Staff profile

Career Research Interests

My research involves the application of fluid dynamics applied to the Earth on a variety of length and time scales:

• Starting at Earth's earliest history, I am interested in the evolution and dynamics of plate tectonics through time, which led to an ERC starting grant 2012-2017 on 'Modelling the Archaean Subduction Environment' (MASE). 
• Related to this is the growth and destruction of cratonic lithosphere, which I have worked for a number of years now.
• I have also worked extensively on subduction dynamics, from shallow flat subduction (my PhD work back in the '90s) to continental collision and slab break-off.
• Another research interest is on the interaction between mantle and lithosphere, which results in small-scale convection, edge-driven convection, and intraplate volcanism.
• On a smaller scale, I am interested in sustainable, renewable, or clean energy solutions. Work on this includes Carbon Capture and Storage, and, since recently, modelling of geothermal heat extracted from abandoned, flooded mines, something we have plenty of here in the Northeast of England. 

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Research Interests

• Subduction dynamics
• Dynamics of the early Earth
• Sub-lithospheric small-scale convection
• Plumes and intraplate volcanism
• Interaction between tectonics and paleo-climate
• Mine Geothermal energy
• Carbon Capture and Storage

Committee and Society Service

• 2021 – 2025 — President of EGU Geodynamics division
• 2023 – present — Chief Specialty Editor of Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Solid Earth Geophysics
• 2017 – 2021 — Deputy president of EGU Geodynamics division
• 2012 – present — Research Council Member of NERC Peer Review College.
• 2014 – present — Associate Editor of 'Tectonics'
• 2010 – 2016 — Associate Editor of 'Solid Earth'
• 2010 – 2013 — EGU programme committee for geodynamics division.

Recent and Current Grants

• 2023 --- 'EarthSafe’, Horizon Europe Doctoral Network on ‘Unveiling Earth’s Critical Resources for Clean Energy and a Sustainable Future’, March, funded through the UKRI guarantee scheme, £521,352, entire consortium: €2,097,900, PI=JC Afonso (Twente Univ), Durham PI=van Hunen.
• 2023 --- 'GEMSToolbox-PRO’, EPSRC Impact Accellerator Award, £38,080, May 2023, PI=van Hunen.  
• 2022 --- 'The Virgin Islands: Petrogenesis of early Earth-like Rocks’, NERC Pushing the Frontiers, £800,000, including £277,299 to Durham University, July 2022. Overall PI=Hastie (Edinburgh), Durham PI=van Hunen.
• 2022 --- 'Heating homes using mine water’ workshop funded through the NERC Discipline-hopping funds, £5,236, PI=van Hunen.
• 2022 --- 'Building a Display Interface for Geothermal Energy from Mines (DIG’EM)’, Durham Institute for Data Sciences (IDAS) summer internship proposal, PI=van Hunen, £2,050.
• 2022 --- 'Mine Energy Thermal Interaction Tool proposal’, funder=The Coal Authority, £39,128, January 2022. PI=van Hunen, co-I=Gluyas.
• 2021 --- 'Geothermal Energy and Solar-geothermal heat (GEMS)’, EPSRC/NERC Decarbonising Heating and Cooling scheme grant, £1.4M
• 2020 --- Royal Society award ‘Understanding craton stability using geodynamical and geochemical tools’, £8k.
• 2016 — 'NNESMO', NERC Advanced Training grant on numerical modelling, £32k
• 2015 — 'Subitop', as participant of an EU Horizon2020 ITN, PI: GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, €3.9M; Durham component: €273k.
• 2015 — 'NNESMO', NERC Advanced Training grant on numerical modelling, £30k
• 2014 — 'The Feedback Between Volatiles and Mantle Dynamics', NERC, £341k
• 2014 — 'NNESMO', NERC Advanced Training grant on numerical modelling, £34k
• 2012 — ‘What drives and resists plate sinking through the transition zone’, NERC, ~£366,000, with co-I Dr. Goes (Imperial College London).
• 2011 — ‘Modelling the Archean Subduction Environment (MASE)’, ERC Starting Grant, €1.5M
• 2010 — ‘TOPOMOD’, as participant of an EU FP7 International Training Network, PI: Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, €3.8M; Durham component: ~€473k.
• 2010: — ‘The dynamics of continental collision and slab break-off’, Charles Waites PhD studentship, 3yrs,
• 2010 — Orogenic Plateau Magmatism – NERC Standard Grant. NE/H021620/1 - Co-I. 
• 2009 — ‘Timescales, mechanisms and/or numerical tools for CO2 dissolution in brine’, ONE North East and GRL, UK, 3 yrs FTE PhD project of Francesca Watson.
• 2008 — ‘Multigrid Improvements’, NERC/EPSRC/NAG Ltd. UK, 12 months, Distributed Computational Science and Engineering (dCSE) support for software development. 

