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Gomez-Fern´andez´, F. and Cunningham, John and Caldevilla, P. and Herrero-Hernandez´, A. and Beard, Andy (2021) Microscopic and NanoSIMS characterization of black shale-hosted pre-kinematic pyrites: Possible gold source of the orogenic gold deposits in the Truchas Syncline (Variscan Iberian Massif). Ore Geology Reviews 138 (104344), ISSN 0169-1368.

Drake, Simon M. and Beard, Andrew and Jones, Adrian P. and Brown, David J. and Fortes, Andrew Dominic and Millar, I.L. and Carter, Andrew and Baca, J. and Downes, Hilary (2017) Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impactor fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geology 46 (2), pp. 171-174. ISSN 0091-7613.

Cunningham, John and Beard, Andy (2016) Sourcing of Miocene accretionary lapilli on ‘Eua, Tonga; atypical dispersal distances and tectonic implications for the central Tonga Ridge. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59 (2), pp. 302-312. ISSN 0028-8306.

Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary and Chaussidon, M. (2015) Petrology of a non-indigenous microgranitic clast in polymict ureilite EET 87720: evidence for formation of evolved melt on an unknown parent body. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50 (9), pp. 1613-1623. ISSN 1086-9379.

Bulanova, G.P. and Wiggers de Vries, D.F. and Pearson, D.G. and Beard, Andy and Mikhail, S. and Smelov, A.P. and Davies, G.R. (2014) An eclogitic diamond from Mir pipe (Yakutia), recording two growth events from different isotopic sources. Chemical Geology 381 , pp. 40-54. ISSN 0009-2541.

Mikhail, S. and Guillermier, C. and Franchi, I.A. and Beard, Andy and Crispin, K. and Verchovsky, A.B. and Jones, A.P. and Milledge, H.J. (2014) Empirical evidence for the fractionation of carbon isotopes between diamond and iron carbide from the Earth's mantle. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15 (4), pp. 855-866. ISSN 1525-2027.

Cunningham, John and Beard, Andy (2014) An unusual occurrence of mafic accretionary lapilli in deep-marine volcaniclastics on 'Eua, Tonga: Palaeoenvironment and process. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 274 , pp. 139-151. ISSN 0377-0273.

Smith, C.B. and Haggerty, S.E. and Chatterjee, B. and Beard, Andy and Townend, R. (2013) Kimberlite, lamproite, ultramafic lamprophyre, carbonatite relationships on the Dharwar Craton, India; an example from the Khaderpet pipe, a diamondiferous ultramafic with associated carbonatite intrusion. Lithos 182-3 , pp. 102-113. ISSN 0024-4937.

Beard, Andy and Howard, K. and Carmody, L. and Jones, A.P. (2013) The origin of melanophlogite, a clathrate mineral, in natrocarbonatite lava at Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania. American Mineralogist 98 , pp. 1998-2006. ISSN 0003-004X.

Drake, Simon M. and Beard, Andy (2012) Silicic pyroclastic deposits at the base of the Paleogene Skye Lava Field: evidence from An Carnach, Strathaird Peninsula. Scottish Journal of Geology 48 , pp. 133-141. ISSN 0036-9276.

Nédli, Z. and Tóth, T.M. and Downes, Hilary and Császár, G. and Beard, Andy and Szabóa, C. (2010) Petrology and geodynamical interpretation of mantle xenoliths from late Cretaceous lamprophyres, Villány Mts (S Hungary). Tectonophysics 489 (1-4), pp. 43-54. ISSN 0040-1951.

Gwalani, L.G. and Rogers, K.A. and Demény, A. and Groves, D.I. and Ramsay, R. and Beard, Andy and Downes, P.J. and Eves, A. (2010) The Yungul carbonatite dykes associated with the epithermal fluorite deposit at Speewah, Kimberley, Australia: carbon and oxygen isotope constraints on their origin. Mineralogy and Petrology 98 (1-4), pp. 123-141. ISSN 0930-0708.

