Associate Professor James Scott

Journal - Research Article

Auer, A., Brenna, M., & Scott, J. M. (2020). Influence of host magma alkalinity on trachytic melts formed during incongruent orthopyroxene dissolution in mantle xenoliths. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1766519

Weightman, E., Craw, D., Rufaut, C., Kerr, G., & Scott, J. (2020). Chemical evolution and evaporation of shallow groundwaters discharging from a gold mine, southern New Zealand. Applied Geochemistry, 122, 104766. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104766

Scott, J. M., Pontesilli, A., Brenna, M., White, J. D. L., Giacalone, E., Palin, J. M., & le Roux, P. J. (2020). The Dunedin Volcanic Group and a revised model for Zealandia's alkaline intraplate volcanism. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(4), 510-529. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1707695

Mortimer, N., & Scott, J. M. (2020). Volcanoes of Zealandia and the Southwest Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(4), 371-377. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1713824

Serre, S. H., van der Meer, Q. H. A., Waight, T. E., Scott, J. M., Münker, C., Thomsen, T. B., & le Roux, P. J. (2020). Petrogenesis of amphibole megacrysts in lamprophyric intraplate magmatism in southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1801771

Tian, G., Liu, J., Scott, J. M., Chen, L.-H., Pearson, D. G., Chu, Z., … Luo, Y. (2020). Architecture and evolution of the lithospheric roots beneath circum-cratonic orogenic belts: The Xing'an Mongolia Orogenic Belt and its relationship with adjacent North China and Siberian cratonic roots. Lithos. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105798

Scanlan, E. J., Scott, J. M., & le Roux, P. J. (2020). Pyrometamorphosed Otago Schist xenoliths cause minor contamination of Dunedin Volcanic Group basanite. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1767659

Allibone, A., Blakemore, H., Jongens, R., Scott, J., Moore, J., MacKenzie, D., & Craw, D. (2020). Structural settings of gold deposits within the Reefton goldfield, western New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1717554

Scott, J. M. (2020). An updated catalogue of New Zealand’s mantle peridotite and serpentinite. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1776738

Tay, S. L., Scott, J. M., Palmer, M. C., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2020). Occurrence, geochemistry and provenance of REE-bearing minerals in marine placers on the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2020.1736585

Holbek, S. C., Frank, M., Scott, J. M., Smith, S. A. F., le Roux, P. J., Waight, T. E., Van Hale, R., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2020). Structural controls on shallow cenozoic fluid flow in the Otago Schist, New Zealand. Geofluids. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1155/2020/9647197

Xu, Y., Liu, J., Xiong, Q., Su, B.-X., Scott, J. M., Xu, B., … Pearson, D. G. (2020). The complex life cycle of oceanic lithosphere: A study of Yarlung-Zangbo ophiolitic peridotites, Tibet. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 277, 175-191. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.024

Ritchie, T. W., Scott, J. M., & Craw, D. (2019). Garnet compositions track longshore migration of beach placers in western New Zealand. Economic Geology, 114(3), 513-540. doi: 10.5382/econgeo.4647

Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., & Scott, J. M. (2019). Fluid overpressure from chemical reactions in serpentinite within the source region of deep episodic tremor. Nature Geoscience, 12, 1034-1042. doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0470-z

Wellnitz, A. K., Scott, J. M., Martin, C. E., Palin, J. M., Stirling, C. H., Reid, M. R., … Craw, D. (2019). Carbonation reactions and coupled element and isotope redistribution during shallow crustal gold mineralisation, New Zealand. Mineralium Deposita, 54, 743-760. doi: 10.1007/s00126-018-0838-9

Scott, J. M., Liu, J., Pearson, D. G., Harris, G. A., Czertowicz, T. A., Woodland, S. J., … Luth, R. W. (2019). Continent stabilisation by lateral accretion of subduction zone-processed depleted mantle residues: Insights from Zealandia. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 507, 175-186. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.11.039

Robinson, B. A., & Scott, J. M. (2019). Late Devonian contact metamorphism and a possible upper age to gold mineralisation in the northernmost portion of the Reefton Goldfield. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 62(1), 121-130. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1534745

