Staff profile

2014 – present — Professor, University of Durham

2009 – 2014 — Reader, University of Durham

2006 – 2009 — Senior Lecturer, University of Durham.

2000 – 2006 — Lecturer, University of Durham.

1999 – 2000 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Royal Holloway University of London.

1996 – 1998 — Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

1994 – 1996 — Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

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Career Research Highlights

Colin has applied new and established geochemical techniques in innovative ways to understand the origins of magmatism and its relationship to tectonics. He has developed particular expertise in SE Asia and the western Pacific where he has studied subduction initiation, lithosphere erosion, mantle melting, crustal growth and recycling of subducted crust and sediment. More recently, Colin has begun to apply image analysis techniques to understand the dstribution of magmatism. Colin has also conducted pioneering work in the analysis and use of light elements to investigate magmatic processes, in recognition of which he received the Geological Society’s Wollaston Fund in 2007. He was responsible for establishing the stable isotope laboratory at Durham.

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Committee and Society Service

2017 – 2021 — Staff Member of Durham University Council

2014 – 2017 — Head of Department, Earth Sciences, University of Durham

2012 – 2016 — Chair of NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee

2008 – 2012 — NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities Steering Committee member

2005 – 2014 — Co-Leader, Commission on Subduction Zone Magmatism (IAVCEI).

2004 – 2007 — Committee Member, Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group.

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Conferences and Workshops

SESSIONS CONVENED:

2020 — EGU General Assembly, Vienna: Subduction zones: volatiles, dynamics, and melt.

2019 — 27th Goldschmidt Meeting, Barcelona: Pathways and Processes in Differentiation of Arc Magmatic Systems.

2019 — EGU General Assembly, Vienna: Subduction zones: volatiles, dynamics, and melt.

WORKSHOPS ORGANISED:

2019 — VoiLA Large Grant Workshop, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Invited Keynotes

2019 — Carbonate Assimilation by Sunda Arc Magma at Sumbing Volcano, Central Java, Indonesia Goldschmidt Meeting, Barcelona.

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Membership of Organisations and Societies

American Geophysical Union

Geochemical Society

Geological Society of London (Fellow)

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Prizes & Awards

2007 — Wollaston Fund, Geological Society of London

2004 — Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Durham

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Recent and Current Grants

2017 — Leverhulme Research Fellowship - PI - Fingerprinting Interaction of Magma and Carbonate

2014 — NERC Large Grant - co-I - Tellurium and Selenium Cycling and Supply (TeASe)

2013 — NERC Catalyst Grant - co-I - Processes governing semi-metal - PGE linkage in crustal magmatic systems: opportunities for discovery and recovery

2013 — NERC Large Grant - co-I - Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles Arc (VoiLA): Processes and Consequences

2011 — EU (EuroPlanet) - PI - Determining Mantle Sources and Magma Degassing of Kermadec Arc Magmatism using Noble Gases

2009 — NERC Facility Grant - PI -Determining rates of convergent margin propagation and lithospheric thinning in the east Philippines

2009 — EU TransNational Access Activities (EuroPlanet) - PI -Determining Mantle Sources and Magma Degassing of Tonga Arc Magmatism using Noble Gases

Responsibilities in Department

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• Subduction-related magmatism
• Light elements in magmatic systems
• Magmatism and tectonics in SE Asia and the western Pacific
• Crustal growth and development in subduction zones
• Sources and degassing of magmatic volatiles
• Development of high precision stable isotope techniques

• 2007: Geological Society of London Wollaston Fund 2006:

Chapter in book

• Macpherson, C., Forde, E., Hall, R., & Thirlwall, M. (2003). Geochemical evolution of magmatism in an arc - arc collision: the Halmahera and Sangihe arcs, eastern Indonesia. In R. Larter, & P. Leat (Eds.), Intra-Oceanic subduction systems (207-220). Geological Society of London Special Publication. https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2003.219
• Macpherson, C., & Hall, R. (2002). Timing and tectonic controls in the evolving orogen of SE Asia and the western Pacific and some implications for ore generation. In D. Blundell, F. Neubauer, & A. von Quadt (Eds.), The timing and location of major ore deposits in an evolving orogen (49-67). Geological Society of London Special Publication. https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2002.204

