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HOLLIS, S.P., DORAN, A.L., MENUGE, J.F., VAN ACKEN, D., PIERCEY, S.J., UNITT, R., COOPER, M.R., TURNER, O., & DALY, J.S. (In prep). Irish metallogeny revealed through Pb isotope terrane mapping.
MURTON, B.J., JUDGE, M., YEO, I.A., NOMIKOU, P., HOLLIS, S.P., MENUGE, J.F., MCMANUS, O., & GEORGIOPOULOU, A. (Being revised). Super-stretch spreading floors oceanic fracture-zones. Version for submission with co-authors.
DANA, C.D.P., HOLLIS, S.P., MIMURA, K., YANO, M., OHTA, J., KUWAHARA, Y., CHELLE-MICHOU, C., TAVAZZANI, L., GLOIRE, S., SELBY, D., KATO, Y., PASHLEY, V., MEGAN, J. & PODMORE, D. (In Prep) Multiple geochronological approaches resolve the syn-genetic mineralization of a metamorphosed Archean VHMS deposit.

Submitted

43. DANA, C.D.P., HOLLIS, S.P., SPRY, P. G., ROGERS, C.J., JAMES, M., PODMORE, D. & AZRI, R. (Submitted April 2025) Establishing mineral chemical vectors towards metamorphosed VHMS deposits: new insights from chlorite, white mica and garnet. Economic Geology
42. DORAN, A.L., GEEL, C., HOLLIS, S.P., MENUGE, J.F, PIERCEY, S.J., SLEZAK, P., & BOYCE A.J. (Submitted Dec 2024). Pyrite vectors to Zn-Pb ore zones: geochemical characterization of diagenetic and early hydrothermal pyrite from the southern Irish orefield. Economic Geology, Special Issue on Pyrite.

Published (peer-reviewed only)

2025:

41. DORAN, A.L., HOLLIS, S.P., MENUGE, J.F., LYONS, C., PIERCEY, S.J., BOYCE, A.J., SLEZAK, P., TORREMANS, K., & GUVEN, J. (Accepted) Metal sources and mobility, replacement processes, d34S isotopic recycling and fluid mixing: Zn-Pb-Cu-Ni mineralisation in the Lisduff Oolite Member at Lisheen, Ireland. Ore Geology Reviews
40. WEBB, S., TORVELA, T., CHAPMAN, R., SAVASTANO, L., JAMIESON, R., BOYCE, A., HEPBURN, L., TAIT, A., HOLLIS, S.P. & PASHLEY, V. (Online First) Constraining the fluid sources of gold-bearing veins in orogenic belts using sulfur and lead isotopes: A case study from Loch Tay, Scotland (UK). Ore Geology Reviews. LINK Impact Factor (2023): 3.2.
39. COOPER, M.R., BENETTI, S., HOLLIS, S.P., SOMERVILLE, I.D., DALY J.S. & ROBERSON, S.L. (Accepted). Onshore provenance of clasts from offshore glacial deposits, NW Irish continental shelf. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences
38. DANA, C.D.P., HOLLIS, S.P., PODMORE, D., JAMES, M. & AZRI, R. (Online First) Using coupled bulk-rock geochemistry and short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral reflectance as rapid exploration tools in metamorphosed VHMS deposits: insights from the King Zn deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita. DOI: 10.1007/s00126-024-01342-8. LINK Impact Factor (2023): 4.4. PDF

2024:

