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National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty Member
J. Gregory Shellnutt, U.E. B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. F.G.S. National Taiwan Normal University Department of Earth Sciences 88 Tingzhou Road, Section 4 Taipei 11677 Taiwan Tel: (O) +886-2-7734-6386 Tel: (M) +886-2-0989848674 Fax: (O) +886-2-2933-3315 e-mail: jgshelln@ntnu.edu.tw Personal Information Affiliation National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences Nationality Canadian Languages English, French (basic), Spanish (basic), Chinese (rudimentary) Education 2007-2003 The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Ph.D., Geology (Igneous Petrology). Thesis title: A-type Granites of the Permian Emeishan large igneous province (SW China): Implications for the formation of the giant magmatic oxide deposits. Supervisor: Dr. Mei-Fu Zhou. 2000- 1998 University of Western Ontario (Canada), M.Sc., Geology (Igneous Petrology). Thesis title: The Petrogenesis of the Sudbury Dyke Swarm, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. N.D. MacRae. 1998-1994 Saint Mary’s University (Canada), B.Sc. Hons., Geology (Igneous Petrology). Thesis title: A Geochemical Evaluation of the Evolution, Petrogenesis, and Economic Potential of the Coronation Sills, Northwest Territories. Supervisor: Dr. J. Dostal. Work Experience 2014- Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences 2011-2014 Assistant Professor, National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Earth Sciences 2007-2011 Distinguished Academia Sinica post-doctoral research fellow. Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences 2007 Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. 2003-2007 Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. Laboratory Instructor. 2003 Research Assistant, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2001-2002 Teaching Assistant, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. Laboratory Instructor. 2000 Research Assistant, Saint Mary’s University, Department of Geology. 1998-2000 Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences. Laboratory Instructor. 1997-1998 Teaching Assistant, Saint Mary’s University, Department of Geology. 1996-1997 Research Assistant, Saint Mary’s University, Department of Geology. Regional Geochemical Centre. Grants 2014-2015 National Taiwan Normal University large equipment grant ($47 000 USD). 2014-2017 National Science Council Grant 103-2923-M-003-001-MY3. Paleozoic continental crust formation and evolution of the western part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: geochronological and Sr-Nd-Hf-Os isotopic investigations ($100 000 USD). 2013-2017 National Science Council Grant 102-2628-M-003-004-MY4. Isotopic evolution of mantle derived magmas from the Archean to the Mesozoic ($340 000 USD). 2012-2013 Chinese Petroleum Corporation, The thermal event research of Doba Basin, Chad, Africa FEA021003 ($20 000 USD) 2011-2013 National Science Council Grant 100-2116-M-003-006-MY2. Formation of alkaline granites and their economic potential ($189 000 USD). 2011-2012 National Taiwan Normal University large equipment grant ($266 000 USD). Courses Taught Inorganic Geochemistry Economic Geology Planetary Geology Introduction to Physical Geology Evolution of the Continental Crust Awards and Accreditations Outstanding Reviewer Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2014 Mineralogical Association of Canada Young Scientist Award 2014 Distinguished Academia Sinica Post-doctoral Fellowship (2011-2013) Society of Economic Geologists Student Research Grant (2006) Mineralogical Association of Canada Student Travel Award (2005) Geological Society of America Student Travel Award (2003) Ontario Graduate Scholarship for Science and Technology (2000) Gordon Fader Award for contributions to Geology at Saint Mary’s University (1998) Certified Wilderness First Aid provider Canadian Firearms Acquisition Certificate (Firearms Training) Academic-related social activities Editorial board member of Geology (2016-2018) Editorial board member of Lithos Convener 2015 Joint Assembly AGU-GAC-MAC on Secular variations in the