Journal Article

• Klaver, M., Yogodzinski, G., Albert, C., Camejo-Harry, M., Elburg, M., Hoernle, K., Macpherson, C., Nowell, G., Rushmer, T., Williams, H., & Millet, M.-A. (2024). Widespread slab melting in modern subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 626, Article 118544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118544
• Stantis, C., Compton, G. S., Kharobi, A., Maaranen, N., Nowell, G. M., Macpherson, C., Batey, E. K., & Schwartz, G. M. (2023). Mobility and connection among the Early Bronze Age Syrian elite. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 51, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104142
• Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Quade, L., Levene, A., Millard, A. R., Holst, M., Yapp, P., Delaney, S., Brown, C., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., Shaw, H. A., Stewart, N. A., Robinson, S., Montgomery, J., & Alexander, M. M. (2023). The expendables: Bioarchaeological evidence for pauper apprentices in 19th century England and the health consequences of child labour. PLoS ONE, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284970
• Hicks, S. P., Bie, L., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., Goes, S., Rietbrock, A., Wei, S. S., Collier, J. S., Henstock, T. J., Lynch, L., Prytulak, J., Macpherson, C. G., Schlaphorst, D., Wilkinson, J. J., Blundy, J. D., Cooper, G. F., Davy, R. G., & Kendall, J.-M. (2023). Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles. Science Advances, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add2143
• Arzilli, F., Burton, M., La Spina, G., Macpherson, C. G., van Keken, P. E., & McCann, J. (2023). Decarbonation of subducting carbonate-bearing sediments and basalts of altered oceanic crust: Insights into recycling of CO2 through volcanic arcs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 602, Article 117945. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117945
• Ribeiro, J., MacLeod, C., Lissenberg, J., Ryan, J., & Macpherson, C. (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, Article 120813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120813
• Danabalan, D., Gluyas, J. G., Macpherson, C. G., Abraham-James, T. H., Bluett, J. J., Barry, P. H., & Ballentine, C. J. (2022). The Principles of Helium Exploration. Petroleum Geoscience, 28(2), petgeo2021-029. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2021-029
• Stantis, C., Maaranen, N., Kharobi, A., Nowell, G. M., Macpherson, C., Schutkowski, H., & Bourke, S. (2022). Jordanian migration and mobility in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100–1550 BCE) at Pella. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 32(2), 339-357. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3069
• Stantis, C., Maaranen, N., Kharobi, A., Nowell, G. M., Macpherson, C., Doumet‐Serhal, C., & Schutkowski, H. (2022). Sidon on the breadth of the wild sea: Movement and diet on the Mediterranean coast in the Middle Bronze Age. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(1), 116-133. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24423
• Schlaphorst, D., Harmon, N., Kendall, J., Rychert, C., Collier, J., Rietbrock, A., Goes, S., Allen, R., Bie, L., Blundy, J., Chichester, B., Cooper, G., Davidson, J., Davy, R., Henstock, T., Hicks, S., Macpherson, C., Maunder, B., Prytulak, J., Hunen, J., …Wilson, M. (2021). Variation in Upper Plate Crustal and Lithospheric Mantle Structure in the Greater and Lesser Antilles from Ambient Noise Tomography. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(7), Article e2021GC009800. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gc009800
• Stantis, C., Kharobi, A., Maaranen, N., Macpherson, C., Bietak, M., Prell, S., & Schutkowski, H. (2021). Multi-isotopic study of diet and mobility in the northeastern Nile Delta. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(6), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01344-x
• Iveson, A. A., Humphreys, M. C., Savov, I. P., de Hoog, J. C., Turner, S. J., Churikova, T. G., Macpherson, C. G., Mather, T. A., Gordeychik, B. N., Tomanikova, L., Agostini, S., Hammond, K., Pyle, D. M., & Cooper, G. F. (2021). Deciphering variable mantle sources and hydrous inputs to arc magmas in Kamchatka. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116848
