Publications

I have published more than 70 research papers on a diverse range of topics and have edited volumes of papers on magmatism and xenoliths in Europe. All of this research helps to enhance my teaching, particularly of advanced modules in petrology and geochemistry.

Forthcoming / in press

• Seghedi I, L. Maţenco, H. Downes, P.R.D. Mason, A. Szakács and Z. Pécskay Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Tectonophysics in press.

Journal articles

2010

• Cvetkovic V., H. Downes, V. Hoeck, D. Prelevic and M. Lazarov (2010) Mafic alkaline metasomatism in the lithosphere underneath East Serbia: Evidence from study of xenoliths and the host alkali basalts. GSL Special Publication 337 Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric mantle 213-240.
• Dessai A.G., M. Peinado, S.G. Gokarn and H. Downes (2010) Structure of the deep crust beneath the Central Indian Tectonic Zone: An integration of geophysical and xenoliths data. Gondwana Research 17, 162-170.
• Dobosi G., G.A. Jenner, Embey-Isztin and H. Downes (2010) Cryptic metasomatism in clino- and orthopyroxene in the upper mantle beneath the Pannonian region. GSL Special Publication 337 Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric mantle 177-194.
• Matusiak-Małek, Magdalena, Jacek Puziewicz, Theodoros Ntaflos, Michel Grégoire, Hilary Downes Metasomatic effects in the lithospheric mantle beneath the NE Bohemian Massif: A case study of Lutynia (SW Poland) peridotite xenoliths Lithos (June 2010) Volume 117, Issues 1-4, pp.49-60.
• Nédli, Zsuzsanna, Tivadar M. Tóth, Hilary Downes, Géza Császár, Andrew Beard and Csaba Szabó (2010) Petrology and geodynamical interpretation of mantle xenoliths from Late Cretaceous lamprophyres, Villány Mts (S Hungary) Tectonophysics, Volume 489, Issues 1-4, pp.43-54.
• Tabor F, Tabor B E and Downes H (2010) Quantificative characterisation of textures in mantle spinel peridotites. GSL Special Publication 337 'Petrological Evolution of the European Lithospheric mantle' 195-212.

2009

• Facer, J., H. Downes and A.D. Beard (2009) In situ serpentinisation and hydrous fluid metasomatism in spinel dunite xenoliths from the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana, USA. J Petrology 50, 1443-1475.
• Seghedi, Ioan, Liviu Maţenco, Hilary Downes, Paul R.D. Mason, Alexandru Szakács, Zoltán Pécskay (December 2009) Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene–Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian–Pannonian Region Tectonophysics.
• Wittig, Nadine, D. Graham Pearson, Hilary Downes, Joel A. Baker The U, Th and Pb elemental and isotope compositions of mantle clinopyroxenes and their grain boundary contamination derived from leaching and digestion experiments Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (January 2009) Volume 73, Issue 2, 15 pp.469-488.
• Koreshkova, Marina Yu., Hilary Downes, Larissa P. Nikitina, Nikolay V. Vladykin, Aleksandr N. Larionov, Sergey A. Sergeev Trace element and age characteristics of zircons in granulite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Siberia Precambrian Research (February 2009) Volume 168, Issues 3-4 pp.197-212.

2008

• Dessai A.G., H. Downes, F-J. Lopez-Moro and M. Lopez-Plaza (2008) Lower crustal contamination of Deccan Traps magmas: evidence from tholeiitic dykes and granulite xenoliths from western India. Mineral. Petrol. 93, 243-272.
• Downes, Hilary, David W. Mittlefehldt, Noriko T. Kita, John W. Valley Evidence from polymict ureilite meteorites for a disrupted and re-accreted single ureilite parent asteroid gardened by several distinct impactors Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (1 October 2008) Volume 72, Issue 19, pp.4825-4844.
• Koreshkova M. Yu., H. Downes, L.P. Nikitina, N.V. Vladykin, A.N. Larionov and S.A. Sergeev (2008) Trace element and age characteristics of zircons in granulite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe, Siberia. Precambrian Research 168, 197-212.