Smith, C.B. and Pearson, D.G. and Bulanova, G.P. and Beard, Andy and Carlson, R.W. and Wittig, N. and Sims, K. and Chimuka, L. and Muchemwa, E. (2009) Extremely depleted lithospheric mantle and diamonds beneath the southern Zimbabwe Craton. Lithos 112 , pp. 1120-1132. ISSN 0024-4937.

Facer, John and Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andy (2009) In situ serpentinization and hydrous fluid metasomatism in spinel dunite xenoliths from the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana, USA. Journal of Petrology 50 (8), pp. 1443-1475. ISSN 0022-3530.

Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Vetrin, V.R. (2007) Depletion and enrichment processes in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kola Peninsula (Russia): Evidence from spinel lherzolite and wehrlite xenoliths. Lithos 94 (1-4), 1 - 24. ISSN 0024-4937.

Beard, Andrew and Drake, S.M. (2007) A melilite-bearing high-temperature calcic skarn, Camasunary Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 43 (1), pp. 57-67. ISSN 0036-9276.

Tomlinson, E. and Beard, Andrew and Harris, J.W. (2007) A snapshot of mantle metsomatism. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 (15), A1029-A1029. ISSN 0016-7037.

Downes, Hilary and Balaganskaya, E. and Beard, Andy and Liferovich, R. and Demaiffe, D. (2005) Petrogenetic processes in the ultramafic, alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Kola Alkaline Province: a review. Lithos 85 (1-4), pp. 48-75. ISSN 0024-4937.

Downes, H. and Beard, Andrew and Hinton, R. (2004) Natural experimental charges: an ion-microprobe study of trace element distribution coefficients in glass-rich hornblendite and clinopyroxenite xenoliths. Lithos 75 (1-2), pp. 1-17. ISSN 0024-4937.

Downes, Hilary and Reichow, M.K. and Mason, P.R.D. and Beard, Andrew and Thirlwall, M.F. (2003) Mantle domains in the lithosphere beneath the French Massif Central: trace element and isotopic evidence from mantle clinopyroxenes. Chemical Geology 200 (1-2), pp. 71-87. ISSN 0009-2541.

Downes, Hilary and Kostoula, T. and Jones, A.P. and Beard, Andy and Thirwall, M.F. and Bodinier, J.P. (2002) Geochemistry and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of mantle xenoliths from the Monte Vulture carbonatite–melilitite volcano, central southern Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144 (1), pp. 78-92. ISSN 0010-7999.

Litvin Yu, A. and Jones, A.P. and Beard, Andy and Divaev, F.K. and Zharikov, V.A. (2001) Crystallization of diamond and syngenetic minerals in melts of diamondiferous carbonatites of the Chagatai Massif, Uzbekistan. Doklady Earth Sciences 381a (9), pp. 1066-1069. ISSN 1028-334X.

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Hegner, E. and Sablukov, S.M. (2000) Geochemistry and mineralogy of kimberlites from the Arkhangelsk Region, NW Russia: evidence for transitional kimberlite magma types. Lithos 51 (1-2), pp. 47-51. ISSN 0024-4937.

Kostoula, T. and Jones, A. and Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andrew (1999) Geochemistry and isotopic composition of mantle xenoliths from Mt. Vulture volcano, southern Italy. Ofioliti 24 (1b), p. 120. ISSN 0391-2612.

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Hegner, E. and Sablukov, S.M. and Vetrin, V.R. and Balogh, K. (1998) Mineralogy and geochemistry of Devonian ultramafic minor intrusions of the southern Kola Peninsula, Russia: implications for the petrogenesis of kimberlites and melilitites. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 130 (3-4), pp. 288-303. ISSN 0010-7999.

Williamson, B.J. and Downes, Hilary and Thirwall, M.F. and Beard, Andrew (1997) Geochemical constraints on restite composition and unmixing in the Velay anatectic granite, French Massif Central. Lithos 40 (2-4), pp. 295-319. ISSN 0024-4937.

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Vetrin, V. and Kempton, P.D. and Maluski, H. (1996) Pretogenesis of Devonian lamprophyre and carbonatite minor intrusions, Kandalaksha Gulf (Kola Peninsula, Russia). Lithos 39 (1-2), pp. 93-119. ISSN 0024-4937.

