Professor Jonathan Aitchison
Professor
School of the Environment
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Researcher biography
Professor Jonathan C. Aitchison School of the Environment, University of Queensland
Jonathan Aitchison is a Professor in the School of the Environment (SENV) at the University of Queensland (UQ), where he leads research at the intersection of plate tectonics, paleontology, and sedimentary geology. Originally from New Zealand, he grew up on an active plate boundary, an environment that inspired his lifelong fascination with the processes that shape Earth’s dynamic crust.
Professor Aitchison earned his BSc (Hons) and MSc in geology from the University of Otago, including early fieldwork in Antarctica, before moving to Japan as a Monbusho Scholar at Niigata University. He later completed his PhD at the University of New England (Australia), where he reconstructed the tectonic evolution of the New England Orogen using radiolarian microfossils to date marine successions and constrain major tectonic events. This expertise led to his role as a micropaleontologist on Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 126, investigating intra-oceanic island arc development in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system.
After completing a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship at Kochi University, Aitchison joined the University of Sydney in the early 1990s, before moving to the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1995. At HKU, he established and led the Tibet Research Group, pioneering studies of the India–Asia collision system—research he has pursued for more than three decades. He served as Head of the Department of Earth Sciences at HKU from 2003 to 2009.
In 2011, Aitchison returned to Australia as the Edgeworth David Chair of Geology and Head of the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. In 2015 he shifted to Brisbane to take up Headship of the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at UQ. He oversaw the merger that created the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, leading this school from 2017 to 2021.
His research continues to span multiple frontiers in Earth Science. He maintains active programs in micropaleontology and tectonics, including the evolution of Early Paleozoic radiolarians and the application of synchrotron microCT imaging to microfossils. His long-standing work on the India–Asia collision integrates field studies in northwestern and northeastern India with broader models of Himalayan–Tibetan orogenesis. He also investigates the Paleozoic tectonics of eastern Gondwana.
Recent projects highlight the breadth of his interests: a groundbreaking study of organic carbon recycling that uncovered “bio-diamonds” in ophiolites of the southwest Pacific, and a collaboration with colleagues at the University of Tokyo examining accreted cherts as potential reservoirs of rare earth elements.
Professor Aitchison’s career reflects a commitment to integrating paleontological detail with large-scale tectonic processes, offering new insights into both Earth’s past and its critical resources for the future.
Publications
Book Chapters
Marquez, Edanjarlo J., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zamoras, Lawrence R. (2007). Upper Permian to Middle Jurassic radiolarian assemblages of Busuanga and surrounding islands, Palawan, Philippines. Radiolaria: siliceous plankton through time. (pp. 101-125) edited by Peter O. Baumgartner, Jonathan C. Aitchison, Patrick De Wever and Sarah-Jane Jackett. Basel, Germany: Birkhäuser Basel. doi: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8344-2_8
Wang, Yu-Jing, Luo, Hui and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2007). Influence of the Frasnian-Famennian event on radiolarian faunas. Radiolaria. (pp. 127-132) Basel: Birkhäuser Basel. doi: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8344-2_9
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Davis, Aileen M. (2004). Evidence for the multiphase nature of the India-Asia collision from the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Aspects of the tectonic evolution of China. (pp. 217-233) edited by J. Malpas, C. J. N. Fletcher, J. R. Ali and J. C. Aitchison. London, United Kingdom: Geological Society.
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2004). Problem of positioning Paleogene Eurasia: a review, efforts to resolve the issue, implications for the India-Asia collision. Continent–ocean interactions within the East Asia marginal seas. (pp. 23-35) edited by P. Clift, W. Kuhnt, P. Wang and D. Hayes. USA: American Geophysical Union Monograph Series. doi: 10.1029/149GM02
Davis, Aileen M., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu and Hui, Luo (2004). Conglomerates record the tectonic evolution of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone in southern Tibet. Aspects of the tectonic evolution of China. (pp. 235-246) edited by J. Malpas, C. J. N. Fletcher, J. R. Ali and J. C. Aitchison. London, United Kingdom: Geological Society.
Buckman, Solomon and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2004). Tectonic evolution of Palaeozoic terranes in West Junggar, Xinjiang, NW China. Aspects of the tectonic evolution of China. (pp. 101-130) edited by J. Malpas, C. J. N. Fletcher, J. R. Ali and J. C. Aitchison. London, United Kingdom: Geological Society.
Talent, J. A., Mawson, R., Aitchison, J. C., Becker, R. T., Bell, K. N., Bradshaw, M. A., Burrow, C. J., Cook, A. G., Dargan, G. M., Douglas, J. G., Edgecombe, G. D., Feist, M., Jones, P. J., Long, J. A., Phillips-Ross, J. R., Pickett, J. W., Playford, G., Rickards, R. B., Webby, B. D., Winchester-Seeto, T., Wright, A. J., Young, G. C. and Zhen, Y. Y. (2000). Devonian palaeobiogeography of Australia and adjoining regions. Palaeobiogeography of Australasian faunas and floras. (pp. 167-257) Canberra: Association of Australasian Palaeontologists.
Noble, Paula J. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1995). Status of Ordovician and Silurian radiolarian studies in North America. Siliceous Microfossils. Paleontological Society Short Courses in Paleontology. (pp. 19-30) edited by Blome, C. D., Whalen, P. M. and Reed, K. M.. Tennessee, United States: The Paleontological Society, University of Tennessee. doi: 10.1017/S2475263000001409
Journal Articles
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zheng, Jianbin, Niu, Manlan, Zhou, Renjie, Xiao, Wenjiao and Buckman, Solomon (2025). Early Paleozoic Transition From Intra-Oceanic Subduction to Arc-Continent Collision in the NE Proto-Tethys Ocean: Insights From Oceanic and Continental Forearc Basins. Tectonics, 44 (9) e2025TC008953. doi: 10.1029/2025TC008953
Sheng, Jiani and Aitchison, Jonathan (2025). Resolution of taxonomic ambiguities among siliceous Cambrian microfossils: poriferan affinity of Blastulospongia and phylogeny of archaeospicularians (Radiolaria). Journal of Paleontology, 1-14. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2025.10131
Wu, Xue-Jin, Song, Jia-Qi, Luo, Hui, Liu, Yang, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Wang, Yu-Jing, Yan, Kui, Chen, Zhong-Yang, Chen, Di and Zhang, Yuan-Dong (2025). Darriwilian radiolarians from slope facies sediments, Ordos Basin, North China and their paleoecological and paleogeographical implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 665 112818, 112818. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112818
Cui, Xiaohui, Zhang, Yichun, Li, Xin, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Mei-Fu, Zeng, Qinggao, Ren, Guangying and Luo, Hui (2025). Upper Jurassic radiolarian assemblages and chert geochemistry of the Shiquanhe ophiolite, NW Tibet: Implications for the evolution of the Meso–Tethyan ocean. Gondwana Research, 143, 166-184. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2025.03.005
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Patias, Daniel, Cluzel, Dominique, Ireland, Trevor R., Zhou, Renjie, Lian, Dongyang, Yang, Jingsui and Yan, Zhen (2025). Recycling Subducted Organic Carbon as Diamonds: An Example From the New Caledonia Forearc Ophiolite. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26 (4) e2025GC012250, 1-15. doi: 10.1029/2025gc012250
Changlei, F. U., Xue, Wanwen, Pan, Tong, Yan, Zhen, Guo, Xianqing, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Wang, Bingzhang and Wufu, L. I. (2025). Origin and emplacement of the Cambrian Yanglong ophiolite in the North Qilian suture. Acta Geologica Sinica, 99 (2), 409-424. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.15254
Cai, Pengjie, Lian, Dongyang, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cluzel, Dominique, Zhou, Renjie, Rui, Huichao, Bo, Rongzong, Ma, Haitao, Yang, Jingsui and Masoud, Ahmed E. (2025). Geochemical constraints on subduction-related mantle metasomatism of the Tiébaghi ophiolitic lherzolite in New Caledonia. Lithos, 496-497 107948, 107948-496. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2025.107948
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Chen, Hui, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xue, Chuandong, Zhang, Jiahui, Chen, Lei, Wang, Denghong, Wang, Xiaohu and Zhou, Renjie (2025). Devonian–Permian sedimentation in the Central Yunnan basin, SW Yangtze block (South China): insights into provenance and paleogeography of Li-rich bauxitic claystone. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137 (5-6), 2523-2544. doi: 10.1130/b37896.1
Chandra, Rakesh, Lone, Ihsan Ullah, Mishra, Meenal and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2025). Lower Cretaceous (lower Aptian) radiolarian cherts from the Shyok Suture Zone, Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya, India. Himalayan Geology, 46 (2), 208-220.
