Professor Andrew Kerr

2025

• Fan, J. J. et al. 2025. Mo isotope evidence for the significance of subducted continental crust in formation of post-collisional porphyry Cu deposits. Chemical Geology 680, article number: 122683. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122683)
• Zhang, M. et al. 2025. Mantle metasomatism by subducted Indian continental crust: Evidence from post-collisional basaltic ultrapotassic rocks in southern Tibetan plateau. Lithos: Journal of Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry 498-9, article number: 107966. (10.1016/j.lithos.2025.107966)
• Khan, M. A., Kerr, A. C., Abdullah, ., Kakar, H. U., Tariq, M. and Naeem, A. 2025. Major and trace elements geochemistry of Ziarat laterite deposits, Ziarat District, western Pakistan. Implications for source rock materials and ore genesis. Carbonates and Evaporites 40(1), article number: 24. (10.1007/s13146-025-01063-7)
• Yang, F. et al. 2025. Petrogenesis of Late Miocene high Ba-Sr granitoids in eastern Pamir, northwest Tibetan Plateau: Insights into lithospheric mantle evolution and geodynamic processes during India-Asia bidirectional subduction. Journal of Petrology (10.1093/petrology/egaf026)
• Li, Q. et al. 2025. Light iron isotopes in high-silica granites record fluid evolution in magmatic-hydrothermal systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 391, pp. 277-290. (10.1016/j.gca.2024.12.034)
• Gong, L. et al. 2025. Eocene tearing and fragmentation of Indian lithosphere beneath the Woka rift, southern Tibet. GSA Bulletin 137(1-2), pp. 564-574. (10.1130/B37577.1)
• Kerr, A. 2025. Petrology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the dykes from the Zhob Ophiolite, Pakistan. Iranian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Gao, R., Wu, T., Kerr, A. C., Lui, H., Xiao, L. and Huang, W. 2025. Zircon U-Pb age and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope geochemistry of I-type granites in the Jiangda-Weixi region, Eastern Tibet: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Paleo-Tethyan orogen. Journal of Earth Science

2024

• Gooday, R. J., Condon, D. J., Brown, D. J., Kerr, A. C. and Goodenough, K. M. 2024. Rapid emplacement of a Palaeogene silicic volcanic centre, Arran, western Scotland. Lithos: Journal of Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry 488-48, article number: 107789. (10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107789)
• Percival, L. M. E., Matsumoto, H., Callegaro, S., Erba, E., Kerr, A. C., Mutterlose, J. and Suzuki, K. 2024. Cretaceous large igneous provinces: from volcanic formation to environmental catastrophes and biological crises. Geological Society Special Publications 544(1), article number: sp544-2023-88. (10.1144/SP544-2023-88)
• Liu, M. et al. 2024. Lithospheric evolution and uplift of the Tibetan Plateau during continental convergence: evidence from Early Oligocene pseudoleucite phonolites from southern Qiangtang, central Tibet. Journal of Petrology 65(11), article number: egae113. (10.1093/petrology/egae113)
• Xu, D. et al. 2024. Identifying recycled materials using Mo Isotopes in intraplate alkali basalts from the southeastern margin of Tibetan Plateau. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 25(10), article number: e2024GC011750. (10.1029/2024gc011750)
• Tao, Z. et al. 2024. Geodynamic evolution of the Proto-Tethys Ocean in the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt, NW Tibet: Implications from the sub-arc crust and lithospheric mantle modification. Journal of Petrology 65(10), article number: egae097. (10.1093/petrology/egae097)
• Yang, F. et al. 2024. Early Cretaceous continental arc magmatism in the Wakhan Corridor, South Pamir: mantle evolution and geodynamic processes during flat subduction of the Neo-Tethys oceanic slab. GSA Bulletin 136(9-10), pp. 4175-4194. (10.1130/b37411.1)
• Xu, C. et al. 2024. First identification of Mid-Miocene north-south trending dikes in the eastern Qiangtang terrane, eastern Tibet: Mantle melting and implications for plateau uplift. Lithos 478-9, article number: 107620. (10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107620)
• Wei, Y. et al. 2024. Eocene rhyolites in the Shanglaxiu-Xialaxiu area of north-eastern Qiangtang Block, Tibet: Partial melting of juvenile crust?. Lithos 476-7, article number: 107594. (10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107594)
• Yin, J. et al. 2024. Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: Insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China. Earth-Science Reviews 253, article number: 104795. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104795)
• Gao, R., Wu, T., Kerr, A. C. and Xiao, L. 2024. Origin of mafic microgranular enclaves from the Late Triassic Cuojiaoma granitic pluton: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Yidun arc belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 266, article number: 106131. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2024.106131)
• Hao, L. et al. 2024. Andesitic arc magmas derived from two contrasting mélange origins: Evidence from central Tibetan dioritic porphyries. Chemical Geology 650, article number: 121920. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121920)
• Tao, Z. et al. 2024. Subduction polarity reversal facilitated by plate coupling during arc-continent collision: Evidence from the Western Kunlun orogenic belt, northwest Tibetan Plateau. Geology 52(4), pp. 308-313. (10.1130/g51847.1)

