Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Steiner, R.A.*, Rooney T.O., Kappelman J., Girard, G., Mariita, N., Phillips, R.*, Messengers from the Magma Chambers: Petro-stratigraphic Analysis of Plagioclase-Rich Flood Basalt Lavas in Turkana, Kenya. 2024, Journal of Petrology, V.65(6), pp. egae044, doi: 10.1093/petrology/egae044 

• Krans, S. R.*, Rooney, T. O., Kappelman, J., Yirgu, G., and Ayalew, D., Magma Evolution During Main-Phase Continental Flood Basalt Volcanism: A Case for Recharge-Evacuation-Assimilation-Fractional Crystallization in the Ethiopian Low-Ti Province. 2024, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. V.25, e2023GC011289, doi:10.1029/2023GC011289

• Khudeir, A.A., Nicholson, K., Rooney, T.O., Abu El-Rus, M., The origin of plagioclase lherzolite from Zabargad Island, northern Red Sea. 2024, Chapter 13 in Rifting and Sediments in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf Regions, pp. 215-241. Taylor Francis/CRC Press, ISBN: 9781003321415  

• Sun, Y., Teng, F.-Z., Rooney, T.O., Pang, K.-N., Wang, Z.-Z., Chen, B., Magnesium isotope behavior during titanomagnetite fractionation in basaltic lavas. 2024, Chemical Geology. V. 655, pp 122088, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122088

• Njinju, E.A., Stamps D.S., Rooney, T.O., Atekwana E.A., and Rajaonarison, T.A., Tomography-Based Convection and Melt Generation Beneath the Rungwe Volcanic Province, East Africa. 2023. Geophysics Journal International. V. 235, pp 296-311, doi:10.1092/gji/ggad219 

• Rooney, T.O., Brown E.L., Bastow, I.D., Arrowsmith, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Magmatism during the Continent – Ocean Transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v.614, article 118189.  doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118189

• Ogden, C.S., Bastow, I.D., Ebinger, C.E., Ayele. A., Kounoudis, R., Bendick, R., Mariita, N., Kianji, G., Rooney, T.O., Musila, M., Sullivan, G., Kibret, B., The Development of Multiple Phases of Superposed Rifting in the Turkana Depression, East Africa: Evidence from Receiver Functions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 609, article 118088. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118088

• Brown, E.L., Rooney T.O., Stein, C., Stein, S., Moucha R., Temporal Evolution of Mantle Temperature and Lithospheric Thickness Beneath the ~1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift, North America. 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.598, 117848, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117848

• Moucha, R., Gunawardana, P.M., Rooney, T.O., Stein, S. and Stein, C.A., December. North America's Mid-Continent Rift Magma Volume: a coincidental rendezvous of a plume with a rift. 2022, Geology. doi: 10.1130/G49913.1

• Rooney, T.O., Wallace, P.J., Muirhead J.D., Chiasera, B.*,  Steiner, R.A.*, Girard, G., Karson, J.A., Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin: Part 2. 2022, Journal of the Geological Society, London. doi: 10.1144/jgs2021-160

• Muirhead J.D., Scholz, C.A., Rooney, T.O., Transition to magma-driven rifting in the South Turkana Basin: Part 1. 2022, Journal of the Geological Society, London. doi: 10.1144/jgs2021-159

• Rooney T.O., Konter, J.G., Finlayson, V.A., LaVigne A., Brown, E., Stein, C., Stein, S., Moucha R., 2022, Constraining the Isotopic Endmembers Contributing to 1.1 Ga Keweenawan Large Igneous Province Magmatism. 2022, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. doi: 10.1007/s00410-022-01907-8

• Svoboda, C.*, Rooney, T.O., Girard, G., Deering, C., 2021, Transcrustal Magmatic Systems: Evidence from Andesites of the Southern Taupo Volcanic Zone. J. of the Geological Society, London. V. 179, doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-204

• Steiner, R.A.*, Rooney, T.O., Girard, G., Rogers, N., Ebinger C., Peterson, L.*, Phillips, R.*, 2021, Initial Cenozoic Magmatic Activity in East Africa: New Geochemical Constraints on Magma Distribution within the Eocene Continental Flood Basalt Province. In Large Igneous Provinces and their Plumbing Systems, JGS Special Publication 518. doi: 10.1144/SP518-2020-262

• Chiasera, B.*, Rooney, T.O., Bastow, I., Yirgu, G., Grosfils, E., Ayalew, D., Mohr, P., Zimbelman, J., and Ramsey, M., 2021, Geochemically Constraining the Depth of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary in the Central Main Ethiopian Rift System. Lithos, v. 405-406, 106494, doi: j.lithos.2021.106494.

