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Prof Robin Shail

Publications

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2024

• Watts AB, Xu C, Searle MP, Jurkowski C, Shail RK. (2024) The Permian Cornubian granite batholith, SW England; Part 2: Gravity anomalies, structure, and state of isostasy, Geological Society of America Bulletin, DOI:10.1130/b37459.1. [PDF]
• Mackay‐Champion TC, Searle MP, Tapster S, Roberts NMW, Shail RK, Palin RM, Willment GH, Evans JT. (2024) Magmatic, Metamorphic and Structural History of the Variscan Lizard Ophiolite and Metamorphic Sole, Cornwall, UK, Tectonics, volume 43, no. 4, DOI:10.1029/2023tc008187. [PDF]
• Searle MP, Shail RK, Pownall JM, Jurkowski C, Watts AB, Robb LJ. (2024) The Permian Cornubian granite batholith, SW England; Part 1: Field, structural, and petrological constraints, GSA Bulletin, DOI:10.1130/b37457.1. [PDF]
• Turan A, Brown C, Shail R, Sass I. (2024) Probabilistic Assessment of Deep Geothermal Resources and Their Development in Cornwall and Devon, United Kingdom, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4729082.
• Putzolu F, Seltmann R, Dolgopolova A, Armstrong RN, Shail RK, Spratt J, Buret Y, Broderick C, Brownscombe W. (2024) Influence of magmatic and magmatic-hydrothermal processes on the lithium endowment of micas in the Cornubian Batholith (SW England), Mineralium Deposita, DOI:10.1007/s00126-024-01248-5. [PDF]

2023

• Shail R, Simons B. (2023) The Cornubian Batholith: Post-Collisional Variscan Granites and Resources, Metallic Resources 1 Geodynamic Framework and Remarkable Examples in Europe, John Wiley & Sons, 143-219, DOI:10.1002/9781394264810. [PDF]
• Inskip NF, Harpers N, Shail R, Claes H, Hartog SD, Busch A. (2023) Reservoir  properties of fault-related hydrothermally altered granites in Cornwall: Implications  for geothermal energy prospectivity, DOI:10.22541/essoar.170110671.11387934/v1.

2022

• Shail R, Simons B. (2022) Le batholite de Cornouailles: granites et ressources post-collisionnels du varisque, Ressources Metalliques 1: Cadre géodynamique et exemples remarquables en Europe, ISTE, 139-216. [PDF]
• Yeomans CM, Claridge H, Hudson AJL, Shail RK, Willems C, Eyre M, Harker C. (2022) A single multi-scale and multi-sourced semi-automated lineament detection technique for detailed structural mapping with applications to geothermal energy exploration, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, DOI:10.1144/qjegh2022-051. [PDF]
• Deady E, Moon C, Moore K, Goodenough KM, Shail RK. (2022) Bismuth: economic geology and value chains, Ore Geology Reviews, volume 143, article no. 104722, DOI:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104722. [PDF]

2020

• Yeomans C, Claridge H, Hudson A, Shail R, Willems C, Eyre M, Harker C. (2020) A single multi-scale and multi-sourced semi-automated lineament detection technique for detailed structural mapping with applications to geothermal energy exploration, DOI:10.31223/x5r59c. [PDF]
• Yeomans C, Shail R, Eyre M. (2020) The importance of tectonic inheritance and reactivation in geothermal energy exploration for EGS resources in SW England, World Geothermal Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, 26th Apr - 2nd May 2020, Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2020.
• Bevins RE, Pirrie D, Ixer RA, O'Brien H, Pearson MP, Power MR, Shail RK. (2020) Constraining the provenance of the Stonehenge ‘Altar Stone’: Evidence from automated mineralogy and U–Pb zircon age dating, Journal of Archaeological Science, volume 120, article no. 105188, DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105188.
• Yeomans CM, Shail RK, Grebby S, Nykänen V, Middleton M, Lusty PAJ. (2020) A machine learning approach to tungsten prospectivity modelling using knowledge-driven feature extraction and model confidence, Geoscience Frontiers, DOI:10.1016/j.gsf.2020.05.016. [PDF]