2023

• Hao, L., Kerr, A. C., Wang, Q., Ma, L., Qi, Y., Xiao, M. and Ou, Q. 2023. Recycling of subducted Indian continental crust constrained by late Cretaceous mafic dykes in Central Lhasa block of the Tibetan plateau. Lithos 454-5, article number: 107276. (10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107276)
• Zhang, M. et al. 2023. Light Mo isotopes of post‐collisional ultrapotassic rocks in southern Tibet derived from subducted Indian continental crust. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24(10), article number: e2023GC011053. (10.1029/2023gc011053)
• Gao, R., Li, J., Kerr, A. C., Wu, T., Xiao, L., Wang, G. and He, X. 2023. Subducted oceanic slab break-off in a post-collisional setting: Constraints from petrogenesis of Late Carboniferous dykes in central West Junggar, Xinjiang, NW China. Geological Magazine 160(9), pp. 1711-1741. (10.1017/S0016756823000663)
• Wang, J. et al. 2023. Crustal growth identified by high-δ18O zircon and olivine: A perspective 2 from ultramafic arc cumulates in southern Tibet. Journal of Petrology 64(8), article number: egad052. (10.1093/petrology/egad052)
• Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Kerr, A. C., Wei, G., Qi, Y., Liu, Y. and Yang, Y. 2023. Sediment recycling by continental subduction indicated by B-Hf-Pb-Nd isotopes from Miocene?Quaternary lavas in the northern margin of Tibet. Lithos 444-44, article number: 107109. (10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107109)
• Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Wyman, D., Kerr, A. C., Gou, G., Dan, W. and Qi, Y. 2023. Are low-velocity zones within the Tibetan crust the result of crustal melting from at least 28 Ma?. Lithos 440-44, pp. 1-8., article number: 107044. (10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107044)
• Meng, F. et al. 2023. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Late Permian basalts from the Sichuan Basin, SW China: Implications for the geodynamics of the Emeishan mantle plume. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 241, article number: 105477. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105477)
• Ma, L. et al. 2023. Eocene magmatism in the Himalaya: response to lithospheric flexure during early Indian collision?. Geology 51(1), pp. 96-100. (10.1130/G50438.1)

2022

• Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Wyman, D., Kerr, A. C., Dan, W. and Qi, Y. 2022. Tibetan Plateau insights into >1100℃ crustal melting in the Quaternary. Geology 50(12), pp. 1432-1437. (10.1130/G50387.1)
• Hao, L. et al. 2022. Contribution of continental subduction to very light B isotope signatures in post-collisional magmas: evidence from southern Tibetan ultrapotassic rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 584, article number: 117508. (10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117508)
• Meng, F., Tian, Y., Kerr, A. C., Wang, Q., Chen, Y., Zhou, Y. and Yang, F. 2022. Neoarchean reworking of Mesoarchean and Paleoarchean crust (3.4 ∼ 3.0 Ga) within the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotopes from the basement of the Bohai Bay Basin. Precambrian Research 369, article number: 106497. (10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106497)
• Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C. and Hastie, A. R. 2022. Chronology and geochemistry of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province in Jamaica. Results in Geochemistry 6, article number: 100015. (10.1016/j.ringeo.2022.100015)
• Hao, L., Nan, X., Kerr, A. C., Li, S., Wu, Y., Wang, H. and Huang, F. 2022. Mg-Ba-Sr-Nd isotopic evidence for a mélange origin of early Paleozoic arc magmatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 577, article number: 117263. (10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117263)

2021

• Coombs, H., Kerr, A., Pindell, J., Buchs, D., Weber, B. and Solari, L. 2021. Petrogenesis of the crystalline basement along the Western Gulf of Mexico: Post-collisional magmatism during the formation of Pangaea. In: Martens, U. C. and Molina Garza, R. S. eds. Southern and Central Mexico: Basement Framework, Tectonic Evolution, and Provenance of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basins. GSA Special Papers. Geological Society of America, (10.1130/2020.2546(02))
• Huang, S., Wang, W., Kerr, A. C., Zhao, J., Xiong, Q. and Wang, J. 2021. The Fuchuan Ophiolite in South China: Evidence for modern-style plate tectonics during Rodinia breakup. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22(11), article number: e2021GC010137. (10.1029/2021GC010137)
• Hao, L. et al. 2021. Post-collisional crustal thickening and plateau uplift of southern Tibet: insights from Cenozoic magmatism in the Wuyu area of the eastern Lhasa block. Geological Society of America Bulletin 133(7-8), pp. 1634-1648. (10.1130/B35659.1)
• Hastie, A. R., Cox, S. and Kerr, A. C. 2021. Northeast- or southwest-dipping subduction in the Cretaceous Caribbean gateway?. Lithos, pp. 386-387. (10.1016/j.lithos.2021.105998)
• Naeem, A., Kerr, A. C., Kakar, M. I., Siddiqui, R. H., Khan, M. A. and Ahmed, N. 2021. Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks from Zhob ophiolite, North-Western Pakistan. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14(2), article number: 97. (10.1007/s12517-020-06352-0)

