Dr David Chew - Assistant Professor

Name: Dr David Chew

Research Area

My research involves applying geochronology and isotope geochemistry to various problems in the geosciences.  My current research interests include isotopic dating of sedimentation and quantifying the timing and rates of tectonic processes such as orogenesis (mountain building) and exhumation.  The isotopic dating studies are being undertaken on rocks devoid of fossils (such as Neoproterozoic glacial sequences) and also on Phanerozoic sequences with high biostratigraphic resolution (for example to constrain the onset and duration of Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles).  My tectonics research includes investigating exhumation mechanisms in orogenic and rift settings using low temperature thermochronology and investigating the timing and causes of orogenesis in ancient orogenic belts (the Caledonides and Andes.

Contact Details

Department of Geology
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: chewd@tcd.ie Tel: + 353 1 8963481

 

Current Research and Research Opportunities

I currently supervise five postgraduate students in TCD while several postgraduate studies have graduated under my supervision (Current students, Past students) and have the following postgraduate research opportunities at Trinity College Dublin (Research opportunities).

 

Teaching

At senior Freshman Level, I teach on the Structural Geology and Mapwork module GL2204. At Junior Sophister level, I teach the Structural Geology module GL3308 and lead one of the fieldtrips on the Fieldwork module GL3310.
At Senior Sophister level, I teach the Continental Tectonics and Landscape Evolution module GL4415 and part of the Geology of Ireland and Economic Geology module GL4403.  I also co-ordinate the Geology research seminars which form part of the Geological Literature module GL4404.

 

Publications and Research output

Recent publications are provided below.

- Articles and book chapters

Pointon, M.A., Chew, D.M., Ovtcharova, M., Sevastopulo, G.D. and Crowley, Q.G. (2012) New high-precision U-Pb dates from Western European Carboniferous tuffs; implications for timescale calibration, the periodicity of late Carboniferous cycles and stratigraphical correlation. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 169, 713 –721.

Chew, D.M., Donelick, R.A. (2012) Combined apatite fission track and U-Pb dating by LA-ICPMS and its application in apatite provenance analysis.  In: Quantitative Mineralogy and Microanalysis of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (Ed. Sylvester, P.) Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 42, 219-247.

Emeleus, C.H., Troll, V.R., Chew, D.M. and Meade, F.C. (2012) Lateral versus vertical emplacement in shallow-level intrusions? The Slieve Gullion ring-complex revisited. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 169, 157-171.

Pointon, M.A., Cliff, R.A. and Chew, D.M. (2012) The Provenance of Western Irish Namurian Basin sediments inferred using detrital zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology. Geological Journal, 47, 77-98.

Chew, D.M. and Kirkland, C. (2011) The Chiquerío Formation, southern Peru. In: The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic glaciations (Eds. Arnaud, E., Shields, G. & Halverson, G.) Geological Society of London Memoir, 36, 481-486. [Photo Atlas]

Chew, D.M., Sylvester. P.J., Tubrett, M.N. (2011) U-Pb and Th-Pb dating of apatite by LA-ICPMS.  Chemical Geology, 280, 200-216.

Chew, D.M., Cardona, A., Miškovic, A. (2011) Tectonic evolution of Western Amazonia from Rodinia assembly to break-up. International Geology Review, 53 (11/12), 1280-1296.

Rooney, A.D., Chew, D.M., Selby, D. (2011) Re-Os geochronology of the Neoproterozoic – Cambrian Dalradian Supergroup of Scotland and Ireland: Implications for Neoproterozoic stratigraphy, glaciations and Re-Os systematics. Precambrian Research, 185, 202-214.

Ganerød, M., Chew, D.M., Smethurst, M., Troll, V.R., Corfu, F., Meade, F. and Prestvik, T. (2011) Geochronology of the Tardree Rhyolite Complex, Northern Ireland: implications for North Atlantic Magmatism and zircon fission track and (U-Th)/He studies. Chemical Geology, 286, 222-228.

