Staff profile

2019-present: Assistant Professor in Earth Sciences, Durham University

2018-2019: Lecturer in Geology, University of Aberdeen

2013-2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow, University of Southampton

2008-2012: PhD in Geochemistry, University of Southampton

2004-2008: Bsc (hons) Geoscience, University of St. Andrews 

• Active tectonics
• Alpine Fault, New Zealand
• Chemical Weathering
• Fault rocks
• Fluid flow
• Fluid-rock interactions
• Geochemical cycling/ Carbon cycle
• Geochemistry
• Hot springs
• Isotope Geochemistry
• Marinana Convergent Margin
• Mud Volcanoes
• Seismic cycle
• Serpentinisation
• Subduction zones

Journal Article

• Menzies, C. D., Price, R. E., Ryan, J., Sissmann, O., Takai, K., & Wheat, C. G. (2022). Spatial variation of subduction zone fluids during progressive subduction: Insights from Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 319, 118-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.10.030
• Geilert, S., Grasse, P., Wallman, K., Liebetrau, V., & Menzies, C. (2020). Serpentine alteration as source of high dissolved silicon and elevated δ 30 5 Si 6 values to the marine Si cycle. Nature Communications, 11, Article 5123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18804-y
• Eickenbusch, P., Takai, K., Sissman, O., Suzuki, S., Menzies, C., Sakai, S., …Lever, M. (2019). Origin of Short-Chain Organic Acids in Serpentinite Mud Volcanoes of the Mariana Convergent Margin. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, Article 1729. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01729
• Albers., E., Bach, W., Klein, F., Menzies, C., Lucassen, F., & Teagle, D. (2019). Fluid–rock interactions in the shallow Mariana forearc: carbon cycling and redox conditions. Solid earth discussions, 10(3), 907-930. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-907-2019
• Coussens, J., Woodman, N., Upton, P., Menzies, C., Janku-Capova, L., Sutherland, R., & Teagle, D. (2018). The significance of heat transport by shallow fluid flow at an active plate boundary: the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10323-10331. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl078692
• Menzies, C., Wright, S., Craw, D., James, R., Alt, J., Cox, S., …Teagle, D. (2018). Carbon dioxide generation and drawdown during active orogenesis of siliciclastic rocks in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 305-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.010
• Townend, J., Sutherland, R., Toy, V., Doan, M., Célérier, B., Massiot, C., …Zimmer, M. (2017). Petrophysical, Geochemical, and Hydrological Evidence for Extensive Fracture-Mediated Fluid and Heat Transport in the Alpine Fault's Hanging-Wall Damage Zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(12), 4709-4732. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gc007202
• Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Toy, V., Upton, P., Coussens, J., Allen, M., …Zimmer, M. (2017). Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault. Nature, 546(7656), 137-140. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22355
• Toy, V., Boulton, C., Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Norris, R., Little, T., …Carpenter, B. (2017). Fault rock lithologies and architecture of the central Alpine fault, New Zealand, revealed by DFDP-1 drilling. Lithosphere, 2, 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1130/l395.1
• Boulton, C., Menzies, C., Toy, V., Townend, J., & Sutherland, R. (2017). Geochemical and microstructural evidence for interseismic changes in fault zone permeability and strength, Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(1), 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006588
• Kirilova, M., Toy, V., Timms, N., Halfpenny, A., Menzies, C., Craw, D., …Williams, J. (2017). Textural changes of graphitic carbon by tectonic and hydrothermal processes in an active plate boundary fault zone, Alpine Fault, New Zealand
• Toy, V., Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Allen, M., Becroft, L., Boles, A., …Zimmer, M. (2017). Bedrock geology of DFDP-2B, central Alpine Fault, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 60(4), 497-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2017.1375533
• Menzies, C., Teagle, D., Niedermann, S., Cox, S., Craw, D., Zimmer, M., …Erzinger, J. (2016). The fluid budget of a continental plate boundary fault: Quantification from the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 445, 125-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.03.046
• Cox, S., Menzies, C., Sutherland, R., Denys, P., Chamberlain, C., & Teagle, D. (2015). Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes. Geofluids, 15(1-2), 216-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfl.12093
• Menzies, C., Teagle, D., Craw, D., Cox, S., Boyce, A., Barrie, C., & Roberts, S. (2014). Incursion of meteoric waters into the ductile regime in an active orogen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 399, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.046
• Sutherland, R., Toy, V., Townend, J., Cox, S., Eccles, J., Faulkner, D., …Kopf, A. (2012). Drilling reveals fluid control on architecture and rupture of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geology, 40(12), 1143 - 1146