tectonomagmatic evolution of the continental crust Convener 2011 Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Session Honoring Prof. Bor-Ming Jahn on Continental Magmatism and the Formation of Juvenile Crust in Asia Convener 2011 Japan Geosciences Union International Symposium Session Mineralogical and microanalytical constraints on magmatism Convener 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Session Large Igneous Provinces: Recent Developments and Ways Forward Lead Guest Editor for special issue on the Emeishan large igneous province, Lithos Lead Guest Editor for special issue in American Journal of Science Reviewer for: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geology, Journal of Petrology, Chemical Geology, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Lithos, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of the Geological Society of London, Geochemical Journal, The Island Arc, Gondwana Research, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Geological Magazine, Mineralogy and Petrology, Advances in Geosciences, Chemie der Erde, Sedimentary Geology, Geoscience Frontiers, Tectonophysics, Ore Geology Reviews, Geosciences Journal, Tectonics, TAO, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Global Planetary Change, Bulletin of Volcanology, Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, International Geology Review, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Italian Journal of Geosciences and G-cubed. Editor, Proceedings of the IGCP 479 Hong Kong Workshop, Recent Advances in Magmatic Ore Systems in Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks (2004). Organizer IGCP 479 Recent Advances in Magmatic Ore Systems in Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks, Hong Kong (2004) Member of the University of Victoria Senate Committee on the Libraries 2001-2002 Chair, Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (Canada) 1997 Member of 1) Geological Association of Canada, 2) American Geophysical Union, 3) Geological Society of America, 4) Mineralogical Association of Canada, 5) Japan Geosciences Union, 6) The Geochemical Society, 7) The Geological Society of London, 8) Taiwan Geological Society, 9) Society of Economic Geologists Research Interests Petrogenesis of large igneous provinces and mafic dyke swarms Orogenic peridotites Within-plate granitic rocks Magmatic oxide mineral deposits Platinum group element geochemistry Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf isotopic geochemistry Research Metrics Total SCI papers: 51 Total conference presentations: 48 Total citations: 919 h-index: 17 Publications I) Full Publications Dostal, J., Shellnutt, J.G. 2016. Origin of peralkaline granites of the Jurassic Bokan Mountain complex (southeastern Alaska) hosting rare metal mineralization. International Geology Review, 58, 1-13. Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Chiu, H.-Y., Lee, Y.-H., Wong, J. 2015. Evidence of Middle Jurassic magmatism within the Seychelles microcontinent: implications for the break-up of Gondwana. Geophysical Research Letters, 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL066036. Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Yang, C.-C., Hu, Shin-Tai, Wu, J.-C., Iizuka, Y. 2015. A mineralogical investigation of the Late Permian Doba gabbro, southern Chad: constraints on the parental magma conditions and composition. Journal of African Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.afrearsci.2015.11.005. Suga, K., Yui, T.-F., Shellnutt, J.G., Wu, T.-W., Mori, Y., Miyazaki, K., Jahn, B.-M. 2015. Nd-Sr isotopic constrain to the formation of metatexite and diatexite migmatites, Higo metamorphic terrane, central Kyushu, Japan: implications for mass transfer through diatexite magma channels via hybrid silicic melt. International Geology Review, dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2015.1086961. Dostal, J., Kontak, D.J., Gerel, O., Shellnutt, J.G., Fayek, M. 2015. Cretaceous ongonites (topaz-bearing albite-rich microleucogranites) from Ongon Khairkhan, Central Mongolia: products of extreme magmatic fractionation and pervasive metasomatic fluid rock interaction. Lithos, 236-237, 173-189. