Centre International de Recherche Scientifique
Centre International de Recherche Scientifique
hugh.oneill
Professor, Associate Director
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia.
Hugh´s groundbreaking experimental studies of the stability and structure of earth materials are legendary.
He has accomplished a vast achievement of quantifying the thermodynamics of earth materials with a great range of techniques. The implications of his work have been felt in the solid earth sciences in answering questions of the stability of phases in the deep earth.
Further, his development of new techniques for extracting thermochemical data from experiments have been astonishingly successful. He has exploded myths in the literature of the Earth sciences through his erudite attention to critical aspects of the origin and evolution of the Earth and Moon.
He is the world´s foremost scholar in the application of mineralogy and petrology to constraining our picture of the Earth´s interior.
He was awarded a Forschungspreis by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung in 2000, which has enabled him to return to Germany three times for collaborative visits. He was presented with the Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2003, the Bunsen Medal of the European Union of Geosciences in 2007, and the Bowen medal of the American Geophysical Union also in 2007. He was elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2006, of the Geochemical Society in 2007, and became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Journal Articles
Spandler, C. and O’Neill, .C., Diffusion and partition coefficients of minor and trace elements in San Carlos olivine at 1300 ºC with some geochemical implications. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. in press
Kovács I, O’Neill, .C., Hermann, J., and Hauri, E.H. Site-specific infrared O-H absorption coefficients for water substitution into olivine. Amer. Mineral. in press
Mallmann, G., O’Neill, .C. and Klemme, S. Heterogeneous distribution of phosphorus in olivine from otherwise well-equilibrated spinel peridotite xenoliths and its implications for the mantle geochemistry of lithium. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 158: 485-504, 2009.
Witt-Eickschen, G., Palme, H., O’Neill, .C. and Allen, C.M. The geochemistry of the volatile trace elements As, Cd, Ga, In and Sn in the Earth's mantle: New evidence from in situ analyses of mantle xenoliths. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73: 1755-1778 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.12.013), 2009.
Métrich, N., Berry, A.J., O’Neill, .C. and Susini, J. The oxidation state of sulfur in synthetic and natural glasses determined by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73: 2382-2399 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.01.025), 2009.
Fonseca, R.O.C., Campbell, I.H., O’Neill, .C. and Allen, C.M. Solubility of Pt in sulphide mattes: Implications for the genesis of PGE-rich horizons in layered intrusions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73: 5764-5777 (doi:10.1016/j/gca.2009.06.038), 2009
Mallmann, G., and O’Neill, .C. The crystal/melt partitioning of V during mantle melting as a function of oxygen fugacity compared with some other elements (Al, P, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ga, Y, Zr and Nb). J. Petrol. 50: 1765-1794.
Jenner, F.E., Holden, P., Mavrogenes, J.A., O’Neill, .C. and Allen, C. Determination of selenium concentrations in NIST SRM 610, 612, 614 and geological glass reference materials using the electron probe, LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP II. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 33, 309-317.
Evans, K.A., O’Neill, .C., Mavrogenes, J.A., Keller, N.S., Jang L-Y. and Lee, J-F. XANES evidence for sulphur speciation in Mn-, Ni- and W-bearing silicate melts. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta in press, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.013.
Evans, T.M., O’Neill, .C. and Tuff, J. The influence of melt composition on the partitioning of REEs, Y, Sc, Zr and Al between forsterite and melt in the system CMAS. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72: 5708-5721, 2008
Evans, K.A., Mavrogenes, J.A., O’Neill, .C., Keller, N.S. and Jang, L.-Y. A preliminary investigation of chlorine XANES in silicate glasses. Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, G3, 9: doi:10.1029/2008GC002157, 2008.
O’Neill, .C., Berry, A.J., and Eggins, S.M. The solubility and oxidation state of tungsten in silicate melts: Implications for the comparative chemistry of W and Mo in planetary differentiation processes. Chem. Geol., 255: 346-359, 2008.
Berry, A.J., Danyushevsky, L.V., O’Neill, .C., Newville, M. and Sutton, S.R. Oxidation state of iron in komatiitic melt inclusions indicates hot Archaean mantle. Nature, 455: 960-963, 2008.
Evans, K.A., O’Neill, .C. and Mavrogenes, J.A. Sulphur solubility and sulphide immiscibility in silicate melts as a function of the concentration of manganese, nickel, tungsten and copper at 1 atm and 1400˚C. Chem. Geol. 255: 236-249. 2008.
Sambridge, M. Fitz Gerald, J.D. Kovacs, I. O’Neill, .C. and Hermann, J. Quantitative absorbance spectroscopy with unpolarized light: Part I. Physical and mathematical development. Amer. Min. 93: 751-764, 2008.
Kovacs, I., Hermann, J., O’Neill, .C, Fitz Gerald, J.D. and Sambridge, M. Quantitative absorbance spectroscopy with unpolarized light: Part II. Experimental evaluation and development of a protocol for quantitative analysis of mineral IR spectra. Amer. Min. 93: 765-778, 2008.
