Kristoffer Szilas

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• 2025

  A Rare Glimpse of Paleoproterozoic Sub‐Arc Mantle: The Ussuit Peridotite, West Greenland

  McIntyre, T., Waterton, P., Li, L., Gong, B., Zha, X., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D. G., 2025, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 26, 3, 27 p., e2024GC011928.

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• Komatiitic parental magmas of the Archean Ujaragssuit Nunât ultramafic body, SW Greenland, identified from spinel chemistry

  Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Waterton, P., Tamura, A., Itano, K., Serre, S. H., Plesner, J. L., Takahashi, K., Tani, K., Harigane, Y., Sawada, H. & Szilas, K., 2025, In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 180, 20 p., 20.

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• Paleoproterozoic Mississippi Valley-type mineralization at Black Angel, Greenland: evidence from sulfide δ⁶⁶Zn and rhenium-osmium geochronology

  Saintilan, N. J., Archer, C., Szilas, K., Geertsen, K. K., Rosa, D. & Spangenberg, J. E., 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mineralium Deposita.

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• Petrogenesis of Ni-sulfide mineralisation in the ca. 3.0 Ga Maniitsoq intrusive belt, western Greenland

  Maier, W. D., Muir, D. D., Barnes, S. J. & Szilas, K., 2025, In: Mineralium Deposita. 60, p. 479–501

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• Petrologic and Thermodynamic Constraints on the Petrogenesis of the Fiskenæsset Anorthosite Complex, SW Greenland: An Anhydrous Model for Archean Anorthosites

  Linnebjerg, B., Christiansen, A., Maier, W. D. & Szilas, K., 2025, In: Journal of Petrology. 66, 4, 26 p., egaf027.

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• Primordial neon and the deep mantle origin of kimberlites

  Giuliani, A., Kurz, M. D., Barry, P. H., Curtice, J. M., Stuart, F. M., Oesch, S., Charbonnier, Q., Peters, B. J., Koornneef, J. M., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D. G., 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 13 p., 3281.

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• 2024

  Age and petrogenesis of Archaean chromitite from the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, southern West Greenland

  Wang, J., Cai, P., Yang, J., Szilas, K., Lian, D., Luo, Z. & Xiong, F., 2024, In: Lithos. 482-483, 15 p., 107714.

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• An Iapetus origin for a layered eclogite complex in the northern Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides

  Möller, C., Cai, Y., Brueckner, H. K., Szilas, K. & Whitehouse, M. J., 2024, In: Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 42, 3, p. 319-354

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• An isolated mildly depleted mantle source for the north atlantic craton

  Petersson, A., Waight, T., Whitehouse, M., Kemp, A. & Szilas, K., 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 407, 21 p., 107399.

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• Chondritic osmium isotope composition of early Earth mantle

  Waterton, P., Serre, S. H., Pearson, G., Woodland, S., DuFrane, S. A., Morishita, T. & Szilas, K., 2024, In: Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 31, p. 1-6 6 p.

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• Eoarchean granulite-facies metamorphism in the Itsaq Gneiss Complex, southwest Greenland

  Alfing, J., Johnson, T. E., Kaempf, J., Brown, M., Szilas, K., Rankenburg, K. & Clark, C., 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 646, 10 p., 118977.

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• Eoarchean ultramafic rocks represent crustal cumulates: A case study of the Narssaq ultramafic body, southern West Greenland

  Zhang, L. & Szilas, K., 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 625, 13 p., 118508.

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• 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

  Macdonald, J. E., Sugden, P., Dumont, M., Szilas, K., Glorie, S., Simpson, A., Gilbert, S., Burke, A. & Stüeken, E. E., 2024, In: Geobiology. 22, 2, 22 p., e12595.

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• Identification of Earth's late accretion by large impactors through mass independent Cr isotopes

  Kadlag, Y., Anand, A., Fischer-Gödde, M., Mezger, K., Szilas, K., Goderis, S. & Leya, I., 2024, In: Icarus. 418, 9 p., 116143.

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• Laser ablation (in situ) Lu-Hf geochronology of epidote group minerals

  Yu, J., Glorie, S., Hand, M., Simpson, A., Gilbert, S., Szilas, K., Roberts, N., Pawley, M. & Cheng, Y., 2024, In: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 179, 26 p., 62.

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• 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

  Waterton, P., Woodland, S., Pearson, G., Serre, S. H. & Szilas, K., 2024, In: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 48, 1, p. 109-132 24 p.

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• Selective metasomatism of ultramafic cumulates within Archean supracrustal sequences

  Zhang, L., Basak, S., Zakharov, D. & Szilas, K., 2024, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 15, 5, 17 p., 101851.

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• 2023

  A record of Neoarchaean cratonisation from the Storø Supracrustal Belt, West Greenland

  Gardiner, N. J., Mulder, J. A., Szilas, K., Nebel, O., Whitehouse, M., Jeon, H. & Cawood, P. A., 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 602, 10 p., 117922.