• Rooney, T.O., Bastow, I.D., Fontijn, K., Mariita, N., Muirhead J.D., Keir, D., 2021. The East African Rift System. Chapter in - Extensional Tectonics: Continental Breakup to Formation of Oceanic Basins - Volume 1. Edited by Elizabeth Catlos. AGU Books, Washington D.C.. Accepted.

• Davis, W.R..*, Collins, M.*,  Rooney T.O., Brown, E., Stein, S., Stein, C., Moucha R., 2021. Geochemical, petrographic, and stratigraphic analyses of the Portage Lake Volcanics: implications on the evolution of Main Stage volcanism in Continental Flood Basalt Provinces. In Large Igneous Provinces and their Plumbing Systems, JGS Special Publication 518,  doi: 10.1144/SP518-2020-221.

• Steiner, R.A.*, Rooney, T.O., 2021, PiAutoStage: An Open-Source 3D Printed Tool for the Automatic Collection of High-Resolution Microscope Imagery. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. GGGE22498, doi: 10.1029/2021GC009693

• Homrighausen, S., Geldmacher, J., Hoernle, K., Rooney, T.O., 2021, Intraplate Volcanism. Chapter in The Encyclopaedia of Geology (2nd Edition). Academic Press, Oxford, Editors: Alderton A. and Elias S., p. 52-59. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12498-4

• Khudier A.A., Paquette J.L., Nicholson K., Johansson Å., Rooney T.O., Hamid S., El-Fadly M.A., Corcoran L., Malone S.J., El-Rus M.A. 2021. On the cratonization of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Constraints from gneissic granitoids in south Eastern Desert, Egypt. Geoscience Frontiers. Jan 26:101148., doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2021.101148.

• Gallahue, M.M., Stein, S., Stein, C.A., Jurdy, D., Barklage, M., Rooney, T.O., 2020. A compilation of igneous rock volumes at volcanic passive continental margins from interpreted seismic profiles. Marine and Petroleum Geology 122, 104635. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104635

• Huang F., Rooney T.O., Xu J.F., Zeng Y.C., Zhao W.X., 2020, Magmatic record of the continuous Neo-Tethyan subduction after initial India-Asia collision in the central part of southern Tibet. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B35444.1

• Rooney T. O., Girard G. and Tappe S. 2020. The impact on mantle olivine resulting from carbonated silicate melt interaction. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 175, 56.

• Rooney, T.O., 2020. The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa: Part II–Rifting of the mobile belt. Lithos, v. 360-361, 105291, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105291.

• Rooney, T.O., 2020. The Cenozoic magmatism of East Africa: Part III – Rifting of the craton. Lithos, v. 360-361, 105390, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105390.

• Rooney, T.O., 2020. The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa: Part IV – The Terminal Stages of Rifting Preserved in the Northern East African Rift System. Lithos, v. 360-361, 105381, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105381.

• Rooney, T.O., 2020. The Cenozoic magmatism of East Africa: Part V – Magma sources and processes in the East African Rift. Lithos, v. 360-361, 105296, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105296.

• Peron-Pinvidic, G., Manatschal, G., Alves, T., Andersen, T., Andres-Martinez, M., Autin, J., Ball, P., Brune, S., Buiter, S., Cadenas, P., Cresswell, D., Epin, M.E., Gomez-Romeu, J., Gouiza, M., Harkin, C., Heine, C., Hopper, J., Jackson, C., Jolivet, L., Katz, R., Lescoutre, R., Lymer, G., Magee, C., Masini, M., Miro, J., Molnar, N., Mouthereau, F., Muntener, O., Naliboff, J., Norcliffe, J., Osmundsen, P.T., Perez Diaz, L., Phillips, T.P., Ramos, A., Ranero, C., Reston, T., Ribes, C., Rooney, T., Rowan, M., Snidero, M., Tugend, J., Wang, L., Zwaan, F., Partici, Imag.R.W., 2019. Rifted Margins: State of the Art and Future Challenges. Frontiers in Earth Science. 7. doi:10.3389/feart.2019.00218 

• Rooney, T. O., Krans, S. R.*, Mège, D., Arnaud, N., Korme, T., Kappelman, J.,Yirgu, G. 2018. Constraining the magmatic plumbing system in a zoned continental flood basalt province. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 19, p. 3917-3944. doi: 10.1029/2018GC00772

• Finlayson, V. A., Konter, J. G., Konrad, K., Koppers, A. A. P., Jackson, M. G., Rooney, T. O., 2018. Sr–Pb–Nd–Hf isotopes and 40Ar/39Ar ages reveal a Hawaii–Emperor-style bend in the Rurutu hotspot. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 500, p. 168-179. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.020

