My scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals
  * Students (co-)supervised by me 

[72] Petersson, A., Waight, T., Whitehouse, M., Kemp, A. & Szilas, K. (2024). An isolated mildly depleted mantle source for the north atlantic craton. Precambrian Research 407, 107399.

[71] Macdonald, J.E., Sugden, P., Dumont, M., Szilas, K., Glorie, S., Burke, A. & Stüeken, E.E. (2024). Evaluating the multiple-sulfur isotope signature of Eoarchean rocks from the Isua Supracrustal Belt (Southwest-Greenland) by MC-ICP-MS: Volcanic nutrient sources for early life. Geobiology 22, e12595.

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[70] Möller, C., Cai, Y., Brueckner, H.K., Szilas, K. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2024). An Iapetus origin for a layered eclogite complex in the northern Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 42, 319-354.

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[69] *Waterton, P., Woodland, S., Pearson, G., Serre, S.H. & Szilas, K. (2024). Probing the 186Os/188Os Precision Barrier: New Recommended Values for the DROsS Reference Material and an Assessment of Mixed 1011 and 1012 Ω Amplifier Arrays. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 48, 109-132.

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[68] *Zhang, L. & Szilas, K. (2024). Eoarchean ultramafic rocks represent crustal cumulates: A case study of the Narssaq ultramafic body, southern West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 625, 118508.

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[67] Xu, Y., Szilas, K., Zhang, L., Zhu, J.-M., Wu, G., Zhang, J., Qin, B., Sun, Y., Pearson, D.G. & Liu, J. (2023). Ni isotopes provide a glimpse of Earth’s pre-late-veneer mantle. Science Advances 9, eadj2170.

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[66] *Eskesen, B.C.F., Fassmer, K., Münker, C., Ulrich, T., Szilas, K., Wagner, S., Hoffmann, E. & Nagel, T.J. (2023). Neoarchean synkinematic metamorphic peak in the Isua supracrustal belt (Western Greenland). Geology 51, 1017-1021.

[65] *Zemeny, A., Kinney, C., Yakymchuk, C., Olierook, H.K.H., Kirkland, C.L.K., Gardiner, N.J. & Szilas, K. (2023). Mesoarchaean peridotite-norite cumulates of SW Greenland – The Miaggoq Ultramafic Complex. Lithos 458-459, 107352.

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[64] Sawada, H., Morishita, T., Vezinet, A., Stern, R., Tani, K., Nishio, I., Takahashi, K., Pearson, D.G. & Szilas, K. (2023). Zircon within chromitite requires revision of the tectonic history of the Eoarchean Itsaq Gneiss Complex, Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 14, 101648.

[63] *Zhang, L., Hyde, W.R., Kirkland, C.L., Han, Y. & Szilas, K. (2023). Geochemical and thermodynamic constraints on Archean comagmatic volcanic and cumulate rocks from southern West Greenland. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 348, 122-139. 

[62] *Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Itano, K., Takamizawa, S., Ichiyama, Y., Arai, S., Barrett, N., Tamura, A. & Szilas, K. (2023). Formation process of ultra-depleted peridotite and its relation to boninitic melt: an example from the Kamuikotan Zone, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 128, e2022JB025066.

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[61] Stüeken, E., Szilas, K. & van Hinsberg, V.J. (2023). Evaluating the biosignature potential of nitrogen concentrations in graphite and associated K-silicates. Chemical Geology 617, 121274.

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[60] *Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V. & Szilas, K. (2023). Pressure-Temperature history of the 1.9 Ga Nagssugtoqidian Orogeny in the Tasiilaq Region, South-East Greenland: Amphibolite facies metamorphism of a Palaeoproterozoic accretionary prism. Lithos 438, 106993.

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[59] Gardiner, N.J., Mulder, J.A., Szilas, K., Nebel, O., Whitehouse, M., Jeon, H. & Cawood, P.A. (2023). A record of Neoarchaean cratonisation from the Storø Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 602, 117922.

[58] Hasenstab-Dübeler, E., Tusch, J., Hoffmann, J.E., Fischer-Gödde, M., Szilas, K. & Münker, C. (2022). Temporal evolution of 142Nd signatures in SW Greenland from high precision MC-ICP-MS measurements. Chemical Geology 614, 121141.

