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This web site is for disseminating teaching and research materials in Structural and Economic Geology. I’m interested in:

• Ballistic impacts and built heritage
• Global Georesources: their distribution, finite quantity, extraction and depletion.
• Deformation processes in the Earth at all scales, especially in the upper crust, and their relation to the formation of hydrothermal mineral deposits.
• Fracturing, fluid flow, and brecciation.
• The application of kinematic and dynamic fault slip analyses to mineral deposits and tectonic problems.
• Relations between tectonics and surface processes.

Recent Publications

2022

Hobbs, B. E., Ord, A., & Blenkinsop, T. (2022). The spatial distributions of mineralisation. Journal of Structural Geology, 104529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104529

2021

Thomson, B., Téllez C, C., Dietrich, A., Oliver, N. H. S., Akinin, V., Blenkinsop, T. G., Guskov, A., Benowitz, J., Layer, P. W., & Polzunenkov, G. (2021). The Dvoinoye and September Northeast high-grade epithermal Au–Ag veins, Vodorazdelnaya district, Chukotka region, Russia. Mineralium Deposita, 0123456789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-021-01065-0

Ord, A., Blenkinsop, T., & Hobbs, B. (2021). Fragment size distributions in brittle deformed rocks. Journal of Structural Geology, 154(September 2021), 104496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104496

Campbell, O., Blenkinsop, T., Gilbert, O., & Mol, L. (2021). Surface and subsurface damage caused by bullet impacts into sandstone. Geosciences (Switzerland), 11(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090395

de Paz-Álvarez, M. I., Blenkinsop, T., Buchs, D., Gibbons, G., & Cherns, L. (2021). Virtual fieldtrip to the Esla Nappe (Cantabrian Zone, NW Spain): delivering traditional geological mapping skills remotely using real data. Solid Earth, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2021-110

2020

Lear, C. H., Anand, P., Blenkinsop, T., Foster, G. L., Gagen, M., Hoogakker, B., Larter, R. D., Lunt, D. J., McCave, I. N., McClymont, E., Pancost, R. D., Rickaby, R. E. M., Schultz, D. M., Summerhayes, C., Williams, C. J. R., & Zalasiewicz, J. (2020). Geological society of london scientific statement: What the geological record tells us about our present and future climate. Journal of the Geological Society, 178(1). https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-239

Dirks, P.H.G.M., Sanislav, I. V, Ryt, M.R. Van, Huizenga, J., Blenkinsop, T.G., 2020. Chapter 8 The World-Class Gold Deposits in the Geita Greenstone Belt , Northwestern Tanzania, in: SEG Special Publications. pp. 163–183. doi:10.5382/SP.23.08

Tripp, G.I., Tosdal, R.M., Blenkinsop, T., Rogers, J.R., Halley, S., 2020. Chapter X Neoarchean Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, in: SEG Special Publication. pp. 1–26. doi:10.5382/SP.23.XX

Blenkinsop, T., Oliver, N., Dirks, P., Nugus, M., Tripp, G., Sanislav, I., 2020. Structural geology applied to the evaluation of hydrothermal gold deposits, in: Reviews in Economic Geology v.21. pp. 1–23. doi:10.5382/rev.21.01

Blenkinsop, T., Rowland, J., Baker, T., 2020. Mechanical regimes of hydrothermal gold mineralization. Reviews in Economic Geology v.21, pp. 205–214. doi:10.5382/rev.21.06

Price, J.J., Blenkinsop, T.G., Goodenough, K.M., Kerr, A.C., 2020. STRATIGRAPHY , PETROGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF ARCHAEAN ROCKS IN THE ROTHSAY MINING AREA. Geological Survey of Western Australia Record 2020/1. Geological Survey of Western Australia.

Zhang, H., Blenkinsop, T., Yu, Z., 2020. Timing of Triassic tectonic division and postcollisional extension in the eastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula. Gondwana Res. 83, 141–156. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2020.01.018

Moore, A., Yudovskaya, M., Proyer, A., Blenkinsop, T., 2020. Evidence for olivine deformation in kimberlites and other mantle ‑ derived magmas during crustal emplacement. Contrib. to Mineral. Petrol. 8, 1–9. doi:10.1007/s00410-020-1653-8

2019

• Ellis, J. and Blenkinsop, T.G. Analogue modelling of fracturing in cooling plutonic bodies. Tectonophysics 766, 14-19, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.05.019
• Loza Espejel, R., Alves, T. M. and Blenkinsop, T. G. 2019. Distribution and growth styles of isolated carbonate platforms as a function of fault propagation. Marine and Petroleum Geology 107, pp. 484-507. (10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.05.020)
• Williams, J. N.et al. 2019. How do variably striking faults reactivate during rifting? insights from Southern Malawi. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(7), pp. 3588-3607. (10.1029/2019GC008219)
• Gilbert, O.et al. 2019. Permeability and surface hardness surveying of stone damaged by ballistic impact. Heritage 2(2), pp. 1369-1389. (10.3390/heritage2020087)
• Dirks, P. H. G. M.et al. 2019. The world class gold deposits in the Geita Greenstone Belt, northwestern Tanzania. Economic Geology, pp. -.

2018

• Ward, N., Alves, T. M. and Blenkinsop, T. 2018. Submarine sediment routing over a blocky mass-transport deposit in the Espírito Santo Basin, SE Brazil. Basin Research 30(4), pp. 816-834. (10.1111/bre.12282)
• Guice, G.et al. 2018. Re-evaluating ambiguous age relationships in Archean cratons: implications for the origin of ultramafic-mafic complexes in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex. Precambrian Research 311, pp. 136-156. (10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.020)
• Sanislav, I. V., Blenkinsop, T. G. and Dirks, P. H. G. M. 2018. Archaean crustal growth through successive partial melting events in an oceanic plateau-like setting in the Tanzania Craton. Terra Nova 30(3), pp. 169-178. (10.1111/ter.12323)
• Jadoon, Q. K.et al. 2018. Mineralogical variability of the Permian Roseneath and Murteree Shales from the Cooper Basin, Australia: Implications for shale properties and hydrocarbon extraction. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 165, pp. 850-872. (10.1016/j.petrol.2017.12.022)
• Gessner, K., Blenkinsop, T. and Sorjonen-Ward, P. 2018. Characterization of ore-forming systems – advances and challenges. Geological Society Special Publications, article number: 453. (10.1144/SP453.16)
• Kwelwa, S.et al. 2018. Archaean Gold Mineralization in an Extensional Setting: The Structural History of the Kukuluma and Matandani Deposits, Geita Greenstone Belt, Tanzania. Minerals 8(4), article number: 171. (10.3390/min8040171)
• Sanislav, I. V.et al. 2018. The tectonic history of a crustal-scale shear zone in the Tanzania Craton from the Geita Greenstone Belt, NW-Tanzania Craton. Precambrian Research 310, pp. 1-16. (10.1016/j.precamres.2018.02.025)
• Kwelwa, S.et al. 2018. The petrogenesis of the Neoarchean Kukuluma Intrusive Complex, NW Tanzania. Precambrian Research 305, pp. 64-78. (10.1016/j.precamres.2017.12.021)