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James Scott

Honorary Professor
Now at Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Email james.scott@otago.ac.nz
Google Scholar: James M. Scott
ORCID orcid.org/0000-0001-5185-6261
James’ profile at Aarhus University

Mt Irene, the prominent peak in the distance, is composed of a metasedimentary upper plate separated from a meta-igneous lower plate by the extensional Mt Irene Shear Zone. Murchison Mountains, Fiordland. 1. Mt Irene, the prominent peak in the distance, is composed of a metasedimentary upper plate separated from a meta-igneous lower plate by the extensional Mt Irene Shear Zone. Murchison Mountains, Fiordland.A rare fine-weather day in Port Ross in the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands.2. A rare fine-weather day in Port Ross in the Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Tarling and undergraduate students traversing Haast Schist on the shores of Lake Hawea3. Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Tarling and undergraduate students traversing Haast Schist on the shores of Lake Hawea. Red Mountain in the Southern Alps is a slice of accreted oceanic lithospheric mantle4. Red Mountain in the Southern Alps is a slice of accreted oceanic lithospheric mantle

Research interests

  • Meteorites, solar nebula and planetary geology
  • Earth's mantle composition, history, melting
  • Metamorphism, mineralisation and fluid flow
  • Subduction zones and element redistribution
  • Environmental geochemistry
  • Zealandia's tectonics

Publications

Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Pearson, D. G., Auer, A., Faure, K., Harris, C., … Mortimer, N., … Reid, M. R., … Stirling, C. H., … van der Meer, Q. H. A. (2024). Garnet pyroxenite cumulates from Cretaceous alkaline intraplate magmas underplate the Zealandia mantle lithosphere. Journal of Petrology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egae085 Journal - Research Article

Jenniskens, P., Estrada, P. R., Pilorz, S., Gural, P. S., Samuels, D., Rau, S., … Scott, J. M., … Lauretta, D. S. (2024). Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations. Icarus. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116229 Journal - Research Article

Ireland, M. T., Palmer, M. C., Scott, J. M., le Roux, P. J., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Microscale geochemical variations in metamorphic-hydrothermal scheelite and insights into trace element sources (Otago Schist, New Zealand). New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2024.2377420 Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Vida, D., Behan, D., Boothroyd, M. R., Burgin, D. L., Grieg, D., … Palmer, M. C., … Stevenson, T., Wang, T., … Wyn-Harris, S. (2024). New Zealand’s meteor camera network leads to recovery of the Tekapo/Takapō meteorite. eMetN Meteor Journal, 9(3), 155-158. Journal - Research Other

Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Hydrous veined mantle lithosphere and implications for the source of Zealandia intraplate magmas. Lithos. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107608 Journal - Research Article

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