[57] *Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V., Szilas, K. & Poulsen, D.M. (2022). Palaeoproterozoic arc related supracrustal units from the Tasiilaq Region, SE Greenland: Insights into the convergence of the Rae and North Atlantic Cratons. Precambrian Research 379, 106808.

[56] *Nishio, I., Itano, K., Waterton, P., Tamura, A., Szilas, K. & Morishita, T. (2022). Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) of Clinopyroxene from Abyssal Peridotites. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 23, e2022GC010472.

[55] *Nishio I., Morishita, T., Itano, K., Guotana, J.M., Tamura, A., Szilas, K., Harigane, Y., Tani, K. & Pearson, D.G (2022).  Metasomatic modification of the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq ultramafic body, southern West Greenland. Journal of Petrology 63, egac004.

[54] *Waterton, P., Guotana, J.M., Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Tani, K., Woodland, S. & Szilas, K. (2022). No mantle residues in the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 579, 117348.

[53] Guotana, J.M., Morishita, T., Nishio, I., Tamura, A., Mizukami, T., Tani, K., Harigane, Y.,  Szilas, K. & Pearson, D.G. (2022). Deserpentinization and high-pressure (eclogite-facies) metamorphic features in the Eoarchean ultramafic body from Isua, Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 13, 101298.

[52] Yakymchuck, C., van Hinsberg, V., Kirkland, C.L., Szilas, K., Kinney, C., Kendrick, J. & Hollis, J.A. (2021). Corundum (ruby) growth during the final assembly of the Archean North Atlantic Craton, southern West Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews 138, 104417.

[51] Peters, S.T.M., Meike, F.B., Pack, A., Szilas, K., Appel, P.W.U., Münker, C., Luigi, D. & Marien, C. (2021). Tight bounds on missing late veneer in early Archean peridotite from triple O isotopes. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 18, 27-31.

[50] Pearson, D.G., Scott, J.M., Liu, J., Schaeffer, A., Wang, L.H., van Hunen, J., Szilas, K., Chacko, T. & Kelemen, P.B. (2021). Deep continental roots and cratons. Nature 596, 199-210.

[49] Olierook, H.K.H., Kirkland, C.L., Hollis, J.A., Gardiner, N.J., Yakymchuck, C., Szilas, K., Hartnady., M.I.H., Barham, M., McDonald, B.J., Evans, N.J., Steenfelt, A. & Waterton, P. (2021). Regional zircon U-Pb geochronology for the Maniitsoq region, southwest Greenland.  Scientific Data 8, 139.

[48] *Aarestrup, E., McDonald, I., Armitage, P., Nutman, A., Christiansen, O. & Szilas, K. (2021). The Mesoarchean Amikoq Layered Complex of SW Greenland: Part 2. Geochemical evidence for high-Mg noritic plutonism through crustal assimilation. Mineralogical Magazine 85, 673-697.

[47] McIntyre, T., Waterton, P., Vezinet, A., Szilas, K. & Pearson D.G. (2021). Extent and age of Mesoarchean components in the Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland: implications for tectonic environments and crust building in cratonic orogenic belts. Lithos 396, 106182.

[46] Stüeken, E., Boocock, T., Szilas, K., Mikhail, S. & Gardiner, N.J. (2021). Reconstructing nitrogen sources to Earth's earliest biosphere at 3.7 Ga. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 286. 

[45] van Hinsberg, V., Yakymchuk, C., Jepsen, A.T.K., Kirkland, C.L. & Szilas, K. (2021). The corundum conundrum: Constraining the compositions of fluids involved in ruby formation in metamorphic melanges of ultramafic and aluminous rocks. Chemical Geology 571, 120180.

[44] *Han, Y., Waterton, P., Szilas, K., Santosh, M. & Kirkland, C. (2021). Origin of high-Cr stratiform chromitite in the Fangmayu Alaskan-type ultramafic intrusion, North China Craton. Precambrian Research 355, 106096.

[43] Yakymchuk, C., Kirkland, C.L., Cavosie, A.J., Szilas, K., Hollis, J.A., Gardiner, N.J., Waterton, P., Steenfelt, A. & Martin, L. (2021). Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 557, 116730.

