Professor Johan Lissenberg

2026

• Brazelton, W. J. et al., 2026. An interdisciplinary approach to sampling hard rock cores of the oceanic crust for microbiological and biogeochemical research. Scientific Drilling 35 (2), pp.159-169. (10.5194/sd-35-159-2026)
• Spencer, L. M. et al. 2026. A mantle origin for high-Sr late Archean tonalite-trondhjemite granodiorite suites. Geology 54 (5), pp.440-445. (10.1130/g54038.1)
• Rui, H. et al., 2026. Melt flow control on lithological and geochemical heterogeneity of the oceanic upper mantle. National Science Review 13 (7) nwag130. (10.1093/nsr/nwag130)
• Zhang, W. et al., 2026. Zinc isotope evidence for extensive carbonate recycling in the Arctic asthenosphere. Nature Communications 17 4340. (10.1038/s41467-026-71022-w)
• Hinchey, A. M. et al., 2026. Silurian mafic magmatism related to post-collisional extension, Appalachian orogen, western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 63 (10.1139/cjes-2025-0016)

2025

• Zhang, W. et al., 2025. Spreading modes at slow-spreading ridges shifted by mantle heterogeneity of the asthenosphere. National Science Review 12 (11) nwaf385. (10.1093/nsr/nwaf385)
• Lang, S. Q. et al., 2025. Hydrogen, single-carbon compounds, and thermal regime in the oceanic ultramafic-dominated lithosphere: insights from a deep borehole on the Atlantis Massif. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 408 , pp.84-104. (10.1016/j.gca.2025.09.024)
• Rodney, J. B. et al., 2025. Assessing the timing of deep ocean oxygenation from uranium elemental and isotopic compositions of ophiolites. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 666 119489. (10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119489)
• Humphreys, M. C. S. et al., 2025. Crystal mush processes and crustal magmatism. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 6 , pp.401–416. (10.1038/s43017-025-00682-x)
• Gleeson, M. et al. 2025. Persistent high-pressure magma storage beneath a near-ridge ocean island volcano (Isla Floreana, Galápagos). Journal of Petrology 66 (5) egaf031. (10.1093/petrology/egaf031)
• Cooper, G. F. et al. 2025. Crustal versus mantle-level aggregation of heterogeneous melts at mid-ocean ridges. Geology 53 (5), pp.430-434. (10.1130/g52872.1)
• Zhang, W. et al., 2025. The role of detachment faulting in the genesis of oceanic felsic melts. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1) 109. (10.1038/s43247-025-02098-3)

2024

• Spencer, L. et al. 2024. Tracing hydrous eclogite melts in the source of sanukitoids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 648 119067. (10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119067)
• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2024. A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite. Science 385 (6709), pp.623-629. (10.1126/science.adp1058)
• Jansen, M. N. et al. 2024. Relationship between of D-MORB and E-MORB magmatism during crustal accretion at mid-ocean ridges: evidence from the Masirah ophiolite (Oman). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 25 (3) e2023GC011361. (10.1029/2023GC011361)
• Zhang, W. et al., 2024. Post-cumulus control on copper isotopic fractionation during oceanic intra-crustal magmatic differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 369 , pp.35-50. (10.1016/j.gca.2024.01.030)
• Klaver, M. et al., 2024. Titanium-rich basaltic melts on the Moon modulated by reactive flow processes. Nature Geoscience 17 , pp.118-123. (10.1038/s41561-023-01362-5)

2023

• Ribeiro, J. , MacLeod, C. J. and Lissenberg, C. J. 2023. Did the Troodos ophiolite of Cyprus form during subduction inception?. Chemical Geology 641 121774. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121774)
• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2023. Crystallization of superfast‐spreading oceanic crust (ODP Hole 1256D, Pacific Ocean): constraints from zircon geochronology. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24 (10) e2023GC010964. (10.1029/2023gc010964)
• Gleeson, M. L. M. , Lissenberg, C. J. and Antoshechkina, P. M. 2023. Porosity evolution of mafic crystal mush during reactive flow. Nature Communications 14 3088. (10.1038/s41467-023-38136-x)

2022

• Ferrando, C. et al., 2022. Brown amphibole as tracer of tectono-magmatic evolution of the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Core Complex (IODP Hole U1473A). Journal of Petrology 63 (9) egac089. (10.1093/petrology/egac089)
• Ribeiro, J. et al., 2022. Origin and evolution of the slab fluids since subduction inception in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana: A comparison with the southeast Mariana fore-arc rift. Chemical Geology 601 120813. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120813)