2020

• Boraiaha, C. K., Joshi, K. B., Kerr, A. C., Padhi, J. K., Mishra, S. S. and Chandan, R. 2020. Field, petrographic and geochemical characteristics of Sullya alkaline complex in the Cauvery Shear Zone (CSZ), southern India: Implications for petrogenesis. Journal of Earth System Science 129, article number: 111. (10.1007/s12040-020-1369-1)
• Khan, M. A., Kakar, M. I., Ulrich, T., Ali, L., Kerr, A. C., Mahmood, K. and Siddiqui, R. H. 2020. The genesis of manganese deposits in the Ali Khanzai Block from the Zhob Ophiolite, Pakistan: inferences from geochemistry and mineralogy. Journal of Earth Science 31, pp. 884-895. (10.1007/s12583-020-1337-3)
• Jerram, M., Bonnand, P., Kerr, A. C., Nisbet, E. G., Puchtel, I. S. and Halliday, A. N. 2020. The δ53Cr isotope composition of komatiite flows and implications for the composition of the bulk silicate Earth. Chemical Geology 551, article number: 119761. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119761)
• Ciborowski, T. J. R., Phillips, B. A., Kerr, A. C., Barfod, D. N. and Mark, D. F. 2020. Petrogenesis of Siletzia: the world’s youngest oceanic plateau. Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry 1, article number: 100004. (10.1016/j.ringeo.2020.100004)

2019

• McCoy-West, A. J. et al. 2019. Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes. Nature Geoscience 12(11), pp. 946-951. (10.1038/s41561-019-0451-2)
• Ma, L. et al. 2019. Nature and evolution of crust in Southern Lhasa, Tibet: transformation from microcontinent to juvenile terrane. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 124(7), pp. 6452-6474. (10.1029/2018JB017106)
• Cox, D., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A. R. and Kakar, M. I. 2019. Petrogenesis of plagiogranites in the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite, Pakistan: implications for the generation of Archaean continental crust. Geological Magazine 156(5), pp. 874-888. (10.1017/S0016756818000250)

2018

• Buchs, D. M., Kerr, A. C., Brims, J. C., Zapata-Villada, J. P., Correa-Restrepo, T. and Rodríguez, G. 2018. Evidence for subaerial development of the Caribbean oceanic plateau in the Late Cretaceous and palaeo-environmental implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 499, pp. 62-73. (10.1016/j.epsl.2018.07.020)
• Gooday, R., Brown, D. J., Goodenough, K. M. and Kerr, A. 2018. A proximal record of caldera-forming eruptions: the stratigraphy, eruptive history, and collapse of the Palaeogene Arran caldera, western Scotland. Bulletin of Volcanology 80, article number: 70. (10.1007/s00445-018-1243-z)
• Boraiaha, C., Ugarkar, A. G., Kerr, A., Chandan, R., Manuvachari, T. and Rajanna, S. 2018. Geology and geochemistry of metabasalts of Shimoga schist belt, Dharwar Craton: implications for the late Archean basin development. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 11(10), article number: 226. (10.1007/s12517-018-3568-5)
• Yang, G., Li, Y., Kerr, A. and Tong, L. 2018. Accreted seamounts in North Tianshan, NW China: implications for the evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 153, pp. 223-237. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.05.010)
• Ma, L., Kerr, A., Wang, Q., Jiang, Z. and Hu, W. 2018. Early Cretaceous (~ 140 Ma) aluminous A-type granites in the Tethyan Himalaya, Tibet: Products of crust-mantle interaction during lithospheric extension. Lithos 300-01, pp. 212-226. (10.1016/j.lithos.2017.11.023)
• Batki, A. et al. 2018. Insights into the evolution of an alkaline magmatic system: An in situ trace element study of clinopyroxenes from the Ditrău Alkaline Massif, Romania. Lithos 300-01, pp. 51-71. (10.1016/j.lithos.2017.11.029)

2017

• Ma, L., Wang, Q., Kerr, A., Xia, X., Ou, Q., Yang, Z. and Sun, P. 2017. Paleocene (c. 62 Ma) leucogranites in southern Lhasa, Tibet: products of syn-collisional crustal anatexis during slab roll-back?. Journal of Petrology 58(11), pp. 2089-2114. (10.1093/petrology/egy001)
• Ciborowski, J., Minifie, M. J., Kerr, A. C., Ernst, R. and Baragar, B. 2017. A mantle plume origin for the Palaeoproterozoic Circum-Superior Large Igneous Province. Precambrian Research 294, pp. 189-213. (10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.001)
• Ugakar, A., Kumar, B., Malapur, M. and Kerr, A. 2017. Petrography and geochemistry of Archaean Greywackes from Northern Part of the Dharwar-Shimoga Greenstone Belt, Western Dharwar Craton: implications for nature of provenance. Journal of the Geological Society of India 89(5), pp. 547-553. (10.1007/s12594-017-0643-6)
• Siddiqui, R. H., Jan, M. Q., Kakar, M. I., Kerr, A., Khan, A. S. and Kakar, E. 2017. Petrogenesis of Middle Triassic volcaniclastic rocks from Balochistan, Pakistan: implications for the break-up of Gondwanaland. Journal of Earth Science 28(2), pp. 218-228. (10.1007/s12583-016-0911-x)
• Phillips, B. A., Kerr, A. C., Mullen, E. K. and Weis, D. 2017. Oceanic mafic magmatism in the Siletz terrane, NW North America: Fragments of an Eocene oceanic plateau?. Lithos 274-75, pp. 291-303. (10.1016/j.lithos.2017.01.005)
• Gall, L., Williams, H. M., Halliday, A. N. and Kerr, A. C. 2017. Nickel isotopic composition of the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 199, pp. 196-209. (10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.016)