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. 2015. Granodiorites of the South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia, Canada) derived by partial melting of Avalonia granulite rocks beneath the Meguma terrane: implications for the heat source of the Late Devonian granites of the Northern Appalachians. Tectonophysics, 655, 206-212. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.-L., Yeh, M.-W., Brookfield, M.E., Jahn, B.-M. 2015. Multiple mantle sources of the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India. American Journal of Science 315, 589-619. Shellnutt, J.G., Usuki, T., Kennedy, A.K., Chiu, H.-Y. 2015. A lower crust origin of some flood basalts of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 109, 74-85. Tran, T.H., Lan, C.-Y., Usuki, T., Shellnutt, J.G., Pham, T.D., Tran, T.A., Pham, N.C., Phuong, N.T., Izokh, A.E., Borisenko, A.S. 2015. Petrogenesis of Late Permian silicic rocks of Tu Le basin and Phan Si Pan uplift (NW Vietnam) and their association with the Emeishan large igneous province. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 109, 1-19. Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Yang, C.-C., Hu, S.-T., Wu, J.-C., Wang, K.-L., Lo, C.-H. 2015. Late Permian mafic rocks identified within the Doba basin of Southern Chad and their relationship to the boundary of the Saharan Metacraton. Geological Magazine 152, 1073-1084. Pang, K.-N., Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F. 2015. The Panzhihua intrusion, SW China. In: Charlier B., Namur O., Latypov R., Tegner C. (Eds.) Layered Intrusions, Springer, Dordrecht, pp 435-464. Dostal, J., Owen, J.V., Shellnutt, J.G., Keppie, J.D., Gerel, O., Corney, R. 2015. Petrogenesis of the Triassic Bayan-Ulan alkaline granitic pluton in the North Gobi rift of central Mongolia: implication for the evolution of the Early Mesozoic granitoid magmatism in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 109, 50-62. Shellnutt, J.G. 2015. The Late Permian Emeishan large igneous province. Geoscience Canada 42, 169-180. Zellmer, G.F., Rubin, K., Miller, C., Shellnutt, J.G., Belousov, A., Belousova, M. 2015. Resolving discordant U-Th-Ra ages: constraints on petrogenetic processes of recent effusive eruptions at Tatun Volcano Group, northern Taiwan. In: Blundy, J. and Caricchi, L. (ed.), Chemical, Physical and Temporal Evolution of Magmatic Systems. Geological Society of London Special Publications 422, doi.org/10.1144/SP422.3 Usuki, T., Lan, C.-Y., Tran, T.H., Pham, T.D., Wang, K.-L., Shellnutt, J.G., Chung, S.-L. 2015. Zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopic compositions of alkaline silicic magmatic rocks in the Phan Si Pan-Tu Le region, northern Vietnam: identification of a displaced western extension of the Emeishan large igneous province. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 97, 102-124. Shellnutt, J.G., Ma, G., Qi, L. 2015. Platinum-group elemental chemistry of the Baima and Taihe Fe-Ti oxide bearing gabbroic intrusions of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Chemie der Erde 75, 35-49. Shellnutt. J.G., Belousov, A., Belousova, M., Wang, K.-L., Zellmer, G.F. 2014. Generation of calc-alkaline andesitic rocks of the Tatun volcanic group (Taiwan) within an extensional environment by crystal fractionation. International Geology Review 56, 1156-1171. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.-L., Brookfield, M.E., Dostal, J., Jahn, B.-M. 2014. Petrogenesis of the flood basalts from the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India: geochemical evidence for shallow melting of the mantle. Lithos 204, 159-171. Shellnutt, J.G. 2014 The Emeishan large igneous province: a synthesis. Geoscience Frontiers 5, 369-394. Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Brookfield, M.E., Chung, S.-L. 2014. Correlation between magmatism and convergence rates during the Indo-Eurasia collision. Gondwana Research 26, 1051-1059. Shellnutt, J.G. Wang, K.-L. 2014. An ultramafic parental magma for a low Si-Al, high Ti-Fe gabbro in the Panxi region of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 79, 329-344. Dostal, J., Owen, J.V., Gerel, O., Keppie, J.D., Corney, R., Shellnutt, J.G., MacRae, A. 2014. The 186 Ma Dashibalbar alkaline granitoid pluton in the North-Gobi rift of central Mongolia: evidence for melting of Neoproterozoic basement above a plume. American Journal of Science 314, 613-648. