List of works - Robert H. Smithies

An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

Buried but preserved: The Proterozoic Arubiddy Ophiolite, Madura Province, Western Australia

article

Chapter 4.1 Paleoarchean Development of a Continental Nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

article

Chapter 4.2 The Oldest Well-Preserved Felsic Volcanic Rocks on Earth: Geochemical Clues to the Early Evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and Implications for the Growth of a Paleoarchean Protocontinent

article by Robert H. Smithies et al published 2007 in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Tectonics, Global Change And Evolution: A Focus On South Western Gondwana

Chapter 4.3 Geochemistry of Paleoarchean Granites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Implications for Early Archean Crustal Growth

article

Constraints and deception in the isotopic record; the crustal evolution of the west Musgrave Province, central Australia

article

Corrigendum to “The burning heart — The Proterozoic geology and geological evolution of the west Musgrave Region, central Australia” [Gondwana Res., Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 64–94]

article

Corrigendum: Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Devil in the detail; The 1150–1000Ma magmatic and structural evolution of the Ngaanyatjarra Rift, west Musgrave Province, Central Australia

article

Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?

scholarly article

Early Paleozoic felsic magmatic evolution of the western Central Qilian belt, Northwestern China, and constraints on convergent margin processes

article published in 2017

Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Ediacaran intracontinental channel flow

scholarly article

Evidence for Early LREE-enriched Mantle Source Regions: Diverse Magmas from the c. 3.0 Ga Mallina Basin, Pilbara Craton, NW Australia

article

Evidence for Mesoarchean (∼3.2Ga) rifting of the Pilbara Craton: The missing link in an early Precambrian Wilson cycle

article

Foreign contemporaries – Unravelling disparate isotopic signatures from Mesoproterozoic Central and Western Australia

article

Formation of Earth’s early Archaean continental crust

article published in 2003

Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

Grain size matters: Implications for element and isotopic mobility in titanite

article

High-Temperature Granite Magmatism, Crust–Mantle Interaction and the Mesoproterozoic Intracontinental Evolution of the Musgrave Province, Central Australia

article

Incremental pluton emplacement during inclined transpression

scholarly article by I. Zibra et al published June 2014 in Tectonophysics

Isotopic insight into the Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Rudall Province, Western Australia

article

It started with a plume – early Archaean basaltic proto-continental crust

scholarly article

Late Archaean felsic alkaline igneous rocks in the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a result of lower crustal delamination?

article

Magmatism-dominated intracontinental rifting in the Mesoproterozoic: The Ngaanyatjarra Rift, central Australia

scientific article published in November 2013

Making it thick: a volcanic plateau origin of Palaeoarchean continental lithosphere of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons

scholarly article by Martin J. Van Kranendonk et al published 3 September 2014 in Geological Society Special Publication

Melting controls on the lutetium–hafnium evolution of Archaean crust

scholarly article by Nicholas J. Gardiner et al published February 2018 in Precambrian Research

Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchaean: Geochemical evidence from the 3.12 Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc

scientific article

No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth's crust in the Archean

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Not-so-suspect terrane: Constraints on the crustal evolution of the Rudall Province

scholarly article

On the edge: U–Pb, Lu–Hf, and Sm–Nd data suggests reworking of the Yilgarn craton margin during formation of the Albany-Fraser Orogen

scholarly article

Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust

scientific article

Petrogenesis and Ni–Cu sulphide potential of mafic–ultramafic rocks in the Mesoproterozoic Fraser Zone within the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

article

Petrogenesis of the A-type, Mesoproterozoic Intra-caldera Rheomorphic Kathleen Ignimbrite and Comagmatic Rowland Suite Intrusions, West Musgrave Province, Central Australia: Products of Extreme Fractional Crystallization in a Failed Rift Setting

article

Piggy-back Supervolcanoes—Long-Lived, Voluminous, Juvenile Rhyolite Volcanism in Mesoproterozoic Central Australia

article

Progressive mixing of meteoritic veneer into the early Earth’s deep mantle

scientific article published in Nature

Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Eucla basement, Australia: Implications for destruction of oceanic crust during emergence of Nuna

scientific article published in May 2017

P–T–t evolution of a large, long-lived, ultrahigh-temperature Grenvillian belt in central Australia

article

Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia

article

Secular change in TTG compositions: Implications for the evolution of Archaean geodynamics

article

Syn-volcanic cannibalisation of juvenile felsic crust: Superimposed giant 18O-depleted rhyolite systems in the hot and thinned crust of Mesoproterozoic central Australia

article

The Archaean High-Mg Diorite Suite: Links to Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite Magmatism and Implications for Early Archaean Crustal Growth

The Mesoarchean emergence of modern-style subduction

scientific article published in 2007

The Mesoproterozoic thermal evolution of the Musgrave Province in central Australia — Plume vs. the geological record

article

The affinity of Archean crust on the Yilgarn—Albany–Fraser Orogen boundary: Implications for gold mineralisation in the Tropicana Zone

article

The anatomy of a deep intracontinental orogen

scientific article published in 2010

The burning heart — The Proterozoic geology and geological evolution of the west Musgrave Region, central Australia

article

The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting

scholarly article by J.-F. Moyen et al published October 2010 in Geological Society of America Special Papers

The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting

scholarly article by J.-F. Moyen et al published March 2009 in Royal Society of Edinburgh. Transactions. Earth and Environmental Science

Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition

scientific article

Titanite dates crystallization: Slow Pb diffusion during super‐solidus re‐equilibration

scholarly article

Transformation of an Archean craton margin during Proterozoic basin formation and magmatism: The Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

article

Tropicana translated: a foreland thrust system imbricate fan setting forc.2520 Ma orogenic gold mineralization at the northern margin of the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

scholarly article

Two distinct origins for Archean greenstone belts

scientific article published in April 2018

When will it end? Long-lived intracontinental reactivation in central Australia

article

Zircon Th/U ratios in magmatic environs

scholarly article

List of works by Robert H. Smithies

An overview of adakite, tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG), and sanukitoid: relationships and some implications for crustal evolution

Buried but preserved: The Proterozoic Arubiddy Ophiolite, Madura Province, Western Australia

Chapter 4.1 Paleoarchean Development of a Continental Nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

Chapter 4.2 The Oldest Well-Preserved Felsic Volcanic Rocks on Earth: Geochemical Clues to the Early Evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and Implications for the Growth of a Paleoarchean Protocontinent

Chapter 4.3 Geochemistry of Paleoarchean Granites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Implications for Early Archean Crustal Growth

Constraints and deception in the isotopic record; the crustal evolution of the west Musgrave Province, central Australia

Corrigendum to “The burning heart — The Proterozoic geology and geological evolution of the west Musgrave Region, central Australia” [Gondwana Res., Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 64–94]

Corrigendum: Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction

Devil in the detail; The 1150–1000Ma magmatic and structural evolution of the Ngaanyatjarra Rift, west Musgrave Province, Central Australia

Did transit through the galactic spiral arms seed crust production on the early Earth?

Early Paleozoic felsic magmatic evolution of the western Central Qilian belt, Northwestern China, and constraints on convergent margin processes

Earth's first stable continents did not form by subduction.

Ediacaran intracontinental channel flow

Evidence for Early LREE-enriched Mantle Source Regions: Diverse Magmas from the c. 3.0 Ga Mallina Basin, Pilbara Craton, NW Australia

Evidence for Mesoarchean (∼3.2Ga) rifting of the Pilbara Craton: The missing link in an early Precambrian Wilson cycle

Foreign contemporaries – Unravelling disparate isotopic signatures from Mesoproterozoic Central and Western Australia

Formation of Earth’s early Archaean continental crust

Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt

Grain size matters: Implications for element and isotopic mobility in titanite

High-Temperature Granite Magmatism, Crust–Mantle Interaction and the Mesoproterozoic Intracontinental Evolution of the Musgrave Province, Central Australia

Incremental pluton emplacement during inclined transpression

Isotopic insight into the Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Rudall Province, Western Australia

It started with a plume – early Archaean basaltic proto-continental crust

Late Archaean felsic alkaline igneous rocks in the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a result of lower crustal delamination?

Magmatism-dominated intracontinental rifting in the Mesoproterozoic: The Ngaanyatjarra Rift, central Australia

Making it thick: a volcanic plateau origin of Palaeoarchean continental lithosphere of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons

Melting controls on the lutetium–hafnium evolution of Archaean crust

Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchaean: Geochemical evidence from the 3.12 Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc

No evidence for high-pressure melting of Earth's crust in the Archean

Not-so-suspect terrane: Constraints on the crustal evolution of the Rudall Province

On the edge: U–Pb, Lu–Hf, and Sm–Nd data suggests reworking of the Yilgarn craton margin during formation of the Albany-Fraser Orogen

Oxygen isotopes trace the origins of Earth’s earliest continental crust

Petrogenesis and Ni–Cu sulphide potential of mafic–ultramafic rocks in the Mesoproterozoic Fraser Zone within the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

Petrogenesis of the A-type, Mesoproterozoic Intra-caldera Rheomorphic Kathleen Ignimbrite and Comagmatic Rowland Suite Intrusions, West Musgrave Province, Central Australia: Products of Extreme Fractional Crystallization in a Failed Rift Setting

Piggy-back Supervolcanoes—Long-Lived, Voluminous, Juvenile Rhyolite Volcanism in Mesoproterozoic Central Australia

Progressive mixing of meteoritic veneer into the early Earth’s deep mantle

Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Eucla basement, Australia: Implications for destruction of oceanic crust during emergence of Nuna

P–T–t evolution of a large, long-lived, ultrahigh-temperature Grenvillian belt in central Australia

Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia

Secular change in TTG compositions: Implications for the evolution of Archaean geodynamics

Syn-volcanic cannibalisation of juvenile felsic crust: Superimposed giant 18O-depleted rhyolite systems in the hot and thinned crust of Mesoproterozoic central Australia

The Archaean High-Mg Diorite Suite: Links to Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite Magmatism and Implications for Early Archaean Crustal Growth

The Mesoarchean emergence of modern-style subduction

The Mesoproterozoic thermal evolution of the Musgrave Province in central Australia — Plume vs. the geological record

The affinity of Archean crust on the Yilgarn—Albany–Fraser Orogen boundary: Implications for gold mineralisation in the Tropicana Zone

The anatomy of a deep intracontinental orogen

The burning heart — The Proterozoic geology and geological evolution of the west Musgrave Region, central Australia

The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting

The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting

Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition

Titanite dates crystallization: Slow Pb diffusion during super‐solidus re‐equilibration

Transformation of an Archean craton margin during Proterozoic basin formation and magmatism: The Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

Tropicana translated: a foreland thrust system imbricate fan setting forc.2520 Ma orogenic gold mineralization at the northern margin of the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

Two distinct origins for Archean greenstone belts

When will it end? Long-lived intracontinental reactivation in central Australia

Zircon Th/U ratios in magmatic environs