2016

• Gurenko, A. A., Kamenetsky, V. S. and Kerr, A. C. 2016. Oxygen isotopes and volatile contents of the Gorgona komatiites, Colombia: A confirmation of the deep mantle origin of H2O. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 454, pp. 154-165. (10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.035)
• Hastie, A. R., Fitton, J. G., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Schwindrofska, A. and Hoernle, K. 2016. The composition of mantle plumes and the deep Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 444, pp. 13-25. (10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.023)
• Phillips, B. A., Kerr, A. C. and Bevins, R. E. 2016. A re-appraisal of the petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Ordovician Fishguard Volcanic Group, SW Wales. Geological Magazine 153(3), pp. 410-425. (10.1017/S0016756815000461)
• Kerr, A., Lavis, O., Kakar, M. I. and McDonald, I. 2016. Petrogenesis and tectonomagmatic significance of Eocene mafic intrusions from the Neotethyan suture zone in the Muslim Bagh-Khanozai region, Pakistan. Journal of the Geological Society 173, pp. 518-530. (10.1144/jgs2015-062)
• Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Boyce, A. J., Holwell, D. A. and Kerr, A. C. 2016. Sulphide sinking in magma conduits: evidence from maficultramafic plugs on Rum and the wider North Atlantic Igneous Province. Journal of Petrology 57(2), pp. 383-416. (10.1093/petrology/egw010)
• Ciborowski, T. R. and Kerr, A. C. 2016. Did mantle plume magmatism help trigger the Great Oxidation Event?. Lithos 246, pp. 128-133. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.12.017)

2015

• Siddiqui, R. H., Khan, M. A., Jan, M. Q., Kakar, M. I. and Kerr, A. C. 2015. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Oligocene volcaniclastic rocks from the Chagai Arc: Implications for the emplacement of porphyry copper deposits. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 8(10), pp. 8655-8667. (10.1007/s12517-015-1815-6)
• Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I. and Kerr, A. C. 2015. Platinum group element signatures in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: Implications for mantle controls on metal budgets during continental breakup. Lithos 233, pp. 89-110. (10.1016/j.lithos.2015.05.005)
• Ciborowski, J., Kerr, A., Ernst, R., McDonald, I., Minife, M., Harlan, S. and Millar, I. 2015. The Early Proterozoic Matachewan Large Igneous Province: geochemistry, petrogenesis, and implications for Earth evolution. Journal of Petrology 56(8), pp. 1459-1494. (10.1093/petrology/egv038)
• Kakar, M. I., Mahmood, K., Arif, M., Khan, M., Kerr, A. C., Mohibullah, M. and Kasi, A. K. 2015. Petrology and geochemistry of mafic dykes from the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite (Pakistan): implications for petrogenesis and emplacement. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 24, pp. 165-178. (10.3906/yer-1404-24)

2014

• Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E., Hughes, H. S. R. and Minifie, M. J. 2014. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Paleoproterozoic du Chef dyke swarm, Québec, Canada. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 151-166. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.008)
• Hughes, H. S. R., McDonald, I., Goodenough, K. M., Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., Davies, J. H. and Selby, D. 2014. Enriched lithospheric mantle keel below the Scottish margin of the North Atlantic Craton: Evidence from the Palaeoproterozoic Scourie Dyke Swarm and mantle xenoliths. Precambrian Research 250, pp. 97-126. (10.1016/j.precamres.2014.05.026)
• Kakar, M. I., Kerr, A. C., Mahmood, K., Collins, A. S., Khan, M. and McDonald, I. 2014. Supra-subduction zone tectonic setting of the Muslim Bagh Ophiolite, northwestern Pakistan: Insights from geochemistry and petrology. Lithos 202-20, pp. 190-206. (10.1016/j.lithos.2014.05.029)
• Neill, I. et al. 2014. Vestiges of the proto-Caribbean seaway: origin of the San Souci Volcanic Group, Trinidad. Tectonophysics 626, pp. 170-185. (10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.019)
• Kerr, A. C. 2014. Oceanic plateaus. In: Holland, H. D. and Turekian, K. K. eds. Treatise on Geochemistry: Vol. 4: The crust. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 631-667., (10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.00320-X)
• Keller, G. and Kerr, A. eds. 2014. Volcanism impacts and mass extinctions: Causes and effects. Geological Society of America. (10.1130/SPE505)