[42] Kirkland, C.L., Yakymchuk, C., Olierook, H.K.H., Hartnady, M., Gardiner, N.J., Moyen, J.-F., Smithies, R.H., Szilas, K. & Johnson, T. (2021). Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 554, 116660.

[41] Steenfelt, A., Hollis, J., Kirkland, C.L., Sandrin, A., Gardiner, N.J., Olierook, H.K.H., Szilas, K., Waterton, P. & Yakymchuk, C. (2021). The Mesoarchaean Akia terrane, West Greenland, revisited: New insights based on spatial integration of geophysics, field observation, geochemistry and geochronology. Precambrian Research 352, 105958.

[40] Santosh, M., He, X-F., Waterton, P., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D.G. (2020). Chromitites from an Archean layered intrusion in the Western Dharwar Craton, southern India. Lithos 376, 105772.

[39] *Waterton, P., Hyde, W.R., Tusch, J., Hollis, J.A., Kirkland, C.L., Kinney, C., Yakymchuk, C., Gardiner, N.J., Zakharov, D., Olierook, H.K., Lightfoot, P.C. & Szilas, K. (2020). Geodynamic implications of synchronous norite and TTG formation in the 3 Ga Maniitsoq Norite Belt, West Greenland. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 406. 

[38] *Aarestrup, E., Jørgensen, T.R.C., Armitage, P.E.B., Nutman, A.P., Christiansen, O. & Szilas, K. (2020). The Mesoarchean Amikoq Layered Complex of SW Greenland: Part 1. Constraints on the P-T evolution from igneous, metasomatic and metamorphic amphiboles. Mineralogical Magazine 84, 662-690.

[37] Peters, S.T.M., Szilas, K., Sengupta, S., Kirkland, C.L., Garbe-Schönberg, D. & Pack, A. (2020). >2.7 Ga metamorphic peridotites from southeast Greenland record the oxygen isotope composition of Archean seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 544, 116331.

[36] Olierook, H.K., Kirkland, C.L., Szilas, K., Hollis, J.A., Gardiner, N.J., Steenfelt, A., Jiang, Q., Yakymchuk, C., Evans, N.J. & McDonald, B.J. (2020). Differentiating between inherited and autocrystic zircon in granitoids. Journal of Petrology 61, egaa081. 

[35] Szilas, K., Tusch, J., Herwartz, D. & Fonseca, R.O.C. (2020). Two metamorphic gold mineralization events confirmed by Lu-Hf isotope dating of garnet in the Late Archean Storø Au deposit, Nuuk region of SW Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews 121, 103476.

[34] Yakymchuk, C., Kirkland, C., Hollis, J., Kendrick, J., Gardiner, N. & Szilas, K. (2020). Mesoarchean partial melting of mafic crust and tonalite production during high-T–low-P stagnant tectonism, Akia Terrane, West Greenland. Precambrian Research 339, 105615.

[33] Kirkland, C.L., Yakymchuk, C., Gardiner, N.J., Szilas, K., Hollis, J., Olierook, H. & Steenfelt, A. (2020). Titanite petrochronology linked to phase equilibrium modelling constrains tectono-thermal events in the Akia Terrane, West Greenland. Chemical Geology 536, 119467.

[32] Gardiner, N., Kirkland, C., Hollis, J., Cawood, P., Nebel, O., Szilas, K. & Yakymchuk, C. (2020). North Atlantic Craton architecture revealed by kimberlite-hosted crustal zircons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 534, 116091.

[31] Fischer-Gödde, M., Elfers, B.-M., Münker, C., Szilas, K., Maier, W.D., Messling, N., Morishita, T., van Kranendonk, M. & Smithies, H. (2020). Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth’s pre-late veneer mantle preserved in Archean rocks. Nature 579, 240-244.

[30] *Whyatt, L., Peters, S., Pack, A., Kirkland, C., Balic-Cunic, T. & Szilas, K. (2020). Metasomatic reactions between Archean dunite and trondhjemite at the Seqi Olivine Mine in Greenland. Minerals 10, 85.