Kempton, P.D. and Downes, Hilary and Sharkov, E.V. and Vetrin, V.R. and Ionov, D.A. and Carswell, D.A. and Beard, Andrew (1995) Petrology and geochemistry of xenoliths from the northern Baltic Shield: evidence for partial melting and metasomatism in the lower crust beneath an Archaean terrane. Lithos 36 (3-4), pp. 157-184. ISSN 0024-4937.

Matthews, S.J. and Jones, A.P. and Beard, Andrew (1994) Buffering of oxygen fugacity by sulphur redox reactions in calcalkaline magmas. Journal of the Geological Society 151 (5), pp. 815-823. ISSN 0016-7649.

Book Section

Abdulkadir, A.M. and Cunningham, John and Beard, Andy and Smith, A.S. (2019) Constraining the source of the alluvial gold from the Whiteadder river drainage, SE Scotland. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Proceedings of the 15th SGA Biennial Meeting, 27-30 August 2019, Glasgow, Scotland. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, pp. 807-810. ISBN 9780852619636.

Cunningham, John and Gómez-Fernández, F. and González Menéndez,, L. and Beard, Andy (2019) Welsh and Spanish orogenic gold – a comparative study. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Proceedings of the 15th SGA Biennial Meeting, August 27-30 2019, Glasgow, Scotland. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, pp. 733-735. ISBN 9780852619636.

Gómez-Fernández, F. and Cunningham, John and Caldevilla, P. and Herrero-Hernández, A. and Beard, Andy (2019) The source of Au and S of the orogenic gold deposits in the Llamas de Cabrera district (Iberian Variscan Massif). In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Proceedings of the 15th SGA Biennial Meeting, 27-30 August 2019, Glasgow, Scotland. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, pp. 842-845. ISBN 9780852619636.

Downes, Hilary and Mahotkin, I.L. and Beard, Andrew and Hegner, E. (2007) Petrogenesis of alkali silicate, carbonatite and kimberlitic magmas of the Kola Alkaline Carbonatite Province. In: Vladykin, N. (ed.) Alkaline magmatism, its sources and plumes. (Proceedings of the VII International Workshop). Russia: Russian Academy of Science, pp. 45-56. ISBN 9785947970953.

Jones, A.P. and Kearsley, A.T. and Friend, C.R.L. and Robin, E. and Beard, Andrew and Tamura, A. and Trickett, S. and Claeys, P. (2005) Are there signs of a large Paleocene impact, preserved around Disko Bay, West Greenland. Nuussuaq spherule beds origin by impact instead of volcanic eruption? In: Kenkmann, T. and Hörz, F. and Deutsch, A. (eds.) Large meteorite impacts III. Geological Society of America, pp. 218-298. ISBN 9780813723846.

Conference or Workshop Item

Drake, Simon M. and Brown, D.J. and Beard, Andy (2014) Accretionary lapilli cores and laminae: chemical tracers and 'time capsules' of a pyroclastic eruption? In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group: Annual Meeting, 2014, Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

Groom, Simon and Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andy (2014) Comparison of oceanic island lava flow suites separated by a lateral collapse - how does a major structural change impact on the magma supply system? In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group: Annual Meeting, 2014, Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

Fazio, M. and Jones, A. and Beard, Andy (2013) 2011-2012 eruption of Nyamuragira. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 7th-9th January 2013, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. (Unpublished)

Drake, Simon M. and Beard, Andy (2013) Bentonised silicic pyroclastic fall deposits at the base of the Palaeogene Skye Lava Field which possess welded ignimbrite like fabrics. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 7th-9th January 2013, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. (Unpublished)

Brown, D. and Drake, Simon M. and Beard, Andy (2013) Eruption chemistry recorded by accretionary lapilli within pyroclastic density current deposits, Kilchrist, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 7th-9th January 2013, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. (Unpublished)