37. HOLLIS, S.P., DENNIS, P., MENUGE, J.F., DORAN, A.L., MARCA, A., DAVIDHEISER-KROLL, B., SNELL, K., WILKINSON, J.J., TURNER, O., GUVEN, J. & BOYCE, A. (2024). Tracking fluid temperature and δ18O in carbonate-hosted hydrothermal ore systems using clumped C-O isotopes. Economic Geology, 119(6), 1369-1382. DOI: 10.5382/econgeo.5100. LINK Impact Factor (2023): 5.5. PDF
36. MOLES, N.R., COOPER, M.R., HOLLIS, S.P. & MCCONNELL, B. (2024) Provenance of the Trainor's Rocks microconglomerate, Northern Ireland: a mid-Silurian (Hawick Group) submarine fan channel deposit in the closing Iapetus Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 181(6). DOI: 10.1144/jgs2024-025. LINK Impact Factor (2023): 2.6. PDF
35. KELLY, J., HOLLIS, S.P., DANA, C.D.P., KNEESHAW, A., PODMORE, D., JAMES, M., AZRI, R., RODGERS, C. & ROBERTS, S. (2024). Characterization of a metamorphosed volcanic stratigraphy and VMS alteration halos through rock chip petrology and lithogeochemistry: a case study from King North, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Minerals special issue “Mineralization and Geochemistry of VMS Deposits”. Minerals, 14(5), 481. DOI: 10.3390/min14050481. LINK Impact Factor (2022): 2.2 PDF

2023:

34. MOLYNEUX, S., HARPER, D., COOPER, M.R., HOLLIS, S.P., RAINE, R., RUSHTON, A., SCHOFIELD, D., SMITH P., STONE, P., WILLIAMS, M., WOODCOCK, N. & ZALASIEWICZ, J.A. (Online First). A synopsis of the Ordovician System in its birthplace - Britain and Ireland. Book Chapter in A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System Part 1. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Special Publication book, 532, 191-266. DOI: 10.1144/SP532-2022-235. LINK PDF

2022:

33. BARROTE, V.R., NEBEL, O., WAINWRIGHT, A.N., HOLLIS, S.P., RAVEGGIO, M. & CAWOOD, P.A. (2022) Testing the advantages of simultaneous in-situ Sm-Nd, U-Pb and elemental analysis of igneous monazite for petrochronological studies. An example from the late Archean, Penzance granite, Western Australia. Chemical Geology, 594, 120760. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120760. LINK Impact Factor (2022): 4.07. PDF

32. DORAN, A.L., HOLLIS, S.P., MENUGE, J.F., PIERCEY, S.J., BOYCE, A.J., JOHNSON, S., GUVEN, J. & TURNER, O. (2022). A distal, high-grade Irish-type orebody: petrographic, sulfur isotope, and sulfide chemistry of the Island Pod Zn-Pb Orebody, Lisheen, Ireland. Economic Geology, 117, 305-326. DOI: 10.5382/econgeo.4882. LINK Impact Factor (2022): 5.8. PDF

2021:

31. SUN, G., ZENG, Q., ZHOU, L., HOLLIS, S.P., ZHOU, J-X. & CHEN, K. (2021) Mechanisms for invisible gold enrichment in the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China: In situ evidence from the Xiaotongjiapuzi deposit. Gondwana Research, 103, 276-296. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2021.10.008. LINK Impact Factor (2021): 5.83. PDF
30. HOLLIS, S.P., FOURY, S., CARUSO, S., JOHNSON, S., BARROTE, V.,& PUMPHREY, A. (2021). Lithogeochemical and hyperspectral halos to Ag-Zn-(Au) mineralization at Nimbus, Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Minerals, 11, 254. DOI: 10.3390/min11030254. LINK Impact Factor (2021): 3.746. PDF

2020:

29. BARROTE, V., TESSALINA, S.G., MCNAUGHTON, N.J., EVANS, N.J., HOLLIS, S.P., MCDONALD, B.J. (2020). Surge of ore metals in seawater and increased bio-activity: a distal tracer of VHMS mineralization for Archaean sequences in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 56, 643-664. DOI: 10.1007/s00126-020-00986-6. LINK Impact Factor (2020): 5.109. PDF
28. AYUPOVA, N.R., NOVOSELOV, K.A., MASLENNIKOV, V.V., MELEKESTSEVA, I.Y., HOLLIS, S.P., ARTEM'YEV, D.A. & TESSALINA, S.G. (2020). The formation of magnetite ores of the Glubochenskoe deposit, Turgai iron belt, Russia: new, structural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic constraints. Mineralium Deposita, 56, 103-123. DOI: 10.1007/s00126-020-00994-6. LINK Impact Factor (2020): 5.109. PDF
27. BARROTE, V., TESSALINA, S., MCNAUGHTON, N., JOURDAN, F., HOLLIS. S.P., WARE, B. & ZI, J-W. (2020) 4D history of the Nimbus Ag-Zn-(Au) VHMS deposit in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 337, 105536. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105536. LINK Impact Factor (2020): 4.725 PDF