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie, Wang, Xin and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2024). New approach to constraining Cr-mineralization and forearc processes: U-Pb dating and geochemistry of titanites in chromitites of the Dun Mountain ophiolite belt (New Zealand). Ore Geology Reviews, 174 106292, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2024.106292
Wang, Tianyang, He, Songlin, Chen, Yichao, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhang, Qinghai, Li, Guobiao, Xi, Dangpeng, Wu, Chen, Wang, Licheng, Xie, Jing and Ding, Lin (2024). Were Late Jurassic climatic fluctuations responses to Pangea breakup? Evidence from isotopic analyses of belemnite rostra from the eastern Tethyan Ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137 (3-4), 986-1005. doi: 10.1130/b37313.1
Xiao, Yao, Rembe, Johannes, Čopjaková, Renata, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Chen, Yichao and Zhou, Renjie (2024). Sedimentary record of Variscan unroofing of the Bohemian Massif. Gondwana Research, 128, 141-160. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2023.11.003
Schildgen, Taylor, Rusmore, Margaret, Aitchison, Jonathan and Jolivet, Laurent (2024). Thank You to Our 2023 Reviewers. Tectonics, 43 (4) e2024TC008348. doi: 10.1029/2024tc008348
Fu, Changlei, He, Xiaohu, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Wang, Bingzhang, Li, Wufu and Li, Yusen (2024). An overview on the composition and age of upper crust of Proto‐Tethyan Lajishan intra‐oceanic arc, NE Tibet Plateau. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 98 (2), 285-302. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.15137
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Buckman, Solomon and Wang, Bingzhang (2024). Subduction within the Proto‐Tethys Ocean revealed by recognition of the earliest Phanerozoic intra‐oceanic arc, Northern Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Space Science, 11 (3) e2023EA002985, 1-26. doi: 10.1029/2023ea002985
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2024). Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the magmatic evolution of the Dun Mountain ophiolite belt, New Zealand. Lithosphere, 2024 (1) 283. doi: 10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2023_283
Wu, Xue-Jin, Huang, Zheng-Liang, Luo, Hui, Cai, Zheng-Hong, Guo, Yao-Xuan, Liu, Yang, Wang, Yu-Jing, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zhang, Yuan-Dong (2023). Uppermost Darriwilian radiolarians from the lower part of Wulalike Formation, Northwest Ordos Basin, North China. Palaeoworld, 33 (5), 1211-1225. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2023.12.005
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cluzel, Dominique, Ireland, Trevor, Lian, Dongyang and Yang, Jingsui (2023). Beyond zircon fingerprinting: Zircon and TiO2 polymorphs constrain genealogy and evolution of the New Caledonian ophiolite. Chemical Geology, 644 121841, 121841. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121841
Perera, Siyumini and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2023). Micro-CT analysis of Katian radiolarians from the Malongulli Formation, New South Wales, Australia, and implications for skeletogenesis. Journal of Paleontology, 97 (5) PII S0022336023000136, 971-989. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2023.13
Fu, Changlei, Wang, Bingzhang, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Buckman, Solomon and Li, Wufu (2023). Early Cambrian forearc ophiolite-hosted VMS-type Cu deposit in the North Qaidam belt, northern Tibetan Plateau. Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2 (3) 100172, 100172. doi: 10.1016/j.geogeo.2022.100172
Wang, Tianyang, Li, Guobiao, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Sheng, Jiani and Ma, Xuesong (2023). Lower Cretaceous deep marine deposits in western Tibet: implications for paleoceanographic evolution of the Mesotethyan Ocean. Cretaceous Research, 148 105527, 105527. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105527
Lokho, Kapesa, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Kumar, Ankit, Zhou, Renjie, Prakasam, Muthusamy and Raju, D. S. N. (2023). Middle Miocene final demise of remnants of an eastern Neotethyan seaway, Naga Hills, Indo-Myanmar Range. Marine Micropaleontology, 181 102243, 102243. doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102243
Cui, Xiaohui, Li, Xin, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Luo, Hui (2023). Early Cretaceous monsoonal upwelling along the northern margin of the Gondwana continent: evidence from radiolarian cherts. Marine Micropaleontology, 181 102247, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102247
Schildgen, Taylor, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Jolivet, Laurent and Rusmore, Margi (2023). Thank You to Our 2022 Reviewers. Tectonics, 42 (4) e2023TC007891. doi: 10.1029/2023tc007891
Sun, Yuanyuan, Liang, Yu, Liu, Hu, Liu, Jun, Ji, Junliang, Ke, Xue, Liu, Xiaobo, He, Yuxin, Wang, Huanye, Zhang, Bin, Zhang, Yongsu, Zhuang, Guangsheng, Pei, Junling, Li, Yongxiang, Quan, Cheng, Li, Jianxing, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Liu, Weiguo and Liu, Zhonghui (2023). Mid-Miocene sea level altitude of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau. Communications Earth and Environment, 4 (1) 3. doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00671-8
Aitchison, Jonathan C (2022). Altaids: Accretionary tectonics writ large. National Science Review, 10 (2) nwac153, nwac153. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwac153
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Wang, Bingzhang, Buckman, Solomon, Li, Wufu and Guo, Shuhua (2022). Cambrian intra-oceanic subduction within the southern branch of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean: Constraints from rhyolites in the Lajishan suture, NE Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 232 105124, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105124
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Ireland, Trevor, Heizler, Matthew, Patias, Daniel, Lesimple, Stephane, Maurizot, Pierre and Teyssier, Christian (2022). Direct dating of podiform Chromitite: U-Pb (Zircon, Rutile) and 40Ar/39Ar (Pargasite) evidence from Tiébaghi Cr deposit (New Caledonia). Ore Geology Reviews, 145 104873, 104873. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104873
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Buchs, David M., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zhao, Jianxin (2022). Paleozoic ocean plate stratigraphy unraveled by calcite U-Pb dating of basalt and biostratigraphy. Communications Earth and Environment, 3 (1) 113. doi: 10.1038/s43247-022-00446-1
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Niu, Manlan, Buckman, Solomon, Xiao, Wenjiao, Zhou, Renjie, Chen, Lei and Li, Junhui (2022). Arc-continent collision during culmination of Proto-Tethyan Ocean closure in the Central Qilian belt, NE Tibetan Plateau. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 134 (11-12), 3079-3098. doi: 10.1130/B36328.1
Andjić, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2022). A single Dras‐Kohistan‐Ladakh arc revealed by volcaniclastic records. G3: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23 (3) e2021GC010042. doi: 10.1029/2021gc010042
Cui, Xiaohui, Li, Xin, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Luo, Hui (2022). Paleobiogeographic significance of Tethyan Lower Cretaceous Cecrops septemporatus Zone radiolarian faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 589 110836, 110836. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110836
Cui, Xiao-Hui, Li, Xin, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Matsuoka, Atsushi and Luo, Hui (2022). Provenance analysis of Cenozoic conglomerates: Insights from Lower Cretaceous radiolarians in chert clasts from the Xigaze area, southern Tibet. Palaeoworld, 31 (4), 658-678. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2022.03.001
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Buckman, Solomon, Wang, Bingzhang and Zhai, Qingguo (2022). Relicts of a Cambrian oceanic arc in the Lajishan suture, NE Tibetan Plateau: evidence for early-stage subduction within the Proto-Tethyan Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585 110713, 110713. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110713
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cluzel, Dominique, Ireland, Trevor R., Zhou, Renjie, Lian, Dongyang, Patias, Daniel, Yan, Zhen and Yang, Jingsui (2022). Solid-phase transfer into the forearc mantle wedge: rutile and zircon xenocrysts fingerprint subducting sources. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577 117251, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117251
Cui, Xiaohui, Luo, Hui, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Li, Xin (2021). Middle Jurassic radiolarians and chert geochemistry, Dajiweng ophiolite, SW Tibet: implications for Neotethyan Ocean evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 221 104947, 104947. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104947
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Buckman, Solomon, Wang, Bingzhang, Zhai, Qingguo and Cao, Bo (2021). Short-lived intra-oceanic arc-trench system in the North Qaidam belt (NW China) reveals complex evolution of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 134 (7-8), 1741-1759. doi: 10.1130/b36127.1
Perera, Siyumini and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Late Sandbian (Sa2) radiolarians of the Pingliang Formation from the Guanzhuang section, Gansu Province, China. Journal of Paleontology, 96 (1) PII S002233602100086X, 1-27. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2021.86
Cui, Xiaohui, Luo, Hui, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Li, Xin and Fang, Peiyue (2021). Early Cretaceous radiolarians and chert geochemistry from western Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone in Jiangyema section, Purang county, SW Tibet. Cretaceous Research, 125 104840, 104840. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104840
He, Lulu, Dominey-Howes, Dale, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Lau, Annie and Conradson, David (2021). How do post-disaster policies influence household-level recovery? A case study of the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 60 102274, 102274. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102274
Yan, Zhen, Xiao, Wenjiao, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Yuan, Chao, Liu, Chuanzhou and Fu, Changlei (2021). Age and origin of accreted ocean plate stratigraphy in the North Qilian belt, NE Tibet Plateau: Evidences from microfossils and geochemistry of cherts and siltstones. Journal of the Geological Society, 178 (6) jgs2020-231, jgs2020-231. doi: 10.1144/jgs2020-231
Saktura, Wanchese M., Buckman, Solomon, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zhou, Renjie (2021). Paleogene magmatic flex and flux in the Ladakh Arc, NW Himalaya: chronostratigraphy of the Khardung Formation. Lithos, 388-389 106053, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106053
Kachovich, Sarah and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Middle Ordovician (middle Darriwilian) Archaeospicularia and Entactinaria (radiolarians) from the Table Cove Formation, Piccadilly Quarry, Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 95 (5), 913-943. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2021.18
Schildgen, Taylor, Aitchison, Jonathan, Jolivet, Laurent and Rusmore, Margaret (2021). Thank you to our 2020 reviewers. Tectonics, 40 (3) e2021TC006769. doi: 10.1029/2021tc006769
Jonell, Tara N., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia (2020). Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248 106475, 106475. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106475
