Professor Trevor Ireland

Professor

ANU College of Science

E: trevor.ireland@anu.edu.au

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Areas of expertise

Mineralogy And Crystallography 040306
Inorganic Geochemistry 040202
Geochronology 040303
Structural Geology 040312
History And Philosophy Of Science (Incl. Non Historical Philosophy Of Science) 220206
Isotope Geochemistry 040203
Igneous And Metamorphic Petrology 040304
Stellar Astronomy And Planetary Systems 020110
Sedimentology 040310
Planetary Science (Excl. Extraterrestrial Geology) 020108
Geochemistry 0402

Publications

MacArthur, J, Bridges, J, Hicks, L et al 2019, 'Mineralogical constraints on the thermal history of martian regolith breccia Northwest Africa 8114', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 246, pp. 267-298.
Hamilton, V, Simon, A, Christensen, P et al 2019, 'Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu', Nature Astronomy, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 332-340.
Walsh, K, Jawin, E, Ballouz, R et al 2019, 'Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface', Nature Geoscience, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 242-246.
Wang, H, Liu, F, Ireland, T et al 2019, 'Enhanced constraints on the interior composition and structure of terrestrial exoplanets', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 482, no. 2, pp. 2222-2233.
Wu, S, Mao, J, Ireland, T et al 2019, 'Comparative geochemical study of scheelite from the Shizhuyuan and Xianglushan tungsten skarn deposits, South China: Implications for scheelite mineralization', Ore Geology Reviews, vol. 109, pp. 448-464.
Heck, P, Herd, C, Grossman, J et al 2019, 'Best practices for the use of meteorite names in publications', Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1397-1400.
Timmerman, S, Yeow, H, Honda, M et al 2019, 'U-Th/He systematics of fluid-rich 'fibrous' diamonds - Evidence for pre- and syn-kimberlite eruption ages', Chemical Geology, vol. 515, pp. 22-36.
Philippot, P, Avila, J, Killingsworth, B et al 2018, 'Globally asynchronous sulphur isotope signals require re-definition of the Great Oxidation Event', Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 0, pp. 10pp.
Kendrick, M, Ducommun-Dit-Verron, J, Holden, P et al 2018, 'Halogens (F, Cl, Br, I) in Thirteen USGS, GSJ and NIST International Rock and Glass Reference Materials', Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 499-511.
Sun, S, Ireland, T, Zhang, L et al 2018, 'Palaeoarchaean materials in the Tibetan Plateau indicated by zircon', International Geology Review, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 1061-1072pp.
Ireland, T, Avila, J, Lugaro, M et al 2018, 'Rare earth element abundances in presolar SiC', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 221, pp. 200-218.
Sun, W, Hawkesworth, C, Yao, C et al 2018, 'Carbonated mantle domains at the base of the Earth's transition zone', Chemical Geology, vol. 478, pp. 69-75.
Sun, X, Sun, W, Hu, Y et al 2018, 'Major Miocene geological events in southern Tibet and eastern Asia induced by the subduction of the Ninetyeast Ridge', Acta Geochimica, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 395-401pp.
Wang, H, Lineweaver, C & Ireland, T 2018, 'The elemental abundances (with uncertainties) of the most Earth-like planet', Icarus, vol. 299, no. 1, pp. 460-474pp.
Reynes, J, Jollands, M, Hermann, J et al 2018, 'Experimental constraints on hydrogen diffusion in garnet', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 173, no. 69, pp. 1-23pp.
Tang, D, Wilson, C, Sewell, R et al 2017, 'Tracking the evolution of Late Mesozoic arc-related magmatic systems in Hong Kong using in-situ U-Pb dating and trace element analyses in zircon', American Mineralogist, vol. 102, no. 11, pp. 2190-2219pp.
Ireland, T, Bolhar, R & Ring, U 2017, 'Zircon in amphibolites from Naxos, Aegean Sea, Greece: Origin, significance and tectonic setting', Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 413-434.
Zhang, L, Hu, Y, Liang, J et al 2017, 'Adakitic rocks associated with the Shilu copper-molybdenum deposit in the Yangchun Basin, South China, and their tectonic implications', Acta Geochimica, vol. Online, no. -, pp. 1-19pp.
Berry, A, Schofield, P, Kravtsova, A et al 2017, 'The limitations of hibonite as a single-mineral oxybarometer for early solar system processes', Chemical Geology, vol. 466, pp. 32-40.
Chen, Y, Li, H, Sun, W et al 2016, 'Generation of Late Mesozoic Qianlishan A2-type granite in Nanling Range, South China: Implications for Shizhuyuan Wâ€“Sn mineralization and tectonic evolution', Lithos, vol. 266, pp. 435-452.
Zhang, G, Ireland, T, Zhang, L et al 2016, 'Zircon geochemistry of two contrasting types of eclogite: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the North Qaidam UHPM belt, northern Tibet', Gondwana Research, vol. 35, pp. 27-39.