[29] McIntyre, T., Pearson, D.G., Szilas, K. & Morishita, T. (2019). Origin of Eoarchean ultramafic rocks of the North Atlantic Craton – A study of the Tussaap Ultramafic Complex, Itsaq Gneiss Complex, southern West Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 96.

[28] *Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Szilas, K., Pearson, D.G., Tani, K.-I., Tamura, A., Harigane, Y. & Guotana, J.M. (2019). Titanian clinohumite-bearing peridotite from the Ulamertoq Ultramafic body in the 3.0 Ga Akia Terrane of southern West Greenland. Geosciences 9, 153.

[27] Gardiner, N., Kirkland, C., Hollis, J., Szilas, K., Steenfelt, A., Yakymchuk, C. & Heide-Jørgensen, H. (2019). Building Mesoarchaean crust upon Eoarchaean roots: The Akia Terrane, West Greenland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 20.

[26] Gardiner, N., Johnson, T.E., Kirkland, C. & Szilas, K. (2019). Modelling the Hafnium–Neodymium Evolution of Early Earth: A Study from West Greenland. Journal of Petrology 60, 177-197.

[25] Kirkland, C.L., Yakymchuk, C., Szilas, K., Evans, N., Hollis, J., McDonald, B. & Gardiner, N. (2018). Apatite; a U-Pb thermochronometer or geochronometer? Lithos 318, 143-147.

[24] van Hinsberg, V., Crotty, C., Roozen, S., Szilas, K. & Kisters, A. (2018). Pressure–Temperature History of the >3 Ga Tartoq Greenstone Belt in Southwest Greenland and Its Implications for Archaean Tectonics. Geosciences 8, 367.

[23] Guotana, J.M., Morishita, T., Yamaguchi, R., Nishio, I., Tamura, A., Tani, K., Harigane, Y., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D.G. (2018). Contrasting Textural and Chemical Signatures of Chromitites in the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Peridotite Body, Southern West Greenland. Geosciences 8, 328.

[22] Szilas, K. (2018). A Geochemical Overview of Mid-Archaean Metavolcanic Rocks from Southwest Greenland. Geosciences 8, 266.

[21] Yakymchuk, C. & Szilas, K. (2018). Corundum formation by metasomatic reactions in Archean metapelite, SW Greenland - Exploration vectors for ruby deposits within high-grade greenstone belts. Geoscience Frontiers 9, 727-749.

[20] Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., McDonald, I., Næraa, T., Rollinson, H., Adetunji, J. & Bird, D. (2018). Highly refractory Archaean peridotite cumulates:  Petrology and geochemistry of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, SW Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 9, 689-714.

[19] Klausen, M.B., Szilas, K., Kokfelt, T.F., Keulen, N., Schumacher, J.C. & Berger, A. (2017). Tholeiitic to calc-alkaline metavolcanic transition in the Archean Nigerlikasik Supracrustal Belt, SW Greenland. Precambrian Research 302, 50-73.

[18] Rollinson, H., Adetunji J., Lenaz, D. & Szilas, K. (2017). Archaean chromitites show constant Fe3+/ΣFe in Earth´s asthenospheric mantle since 3.8 Ga. Lithos 282, 316-325.

[17] Szilas, K., Tusch, J., Hoffmann, J.E., Garde, A.A. & Münker, C. (2017). Hafnium isotope constraints on the origin of Mesoarchaean andesites in southern West Greenland, North Atlantic craton. In: Halla, J., Whitehouse, M.J., Ahmad, T. & Bagai, Z. (Eds.) Crust-Mantle Interactions and Granitoid Diversification: Insights from Archaean Cratons. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 449, 19-38.

[16] Szilas, K., Hoffmann, J.E., Schulz T., Hansmeier, C., Polat, A., Viehmann, S., Kasper, H.U. & Münker, C. (2016). Combined bulk-rock Hf- and Nd-isotope compositions of Mesoarchaean metavolcanic rocks from the Ivisaartoq Supracrustal Belt, SW Greenland: Deviations from the mantle array caused by crustal recycling. Chemie der Erde 76, 543-554.

[15] Szilas, K., Maher, K. & Bird, D. (2016). Aluminous gneiss derived by weathering of basaltic source rocks in the Neoarchean Storø Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland. Chemical Geology 441, 63-80. 

