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Hilary Downes is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Geophysics and related subfields.

Their body of work encompasses topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Recent publications by Hilary Downes include the following:

  • Aillikites and Alkali Ultramafic Lamprophyres of the Beloziminsky Alkaline Ultrabasic-Carbonatite Massif: Possible Origin and Relations with Ore Deposits, 2020, Minerals
  • Mush remobilisation and mafic recharge: A study of the crystal cargo of the 2013-17 eruption at Volcán de Colima, Mexico, 2021, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Ureilite meteorites provide a new model of early planetesimal formation and destruction, 2020, Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • Deep mantle roots of the Zarnitsa kimberlite pipe, Siberian craton, Russia: Evidence for multistage polybaric interaction with mantle melts, 2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • The age of the lower crust of the central part of the Columbia supercontinent: A review of zircon data, 2021, Gondwana Research

Hilary Downes frequently publishes in several scientific journals, most notably:

  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Minerals
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Geosystems and Geoenvironment
  • International Geology Review

The scientist collaborates with multiple coauthors, including Igor Ashchepkov, N.S. Medvedev, Theodoros Ntaflos, Nikolay V. Vladykin, and A. M. Logvinova. These collaborations have contributed to a varied set of publications and research areas within their field.

Best Publications

  • Tertiary—Quaternary Extension-Related Alkaline Magmatism in Western and Central Europe

    Marjorie Wilson;Hilary Downes

  • Neogene–Quaternary magmatism and geodynamics in the Carpathian–Pannonian region: a synthesis

    Ioan Seghedi;Hilary Downes;Alexandru Szakács;Paul R.D. Mason

  • Formation and Modification of the Shallow Sub-continental Lithospheric Mantle: a Review of Geochemical Evidence from Ultramafic Xenolith Suites and Tectonically Emplaced Ultramafic Massifs of Western and Central Europe

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  • U–Pb zircon ages from a Devonian carbonatite dyke, Kola peninsula, Russia: a record of geological evolution from the Archaean to the Palaeozoic

    S Claesson;V Vetrin;T Bayanova;H Downes

  • Hf–Nd isotopic evolution of the lower crust

    Jeff D. Vervoort;P.Jonathan Patchett;Francis Albarède;Janne Blichert-Toft

  • Almandine garnet in calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the northern Pannonian Basin (eastern-central Europe): Geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications

    Sz Harangi;H. Downes;L. Kósa;C. S. Szabó

  • The Petrogenesis of Pliocene Alkaline Volcanic Rocks from the Pannonian Basin, Eastern Central Europe

    A. Embey-Isztin;H. Downes;D. E. James;B. G. J. Upton

  • Petrogenetic processes in the ultramafic, alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Kola Alkaline Province: A review

    Hilary Downes;Elena Balaganskaya;Andrew Beard;Ruslan Liferovich

  • Origin and significance of spinel and garnet pyroxenites in the shallow lithospheric mantle: Ultramafic massifs in orogenic belts in Western Europe and NW Africa

    Hilary Downes

  • Tertiary Ultrapotassic Volcanism in Serbia: Constraints on Petrogenesis and Mantle Source Characteristics

    D. Prelević;D. Prelević;S. F. Foley;R. L. Romer;V. Cvetković

  • Ultramafic xenoliths in plio-pleistocene alkali basalts from the eastern transylvanian basin: Depleted mantle enriched by vein metasomatism

    O. Vaselli;H. Downes;M. Thirlwall;G. Dobosi

  • Textural, isotopic and REE variations in spinel peridotite xenoliths, Massif Central, France

    Hilary Downes;Claude Dupuy

  • Tertiary-Quaternary intra-plate magmatism in Europe and its relationship to mantle dynamics

    Marjorie Wilson;Hilary Downes

  • Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from the western Pannonian Basin (Hungary): evidence for an association between enrichment and texture in the upper mantle

    H. Downes;A. Embey-Isztin;M. F. Thirlwall

  • Geochemistry and tectonic development of Cenozoic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region

    Ioan Seghedi;Hilary Downes

  • Nature and Composition of the Lower Continental Crust in Central Spain and the Granulite–Granite Linkage: Inferences from Granulitic Xenoliths

    C. Villaseca;H. Downes;C. Pin;L. Barbero

  • Post-collisional Tertiary–Quaternary mafic alkalic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region: a review

    Ioan Seghedi;Hilary Downes;Orlando Vaselli;Alexandru Szakács

  • Contrasting fractionation trends in coexisting continental alkaline magma series; Cantal, Massif Central, France

    Marjorie Wilson;Hilary Downes;Jose-Maria Cebriá

  • Crustal Assimilation as a Major Petrogenetic Process in the East Carpathian Neogene and Quaternary Continental Margin Arc, Romania

    Paul R. D. Mason;Hilary Downes;Matthew F. Thirlwall;Ioan Seghedi

  • The nature of the lower continental crust of Europe: petrological and geochemical evidence from xenoliths

    H. Downes

  • Crustal evolution of the Hercynian belt of Western Europe: Evidence from lower-crustal granulitic xenoliths (French Massif Central)

    H. Downes;C. Dupuy;A.F. Leyreloup

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew F. Thirlwall
Matthew F. Thirlwall Royal Holloway University of London
Ioan Seghedi
Ioan Seghedi Romanian Academy
Paul R.D. Mason
Paul R.D. Mason Utrecht University
Orlando Vaselli
Orlando Vaselli University of Florence
Dejan Prelević
Dejan Prelević University of Belgrade
Zoltán Pécskay
Zoltán Pécskay Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Theodoros Ntaflos
Theodoros Ntaflos University of Vienna
Adrian P. Jones
Adrian P. Jones University College London
Brian G. J. Upton
Brian G. J. Upton University of Edinburgh
Pamela D. Kempton
Pamela D. Kempton Kansas State University

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