rock and zircon U?Pb?Hf isotope evidence from Barry Station, New South Wales, Australia', Lithos, vol. 286, pp. 125-150.
• Manton, R, Buckman, S, Nutman, A et al. 2017, 'Exotic island arc Paleozoic terranes on the eastern margin of Gondwana: Geochemical whole rock and zircon U?Pb?Hf isotope evidence from Barry Station, New South Wales, Australia', Lithos, vol. 286, pp. 125-150.
• Ismail, S, Ali, S, Nutman, A et al. 2017, 'The Pushtashan juvenile suprasubduction zone assemblage of Kurdistan (northeastern Iraq): A Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Neo-Tethys missing link', Geoscience Frontiers (Previously Earth Science Frontiers), vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1073-1087pp..
• Carr, P, Norman, M & Bennett, V 2017, 'Assessment of crystallographic orientation effects on secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) analysis of cassiterite', Chemical Geology, vol. 467, pp. 122-133.
• Manton, R, Buckman, S, Belousova, E et al. 2017, 'U-Pb-Hf-REE-Ti zircon and REE garnet geochemistry of the Cambrian Attunga eclogite, New England Orogen, Australia: Implications for continental growth along eastern Gondwana', Tectonics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1580-1613pp.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2016, 'Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures', Nature, vol. 537, no. 7621, pp. 535-538pp.
• Ali, S, Ismail, S, Nutman, A et al. 2016, 'The intra-oceanic Cretaceous (similar to 108 Ma) Kata-Rash arc fragment in the Kurdistan segment of Iraqi Zagros suture zone: Implications for Neotethys evolution and closure', Lithos, vol. 260, pp. 154-163pp.
• Kaczmarek, M, Reddy, S, Nutman, A et al. 2016, 'Earth's oldest mantle fabrics indicate Eoarchaean subduction', Nature Communications, vol. 7, no. 10665, pp. -.
• Hiess, J & Bennett, V 2016, 'Chondritic Lu/Hf in the early crust-mantle system as recorded by zircon populations from the oldest Eoarchean rocks of Yilgarn Craton, West Australia and Enderby Land, Antarctica', Chemical Geology, vol. 427, pp. 125-143.
• Kaczmarek, M, Reddy, S, Nutman, A et al. 2016, 'Earth's oldest mantle fabrics indicate Eoarchaean subduction', Nature Communications, vol. 7, no. 10665, pp. -.
• McCoy-West, A, Bennett, V & Amelin, Y 2016, 'Rapid Cenozoic ingrowth of isotopic signatures simulating "HIMU" in ancient lithospheric mantle: Distinguishing source from process', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 187, pp. 79-101.
• Fergusson, C, Nutman, A, Mohajjel, M et al. 2016, 'The Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone in the Neo-Tethyan suture, western Iran: Zircon U–Pb evidence of late Palaeozoic rifting of northern Gondwana and mid-Jurassic orogenesis', Gondwana Research, vol. 40, pp. 43-57pp.
• Bennett, V & Nutman, A 2015, 'Isua Supracrustal Belt, southwest Greenland: Geochronology', in W. Jack Rink, Jeroen Thompson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 4pp.
• McCoy-West, A, Bennett, V, O'Neill, H et al. 2015, 'The interplay between melting, refertilization and carbonatite metasomatism in off-cratonic lithospheric mantle under Zealandia: An integrated major, trace and platinum group element study', Journal of Petrology, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 563-604.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2015, 'Mesoarchaean collision of Kapisilik terrane 3070 Ma juvenile arc rocks and >3600 Ma Isukasia terrane continental crust (Greenland)', Precambrian Research, vol. 258, pp. 146-160.
• Bennett, V, Chivas, A, Friend, C et al. 2015, '3806 Ma Isua rhyolites and dacites affected by low temperature Eoarchaean surficial alteration: Earth's earliest weathering', Precambrian Research, vol. 268, pp. 323-338.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V & Friend, C 2015, 'PROPOSAL FOR A CONTINENT `ITSAQIA' AMALGAMATED AT 3.66 Ga AND RIFTED APART FROM 3.53 Ga: INITIATION OF A WILSON CYCLE NEAR THE START OF THE ROCK RECORD', American Journal of Science, vol. 315, no. 6, pp. 509-536.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V & Friend, C 2015, 'The emergence of the Eoarchaean proto-arc: evolution of a c. 3700 Ma convergent plate boundary at Isua, southern West Greenland', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 389, pp. 113-133.