Beyer, C, Klemme, S, Ireland, T et al 2016, 'Fluorine partitioning between eclogitic garnet, clinopyroxene, and melt at upper mantle conditions', Chemical Geology, vol. 437, pp. 88-97.
Gregory, D, Large, R, Bath, A et al 2016, 'Trace element content of pyrite from the Kapai slate, St. Ives gold district, Western Australia', Economic Geology; Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 111, no. 6, pp. 1297-1320.
Ireland, T, Clarke, G, Bhowmik, S et al 2016, 'Inverted Oligo-Miocene metamorphism in the Lesser Himalaya Sequence, Arunachal Pradesh, India; age and grade relationships', Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 805-820.
McKibbin S.J, Ireland T.R., Holden P., O'Neill H.St.C., Mallmann G. (2016) Rapid cooling of planetesimal core-mantle reaction zones from Mn-Cr isotopes in pallasites, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2(1), 68-77.
Sangely, L, Boyer, B, De Chambost, E et al 2015, 'Secondary ion mass spectrometry', in Thomas Prohaska, Johanna Irrgeher, Andreas Zitek, and Norbert Jakubowski (ed.), Sector Field Mass Spectrometry for Elemental and Isotopic Analysis, Royal Society of Chemistry, Online, pp. 439-499.
Gregory, D, Large, R, Halpin, J et al 2015, 'The chemical conditions of the late Archean Hamersley basin inferred from whole rock and pyrite geochemistry with Delta S-33 and delta S-34 isotope analyses', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 149, no. January, pp. 223-250.
Fu, B, Brocker, M, Ireland, T et al 2015, 'Zircon U-Pb, O, and Hf isotopic constraints on Mesozoic magmatism in the Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Greece', International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 75-87.
Cooper, A & Ireland, T 2015, 'The Pounamu terrane, a new Cretaceous exotic terrane within the Alpine Schist, New Zealand; tectonically emplaced, deformed and metamorphosed during collision of the LIP Hikurangi Plateau with Zealandia', Gondwana Research, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 1255-1269.
Hiess, J, Yi, K, Woodhead, J et al 2015, 'Gondwana margin evolution from zircon REE, O and Hf signatures of Western Province Gneisses, Zealandia', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 389, pp. 323-353.
Iizuka, T, Yamaguchi, A, Haba, M et al 2015, 'Timing of global crustal metamorphism on Vesta as revealed by high-precision U-Pb dating and trace element chemistry of eucrite zircon', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 409, pp. 182-192.
McKibbin, S, Ireland, T, Amelin, Y et al 2015, 'Mn-Cr dating of Fe- and Ca-rich olivine from 'quenched' and 'plutonic' angrite meteorites using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 157, pp. 13-27.
Avigad, D, Weissbrod, T, Gerdes, A et al 2015, 'The detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf fingerprint of the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield as reflected by a Late Ediacaran arkosic wedge (Zenifim Formation; subsurface Israel)', Precambrian Research, vol. 266, pp. 1-11.
Steadman, J, Large, R, Meffre, S et al 2015, 'Synsedimentary to early diagenetic gold in Black shale-hosted pyrite nodules at the Golden Mile deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia', Economic Geology; Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 110, no. 5, pp. 1157-1191.
Turner, M, Ireland, T, Hermann, J et al 2015, 'Sensitive high resolution ion microprobe - stable isotope (SHRIMP-SI) analysis of water in silicate glasses and nominally anhydrous reference minerals', Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 1706-1722.
Chen, M, Campbell, I, Xue, Y et al 2015, 'Multiple Sulfur Isotope Analyses Support a Magmatic Model for the Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Teutonic Bore Volcanic Complex, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australian', Economic Geology; Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 1411-1423.
Okada, T, Zolensky, M, Ireland, T et al 2015, 'The Earth, Planets and Space Special Issue: "science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions', Earth, Planets and Space, vol. 67, no. 116, pp. 1-4.
Gibson, G, Champion, D & Ireland, T 2015, 'Preservation of a fragmented late Neoproterozoic-earliest Cambrian hyper-extended continental-margin sequence in the Australian Delamerian Orogen', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 413, pp. 269-299.
Adams, C, Bradshaw, J & Ireland, T 2014, 'Provenance connections between late Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic sedimentary basins of the Ross Sea region, Antarctica, south-east Australia and southern Zealandia', Antarctic Science, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 173-182.