Book review

• van Hunen, J. (2015). Geodynamics, 3rd edn. Geophysical Journal International, 200(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu465

Chapter in book

• van Hunen, J. (2019). Onset and Evolution of Plate Tectonics: Geodynamical Constraints. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-409548-9.10861-9
• van Hunen, J., van Keken, P., Hynes, A., & Davies, G. (2008). Tectonics of early Earth: some geodynamic considerations. In K. Condie, & V. Pease (Eds.), When Did Plate Tectonics Begin on Planet Earth? (157 - 171). GeoScienceWorld. https://doi.org/10.1130/2008.2440%2808%29

Doctoral Thesis

• van Hunen, J. Shallow and buoyant lithospheric subduction: causes and implications from thermo-chemical modeling. (Thesis). Earth Sciences , Utrecht University. https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1647388

Journal Article

• Heron, P. J., Dannberg, J., Gassmöller, R., Shephard, G. E., van Hunen, J., & Pysklywec, R. N. (2025). The impact of Pangean subducted oceans on mantle dynamics: Passive piles and the positioning of deep mantle plumes. Gondwana Research, 138, 168-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.10.007
• Bianco, T., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., Mahoney, J., & Ballmer, M. (online). Geochemical variations at ridge-centered hotspots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.050
• Roy, A., Mandal, N., & Van Hunen, J. (2024). Dynamic evolution of competing same-dip double subduction: New perspectives of the Neo-Tethyan plate tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 647, Article 119032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119032
• Froemchen, M., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Allen, M. B., van Hunen, J., Phillips, T. B., & Xu, Y. (2024). Geomorphic expressions of active rifting reflect the role of structural inheritance: a new model for the evolution of the Shanxi Rift, northern China. Solid Earth, 15(10), 1203-1231. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1203-2024
• Mouli-Castillo, J., van Hunen, J., MacKenzie, M., Sear, T., & Adams, C. (2024). GEMSToolbox: A novel modelling tool for rapid screening of mines for geothermal heat extraction. Applied Energy, 360, Article 122786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122786
• Gea, P. J., Mancilla, F. D. L., Negredo, A. M., & van Hunen, J. (2024). Overriding Plate Thickness as a Controlling Factor for Trench Retreat Rates in Narrow Subduction Zones. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(2), Article e2023GC011345. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gc011345
• Eberhard, J., Bevan, O. E., Feulner, G., Petri, S., van Hunen, J., & Baldini, J. U. L. (2023). Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism. Climate of the Past, 19(11), 2203-2235. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2203-2023
• Phillips, T. B., Naliboff, J. B., McCaffrey, K. J., Pan, S., van Hunen, J., & Froemchen, M. (2023). The influence of crustal strength on rift geometry and development – insights from 3D numerical modelling. Solid Earth, 14(4), 369-388. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-369-2023
• Jain, C., Rozel, A. B., van Hunen, J., Chin, E. J., & Manjón-Cabeza Córdoba, A. (2022). Building archean cratonic roots. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.966397
• Schliffke, N., van Hunen, J., Allen, M. B., Magni, V., & Gueydan, F. (2022). Episodic back-arc spreading centre jumps controlled by transform fault to overriding plate strength ratio. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28228-5
• Negredo, A. M., van Hunen, J., Rodríguez-González, J., & Fullea, J. (2022). On the origin of the Canary Islands: Insights from mantle convection modelling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117506
• Pearson, D. G., Scott, J. M., Liu, J., Schaeffer, A., Wang, L. H., van Hunen, J., Szilas, K., Chacko, T., & Keleman, P. B. (2021). Deep continental roots and cratons. Nature, 596(7871), 199-210. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03600-5
• Farangitakis, G., McCaffrey, K., Willingshofer, E., Allen, M., Kalnins, L., van Hunen, J., Persaud, P., & Sokoutis, D. (2021). The structural evolution of pull-apart basins in response to changes in plate motion. Basin Research, 33(2), 1603-1625. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12528
• Baldini, J. U., Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F., van Hunen, J., Baldini, L. M., Wynn, P. M., Jamieson, R. A., Ridley, H. E., Baker, A. J., Walczak, I. W., & Fohlmeister, J. (2021). Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches. Quaternary Science Reviews, 254, Article 106784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106784
• Braszus, B., Goes, S., Allen, R., Rietbrock, A., Collier, J., Harmon, N., Henstock, T., Hicks, S., Rychert, C. A., Maunder, B., van Hunen, J., Bie, L., Blundy, J., Cooper, G., Davy, R., Kendall, J. M., Macpherson, C., Wilkinson, J., & Wilson, M. (2021). Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 4211. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24413-0
