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Department of Earth Sciences

Staff and Postgraduate Students

Professor Robert N. Thompson - all publications

Articles: magazine

Edited works: conference proceedings

  • Greenwood, J.C, Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N, Weska, R.K & Dickin, A.P (1999). Cretaceous kimberlites from the Paranatinga-Batovi region, central Brazil: geochemical evidence for subcratonic lithospheric mantle heterogeneity. Proceedings. 7th Internat. Kimb. Conf.,, Cape Town.

Edited works: contributions

  • Leonardos, O.H., Gibson, S.A. & Thompson, R.N. (1998). First evidence of thick sub-cratonic lithospheric mantle forming a Cretaceous diamond source beneath SE Brazil. In In: The Dynamic Lithosphere: A Felicitation Volume in Honour of W.S. Fyfe. Gupta, A.K & Kerrich, R New Delhi: Allied Publishers. 56-76.

Journal papers: academic

  • Thompson, R.N., Riches, A.J.V., Smith P.M., Pearson, D.G., Nowell, G.M., Ottley, C.J., Dickin, A.P., Hards, V.L., Nguno, A.K. & Niku-Paavola, V. (2007). Origin of CFB magmatism: Multi-tiered intracrustal picrite-rhyolite magmatic plumbing at Spitzkoppe, western Namibia, during early-Cretaceous Etendeka magmatism. Journal of Petrology 48(6): 1119-1154.
  • Gibson, S.A., Thompson, R.N. & Day, J.A. (2006). Timescales and mechanisms of plume–lithosphere interactions: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and geochemistry of alkaline igneous rocks from the Paraná–Etendeka large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 251(1-2): 1-17.
  • Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N, Day, J, Humphris, S.E & Dickin, A.P. (2005). Melt generation processes associated with the Tristan mantle plume: constraints on the origin of EM-1. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 237: 744-767.
  • Thompson, R.N, Ottley, C.J, Smith, P.M, Pearson, D.G, Dickin A.P, Morrison, M.A, Leat, P.T & Gibson, S.A (2005). Source of the quaternary alkalic basalts, picrites and basanites of the Potrillo Volcanic Field, New Mexico, USA: lithosphere or convecting mantle?. Journal of Petrology 46(8): 1603-1643.
  • Johnson, J.S, Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N & Nowell, G.M (2005). Volcanism in the Vitim Field, Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia: Geochemical Evidence for a Mantle Plume Beneath the Baikal Rift Zone. J. Petrol 46: 1309-1344.
  • Thompson, R.N, Smith, P.M, Gibson, S.A, Mattey, D.P & Dickin, A.P. (2002). Ankerite carbonatite from Swartbooisdrif, Namibia: the first evidence for magmatic ferrocarbonatite. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 146(3): 377-395.
  • Thompson, R.N, Gibson, S.A, Dickin, A.P & Smith, P.M (2001). Early Cretaceous Basalt and Picrite Dykes of the Southern Etendeka Region, NW Namibia: Windows into the Role of the Tristan Mantle Plume in Paraná–Etendeka Magmatism. Journal of Petrology 42(11): 2049-2081.
  • Brod, J.A, Gaspar, J.C, de Araújo, D.P, Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N & Junqueira-Brod, T.C. (2001). Phlogopite and tetra-ferriphlogopite from Brazilian carbonatite complexes: petrogenetic constraints and implications for mineral-chemistry systematics. J. Asian Earth Sci., 19: 265-296.
  • Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N & Dickin, A.P (2000). Ferropicrites: geochemical evidence for Fe-rich streaks in. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 174: 355-374.
  • Mahotkin, I.L, Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N & Zhuravlev, D.Z (2000). Kimberlites, olivine lamproites and Mg-rich melilitites from the Arkhangelsk region, N.E Russia: some of the diverse products of a Devonian starting-mantle plume. Journal of Petrology 41: 201-227.
  • Junqueira-Brod, T.C, Brod, J.A, Gibson, S.A & Thompson, R.N (2000). Mineral chemistry of kamafugites and related rocks from the Aguas Emendadas region, Goias State. Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 30: 399-403.
  • Brod, J.A, Gibson, S.A, Thompson, R.N, Junqueira-Brod, T.C, Seer, H.J, Moraes, L.C & Boaventura, G.R (2000). The kamafugite-carbonatite association in the Alto Paranaiba igneous province (APIP) southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 30: 404-408.
  • Hards, V.L, Kempton, P.D, Greenwood, P.B & Thompson, R.N. (2000). The magmatic evolution of the Snaefell volcanic centre; an example of volcanism during incipient rifting in Iceland. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., 99: 97-121.
  • Thompson, R.N & Gibson, S.A. (2000). Transient high temperatures in mantle plume heads inferred from. Nature 407: 502-506.
  • Gibson, S.A., Thompson, R.N., Leonardos, O.H. & Dickin, A.P. (1999). The limited extent of plume-lithosphere interactions during continental flood basalt genesis: geochemical evidence from Cretaceous magmatism in southern Brazil. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol 137: 147-169.
  • Thompson, R.N., Gibson, S.A., Mitchell, J.G & Dickin, A.P. (1998). Migrating Cretaceous-Eocene magmatism in the Serra do Mar alkaline province, SE Brazil: melts from the deflected Trindade mantle plume? J. Petrol 39: 1493-1526.
  • Hamilton, M.A., Pearson DG, Thompson, R.N., Kelley, S.P. & Emeleus, C.H. (1998). Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes. Nature 394: 260-263.
  • Gibson, S.A., Thompson, R.N., Weska, R., Dickin, A.P. & Leonardos, O.H. (1997). Late Cretaceous rift-related upwelling and melting of the Trindade starting mantle plume head beneath western Brazil. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol 126: 303-314.
  • Thompson, R.N., Velde, D., Leat, P.T., Morrison, M.A., Mitchell, J.G., Dickin, A.P. & Gibson, S.A. (1997). Oligocene lamproite containing a new biotite variant, Middle Park, northwest Colorado, USA. Mineralog. Mag., 61: 557-572.
  • Gibson, S.A., Thompson, R.N., Dickin, A.P., Mitchell, J.G. & Milner, S.C. (1997). Temporal variation in magma sources related to the impact of the Tristan mantle plume. Terra Nova 9: 55.
  • Zhang, M., Suddaby, P., Thompson, R.N., Thirlwall, M.F. & Menzies, M.A. (1995). Potassic volcanic rocks in NE China: geochemical constraints on mantle source and magma genesis. J. Petrol 36: 1275-1303.