2019:

26. WALSH, J.J., BUNCE, C., MOORE, J.P., HOLLIS, S.P., KELLY, J., & MENUGE, J.F. (2019). The nature and origin of hydraulic fractures and veins in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Science, 37, 61-84. DOI: 10.3318/ijes.2019.37.5. LINK PDF
25. HOLLIS, S.P., PODMORE, D., JAMES, M., MOLE, D., TURNER, O. KNEESHAW, A. & BEATON, R. (2019). Targeting VHMS mineralization at Erayinia in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane using lithogeochemistry, soil chemistry and Hylogger data Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 207, 106379. DOI:10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.106379. LINK Impact Factor (2019): 3.352 PDF
24. YESARES, L., DRUMMOND, D., HOLLIS, S.P., DORAN, A.L., MENUGE, J.F., BOYCE, A.J., BLAKEMAN, R. & ASHTON, R. (2019) Coupling mineralogy, textures, stable and radiogenic isotopes in identifying ore-forming processes in Irish-type carbonate hosted Zn-Pb deposits. Minerals, 9, 335. DOI:10.3390/min9060335. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 2.380 PDF
23. TURNER, O., HOLLIS, S.P., GUVEN, J. & MCCLENAGHAN, S. (2019) Establishing a geochemical baseline for the Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy of the Rathdowney Trend, Irish Zn-Pb orefield. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 196, 259-269. DOI 10.1016/j.gexplo.2018.11.003. LINK Impact Factor (2019): 3.352 PDF
22. HOLLIS, S.P., PODMORE, D., JAMES, M., DORAN, A., MENUGE, J.F., YEATS, C.J. & WYCHE, S. (2019). VHMS mineralization at Erayinia in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane: geology and geochemistry of the metamorphosed King Zn deposit. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 66, 153-181. DOI 10.1080/08120099.2018.1515577. LINK Impact Factor (2019): 1.492 PDF
21. CAO, H.-W., ZHANG, Y.-H., SANTOSH, M., LI, G.-M., HOLLIS, S.P., ZHANG, L.-K., PEI, Q.-M., TANG, L., DUAN, Z.-M. (2019) Petrogenesis and metallogenic implications of Cretaceous magmatism in Central Lhasa, Tibetean Plateau: a perspective review and case study from the Lunggar Fe skarn deposit. Geological Journal, 54, 2323-2346. DOI 10.1002/gj.3299. LINK Impact Factor (2019): 1.595 PDF

2018:

20. CARUSO, S., FIORENTINI, M.L., HOLLIS, S.P., LAFLAMME, C., BAUMGARTNER, R.J., STEADMAN, J.A. & SAVARD. D. (2018) The fluid evolution of the Nimbus Zn-Ag-(Au) deposit: an interplay between mantle plume and microbial activity. for Precambrian Research, 317, 211-229. DOI 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.08.012. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 3.843 PDF
19. LAFLAMME, C., HOLLIS, S.P., JAMIESON, J.W. & FIORENTINI, M. (2018). Three dimensional spatially-constrained sulfur isotopes highlight processes controlling sulfur cycling in the near surface of the Iheya North hydrothermal system, Okinawa Trough. G-cubed - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 2798-2812. DOI 10.1029/2018GC007499. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 2.95 PDF
18. ZHANG, Y.-H., CAO, H.-W., XU, M., LI, X., HOLLIS, S.P., GAO, S. & JIANG, J. (2018) Geochronology, geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes of the Early Paleogene gabbro and granite from Central Lhasa, southern Tibet: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications. International Geology Review, 61, 868-894. DOI 10.1080/00206814.2018.1476187. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 1.785 PDF
17. CAO, H.-W., ZHANG, Y.-H., TANG, L., HOLLIS, S.P., ZHANG, S.-T., PEI, Q.-M., YANG, C., ZHU, Z.-S. (2018) Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopes of Jurassic-Cretaceous granites in the Tengchong terrane, SW China: implications for the Mesozoic tectono-magmatic evolution of the Eastern Tethyan Tectonic Domain. International Geology Review, 61, 257-279. DOI 10.1080/00206814.2017.1422445. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 1.785 PDF
16. HERRINGTON, R.J., HOLLIS, S.P., COOPER, M.R., STOBBS, I.J., TAPSTER, S., RUSHTON, A., MCCONNELL, B. & JEFFRIES, T. (2018). Age and geochemistry of the Charlestown Group, Ireland: implications for the Grampian orogeny, its mineral potential and the Ordovician timescale. Lithos, 302-303, 1-19. DOI 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.12.012. LINK Impact Factor (2018): 3.913 PDF