• Stein, S., Stein, C.A., Elling, R., Kley, J., Keller, G.R., Wysession, M., Rooney, T., Frederiksen, A., Moucha, R., 2018. Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins. Tectonophysics, v. 744, p. 403-421. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.07.021

• Chiasera, B., Rooney, T.O., Girard, G., Yirgu, G., Grosfils, E., Ayalew, D., Mohr, P., Zimbelman, J., and Ramsey, M., 2018, Magmatically assisted off-rift extension—The case for broadly distributed strain accommodation: Geosphere, v. 14, doi: 10.1130/GES01615.1.

• Krans, S. R., Rooney, T. O., Kappelman, J., Yirgu, G., and Ayalew, D., 2018, From initiation to termination: a petrostratigraphic tour of the Ethiopian Low-Ti Flood Basalt Province: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 173, no. 5, doi: 10.1007/s00410-018-1460-7

• Rooney, T.O., 2017, The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa: Part I – Flood Basalt and Pulsed Magmatism: Lithos, v. 286, p. 264-301, doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.05.014

• Rooney, T.O., Nelson, W.R., Ayalew, D., Hanan, B., Yirgu, G., and Kappelman, J., 2017, Melting the lithosphere: metasomes as a source for mantle-derived magmas: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 461, p. 105-118. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.12.010

• Abu El-Rus, M.M.A, and Rooney, T.O., 2017, Lithosphere to asthenosphere melting transition in northeast Africa: Evidence from the Tertiary volcanicity in middle Egypt: Chemical Geology, v. 455, p. 282-303, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.005

• Trestrail, K.R., Rooney, T.O., Girard, G., Svoboda, C., Yirgu, G., Ayalew, D., and Kappelman, J., 2017, Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle Deformation in the Yerer-Tullu Wellel Volcanotectonic Lineament: A Study of Peridotite Xenoliths: Chemical Geology, v. 455, p. 249-263, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.013

• Rooney, T.O., Lavigne, A., Svoboda, C., Girard, G., Yirgu, G., Ayalew, D., and Kappelman, J., 2017, The Making of an Underplate: Pyroxenites from the Ethiopian Lithosphere: Chemical Geology, v. 455, p. 264-281. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.09.011

• Giuliani, A., Tappe, S., Rooney, T.O., McCoy-West, A.J., Yaxley, G.M., Mezger, K., 2017. Editorial: The role of intraplate magmas and their inclusions in Earth’s mantle evolution. Chemical Geology, 455: 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.019

• Stein, S., Stein, C., Kley, J., Keller, R., Merino, M., Wolin, E., Wiens, D., Wysession, M.E., Al-Equabi, G., Shen, W., Frederiksen, A., Darbyshire, F., Jurdy, D., Waite, G., Rose, W., Vye, E., Rooney, T.O., Moucha, R., and Brown, E., 2016, New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift, Eos, v. 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO056659.

• Lund, D., Asimow, P., Farley, K., Rooney, T.O., Seeley, E., Jackson, E., and Durham, Z., 2016, Enhanced East Pacific Rise hydrothermal activity during the last two glacial terminations: Science, v. 351, p. 478-482. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4296 

• Rubin, A., Cooper, K.M., Leever, M., Wimpenny, J., Deering, C., Rooney, T.O., Gravley, D., and Yin, Q.-z., 2016, Changes in magma storage conditions following caldera collapse at Okataina Volcanic Center, New Zealand: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 171, p. 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s00410-015-1216-6

• Rooney, T. O., Morell, K. D., Hidalgo P., and Fraceschi, P. , 2015, Magmatic consequences of the transition from orthogonal to oblique subduction in Panama: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 16, doi:10.1002/2015GC006150.

• Pagli, C., Mazzarini, F., Keir, D., Rivalta, E., and Rooney, T.O., 2015, Introduction: Anatomy of rifting: Tectonics and magmatism in continental rifts, oceanic spreading centers, and transforms: Geosphere, v. 11, p. 1256-1261. doi: 10.1130/GES01082.1

• Keir, D., Bastow, I.D., Corti, G., Mazzarini, F., and Rooney, T.O., 2015, The origin of along-rift variations in faulting and magmatism in the Ethiopian rift. Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2014tc003698.

• Rooney, T.O., Bastow, I.D., Keir, D., Mazzarini, F., Movsesian, E., Grosfils, E.B., Zimbelman, J.R., Ramsey, M.S., Ayalew, D., and Yirgu, G., 2014, The protracted development of focused magmatic intrusion during continental rifting. Tectonics, v.33, p.875-897, doi:10.1029/2013TC003514.