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• Evaluating the biosignature potential of nitrogen concentrations in graphite and associated K-silicates

  Stüeken, E. E., Szilas, K. & van Hinsberg, V. J., 2023, In: Chemical Geology. 617, 13 p., 121274.

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• Formation of ultra‐depleted mantle peridotites and their relationship with boninitic melts: An example from the Kamuikotan Unit, Hokkaido, Japan

  Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Tamura, A., Itano, K., Takamizawa, S., Ichiyama, Y., Arai, S., Barrett, N. & Szilas, K., 2023, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 128, 2, 18 p., e2022JB025066.

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• Geochemical and thermodynamic constraints on Archean comagmatic volcanic and cumulate rocks from southern West Greenland

  Zhang, L., Hyde, W. R., Kirkland, C. L., Han, Y. & Szilas, K., 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 348, p. 122-139

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• Mesoarchaean peridotite-norite cumulates of SW Greenland – The Miaggoq ultramafic complex

  Zemeny, A., Kinney, C., Yakymchuk, C., Olierook, H. K. H., Kirkland, C. L., Gardiner, N. & Szilas, K., 2023, In: Lithos. 458-459, 19 p., 107352.

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• Neoarchean synkinematic metamorphic peak in the Isua supracrustal belt (West Greenland)

  Eskesen, B., Fassmer, K., Münker, C., Ulrich, T., Szilas, K., Wagner, S., Hoffmann, J. E. & Nagel, T. J., 2023, In: Geology. 51, 11, p. 1017-1021

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• Ni isotopes provide a glimpse of Earth's pre-late-veneer mantle

  Xu, Y., Szilas, K., Zhang, L., Zhu, J. M., Wu, G., Zhang, J., Qin, B., Sun, Y., Pearson, D. G. & Liu, J., 2023, In: Science Advances. 9, 50, 13 p., eadj2170.

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• 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

  Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V. & Szilas, K., 2023, In: Lithos. 438-439, 18 p., 106993.

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• Zircon within chromitite requires revision of the tectonic history of the Eoarchean Itsaq Gneiss complex, Greenland

  Sawada, H., Morishita, T., Vezinet, A., Stern, R., Tani, K., Nishio, I., Takahashi, K., Graham Pearson, D. & Szilas, K., 2023, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 14, 6, 13 p., 101648.

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• 2022

  Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA) of Clinopyroxene from Abyssal Peridotites

  Nishio, I., Itano, K., Waterton, P., Tamura, A., Szilas, K. & Morishita, T., 2022, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 23, 8, 19 p., e2022GC010472.

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• Metasomatic Modification of the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Ultramafic Body, Southern West Greenland

  Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Itano, K., Guotana, J. M., Tamura, A., Szilas, K., Harigane, Y., Tani, K. & Graham Pearson, D., 2022, In: Journal of Petrology. 63, 3, 24 p., egac004.

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• No mantle residues in the Isua Supracrustal Belt

  Waterton, P., Guotana, J. M., Nishio, I., Morishita, T., Tani, K., Woodland, S., Legros, H., Pearson, D. G. & Szilas, K., 1 Feb 2022, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 579, 11 p., 117348.

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• Palaeoproterozoic arc related supracrustal units from the Tasiilaq Region, SE Greenland: Insights into the convergence of the Rae and North Atlantic Cratons

  Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V., Szilas, K. & Poulsen, M. D., 2022, In: Precambrian Research. 379, 22 p., 106808.

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• Temporal evolution of ¹⁴²Nd signatures in SW Greenland from high precision MC-ICP-MS measurements

  Hasenstab-Dübeler, E., Tusch, J., Hoffmann, J. E., Fischer-Gödde, M., Szilas, K. & Münker, C., 2022, In: Chemical Geology. 614, 20 p., 121141.

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• 2021

  Corundum (ruby) growth during the final assembly of the Archean North Atlantic Craton, southern West Greenland

  Yakymchuk, C., van Hinsberg, V., Kirkland, C. L., Szilas, K., Kinney, C., Kendrick, J. & Hollis, J. A., Nov 2021, In: Ore Geology Reviews. 138, 18 p., 104417.

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• Deserpentinization and high-pressure (eclogite-facies) metamorphic features in the Eoarchean ultramafic body from Isua, Greenland

  Guotana, J. M., Morishita, T., Nishio, I., Tamura, A., Mizukami, T., Tani, K., Harigane, Y., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D. G., 2021, In: Geoscience Frontiers. 13, 1, 13 p., 101298.

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• Extent and age of Mesoarchean components in the Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland: Implications for tectonic environments and crust building in cratonic orogenic belts

  McIntyre, T., Waterton, P., Vezinet, A., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D. G., 8 May 2021, In: Lithos. 396-397, p. 1 - 15 15 p., 106182.

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• Origin of high-Cr stratiform chromitite in the Fangmayu Alaskan-type ultramafic intrusion, North China Craton

  Han, Y.-S., Waterton, P., Szilas, K., Santosh, M. & Kirkland, C. L., Apr 2021, In: Precambrian Research. 355, 106096.