2007

• Cvetkovic V, Lazarov M, Downes H, Prelevic D 2007 Modification of the subcontinental mantle beneath East Serbia: evidence from orthopyroxene-rich xenoliths Lithos 94: 90-110.
• Cvetkovic V, Downes H, Prelevic D, Lazarov M, Resimic-Saric C 2007. Geodynamic significance of ultramafic xenoliths from eastern Serbia: relics of sub-arc oceanic mantle? J. Geodynamics. 43: 504-527.
• Downes H, Upton B G J, Connolly J, Beard A D, Bodinier J-L 2007. Petrology and geochemistry of a cumulate xenolith suite from Bute: evidence for late Palaeozoic crustal underplating beneath SW Scotland. J. Geol. Soc. 164: 1217-1231.
• Downes, H. The origin of spinel- and garnet-pyroxenites in the shallow lithospheric mantle. Lithos (November 2007) Volume 99, Issues 1-2, pp.1-24.
• Downes H, B.G.J. Upton, J. Connolly, A.D. Beard and J-L Bodinier (2007) Petrology and geochemistry of a cumulate xenolith suite from Bute: evidence for late Palaeozoic crustal underplating beneath SW Scotland. J. Geol. Soc. 164, 1217-1231.
• Harangi Sz, Downes H and Thirlwall MF Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Miocene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks in the western Carpathian arc, Eastern Central Europe: evidence for an enriched mantle source J Petrology. (2007) 48 (12): 2261-2287.
• Seghedi I, A-V. Bojar, H. Downes, E. Rosu, S. Tonarini and P. Mason (2007) Generation of normal and adakite-like calc-alkaline magmas in a non-subductional environment: a Sr-O-H Isotopic study of the Apuseni Mountains Neogene magmatic province, Romania. Chemical Geology 245: 70-88.
• Wittig N, J.A. Baker and H. Downes (2007) U-Th-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic constraints on the evolution of sub-continental lithospheric mantle, French Massif Central. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71: 1290-1311.

2006

• Balaganskaya E.G., H. Downes and D. Demaiffe (2006) REE and Sr-Nd isotope compositions of clinopyroxenites, phoscorites and carbonatites of the Seblyavr massif, Kola peninsula, Russia. Mineral. Polonica. 37, 29-44.
• Harangi, Szabolcs; Downes, Hilary and Seghedi, Ioan (2006) Tertiary-Quaternary subduction processes and related magmatism in the Alpine-Mediterranean region. In: Gee, David G and Stephenson, Randell (eds.) European lithosphere dynamics. Geological Society of London Memoir 32. London: Geological Society of London, pp.167-190.
• Joy, K.H., Crawford, I.A., Downes, H., Russell, S.S. and Kearsley, A.T. (2006) A petrological, mineralogical and chemical analysis of the lunar mare basalt meteorites LaPaz Icefield 02205, 02224 and 02226. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 41(7) pp.1003-1025.
• Wilson M and Downes H (2006) Tertiary-Quaternary intra-plate magmatism in Europe and its relationship to mantle dynamics. European Lithosphere Dynamics. European Lithosphere Dynamics GSL Memoir 32: 147-166.
• Wittig N, Baker J A and Downes H, 2006. Dating the mantle roots of young continental crust. Geology. 34: 237-240.