2020

• Sanfilippo, A. et al., 2020. Early-stage melt-rock reaction in a cooling crystal mush beneath a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge (IODP Hole U1473A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge). Frontiers in Earth Science 8 579138. (10.3389/feart.2020.579138)
• Boulanger, M. et al., 2020. Magma reservoir formation and evolution at a slow-spreading center (Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge). Frontiers in Earth Science 8 554598. (10.3389/feart.2020.554598)
• Hoare, L. et al. 2020. Melt chemistry and redox conditions control titanium isotope fractionation during magmatic differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 282 , pp.38-54. (10.1016/j.gca.2020.05.015)

2019

• Yang, A. Y. et al., 2019. Reaction between mid-ocean ridge basalt and lower oceanic crust: an experimental study. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20 (9), pp.4390 - 4407. (10.1029/2019GC008368)
• Bennett, E. N. et al. 2019. Deep roots for mid-ocean-ridge volcanoes revealed by plagioclase-hosted melt inclusions. Nature 572 (7768), pp.235-239. (10.1038/s41586-019-1448-0)
• Lambart, S. et al. 2019. Highly heterogeneous depleted mantle recorded in the lower oceanic crust. Nature Geoscience 12 , pp.482-486. (10.1038/s41561-019-0368-9)
• Graaff, S. J. et al., 2019. Evidence for a moist to wet source transition throughout the Oman-UAE ophiolite, and implications for the geodynamic history. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20 (2), pp.651-672. (10.1029/2018GC007923)
• Lissenberg, C. J. , MacLeod, C. J. and Bennett, E. N. 2019. Consequences of a crystal mush-dominated magma plumbing system: a mid-ocean ridge perspective. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 377 (2139)(10.1098/rsta.2018.0014)
• Sanfilippo, A. et al., 2019. Emplacement and high-temperature evolution of gabbros of the 16.5°N oceanic core complexes (Mid-Atlantic Ridge): Insights ito the compositional variability of the lower oceanic crust. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20 (1), pp.46-66. (10.1029/2018GC007512)

2018

• Jansen, M. N. et al. 2018. Isotopic variation in Semail Ophiolite lower crust reveals crustal-level melt aggregation. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 8 , pp.37-42. (10.7185/geochemlet.1827)
• Sun, C. and Lissenberg, C. J. 2018. Formation of fast-spreading lower oceanic crust as revealed by a new Mg–REE coupled geospeedometer. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 487 , pp.165-178. (10.1016/j.epsl.2018.01.032)
• Leuthold, J. et al., 2018. Partial melting of Lower Oceanic Crust Gabbro: Constraints from Poikilitic Clinopyroxene Primocrysts. Frontiers in Earth Science 6 15. (10.3389/feart.2018.00015)
• Karykowski, B. T. et al. 2018. In situ Sr isotope compositions of plagioclase from a complete stratigraphic profile of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa: evidence for extensive magma mixing and percolation. Journal of Petrology 58 (11), pp.2285-2308. (10.1093/petrology/egy008)

2017

• Klaver, M. et al., 2017. A mineral and cumulate perspective to magma differentiation at Nisyros volcano, Aegean arc. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 172 (11-12) 95. (10.1007/s00410-017-1414-5)

2016

• Lissenberg, C. J. and MacLeod, C. J. 2016. A reactive porous flow control on mid-ocean ridge magmatic evolution. Journal of Petrology 57 (11-12), pp.2195-2220. (10.1093/petrology/egw074)
• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2016. Crystallization depth beneath an oceanic detachment fault (ODP Hole 923A, Mid-Atlantic Ridge). Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 17 (1), pp.162-180. (10.1002/2015GC006027)

2015

• Hayes, B. et al. 2015. Sulfide immiscibility induced by wall-rock assimilation in a fault-guided basaltic feeder system, Franklin Large Igneous Province, Victoria Island (Arctic Canada). Economic Geology 110 (7), pp.1697-1717. (10.2113/econgeo.110.7.1697)
• Rioux, M. et al., 2015. U-Pb dating of interspersed gabbroic magmatism and hydrothermal metamorphism during lower crustal accretion, Vema lithospheric section, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 120 (4), pp.2093-2118. (10.1002/2014JB011668)
• Hayes, B. et al. 2015. The geochemical effects of olivine slurry replenishment and dolostone assimilation in the plumbing system of the Franklin Large Igneous Province, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 169 22. (10.1007/s00410-015-1117-8)
• Hayes, B. , Bédard, J. H. and Lissenberg, C. J. 2015. Olivine slurry replenishment and the development of igneous layering in a Franklin sill, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Petrology 56 (1), pp.83-112. (10.1093/petrology/egu072)