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xiao, Wenjiao, Buckman, Solomon, Wang, Bingzhang, Li, Wufu, Li, Yunshuai and Ren, Haidong (2020). Multiple subduction processes of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean: Implication from Cambrian intrusions along the North Qilian suture zone. Gondwana Research, 87, 207-223. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.007
Sun, Yuanyuan, Liu, Jun, Liang, Yu, Ji, Junliang, Liu, Weiguo, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Sun, Jimin, Lu, Jingfang, Song, Bowen, Xu, Yadong, Zhang, Kexin and Liu, Zhonghui (2020). Cenozoic moisture fluctuations on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau and association with global climatic conditions. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 200 104490, 104490. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104490
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Buckman, Solomon and Chen, Lei (2020). Silurian sedimentation in the South Qilian Belt: arc‐continent collision‐related deposition in the NE Tibet Plateau?. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 94 (4) 1755-6724.14551, 901-913. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14551
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Buckman, Solomon, Niu, Manlan and Cao, Bo (2020). Triassic turbidites in the West Qinling Mountains, NW China: part of the collisional Songpan-Ganzi Basin or an active forearc basin?. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 194 104366, 104366. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104366
Sheng, Jiani, Kachovich, Sarah and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020). Skeletal architecture of middle Cambrian spicular radiolarians revealed using micro-CT. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 39 (1), 61-76. doi: 10.5194/jm-39-61-2020
Perera, Siyumini, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Nothdurft, Linda (2020). Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) radiolarians from the Crawford Group, Scotland. Geological Magazine, 157 (12) PII S001675682000028X, 1-11. doi: 10.1017/s001675682000028x
Lokho, Kapesa, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Whiso, Kezhakielie, Lhoupenyi, David, Zhou, Renjie and Raju, D.S.N. (2020). Eocene foraminifers of the Naga Hills of Manipur, Indo-Myanmar Range (IMR): Implications on age and basin evolution. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 191 104259, 104259. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104259
Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Lokho, Kapesa, Sobel, Edward R., Feng, Yuexing and Zhao, Jian-xin (2020). Unroofing the Ladakh Batholith: constraints from autochthonous molasse of the Indus Basin, NW Himalaya. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (4), jgs2019-188. doi: 10.1144/jgs2019-188
Schildgen, Taylor, Aitchison, Jonathan, Jolivet, Laurent and Rusmore, Margi (2020). Thank you to our 2019 reviewers. Tectonics, 39 (3) e2020TC006136, e2020TC006136. doi: 10.1029/2020tc006136
Kachovich, Sarah and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020). Micro-CT study of Middle Ordovician Spumellaria (radiolarians) from western Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 94 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2019.88
Wang, Tianyang, Li, Guobiao, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Sheng, Jiani (2020). Eocene ostracods from southern Tibet: implications for the disappearance of Neo-Tethys. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 539 109488, 109488. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109488
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020). Time of re-emergence of Christmas Island and its biogeographical significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537 109396, 109396. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109396
Aitchison, Jonathan (2020). Redrawing Wallace’s Line based on the fauna of Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130 (1), 225-237. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa018
Wang, Tianyang, Li, Guobiao, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ding, Lin and Sheng, Jiani (2019). Evolution of mid-Cretaceous radiolarians in response to oceanic anoxic events in the eastern Tethys (southern Tibet, China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 536 109369, 109369. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109369
Rajkakati, M., Bhowmik, S.K., Ao, A., Ireland, T.R., Avila, J., Clarke, G.L., Bhandari, A. and Aitchison, J.C. (2019). Thermal history of Early Jurassic eclogite facies metamorphism in the Nagaland Ophiolite Complex, NE India: New insights into pre-Cretaceous subduction channel tectonics within the Neo-Tethys. Lithos, 346-347 105166, 105166. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105166
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Buckman, Solomon, Niu, Manlan, Cao, Bo, Sun, Yi, Guo, Xianqing, Wang, Zongqi and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Retro‐foreland basin development in response to Proto‐Tethyan Ocean closure, NE Tibet Plateau. Tectonics, 38 (12) 2019TC005560, 4229-4248. doi: 10.1029/2019tc005560
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Guo, Xianqing and Xia, Wenjing (2019). Abyssal and suprasubduction peridotites in the Lajishan ophiolite belt: implication for initial subduction of the Proto-Tethyan Ocean. The Journal of Geology, 127 (4), 393-410. doi: 10.1086/703488
Kachovich, Sarah, Sheng, Jiani and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2019). Adding a new dimension to investigations of early radiolarian evolution. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 6450, 6450. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42771-0
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ao, Aliba, Bhowmik, Santanu, Clarke, Geoffrey L., Ireland, Trevor R., Kachovich, Sarah, Lokho, Kapesa, Stojanovic, Denis, Roeder, Tara, Truscott, Naomi, Zhen, Yan and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Tectonic evolution of the western margin of the Burma microplate based on new fossil and radiometric age constraints. Tectonics, 38 (5) 2018TC005049, 1718-1741. doi: 10.1029/2018tc005049
He, Lulu, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Hussey, Karen and Chen, Yong (2019). Building new houses or long-term recovery?: a combination of quantitative and qualitative evidence from earthquake-displaced households in Sichuan, China. Habitat International, 83, 135-145. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2018.12.002
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Niu, Manlan, Buckman, Solomon and Cao, Bo (2019). Early Cambrian Muli arc–ophiolite complex: a relic of the Proto-Tethys oceanic lithosphere in the Qilian Orogen, NW China. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 108 (4), 1147-1164. doi: 10.1007/s00531-019-01699-6
Buckman, Solomon, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Nutman, Allen P., Bennett, Vickie C., Saktura, Wanchese M., Walsh, Jessica M.J., Kachovich, Sarah and Hidaka, Hiroshi (2018). The Spongtang Massif in Ladakh, NW Himalaya: an early cretaceous record of spontaneous, intra-oceanic subduction initiation in the Neotethys. Gondwana Research, 63, 226-249. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.07.003
Jiang, Tian, Wan, Xiaoqiao, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xi, Dangpeng and Cao, Wenxin (2018). Foraminiferal response to the PETM recorded in the SW Tarim Basin, central Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 506, 217-225. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.06.041
He, Lulu, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Hussey, Karen, Wei, Yongping and Lo, Alex (2018). Accumulation of vulnerabilities in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake: household displacement, livelihood changes and recovery challenges. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 31, 68-75. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.04.017
Yi, Yuhao, Yuan, Aihua, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Feng, Qinglai (2018). Upper Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) Radiolarians and Ostracods from the Hulo Formation, Zhejiang Provicnce, South China. Journal of Earth Science, 29 (4), 886-899. doi: 10.1007/s12583-017-0951-6
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Wang, Zongqi, Buckman, Solomon, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Niu, Manlan, Cao, Bo, Guo, Xianqing, Li, Xiucai, Li, Yunshuai and Li, Jiliang (2018). Lajishankou ophiolite complex: implications for Paleozoic multiple accretionary and collisional events in the South Qilian belt. Tectonics, 37 (5), 1321-1346. doi: 10.1029/2017TC004740
Cluzel, Dominique, Whitten, Matthew, Meffre, Sebastien, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Maurizot, Pierre (2018). A reappraisal of the Poya Terrane (New Caledonia): accreted late Cretaceous-Paleocene marginal basin upper crust, passive margin sediments, and early Eocene E-MORB sill complex. Tectonics, 37 (1), 48-70. doi: 10.1002/2017TC004579
Guo, Xianqing, Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Changlei, F. U. and Wang, Zongqi (2017). Geochemistry, Geochronology and Lu-Hf Isotopes of Peraluminous Granitic Porphyry from the Walegen Au Deposit, West Qinling Terrane. Acta Geologica Sinica, 91 (6), 2024-2040. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.13448
Cheung, Man-Ching, Zong, Yongqiang, Zheng, Zhuo, Liu, Zhonghui and Aitchison, Jonathan C (2017). Holocene temperature and precipitation variability on the central Tibetan Plateau revealed by multiple palaeo-climatic proxy records from an alpine wetland sequence. Holocene, 27 (11), 1669-1681. doi: 10.1177/0959683617702225
Saktura, Wanchese M., Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P., Belousova, Elena A., Yan, Zhen and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2017). Continental origin of the Gubaoquan eclogite and implications for evolution of the Beishan Orogen, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, NW China. Lithos, 294-295, 20-38. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.10.004
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Suzuki, Noritoshi and O’Dogherty, Luis (2017). Inventory of paleozoic radiolarian species (1880-2016) Inventaire des espèces de radiolaires du Paléozoïque (1880-2016). Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 533-637. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a6
Danelian, Taniel, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Noble, Paula, Caridroit, Martial, Suzuki, Noritoshi and O’Dogherty, Luis (2017). Historical insights on nearly 130 years of research on Paleozoic radiolarians. Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 351-361. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a2
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Suzuki, Noritoshi, Caridroit, Martial, Danelian, Taniel and Noble, Paula (2017). Paleozoic radiolarian biostratigraphy. Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 503-531. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a5
Caridroit, Martial, Danelian, Taniel, O’Dogherty, Luis, Cuvelier, Jessie, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Pouille, Lauren, Noble, Paula, Dumitrica, Paulian, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Kuwahara, Kiyoko, Maletz, Jörg and Feng, Qinglai (2017). An illustrated catalogue and revised classification of Paleozoic radiolarian genera Catalogue illustré et classification révisée des genres de radiolaires paléozoïques. Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 363-417. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a3
Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial and O’Dogherty, Luis (2017). Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera Taxonomie des genres de radiolaires paléozoïques. Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 419-502. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a4
Danelian, Taniel, Caridroit, Martial, Noble, Paula and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2017). Foreword. Geodiversitas, 39 (3), 345-350. doi: 10.5252/g2017n3a1