2005

• Downes H, Balaganskaya E, Beard A Liferovich R, and Demaiffe D, 2005. Petrogenetic processes in the ultramafic, alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Kola Alkaline Province: a review. Lithos 85: 48-75.
• Papp D C, Ureche I, Seghedi I, Downes H and Dallai L 2005. Petrogenesis of convergent-margin calc-alkaline rocks and the significance of the low oxygen isotope ratios: the Rodna-Bargau Neogene subvolcanic area (Eastern Carpathians). Geolog. Carpat. 56: 77-90.
• Prelevic D, Foley S. F., Romer R. L., Cvetkovic V and Downes H 2005. Tertiary ultrapotassic volcanism in Serbia: constraints on petrogenesis and mantle source characteristics. J Petrology 46: 1443-1487.
• Seghedi, I, Downes H, Harangi Sz, Mason P R.D. and Pécskay Z. in press. Geochemical response of magmas to Neogene-Quaternary continental collision in the Carpathian-Pannonian region: a review. Tectonophysics. (2005).

2004

• Cvetkovic V, Downes H, Prelevic D Jovanovic M 2004. Characteristics of the lithospheric mantle beneath East Serbia inferred from ultramafic xenoliths in Paleogene basanites. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 148: 335-357.
• Cvetkovic, V, Prelevic D, Downes H, Jovanovic M, Vaselli O and Pécskay Z, 2004. Origin and geodynamic significance of Tertiary post-collisional basaltic magmatism in Serbia (central Balkan peninsula). Lithos 73: 161-186.
• Dessai, A. G. Markwick, A. Vaselli O. and Downes H 2004. Granulite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Deccan Trap: Insight into the nature and composition of the lower lithosphere beneath cratonic India. Lithos 78: 263-290.
• Downes H, Beard A and Hinton R W 2004. Natural experimental charges: an ion-microprobe study of distribution coefficients in glass-rich hornblendite and clinopyroxenite xenoliths Lithos 75: 1-17.
• Downes, H., R Macdonald, B G.J. Upton, K G. Cox, J-L Bodiner, P R.D. Mason, D James, P. Hill and B C Hearn Jr 2004. Ultramafic xenoliths from the Bearpaw Mountains, Montana, USA: Evidence for multiple metasomatic events in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Wyoming craton. Journal of Petrology 45: 1631-1662.
• Marchev P, Raicheva R, Downes H, Vaselli O, Chiaradia M and Moritz R, 2004. Compositional diversity of Eocene-Oligocene basaltic magmatism in the Eastern Rhodopes, SE Bulgaria: implications for genesis and tectonic setting. Tectonophysics. 393: 301-328
• Seghedi I, Downes H, Szakacs A, Mason P R D, Thirlwall M F, Rosu E, Pecskay Z, Marton E and Panaiotu C. 2004. Neogene-Quaternary magmatism and geodynamics in the Carpathian-Pannonian region: a synthesis. Lithos 72: 117-146.
• Seghedi I, Downes H, Vaselli O, Szakacs A, Balogh K and Pecskay Z, 2004. Post-collisional Tertiary-Quaternary mafic alkaline magmatism in the Carpathian-Pannonian region: a synthesis. Tectonophysics 393: 43-62.

2003

• Brassinnes S, Demaiffe D, Balaganskaya E and Downes H 2003. New mineralogical and geochemical data on the Vuorijarvi ultramafic, alkaline and carbonatitic complex (Kola Region, NW Russia). Per. Mineral. 72 (Special Issue Eurocarb): 79-86.
• Dobosi, G, Kempton, P D, Downes H, Embey-Isztin A, Thirlwall M F and Greenwood P 2003. Lower crustal granulite xenoliths from Pannonian Basin, Hungary, Part 2: Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf and O isotope evidence for formation of the continental lower crust by tectonic emplacement of oceanic crust. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 144: 671-683.
• Dobosi G., Downes H., Embey-Isztin A. and Jenner G.A 2003. Origin of megacrysts and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Pliocene alkali basalts of the Pannonian Basin (Hungary). Neues Jahrbuch Miner. Abh. 178: 217-237.
• Downes H, Reichow M, Mason P R D, Beard A D and Thirlwall M F 2003. Mantle domains in the lithosphere beneath the French Massif Central: a trace element and isotopic test. Chem Geol 2003: 71-87.
• Embey-Isztin A, Kempton P D, Downes H, Dobosi G 2003. Lower crustal granulite xenoliths from Pannonian Basin, Hungary. Part I. Mineral chemistry, thermobarometry and petrology. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 144: 652-670