• Santana, J., Millard, A., Ibáñez-Estevez, J. J., Bocquentin, F., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Macpherson, C., Muñiz, J., Anton, M., Alrousan, M., & Kafafi, Z. (2021). Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 11857. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90795-2
• Brown, J., Cooper, G., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., Neill, I., & Prytulak, J. (2021). Isotopic Compositions of Plagioclase From Plutonic Xenoliths Reveal Crustal Assimilation Below Martinique, Lesser Antilles Arc. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, Article 682583. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.682583
• Burton-Johnson, A., Macpherson, C., Millar, I., Whitehouse, M., Ottley, C., & Nowell, G. (2020). A Triassic to Jurassic arc in north Borneo: Geochronology, geochemistry, and genesis of the Segama Valley Felsic Intrusions and the Sabah ophiolite. Gondwana Research, 84, 229-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.03.006
• Davy, R., Collier, J., Henstock, T., Rietbrock, A., Goes, S., Blundy, J., Harmon, N., Rychert, C., Macpherson, C. G., Van Hunen, J., Kendall, M., Wilkinson, J., Davidson, J., Wilson, M., Cooper, G., Maunder, B., Bie, L., Hicks, S., Allen, R., Chichester, B., …Labahn, E. (2020). Wide‐Angle Seismic Imaging of Two Modes of Crustal Accretion in Mature Atlantic Ocean Crust. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(6), Article e2019JB019100. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb019100
• Cooper, G. F., Macpherson, C. G., Blundy, J. D., Maunder, B., Allen, R. W., Goes, S., Collier, J. S., Bie, L., Harmon, N., Hicks, S. P., Iveson, A. A., Prytulak, J., Rietbrock, A., Rychert, C. A., Davidson, J. P., & team, T. V. (2020). Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc. Nature, 582, 525-529. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2407-5
• Andikagumi, H., Macpherson, C., & McCaffrey, K. (2020). Upper Plate Stress Controls the Distribution of Mariana Arc Volcanoes. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(2), Article e2019JB017391. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb017391
• Bie, L., Rietbrock, A., Hicks, S., Allen, R., Blundy, J., Clouard, V., Collier, J., Davidson, J., Garth, T., Goes, S., Harmon, N., Henstock, T., Van Hunen, J., Kendall, M., Krüger, F., Lynch, L., MacPherson, C., Robertson, R., Rychert, K., Tait, S., …Wilson, M. (2020). Along arc heterogeneity in local seismicity across the Lesser Antilles subduction zone from a dense ocean-bottom seismometer network. Seismological Research Letters, 9(1), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190147
• Breitfeld, H. T., Macpherson, C., Hall, R., Thirlwall, M., Ottley, C. J., & Hennig-Breitfeld, J. (2019). Adakites without a slab: Remelting of hydrous basalt in the crust and shallow mantle of Borneo to produce the Miocene Sintang Suite and Bau Suite magmatism of West Sarawak. Lithos, 344-345, 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.06.016
• White, L. T., Rawlinson, N., Lister, G. S., Waldhauser, F., Hejrani, B., Thompson, D. A., Tanner, D., Macpherson, C. G., Tkalčić, H., & Morgan, J. P. (2019). Earth's deepest earthquake swarms track fluid ascent beneath nascent arc volcanoes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 521, 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.048
• Burton-Johnson, A., Macpherson, C., Ottley, C., Nowell, G., & Boyce, A. (2019). Generation of the Mt Kinabalu Granite by Crustal Contamination of Intraplate Magma Modelled by Equilibrated Major Element Assimilation with Fractional Crystallization (EME-AFC). Journal of Petrology, 60(7), 1461-1487. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egz036
• Cooper, G. F., Blundy, J. D., Macpherson, C. G., Humphreys, M. C., & Davidson, J. P. (2019). Evidence from plutonic xenoliths for magma differentiation, mixing and storage in a volatile-rich crystal mush beneath St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(5), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1576-4
• Burton-Johnson, A., Macpherson, C., Muraszko, J., Harrison, R., & Jordan, T. (2019). Tectonic strain recorded by magnetic fabrics (AMS) in plutons, including Mt Kinabalu, Borneo: A tool to explore past tectonic regimes and syn-magmatic deformation. Journal of Structural Geology, 119, 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.11.014