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J., Iizuka, Y. 2013. Evidence of silicate immiscibility within flood basalts from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Geochemsitry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, 4921-4935. Shellnutt, J.G., Lan, C.-Y., Long, T.V., Usuki, T., Yang, H.-J., Mertzman, S.A., Iizuka, Y., Chung, S.-L., Wang, K.-L., Hsu, W.-Y. 2013. Formation of Cretaceous cordilleran and post-orogenic granites and their enclaves from the Dalat zone, southern Vietnam: tectonic implications for the evolution of Southeast Asia. Lithos 182-183, 229-241. Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka, Y. 2013. Chevkinite group mineral from the mantle-derived metaluminous Woshui syenite of the Emeishan large igneous province. European Journal of Mineralogy 25, 671-682. Shellnutt, J.G., 2013. Petrological modeling of basaltic rocks from Venus: a case for the presence of silicic rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 118, 1350-1364. Wang, K.L., O’Reilly, S.Y., Kovach, V., Griffin, W.L., Pearson, N.J., Yarmolyuk, V., Kuzmin, M.I., Chieh, C.J., Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka, Y. 2013. Finding microcontinents within the accretionary complexes of the Central Asia Orogenic Belt: in situ Re-Os perspectives. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 62, 37-50. Dostal., J., Karl, S.M., Keppie, J.D., Kontak, D.J., Shellnutt, J.G. 2013. Rifting after lower Jurassic accretion of Alexander terrane with North America: evidence from the Bokan Mountain peralkaline granite, S.E. Alaska. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50, 678-691. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.-L., Brookfield, M.E., Dostal, J. Jahn, B.-M. 2012. Origin of the silicic rocks of the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India. Chemical Geology 334, 154-170. Shellnutt, J.G., Pang, K.-N. 2012. Petrogenetic implications of mineral chemical data for the Permian Baima igneous complex, SW China. Mineralogy and Petrology 106, 75-88. Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka, Y. 2012. Oxidation zonation within the Emeishan large igneous province: evidence from mantle-derived syenitic plutons. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 54-55, 31-40. Shellnutt, J.G., Denyszyn, S., Mundil, R. 2012. Precise age determination of mafic and felsic intrusive rocks from the Permian Emeishan large igneous province (SW China). Gondwana Research 22, 118-126. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. 2012. An evaluation of crustal assimilation within the Late Devonian South Mountain Batholith, SW Nova Scotia. Geological Magazine 149, 353-365. Shellnutt, J.G., MacRae, N.D. 2012. Petrogenesis of the Mesoproterozoic (1.23 Ga) Sudbury dyke swarm and its questionable relationship to plate separation. International Journal of Earth Sciences 101, 3-23. Shellnutt, J.G., Wang, K.-L., Zellmer, G.F., Iizuka, Y., Jahn, B.-M., Pang, K.-N., Qi, L., Zhou, M.-F. 2011. Three Fe-Ti oxide ore-bearing gabbro-granitoid complexes in the Panxi region of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. American Journal of Science 311, 773-812. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Brookfield, M.E., Jahn, B.-M. 2011. No link between the Panjal Traps and the Late Permian mass extinctions. Geophysical Research Letters 38, L19308. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M. 2011. Origin of Late Permian Emeishan basaltic rocks from the Panxi region (SW China): implications for the Ti-classification and spatial-compositional distribution of the Emeishan basalts. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 199, 85-95. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M., Zhou, M.-F. 2011. Crustal-derived granites in the Panzhihua region, SW China: implications for felsic magmatism in the Emeishan Large Igneous province. Lithos 123, 145-157. Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka. Y. 2011. Mineralogy from three peralkaline granitic plutons of the Late Permian Emeishan large igneous province (SW China): evidence for contrasting magmatic conditions of A-type granitoids. European Journal of Mineralogy 23, 45-61. Shellnutt, J.G., Zellmer, G.F. 2010. High-Mg andesite genesis by upper crustal differentiation. Journal of the Geological Society of London 167, 1081-1088. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M., Dostal, J. 2010. Elemental and Sr-Nd isotope geochemistry of microgranular enclaves from peralkaline A-type granitic plutons of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Lithos 119, 34-46. Pang, K.-N., Zhou, M.-F., Qi, L., Shellnutt, J.G., Wang. C.Y., Zhao, D. 2010. Magmatic Fe-Ti-V oxide deposits in the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Lithos 119, 123-136. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M. 2010. Formation of the Late Permian Panzhihua plutonic-hypabyssal-volcanic igneous complex: implications for the genesis of Fe-Ti oxide deposits and A-type granites of SW China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289, 509-519. Brookfield, M.E., Shellnutt, J.G., Qi, L., Hannigan, R., Wignall, P., Bhat, G.M. 2010. Platinum element group variations at the Permo-Triassic boundary in Kashmir and British Columbia and their significance. Chemical Geology 272, 12-19. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Zellmer, G. 2009. The role of Fe–Ti oxide crystallization in the formation of A-type granitoids with implications for the Daly gap: An example from the Permian Baima igneous complex, SW China. Chemical Geology 259, 204-217. Shellnutt, J.G., Wang, C.Y., Zhou, M.-F., Yang, Y.-H. 2009. Zircon Lu Hf isotopic compositions of metaluminous and peralkaline A-type granitic plutons of the Emeishan large igneous province (SW China): constraints on the mantle source. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 35, 45-55. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Yan, D.-P., Wang, Y. 2008. Longevity of the Permian Emeishan mantle plume (SW China): 1 million years; 8 million years or 18 million years? Geological Magazine 145, 373-388. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F. 2008. Rifting-related, Permian ferrosyenites in the Panxi region, SW China. Lithos 101, 54-73. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F. 2007. Permian peralkaline, peraluminous and metaluminous A-type granites in the Panxi district, SW China: their relationship to the Emeishan mantle plume. Chemical Geology 243, 286-316. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J., Keppie, J.D. 2004. Petrogenesis of the 723 Ma Coronation sills, Amundsen Basin, Arctic Canada: implications for the break-up of Rodinia. Precambrian Research, 129, 309-324. Canil, D., Johnston, S.T., Evers, K., Shellnutt, J.G., Creaser, R. A. 2003. Mantle exhumation in an early Paleozoic passive margin, northern Cordillera, Yukon. Journal of Geology, 111, 313-327. II) Books edited Shellnutt, J.G., Wang, K.-L., Griffin, W.L., Chung, S.-L. 2014. American Journal of Science Bor-Ming Jahn Special Issue 314, Part I & II, 750 pp. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Chung, S.-L. (eds.). 2010. The Emeishan large igneous province: advances in the stratigraphic correlations and petrogenetic and metallogenic models. Lithos 119, 172 pp. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Pang, K.-N. (eds.). 2004. Proceedings of the IGCP 479 Hong Kong Workshop: Recent Advances in Magmatic Ore Systems in Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks. Abstract Volume, 143 pp. III) Society Newsletters, Government Reports and Videos Shellnutt, J.G. 2015. Living with metrics. Geoscientist 25, 9. Shellnutt, J.G. 2014. A visit to Hadjer el Hamis, west-central Chad. Elements 10, 234-235. Shellnutt, J.G. 2011. A look into Permian volcanism: exploring the Panjal Traps of Kashmir. Ashfall: Newsletter of the volcanology and igneous petrology division of the Geological Association of Canada, 75, 4-6. Shellnutt, J.G. 2010. Video introduction to the Emeishan large igneous province special issue, doi:10.1016/S0024-4937(10)00232-X. Shellnutt, J.G. 2008. Dynamic Taiwan: a researcher’s delight in the South China Sea. Ashfall: Newsletter of the volcanology and igneous petrology division of the Geological Association of Canada, 69, 2-3. Shellnutt, J.G. 2007. Canada and Hong Kong what’s the geologic connection? Ashfall: Newsletter of the volcanology and igneous petrology division of the Geological Association of Canada 66, 4. Shellnutt, J.G., Eaton, D., Vasudevan, K. 1999. Potential-Field Skeletonization and origin of the Hottah Dyke Swarm, NWT. Lithoprobe Seismic Processing Facility Newsletter, vol. 12, pp. 30- 36. Shellnutt, J.G., Canil, D., Johnston, S.T. 2002. Preliminary results of a petrological study of ultramafic rocks of the Northern Cordillera. In Yukon Exploration and Geology 201, D.S. Emond, L.H. Weston and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, p. 229-237. IV) Conference Presentations Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Torng, P.-K., Yang, C.-C. 2015. Late Cretaceous intraplate silicic volcanism in the Lake Chad region: incipient continental rift volcanism vs. Cameroon Line volcanism. Abstract V51C-3052 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 14-18 Dec. Pham, Thuy Thanh, Shellnutt, J.G. 2015. Late Permian to Early Oligocene granitic magmatism of the Phan Si Pan uplift area, NW Vietnam: their relationship to Phanerozoic crustal evolution of Southwest China. Abstract V51C-3043 presented at 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 14-18 Dec. Shellnutt, J.G., Murphy, J.B. 2015. From Gondwana to Pangea: genesis of west Avalonian silicic igneous rocks from Neoproterozoic to Late Ordovician by repeated partial melting of the lower crust. Geological Association of America Abstracts with Programs 47, 165. Shellnutt, J.G. 2015. Peralkaline silicic rocks as indicators of ore deposits: examples from SW China, S Alaska and Lake Chad. Second International Workshop on Tethyan Orogenesis and Metallogeny in Asia and Silk Road Higher Education Cooperation Forum, Wuhan, October 16th to 18th. (Keynote). Shellnutt, J.G., Usuki, T., Kennedy, A.K., Chiu, H.-Y. 2015. A lower crust origin of some flood basalts of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. 8th World Chinese Geosciences Conference, Taipei, June 15th to 21st, Abstract 2-12-P-03-42. Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Lee, Y.H., Chiu, H.-Y. 2015. Evidence of Middle Jurassic magmatism within the Seychelles microcontinent: a possible connection to the initial rifting between East Gondwana and Africa. Abstract VGP42A-01 presented at 2015 Joint Assembly, AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU, Montreal, QC, 4-7 May. Ma, G., Shellnutt, J.G., Qi, L. 2015. Platinum group elements in the Baima and Taihe Fe-Ti oxide-bearing gabbroic intrusions of Emeishan large igneous province and problems on propensity of magma series for sulfide-versus oxide dominated deposits types. Proceedings PACRIMM 2015 Congress, Hong Kong, March 18th-21st, 303-310. Shellnutt, J.G., Hsia, T.W.-Y., Liu, T.-C., Iizuka, Y. 2015. Cogenetic formation of the peralkaline syenite and oxide ore-bearing layered gabbroic intrusion of the Baima igneous complex, Emeishan large igneous province, South-west China. Proceedings PACRIMM 2015 Congress, Hong Kong, March 18th-21st, 317-323 Shellnutt, J.G., Lee, T.-Y., Yang, C.-C., Hu, S.-T., Wu, J.-C., Wang, K.-L., Lo, C.-H. 2014. Late Permian melt percolation through the crust of North-Central Africa and its possible relationship to the African large low shear velocity province. Abstract V43C-4908 presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 15-19 Dec. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.L., Yeh, M.-W., Brookfield, M.E., Jahn, B.-M. 2014. Multiple mantle sources of the Panjal Traps related to the continental rift-ocean basin transition. Geological Association of America, Abstracts with Programs 46, 652-653. Tran, D.T, Shellnutt, J.G., Hsia, W.-Y., Liu, T.-C. 2014. An experimental investigation of the Panzhihua igneous complex, SW China: addressing the genesis of Fe-Ti-V oxide ore deposits. Geological Association of America, Abstracts with Programs 46, 292. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.