2002

• Downes H, Markwick A J W, Kempton P D and Thirlwall M F, 2002. The lower crust beneath cratonic north-east Europe – isotopic constraints from garnet granulite xenoliths. Terra Nova 13: 395-400
• Downes H, Peltonen P, Mantarii and Sharkov E V, 2002. Proterozoic zircon ages from lower crustal granulite xenoliths, Kola Peninsula, Russia: evidence for crustal growth and reworking. J Geol Soc 159: 485-488.
• Downes H, Kostoula T, Jones A P, and Thirlwall M F 2002. Geochemistry and Sr-Nd isotope composition of peridotite xenoliths from Monte Vulture, south central Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144: 78-92.
• Marchev, P, Downes, H.. Thirlwall, M. F and Moritz R. 2002.
• Small-scale variations of 87Sr/86Sr isotope composition of barite in the Madjarovo low-sulphidation epithermal system, SE Bulgaria: implications for sources of Sr, fluid fluxes and pathways of the ore-forming fluids. Mineralium Deposita. 37: 669-677.

2001

• Downes H, 2001. Formation and modification of the shallow sub-continental lithospheric mantle: evidence from ultramafic xenoliths suites and massifs of western and central Europe. Journal of Petrology 42: 233-250.
• Downes H, Thirlwall M F and Trayhorn S, 2001. Miocene subduction-related magmatism in southern Sardinia: Sr-Nd and oxygen isotopic evidence for mantle source enrichment. J Volcan. Geotherm. Res. 106: 1-21.
• Harangi Sz., Downes, H., Kósa, L., Szabó, Cs., Thirlwall, M.F., Mason, P.R.D. and Mattey, D. 2001: Almandine garnet in calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Northern Pannonian Basin (Eastern-Central Europe): geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic implications. Journal of Petrology, 42: 1813-1843.
• Kempton P.D., Downes H., Neymark L.A., Wartho J.A., Zartman R.E. and Sharkov E.V. 2001. Garnet granulite xenoliths from the northern Baltic Shield - The underplated lower crust of a Palaeoproterozoic Large Igneous Province? Journal of Petrology 42: 731-763.
• Markwick A J W, Downes H and Veretennikov N, 2001. The lower crust of S.E. Belarus: Petrological, geochemical and geophysical constraints from xenoliths. Tectonophysics 339: 215-237Downes H, Upton B G J, Handyside E and M F Thirlwall 2001. Geochemistry of mafic and ultramafic xenoliths from Fidra (Southern Uplands, Scotland): implications for lithospheric processes in Permo-Carboniferous times. Lithos 58: 105-124
• Seghedi I, Downes H, Pecskay Z, Thirlwall M F, Szakacs A, Prychodko M and Mattey D, 2001. Magmagenesis in a subduction-related post-collisional volcanic arc segment: the Ukrainian Carpathians. Lithos 57: 237- 262

2000

• Beard, A.D., Downes, H., Hegner, E. and Sablukov, S. 2000. Geochemistry and mineralogy of kimberlites from the Arkhangelsk region, NW Russia. Lithos, 51: 47-73.
• Claesson, S., Vetrin, V., Bayanova, T. and Downes, H. 2000. U-Pb zircon ages from a Devonian carbonatite dyke, Kola peninsula, Russia: A record of geological evolution from the Archaean to the Palaeozoic. Lithos, 51: 95-108.
• Markwick, A.J.W. and Downes, H. 2000. Lower crustal granulite xenoliths from the Arkhangelsk kimberlite pipes: petrological, geochemical and geophysical constraints. Lithos, 51: 135-151.