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Hugh Rollinson is affiliated with the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. Their research activity spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as Computer Science. Within these disciplines, their work notably intersects subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of geological and geochemical analysis areas, including geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Rollinson has published extensively, with several notable recent papers demonstrating a focus on Precambrian geology and Archaean rock formations. Some recent publications include:

  • "Do all Archaean TTG rock compositions represent former melts?" (2021, Precambrian Research)
  • "Using Geochemical Data" (2021, Cambridge University Press eBooks)
  • "No plate tectonics necessary to explain Eoarchean rocks at Isua (Greenland)" (2021, Geology)
  • "The late Archaean granite paradox: A case study from the Zimbabwe Craton" (2024, Precambrian Research)
  • "The growth of the Zimbabwe craton during the Neoarchaean" (2022, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology)

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Lithos
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Geology

Rollinson collaborates with several co-authors, with the most frequent collaborators being Victoria Pease, Godfrey Chagondah, and Axel Hofmann, among others.

  • Victoria Pease
  • Godfrey Chagondah
  • Axel Hofmann
  • Jan D. Kramers
  • Jacob Adetunji

Best Publications

  • Using Geochemical Data : Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation

    Hugh R. Rollinson

  • Using Geochemical Data

    Hugh Rollinson;Victoria Pease

  • The geochemistry of mantle chromitites from the northern part of the Oman ophiolite: inferred parental melt compositions

    Hugh Rollinson

  • New models for the genesis of plagiogranites in the Oman ophiolite

    Hugh Rollinson

  • Early Earth Systems: A Geochemical Approach

    Hugh Richard Rollinson

  • The Triangle Shearzone, Zimbabwe, revisited: new data document an important event at 2.0 Ga in the Limpopo Belt

    B.S. Kamber;Jan Dirk Kramers;R. Napier;R.A. Cliff

  • The Archaean sanukitoid series of the Baltic Shield: geological setting, geochemical characteristics and implications for their origin

    S.B. Lobach-Zhuchenko;H.R. Rollinson;V.P. Chekulaev;N.A. Arestova

  • Selective Elemental Depletion During Metamorphism of Archaean Granulites, Scourie, NW Scotland

    Hugh R. Rollinson;Brian F. Windley

  • Eclogite xenoliths in west African kimberlites as residues from Archaean granitoid crust formation

    Hugh Rollinson

  • Petrology of a Late Archaean, Highly Potassic, Sanukitoid Pluton from the Baltic Shield: Insights into Late Archaean Mantle Metasomatism

    S. B. Lobach-Zhuchenko;H. Rollinson;V. P. Chekulaev;V. M. Savatenkov

  • A terrane interpretation of the Archaean Limpopo Belt

    H. R. Rollinson

  • Chromite in the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: A new genetic model

    Hugh Rollinson

  • Phanerozoic sanukitoids from Caledonian Scotland: Implications for Archean subduction

    Mike Fowler;Hugh Rollinson

  • Contrasting high and intermediate pressures of metamorphism in the Archaean Sargur Schists of southern India

    H. R. Rollinson;B. F. Windley;M. Ramakrishnan

  • Mantle podiform chromitites do not form beneath mid-ocean ridges: A case study from the Moho transition zone of the Oman ophiolite

    Hugh Rollinson;Jacob Adetunji

  • The magmatic, metamorphic and tectonic evolution of the Northern Marginal Zone of the Limpopo Belt in Zimbabwe

    H. Rollinson;Thomas G. Blenkinsop

  • Using Geochemical Data: To Understand Geological Processes

    Hugh Rollinson;Victoria Pease

  • The geochemistry and oxidation state of podiform chromitites from the mantle section of the Oman ophiolite: A review

    Hugh Rollinson;Jacob Adetunji

  • Evidence for melting mud in Earth's mantle from extreme oxygen isotope signatures in zircon

    Christopher J. Spencer;Aaron J. Cavosie;Aaron J. Cavosie;Timothy D. Raub;Hugh Rollinson

  • An archaean granulite-grade tonalite-trondhjemite-granite suite from scourie, NW Scotland: Geochemistry and origin

    Hugh R. Rollinson;Brian F. Windley

  • Secular evolution of the continental crust: Implications for crust evolution models

    Hugh Rollinson

  • Adakites—the key to understanding LILE depletion in granulites

    Hugh R. Rollinson;John Tarney

  • Archaean crustal evolution

    Hugh Rollinson;Martin Whitehouse

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Pease
Victoria Pease Stockholm University
Michael P. Searle
Michael P. Searle University of Oxford
Aaron J. Cavosie
Aaron J. Cavosie Curtin University
Brian F. Windley
Brian F. Windley University of Leicester
Timothy D. Raub
Timothy D. Raub University of St Andrews
Noreen J. Evans
Noreen J. Evans Curtin University
Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
David Lowry
David Lowry Royal Holloway University of London
Elena Belousova
Elena Belousova Macquarie University
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History

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