Prof Chris Hawkesworth

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

Chris.Hawkesworth@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Research interests - isotope and trace element geochemistry

• The generation and evolution of the continental crust.
• The nature of the geological record, and the extent to which it is biased by sedimentary and tectonic processes.
• The effects of meteorite bombardment on the Earth’s crust, and the differentiation of impact melt sheets.
• The use of transition metal isotopes to investigate processes at the interface between biological and inorganic geochemistry, and the extent to which the latter may have influenced biological evolution.
• High-resolution continental records of archaeology and environmental change.
• The processes of melt generation in large igneous provinces, with links to the causes of break-up of mega-continents, and the conditions of formation of the associated base metal sulphides.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Metal anomalies in zircon as a record of granite-hosted mineralization

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Mulder, J. A., Wainwright, A. N. & Cawood, P. A., 20 Dec 2021, In: Chemical Geology. 585, 120580.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Petrogenesis of Archaean granites in the Barberton region of South Africa as a guide to early crustal evolution

  Robb, L. J., Meyer, F. M., Hawkesworth, C. J. & Gardiner, N. J., 19 Apr 2021, In: South African Journal of Geology. 124, 1, p. 111-140 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Using zircon in mafic migmatites to disentangle complex high-grade gneiss terrains – Terrane spotting in the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland

  Fischer, S., Prave, A., Johnson, T., Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C., Horstwood, M. & EIMF, Apr 2021, In: Precambrian Research. 355, 106074.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Carbonated mantle domains at the base of the Earth's transition zone

  Sun, W.-D., Hawkesworth, C. J., Yao, C., Zhang, C.-C., Huang, R.-F., Liu, X., Sun, X.-L., Ireland, T., Song, M.-S., Ling, M.-X., Ding, X., Zhang, Z.-F., Fan, W.-M. & Wu, Z.-Q., 5 Feb 2018, In: Chemical Geology. 478, p. 69-75

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Continental crustal volume, thickness and area, and their geodynamic implications

  Cawood, P. A. & Hawkesworth, C. J., 7 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Gondwana Research. In press

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Geological archive of the onset of plate tectonics

  Cawood, P. A., Hawkesworth, C. J., Pisarevsky, S. A., Dhuime, B., Capitanio, F. A. & Nebel, O., 13 Nov 2018, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 376, 2132, 30 p., 20170405.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Continental growth seen through the sedimentary record

  Dhuime, B., Hawkesworth, C. J., Delavault, H. & Cawood, P. A., 15 Jul 2017, In: Sedimentary Geology. 357, p. 16-32 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Contrasting Cu–Au and Sn–W granite metallogeny through the zircon record

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Whitehouse, M. J., Roberts, N. M. W., Kirkland, C. L. & Evans, N. J., 31 Mar 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Abstract › peer-review

• Open access

  Contrasting granite metallogeny through the zircon record: a case study from Myanmar

  Gardiner, N. J., Hawkesworth, C. J., Robb, L. J., Whitehouse, M. J., Roberts, N. M. W., Kirkland, C. L. & Evans, N. J., 7 Apr 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 9 p., 748.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Earth's continental lithosphere through time

  Hawkesworth, C. J., Cawood, P. A., Dhuime, B. & Kemp, T. I. S., Jun 2017, In: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

 

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