Fonseca, R.O.C., Campbell, I.H., O’Neill, .C. and Fitz Gerald, J.D. Oxygen solubility and speciation in sulphide-rich mattes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72: 2619-2635, 2008.
O’Neill, .C. and Palme, H. Collisional erosion and the non-chondritic composition of the terrestrial planets. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A. 366: 4205-4238, 2008.
Mallmann, G., and O’Neill, .C. The effect of oxygen fugacity on the partitioning of Re between crystals and silicate melt during mantle melting. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 71: 2837-2857, 2007.
Walker, A.M., Hermann, J., Berry, A.J., and O’Neill, .C. Three water sites in upper mantle olivine and the role of titanium in the water weakening mechanism. J. Geophy. Res., 112: B05211, 2007.
Spandler, C., O’Neill, .C., and Kamenetsky, V. Survival times of anomalous melt inclusions: constraints from element diffusion in olivine and chromite, Nature, 447: 303-306, 2007.
Xi, L., and O’Neill, .C. Effects of P2O5 and TiO2 on the partial melting of spinel lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 at 1.1 GPa, Canadian Min., 45: 649-655, 2007.
Fonseca, R.O.C., Mallmann, G., O’Neill, .C. and Campbell, I.H. How chalcophile is rhenium? An experimentalstudy of the solubility of Re in sulphite mattes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 260: 537-548, 2007.
Berry, A.J., O’Neill, .C., Hermann, J. and Scott, D.R. The infrared signature of water associated with trivalent cations in olivine. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 261: 134-142, 2007.
Berry, A.J., Walker, A.M., Hermann, J., O’Neill, .C., Foran, G.J. and Gale, J.D. Titanium substitution mechanisms in forsterite. Chemical Geology, 242: 176-186, 2007.
Liu, X, O’Neill, .C., and Berry, A.J. The effects of small amounts of H2O, CO2 and Na2O on the partial melting of spinel lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 ± H2O ± CO2 ± Na2O at 1.1 GPa. J. Petrol., 47: 409-434, 2006.
Norman, M.D., McCulloch, M.T., O’Neill, .C., and Yaxley, G.M. Magnesium isotopic analysis of olivine by laser-ablation multi-collector ICP-MS: composition dependent matrix effects and a comparison of the Earth and Moon. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 21: 1, 50-54, 2006
O’Neill, .C., Berry, A.J., McCammon, C.C., Jayasuriya, K.D., Campbell, S.J., Foran, G. An experimental determination of the effect of pressure on the Fe3+/∑Fe ratio of an anhydrous silicate melt to 3.0 GPa. Amer. Mineral., 91: 2-3, 404-412, 2006.
O’Neill, .C., and Berry, A.J. Activity coefficients at low dilution of CrO, NiO and CoO in melts in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O 3-SiO2 at 1400˚C: Using the thermodynamic behaviour of transition metal oxides in silicate melts to probe their structure. Chem. Geol., 231: 77-89, 2006.
Sinmyo, R., Hirose, K., O’Neill, .C., Okunishi, E. Ferric iron in Al-bearing post-perovskite, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33: L12S13, doi: 10.1029/2006GL025858.
O’Neill, .C., Free energy of formation of zircon and hafnon. Amer. Mineral., 91: 1134-1141, 2006.
Berry, A.J., O’Neill, .C., Scott, D.R., Foran, G.J. and Shelley, J.M.G. The effect of composition on Cr2+/Cr3+in silicate melts. Am. Mineral., 91: 1901-1908, 2006.
Hermann, J., O’Neill, .C., and Berry, A.J. Titanium solubility in olivine in the system TiO2-MgO-SiO2: no evidence for an ultra-deep origin of Ti-bearing olivine. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 48: 746-760, 2005
O’Neill, .C., and Scott, D.R. The free energy of formation of Mg2TiO4 (synthetic qandilite), an inverse spinel with configurational entropy, Eur. J. Mineral, 7: 315-323, 2005
O’Neill, .C., James, M., Dollase, W.A., and Redfern, S,A,T. Temperature dependence of the cation distribution in CuAl2O4 spinel. Eur. J. Mineral, 17: 581-586, 2005.
Witt-Eickschen, G., and O’Neill, .C. The effect of temperature on the equilibrium distribution of trace elements between clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, olivine and spinel in upper mantle peridotite. Chem. Geol., 221: 65-101, 2005.
Berry, A.J., Hermann, J., O’Neill, .C., and Foran, G.J. Fingerprinting the water site in mantle olivine. Geology, 33: 869-872, 2005.
O’Neill, .C. A method for controlling alkali-metal oxide activities in one-atmosphere experiments and its application to measuring the relative activity coefficients of NaO0.5 in silicate melts. Amer. Mineral. 90: 497-501, 2005.
Golla-Schindler, U., O’Neill, .C., and Putnis, A. Direct observation of spinodal decomposition in the magnetite-hercynite system by susceptibility measurements and transmission electron microscopy. Amer. Mineral., 90: 1278-1283, 2005.