Queano, Karlo L., Marquez, Edanjarlo J., Dimalanta, Carla B., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R. and Yumul, Graciano P., Jr. (2017). Mesozoic radiolarian faunas from the northwest Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines and their tectonic significance. Island Arc, 26 (4) e12195, e12195. doi: 10.1111/iar.12195
Liu, Jun, Organ, Chris L., Benton, Michael J., Brandley, Matthew C. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2017). Live birth in an archosauromorph reptile. Nature Communications, 8 (14445) 14445, 14445. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14445
Baxter, Alan T., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R., Chan, Jacky Sik-Lap and Chan, Gavin Heung Ngai (2016). Detrital chrome spinel evidence for a Neotethyan intra-oceanic island arc collision with India in the Paleocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 128 (J. Petrol. 44 2003), 90-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.06.023
Kachovich, Sarah, Sheng, Jiani and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2016). Silurian radiolarians from the Jenolan Caves region, New South Wales, Australia. Revue de Micropaleontologie, 59 (4), 339-346. doi: 10.1016/j.revmic.2016.08.001
Clarke, G. L., Bhowmik, S. K., Ireland, T. R., Aitchison, J. C., Chapman, S. L. and Kent, L. (2016). Inverted Oligo-Miocene metamorphism in the Lesser Himalaya Sequence, Arunachal Pradesh, India; age and grade relationships. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34 (8), 805-820. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12202
Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Fu, Changlei, Guo, Xianqing, Xia, Wenjing and Niu, Manlan (2016). Devonian sedimentation in the Xiqingshan Mountains: implications for paleogeographic reconstructions of the SW Qinling Orogen. Sedimentary Geology, 343, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.07.009
Chen, Yiwei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zong, Yongqiang and Li, Sheng-Hua (2016). OSL dating of past lake levels for a large dammed lake in southern Tibet and determination of possible controls on lake evolution. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41 (11), 1467-1476. doi: 10.1002/esp.3907
Stojanovic, Denis, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R., Ahmad, Talat and Dar, Reyaz Ahmad (2016). Paleomagnetic investigation of the Early Permian Panjal Traps of NW India; regional tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 115, 114-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.09.028
Cheung, Man-Ching, Zong, Yongqiang, Wang, Ning, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zheng, Zhuo (2015). δ13Corg and n-alkane evidence for changing wetland conditions during a stable mid-late Holocene climate in the central Tibetan Plateau. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 438, 203-212. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.08.007
Yan, Zhen, Aitchison, Jonathan, Fu, Changlei, Guo, Xianqing, Niu, Manlan, Xia, Wenjing and Li, Jiliang (2015). Hualong Complex, South Qilian terrane: U-Pb and Lu-Hf constraints on Neoproterozoic micro-continental fragments accreted to the northern Proto-Tethyan margin. Precambrian Research, 266, 65-85. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.05.001
Shirdashtzadeh, Nargess, Kachovich, Sarah, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Samadi, Ramin (2015). Mid-Cretaceous radiolarian faunas from the Ashin Ophiolite (western Central-East Iranian Microcontinent). Cretaceous Research, 56, 110-118. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.04.003
Buckman, Solomon, Nutman, Allen P., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Parker, Joseph, Bembridge, Sarah, Line, Tom, Hidaka, Hiroshi and Kamiichi, Tomoyuki (2015). The Watonga Formation and tackling Point Gabbro, Port Macquarie, Australia: insights into crustal growth mechanisms on the eastern margin of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 28 (1), 133-151. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.02.013
Jiang, Tian, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Wan, Xiaoqiao (2015). The youngest marine deposits preserved in southern Tibet and disappearance of the Tethyan Ocean. Gondwana Research, 32, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2015.01.015
Chan, Gavin Heung Ngai, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Crowley, Quentin G., Horstwood, Matthew S. A., Searle, Michael P., Parrish, Randall R. and Chan, Jacky Sik-Lap (2015). U-Pb zircon ages for Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone ophiolites, southwestern Tibet and their tectonic implications. Gondwana Research, 27 (2), 719-732. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.06.016
Heri, A.C, Aitchison, J. C., King, J.A. and Villa, I. M. (2015). Geochronology and isotope geochemistry of Eocene dykes intruding the Ladakh Batholith. Lithos, 212-215, 111-121. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2014.11.001
O'Dogherty, Luis, Dumitrica, Paulian, Gorican, Spela and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2015). Comment on the species and age determination published by Li et al. "Discovery of Radiolaria from Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red Beds in Daba, Kangmar and its paleogeographic implication" [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 312 (2011): 127-13. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 424, 196-203. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.002
Liu, Jun, Hu, Shi-xue, Rieppel, Olivier, Jiang, Da-yong, Benton, Michael J., Kelley, Neil P., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Chang-yong, Wen, Wen, Huang, Jin-yuan, Xie, Tao and Lv, Tao (2014). A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery. Scientific Reports, 4 (1) 7142, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/srep07142
Yan, Zhen, Guo, Xianqing Xuo, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Wang, Zongqi and Li, Jiliang (2014). Detrital heavy minerals constraints on the Triassic tectonic evolution of the West Qinling terrane, NW China: implications for understanding subduction of the Paleotethyan Ocean. Journal of Geology, 122 (5), 591-608. doi: 10.1086/677264
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2014). Exploring the combined role of eustasy and oceanic island thermal subsidence in shaping biodiversity on the Galápagos. Journal of Biogeography, 41 (7), 1227-1241. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12313
Cheung, Man Ching, Zong, Yongqiang, Zheng, Zhuo, Huang, Kangyou and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2014). A stable mid-late Holocene monsoon climate of the central Tibetan Plateau indicated by a pollen record. Quaternary International, 333, 40-48. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.03.010
Ali, J. R. and Aitchison, J. C. (2014). Greater India's northern margin prior to collision with Asia. Basin Research, 26 (1), 73-84. doi: 10.1111/bre.12040
Queano, Karlo L., Marquez, Edanjarlo J., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Ali, Jason R. (2013). Radiolarian biostratigraphic data from the Casiguran Ophiolite, Northern Sierra Madre, Luzon, Philippines: Stratigraphic and tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 65, 131-142. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.10.024
Ali, Jason R., Cheung, Haz M. C., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Sun, Yadong (2013). Palaeomagnetic re-investigation of early permian rift basalts from the Baoshan block, SW China: Constraints on the site-of-origin of the gondwana-derived eastern cimmerian terranes. Geophysical Journal International, 193 (2), 650-663. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt012
Liu, Jun, Motani, Ryosuke, Jiang, Da-Yong, Hu, Shi-Xue, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Rieppel, Olivier, Benton, Michael J., Zhang, Qi-Yue and Zhou, Chang-Yong (2013). The first specimen of the Middle Triassic Phalarodon atavus (Ichthyosauria: Mixosauridae) from South China, showing postcranial anatomy and peri-Tethyan distribution. Palaeontology, 56 (4), 849-866. doi: 10.1111/pala.12021
Chen, Yiwei, Zong, Yongqiang, Li, Bo, Li, Shenghua and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2013). Shrinking lakes in Tibet linked to the weakening Asian monsoon in the past 8.2ka. Quaternary Research (United States), 80 (2), 189-198. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.008
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Buckman, Solomon (2013). Reply to comment on “Accordion vs. quantum tectonics: Insights into continental growth processes from the Paleozoic of eastern Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 23 (4), 1650-1651. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.014
Nutman, Allen P., Buckman, Solomon, Hidaka, Hiroshi, Kamiichi, Tomoyuki, Belousova, Elena and Aitchison, Jonathan (2013). Middle Carboniferous-Early Triassic eclogite-blueschist blocks within a serpentinite mélange at Port Macquarie, eastern Australia: Implications for the evolution of Gondwana's eastern margin. Gondwana Research, 24 (3-4), 1038-1050. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.009
Ali, Jason R., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Chik, Sam Y. S., Baxter, Alan T. and Bryan, Scott E. (2012). Paleomagnetic data support Early Permian age for the Abor Volcanics in the lower Siang Valley, NE India: significance for Gondwana-related break-up models. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 50, 105-115. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.01.007
Hou, Quanlin, Ju, Yiwen, Aitchison, Jonathan, Zhang, Hongyuan and Wu, Yudong (2012). Tectonic history and coalbed gas genesis. Journal of Geological Research, 2012, 1-1. doi: 10.1155/2012/282789
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Ali, Jason R. (2012). India-Asia collision timing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (40), E2645-E2645. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1207859109
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Buckman, Solomon (2012). Accordion vs. quantum tectonics: Insights into continental growth processes from the Paleozoic of eastern Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 22 (2), 674-680. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.05.013
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2012). Comment on “Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India” by D. J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.. Tectonics, 31 (4) TC4006, n/a-n/a. doi: 10.1029/2011TC003091
Yang, Qun, Luo, Hui, Wang, Yu-Jing and Aitchison, Jonathan (2011). Radiolarians through time: systematics, biostratigraphy and paleoceanographic significance. Palaeoworld, 20 (2-3), 99-101. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2011.06.001
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Xia, Xiaoping, Baxter, Alan T. and Ali, Jason R. (2011). Detrital zircon U–Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: Implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia. Gondwana Research, 20 (4), 691-709. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.04.002
Baxter, Alan T., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zyabrev, Sergey V. and Ali, Jason R. (2011). Upper Jurassic radiolarians from the Naga ophiolite, Nagaland, northeast India. Gondwana Research, 20 (2), 638-644. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.02.001
Liu, Jun, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Ali, Jason R. (2011). Upper Paleocene radiolarians from DSDP Sites 549 and 550, Goban Spur, NE Atlantic. Palaeoworld, 20 (2), 218-231. doi: 10.1016/j.palwor.2011.02.002
Corrie, Robert, Ninomiya, Yoshiki and Aitchison, Jonathan (2011). Applying Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) spectral indices for geological mapping and mineral identification on the Tibetan Plateau. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, 38 (8), 464-469.