2019

• Marshall AJS, Hassall L, Shail RK, McFarlane J, Rollinson GK, Moore A, Palmer L. (2019) Developing a model for structural and mineralogical controls on higher-grade W mineralisation at the hemerdon W-Sn deposit, Applied Earth Science, volume 128, no. 2, pages 68-68, DOI:10.1080/25726838.2019.1607201.
• Deady E, Moore K, Goodenough KM, Rollinson G, Boyce A, Sośnicka M, Shail RK. (2019) Controls on antimony mineralisation in ‘cross-course’ veining in SW England, Applied Earth Science, volume 128, no. 2, pages 44-44, DOI:10.1080/25726838.2019.1602935.
• Pirrie D, Crean DE, Pidduck AJ, Nicholls TM, Awbery RP, Shail RK. (2019) Automated mineralogical profiling of soils as an indicator of local bedrock lithology: a tool for predictive forensic geolocation, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, volume 492, DOI:10.1144/sp492-2019-42. [PDF]
• Alexander AC, Shail RK, Leveridge BE. (2019) Late Paleozoic extensional reactivation of the Rheic–Rhenohercynian suture zone in SW England, the English Channel and Western Approaches, Geological Society Special Publications, volume 470, DOI:10.1144/SP470.19. [PDF]

2018

• Pirrie D, Shail RK. (2018) Mud and metal; the impact of historical mining on the estuaries of SW England, UK, Geology Today, volume 34, pages 215-223, DOI:10.1111/gto.12249. [PDF]
• Yeomans CM, Middleton M, Shail RK, Grebby S, Lusty PAJ. (2018) Integrated Object-Based Image Analysis for semi-automated geological lineament detection in Southwest England, Computers and Geosciences, volume 123, pages 137-148, DOI:10.1016/j.cageo.2018.11.005. [PDF]
• Breiter K, Ďurišová J, Hrstka T, Korbelová Z, Vašinová Galiová M, Müller A, Simons B, Shail RK, Williamson BJ, Davies JA. (2018) The transition from granite to banded aplite-pegmatite sheet complexes: An example from Megiliggar rocks, Tregonning topaz granite, Cornwall, Lithos, DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2018.01.010. [PDF]

2017

• Charles J-H, Whitehouse MJ, Andersen JC, Shail RK, Searle MP. (2017) Age and petrogenesis of the Lundy granite: Paleocene intraplate peraluminous magmatism in the Bristol Channel, UK, Journal of the Geological Society, DOI:10.1144/jgs2017-023. [PDF]
• Tapster S, Shail R, McAllister H, Deady E, McFarlane J. (2017) Understanding the multi-episode formation of the world-class Hemerdon W–Sn deposit in the context of SW England granite evolution, Mineral Deposits Study Group 40th Annual Winter Meeting, University Of Bristol, 19th - 21st Dec 2016, Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science, DOI:10.1080/03717453.2017.1306298.
• Shail R, McFarlane J, Hassall L, Thiel H, Stock T, Smethurst M, Tapster S, Scrivener R, Leveridge B, Simons B. (2017) The geological setting of the Hemerdon W–Sn deposit, Mineral Deposits Study Group 40th Annual Winter Meeting, University Of Bristol, 19th - 21st Dec 2016, Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science, DOI:10.1080/03717453.2017.1306292.
• Simons BJ, Andersen J, Shail RK, Jenner FE. (2017) Fractionation of Li, Be, Ga, Nb, Ta, In, Sn, Sb, W and Bi in the peraluminous Early Permian Variscan granites of the Cornubian Batholith: precursor processes to magmatic-hydrothermal mineralisation, Lithos, DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2017.02.007. [PDF]

2016

• Yeomans CM, Shail RK, Lusty PA, Grebby S, Smethurst M, Beamish D. (2016) Using radioelement distributions to classify a composite granite batholith in the South West England Orefield, Applied Earth Science, volume 125, no. 2, pages 99-100, DOI:10.1080/03717453.2016.1166681. [PDF]
• Breiter K, Müller A, Shail R, Simons B. (2016) Composition of zircons from the Cornubian Batholith of SW England and comparison with zircons from other European Variscan rare-metal granites, Mineralogical Magazine, volume 80, no. 7, pages 1273-1289, DOI:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.071.
• Simons BJ, Shail RK, Andersen JCO. (2016) The Petrogenesis of the Early Permian Variscan granites of the Cornubian Batholith - lower plate post-collisional peraluminous magmatism in the Rhenohercynian Zone of SW England, Lithos, volume 260, pages 76-94, DOI:10.1016/j.lithos.2016.05.010. [PDF]
• Neace ER, Nance RD, Murphy JB, Lancaster PJ, Shail RK. (2016) Zircon LA-ICPMS geochronology of the Cornubian Batholith, SW England, Tectonophysics, DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.002. [PDF]
• Dupuis NE, Murphy JB, Braid JA, Shail RK, Nance RD. (2016) Mantle evolution in the Variscides of SW England: geochemical and isotopic constraints from mafic rocks, Tectonophysics, DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.044. [PDF]
• Andersen J, Stickland RJ, Rollinson GK, Shail RK. (2016) Indium mineralisation in SW England: Host parageneses and mineralogical relations, Ore Geology Reviews, DOI:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.02.019. [PDF]