• Schliffke, N., van Hunen, J., Gueydan, F., Magni, V., & Allen, M. B. (2021). Curved orogenic belts, back-arc basins, and obduction as consequences of collision at irregular continental margins. Geology, 49(12), 1436-1440. https://doi.org/10.1130/g48919.1
• Sun, G., Liu, S., Cawood, P. A., Tang, M., van Hunen, J., Gao, L., Hu, Y., & Hu, F. (2021). Thermal state and evolving geodynamic regimes of the Meso- to Neoarchean North China Craton. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 3888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24139-z
• Farangitakis, G., Heron, P., McCaffrey, K., van Hunen, J., & Kalnins, L. (2020). The impact of oblique inheritance and changes in relative plate motion on the development of rift-transform systems. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, Article 116277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116277
• 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
• Hertgen, S., Yamato, P., Guillaume, B., Magni, V., Schliffke, N., & van Hunen, J. (2020). Influence of the thickness of the overriding plate on convergence zone dynamics. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(2), Article e2019GC008678. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gc008678
• Briaud, A., Agrusta, R., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., & Hunen, J. (2020). Topographic fingerprint of deep mantle subduction. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(1), Article e2019JB017962. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb017962
• 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
• Manea, V. C., Manea, M., Chen, M., van Hunen, J., & Konrad-Schmolke, M. (2020). Editorial: Unusual Subduction Processes. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.607697
• Schliffke, N., Hunen, J., Magni, V., & Allen, M. B. (2019). The Role of Crustal Buoyancy in the Generation and Emplacement of Magmatism During Continental Collision. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(11), 4693-4709. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gc008590
• Harmon, N., Rychert, C., Collier, J., Henstock, T., van Hunen, J., & Wilkinson, J. J. (2019). Mapping geologic features onto subducted slabs. Geophysical Journal International, 219(2), 725-733. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz290
• Heron, P., Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Welford, J., Wilson, R., van Hunen, J., & Pysklywec, R. (2019). Segmentation of rifts through structural inheritance: Creation of the Davis Strait. Tectonics, 38(7), 2411-2430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019tc005578
• Maunder, B., van Hunen, J., Bouilhol, P., & Magni, V. (2019). Modeling Slab Temperature: a Reevaluation of the Thermal Parameter. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(2), 673-687. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007641
• Heron, P., Pysklywec, R., Stephenson, R., & van Hunen, J. (2019). Deformation driven by deep and distant structures: Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, southeastern United States. Geology, 47(2), 147-150. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45690.1
• Farangitakis, G., Sokoutis, D., McCaffrey, K., Willingshofer, E., Kalnins, L., Phethean, J., van Hunen, J., & van Steen, V. (2019). Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections. Tectonics, 13(3), 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005261
• Allen, R., Collier, J., Stewart, A., Henstock, T., Goes, S., Rietbrock, A., Team, V., & Van Hunen, J. (2019). The role of arc migration in the development of the Lesser Antilles: A new tectonic model for the Cenozoic evolution of the eastern Caribbean. Geology, 47(9), https://doi.org/10.1130/g46708.1
• 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
• Wang, H., van Hunen, J., & Pearson, D. G. (2018). Making Archean cratonic roots by lateral compression: A two-stage thickening and stabilization model. Tectonophysics, 746, 562-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.001
• Kaislaniemi, L., van Hunen, J., & Bouilhol, P. (2018). Lithosphere destabilization by melt weakening and crust-mantle interactions-implications for generation of granite-migmatite belts. Tectonics, 37(9), 3102-3116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005014
• Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Goes, S. (2018). Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth. Nature Communications, 9, Article 2708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05194-5
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., van Hunen, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, R. (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research, 30(3), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12257
• Riel, N., Bouilhol, P., van Hunen, J., Cornet, J., Magni, V., Grigorova, V., & Velic, M. (2018). Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modeling using STyx. Geological Society Special Publications, 478, 65-87. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp478.6
• Freeburn, R., Bouilhol, P., Maunder, B., Magni, V., & van Hunen, J. (2017). Numerical models of the magmatic processes induced by slab breakoff. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.008