2017:

Editor: PLOTINSKAYA, O., TESSALINA, S., MASLENNIKOV, V., HERRINGTON, R. and HOLLIS, S.P. (Eds) 2017. Overview of Mineral deposits in the Urals. Ore Geology Reviews, Special Issue, v.85, p.1-336. LINK Impact Factor (2017): 3.3993
15. HOLLIS, SP., YEATS, C.J., WYCHE, S., BARNES, S. & IVANIC, T.J. (2017) VHMS mineralization in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a review of known deposits and prospectivity analysis of felsic volcanic rocks. Geological Survey of Western Australia Report, 165, pp.68. IBSN 9781741687149 (ebook) LINK PDF
14. HOLLIS, S.P., MOLE, D., GILLESPIE, P., BARNES, S.J., TESSALINA, S., CAS, R.F., HILDREW, C., PUMPHREY, A., GOODZ, M.D., CARUSO, S., YEATS, C.J., VERBEETEN, A., WYCHE, S. & MARTIN, L.A.J. (2017) 2.7 Ga plume associated VHMS mineralization in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton: insights from the low temperature and shallow water Ag-Zn-(Au) Nimbus deposit. Precambrian Research, 291, 119-142. DOI 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.01.002. LINK Impact Factor (2017): 3.907 PDF
13. YEATS, C.J., HOLLIS, S.P., HALFPENNY, A., CORONA, J.C., LAFLAMME, C., SOUTHAM, G., FIORENTINI, M., HERRINGTON, R.J. & SPRATT, J. (2017) Actively forming Kuroko-type volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) mineralization at Iheya North, Okinawa Trough, Japan. Ore Geology Reviews, 84, 20-41. DOI 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.12.014. LINK Impact Factor (2017): 3.993 PDF

2016:

12. AYUPOVA, N.R., MASLENNIKOV, V.V., TESSALINA, S.G., SHILOVSKY, O.P., SADYKOV, S.K., HOLLIS, S.P., DANYUSHEVSKY, L.V., SAFINA, N.P. & STATSENKO, E.O. (2016) Tube fossils from gossanites of the Urals VHMS deposits, Russia: authigenic mineral assemblages and trace element distributions. Ore Geology Reviews (special issue on the metallogeny of the Urals). DOI 10.1016/oregeorev.2016.08.003. LINK Impact Factor (2016): 3.09 PDF
11. HOLLIS, S.P., COOPER, M.R., EARLS, G., ROBERTS, S., HERRINGTON, R.J. & PIERCEY, S.J. (2016) Using Tellus data to enhance targeting of volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralisation in the Tyrone Igneous Complex. In: YOUNG, M. (Ed.), with foreword by Prof. Iain Stewart MBE. Unearthed: Impacts of the Tellus surveys of the north of Ireland. Royal Irish Academy, p.83-95. DOI 10.3318/978-1-908996-88-6-ch12. LINK PDF

2015:

10. HOLLIS, S.P., COOPER., M.R., HERRINGTON, R., ROBERTS, S., EARLS, G., VERBEETEN, A., PIERCEY, S.J. & ARCHIBALD, S.M. (2015). Distribution, mineralogy and geochemistry of silica-iron exhalites and related rocks from the Tyrone Igneous Complex: implications for VMS mineralization in Northern Ireland. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 159, 148-168. DOI 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.09.001. LINK Impact Factor (2015): 2.147 PDF
09. HOLLIS, S.P., YEATS, C.J., WYCHE, S., BARNES, S.J., IVANIC, T.J., BELFORD, S.M, DAVIDSON, G.J., ROACHE, A,J. & WINGATE, M.T.D (2015) A review of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) mineralization in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: tectonic, stratigraphic and geochemical associations. Precambrian Research, 260, 113-135. DOI 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.11.002. LINK Impact Factor (2015): 4.037 PDF

2014:

08. HOLLIS, S.P., ROBERTS, S., EARLS, G., HERRINGTON, R., COOPER, M.R., PIERCEY S.J., ARCHIBALD, S.M. & MOLONEY, M. (2014) Petrochemistry and hydrothermal alteration within the Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland: implications for VMS mineralization in the British and Irish Caledonides. Mineralium Deposita, 49, 575-593. DOI: 10.1007/s00126-013-0508-x. LINK Impact Factor (2014): 2.561 PDF

2013:

07. HOLLIS, S.P., COOPER, M.R., ROBERTS, S., EARLS, G., HERRINGTON, R., CONDON D.J. & DALY, J.S (2013) Late obduction of the Tyrone ophiolite, Northern Ireland, during the Grampian-Taconic orogeny: a correlative of the Annieopsquotch ophiolite of Newfoundland? Journal of the Geological Society, London, 170(6), 861-876. DOI:10.1144/jgs2012-103. LINK Impact Factor (2013): 2.8 PDF
06. HOLLIS, S.P., COOPER, M.R., ROBERTS, S., EARLS, G., HERRINGTON, R. & CONDON D.J. (2013) Stratigraphic, geochemical and U-Pb zircon age constraints from Slieve Gallion, Northern Ireland: A correlation of the Irish Caledonian arcs. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 170(5), 737-752. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-104. LINK Impact Factor (2013): 2.8 PDF
05. COOPER, M.R., CROWLEY, Q.G., HOLLIS, S.P., NOBLE, S.R. & HENNEY, P.J. (2013) A U-Pb age for the Late Caledonian Sperrin Mountains minor intrusive suite in the north of Ireland: timing slab break-off in the Grampian terrane and the significance of deep-seated, crustal lineaments. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 170(4), 603-614. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-098. LINK Impact Factor (2013): 2.8 PDF

2012:

04. TAKAI, K., MOTTL, M.J., NIELSEN, S.H.H. & THE IODP EXPEDITION 331 SCIENTISTS. (2012) Deep Hot Biosphere. Proceedings for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Expedition 331, 1-39. LINK
03. TAKAI, K., MOTTL, M.J., NIELSEN, S.H.H. & THE IODP EXPEDITION 331 SCIENTISTS. (2012) IODP Expedition 331: Strong and Expansive Subseafloor Hydrothermal Activities in the Okinawa Trough. Scientific Drilling, 13, 19-27. DOI: 10.2204/iodp.sd.13.03.2011 LINK PDF
02. HOLLIS, S.P., ROBERTS, S., COOPER, M.R., EARLS, G., HERRINGTON, R., CONDON, D.J., COOPER, M.J., ARCHIBALD, S.M. & PIERCEY, S.J. (2012). Episodic arc-ophiolite accretion and the progressive growth of continental margins: Late accretion in the Northern Irish sector of the Grampian-Taconic orogeny. GSA Bulletin, 124 (11/12), 1702-1723. DOI: 10.1130/B30619.1. LINK Impact Factor (2012): 4.286 PDF

2011:

01. COOPER, M.R., CROWLEY, Q.G., HOLLIS, S.P., NOBLE, S., ROBERTS, S., CHEW, D., EARLS, G., HERRINGTON, R. & MERRIMAN, R.J. (2011). Age constraints and geochemistry of the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland: implications for the Grampian orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 168(4), 837-850. DOI: doi:10.1144/0016-76492010-164. LINK Impact Factor (2011): 3.195 PDF Erratum