2015

• Spalletti L, Pirrie D, Veiga GD, Schwarz E, Rollinson G, Shail R, Haberlah D, Butcher A. (2015) Integrated mineralogical analysis (Qemscan and DRX) of transgressive black shales: Tithonian basal deposits of the Vaca Muerta formation (Neuquén basin, Argentina), Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, volume 22, no. 1, pages 13-28.
• Penfound-Marks LRG, Shail RK. (2015) Early Devonian rift-related felsic igneous rocks in the western Looe Basin, SW England, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 13, pages 471-482. [PDF]
• Dupuis NE, Braid JA, Murphy JB, Shail RK, Archibald DA, Nance RD. (2015) 40Ar/39Ar phlogopite geochronology of lamprophyre dykes in Cornwall, UK: new age constraints on Early Permian post-collisional magmatism in the Rhenohercynian Zone, SW England, Journal of the Geological Society, volume 172, pages 566-575, DOI:10.1144/jgs2014-151. [PDF]
• Nance RD, Neace ER, Braid JA, Murphy JB, Dupuis N, Shail RK. (2015) Does the Meguma Terrane Extend into SW England?, Geoscience Canada, volume 42, pages 61-76, DOI:10.12789/geocanj.2014.41.056.

2014

• Earlie CS, Masselink G, Russell PE, Shail RK. (2014) Application of airborne LiDAR to investigate rates of recession in rocky coast environments, Journal of Coastal Conservation, DOI:10.1007/s11852-014-0340-1.
• Leveridge BE, Shail RK. (2014) Discussion on "The Gramscatho Basin, south Cornwall, UK: Devonian active margin successions" [Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 122 (2011) 568–615], Proceedings of the Geologists Association, volume 125, pages 256-256, DOI:10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.002. [PDF]

2013

• Simons B, Andersen JCO, Shail RK. (2013) Indium fractionation in the granites of SW England, Mineral Deposit Research for a High-Tech World: Proceedings of the 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, 12th-15th August 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, pages 1738-1741. [PDF]
• Earlie C, Masselink G, Russell P, Shail RK. (2013) Sensitivity analysis of the methodology for quantifying cliff erosion using airborne LiDAR - Examples from Cornwall, UK, Journal of Coastal Research, volume 65, pages 470-475, DOI:10.2112/SI65-080.1.
• Andersen JCO, Stickland RJ, Rollinson GK, Shail RK. (2013) Granite-related indium mineralisation in SW England, Mineral Deposit Research for a High-Tech World: 12th Biennial SGA Meeting, Uppsala, Sweden, 12th - 15th Aug 2013.

2012

• Pownall JM, Waters DJ, Searle MP, Shail RK, Robb LJ. (2012) Shallow laccolithic emplacement of the Land's End and Tregonning granites, Cornwall, UK: Evidence from aureole field relations and P-T modeling of cordierite-anthophyllite hornfels, Geosphere, volume 8, pages 1467-1504, DOI:10.1130/GES00802.1. [PDF]

2011

• Simons B, Pirrie D, Rollinson GK, Shail RK. (2011) Geochemical and mineralogical record of the impact of mining on the Teign Estuary, Devon, UK, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 12, pages 339-350. [PDF]
• Adey E, Shail RK, Wall F. (2011) Roşia Montană stakeholder conflict—our mountains bear gold yet we are begging from door to door, SR Mining 2011 - First International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining, Santiago, Chile, 19th - 21st Oct 2011.
• Adey EA, Shail RK, Wall F, Varul M, Whitbread-Abrutat P, Baciu C, Ejdemo T, Lovric I, Udachin V. (2011) Corporate social responsibility within the mining industry: case studies from across Europe and Russia, Aachen, 14th - 17th Jun 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry conference, pages 153-170.
• Leveridge BE, Shail RK. (2011) The Gramscatho Basin, south Cornwall, UK: Devonian active margin successions, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, volume 122, pages 568-615, DOI:10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.03.004.
• Leveridge BE, Shail RK. (2011) The marine Devonian stratigraphy of Great Britain, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, volume 122, pages 540-567, DOI:10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.03.003.