2013

• Minifie, M. J., Kerr, A. C., Ernst, R. E., Hastie, A. R., Ciborowski, T., Desharnais, G. and Millar, I. L. 2013. The northern and southern sections of the western ca. 1880 Ma Circum-Superior Large Igneous Province, North America: The Pickle Crow dyke connection?. Lithos 174, pp. 217-235. (10.1016/j.lithos.2012.03.017)
• Ciborowski, T., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Ernst, R. E. and Minifie, M. J. 2013. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Blue Draw Metagabbro. Lithos 174, pp. 271-290. (10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.035)
• Ernst, R. E., Bleeker, W., Söderlund, U. and Kerr, A. C. 2013. Large Igneous Provinces and supercontinents: Toward completing the plate tectonic revolution [Editorial]. Lithos 174, pp. 1-14. (10.1016/j.lithos.2013.02.017)
• Hastie, A. R., Mitchell, S. F., Treloar, P. J., Kerr, A. C., Neill, I. and Barfod, D. N. 2013. Geochemical components in a Cretaceous island arc: The Th/La–(Ce/Ce*)Nd diagram and implications for subduction initiation in the inter-American region. Lithos 162-3, pp. 57-69. (10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.001)
• Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A. R., Pindell, J. and Millar, I. L. 2013. The Albian-Turonian Island Arc Rocks of Tobago, West Indies: Geochemistry, petrogenesis, and Caribbean plate tectonics. Journal of Petrology 54(8), pp. 1607-1639. (10.1093/petrology/egt025)

2012

• Peate, D. W., Peate, I. U., Rowe, M. C., Thompson, J. M. and Kerr, A. C. 2012. Petrogenesis of high-MgO lavas of the lower Mull Plateau Group, Scotland: insights from melt inclusions. Journal of Petrology 53(9), pp. 1867-1886. (10.1093/petrology/egs036)
• Hibbert, K. E. J., Williams, H. M., Kerr, A. C. and Puchtel, I. S. 2012. Iron isotopes in ancient and modern komatiites: evidence in support of an oxidised mantle from Archean to present. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 321-22, pp. 198-207. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.011)
• Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A., Pindell, J., Millar, I. L. and Atkinson, N. 2012. Age and petrogenesis of the Lower Cretaceous North Coast Schist of Tobago, a fragment of the pre-Greater Antilles inter-American arc system. Journal of Geology 120(4), pp. 367-384. (10.1086/665798)
• Kerr, A. C. and Menzies, M. A. 2012. Phanerozoic volcanism. In: Roberts, D. G. and Bally, A. W. eds. Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 40-74., (10.1016/B978-0-444-53042-4.00002-9)
• Kakar, M. I., Mahmood, K., Kerr, A. C., Collins, A. S., Shah, M. T. and Kasi, A. K. 2012. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the volcanic rocks from Bagh complex, northern Balochistan, Pakistan. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences 45(1), pp. 17-29.
• Knox, R. W. et al. 2012. Examining the case for the use of the Tertiary as a formal period or informal unit. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123(3), pp. 390-393. (10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.05.004)

2011

• Hastie, A. R., Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C., Minifie, M. J. and Millar, I. L. 2011. Geochemistry of rare high-Nb basalt lavas: Are they derived from a mantle wedge metasomatised by slab melts?. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 75(17), pp. 5049-5072. (10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.018)
• Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A. R., Stanek, K. and Millar, I. L. 2011. Origin of the Aves Ridge and Dutch-Venezuelan Antilles: interaction of the Cretaceous 'Great Arc' and Caribbean-Colombian Oceanic Plateau?. Journal of the Geological Society 168(2), pp. 333-348. (10.1144/0016-76492010-067)
• Zalasiewicz, J. et al. 2011. Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369(1938), pp. 1036-1055. (10.1098/rsta.2010.0315)

2010

• Neill, I., Gibbs, J. A., Hastie, A. R. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Origin of the volcanic complexes of La Désirade, Lesser Antilles: implications for tectonic reconstruction of the Late Jurassic to Cretaceous Pacific-proto Caribbean margin. Lithos 120(3-4), pp. 407-420. (10.1016/j.lithos.2010.08.026)
• Hastie, A., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S. F., Pearce, J. A., Wolstencroft, M. and Millar, I. L. 2010. Do Cenozoic analogues support a plate tectonic origin for Earth's earliest continental crust?. Geology 38(6), pp. 495-498. (10.1130/G30778.1)
• Hastie, A. R. et al. 2010. Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: a new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust?. Chemical Geology 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
• Kerr, A. C., Khan, M. and McDonald, I. 2010. Eruption of basaltic magma at Tor Zawar, Balochistan, Pakistan on 27 January 2010: geochemical and petrological constraints on petrogenesis. Mineralogical Magazine 74(6), pp. 1027-1036. (10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.1027)
• Hastie, A. R., Ramsook, R., Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C., Millar, I. L. and Mark, D. F. 2010. Geochemistry of Compositionally Distinct Late Cretaceous Back-Arc Basin Lavas: Implications for the Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the Caribbean Plate. Journal of Geology 118(6), pp. 655-676. (10.1086/656353)
• van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R. A., Kerr, A. C., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D. and Villagomez, D. 2010. Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone. Tectonics 29(6), article number: TC6003. (10.1029/2009TC002654)
• Kamenetsky, V. S., Gurenko, A. A. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Composition and temperature of komatiite melts from Gorgona Island, Colombia, constrained from olivine-hosted melt inclusions. Geology 38(11), pp. 1003-1006. (10.1130/G31143.1)
• Kerr, A. C., Khan, M., Mahoney, J. J., Nicholson, K. N. and Hall, C. M. 2010. Late Cretaceous alkaline sills of the south Tethyan suture zone, Pakistan: initial melts of the Réunion hotspot?. Lithos 117(1-4), pp. 161-171. (10.1016/j.lithos.2010.02.010)
• Hastie, A. R. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Mantle plume or slab window?: physical and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Caribbean oceanic plateau. Earth-Science Reviews 98(3-4), pp. 283-293. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.11.001)