Dwight, T., Scott, J. M., & Schwartz, J. J. (2019). Emplacement and Paleozoic and Cretaceous recrystallisation of the Broughton Arm Peridotite in Western Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 62(1), 72-86. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1528989

Scott, J. M., & Turnbull, I. McG. (2019). Geology of New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 62(3), 291-317. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1600557

Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., Scott, J. M., Rooney, J. S., Viti, C., & Gordon, K. C. (2019). The internal structure and composition of a plate-boundary-scale serpentinite shear zone: The Livingstone Fault, New Zealand. Solid Earth, 10(4), 1025-1047. doi: 10.5194/se-10-1025-2019

Blake, F., Grant, K., MacKenzie, D., Scott, J., & Craw, D. (2019). Surficial arsenic redistribution above gold-mineralised zones in East Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 62(4), 573-587. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1647854

van der Meer, Q. H. A., Scott, J. M., Serre, S. H., Whitehouse, M. J., Kristoffersen, M., Le Roux, P. J., & Pope, E. C. (2019). Low-δ¹⁸O zircon xenocrysts in alkaline basalts: A window into the complex carbonatite-metasomatic history of the Zealandia lithospheric mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 254, 21-39. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.029

Dickie, J. E., Scott, J. M., Sagar, M. W., & Blakemore, H. (2019). Cretaceous igneous-related mineralisation in the Reefton Goldfield, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 62(1), 87-99. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1529684

Li, P., Scott, J. M., Liu, J., & Xia, Q.-k. (2018). Lateral H₂O variation in the Zealandia lithospheric mantle controls orogen width. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 502, 200-209. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.004

Brenna, M., Cronin, S. J., Smith, I. E. M., Tollan, P. M. E., Scott, J. M., Prior, D. J., … Ukstins, I. A. (2018). Olivine xenocryst diffusion reveals rapid monogenetic basaltic magma ascent following complex storage at Pupuke Maar, Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 499, 13-22. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.015

Negrini, M., Smith, S. A. F., Scott, J. M., & Tarling, M. S. (2018). Microstructural and rheological evolution of calcite mylonites during shear zone thinning: Constraints from the Mount Irene shear zone, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 106, 86-102. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2017.11.013

Scanlan, E. J., Scott, J. M., Wilson, V. J., Stirling, C. H., Reid, M. R., & Le Roux, P. J. (2018). In situ ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of scheelite and calcite reveals proximal and distal fluid-rock interaction during orogenic W-Au mineralization, Otago Schist, New Zealand. Economic Geology, 113(7), 1571-1586. doi: 10.5382/econgeo.2018.4603

Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., Viti, C., & Scott, J. M. (2018). Dynamic earthquake rupture preserved in a creeping serpentinite shear zone. Nature Communications, 9, 3552. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05965-0

Dalton, H. B., Scott, J. M., Liu, J., Waight, T. E., Pearson, D. G., Brenna, M., … Palin, J. M. (2017). Diffusion-zoned pyroxenes in an isotopically heterogeneous mantle lithosphere beneath the Dunedin Volcanic Group, New Zealand, and their implications for intraplate alkaline magma sources. Lithosphere, 9(3), 463-475. doi: 10.1130/L631.1

Jacob, J.-B., Scott, J. M., Turnbull, R. E., Tarling, M. S., & Sagar, M. W. (2017). High- to ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in the lower crust: An example resulting from Hikurangi Plateau collision and slab rollback in New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 35(8), 831-853. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12257

van der Meer, Q. H. A., Waight, T. E., Scott, J. M., & Münker, C. (2017). Variable sources for Cretaceous to recent HIMU and HIMU-like intraplate magmatism in New Zealand. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 469, 27-41. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.03.037

Smith, S. A. F., Tesei, T., Scott, J. M., & Collettini, C. (2017). Reactivation of normal faults as high-angle reverse faults due to low frictional strength: Experimental data from the Moonlight Fault Zone, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 105, 34-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2017.10.009

van der Meer, Q. H. A., Storey, M., Scott, J. M., & Waight, T. E. (2016). Abrupt spatial and geochemical changes in lamprophyre magmatism related to Gondwana fragmentation prior, during and after opening of the Tasman Sea. Gondwana Research, 36, 142-156. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.04.004