2010

• Williamson BJ, Müller A, Shail RK. (2010) Source and partitioning of B and Sn in the Cornubian batholith of southwest England, Ore Geology Reviews, volume 38, pages 1-8, DOI:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2010.05.002. [PDF]
• Kratinova Z, Jezek J, Schulmann K, Hrouda F, Shail RK, Lexa O. (2010) Non-coaxial K-feldspar and AMS sub-fabrics in the Land's End Granite, Cornwall: evidence of magmatic fabric decoupling during late deformation and matrix crystallization, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, volume 115, DOI:10.1029/2009JB006714. [PDF]

2009

• Hughes SP, Stickland RJ, Shail RK, LeBoutillier NG, Alexander AC, Thomas M. (2009) The chronology and kinematics of late Palaeozoic deformation in the NW contact metamorphic aureole of the Land's End Granite, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 12, pages 140-152. [PDF]
• Shail RK, Leveridge BE. (2009) The Rhenohercynian passive margin of SW England: Development, inversion and extensional reactivation, Comptes Rendus Geoscience, pages 2-3, DOI:10.1016/j.crte.2008.11.002. [PDF]

2007

• Scott PW, Nicholas C, Turner H, Roche DP, Shail RK. (2007) Access and safety at geological sites: a manual for landowners, quarry operators and the geological visitor, Aggregates Sustainability Levy Fund / Mineral Industry Research Organisation, David Roche Geo Consulting, 52 pages. [PDF]
• Scott PW, Shail RK, Roche DP, Nicholas C. (2007) The Geodiversity Profile Handbook, Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund / Mineral Industry Researc Organisation, David Roche Geo Consulting, 60 pages. [PDF]

2006

• Hollick LM, Shail RK, Leveridge BE. (2006) Devonian rift-related sedimentation and Variscan tectonics – new data on the Looe and Gramscatho basins from the resurvey of the Newquay District, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 11, pages 191-198. [PDF]

2003

• LeBoutillier, N.G., Shail RK, Jewson, C.. (2003) Monazite in polymetallic chlorite-(tourmaline)-quartz-(fluorite)-cassiterite-sulphide lodes and its potential for constraining the chronology of magmatic hydrothermal mineralisation in Cornwall, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 403-409. [PDF]
• Shail RK, Stuart, F.M., Wilkinson, J.J., Boyce AJ. (2003) The role of post-Variscan extensional tectonics and mantle melting in the generation of the Lower Permian granites and the giant W-As-Sn-Cu-Zn-Pb orefield of SW England, Applied Earth Science, volume 112, no. 2, pages 127-129. [PDF]
• Scott PW, Reid, KS, Shail RK, Scrivener, RC. (2003) Baseline geochemistry of Devonian low-grade metasedimentary rocks in Cornwall: preliminary data and environmental significance, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 424-429. [PDF]
• Kratinova, Z., Schulmann, K., Hrouda, F., Shail RK. (2003) The role of regional tectonics and magma flow coupling versus magmatic processes in generating contrasting magmatic fabrics within the Land’s End Granite, Cornwall, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 442-448. [PDF]

2002

• Macadam J, Shail RK. (2002) Abandoned pits and quarries: a resource for research, education, leisure and tourism, Cornwall County Council. [PDF]
• LeBoutillier NG, Camm GS, Shail RK, Bromley AV, Jewson C, Hoppe N. (2002) Tourmaline-quartz-cassiterite mineralization of the Land's End Granite at Nanjizal, west Cornwall, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 312-318. [PDF]

2001

• Crisp G, Pirrie D, Shail RK, Sabin RC. (2001) The Godrevy dog; Early canine or lost pet ?, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 172-176. [PDF]

2000

• LeBoutillier NG, Shail RK, Jewson C. (2000) The cassiterite-anatase-ilmenite-monazite-sulphide-chlorite assemblage of North Tincroft Lode, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 10, pages 50-57. [PDF]