Liu, Jun, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Sun, Yuan-Yuan, Zhang, Qi-Yue, Zhou, Chang-Yong and Lv, Tao (2011). New Mixosaurid Ichthyosaur specimen from the Middle Triassic of SW China: Further evidence for the Diapsid Origin of Ichthyosaurs. Journal of Paleontology, 85 (1), 32-36. doi: 10.1666/09-131.1
Liu, Jun, Rieppel, Olivier, Jiang, Da-Yong, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Motani, Ryosuke, Zhang, Qi-Yue, Zhou, Chang-Yong and Sun, Yuan-Yuan (2011). A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the lower Middle Triassic of southwestern China and the phylogenetic relationships of Chinese pachypleurosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31 (2), 292-302. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2011.550363
Lau, A. Y. A., Switzer, A. D., Dominey-Howes, D., Aitchison, J. C. and Zong, Y. (2010). Written records of historical tsunamis in the northeastern South China Sea: challenges associated with developing a new integrated database. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 10 (9), 1793-1806. doi: 10.5194/nhess-10-1793-2010
Baxter, A.T., Aitchison, J.C., Ali, J.R. and Zyabrev, S.V. (2010). Early Cretaceous radiolarians from the Spongtang massif, Ladakh, NW India: Implications for Neo-Tethyan evolution. Journal of the Geological Society, 167 (3), 511-517. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492009-099
Wong, Fiona K. Y., Lau, Maggie C. Y., Lacap, Donnabella C., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Cowan, Donald A. and Pointing, Stephen B. (2010). Endolithic microbial colonization of limestone in a high-altitude arid environment. Microbial Ecology, 59 (4), 689-699. doi: 10.1007/s00248-009-9607-8
Wong, Fiona K. Y., Lacap, Donnabella C., Lau, Maggie C. Y., Aitchison, J. C., Cowan, Donald A. and Pointing, Stephen B. (2010). Hypolithic Microbial Community of Quartz Pavement in the High-Altitude Tundra of Central Tibet. Microbial Ecology, 60 (4), 730-739. doi: 10.1007/s00248-010-9653-2
Aitchison, Jonathan and Wallis, Simon (2009). Thematic section: Papers arising out of 22nd Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet workshop (HKT 22). Island Arc, 18 (3), 403-403. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.2009.00685.x
Lau, Maggie CY, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Pointing, Stephen B. (2009). Bacterial community composition in thermophilic microbial mats from five hot springs in central Tibet. Extremophiles, 13 (1), 139-149. doi: 10.1007/s00792-008-0205-3
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2009). Kerguelen Plateau and the Late Cretaceous southern‐continent bioconnection hypothesis: tales from a topographical ocean. Journal of Biogeography, 36 (9), 1778-1784. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02105.x
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R., Chan, Angel, Davis, Aileen M. and Lo, Ching-Hua (2009). Tectonic implications of felsic tuffs within the Lower Miocene Gangrinboche conglomerates, southern Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 34 (3), 287-297. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.05.008
Lee, J., Li, SH. and Aitchison, J.C. (2009). OSL dating of paleoshorelines at Lagkor Tso, western Tibet. Quaternary Geochronology, 4 (4), 335-343. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.02.003
Milsom, John, Baretto, Jenny, Aguda, Nancy, Bringas, Dennis, Ho, Romeo and Aitchison, Jonathan (2009). The gravity fields of Palawan and New Caledonia: insights into the subsurface geometries of ophiolites. Journal of the Geological Society, 166 (6), 985-988. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492009-067
Chan, G. H.-N., Waters, D.J., Searle, M.P., Aitchison, J.C., Horstwood, M.S.A., Crowley, Q., Lo, C.-H. and Chan, J.S.-L. (2009). Probing the basement of southern Tibet: evidence from crustal xenoliths entrained in a Miocene ultrapotassic dyke. Journal of the Geological Society, 166 (1), 45-52. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492007-145
Baxter, Alan T., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zyabrev, Sergey V. (2009). Radiolarian age constraints on Mesotethyan ocean evolution, and their implications for development of the Bangong–Nujiang suture, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society, 166 (4), 689-694. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492008-128
Aitchison, Jonathan C, Ali, Jason R and Davis, Aileen M (2008). When and where did India and Asia collide?. Geological Bulletin of China, 27 (9), 1351-1370.
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2008). Gondwana to Asia: plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166-35 Ma). Earth-Science Reviews, 88 (3-4), 145-166. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.01.007
Chan, Angel On Kee, Aitchison, Jonathan C, Bandengzhu, Bandengzhu and Hui, Lan (2008). Miocene collision-related conglomerates near Dazhuqu and Xigaze, Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Himalayan Journal of Sciences, 2 (4), 112. doi: 10.3126/hjs.v2i4.822
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R. and Davis, Aileen M. (2008). Reply to comment by Eduardo Garzanti on “When and where did India and Asia collide?”. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113 (4) B04412, B04412-B04412. doi: 10.1029/2007JB005431
Lau, C.Y., Aitchison, J.C. and Pointing, S.B. (2008). Early colonization of thermal niches in a silica‐depositing hot spring in central Tibet. Geobiology, 6 (2), 136-146. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00124.x
Queano, Karlo L., Ali, Jason R., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Yumul, Graciano P., Pubellier, Manuel and Dimalanta, Carla B. (2008). Geochemistry of Cretaceous to Eocene ophiolitic rocks of the Central Cordillera: Implications for Mesozoic-early Cenozoic evolution of the northern Philippines. International Geology Review, 50 (4), 407-421. doi: 10.2747/0020-6814.50.4.407
Wang, Wei-Liang, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Lo, Ching-Hua and Zeng, Qing-Gao (2008). Geochemistry and geochronology of the amphibolite blocks in ophiolitic mélanges along Bangong-Nujiang suture, central Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 33 (1-2), 122-138. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.10.022
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Ali, Jason R. and Davis, Aileen M. (2007). When and where did India and Asia collide?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 112 (5) B05423, B05423-1-B05423-19. doi: 10.1029/2006JB004706
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2007). 'Greater India' controversy: Case closed?. Current Science, 92 (6), 739-742.
Aitchison, J.C., McDermid, I.R.C., Ali, J.R., Davis, A.M. and Zyabrev, S.V. (2007). Shoshonites in southern Tibet record Late Jurassic rifting of a Tethyan intraoceanic island arc. The Journal of Geology, 115 (2), 197-213. doi: 10.1086/510642
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2007). Comment on “Trans‐Hudson Orogen of North America and Himalaya‐Karakoram‐Tibetan Orogen of Asia: Structural and thermal characteristics of the lower and upper plates” by MR St‐Onge et al.. Tectonics, 26 (3) TC3018, Art. No.: TC3018-Art. No.: TC3018. doi: 10.1029/2006TC002043
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Ali, Jason R. (2007). Tibet field camp as a ‘roof of the world’ capstone experience for earth science majors. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55 (5), 349-356. doi: 10.5408/1089-9995-55.5.349
Queano, Karlo L., Ali, Jason R., Millsom, John, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Pubellier, Manuel (2007). North Luzon and the Philippine Sea Plate motion model: insights following paleomagnetic, structural, and age-dating investigations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112 (B5) B05101, B05101.1-B05101.44. doi: 10.1029/2006JB004506
Siveter, David J., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Siveter, Derek J. and Sutton, Mark D. (2007). The Radiolaria of the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Silurian), England. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 26 (1), 87-95. doi: 10.1144/jm.26.1.87
Yim, Lau Chui, Hongmei, Jing, Aitchison, Jonathan C and Pointing, Stephen B. (2006). Highly diverse community structure in a remote central Tibetan geothermal spring does not display monotonic variation to thermal stress. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 57 (1), 80-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00104.x
Hutchinson, Neil, Nagarkar, Sanjay, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Williams, Gray A. (2006). Microspatial variation in marine biofilm abundance on intertidal rock surfaces. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 42 (2), 187-197. doi: 10.3354/ame042187
Faustino, D. V., Yumul, G. P., Dimalanta, C. B., De Jesus, J. V., Zhou, M.-F., Aitchison, J. C. and Tamayo, R. A. (2006). Volcanic-hypabyssal rock geochemistry of a subduction-related marginal basin ophiolite: Southeast Bohol Ophiolite-Cansiwang Mélange Complex, Central Philippines. Geosciences Journal, 10 (3), 291-303. doi: 10.1007/BF02910371
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2006). Positioning Paleogene Eurasia problem: Solution for 60–50 Ma and broader tectonic implications. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 251 (1), 148-155. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.003
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2005). Greater India. Earth-Science Reviews, 72 (3-4), 169-188. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.07.005
Hongmei, Jing, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Lacap, Donnabella C., Peerapornpisal, Yuwadee, Sompong, Udomluk and Pointing, Stephen B. (2005). Community phylogenetic analysis of moderately thermophilic cyanobacterial mats from China, the Philippines and Thailand. Extremophiles, 9 (4), 325-332. doi: 10.1007/s00792-005-0456-1
Abrajevitch, Alexandra V., Ali, Jason R., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu, Davis, Aileen M., Liu, Jianbing and Ziabrev, Sergey V. (2005). Neotethys and the India–Asia collision: insights from a palaeomagnetic study of the Dazhuqu ophiolite, southern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233 (1), 87-102. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.003
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2005). The great Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. Gondwana Research, 8 (2), 107-108. doi: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71111-4
Ziabrev, Sergey V., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Abrajevitch, Alexandra V., Badengzhu, Davis, Aileen M. and Luo, Hui (2005). Bainang Terrane, Yarlung–Tsangpo suture, southern Tibet (Xizang, China): a record of intra-Neotethyan subduction–accretion processes preserved on the roof of the world. Journal of the Geological Society, 161 (3), 523-539. doi: 10.1144/0016-764903-099
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Davis, Aileen M. (2004). Evidence for the multiphase nature of the India-Asia collision from the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Geological Society Special Publication, 226 (1), 217-233. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.226.01.12
Davis, Aileen M., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu, and Hui, Luo (2004). Conglomerates record the tectonic evolution of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone in southern Tibet. Geological Society Special Publication, 226 (1), 235-246. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.226.01.13
Buckman, Solomon and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2004). Tectonic evolution of Palaeozoic terranes in West Junggar, Xinjiang, NW China. Geological Society Special Publication, 226 (1), 101-129. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.226.01.06
Liu, Jian-Bing and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2003). 西藏南部羊卓绒错混杂岩中的提索期放射虫. Xinjiang Dizhi, 21 (1), 116-119.