• Yi, K, Bennett, V, Nutman, A et al. 2014, 'Tracing Archaean terranes under Greenland's Icecap: U-Th-Pb-Hf isotopic study of zircons from melt-water rivers in the Isua area', Precambrian Research, vol. 255, no. P3, pp. 900-921.
• Jeon, H, Williams, I & Bennett, V 2014, 'Uncoupled O and Hf isotopic systems in zircon from the contrasting granite suites of the New England Orogen, eastern Australia: Implications for studies of Phanerozoic magma genesis', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 146, pp. 132-149.
• King, P & Bennett, V 2014, 'Setting up or renovating a laboratory', Elements, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 170-171.
• Nutman, A.P., Mohajjel, M., Bennett, V.C. and Fergusson, C.L., 2014, 'Gondwanan eoarchean-neoproterozoic ancient crustal material in Iran and Turkey: Zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic evidencespi1', Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 272-285.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2013, 'THE ITSAQ GNEISS COMPLEX OF GREENLAND: EPISODIC 3900 TO 3660 Ma JUVENILE CRUST FORMATION AND RECYCLING IN THE 3660 TO 3600 Ma ISUKASIAN OROGENY', American Journal of Science, vol. 313, no. 9, pp. 877-911.
• McCoy-West, A, Bennett, V, Puchtel, I et al. 2013, 'Extreme persistence of cratonic lithosphere in the southwest Pacific: Paleoproterozoic Os isotopic signatures in Zealandia', Geology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 231-234.
• Jenner, F, Bennett, V, Yaxley, G et al. 2013, 'Eoarchean within-plate basalts from southwest Greenland', Geology, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 327-330.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V & Friend, C 2012, 'Waves and weathering at 3.7 Ga: Geological evidence for an equitable terrestrial climate under the faint early Sun', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 167-176.
• Goodge, J, Fanning, C, Norman, M et al. 2012, 'Temporal, isotopic and spatial relations of early paleozoic gondwana-margin arc magmatism, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica', Journal of Petrology, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 2027-2065.
• Bennett, V 2012, 'Probing the Mantle Past', Science, vol. 335, no. 6072, pp. 1051-1052.
• Hiess, J, Bennett, V, Nutman, A et al. 2011, 'Archaean fluid-assisted crustal cannibalism recorded by low δ¹⁸O and negative ε_Hf(T) isotopic signatures of West Greenland granite zircon', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 161, no. 6, pp. 1027-1050.
• Jeon, H, Williams, I, Chappell, B et al. 2010, 'Implications of contrasting patterns of inherited zircon in the Late Palaeozoic granites of the Lachlan and New England fold belts', Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC 2010), Geological Society of Australia, Sydney.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C, Bennett, V et al. 2010, '≥3700 Ma pre-metamorphic dolomite formed by microbial mediation in the Isua supracrustal belt (W.Greenland): Simple evidence for early life?', Precambrian Research, vol. 183, no. 4, pp. 725-737.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2009, 'Eoarchaean crustal growth in West Greenland (Itsaq Gneiss Complex) and in northeastern China (Anshan area): review and synthesis', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 318, pp. 127-154.
• Barker, S, Bennett, V, Cox, S et al. 2009, 'Sm-Nd, Sr, C and O isotope systematics in hydrothermal calcite-fluorite veins: Implications for fluid-rock reaction and geochronology', Chemical Geology, vol. 268, pp. 58-66.
• Jenner, F, Bennett, V, Nutman, A et al. 2009, 'Evidence for subduction at 3.8 Ga: Geochemistry of arc-like metabasalts from the southern edge of the Isua Supracrustal Belt', Chemical Geology, vol. 261, no. 1-2, pp. 82-97.
• Handler, M, Baker, J, Schiller, M et al. 2009, 'Magnesium stable isotope composition of Earth's upper mantle', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 282, pp. 306-313.
• Dauphas, N, Craddock, P, Asimow, P et al. 2009, 'Iron isotopes may reveal the redox conditions of mantle melting from Archean to Present', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 288, pp. 255-267.
• Hiess, J, Bennett, V, Nutman, A et al. 2009, 'In situ U-Pb, O and Hf isotopic compositions of zircon and olivine from Eoarchaean rocks, West Greenland: New insights to making old crust', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 73, pp. 4489-4516.