2009

• Montgomery, H. and Kerr, A. C. 2009. Rethinking the origins of the red chert at La Desirade, French West Indies. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 457-467. (10.1144/SP328.18)
• Kerr, A. C., Pearson, D. G. and Nowell, G. M. 2009. Magma source evolution beneath the Caribbean oceanic plateau: new insights from elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic studies of ODP Leg 165 Site 1001 basalts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 809-827. (10.1144/SP328.31)
• Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Mitchell, S. F. and Millar, I. L. 2009. Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic significance of Lower Cretaceous island arc lavas from the Devils Racecourse Formation, eastern Jamaica. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 339-360. (10.1144/SP328.14)

2008

• Thompson, P. M., Kempton, P. D. and Kerr, A. C. 2008. Evaluation of the effects of alteration and leaching on Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf systematics in submarine mafic rocks. Lithos 104(1-4), pp. 164-176. (10.1016/j.lithos.2007.12.005)
• Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Mitchell, S. F. and Millar, I. L. 2008. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Cretaceous oceanic plateau lavas in eastern Jamaica. Lithos 101(3-4), pp. 323-343. (10.1016/j.lithos.2007.08.003)
• Zalasiewicz, J. et al. 2008. Are we now living in the Anthropocene?. GSA Today 18(2), pp. 4-8. (10.1130/GSAT01802A.1)

2007

• Khan, M., Kerr, A. C. and Mahmood, K. 2007. Formation and tectonic evolution of the Cretaceous-Jurassic Muslim Bagh ophiolitic complex, Pakistan: Implications for the composite tectonic setting of ophiolites. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 31(2), pp. 112-127. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.04.006)
• Kerr, A. C. and Mahoney, J. J. 2007. Oceanic plateaus: Problematic plumes, potential paradigms. Chemical Geology 241(3-4), pp. 332-353. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.019)
• Campbell, I. H. and Kerr, A. C. 2007. The Great Plume Debate: Testing the plume theory. Chemical Geology 241(3-4), pp. 149-152. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.013)
• Sobolev, A. V. et al. 2007. The amount of recycled crust in sources of mantle-derived melts. Science 316(5823), pp. 412-417. (10.1126/science. 1138113)
• Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Pearce, J. A. and Mitchell, S. F. 2007. Classification of Altered Volcanic Island Arc Rocks using Immobile Trace Elements: Development of the Th Co Discrimination Diagram. Journal of Petrology 48(12), pp. 2341-2357. (10.1093/petrology/egm062)

2006

• Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2006. The Quebradagrande Complex: A Lower Cretaceous ensialic marginal basin in the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21(4), pp. 423-436. (10.1016/j.jsames.2006.07.002)

2005

• Kerr, A. C. 2005. Oceanic LIPs: The kiss of death. Elements 1(5), pp. 289-292. (10.2113/gselements.1.5.289)
• Kerr, A. C. 2005. La Isla de Gorgona, Colombia: A petrological enigma?. Lithos 84(1-2), pp. 77-101. (10.1016/j.lithos.2005.02.006)
• Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2005. Tectonic evolution of the Caribbean and northwestern South America. The case for accretion of two Late Cretaceous oceanic plateaus. Geology 33(4), pp. 269-272. (10.1130/G21109.1)

2004

• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Kempton, P. D., Pringle, M. S. and Nivia, A. 2004. Mafic pegmatites intruding oceanic plateau Gabbros and ultramafic cumulates from Bolívar, Colombia: Evidence for a ‘wet’ mantle plume?. Journal of Petrology 45(9), pp. 1877-1906. (10.1093/petrology/egh037)
• Thompson, P. M. E., Kempton, P. D., White, R. V., Saunders, A. D., Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J. and Pringle, M. S. 2004. Elemental, Hf-Nd isotopic and geochronological constraints on an island arc sequence associated with the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau: Bonaire, Dutch Antilles. Lithos 74(1-2), pp. 91-116. (10.1016/j.lithos.2004.01.004)
• Thompson, P. M. E. et al. 2004. Hf-Nd isotope constraints on the origin of the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau and its relationship to the Galapagos plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 217(1-2), pp. 59-75. (10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00542-9)