Sun, W, Zhang, C, Liang, H et al 2014, 'The genetic association between magnetite-hematite and porphyry copper deposits: Reply to Pokrovski', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 126, pp. 639-642.
Barker, S, Wilson, C, Smith, E et al 2014, 'Post-supereruption Magmatic Reconstruction of Taupo Volcano (New Zealand), as Reflected in Zircon Ages and Trace Elements', Journal of Petrology, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1511-1533.
McCoy-West, A, Mortimer, N & Ireland, T 2014, 'U-Pb geochronology of Permian plutonic rocks, Longwood Range, New Zealand: Implications for Median Batholith-Brook Street Terrane relations', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 65-85.
Ireland, T, Schram, N, Holden, P et al 2014, 'Charge-mode electrometer measurements of S-isotopic compositions on SHRIMP-SI', International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 359, no. 1, pp. 26-37.
Chambefort, I, Lewis, B, Wilson, C et al 2014, 'Stratigraphy and structure of the Ngatamariki geothermal system from new zircon U-Pb geochronology: Implications for Taupo Volcanic Zone evolution', Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 274, pp. 51-70.
Steadman, J, Large, R, Davidson, G et al 2014, 'Paragenesis and composition of ore minerals in the Randalls BIF-hosted gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for the timing of deposit formation and constraints on gold sources', Precambrian Research, vol. 243, pp. 110-132.
Chamberlain, K, Wilson, C, Wooden, J et al 2014, 'New perspectives on the bishop tuff from zircon textures, ages and trace elements', Journal of Petrology, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 395-426.
Cooper, G, Wilson, C, Charlier, B et al 2014, 'Temporal evolution and compositional signatures of two supervolcanic systems recorded in zircons from Mangakino volcanic centre, New Zealand', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 167, no. 6, pp. 1-23.
Salmeron, R & Ireland, T 2013, 'Magnetocentrifugal jets and chondrule formation in protostellar disks', International Astronomical Union. Proceedings, vol. 8, no. S299, pp. 228-229.
Ireland, T 2013, 'Invited Review Article: Recent developments in isotope-ratio mass spectrometry for geochemistry and cosmochemistry', Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 84, no. 1, pp. 11101-11101.
Salmeron, R & Ireland, T 2012, 'Formation of chondrules in magnetic winds blowing through the proto-asteroid belt', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 327, pp. 61-67.
Lugaro, M, Liffman, K, Ireland, T et al 2012, 'Can galactic chemical evolution explain the oxygen isotopic variations in the solar system?', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 759, no. 1.
White, L, Ahmad, T, Lister, G et al 2012, 'Is the switch from I- to S-type magmatism in the Himalayan Orogen indicative of the collision of India and Eurasia?', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 321-340.
Tartese, R, Boulvais, P, Poujol, M et al 2012, 'Mylonites of the South Armorican Shear Zone: Insights for crustal-scale fluid flow and water-rock interaction processes', Journal of Geodynamics, vol. 56-57, pp. 86-107.
Avila, J, Lugaro, M, Ireland, T et al 2012, 'Tungsten isotopic compositions in stardust SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite: Constraints on the s-process in the Hf-Ta-W-Re-Os region', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 744, no. 1, pp. 1-13.
Ireland, T 2012, 'Oxygen isotope tracing of the Solar System', The Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 225-236.
White, L & Ireland, T 2012, 'High-uranium matrix effect in zircon and its implications for SHRIMP U-Pb age determinations', Chemical Geology, vol. 306-307, pp. 78-91.
Tartese, R, Ruffet, G, Poujol, M et al 2011, 'Simultaneous resetting of the muscovite K-Ar and monazite U-Pb geochronometers: a story of fluids', Terra Nova, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 390-398.
Yurimoto, H, Abe, K, Abe, M et al 2011, 'Oxygen isotopic compositions of Asteroidal Materials returned from Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission', Science, vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1116-1119.
Ebihara, M, Sekimoto, S, Shirai, N et al 2011, 'Neutron Activation Analysis of a Particle Returned from Asteroid Itokawa', Science, vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1119-1121.
Tsuchiyama, A, Uesugi, M, Matsushima, T et al 2011, 'Three-Dimensional Structure of Hayabusa Samples: Origin and Evolution of Itokawa Regolith', Science, vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1125-1128.
Tian, W, Chen, B, Ireland, T et al 2011, 'Petrology and geochemistry of dunites, chromitites and mineral inclusions from the Gaositai Alaskan-type complex, North China Craton: Implications for mantle source characteristics', Lithos, vol. 127, no. 1-2, pp. 165-175.