• Hiess, J, Bennett, V, Nutman, A et al. 2008, 'Archean TTG Petrogenesis - The U/Pb-O-Hf Isotopic Perspective', V.M. Goldschmidt Conference 2008, Pergamon Press, United Kingdom, pp. A375.
• Caro , G, Bennett, V, Bourdon, B et al. 2008, 'Application of precise 142Nd/144Nd analysis of small samples to inclusions in diamonds (Finsch, South Africa) and Hadean Zircons (Jack Hills, Western Australia)', Chemical Geology, vol. 247, no. 1-2, pp. 253-265.
• Hiess, J, Nutman, A, Bennett, V et al. 2008, 'Ti-in-zircon thermometry applied to contrasting Archean metamorphic and igneous systems', Chemical Geology, vol. 247, pp. 323-338.
• Friend, C, Nutman, A, Bennett, V et al. 2008, 'Seawater-like trace element signatures (REE + Y) of Eoarchaean chemical sedimentary rocks from southern West Greenland, and their corruption during high-grade metamorphism', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Electronic), vol. 155, no. 2, p. 18.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2007, '~3,850 Ma tonalites in the Nuuk region, Greenland: geochemistry and their reworking within an Eoarchaean gneiss complex', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Electronic), vol. 154, no. 4, pp. 385-40.
• Van Kranendonk, M, Smithies, H & Bennett, V, eds, 2007, Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
• Bennett, V, Brandon, A & Nutman, A 2007, 'Coupled 142Nd-143Nd Isotopic Evidence for Hadean Mantle Dynamics', Science, vol. 318, no. 21 December, pp. 1907-1910.
• Norman, M, Yaxley, G, Bennett, V et al. 2006, 'Magnesium isotopic composition of olivine from the Earth, Mars, Moon, and pallasite parent body', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 33, pp. L15202.
• Handler, M, Bennett, V & Carlson, R 2005, 'Nd, Sr and Os isotope systematics in young, fertile spinel peridotite xenoliths from northern Queensland, Australia: A unique view of depleted MORB mantle?', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 69, no. 24, pp. 5747-5763.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C, Bennett, V et al. 2004, 'Dating of the Ameralik dyke swarms of the Nuuk district, southern West Greenland: mafic intrusion events starting from c. 3510 Ma', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 161, pp. 421-430.
• Norman, M, Garcia, M & Bennett, V 2004, 'Rhenium and chalcophile elements in basaltic glasses from Koolau and Molokai volcanoes:Magmatic outgassing and composition of the Hawaiian plume', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 68, no. 18, pp. 3761-3777.
• Sun, W, Bennett, V & Kamenetsky, V 2004, 'The mechanism of Re enrichment in arc magmas: evidence from Lau Basin basaltic glasses and primitive melt inclusions', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 222, pp. 101-114.
• Honda, M, Nutman, A, Bennett, V et al. 2004, 'Radiogenic, nucleogenic and fissiogenic noble gas compositions in early Archaean magmatic zircons from Greenland', Geochemical Journal, vol. 38, pp. 265-269.
• Trendall, A, Compston, W, Nelson, D et al. 2004, 'SHRIMP zircon ages constraining the depositional chronology of the Hamersley Group, Western Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 51, pp. 621-644.
• Bryant, C, Chappell, B, Bennett, V et al. 2004, 'Lithium isotopic compositions of the New England Batholith: correlations with inferred source rock compositions', Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, vol. 95, pp. 199-214.
• Bennett, V 2004, 'Compositional Evolution of the Mantle', in R.W. Carlson (ed.), Treatise on Geochemistry, Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 493-519.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Bryant, C, McCulloch, M & Bennett, V 2003, 'Impact of matrix effects on the accurate measurement of Li isotope ratios by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) under cold plasma conditions', Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, vol. 18, pp. 734-737.
• Bennett, V, Horan, M, Brandon, A et al. 2003, 'Highly siderophile elements in the Earth and Meteorites: A volume in honor of John Morgan', Chemical Geology, vol. 196, pp. 1-3.
• Honda, M, Nutman, A & Bennett, V 2003, 'Xenon compositions of magmatic zircons in 3.64 and 3.81 Ga meta-granitoids from Greenland - a search for extinct ²⁴⁴Pu in ancient terrestrial rocks', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 207, pp. 69-82.