Downes, Hilary and Smith, C.L. and Beard, Andy (2011) Early solar system processes revealed by an integrated study of ureilite meteorites. In: 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, 2011, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Drake, Simon M. and Brown, D.J. and Beard, Andy (2011) Eruption chemistry and ignimbrite deposition recorded by accretionary lapilli within pyroclastic density current deposits, Isle of Syke, NW Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 5th - 7th January 2011, Cambridge, UK. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary and Howard, K.T. (2011) Significance of opal in ureilites - delivery of H2O to the inner solar system? In: 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, 2011, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Drake, Simon M. and Brown, A.D. and Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary (2010) Widespread transport of pyroclastic density currents from a Skye volcano: correlation of ignimbrite lithofacies and the evolution of the Palaeogene Skye Central Complex, NW Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 4th - 6th January 2010, Glasgow, UK. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary and Howard, K. (2009) Hydrated silica (opal) in a polymict ureilite, EET 83309. In: 72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, 13th - 18th July 2009, Nancy, France. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andy and Howard, K. and Jones, A.P. (2009) Melanophlogite: a new occurrence from a recent eruption of Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2009, Bournemouth, UK. (Unpublished)

Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andy and Howard, K. (2009) Petrology of a granitic clast in polymict ureilite EET87720. In: 72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical-Society, 13th - 18th July 2009, Nancy, France. (Unpublished)

Drake, Simon M. and Brown, D.J. and Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary (2009) Silicic pyroclastic activity in the Skye Central Complex, NW Scotland: volcanic stratigraphy, eruption history and the assembly of coarse ignimbrite lithofacies. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2009, Bournemouth, UK. (Unpublished)

Kelly, J. and Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andy and Day, Simon (2009) Ultramafic cumulate xenoliths, Santo Antao, Cape Verde: crystal textures in a silica-undersaturated magma chamber. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2009, Bournemouth, UK. (Unpublished)

Smith, C.B. and Pearson, D.B. and Bulanova, G.P. and Beard, Andy and Carlson, R.W. and Sims, K. (2008) Extremely depleted lithospheric mantle and diamonds beneath the southern Zimbabwe Craton. In: 9th International Kimberlite Conference, 10th - 15th August, 2008, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. (Unpublished)

Jones, A.P. and Dobson, D. and Wood, I. and Beard, Andy and Verchovsky, A. and Milledge, H.J. (2008) Iron carbide and metallic inclusions in diamonds from Jagersfontein. In: 9th International Kimberlite Conference, 10th - 15th August, 2008, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. (Unpublished)

Chatterjee, B. and Haggerty, S.E. and Beard, Andy and Smith, C.B. and Townend, R. (2008) Kimberlite-carbonatite relationships revisited: evidence from Khaderpet pipe, Andhra Pradesh, India. In: 9th International Kimberlite Conference, 10th - 15th August, 2008, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary (2008) Mineralogy and petrology of haüyne-bearing ultramafic cumulate xenoliths, from Mt. Vulture, Southern Italy. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2008, Dublin, UK. (Unpublished)

Kelly, J. and Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andy (2008) Ultramafic cumulate xenoliths, Santo Antão, Cape Verde: windows into a silica-undersaturated magma chamber. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2008, Dublin, UK. (Unpublished)

Snape, J.F. and Joy, K.H. and Crawford, Ian and Beard, Andy (2008) A petrographic study of lunar meteorite Northeast Africa. In: 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 10th - 14th March 2008, Texas, USA. (Unpublished)

Drake, Simon M. and Brown, D.J. and Beard, Andy and Downes, Hilary (2008) A re-interpretation of the pyroclastic rocks marginal to the Eastern Red Hills around Kilchrist, Isle of Skye, N.W Scotland. In: Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, 2008, Dublin, UK. (Unpublished)

Miledge, J. and Beard, Andrew and Jones, A.P. and Mendelssohn, M. (2004) Evidence from cathodoluminescence of complex processes involved in the formation of natural diamonds. In: 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy. (Unpublished)

Mahotkin, I. and Downes, Hilary and Hegner, E. and Beard, Andrew (2003) Devonian dike swarms of alkaline, carbonatitic and primitive magmatype rocks the south Kola Peninsula: geochemical and isotopic constraints on plumelithospheric interaction. In: Eighth International Kimberlite Conference, 2003, Victoria, Canada. (Unpublished)