• Rooney, T.O., Nelson, W.R., Dosso, L., Furman, T., and Hanan, B., 2014, The role of continental lithosphere metasomes in the production of HIMU-like magmatism on the northeast African and Arabian plates. Geology, v. 42, p. 419-422. doi: 10.1130/G35216.1

• Rooney, T.O., and Deering, C.D., 2014, Conditions of melt generation beneath the Taupo Volcanic Zone: The influence of heterogeneous mantle inputs on large-volume silicic systems. Geology, v. 42, p. 3-6. doi:10.1130/G34868.1

• Hidalgo, P., and Rooney, T.O., 2014, Petrogenesis of a Voluminous Quaternary Adakitic Volcano: The Case of Baru Volcano, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v.168, doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-1011-9

• Mazzarini, F., Rooney T.O., and Isola, I., 2013, The intimate relationship between strain and magmatism: A numerical treatment of clustered monogenetic fields in the Main Ethiopian Rift. Tectonics , v. 32, p. 1-16, doi:10.1029/2012TC003146

• Rooney, T.O., Mohr, P., Dosso, L., and Hall, C.M., 2013, Geochemical evidence of mantle reservoir evolution during progressive rifting. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 102 p. 65-88, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.019

• Rooney, T.O., Hart, W.K., Hall, C.M., Ayalew, D., Ghiorso, M.S., Hidalgo, P., and Yirgu, G., 2012, Peralkaline magma evolution and the tephra record in the Ethiopian Rift. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 163, p. 407-426. doi: 10.1007/s00410-012-0744-6 

• Rooney, T.O., Hanan, B., Graham, D., Furman, T., Schilling, J.G., and Blichert-Toft, J., 2012, Upper mantle pollution during Afar plume-continental rift interaction. Journal of Petrology, v. 53, p. 365-389, doi:10.1093/petrology/egr065

• Rooney, T.O., Herzberg, C., and Bastow, I.D., 2012, Elevated mantle temperature beneath East Africa. Geology, v. 40, p. 27-30. doi: 10.1130/G32382.1

• Rooney, T.O., Bastow, I.D., and Keir, D., 2011, Insights into Extensional Processes During Magma Assisted Rifting: Evidence from aligned scoria cones and maars. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 201, p. 83-96 doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.07.019

• Hidalgo, P., Vogel, T., Rooney, T.O., Currier, R., and Layer, P. 2011, Origin of silicic volcanism in the Panamanian arc:  Evidence for a two stage fractionation process at El Valle volcano. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 162, p. 1115-1138. doi: 10.1007/s00410-011-0643-2

• Rooney, T.O., Franchesci, P., and Hall, C.M., 2011, Water Saturated Magmas in the Panama Canal Region – A Precursor to adakite-like magma generation?  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. v. 161, p. 373-388. doi:10.1007/s00410-010-0537-8

• Hidalgo, P., and Rooney, T.O., 2010, Crystal Fractionation processes at Baru Volcano from the deep to shallow crust. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2010GC003262

• Rooney, T.O., Sinha, A.K., Deering, C.D., and Briggs, C., 2010, A Model for the origin of rhyolites from South Mountain, PA: Implications for rhyolites associated with large igneous provinces. Lithosphere. v. 2, p. 211-220.  doi:10.1130/L89.1

• Rooney, T.O., 2010, Geochemical evidence of lithospheric thinning in the southern main Ethiopian rift. Lithos, v.117, p. 33-48.  doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2010.02.002

• Bastow, I.D., Nyblade, A.A., Stuart, G.W., Rooney, T.O., and Benoit, M.H., 2008, Rifting at the edge of the African low velocity anomaly. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2008GC002107

• Rooney, T.O., Furman, T., Bastow, I.D., Ayalew, D., and Gezahegn, Y., 2007, Lithospheric modification during crustal extension in the main Ethiopian rift. Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets. v. 112, B10201, doi:10.1029/2006JB004916

• Furman, T., Bryce, J.G., Rooney, T.O., Hanan, B.B., Yirgu, G., and Ayalew, D., 2006, Heads and tails: 30 million years of the Afar plume, In Yirgu, G., Ebinger, C., and Maguire, P., (eds)., The Afar volcanic province within the East African rift system, v. 259, Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, p. 95-120. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.259.01.09

• Rooney, T.O., Furman, T., Yirgu, G., and Ayalew, D., 2005, Structure of the Ethiopian lithosphere: Xenolith Evidence in the main Ethiopian rift. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, p. 3889-3910. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.03.043

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