• Norman, M, Bennett, V & Ryder, G 2002, 'Targeting the impactors: siderophile element signatures of lunar impact melts from Serenitatis', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 202, pp. 217-228.
• Norman, M, Bennett, V, McCulloch, M et al. 2002, 'Osmium isotopic compositions by vapor phase sample introduction using a multi-collector ICP-MS', Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, vol. 17, pp. 1394-1397.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C & Bennett, V 2002, 'Early Archean (3600-3650Ma?) Tectonic interleaving of unrelated rocks of different age in the north of the Itsaq gneiss complex of Greenland', Tectonics, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 1005.
• Friend, C, Nutman, A & Bennett, V 2002, 'Comment on: Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland and implications for Earths earliest life (Fedo & Whitehouse)', Science, vol. 298, pp. 917a.
• Friend, C, Bennett, V & Nutman, A 2002, 'Abyssal peridotites >3,800 Ma from southern West Greenland: field relationships, petrography, geochronology, whole-rock and mineral chemistry of dunite and harzburgite inclusions in the Itsaq Gneiss Complex', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 143, pp. 71-92.
• Bennett, V, Nutman, A & Esat, T 2002, 'The Osmium Mantle Evolution Curve and Limits on Accretion and Differentiation of the Earth from Archean (3.4 - 3.8 Ga) Ultramafic Rocks', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 66, no. 14, pp. 2615-2630.
• Nutman, A, McGregor, V, Shiraishi, K et al. 2002, '≥ 3850 Ma BIF and mafic inclusions in the early Archaean Itsaq Gneiss Complex around Akilia, southern West Greenland? The difficulties of precise dating of zircon-free protoliths in migmatites', Precambrian Research, vol. 117, pp. 185-224.
• Friend, C, Nutman, A & Bennett, V 2002, 'Protoliths of the 3.8 - 3.7 Ga Isua greenstone belt - comment', Precambrian Research, vol. 117, pp. 145-149.
• Nutman, A, Friend, C & Bennett, V 2001, 'Review of the oldest (4400-3600 Ma) geological and mineralogical record: Glimpses of the beginning', Episodes, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 93-101.
• Nutman, A, McGregor, V, Bennett, V et al. 2001, 'Age significance of U-Th-Pb zircon data from early Archaean rocks of west Greenland - a reassessment based on combined ion-microprobe and imaging studies - Comment', Chemical Geology, vol. 175, pp. 191-199.
• Goodge, J, Fanning, C & Bennett, V 2001, 'U-Pb evidence of ~1.7 Ga crustal tectonism during the Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions', Precambrian Research, vol. 112, pp. 261-288.
• Handler, M & Bennett, V 2001, 'Constraining continental structure by integrating Os isotopic ages of lithospheric mantle with geophysical and crustal data: an example from southeastern Australia', Tectonics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 177-188.
• Nutman, A, Bennett, V, Friend, C et al. 2000, 'The early Archaean Itsaq Gneiss Complex of southern West Greenland: The importance of geology in interpreting geochronological and isotopic data on early terrestrial evolution', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 64, no. 17, pp. 3035-3060.
• Bennett, V, Norman, M & Garcia, M 2000, 'Rhenium and platinum group element abundances correlated with mantle source compositions in Hawaiian picrites: sulphides in the plume', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 183, no. 3-4, pp. 513-526.
• Handler, M & Bennett, V 1999, 'Behaviour of platinum-group elements in the subcontinental mantle of eastern Australia during variable metasomatism and melt depletion', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 63, pp. 3597-3618.
• Handler, M, Bennett, V & Dreibus, G 1999, 'Evidence from correlated Ir/Os and Cu/S for late-stage mobility in peridotite xenoliths: Implications for Re-Os systematics', Geology, vol. 27, pp. 75-78.

Projects and Grants

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• Revealing the Deep Earth in Deep Time (Primary Investigator)
• Engineering planetary habitability: Earth's critical first billion years (Secondary Investigator)
• Innovative isotopic techniques to study the response of soil and water to modern and past climate change (Secondary Investigator)
• Carbon dioxide sequestration more than 3.7 billion years ago and the oldest climate cycles (Secondary Investigator)
• A facility for Sensitive and Precise Isotopic Dating of Earth's and extraterrestrial Rocks (Secondary Investigator)