1999

• Powell T, Salmon S, Clark AH, Shail RK. (1999) Emplacement styles within the Land's End Granite, West Cornwall, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 9, pages 333-339. [PDF]
• Shail R. (1999) Pre-Tertiary geology of west Cornwall, The Quaternary of West Cornwall, Quaternary Research Association, 5-9.
• Salmon S, Shail RK. (1999) Field excursion to examine the granites in the area between Cape Cornwall and Porth Nanven, West Penwith, 3rd January 1999, Geoscience in South-West England, volume 9, pages 391-393. [PDF]

1998

• Andrews JR, Isaac KP, Selwood EB, Shail RK, Thomas JM. (1998) Variscan structure and regional metamorphism, The geology of Cornwall, University of Exeter Press, 82-119.
• Isaac KP, Selwood EB, Shail RK. (1998) Devonian, The geology of Cornwall, University of Exeter Press, 31-64.
• Shail RK, Coggan JS, Stead D. (1998) Coastal landsliding in Cornwall, UK: Mechanisms, modelling and implications, Eighth International Congress, International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vancouver, Canada, 21st - 25th Sep 1998, Proceedings, volume Volumes 1-5, pages 1323-1330. [PDF]

1997

• Coggan JS, Wetherelt A, Shail RK. (1997) Use of rock mass classification in tunnelling projects within the South West region of the United Kingdom, Proceedings of International Conference and Seminar “Tunnelling under difficult conditions and rock mass classification”, pages 33-47.
• Power MR, Shail RK, Alexander AC, Scott PW. (1997) Alteration and vein mineralisation within the Lizard complex, south Cornwall: Constraints on the timing of serpentinisation, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 9, pages 188-194. [PDF]
• Shail RK, Alexander AC. (1997) Late Carboniferous to Triassic reactivation of Variscan basement in the western English Channel: Evidence from onshore exposures in south Cornwall, Journal of the Geological Society, volume 154, pages 163-168, DOI:10.1144/gsjgs.154.1.0163.

1996

• Alexander AC, Shail RK. (1996) Late- to post-Variscan structures on the coast between Penzance and Pentewan, south Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 9, pages 72-78. [PDF]
• Power MR, Alexander AC, Shail RK, Scott PW. (1996) A re-interpretation of the internal structure of the Lizard complex ophiolite, south Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 9, pages 63-67. [PDF]
• Camm GS, Shail RK, Parkinson ST, Sear LG. (1996) Is there gold mineralization associated with the Carrick thrust?, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 9, pages 136-138. [PDF]

1995

• Shail RK. (1995) Field excursion to study Meadfoot Group sedimentation, magmatism and tectonics, 4th January 1995, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 8, pages 456-456. [PDF]
• Alexander AC, Shail RK. (1995) Late Variscan structures on the coast between Perranporth and St Ives, Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 8, pages 398-404. [PDF]

1994

• Shail RK, Wilkinson JJ. (1994) Late- to post-Variscan extensional tectonics in south Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 8, pages 228-236. [PDF]
• Harvey M, Stewart S, Wilkinson JJ, Ruffell A, Shail RK. (1994) Tectonic evolution of the Plymouth Bay Basin, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 8, pages 237-244. [PDF]

1991

• Floyd PA, Shail RK, Leveridge BE, Franke W. (1991) Geochemistry and provenance of Rhenohercynian synorogenic sandstones: implications for tectonic environment discrimination, Developments in sedimentary provenance studies, The Geological Society, 173-188, DOI:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.14. [PDF]
• Shail R. (1991) Field excursion to the Gramscatho Group of south Cornwall, 5th January 1991, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 7, pages 427-428. [PDF]

1990

• Floyd PA, Leveridge BE, Franke W, Shail R, Dorr W. (1990) Provenance and depositional environment of Rhenohercynian synorogenic greywackes from the Giessen Nappe, Germany, Geologische Rundschau, volume 79, pages 611-626, DOI:10.1007/BF01879205.

1989

• Shail RK. (1989) Gramscatho-Mylor facies relationships; Hayle, south Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 7, pages 125-130. [PDF]

1988

• Shail R, Floyd PA. (1988) An evaluation of flysch provenance - example from the Gramscatho Group of south Cornwall, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, volume 7, pages 62-66. [PDF]

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