2003

• Geldmacher, J. et al. 2003. Hafnium isotopic variations in volcanic rocks from the Caribbean Large Igneous Province and Galapagos hot spot tracks. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(7), article number: 1062. (10.1029/2002GC000477)
• Kerr, A. C. 2003. Oceanic plateaus. In: Rudnick, R. ed. The Crust. Treatise on Geochemistry Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 537-565., (10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/03033-4)

2002

• Kerr, A. C., Aspden, J. A., Tarney, J. and Pilatasig, L. F. 2002. The nature and provenance of accreted oceanic terranes in western Ecuador: geochemical and tectonic constraints. Journal of the Geological Society 159(5), pp. 577-594. (10.1144/0016-764901-151)
• Thompson, P. M. E., Kempton, P. D., White, R. V., Saunders, A. D., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2002. Hf-Nd isotope systematics of the Gorgona komatiites, and their relationship with the Caribbean Plateau. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(Supp1), pp. A773-A773.
• Schaefer, B. F., Parkinson, I. J., Hole, M. J., Kerr, A. C., Scarrow, J. H. and Rogers, N. W. 2002. Re-Os isotope systematics of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province; Multiple mantle sources in the proto-Iceland plume. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(Supp1), pp. A672-A672.
• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Kempton, P. D., Spadea, P., Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F. and Duncan, R. A. 2002. Pervasive mantle plume head heterogeneity: Evidence from the late Cretaceous Caribbean-Colombian oceanic plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 107(B7), article number: 2140. (10.1029/2001JB000790|)

2001

• Kerr, A. C. and Arndt, N. T. 2001. A note on the IUGS reclassification of the high-Mg and picritic volcanic rocks. Journal of Petrology 42(11), pp. 2169-2171. (10.1093/petrology/42.11.2169)

2000

• Scarrow, J. H., Curran, J. M. and Kerr, A. C. 2000. Major element records of variable plume involvement in the North Atlantic Province tertiary flood basalts. Journal of Petrology 41(7), pp. 1155-1176. (10.1093/petrology/41.7.1155)
• Kerr, A. C., White, R. V. and Saunders, A. D. 2000. LIP reading: Recognizing oceanic plateaux in the geological record. Journal of Petrology 41(7), pp. 1041-1056. (10.1093/petrology/41.7.1041)
• Hauff, F., Hoernle, K., Tilton, G., Graham, D. W. and Kerr, A. C. 2000. Large volume recycling of oceanic lithosphere over short time scales: geochemical constraints from the Caribbean Large Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 174(3-4), pp. 247-263. (10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00272-1)

1999

• Revillon, S., Arndt, N. T., Hallot, E., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 1999. Petrogenesis of picrites from the Caribbean Plateau and the North Atlantic magmatic province. Lithos 49(1-4), pp. 1-21. (10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00038-9)
• Kerr, A. C., Kent, R. W., Thomson, B. A., Seedhouse, J. K. and Donaldson, C. H. 1999. Geochemical evolution of the Tertiary Mull volcano, Western Scotland. Journal of Petrology 40(6), pp. 873-908. (10.1093/petroj/40.6.87)
• Walker, R. J., Storey, M., Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J. and Arndt, N. T. 1999. Implications of Os-187 isotopic heterogeneities in a mantle plume: Evidence from Gorgona Island and Curacao. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 63(5), pp. 713-728. (10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00041-1)
• White, R. V., Tarney, J., Kerr, A. C., Saunders, A. D., Kempton, P. D., Pringle, M. S. and Klaver, G. T. 1999. Modification of an oceanic plateau, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean: Implications for the generation of continental crust. Lithos 46(1), pp. 43-68.
• Kerr, A. C., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Saunders, A. D., Babbs, T. L. and Tarney, J. 1999. A new plate tectonic model of the Caribbean: Implications from a geochemical reconnaissance of Cuban Mesozoic volcanic rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111(11), pp. 1581-1599. (10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1581:ANPTMO>2.3.CO;2)

1998

• Kerr, A. C. and Kent, R. W. 1998. Discussion on application of palynological data to the chronology of the Palaeogene lava fields of the British Province. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 733-735. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0733)
• Kerr, A. C. 1998. Oceanic plateau formation: a cause of mass extinction and black shale deposition around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary?. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 619-626. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0619)
• Kent, R. W., Thomson, B. A., Skelhorn, R. R., Kerr, A. C., Norry, M. J. and Walsh, J. N. 1998. Emplacement of Hebridean Tertiary flood basalts: evidence from an inflated pahoehoe lava flow on Mull, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 599-607. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0599)
• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F. and Saunders, A. D. 1998. The internal structure of oceanic plateaus: inferences from obducted Cretaceous terranes in western Colombia and the Caribbean. Tectonophysics 292(3-4), pp. 173-188.
• Kerr, A. C. 1998. Mineral chemistry of the Mull-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, western Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 62(3), pp. 295-312.
• Kerr, A. C. 1998. On the nature of the parental magma of the Palaeogene Staffa Magma sub-type, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Earth Sciences 89, pp. 87-93.