• Ekici, T., & MacPherson, C. (2019). Convergence-aligned, foreland magmatism in the Arabia? Anatolia Collision: Geochronological evidence from the Karacadağ Volcanic Complex, southeast Turkey. Turkish journal of earth sciences, 28, 719-733. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1902-25
• Goes, S., Collier, J., Blundy, J., Davidson, J., Harmon, N., Henstock, T., Kendall, J., Macpherson, C., Rietbrock, A., Rychert, K., Prytulak, J., van Hunen, J., Wilkinson, J., & Wilson, M. (2019). Project VoiLA: Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019eo117309
• Burton-Johnson, A., Macpherson, C., & Hall, R. (2017). Internal structure and emplacement mechanism of composite plutons: Evidence from Mt Kinabalu, Borneo. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(1), 180-191. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2016-041
• Baldini, L. M., Baldini, J. U. L., McElwaine, J., Frappier, A. B., Asmerom, Y., Liu, K. B., Prufer, K., Ridley, H. E., Polyak, V., Kennett, D. J., Macpherson, C. G., Aquino, V. V., Awe, J., & Breitenbach, S. F. M. (2016). Persistent northward North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 37522. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37522
• Bezard, R., Turner, S., Davidson, J., Macpherson, C., & Lindsay, J. (2015). Seeing through the Effects of Crustal Assimilation to Assess the Source Composition beneath the Southern Lesser Antilles Arc. Journal of Petrology, 56(4), 815-844. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egv018
• Ridley, H., Asmerom, Y., Baldini, J., Breitenbach, S., Aquino, V., Prufer, K., Culleton, B., Polyak, V., Lechleitner, F., Kennett, D., Zhang, M., Marwan, N., Macpherson, C., Baldini, L., Xiao, T., Peterkin, J., Awe, J., & Haug, G. (2015). Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since AD1550. Nature Geoscience, 8(3), 195-200. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2353
• Ekici, T., Macpherson, C., Otlu, N., & Fontignie, D. (2014). Foreland Magmatism during the Arabia–Eurasia Collision: Pliocene–Quaternary Activity of the Karacadağ Volcanic Complex, SW Turkey. Journal of Petrology, 55(9), 1753-1777. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egu040
• Handley, H., Blichert-Toft, J., Gertisser, R., Macpherson, C., Turner, S., Zaennudin, A., & Abdurrachman, M. (2014). Insights from Pb and O isotopes into along-arc variations in subduction inputs and crustal assimilation for volcanic rocks in Java, Sunda arc, Indonesia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 139, 205-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.025
• Bezard, R., Davidson, J., Turner, S., Macpherson, C., Lindsay, J., & Boyce, A. (2014). Assimilation of sediments embedded in the oceanic arc crust: myth or reality?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 395, 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.038
• Cullena, A., Macpherson, C., Taib, N., Burton-Johnson, A., Dennis Geist, D., Spell, T., & Banda, R. (2013). Age and petrology of the Usun Apau and Linau Balui volcanics: Windows to central Borneo’s interior. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 76, 372-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.05.003
• Groves, S., Roberts, C., Lucy, S., Pearson, G., Gröcke, D., Nowell, G., Macpherson, C., & Young, G. (2013). Mobility histories of 7th-9th century AD people buried at Early Medieval Bamburgh, Northumberland, England. American journal of physical anthropology, 151(3), 462-476. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22290
• Pacey, A., Macpherson, C., & McCaffrey, K. (2013). Linear volcanic segments in the central Sunda Arc, Indonesia, identified using Hough Transform analysis: Implications for arc lithosphere control upon volcano distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 369-370, 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.040
• King, C., Bentley, R., Tayles, N., Strand Vidarsdottir, U., Nowell, G., & Macpherson, C. (2013). Moving peoples, changing diets: Isotopic differences highlight migration and subsistence changes in the Upper Mun River Valley, Thailand. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(4), 1681-1688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.11.013