Smith, C.B. and Sims, K.M. and Chimuka, L. and Beard, Andrew and Townend, R. (2003) Kimberlite metasomatism at Murowa and Sese pipes, Zimbabwe. In: Eighth International Kimberlite Conference, 2003, Victoria, Canada. (Unpublished)

Tomlinson, E.L. and Jones, A.P. and Milledge, J. and Beard, Andy (2003) Multiple fluids in diamond coat and their role in diamond growth. In: Eighth International Kimberlite Conference, 2003, Victoria, Canada. (Unpublished)

Jones, A.P. and Beard, Andy and Milledge, J. and Cressey, G. and Kirk, C. and DeCarli, P. (2003) New nitride minerals in carbonado diamond. In: Eighth International Kimberlite Conference, 2003, Victoria, Canada. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Vetrin, V.R. (2001) Ultramafic xenoliths from minor intrusions, Kandalaksha: olivinefree ultramafic xenoliths from Devonian minor intrusions, Kola Peninsula, Russia: evidence for unexposed layered ultramaficcarbonatite intrusions. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 2001, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Milledge, H.J. (2000) Further studies microinclusions in coated stones. In: Diamond Conference, 2000. (Unpublished)

Balaganskaya, E. and Downes, Hilary and Subbotin, V. and Liferovich, R. and Beard, Andrew (2000) Kola carbonatites: new insights into their origin as shown by a Sr, Nd and geochemical study of the Vuorijarvi Massif, northeastern Baltic Shield, Russia. In: Carbonatite Workshop, 2000, Saint Etienne, France. (Unpublished)

Downes, Hilary and Beard, Andrew and Javis, K. and Vetrin, V. (2000) Mantle xenoliths from the Kola Peninsula: evidence for mantle processes beneath the Baltic Shield. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 2000, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Jarvis, K. and Vetrin, V. (2000) Ultramafic xenoliths from minor intrusions, Kandalaksha: evidence of a layered ultramaficcarbonatite intrusion at depth beneath the Gulf of Kandalaksha, Kola Peninsula. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 2000, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Ntaflos, T. (1999) Depletion and enrichment processes in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kola Peninsula: evidence of kimberlitic metsomatism from the spinel lherzolite and wehrlite xenoliths. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 1999, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Milledge, H.J. (1999) Further studies of inclusions, microinclusions and intrusions in diamond. In: Diamond Conference, 1999. (Unpublished)

Balaganskaya, E. and Downes, Hilary and Subbotin, V. and Liferovich, R. and Beard, Andrew (1999) Mantle sources of Kola carbonatites: new Sr, Nd and geochemical evidence from the Vuorijarvi massif. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 1999, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)

Milledge, H.J. and Woods, P.A. and Beard, Andrew and Shelkov, D. and Willis, B. (1998) Cathodoluminescence of polished carbonada. In: Seventh International Kimberlite Conference, 1998, Cape Town, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Mason, P.R.D. and Downes, Hilary (1998) Depletion and enrichment processes in lithospheric mantle beneath the Baltic Shield (Kola Peninsula and Arkangelsk) evidence from laser ICPMS analyses of mantle minerals. In: Seventh International Kimberlite Conference, 1998, Cape Town, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Milledge, H.J. (1998) Infrared and microprobe studies of intrusions and microinclusions in diamond. In: Seventh International Kimberlite Conference, 1998, Cape Town, South Africa. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. (1998) The lithospheric mantle beneath the Kola Peninsula and Arkhangelsk area: evidence from a laser ICPMS study of ultramafic xenoliths. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 1998, Repino, Russia. (Unpublished)

Beard, Andrew and Downes, Hilary and Hegner, E. and Sablukov, S.M. (1997) Geochemistry and mineralogy of kimberlites and carbonatites from the Arkhangelsk region, NW Russia. In: SVEKALAPKO workshop, 1997, University of Oulu, Finland. (Unpublished)