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• Reconstructing nitrogen sources to Earth's earliest biosphere at 3.7 Ga

  Stüeken, E., Boocock, T., Szilas, K., Mikhail, S. & Gardiner, N. J., 2021, In: Frontiers in Earth Science. 9, 14 p., 675726.

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• Regional zircon U-Pb geochronology for the Maniitsoq region, southwest Greenland

  Olierook, H. K. H., Kirkland, C. L., Hollis, J. A., Gardiner, N. J., Yakymchuk, C., Szilas, K., Hartnady, M. I. H., Barham, M., McDonald, B. J., Evans, N. J., Steenfelt, A. & Waterton, P., 25 May 2021, In: Scientific Data. 8, 1, 9 p.

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• Stirred not shaken; critical evaluation of a proposed Archean meteorite impact in West Greenland

  Yakymchuk, C., Kirkland, C. L., Cavosie, A. J., Szilas, K., Hollis, J., Gardiner, N. J., Waterton, P., Steenfelt, A. & Martin, L., Mar 2021, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 557, 9 p., 116730.

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• The corundum conundrum: Constraining the compositions of fluids involved in ruby formation in metamorphic melanges of ultramafic and aluminous rocks

  van Hinsberg, V., Yakymchuk, C., Jepsen, A. T. K., Kirkland, C. L. & Szilas, K., 2021, In: Chemical Geology. 571, 1 p., 120180.

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• The Mesoarchaean Akia terrane, West Greenland, revisited: New insights based on spatial integration of geophysics, field observation, geochemistry and geochronology

  Steenfelt, A., Hollis, J., Kirkland, C. L., Sandrin, A., Gardiner, N. J., Olierook, H. K. H., Szilas, K., Waterton, P. & Yakymchuk, C., 2021, In: Precambrian Research. 352, p. 1 - 29 29 p., 105958.

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• The Mesoarchean Amikoq Layered Complex of SW Greenland: Part 2. Geochemical evidence for high-Mg noritic plutonism through crustal assimilation

  Aarestrup, E., McDonald, I., Armitage, P. E. B., Nutman, A. P., Christiansen, O. & Szilas, K., 2021, In: Mineralogical Magazine. 85, 5, p. 673-697 25 p.

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• Theoretical versus empirical secular change in zircon composition

  Kirkland, C. L., Yakymchuk, C., Olierook, H. K. H., Hartnady, M. I. H., Gardiner, N. J., Moyen, J. F., Hugh Smithies, R., Szilas, K. & Johnson, T. E., Jan 2021, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 544, 12 p., 116660.

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• Tight bounds on missing late veneer in early Archean peridotite from triple oxygen isotopes

  Peters, S. T. M., Fischer, M. B., Pack, A., Szilas, K., Appel, P. W. U., Münker, C., Dallai, L. & Marien, C. S., 2021, In: Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 18, p. 27-31 5 p.

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• 2020

  >2.7 Ga metamorphic peridotites from southeast Greenland record the oxygen isotope composition of Archean seawater

  Peters, S. T. M., Szilas, K., Sengupta, S., Kirkland, C. L., Garbe-Schönberg, D. & Pack, A., 2020, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 544, 116331.

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• Chromitites from an Archean layered intrusion in the Western Dharwar Craton, southern India

  Santosh, M., He, X.-F., Waterton, P., Szilas, K. & Pearson, D. G., 1 Dec 2020, In: Lithos. 376-377, 15 p., 105772.

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• Differentiating between inherited and autocrystic zircon in granitoids

  Olierook, H. K. H., Kirkland, C. L., Szilas, K., Hollis, J. A., Gardiner, N. J., Steenfelt, A., Jiang, Q., Yakymchuk, C., Evans, N. J. & McDonald, B. J., Aug 2020, In: Journal of Petrology. 61, 8, 26 p.

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• Geodynamic implications of synchronous norite and TTG formation in the 3 Ga Maniitsoq Norite Belt, West Greenland

  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., 22 Sept 2020, In: Frontiers in Earth Science. 8, 30 p., 562062.

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• Mesoarchean partial melting of mafic crust and tonalite production during high-T--low-P stagnant tectonism, Akia Terrane, West Greenland

  Yakymchuk, C., Kirkland, C., Hollis, J., Kendrick, J., Gardiner, N. & Szilas, K., 2020, In: Precambrian Research. 105615.

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• Metasomatic Reactions between Archean Dunite and Trondhjemite at the Seqi Olivine Mine in Greenland

  Whyatt, L., Peters, S., Pack, A., Kirkland, C. L., Balic-Zunic, T. & Szilas, K., 2020, In: Minerals. 10, 1, 20 p., 85.

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• North Atlantic Craton Architecture revealed by kimberlite-hosted crustal zircons

  Gardiner, N. J., Kirkland, C. L., Hollis, J. A., Cawood, P. A., Nebel, O., Szilas, K. & Yakymchuk, C., 2020, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 534, 8 p., 116091.

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