[14] Szilas, K., Kelemen, P.B. & Bernstein, S. (2015). Peridotite enclaves hosted by Mesoarchaean TTG-suite orthogneisses in the Fiskefjord region of southern West Greenland. GeoResJ 7, 22-34.

[13] Szilas, K., Kelemen, P.B. & Rosing, M.T. (2015). The petrogenesis of ultramafic rocks in the >3.7 Ga Isua supracrustal belt, southern West Greenland: Geochemical evidence for two distinct magmatic cumulate trends. Gondwana Research 28, 565-580.

[12] Szilas, K., Hoffmann, J.E., Hansmeier, C., Hollis, J.A., Münker, C., Viehmann, S. & Kasper, H.U. (2015). Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotope and trace-element systematics of Mesoarchaean amphibolites, inner Ameralik fjord, southern West Greenland. Mineralogical Magazine 79, 857-876.

[11] Keulen, N., Schumacher, J.C., Næraa, T., Kokfelt, T.F., Scherstén, A., Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., Schlatter, D.M. & Windley, B.F. (2014). Meso- and Neoarchaean geological history of the Bjørnesund and Ravns Storø Supracrustal Belts, southern West Greenland: settings for gold enrichment and corundum formation. Precambrian Research 254, 36-58.

[10] Szilas, K., van Gool, J.A.M., Scherstén, A. & Frei, R. (2014). The Neoarchaean Storø Supracrustal Belt, Nuuk region, southern West Greenland: An arc-related basin with continent-derived sedimentation. Precambrian Research 247, 208-222.

[9] Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., Creaser, R.A. & Kisters, A.F.M. (2014). The geochemical composition of serpentinites in the Mesoarchaean Tartoq Group, SW Greenland: Harzburgitic cumulates or melt-modified mantle? Lithos 198, 103-116.

[8] Szilas, K., Hoffmann, J.E., Scherstén, A., Kokfelt, T.F. & Münker, C. (2013). Archaean andesite petrogenesis: Insights from the Grædefjord Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland. Precambrian Research 236, 1-15.

[7] Szilas, K. & Garde, A.A. (2013). Mesoarchaean aluminous rocks at Storø, southern West Greenland: New age data and evidence of premetamorphic seafloor weathering of basalts. Chemical Geology 354, 124-138.

[6] Bernstein, S., Szilas, K. & Kelemen, P.B. (2013). Highly depleted cratonic mantle in West Greenland extending into diamond stability field in the Proterozoic. Lithos 168, 160-172.

[5] Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., Kisters, A.F.M., J. Hoffmann, E., Windley, B.F., Kokfelt, T.F., Scherstén, A., Frei, R., Rosing, M.T. & Münker, C. (2013). Remnants of arc-related Mesoarchaean oceanic crust in the Tartoq Group, SW Greenland. Gondwana Research 23, 436-451.

[4] Kisters, A.F.M., van Hinsberg, V.J. & Szilas, K. (2012). Geology of an Archaean accretionary complex - The structural record of burial and return flow in the Tartoq Group of South West Greenland. Precambrian Research 220, 107-122.

[3] Szilas, K., Næraa, T., Scherstén, A., Stendal, H., Frei, R., van Hinsberg, V.J., Kokfelt, T.F. & Rosing, M.T. (2012). Origin of Mesoarchaean arc related rocks with boninite/komatiite affinities from southern West Greenland. Lithos 144, 24-39.

[2] Szilas, K., Hoffmann, J.E., Scherstén, A., Rosing, M.T., Kokfelt, T.F., Windley, B.F., van Hinsberg, V.J., Næraa, T., Keulen, N., Frei, R. & Münker, C. (2012). Complex calc-alkaline volcanism recorded in Mesoarchaean supracrustal belts north of Frederikshåb Isblink, southern West Greenland: Implications for subduction zone processes in the early Earth. Precambrian Research 208, 90-123.

[1] Scherstén, A., Szilas, K., Creaser, R.A., van Gool, J.A.M., Næraa, T. & Østergaard, C. (2012). Re-Os and U-Pb constraints on gold mineralisation events in the Meso- to Neoarchaean Storø greenstone belt, Storø, southern West Greenland. Precambrian Research 200, 149-162.

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