• Roberts, C., Millard, A., Nowell, G., Gröcke, D., Macpherson, C., Pearson, G., & Evans, D. (2013). Isotopic tracing of the impact of mobility on infectious disease: The origin of people with treponematosis buried in hull, England, in the late medieval period. American journal of physical anthropology, 150(2), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22203
• Caulfield, J., Turner, S., Arculus, R., Dale, C., Jenner, F., Pearce, J., Macpherson, C., & Handley, H. (2012). Mantle flow, volatiles, slab-surface temperatures and melting dynamics in the north Tonga arc – Lau back-arc basin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012jb009526
• Ekici, T., Macpherson, C., & Otlu, N. (2012). Polybaric melting of a single mantle source during the Neogene Siverek phase of the Karacadağ Volcanic Complex, SE Turkey. Lithos, 146-147, 152-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.05.004
• Shaw, A., Hauri, E., Behn, M., Hilton, D., Macpherson, C., & Sinton, J. (2012). Long-term preservation of slab signatures in the mantle inferred from hydrogen isotopes. Nature Geoscience, 5(3), 224-228. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1406
• Day, J., Macpherson, C., Lowry, D., & Pearson, D. (2012). A discussion of “oxygen isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath the Canary Islands” by A.A. Gurenko et al. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 164(1), 177-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-012-0755-3
• Coldwell, B., Adam, J., Rushmer, T., & Macpherson, C. (2011). Evolution of the East Philippine Arc: Experimental constraints on magmatic phase relations and adakitic melt formation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 162(4), 835-848. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-011-0627-2
• Handley, H., Turner, S., Macpherson, C., Gertisser, R., & Davidson, J. (2011). Hf-Nd isotope and trace element constraints on subduction inputs at island arcs: limitations of Hf anomalies as sediment input indicators. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304(1-2), 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.034
• Cox, K., Bentley, R., Tayles, N., Buckley, H., Macpherson, C., & Cooper, M. (2011). Intrinsic or extrinsic population growth in Iron Age Northeast Thailand? The evidence from isotopic analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(3), 665-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.018
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., & Hammerschmidt, K. (2010). No slab-derived CO₂ in Mariana Trough back-arc basalts: Implications for carbon subduction and for temporary storage of CO₂ beneath slow spreading ridges. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(11), Article Q11007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gc003293
• Handley, H., Macpherson, C., & Davidson, J. (2010). Geochemical and Sr-O isotopic constraints on magmatic differentiation at Gede volcanic complex, west Java, Indonesia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 159(6), 885-908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-009-0460-z
• Macpherson, C., Chiang, K., Hall, R., Nowell, G., Castillo, P., & Thirlwall, M. (2010). Plio-Pleistocene intra-plate magmatism from the southern Sulu Arc, Semporna peninsula, Sabah, Borneo: Implications for high-Nb basalt in subduction zones. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 190(1-2), 25-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.11.004
• Day, J., Pearson, D., Macpherson, C., Lowry, D., & Carracedo, J. (2010). Evidence for distinct proportions of subducted oceanic crust and lithosphere in HIMU-type mantle beneath El Hierro and La Palma, Canary Islands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(22), 6565-6589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.021
• Bentley, R., Cox, K., Tayles, N., Higham, C., Macpherson, C., Nowell, G., Cooper, M., & Hayes, T. (2009). Community diversity at Ban Lum Khao, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, 48(1), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.0.0017
• Day, J., Pearson, D., Macpherson, C., Lowry, D., & Carracedo, J. (2009). Pyroxenite-rich mantle formed by recycled oceanic lithosphere: Oxygen-osmium isotope evidence from Canary Island lavas. Geology, 37(6), 555-558. https://doi.org/10.1130/g25613a.1