1997

• Kerr, A. C. 1997. The geochemistry and significance of plugs intruding the Tertiary Mull-Morvern lava succession, western Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 33(2), pp. 157-167. (10.1144/sjg33020157)
• Kerr, A. C., Marriner, G. F., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Saunders, A. D., Thirlwall, M. F. and Sinton, C. W. 1997. Cretaceous basaltic terranes in western Colombia: Elemental, chronological and Sr-Nd isotopic constraints on petrogenesis. Journal of Petrology 38(6), pp. 677-702. (10.1093/petroj/38.6.677)
• Arndt, N. T., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 1997. Dynamic melting in plume heads: the formation of Gorgona komatiites and basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146(1-2), pp. 289-301.
• Kerr, A. C. 1997. Asteroid impact and mass extinction at the K-T boundary: an extinct red herring. Geology Today 13(4), pp. 157-159. (10.1046/j.1365-2451.1997.t01-1-00014.x)
• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Nivia, A. and Saunders, A. D. 1997. The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous igneous province: The internal anatomy of an oceanic plateau. In: Mahoney, J. J. and Coffin, M. F. eds. Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism. AGU Geophysical Monograph Vol. 100. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, pp. 123-144., (10.1029/GM100p0123)
• Saunders, A. D., Fitton, J. G., Kerr, A. C., Norry, M. J. and Kent, R. W. 1997. The north Atlantic igneous province. In: Mahoney, J. J. and Coffin, M. F. eds. Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism. AGU Geophysical Monograph Vol. 100. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, pp. 45-93., (10.1029/GM100p0045)

1996

• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Klaver, G. T., Saunders, A. D. and Thirlwall, M. F. 1996. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the late-Cretaceous picrites and basalts of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles: A remnant of an oceanic plateau. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 124(1), pp. 29-43. (10.1007/s004100050171)
• Emeleus, C. H., Allwright, E. A., Kerr, A. C. and Williamson, I. T. 1996. Red tuffs in the Palaeocene lava successions of the Inner Hebrides. Scottish Journal of Geology 32(1), pp. 83-89. (10.1144/sjg32010083)
• Kerr, A. C., Marriner, G. F., Arndt, N. T., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Saunders, A. D. and Duncan, R. A. 1996. The petrogenesis of Gorgona komatiites, picrites and basalts: New field, petrographic and geochemical constraints. Lithos 37(2-3), pp. 245-260.
• Saunders, A. D., Tarney, J., Kerr, A. C. and Kent, R. W. 1996. The formation and fate of large oceanic igneous provinces. Lithos 37(2-3), pp. 81-95.
• Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Nivia, A., Klaver, G. T. and Saunders, A. D. 1996. The geochemistry and tectonic setting of late Cretaceous Caribbean and Colombian volcanism. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9(1-2), pp. 111-120.

1995

• Kerr, A. C. 1995. The melting processes and composition of the North Atlantic (Iceland) plume: geochemical evidence from the Early Tertiary basalts. Journal of the Geological Society 152(6), pp. 975-978. (10.1144/GSL.JGS.1995.152.01.16)
• Kerr, A. C., Saunders, A. D., Tarney, J., Berry, N. H. and Hards, V. L. 1995. Depleted mantle-plume geochemical signatures: No paradox for plume theories. Geology 23(9), pp. 843-846. (10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0843:DMPGSN>2.3.CO;2)
• Kerr, A. C., Thompson, R. N. and Bernstein, S. 1995. High-pressure fractionation in rift-related basaltic magmatism: Faeroe plateau basalts [Comment]. Geology 23(7), pp. 671-672. (10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0671:HPFIRR>2.3.CO;2)
• Kerr, A. C. 1995. The geochemistry of the Mull-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, NW Scotland: an assessment of mantle sources during plume-related volcanism. Chemical Geology 122(1-4), pp. 43-58. (10.1016/0009-2541(95)00009-B)
• Kerr, A. C., Kempton, P. D. and Thompson, R. N. 1995. Crustal assimilation during turbulent magma ascent (ATA); new isotopic evidence from the Mull Tertiary lava succession, N. W. Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 119(2-3), pp. 142-154. (10.1007/BF00307277)

1994

• Kerr, A. C. 1994. Lithospheric thinning during the evolution of continental large igneous provinces: A case study from the North Atlantic Tertiary province. Geology 22(11), pp. 1027-1030. (10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<1027:LTDTEO>2.3.CO;2)

1993

• Kerr, A. C. 1993. Current research in the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Journal of the Geological Society 150(6), pp. 1193-1194. (10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1193)
• Kerr, A. C. 1993. Elemental evidence for an enriched small-fraction-melt input into Tertiary Mull basalts, Western Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 150(4), pp. 763-769. (10.1144/gsjgs.150.4.0763)

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• Kakar, M. I., Khan, M., Mahmood, K. and Kerr, A. C. . Facies and distribution of metamorphic rocks beneath the Muslim Bagh ophiolite, (NW Pakistan): tectonic implications. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences 47(2), pp. 115-124.