-L., Pang, K.N. 2014. Petrogenesis and economic potential of the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India. Sustainable Resource Development in the Himalaya. Leh, India, Abstract Book p. 15. Kontak, D.J., Dostal, J., Petrus, J.A., Fayek, M., Shellnutt, J.G. 2014. Textural, chemical and isotopic evidence for pervasive high-temperature metasomatism in type examples of the Cretaceous Mongolian ongonites. GAC/MAC Joint Annual Meeting, Fredericton, NB, Abstract Volume 37 p. 142. Shellnutt. J.G., Belousov, A., Belousova, M., Wang, K.-L., Zellmer, G.F. 2014. Generation of calc-alkaline andesitic rocks of the Tatun volcanic group (Taiwan) within an extensional environment by crystal fractionation. Geological Society of Taiwan 2014 Geological Annual Congress, Hualien, Taiwan. Shellnutt, J.G. 2013. Petrological modeling of basaltic rocks from Venus: a case for the presence of silicic rocks. Abstract P41D-1956 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec. Hsieh, R.B., Shellnutt, J.G. 2013 Mineral and whole rock geochemistry of the spinel peridotites from the East Taiwan Ophiolite, Southeast Taiwan. Abstract OS43A-1868 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec. Hsia, T.W., Shellnutt, J.G., Liu, T.-C., Iizuka, Y. 2013. A petrological investigation of the bi-modal gabbro-syenite Baima igneous complex, Sichuan, China: implications for the genesis of Fe-Ti-V oxide ore deposits. Abstract V51C-2672 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 9-13 Dec. Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka, Y. 2013. Oxidation zonation within the Emeishan large igneous province: evidence from mantle-derived syenitic rocks. 2013 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly May 13th to 17th. Hsieh, R., Shellnutt, J.G. 2013. Mineral chemistry from the spinel-peridotite of the Eat Taiwan Ophiolite, Southeast Taiwan. 2013 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly May 13th to 17th. Hsia, W.-Y., Shellnutt, J.G., Liu, T.C. 2013. A petrological investigation of the bi-modal gabbro-syenite Baima igneous complex, Sichuan, China: implications for the genesis of the Fe-Ti-V oxide-ore deposits. 2013 Taiwan Geosciences Assembly May 13th to 17th. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Wang, K.-L., Brookfield, M.E., Dostal, J., Jahn, B.-M. 2012. Origin of the acidic rocks of the Early Permian Panjal Traps, Kashmir, India. Goldschmidt 2012, Montreal June 24-29th. Mundil, R., Denyszyn, S.W., Shellnutt, J.G., Jost, A.B., Payne, J.L., Renne, P.R., He, B., Zhong, Y., Xu, Y. 2012. Timing of Emeishan magmatic activity and implications for the end-Middle Permian biotic crisis. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-6760-1. Maki, K., Shellnutt, J.G., Wu, T.W., Mori, Y., Miyazaki, K., Yui, T.F., Jahn, B.M. 2011. Sr and Nd isotope disequilibrium in migmatites and leucogranites, the Higo metamorphic terrane, Japan. Mineralogical Magazine 75, 1391. Maki, K., Shellnutt, J. G., Wu, T. W., Mori, Y., Miyazaki, K., Yui, T. F., and Jahn, B. M. 2011. Sr and Nd isotopic constraint to the formation of migmatites from the Higo metamorphic terrane, Japan. 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences and Geological Society of Japan, T5-P06. Shellnutt, J.G., Wang, K.-L., Zellmer, G.F., Iizuka, Y., Jahn, B.-M., Pang, K.-W., Qi, L., Zhou, M.-F. 2011. A triumvirate of Fe-Ti oxide ore bearing gabbro-granitoids complexes in the Panxi region of the Permian Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. 7th Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related Rocks, July 4 to July 9, Avila, Spain. Shellnutt, J.G., Bhat, G.M., Jahn, B.-M. 2011. Petrogenesis of the Early Permian Panjal Traps from Guryal Ravine and Pahalgam, Kashmir (NW India). AOGS 8th Annual Meeting, August 8 to 12, Taipei, Taiwan. Shellnutt, J.G., Iizuka, Y. 2011. Evidence for contrasting magmatic conditions of A-type granitoids from the Emeishan large igneous province (SW China). Japan Geosciences Union. May 22 to 27, Chiba, Japan. Zellmer G.F., Shellnutt J.G. 2010. Genesis of high-Mg andesites through shallow fractionation of primitive arc basalts at elevated oxygen fugacities. EGU General Assembly, 2-7 May, Vienna, Austria Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. 