• Handley, H., Davidson, J., Macpherson, C., & Stimac, J. (2008). Untangling differentiation in arc lavas: constraints from unusual minor and trace element variations at Salak Volcano, Indonesia. Chemical Geology, 255(3-4), 360-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.07.007
• Macpherson, C. (2008). Lithosphere erosion and crustal growth in subduction zones: Insights from initiation of the nascent East Philippine Arc. Geology, 36(4), 311-314. https://doi.org/10.1130/g24412a.1
• Dale, C., Luguet, A., Macpherson, C., Pearson, D., & Hickey-Vargas, R. (2008). Extreme platinum-group element fractionation and variable Os isotope compositions in Philippine Sea Plate basalts: Tracing mantle source heterogeneity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.11.007
• Davidson, J., Turner, S., Handley, H., Macpherson, C., & Dosseto, A. (2007). Amphibole “sponge” in arc crust?. Geology, 35(9), 787-790. https://doi.org/10.1130/g23637a.1
• Handley, H., Macpherson, C., Davidson, J., Berlo, K., & Lowry, D. (2007). Constraining fluid and sediment contributions to subduction-related magmatism in Indonesia: Ijen Volcanic Complex. Journal of Petrology, 48(6), 1155-1183. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egm013
• Bentley, R., Tayles, N., Higham, C., Macpherson, C., & Atkinson, T. (2007). Shifting gender relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand: Isotopic evidence from the skeletons. Current Anthropology, 48(2), 301-314. https://doi.org/10.1086/512987
• Alexander Bentley, R., Buckley, H. R., Spriggs, M., Bedford, S., Ottley, C. J., Nowell, G. M., Macpherson, C. G., & Graham Pearson, D. (2007). LAPITA MIGRANTS IN THE PACIFIC’S OLDEST CEMETERY:ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS AT TEOUMA, VANUATU. American Antiquity, 72, 645-656
• Macpherson, C., Dreher, S., & Thirlwall, M. (2006). Adakites without slab melting: high pressure differentiation of island arc magma, Mindanao, the Philippines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243(3-4), 581-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.034
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., Mertz, D., & Dunai, T. (2005). Sources, degassing, and contamination of CO₂, H₂O, He, Ne and Ar in basaltic glasses from Kolbeinsey Ridge, North Atlantic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(24), 5729-5746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2005.07.015
• Dreher, S., Macpherson, C., Pearson, D., & Davidson, J. (2005). Re-Os isotope studies of Mindanao adakites: Implications for sources of metals and melts. Geology, 33(12), 957-960. https://doi.org/10.1130/g21755.1
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., Day, J., Lowry, D., & Gronvold, K. (2005). High-3He/4He, depleted mantle and low-δ18O, recycled oceanic lithosphere in the source of central Iceland magmatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233(3-4), 411-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.037
• Day, J., Hilton, D., Pearson, D., Macpherson, C., Kjarsgaard, B., & Janney, P. (2005). Absence of a high time-integrated ³He/(U+Th) source in the mantle beneath continents. Geology, 33, 733-736. https://doi.org/10.1130/g21625.1
• Macpherson, C., Charlier, B., Morgan, D., Dreher, S., Chertkoff, D., & Jerram, D. (2004). Non-slab melt origin for adakites from Mindanao, Philippines. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, Article A603
• Shaw, A., Hilton, D., Macpherson, C., & Sinton, J. (2004). The C-He-Ar systematics of the Manus back-arc basin: resolving source composition from degassing and contamination effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68, 1837-1856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2003.10.015
• van Soest, M., Hilton, D., Macpherson, C., & Mattey, D. (2002). Resolving Sediment Subduction and Crustal Contamination in the Lesser Antilles Island Arc: a Combined He-O-Sr Isotope Approach. Journal of Petrology, 43, 143-170. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/43.1.143
• Macpherson, C., & Hall, R. (2001). Tectonic setting of Eocene boninite magmatism in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana forearc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 186(2), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x%2801%2900248-5