• Magni, V., Allen, M., van Hunen, J., & Bouilhol, P. (2017). Continental underplating after slab break-off. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.017
• Clarke, A., Imber, J., Davies, R., van Hunen, J., Daniels, S., & Yielding, G. (2017). Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 23(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2016-052
• Goes, S., Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Garel, F. (2017). Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review. Geosphere, 13(3), 644-664. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01476.1
• Agrusta, R., Goes, S., & van Hunen, J. (2017). Subducting-slab transition-zone interaction: Stagnation, penetration and mode switches. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 464, 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.005
• Phethean, J. J., Kalnins, L. M., van Hunen, J., Biffi, P. G., Davies, R. J., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2016). Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(12), 5036-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006624
• Maunder, B., van Hunen, J., Magni, M., & Bouilhol, P. (2016). Relamination of mafic subducting crust throughout Earth’s history. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 206-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.042
• Condie, K., Aster, R., & van Hunen, J. (2016). A great thermal divergence in the mantle beginning 2.5 Ga: Geochemical constraints from greenstone basalts and komatiites. Geoscience Frontiers, 7(4), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2016.01.006
• Baker, A., Sodemann, H., Baldini, J., Breitenbach, S., Johnson, K., van Hunen, J., & Pingzhong, Z. (2015). Seasonality of westerly moisture transport in the East Asian Summer Monsoon and its implications for interpreting precipitation δ18O. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(12), 5850-5862. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jd022919
• Wang, H., Agrusta, R., & van Hunen, J. (2015). Advantages of a conservative velocity interpolation (CVI) scheme for particle-in-cell methods with application in geodynamic modeling. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(6), 2015-2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gc005824
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Hobbs, R., Van Hunen, J., & Gerdes, K. (2015). Quantifying the influence of sill intrusion on the thermal evolution of organic-rich sedimentary rocks in non-volcanic passive margins: an example from ODP 210-1276, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. Basin Research, 29(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12131
• Wang, H., van Hunen, J., & Pearson, D. (2015). The thinning of subcontinental lithosphere: The roles of plume impact and metasomatic weakening. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(4), 1156-1171. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gc005784
• van Hunen, J., & Miller, M. (2015). Collisional Processes and Links to Episodic Changes in Subduction Zones. Elements, 11(2), 119-124. https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.11.2.119
• Bouilhol, P., Magni, V., van Hunen, J., & Kaislaniemi, L. (2015). A numerical approach to melting in warm subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 411, 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.043
• Holt, P., Allen, M., & van Hunen, J. (2015). Basin formation by thermal subsidence of accretionary orogens. Tectonophysics, 639, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.11.021
• Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Goes, S. (2014). The effect of metastable pyroxene on the slab dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(24), 8800-8808. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl062159
• Magni, V., Bouilhol, P., & van Hunen, J. (2014). Deep water recycling through time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(11), 4203-4216. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gc005525
• Kaislaniemi, L., & van Hunen, J. (2014). Dynamics of lithospheric thinning and mantle melting by edge-driven convection: Application to Moroccan Atlas mountains. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(8), 3175-3189. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gc005414
• Magni, V., Faccenna, C., van Hunen, J., & Funiciello, F. (2014). How collision triggers backarc extension: Insight into Mediterranean style of extension from 3-D numerical models. Geology, 42(6), 511-514. https://doi.org/10.1130/g35446.1
• Bottrill, A., van Hunen, J., Cuthbert, S., Brueckner, H., & Allen, M. (2014). Plate rotation during continental collision and its relationship with the exhumation of UHP metamorphic terranes: Application to the Norwegian Caledonides. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(5), 1766-1782. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gc005253
• Watson, F., Mathias, S., Daniels, S., Jones, R., Davies, R., Hedley, B., & van Hunen, J. (2014). Dynamic modelling of a UK North Sea saline formation for CO2 sequestration. Petroleum Geoscience, 20(2), 169-185. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2012-072