Berry, A.J., O’Neill, .C. A XANES determination of the oxidation state of chromium in silicate glasses, Amer. Mineral., 89: 790-798, 2004.
Liu, X., and O’Neill, .C. Partial melting of spinel lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 +/- K2O at 1 center dot 1 GPa. J. Petrol., 45: 1339-1368, 2004
Liu, X., and O’Neill, .C. The effect of Cr2O3 on the partial melting of spinel lherzolite in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-Cr2O3 at 1.1 GPa. J. Petrol., 45: 2261-2286, 2004.
Jayasuriya, K.D., O’Neill, .C., Berry, A.J. Campbell, S.J. A Mossbauer study of the oxidation state of Fe in silicate melts, Amer. Mineral., 89: 1597-1609, 2004.
O’Neill, .C., Redfern, S.A.T., Kesson, S. and Short, S. An in situ neutron diffraction study of cation disordering in synthetic qandilite Mg2TiO4 at high temperatures. Amer. Mineral. 88: 860-865, 2003.
Wang, Z.W., Saxena, S.K., Lazor, P. and O’Neill, .C. An in situ Raman spectroscopic study of pressure induced dissociation of spinel NiCr2O4. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 64: 425-431, 2003.
Berry, A.J., Shelley, J.M.G., Foran, G.J., O’Neill, .C., Scott, D.R.A furnace design for XANES spectroscopy of silicate melts under controlled oxygen fugacities and temperatures to 1773 K, J. Synchrotron Rad., 10: 332-336, 2003.
Berry, A.J., O’Neill, .C., Jayasuriya, K.D., Campbell, S.J., and Foran, G.J. XANES calibrations for the oxidation state of iron in a silicate glass. Amer. Mineral., 88: 967-977, 2003
O’Neill, .C. The influence of next nearest neighbours on cation radii in spinels: the example of the Co2O4-CoCr2O2 solid solution, Min. Mag., 67: 547-554, 2003.
Wang, Z.W., Schiferl, D., Zhao, Y.S., and O’Neill, .C. High pressure Raman spectroscopy of spinel-type ferrite ZnFe2O4. J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 64: 2517-2523, 2003.
O’Neill, .C., Pownceby, M.I., and McCammon, C.A. The magnesiowustite: iron equilibrium and its implications for the activity-composition relations of (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 olivine solid solutions. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 146: 308-325, 2003.
Kesson, S.E., FitzGerald, J.D., O’Neill, .C. and Shelley, J.M.G. Partitioning of iron between magnesian silicate perovskite and magnesiowüstite at about 1 Mbar. Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 131: 295-310, 2002.
O’Neill, .C. and Eggins, S.M. The effect of melt composition on trace element partitioning: an experimental investigation of the activity coefficients of FeO, NiO, CoO, MoO2 and MoO3 in silicate melts. Chem. Geol. 186: 151-181, 2002.
O’Neill, .C. and Mavrogenes, J.A. The sulfide capacity and the sulfur content at sulfide saturation of silicate melts at 1400°C and 1 bar. J. Petrol. 43: 1049-1087, 2002.
Wang, Z., Lazor, P., Saxena, S.K. and O’Neill, .C. High pressure Raman spectroscopy of ferrite MgFe2O4. Mat. Res. Bull. 37: 1589-1602, 2002
Wang, Z., O’Neill, .C., Lazor, P. and Saxena, S.K. High pressure Raman spectroscopy study of spinel MgCr2O4. J. Phys. Chem. Solids 63: 2057-2061, 2002.
In review
Qian, Q., O’Neill, .C., and Hermann, J. Comparative diffusion coefficients of major and trace elements in olivine at ~ 950ºC from a xenocryst included in dioritic magma. Geology
Jenner, F.E., O’Neill, .C., Arculus, R.J and Mavrogenes, J.A. Ore metals in evolving arc magmas: the role of magnetite, sulfur and selenium. Nature Geosciences
Tailby, N.D., Walker, A.M., Berry, A.J, Hermann, J., Evans, K.A., Mavrogenes, J.A., O’Neill, .C., Rodina, I.S., Soldatov A.V., Rubatto D., and S. R. Sutton. Ti site occupancy in zircon. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta
Book chapters
Palme, H. and O’Neill, .C. Composition of the Primitive Mantle. Treatise on Geochemistry, Vol. 2: The Mantle and Core. Ed. R.W. Carlson. Elsevier, 2003 (see ).
O’Neill, .C. and Palme, H. Composition of the silicate Earth: Implications for accretion and core formation. The Earth’s Mantle: Structure, Composition and Evolution. The Ringwood Volume.. Edited I. Jackson. Cambridge University Press, pp3-126, 1998.
O’Neill, .C. Spinel. (Encyclopedia article). McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology: 457-459, 1992.
Book Reviews
O’Neill, H. Origin of the Earth and Moon by Canup RM, Righter K. Science 292: 2016-2017, 2001.
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