• Shaw, A., Hilton, D., Macpherson, C., & Sinton, J. (2001). Nucleogenic neon in high ³He/⁴He lavas from the Manus back-arc basin: a new perspective on He-Ne decoupling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 194, 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x%2801%2900539-8
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., Mattey, D., & Sinton, J. (2000). Evidence for an ¹⁸O-depleted mantle plume from contrasting ¹⁸O/¹⁶O ratios of back-arc lavas from the Manus Basin and Mariana Trough. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 176, 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x%2800%2900002-9
• Baker, J., Macpherson, C., Menzies, M., & Thirlwall, M. (2000). Resolving crustal and mantle contributions to continental flood volcanism, Yemen; Constraints from mineral oxygen isotope data. Journal of Petrology, 41, 1805-1820. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/41.12.1805
• Hilton, D., Macpherson, C., & Elliott, T. (2000). Helium isotope ratios in mafic phenocrysts and geothermal fluids from La Palma, the Canary Islands (Spain): Implications for HIMU mantle sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 2119-2132. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037%2800%2900358-6
• Macpherson, C., & Hall, R. (1999, October). Tectonic controls of geochemical evolution in arc magmatism of SE Asia. Presented at PACRIM 99 Conference, Bali, Indonesia
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., Newman, S., & Mattey, D. (1999). CO₂, ¹³C/¹²C and H₂O variability in natural basaltic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63, 1805-1813. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037%2899%2900124-6
• Hilton, D., Gronvold, K., Macpherson, C., & Castillo, P. (1999). Extreme ³He/⁴He ratios in northwest Iceland: constraining the common component in mantle plumes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 173, 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x%2899%2900215-0
• Macpherson, C., Hilton, D., Sinton, J., & Poreda, R. (1998). High ³He/⁴He ratios in the Manus Back-Arc Basin: implications for mantle mixing and the origin of plumes in the western Pacific Ocean.Basin. Geology, 26, 1007-1010. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613%281998%29026%3C1007%3Ahhhrit%3E2.3.co%3B2
• Macpherson, C., Gamble, J., & Mattey, D. (1998). Oxygen isotope geochemistry of lavas from an oceanic to continental arc transition, Kermadec-Hikurangi margin, SW Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 160, 609-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0012-821x%2898%2900115-0
• Macpherson, C., & Mattey, D. (1998). Oxygen isotope variations in Lau Basin lavas. Chemical Geology, 144, 177-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0009-2541%2897%2900130-7
• Baker, J., Menzies, M., Thirlwall, M., & Macpherson, C. (1997). Petrogenesis of quaternary intraplate volcanism, Sana'a, Yemen: implications for plume-lithosphere interaction and polybaric melt hybridization. Journal of Petrology, 38(10), 1359-1390. https://doi.org/10.1093/petroj/38.10.1359
• Smith, T., Thirlwall, M., & Macpherson, C. (1996). Isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of volcanics from the island of Bequia, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Petrology, 37(1), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/37.1.117
• Thirlwall, M., Graham, A., Arculus, R., Harmon, R., & Macpherson, C. (1996). Resolution of the effects of crustal assimilation, sediment subduction fluid transport in island arc magmas: Pb - Sr - Nd - O isotope of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60(23), 4785-4810. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037%2896%2900272-4
• Mattey, D., Lowry, D., & Macpherson, C. (1994). Oxygen isotope composition of mantle peridotite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 128(3-4), 231-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x%2894%2990147-3
• Macpherson, C., & Mattey, D. (1994). Carbon isotope variations of CO₂ in Central Lau Basin basalts and ferrobasalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 121(3-4), 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x%2894%2990072-8
• Mattey, D., & Macpherson, C. (1993). High-precision oxygen isotope analysis of ferromagnesian minerals by laser-fluorination. Chemical Geology, 105(4), 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541%2893%2990133-4