Wang, Yujing, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Luo, Hui (2003). Devonian radiolarian faunas from South China. Micropaleontology, 49 (2), 127-145.
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Davis, Aileen M., Abrajevitch, Alexandra, Ali, Jason R., Badengzhu, Liu, Jianbing, Luo, Hui, McDermid, Isabella R.C. and Ziabrev, Sergey V. (2003). Stratigraphic and sedimentological constraints on the age and tectonic evolution of the Neotethyan ophiolites along the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 218 (1), 147-164. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.09
Ziabrev, Sergey V., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Abrajevitch, Alexandra V., Badengzhu, Davis, Aileen M. and Luo, Hui (2003). Precise radiolarian age constraints on the timing of ophiolite generation and sedimentation in the Dazhuqu terrane, Yarlung–Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society, 160 (4), 591-599. doi: 10.1144/0016-764902-107
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Davis, Aileen M., Badengzhu and Luo, Hui (2003). The Gangdese Thrust: A phantom structure that did not raise Tibet. Terra Nova, 15 (3), 155-162. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00480.x
Baker, R. G. V., Davis, A. M., Aitchison, J. C., Flood, P. G., Morton, B. S. and Haworth, R. J. (2003). Comment on “Mid-Holocene higher sea level indicators from the south China coast” by WW-S. Yim and G. Huang [Mar. Geol. 182 (2002) 225–230]: a regional perspective. Marine Geology, 196 (1), 91-98. doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00615-1
Faustino, D. V., Yumul, J., De Jesus, J. V., Dimalanta, C. B., Aitchison, J. C., Zhou, M-F., Tamayo, J. and De Leon, M. M. (2003). Geology of southeast Bohol, central Philippines: accretion and sedimentation in a marginal basin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50 (4), 571-583. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.2003.01015.x
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Davis, Aileen M., Badengzhu and Luo, Hui (2002). New constraints on the India-Asia collision: the Lower Miocene Gangrinboche conglomerates, Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, SE Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 21 (3), 251-263. doi: 10.1016/S1367-9120(02)00037-8
Davis, Aileen M., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu, Luo, Hui and Zyabrev, Sergei (2002). Paleogene island arc collision-related conglomerates, Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 150 (3-4), 247-273. doi: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00199-3
Aitchison, J. C, Abrajevitch, A., Ali, J. R., Badengzhu, Davis, A. M., Luo, H., Liu, J. B., McDermid, I. R. C. and Ziabrev, S. (2002). New insights into the evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Xizang (Tibet), China. Episodes, 25 (2), 90-94.
McDermid, Isabella R.C., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Davis, Aileen M., Harrison, T. Mark and Grove, M. (2002). The Zedong terrane: a Late Jurassic intra-oceanic magmatic arc within the Yarlung–Tsangpo suture zone, southeastern Tibet. Chemical Geology, 187 (3), 267-277. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00040-2
Bradshaw, Margaret A., Newman, Jane and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2002). The sedimentary geology, palaeoenvironments and ichnocoenoses of the Lower Devonian Horlick Formation, Ohio Range, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 14 (4), 395-411. doi: 10.1017/S0954102002000196
Ali, Jason R. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2002). Paleomagnetic‐tectonic study of the New Caledonia Koh Ophiolite and the mid‐Eocene obduction of the Poya Terrane. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 45 (3), 313-322. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2002.9514976
Liu, JB and Aitchison, JC (2002). Upper Paleocene radiolarians from the Yamdrok melange, south Xizang (Tibet), China. Micropaleontology, 48 (SUPPLEMENT 1), 145-154.
Luo, H, Aitchison, JC and Wang, YJ (2002). Devonian (upper Emsian lower Givetian) radiolarians from the Tanhe Formation, Nanning, Guangxi, southwest China. Micropaleontology, 48 (SUPPLEMENT 1), 113-127.
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Picard, Christian (2001). Tectonic accretion and underplating mafic terranes in the Late Eocene intraoceanic fore-arc of New Caledonia (Southwest Pacific): geodynamic implications. Tectonophysics, 340 (1-2), 23-59. doi: 10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00148-2
Buckman, Soloman and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2001). Middle Ordovician (Llandeilan) radiolarians from West Junggar, Xinjiang, China. Micropaleontology, 47 (4), 359-367. doi: 10.2113/47.4.359
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Davis, Aileen M. (2001). When did the India-Asia collision really happen?. Gondwana Research, 4 (4), 560-561. doi: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70363-4
Zhou, M. F., Robinson, P. T., Malpas, J., Aitchison, J., Sun, M., Bai, W. J., Hu, X. F. and Yang, J. S. (2001). Melt/mantle interaction and melt evolution in the Sartohay high-Al chromite deposits of the Dalabute ophiolite (NW China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 19 (4), 517-534. doi: 10.1016/S1367-9120(00)00048-1
Afanas'eva, MS and Aitchison, JC (2001). Biostratigraphy of the Frasnian stage by radiolarian evidence. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 9 (1), 11-19.
Hada, S, Ishii, K, Landis, CA, Aitchison, J and Yoshikura, S (2001). Kurosegawa Terrane in Southwest Japan: Disrupted remnants of a Gondwana-derived Terrane. Gondwana Research, 4 (1), 27-38. doi: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70652-3
Davis, AM, Aitchison, JC, Flood, PG, Morton, BS, Baker, RGV and Haworth, RJ (2000). Late holocene higher sea-level indicators from the South China coast. Marine Geology, 171 (1-4), 1-5. doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00113-4
Luo, Hui, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Wang, Yujing (2000). Inter-shell casts of entactiniid radiolarians from the Devonian of SW China. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 19 (1), 8-8. doi: 10.1144/jm.19.1.8
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu, Davis, Aileen M., Liu, Jianbing B., Luo, Hui, Malpas, John G., McDermid, Isabella R. C., Wu, Hiyun, Ziabrev, Sergei V. and Zhou, Mei-fu (2000). Remnants of a Cretaceous intra-oceanic subduction system within the Yarlung-Zangbo suture (southern Tibet). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183 (1-2), 231-244. doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00287-9
Ali, JR and Aitchison, JC (2000). Significance of palaeomagnetic data from the oceanic Poya Terrane, New Caledonia, for SW Pacific tectonic models. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 177 (3-4), 153-161. doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00042-X
Noble, P and Aitchison, J (2000). Early Paleozoic radiolarian biozonation. Geology, 28 (4), 367-370. doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<367:EPRB>2.0.CO;2
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Davis, Aileen M., Stratford, James M. C. and Spiller, Frances C. P. (1999). Lower and Middle Devonian radiolarian biozonation of the Gamilaroi Terrane New England Orogen, eastern Australia. Micropaleontology, 45 (2), 138-162. doi: 10.2307/1486110
Aitchison, JC, Ireland, TR, Clarke, GL, Cluzel, D, Davis, AM and Meffre, S (1998). Regional implications of U/Pb SHRIMP age constraints on the tectonic evolution of New Caledonia. Tectonophysics, 299 (4), 333-343. doi: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00211-X
Aitchison, JC, Flood, PG and Malpas, J (1998). Lowermost Ordovician (basal Tremadoc) radiolarians from the Little Port Complex, western Newfoundland. Geological Magazine, 135 (3) S001675689800867X, 413-419. doi: 10.1017/S001675689800867X
Aitchison, JC (1998). A lower Ordovician (Arenig) radiolarian fauna from the Ballantrae Complex, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 34 (1), 73-81. doi: 10.1144/sjg34010073
Metcalfe, Ian, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Stratford, James M. C. (1997). Lower Devonian (Emsian) microfauna from the Gamilaroi Terrane at Glenrock in the Southern New England Orogen, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1997 (118), 123-130.
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Stratford, James M. C. (1997). Middle Devonian (Givetian) Radiolaria from eastern New South Wales, Australia: A reassessment of the Hinde (1899) fauna. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen, 203 (3), 369-390.
Cluzel, D., Picard, C., Aitchison, J. C., Laporte, C., Meffre, S. and Parat, F. (1997). The Poya Nappe, ex-'Formation des Basaltes' (New Caledonia, southwest Pacific): a Campanian to Upper Palaeocene oceanic plateau obducted in the late Eocene La nappe de Poya (ex-formation des Basaltes) de Nouvelle-Caledonie (Pacifique Sud-Ouest): un plateau oceanique Campanien-Paleocene superieur obducte a l'Eocene superieur. Comptes Rendus - Academie des Sciences, Serie II: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 324 (6), 443-451.
Clarke, GL, Aitchison, JC and Cluzel, D (1997). Eclogites and blueschists of the Pam Peninsula, NE New Caledonia: A reappraisal. Journal of Petrology, 38 (7), 843-876. doi: 10.1093/petroj/38.7.843
Cluzel, D, Picard, C, Aitchison, JC, Laporte, C, Meffre, S and Parat, F (1997). The Poya Nappe, ex-'Formation des Basaltes' (New Caledonia, southwest Pacific): a Campanian to Upper Palaeocene oceanic plateau obducted in the late Eocene. Comptes Rendus De L Academie Des Sciences Serie II Fascicule A-Sciences De La Terre Et Des Planetes, 324 (6), 443-451.