• Kaislaniemi, L., van Hunen, J., Allen, M., & Neill, I. (2014). Sub-lithospheric small-scale convection—a mechanism for collision zone magmatism. Geology, 42(4), 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1130/g35193.1
• Wang, H., van Hunen, J., Pearson, D., & Allen, M. (2014). Craton stability and longevity: The roles of composition-dependent rheology and buoyancy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 391, 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.038
• Magni, V., Faccenna, C., van Hunen, J., & Funiciello, F. (2013). Delamination vs. break-off: the fate of continental collision. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(2), 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50090
• Bottrill, A. D., van Hunen, J., & Allen, M. B. (2012). Insight into collision zone dynamics from topography: numerical modelling results and observations. Solid Earth, 3(2), 387-399. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-3-387-2012
• Laurie, L., Stevens, G., & van Hunen, J. (2012). The end of continental growth by TTG magmatism. Terra Nova, 25(2), 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12015
• Magni, V., van Hunen, J., Funiciello, F., & Faccenna, C. (2012). Numerical models of slab migration in continental collision zones. Solid Earth, 3(2), 293-306. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-3-293-2012
• Holt, P., van Hunen, J., & Allen, M. (2012). Subsidence of the West Siberian Basin: Effects of a mantle plume impact. Geology, 40(8), 703-706. https://doi.org/10.1130/g32885.1
• van Hunen, J., & Moyen, J.-F. (2012). Archean Subduction: Fact or Fiction?. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105255
• Moyen, J.-F., & van Hunen, J. (2012). Short-term episodicity of Archaean plate tectonics. Geology, 40(5), 451-454. https://doi.org/10.1130/g322894.1
• Watson, F., Mathias, S., van Hunen, J., Daniels, S., & Jones, R. (2012). Dissolution of CO2 from leaking fractures in saline formations. Transport in Porous Media, 94, 729-745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-012-0021-1
• van Hunen, J., & Allen, M. (2011). Continental collision and slab break-off: a comparison of 3-D numerical models with observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 302(1-2), 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.035
• Ballmer, M., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., & Tackley, P. (2011). Spatial and temporal variability in Hawaiian hotspot volcanism induced by small-scale convection. Nature Geoscience, 4(7), 457-460. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1187
• Mittelstaedt, E., Ito, G., & van Hunen, J. (2011). Repeat ridge jumps associated with plume‐ridge interaction, melt transport, and ridge migration. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jb007504
• Bianco, T., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., Ballmer, M., & Mahoney, J. (2011). Geochemical variations at intraplate hot spots caused by variable melting of a veined mantle plume. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12(7), https://doi.org/10.1029/2011gc003658
• Holt, P., Allen, M., van Hunen, J., & Bjørnseth, H. (2010). Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism. Tectonophysics, 495(3-4), 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.014
• Ballmer, M., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., & Tackley, P. (2010). Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(1-2), 224-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.025
• van Wijk, J., Baldridge, W., van Hunen, J., Goes, S., Aster, R., Coblentz, D., Grand, S., & Ni, J. (2010). Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere. Geology, 38(7), 611-614. https://doi.org/10.1130/g31031.1
• Di Giuseppe, E., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., van Hunen, J., & Giardini, D. (2009). On the relation between trench migration, seafloor age, and the strength of the subducting lithosphere. Lithosphere, 1, 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1130/l26.1
• Ballmer, M. D., van Hunen, J., Ito, G., Bianco, T. A., & Tackley, P. J. (2009). Intraplate volcanism with complex age-distance patterns: A case for small-scale sublithospheric convection. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gc002386
• Faccenna, C., Di Giuseppe, E., Funiciello, F., Lallemand, S., & van Hunen, J. (2009). Control of seafloor aging on the migration of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana trench. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 288(3-4), 386-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.042
• Gröcke, D., Rimmer, S., Yoksoulian, L., Cairncross, B., Tsikos, H., & van Hunen, J. (2009). No evidence for thermogenic methane release in coal from the Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(1-2), 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.022
• Halla, J., van Hunen, J., Heilimo, E., & Holtta, P. (2009). Geochemical and numerical constraints on Neoarchean plate tectonics. Precambrian Research, 174, 155-162
