Dr. Hannington’s research combines the study of active volcanoes on the ocean floor, and associated metal-depositing hot springs (“black smoker vents”), with research on ancient volcanic environments that host many of the world’s largest and most valuable mineral deposits on land. Dr. Hannington was the chief editor of the international research journal Economic Geology from 2001-08, the leading journal in the geosciences applied to mineral deposits.
Selected publications
- Hannington, M., Baxter, A., Bethell, E., Galley, C., Fassbender, M., Stewart, M., Mercier-Langevin, P., Kraetschell, A., Petersen, S., and Brandl, P., 2025, Microplate solutions to crustal growth and metal endowment in modern back-arc basins and ancient greenstone belts: Economic Geology, v. 120, no. 7, p. 1605-1647.
- Galley, C., Hannington, M., Bethell, E., Baxter, A, and Lelièvre, P., 2025, Archean rifts and triple-junctions revealed from gravity modelling of the Superior Craton: Nature Communications, v. 16, no. 8872, p. 1-10.
- Brandl, P.A., Hannington, M.D., Krätschell, A., Petersen, S., Baxter, A.T., Stewart, M.S., Galley, C., Emberley, J., and Sander, S.G., 2024, A new geological map of the marginal basins of Eastern Papua New Guinea: Implications for crustal accretion and mineral endowment at arc-continent collisions: Lithosphere, v.145, no. 4, p. 1-40.
- Fassbender, M.L., Hannington, M.D., Baxter, A.T., Diekrup, D., Stewart, M., and Brandl, P., 2024, Geochemical signatures of mafic volcanic rocks in modern oceanic settings and implications for Archean mafic magmatism: Economic Geology, 119, no. 2, p. 445-470.
- Wind, S., Hannington, M.D., Schneider, D.A., Fietzke, J., Kilias, S.P., and Gemmell, J.B., 2023, Origin of hydrothermal barite in polymetallic veins and carbonate-hosted deposits of the Cyclades continental back-arc: Economic Geology, v. 118, p. 1959-1994.