2014

• De Hoog, J. C. M. et al., 2014. Hydrogen incorporation and charge balance in natural zircon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 141 , pp.472-486. (10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.033)

2013

• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2013. Pervasive reactive melt migration through fast-spreading lower oceanic crust (Hess Deep, equatorial Pacific Ocean). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 361 , pp.436-447. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.012)
• MacLeod, C. J. , Lissenberg, C. J. and Bibby, L. E. 2013. "Moist MORB" axial magmatism in the Oman ophiolite: The evidence against a mid-ocean ridge origin. Geology 41 (4), pp.459-462. (10.1130/G33904.1)

2012

• Rioux, M. et al., 2012. Protracted timescales of lower crustal growth at the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise. Nature Geoscience 5 (4), pp.275-278. (10.1038/NGEO1378)
• Teagle, D. et al., 2012. Superfast Spreading Rate Crust 4: Expedition 335 of the riserless drilling platform Puntarenas, Costa Rica, to Balboa, Panama Site 1256 13 April–3 June 2011. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program 35 301. (10.2204/iodp.proc.335.101.2012)

2011

• Expedition 335 Scientists, et al., 2011. Superfast spreading rate crust 4: drilling gabbro in intact ocean crust formed at a superfast spreading rate - 13 April–3 June 2011. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report Vol. 335Washington, DC: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.. (10.2204/iodp.pr.335.2011)

2010

• Dick, H. J. B. , Lissenberg, C. J. and Warren, J. M. 2010. Mantle melting, melt transport, and delivery beneath a slow-spreading ridge: the paleo-MAR from 23°15′N to 23°45′N. Journal of Petrology 51 (1-2), pp.425-467. (10.1093/petrology/egp088)

2009

• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2009. Zircon dating of oceanic crustal accretion. Science 323 (5917), pp.1048-1050. (10.1126/science.1167330)
• Zagorevski, A. , Lissenberg, C. J. and van Staal, C. 2009. Dynamics of accretion of arc and backarc crust to continental margins: inferences from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, Newfoundland Appalachians. Tectonophysics 479 (1-2), pp.150-164. (10.1016/j.tecto.2008.12.002)

2008

• Lissenberg, C. J. and Dick, H. J. B. 2008. Melt–rock reaction in the lower oceanic crust and its implications for the genesis of mid-ocean ridge basalt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271 (1-4), pp.311-325. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.023)

2007

• van Staal, C. et al., 2007. The Notre Dame arc and the Taconic orogeny in Newfoundland. In: Hatcher, R. D. et al., 4-D Framework of Continental Crust. GSA Memoirs Vol. 200.Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. , pp.511-552. (10.1130/2007.1200(26))

2006

• Lissenberg, C. J. , McNicholl, V. J. and van Staal, C. R. 2006. The origin of mafic-ultramafic bodies within the northern Dashwoods Subzone, Newfoundland Appalachians. Atlantic Geology 42 (1), pp.1-12.
• Lissenberg, C. J. and van Staal, C. R. 2006. Feedback between deformation and magmatism in the Lloyds River Fault Zone: An example of episodic fault reactivation in an accretionary setting, Newfoundland Appalachians. Tectonics 25 (4) TC4004. (10.1029/2005TC001789)
• Whalen, J. B. et al., 2006. Spatial, temporal and geochemical characteristics of Silurian collision-zone magmatism, Newfoundland Appalachians: An example of a rapidly evolving magmatic system related to slab break-off. Lithos 89 (3-4), pp.377-404. (10.1016/j.lithos.2005.12.011)
• Zagorevski, A. et al., 2006. Lower to Middle Ordovician evolution of peri-Laurentian arc and backarc complexes in Iapetus: Constraints from the Annieopsquotch accretionary tract, central Newfoundland. Geological Society of America Bulletin 118 (3-4), pp.324-342. (10.1130/B25775.1)

2005

• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2005. Geochemical constraints on the origin of the Annieopsquotch ophiolite belt, Newfoundland Appalachians. Geological Society of America Bulletin 117 (11-12), pp.1413-1426. (10.1130/B25731.1)
• Lissenberg, C. J. et al. 2005. Assembly of the Annieopsquotch Accretionary Tract, Newfoundland Appalachians: Age and Geodynamic Constraints from Syn‐Kinematic Intrusions. The Journal of Geology 113 (5), pp.553-570. (10.1086/431909)

2004

• Lissenberg, C. J. , Bédard, J. H. and van Staal, C. R. 2004. The structure and geochemistry of the gabbro zone of the Annieopsquotch ophiolite, Newfoundland: implications for lower crustal accretion at spreading ridges. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 229 (1-2), pp.105-123. (10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.029)