Stratford, JMC and Aitchison, JC (1997). Lower to Middle Devonian radiolarian assemblages from the Gamilaroi terrane, Glenrock Station, NSW, Australia. Marine Micropaleontology, 30 (1-3), 225-250. doi: 10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00027-8
Stratford, JMC and Aitchison, JC (1997). Geochemical evolution within a Devonian intra-oceanic island arc: The Gamilaroi terrane, southern New England orogen, Australia. Island Arc, 6 (2), 213-227. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00171.x
Stratford, James and Aitchison, Jonathan (1996). Devonian corals from the upper Barnard River: New age constraints for the Anaiwan terrane, southern New England Orogen, eastern Australia. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen, 201 (3), 289-301.
Stratford, James and Aitchison, Jonathan (1996). Devonian corals from the upper Barnard River: New age constraints for the Anaiwan terrane, southern New England Orogen, eastern Australia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 201 (3), 289-301. doi: 10.1127/njgpa/201/1996/289
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Hada, Shigeki, Ireland, Trevor and Yoshikura, Shin-ichi (1996). Ages of Silurian radiolarians from the Kurosegawa terrane, southwest Japan constrained by U/Pb SHRIMP data. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 14 (1-2), 53-70. doi: 10.1016/S0743-9547(96)00045-1
Meffre, Sebastien, Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Crawford, Anthony J. (1996). Geochemical evolution and tectonic significance of boninites and tholeiites from the Koh ophiolite, New Caledonia. Tectonics, 15 (1), 67-83. doi: 10.1029/95TC02316
Stratford, JMC and Aitchison, JC (1996). Devonian intra-oceanic arc rift sedimentation - Facies development in the Gamilaroi terrane, New England orogen, eastern Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 101 (3-4), 173-192. doi: 10.1016/0037-0738(95)00063-1
CLUZEL, D, AITCHISON, J, CLARKE, G, MEFFRE, S and PICARD, C (1995). TECTONIC UNROOFING OF THE TERTIARY HIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX OF NORTHERN NEW-CALEDONIA - A KINEMATIC ANALYSIS. Comptes Rendus De L Academie Des Sciences Serie II Fascicule A-Sciences De La Terre Et Des Planetes, 321 (1), 57-64.
Aitchison, JC, Clarke, GL, Meffre, S and Cluzel, D (1995). Eocene Arc-Continent Collision in New-Caledonia and Implications for Regional Southwest Pacific Tectonic Evolution. Geology, 23 (2), 161-164. doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0161:EACCIN>2.3.CO;2
Aitchison, J. C. and Ireland, T. R. (1995). Age profile of ophiolitic rocks across the late palaeozoic new england orogen, new south wales: Implications for tectonic models. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42 (1), 11-23. doi: 10.1080/08120099508728175
Cluzel, D., Aitchison, J., Clarke, G., Meffre, S. and Picard, C. (1995). Tectonic unroofing of the Tertiary high pressure metamorphic core complex of northern New Caledonia, Pacific. A kinematic analysis) (French with abridged English Denudation tectonique du complexe a noyau metamorphique de haute pression d'age tertiaire (nord de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, Pacifique, France). Donnees cinematiques. Comptes Rendus - Academie des Sciences, Serie II: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 321 (1), 57-64.
Aitchison, J. C. and Flood, P. G. (1994). Gamilaroi Terrane: A Devonian rifted intra-oceanic island-arc assemblage, NSW, Australia. Geological Society Special Publication, 81 (1), 155-168. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1994.081.01.09
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1994). Early cretaceous (pre-Albian) radiolarians from blocks in Ayer Complex melange, eastern Sabah, Malaysia, with comments on their regional tectonic significance and the origins of enveloping melanges. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 9 (3), 255-262. doi: 10.1016/0743-9547(94)90033-7
Aitchison, J. C. and Flood, P. G. (1994). Gamilaroi terrane: a Devonian rifted intra-oceanic island arc assemblage, NSW, Australia. Volcanism associated with extension at consuming plate margins, 155-168.
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Blake, M. Clark, Flood, Peter G. and Jayko, Angela S. (1994). Paleozoic ophiolitic assemblages within the southern New England orogen of eastern Australia: Implications for growth of the Gondwana margin. Tectonics, 13 (5), 1135-1149. doi: 10.1029/93TC03550
Cluzel, D., Aitchison, J., Clarke, G., Meffre, S. and Picard, C. (1994). The tectonic and geodynamic evolution of New Caledonia: a view Point de vue sur l'evolution tectonique et geodynamique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie (Pacifique, France). Comptes Rendus - Academie des Sciences, Serie II: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 319 (6), 683-690.
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1993). Devonian (Frasnian) radiolarians from the Gogo Formation, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 228 (4-6), 105-128.
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1993). Albaillellaria from the New England orogen, Eastern NSW, Australia. Marine Micropaleontology, 21 (4), 353-367. doi: 10.1016/0377-8398(93)90026-t
Campbell, J. D., Stilwell, J. D. and Aitchison, J. C. (1993). Cretaceous/Tertiary geology and macropaleontology of the waianakarua district, north otago, new zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 23 (1), 43-54. doi: 10.1080/03036758.1993.10721216
Aitchison, J. C. and Flood, P. G. (1992). Implications of radiolarian research for analysis of subduction complex terranes in the New England Orogen, NSW, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 96 (1-2), 89-102. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(92)90061-9
Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Flood, Peter G. (1992). Early Permian transform margin development of the southern New England Orogen, eastern Australia (eastern Gondwana). Tectonics, 11 (6), 1385-1391. doi: 10.1029/92TC01003
Flood, P. G. and Aitchison, J. C. (1992). Late devonian accretion of the gamilaroi terrane to eastern gondwana: Provenance linkage suggested by the first appearance of lachlan fold belt-derived Quartzarenite. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39 (4), 539-544. doi: 10.1080/08120099208728045
Aitchison, J. C. (1992). Radiolarians from sediments of the Izu-Bonin region, Leg 126. Proc., scientific results, ODP, Leg 126, Bonin Arc/Trench system, 321-332.
Aitchison, J.C, Flood, P.G and Spiller, F.C.P (1992). Tectonic setting and paleoenvironment of terranes in the southern New England orogen, eastern Australia as constrained by radiolarian biostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 94 (1-4), 31-54. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(92)90112-I
Aitchison, J. C., Ireland, T. R., Blake Jr, M. C. and Flood, P. G. (1992). 530 Ma zircon age for ophiolite from the New England Orogen: oldest rocks known from eastern Australia. Geology, 20 (2), 125-128. doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<0125:MZAFOF>2.3.CO;2
Aitchison, Jonathan C., Hada, Shigeki and Yoshikura, Shinichi (1991). Kurosegawa terrane: disrupted remnants of a low latitude Paleozoic terrane accreted to SW Japan. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 6 (2), 83-92. doi: 10.1016/0743-9547(91)90099-J
Aitchison, Jonathan (1990). Significance of Devonian-Carboniferous radiolarians from accretionary terranes of the New England orogen, eastern Australia. Marine Micropaleontology, 15 (3-4), 365-378. doi: 10.1016/0377-8398(90)90020-m
Gill, J., Torssander, P., Lapierre, H., Taylor, R., Kaiho, K., Koyama, M., Kusakabe, M., Aitchison, J., Cisowski, S., Dadey, K., Fujioka, K., Klaus, A., Lovell, M., Marsaglia, K., Pezard, P., Taylor, B. and Tazaki, K. (1990). Explosive deep water basalt in the sumisu backarc rift. Science, 248 (4960), 1214-1217. doi: 10.1126/science.248.4960.1214
Aitchison, J.C and Flood, P.G (1990). Geochemical constraints on the depositional setting of Palaeozoic cherts from the New England orogen, NSW, eastern Australia. Marine Geology, 94 (1-2), 79-95. doi: 10.1016/0025-3227(90)90104-R
Aitchison, J. C. and Landis, C. A. (1990). Sedimentology and tectonic setting of the Late Permian-early Triassic Stephens Subgroup, Southland, New Zealand: an island arc-derived mass flow apron. Sedimentary Geology, 68 (1-2), 55-74. doi: 10.1016/0037-0738(90)90119-E
Egeberg, P. K., Fujioka, Kantaro, Taylor, Brian, Janecek, Thomas, Aitchison, Jonathan, Cisowski, Stanley, Colella, Albina, Cooper, Patricia A., Dadey, Kathleen, Firth, John, Gill, James, Herman, Yvonne, Hiscott, Richard, Isminger-Kelso, MaLynn, Kaiho, Kunio, Klaus, Adam, Koyama, Masato, Lapierre, Henriette, Lovell, Michael, Marsaglia, Kathleen, Nishimura, Akira, Pezard, Philippe, Rodolfo, Kelvin, Taylor, Rex, Tazaki, Kazue and Torssander, Peter (1990). Unusual composition of pore waters found in the Izu-Bonin fore-arc sedimentary basin. Nature, 344 (6263), 215-218. doi: 10.1038/344215a0
Aitchison, Jonathan (1989). Discussion: Radiolarian and conodont biostratigraphy of siliceous rocks from the New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1080/14400958985270131
Fujioka, Kantaro, Taylor, Brian, Janecek, Thomas, Aitchison, Jonathan, Cisowski, Stanley, Colella, Albina, Cooper, Patricia Ann, Dadey, Kathleen, Egeberg, Per, Firth, John, Gill, James B., Herman, Yvonne, Hiscott, Richard N., Isiminger-Kelso, MaLynn, Kaiho, Kunio, Klaus, Adam, Koyama, Masato, Lapierre, Henriette, Lovell, Michael, Marsaglia, Kathy, Nishimura, Akira, Pezard, Philippe, Rodolfo, Kelvin, Taylor, Rex Neil, Tazaki, Kazue and Torssander, Peter (1989). Arc volcanism and rifting. Nature, 342 (6245), 18-20. doi: 10.1038/342018a0
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1989). Radiolarian and conodont biostratigraphy of siliceous rocks from the new england fold belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1080/14400958908527958
Aitchison, J. C. (1988). An eocene storm-generated littoral placer, northeast Otago. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 31 (3), 381-383. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1988.10417784
Aitchison, J. C., Bradshaw, M. A. and Newman, J. (1988). Lithofacies and origin of the buckeye formation: Late paleozoic glacial and glaciomarine sediments, Ohio range, transantarctic mountains, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 64 (1-2), 93-104. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(88)90145-9
Aitchison, J. C., Landis, C. A. and Turnbull, I. M. (1988). Stratigraphy of stephens subgroup (maitai group) in the countess range — mararoa river area, northwestern southland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 18 (3), 271-284. doi: 10.1080/03036758.1988.10426470
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (1988). Early Carboniferous Radiolaria from the Neranleigh-Fernvale beds near Brisbane. Queensland Government Mining Journal, 89, 240-241.