Nagao, K, Okazaki, R, Nakamura, T et al 2011, 'Irradiation history of itokawa regolith material deduced from noble gases in the hayabusa samples', Science, vol. 333, no. 6046, pp. 1128-1131.
Tulloch, A, Ireland, T, Kimbrough, D et al 2011, 'Autochthonous inheritance of zircon through Cretaceous partial melting of Carboniferous plutons: the Arthur River Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 161, no. 3, pp. 401-421.
Gibson, G, Morse, M, Ireland, T et al 2011, 'Arc-continent collision and orogenesis in western Tasmanides: Insights from reactivated basement structures and formation of an ocean-continent transform boundary off western Tasmania', Gondwana Research, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 608-627.
White, L.T., Ahmad, T., Ireland, T.R., Lister, G.S. & Forster, M.A. 2011. Deconvolving episodic age spectra from zircons of the Ladakh Batholith, northwest Indian Himalaya. Chemical Geology, 289 (3-4), 179-196.
White, L.T., Ahmad, T., Lister, G.S. & Ireland, T.R. 2011. Where does India end and Eurasia begin? Geochemistry, Geophysics., Geosystems, 12, Q10013, (doi:10.1029/2011GC003726).
Hiess, J, Ireland, T & Rattenbury, M 2010, 'U-Th-Pb zircon and monazite geochronology of Western Province gneissic rocks, central-south Westland, New Zealand', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 241-269.
Turnbull, R, Weaver, S, Tulloch, A et al 2010, 'Field and geochemical constraints on mafic-felsic interactions, and processes in high-level arc magma chambers: An example from the Halfmoon Pluton, New Zealand', Journal of Petrology, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1477-1505.
Amelin, Y, Kaltenbach, A, Iizuka, T et al 2010, 'U-Pb chronology of the Solar System's oldest solids with variable ²³⁸U/²³⁵U', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 300, no. 3-4, pp. 343-350.
Araujo, D, Griffin, W, O'Reilly, S et al 2009, 'Microinclusions in monocrystalline octahedral diamonds and coated diamonds from Diavik, Slave Craton: Clues to diamond genesis', Lithos, vol. 112S, pp. 724-735.
Chen, B, Suzuki, K, Tian, W et al 2009, 'Geochemistry and Os-Nd-Sr isotopes of the Gaositai Alaskantype ultramafic complex from the northern North China craton: implications for mantle-crust interaction', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 158, no. 5, pp. 683-702.
Liu, M, McKeegan, K, Goswami, J et al 2009, 'Isotopic records in CM hibonites: Implications for timescales of mixing of isotope reservoirs in the solar nebula', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 73, pp. 5051-5079.
Kolodner, K, Avigad, D, Ireland, T et al 2009, 'Origin of Lower Cretaceous ('Nubian') sandstones of North-east Africa and Arabia from detrital zircon U-Pb SHRIMP dating', Sedimentology, vol. 56, pp. 2010-2023.
Holden, P, Lanc, P, Ireland, T et al 2009, 'Mass-spectrometric mining of Hadean zircons by automated SHRIMP multi-collector and single-collector U/Pb zircon age dating: The first 100,000 grains', International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, vol. 286, pp. 53-63.
Davis, A, Hashizume, K, Chaussidon, M et al 2008, 'Oxygen in the Sun', Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, vol. 68, pp. 73-92.
Maldoni, M, Ireland, T & Robinson, G 2008, 'IRAS 22036+5306: an Al2O3 oxide-dominated post-AGB star', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 386, no. 4, pp. 2290-2296.
Ireland, T, Clement, S, Compston, W et al 2008, 'Development of SHRIMP', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 55, pp. 937-954.
Ickert, R, Hiess, J, Williams, I et al 2008, 'Determining high precision, in situ, oxygen isotope ratios with a SHRIMP II: Analyses of MPI-DING silicate-glass reference materials and zircon from contrasting granites', Chemical Geology, vol. 257, pp. 114-128.
Gregory, C, Rubatto, D, Allen, C et al 2007, 'Allanite micro-geochronology: A LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP U-Th-Pb study', Chemical Geology, vol. 245, pp. 162-182.
Ewing, T, Weaver, S, Bradshaw, J et al 2007, 'Loch Burn Formation, Fiordland, New Zealand: SHRIMP U-Pb ages, geochemistry and provenance', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 50, pp. 167-180.
Miller, E, Ireland, T, Klemperer, S et al 2002, 'Constraints on the age of formation of seismically reflective middle and lower crust beneath the Bering Shelf: SHRIMP zircon dating of xenoliths from Saint Lawrence Island', in Miller, E.L., Grantz, A., and Klemperer, S.L. (ed.), Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses, Geological Society of America Inc, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 195-208.

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