• van Hunen, J., & Cadek, O. (2009). Reduced oceanic seismic anisotropy by small-scale convection. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284(3-4), 622-629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.034
• Bianco, T., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., Ballmer, M., & Mahoney, J. (2008). Geochemical variation at the Hawaiian hot spot caused by upper mantle dynamics and melting of a heterogeneous plume. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(11), https://doi.org/10.1029/2008gc002111
• van Wijk, J., van Hunen, J., & Goes, S. (2008). Small-scale convection during continental rifting: Evidence from the Rio Grande rift. Geology, 36(7), 575-578. https://doi.org/10.1130/g24691a.1
• van Hunen, J., & van den Berg, A. (2008). Plate tectonics on the early Earth : limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere. Lithos, 103(1-2), 217-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2007.09.016
• Martin, P., van Hunen, J., Parman, S., & Davidson, J. (2008). Why does plate tectonics only occur on Earth?. Physics Education, 43(2), 144-150. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/43/2/002
• Di Giuseppe, E., van Hunen, J., Funiciello, F., Faccenna, C., & Giardini, D. (2008). Slab stiffness control of trench motion: Insights from numerical models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gc001776
• Schmeling, H., Babeyko, A., Enns, A., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., Gerya, T., Golabek, G., Grigull, S., Morra, G., & van Hunen, J. (2008). A benchmark comparison of subduction models. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 171, 198-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.028
• Ballmer, M., van Hunen, J., Ito, G., Tackley, P., & Bianco, T. (2007). Non-hotspot volcano chains originating from small-scale sublithospheric convection. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L23310, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl031636
• Cizkova, H., van Hunen, J., & van den Berg, A. (2007). Stress distribution within subducting slabs and their deformation in the transition zone. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 161(3-4), 202-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2007.02.002
• van Hunen, J., & Zhong, S. (2006). Influence of rheology on realignment of mantle convective structure with plate motion after a plate reorganization. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2005gc001209
• van Hunen, J., Zhong, S., Shapiro, N., & Ritzwoller, M. (2005). New evidence for dislocation creep from 3-D geodynamic modelling of the Pacific upper mantle structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 238(1-2), 146-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.006
• van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2004). Various mechanisms to induce present-day shallow flat subduction and implications for the younger Earth: a numerical parameter study. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 146(1-2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2003.07.027
• van Hunen, J., & Zhong, S. (2003). New insight in the Hawaiian plume swell dynamics from scaling laws. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(15), https://doi.org/10.1029/2003gl017646
• Huang, J., Zhong, S., & van Hunen, J. (2003). Controls on sublithospheric small-scale convection. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B8), Article 2405. https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jb002456
• van Thienen, P., van den Berg, A., de Smet, J., van Hunen, J., & Drury, M. (2003). Interaction between small-scale mantle diapirs and a continental root. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4(2), Article 8301. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gc000338
• van Hunen, J., Huang, J., & Zhong, S. (2003). The effect of shearing on the onset and vigour of small-scale convection in a Newtonian rheology. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(19), https://doi.org/10.1029/2003gl018101
• van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2002). On the role of subducting oceanic plateaus in the development of shallow flat subduction. Tectonophysics, 352(3-4), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0040-1951%2802%2900263-9
• van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2002). The impact of the South-American plate motion and the Nazca Ridge subduction on the flat subduction below South Peru. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(14),
• Cizkova, H., van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2002). The influence of rheological weakening and yield stress on the interaction of slabs with the 670 km discontinuity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 199(3-4), 447-457
• van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2001). Latent heat effects of the major mantle phase transitions on low-angle subduction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 190(3-4), 125-135
• van Hunen, J., van den Berg, A., & Vlaar, N. (2000). A thermo-mechanical model of horizontal subduction below an overriding plate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 182(2), 157-169