Aitchison, J. C. (1988). Late Paleozoic radiolarian ages from the Gywdir terrane, New England orogen, eastern Australia. Geology, 16 (9), 793-795. doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0793:LPRAFT>2.3.CO;2
Aitchison, J. C. (1985). Hot springs along the alpine fault, cascade river valley, south westland, new zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 28 (4), 755-756. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1985.10422546
Aitchison, J. C. (1985). New zealand journal of geology and geophysics. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 28 (4). doi: 10.1080/00288306.1985.10428488
Aitchison, J. C. (1985). Pillow lava and conglomerate in metamorphosed torlesse terrane rocks of haast schist group, landsborough valley, southern alps, new zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 28 (4), 751-754. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1985.10422545
Conference Papers
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan, Ireland, Trevor and Cluzel, Dominique (2023). U-Pb dating and trace element analysis of zircon and apatite in chromitite: constraints on the forearc evolution of the New Caledonia Ophiolite. Goldschmidt2023, Lyon, France, 9-14 July 2023. Paris, France: European Association of Geochemistry. doi: 10.7185/gold2023.19010
Aitchison, J. C. , Cluzel, D. , Ireland, T. R. , Patias, D. and Zhou, R. J. (2022). Ophiolitic biodiamonds – some of subduction’s little gems. AGU 2022 Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, 9-13 December 2022. online: AGU.
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Ireland, Trevor, Heizler, Matthew, Patias, Daniel, Lesimple, Stephane, Maurizot, Pierre and Teyssier, Christian (2022). Dating podiform chromitite, Tiébaghi Cr deposit, New Caledonia. 23rd International Mineralogical Association General Meeting, Lyon, France, 18-22 July 2022.
Patias, Daniel, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zhou, Renjie, Vongsvivut, Jitraporn, Ireland, Trevor R. and Cluzel, Dominique (2022). Hydrocarbon signatures in ophiolitic diamonds, New Caledonia. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, ILL, United States, 12-16 December 2022.
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Exhumation of the Indus-Yarlung Tsangpo Suture Zone (NW India): New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology. Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021, Hobart, TAS Australia, 9-12 February 2021. The Geological Society of Australia.
Andjic, Goran, Zhou, Renjie, Jonell, Tara N. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2021). Dissimilar age and provenance of the Nindam and Jurutze volcaniclastic formations, Zanskar Gorge, Ladakh (India). EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2021, Vienna, Austria and online, 19-30 April 2021.
Patias, Daniel, Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan (2021). Geochronological and geochemical constraints on the development of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite, New Zealand. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, United States, 13-17 December 2021.
Zhou, Renjie, Aitchison, Jonathan C and Sobel, Edward R (2020). Exhumation and uplift of the Ladakh Range, NW Himalaya: New constraints from low-temperature thermochronology. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2020, San Francisco, CA, United States, 1-17 December, 2020.
Cluzel, Dominique, Aitchison, Jonathan, Secchiari, Arianna, Montanini, Alessandra and Bosch, Delphine (2020). New Caledonia ophiolite, marginal rifting to fore-arc evolution. IGCP 649 workshop — the last annual meeting of Five-year IGCP 649 Project-Diamonds and Recycled Mantle, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 12–22 November 2019. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14431
Yan, Zhen, Changlei, F. U., Aitchison, Jonathan C., Niu, Manlan, Buckman, Solomon and Cao, Bo (2020). Formation age and tectonic setting of the Muli arc-ophiolite complex in the South Qilian Belt, NW China. The IGCP 649 workshop — the last annual meeting of Five-year IGCP 649 Project-Diamonds and Recycled Mantle, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 12–22 November 2019. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14476
Aitchison, J. C., Buckman, S. and Zhou, R. (2019). Arc-continent collision along the northern margin of India as recorded in sediments of the Zanskar Shelf, Ladakh, NW India. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, CA, United States, 9-13 December 2019.
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan, Buchmon, Solomon and Niu, Manlan (2019). Lajishan accretionary complex: implications for Paleozoic accretionary and collisional events in the South Qilian Belt. 4th IGCP-649 Diamonds and Recycled Mantle Workshop and Field Trip, Brisbane, QLD Australia/New Caledonia, 5-14, July 2018. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14182
Fu, Changlei, Yan, Zhen, Buchman, Solomon, Aitchison, Jonathan and Niu, Manlan (2019). The origin and emplacement of the Lajishankou ophiolite complex in the South Qilian belt: evidences from geological mapping. 4th IGCP-649 Diamonds and Recycled Mantle Workshop and Field Trip, Brisbane, QLD Australia/New Caledonia, 5-14 July 2018. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.14152
Aitchison, J., Zhou, R. and Buckman, S. (2018). How big was that ocean? - combining new and traditional techniques to inform understanding of ancient ocean basin evolution. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J., Lokho, K., Sobel, E., Stojanovic, D., Feng, Y. and Zhao, J. (2018). Provenance study and the first radiometric age constraints on the Indus molasse in the India-Eurasia collision zone. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J., Lokho, K., Sobel, E., Seward, D., Stojanovic, D., Feng, Y. and Zhao, J. (2018). Emplacement and unroofing of the Ladakh batholith: implications for the evolution of the trans-Himalayan magmatic belt. Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14-18 October 2018.
Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2017). Ophiolites and intra-oceanic island arc assemblages of Eastern Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. 9th National Member Congress and the 16th Academic Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Xi'an, China, 18–21 April 2017. Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1111/1755-6724.13148
Zhou, R., Aitchison, J. C., Flood, P. G. and Buckman, S. (2016). New constraints on the origins of terranes within the New England Orogen, eastern Australia and their accretion to the eastern margin of Gondwana. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States, 11-15 December 2016.
Lau, An Yi Annie, Switzer, Adam D., Dominey-Howes, Dale, Zong, Yongqiang and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2014). Inconsistencies in historical records of tsunamis in the southeastern coast of China. South China Sea Tsunami Workshop 3, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 3-5 November 2009. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Buchs, David M., Flood, Peter G. and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2010). Value of accreted oceanic islands in deciphering the convergent margin evolution of eastern Australia. NEO 2010, Armidale, NSW Australia, November 2010. Armidale, NSW Australia: University of New England.
Corrie, R. K., Ninomiya, Y. and Aitchison, J. C. (2010). Applying Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) spectral indices for geological mapping and mineral identification on the Tibetan Plateau. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Arnaud, N., Aitchison, J.C., Leloup, P.H., Valli, F. and Wilde, S. (2008). Constraints on the initiation of normal faulting across the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, from the Lopu Gangri range, southern Tibet. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus GmbH.
Wang, Yu-Jing, Luo, Hui and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2007). Influence of the Frasnian-Famennian event on radiolarian faunas. Basel, Switzerland: Springer Basel AG. doi: 10.1007/s00015-006-0601-6
Marquez, Edanjarlo J., Aitchison, Jonathan C. and Zamoras, Lawrence R. (2006). Upper Permian to Middle Jurassic radiolarian assemblages of Busuanga and surrounding islands, Palawan, Philippines. doi: 10.1007/s00015-006-0606-1
Chan, Angel On Kee, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Badengzhu and Hui, Lan (2004). Miocene collision-related conglomerates near Dazhuqu and Xigaze, Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. 19th Himalaya Karakoram Tibet Workshop, Niseko, Japan, 10-12 July 2004. Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal: Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Botany.
Newspaper Article
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020, 12 01). Teaching an online tectonics field trip during COVID-19 TAG/The Australian Geologist by The Geological Society of Australia 27-28.
Data Collections
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Zheng, Jianbin, Niu, Manlan, Zhou, Renjie, Xiao, Wenjiao and Buckman, Solomon (2025). Supplementary files: Early Paleozoic transition from intra-oceanic subduction to arc–continent collision in the NE Proto-Tethys Ocean: Insights from oceanic and continental forearc basins (Version 2). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/cb6427c
Aitchison, Jonathan and Ireland, Trevor (2024). New Caledonia SHRIMP C-SiC Reduced. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/b03e178
Zhou, Renjie and Aitchison, Jonathan C. (2020). Virtual field trip to the New England Orogen (Version 1). The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/e050a7f
Jonell, Tara, Aitchison, Jonathan, Li, Guoqiang, Shulmeister, James, Zhou, Renjie and Zhang, Haixia (2020). Late Quaternary lake shorelines and ages, south-central Tibetan Plateau. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/95ccdf2
Sheng, Jiani, Kachovich, Sarah and Aitchison, Jonathan C (2020). Micro-CT 3D models and videos of two middle Cambrian spicular radiolarians recovered from the Georgina Basin, Australia. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/89f20d4
Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Buckman, Solomon, Niu, Manlan, Cao, Bo, Sun, Yi, Guo, Xianqing, Wang, Zongqi and Zhou, Renjie (2019). Supplementary data associated with Zhen et al.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.684
Kachovich, Sarah and Aitchison , Jonathan C. (2019). Micro-CT videos of Paleozoic radiolarians. UQ eSpace. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.296