Czertowicz, T. A., Toy, V. G., & Scott, J. M. (2016). Recrystallisation, phase mixing and strain localisation in peridotite during rapid extrusion of sub-arc mantle lithosphere. Journal of Structural Geology, 88, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.04.011

Wang, S.-J., Teng, F.-Z., & Scott, J. M. (2016). Tracing the origin of continental HIMU-like intraplate volcanism using magnesium isotope systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 185, 78-87. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.007

Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Crase, J. A., Waight, T. E., van der Meer, Q., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., … Münker, C. (2016). Peridotitic lithosphere metasomatized by volatile-bearing melts, and its association with intraplate alkaline HIMU-like magmatism. Journal of Petrology, 57(10), 2053-2078. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw069

Czertowicz, T. A., Scott, J. M., Waight, T. E., Palin, J. M., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., Le Roux, P., … Piazolo, S. (2016). The Anita Peridotite, New Zealand: Ultra-depletion and subtle enrichment in sub-arc mantle. Journal of Petrology, 57(4), 717-750. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw001

Alder, S., Smith, S. A. F., & Scott, J. M. (2016). Fault-zone structure and weakening processes in basin-scale reverse faults: The Moonlight Fault Zone, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 91, 177-194. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.09.001

Scott, J. M., Liu, J., Pearson, D. G., & Waight, T. E. (2016). Mantle depletion and metasomatism recorded in orthopyroxene in highly depleted peridotites. Chemical Geology, 441, 280-291. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.08.024

Czertowicz, T. A., Scott, J. M., & Piazolo, S. (2016). Coupled extrusion of sub-arc lithospheric mantle and lower crust during orogen collapse: A case study from Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34(5), 501-524. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12191

Liu, J., Scott, J. M., Martin, C. E., & Pearson, D. G. (2015). The longevity of Archean mantle residues in the convecting upper mantle and their role in young continent formation. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 424, 109-118. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.027

Palmer, M. C., Scott, J. M., Muhling, J. R., & Kennedy, A. (2015). Carboniferous metamorphism and partial melting of the Greenland Group in the Jackson River valley, south Westland. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(1), 22-32. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.982661

Ritchie, T. W., Scott, J. M., Muhling, J. R., & Kennedy, A. K. (2015). Cretaceous metamorphism, magmatism and shearing in the Waipuna Valley, directly south of the Reefton Goldfield. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(2), 89-103. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.992444

Gaffney, D., Summerhayes, G. R., Ford, A., Scott, J. M., Denham, T., Field, J., & Dickinson, W. R. (2015). Earliest pottery on New Guinea mainland reveals Austronesian influences in highland environments 3000 years ago. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0134497. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134497

Scott, J. M., Auer, A., Czertowicz, T. A., Cooper, A. F., Billia, M. A., & Kennedy, A. K. (2015). New P–T and U–Pb constraints on Alpine Schist metamorphism in south Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(4), 385-397. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1093005

Scott, J. M., Turnbull, I. M., Sagar, M. W., Tulloch, A. J., Waight, T. E., & Palin, J. M. (2015). Geology and geochronology of the Sub-Antarctic Snares Islands/Tini Heke, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(2), 202-212. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1023810

Moorhouse, B. L., White, J. D. L., & Scott, J. M. (2015). Cape Wanbrow: A stack of Surtseyan-style volcanoes built over millions of years in the Waiareka-Deborah volcanic field, New Zealand. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 298, 27-56. doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2015.03.019

Scott, J. M., Hodgkinson, A., Palin, J. M., Waight, T. E., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., & Cooper, A. F. (2014). Ancient melt depletion overprinted by young carbonatitic metasomatism in the New Zealand lithospheric mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 167, 963. doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-0963-0

Scott, J. M., Lee, D. E., Fordyce, R. E., & Palin, J. M. (2014). A possible Late Oligocene–Early Miocene rocky shoreline on Otago Schist. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 57(2), 185-194. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.814575

Scott, J. M., Borcovsky, D. A., Palin, J. M., & Toy, V. G. (2014). Localisation of deformation in the thermal contrast at a granite batholith margin, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 64, 149-163. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.07.013