2010. Geochemical evolution of the Late Devonian (375 Ma) South Mountain Batholith (Nova Scotia) by crystal fractionation. Japan Geosciences Union. May 23 to 28, Chiba, Japan. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M., Dostal, J. 2010. Whole rock and Sr and Nd geochemistry of Microgranular enclaves from peralkaline A-type granitic plutons of the Emeishan large igneous provinces, SW China. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting. June 22 to 25, Taipei, Taiwan. Shellnutt, J.G. Jahn, B.-M., Zhou, M.-F. 2010. Chemical and thermal subdivisions of Late Permian within-plate granitoids of the SW China: implications for secular variations in granitic magmatism of the Emeishan large igneous province. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, June 22 to 25, Taipei, Taiwan. Pang, K.-N., Zhou, M.-F., Qi, L., Shellnutt, J.G., Wang, C.Y., Zhao, D. 2010. Crystallization of Fe-Ti oxides in ferrobasaltic magmas and formation of the Panzhihua-type Fe-Ti oxide deposits in the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, June 22 to 25, Taipei, Taiwan. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M. 2009. Formation of the Late Permian Taihe layered gabbro-granite complex: a common regional process for the formation of the Fe-Ti oxide deposits of the Emeishan large igneous province (SW China). EOS, Transactions, AGU Abstract V21A-1969. Zellmer, G.F., Shellnutt, J.G. 2009. Genesis of high-Mg andesites through shallow fractionation of primitive arc basalts at elevated oxygen fugacities. EOS, Transactions, AGU Abstract V31B-1962. Shellnutt, J.G., Jahn, B.-M. 2009. Formation of the Permian Panzhihua magmatic Fe-Ti deposit and associated A-type granite of the Emeishan large igneous province (SW China): implications for the Daly gap and the hypabyssal-volcanic transition. Joint Meeting AGU-GAC-MAC. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Yan, D.P., Wang Y. 2008. Longevity of the Emeishan mantle-plume (SW China): 1 Ma, 8 Ma or 18 Ma? The Gondwana 13 Program and Abstracts, p. 183. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M.-F., Zellmer, G., 2008. Formation of Peralkaline A-type granitoids: insights from the Permian Fe-Ti-oxide bearing Baima Igneous Complex (China). Geological Society of Taiwan 2008 Geological Annual Congress, Tainan, Taiwan. Zhou, M.-F., Wang, C.Y., Pang, K.-N., Shellnutt, G.J., Ma, Y. 2008. Origin of giant Fe-Ti-V oxide deposits in layered gabbroic intrusions, Pan-Xi district, Sichuan Province, SW China. In: Ma, J., Bierlein, F.P. (eds), Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Springer-Verlag, p.511-513. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M-F. 2006. Rifting-related, Permian ferrosyenites in the Panxi region of the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 579. Shellnutt, J.G., Zhou, M-F. 2006. Enrichment of Fe, Ti and V in mafic magmas by immiscible separation of syenitic magmas: a case study of the Permian Baima Igneous Complex. International Conference on Continental Volcanism IAVCEI2006 Abstracts & Program, p. 181. 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Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J., Keppie, J. D. 2003. Coronation Sills of Arctic Canada, implications for a Neoproterozoic mantle plume and the break-up of Rodinia. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 4. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J., Kontak, D.J. 2003. Early Jurassic magmatism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: regional variations in chemical composition.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 35, no. 3. Shellnutt, J.G., Canil, D., Johnston, S.T. 2002. Ultramafic rocks of the Northern Cordillera. Cordilleran Roundup 2002. Yukon and British Columbia Chamber of Mines January 24-26, 2002, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Shellnutt, J.G., Dostal, J. 2001. Petrogenesis of the Coronation Sills and its Relationship to the Neoproterozoic break-up of Rodinia. Slave-Northern Cordillera Lithospheric Evolution and Cordilleran Tectonics Workshop Combined Meeting, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Lithoprobe Report 79, p. 27. Shellnutt, J.G., Eaton, D. 1999. 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