Cooper, M. R., Crowley, Q. G., Hollis, S.P., Noble, S.R., Roberts, S., Chew, D., Earls, G. Herrington, R. & Merriman, R.J. (2011) Age Constraints and Geochemistry of the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland: implications for the Grampian orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 168, 837–850. [Erratum]

Wiesmaier, S. Deegan, F.M., Troll, V.R., Carracedo, J.C., Chadwick, J.P., Chew, D.M. (2011) Magma mixing in the 1100 AD Montaña Reventada composite eruption, Tenerife, Canary Islands: Interaction between rift zone and central volcano plumbing systems. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 162, 651–669. [Erratum]

Chew, D.M., Fallon, N., Kennelly, C., Crowley, Q. and Pointon, M. (2010) Basic volcanism contemporaneous with the Sturtian glacial episode in NE Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 100, 399-415.

van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R.A., Kerr, A., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D. and Villagomez, D. (2010) Thermochronology and Tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone.  Tectonics, 29, TC6003, doi:10.1029/2009TC002654.

Chew, D.M., Daly J.S., Magna, T., Page, L.M., Kirkland C.L., Whitehouse, M.J and Lam, R. (2010) Timing of ophiolite obduction in the Grampian Orogen. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 165, 675-685. [Text] [Supplementary Publication]

Cardona, A., Chew, D., Valencia, V. A., Bayona, G., Miškovic, A., and Ibañez-Mejía, M. (2010) Grenvillian remnants in the Northern Andes: Rodinian and Phanerozoic paleogeographic perspectives. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 29, 92-104.

Chew, D.M. (2009) Grampian Orogeny. In: The Geology of Ireland, 2nd edition (Eds. Holland, C.H. and Sanders, I.S.) Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh, 69-93. [link to book]

Chew, D.M. and Stillman, C.J. (2009) Late Caledonian Orogeny and magmatism. In: The Geology of Ireland, 2nd edition (Eds. Holland, C.H. and Sanders, I.S.) Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh, 143-173. [link to book]

Cardona, A., Cordani, U., Ruiz, J., Valencia, V., Armstrong, R., Chew, D., Nutman, A. and Sanchez, A. (2009) U/Pb Zircon Geochronology and Nd Isotopic Signatures of the Pre- Mesozoic Metamorphic Basement of the Eastern Peruvian Andes: Growth and Provenance of a Late Neoproterozoic to Carboniferous Accretionary Orogen on the Northwest Margin of Gondwana, Journal of Geology, 117, 285 - 305.

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Draut, A.E., Van Long, H., Chew, D.M., and Schouten, H.A. (2009) Detrital U-Pb Zircon Dating of Lower Ordovician Syn-Arc-Continent Collision Conglomerates in the Irish Caledonides. Tectonophysics, 479, 165-174.

Flowerdew, M.J., Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S and Millar, I.L. (2009) Hidden Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic crust in NW Ireland? Evidence from zircon Hf isotope data from granitoid intrusions. Geological Magazine, 146, 903–916.

Meade, F.C., Chew, D.M., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M, Page, L.M. (2009) Magma ascent along a major terrane boundary: crustal contamination and magma mixing at the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 50(12), 2345-2374.

Miškovic, A., Spikings, R.A., Chew, D.M., Košler, J., Ulianov, A. and Schaltegger, U. (2009) Tectono-magmatic evolution of Western Amazonia: geochemical characterisation and zircon U-Pb geochronologic constraints from the Peruvian Eastern Cordilleran granitoids. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121 (9/10), 1298–1324.

Nicoll, G., Holness, M., Troll, V., Holohan, E., Donaldson, C., Emeleus, C.H. and Chew, D.M. (2009) An integrated re-investigation of early mafic and felsic magmatism on the Isle of Rum, NW Scotland: insights from field relationships, petrology and geochemistry. Geological Magazine, 146, 368-381.

Troll, V.R., Meade, F.C., Chew, D.M., Emeleus, C.H. (2008) A new caldera fault segment exposed at Slieve Gullion: implications for the emplacement of the early ring-complex. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 26, 1-16.

Chew, D.M., Magna, T., Kirkland, C.L., Miškovic, A., Cardona, A., Spikings, A. and Schaltegger, U. (2008) Detrital zircon fingerprint of the Proto-Andes: evidence for a Neoproterozoic active margin? Precambrian Research, 167, 186-200.

Kirkland C.L., Daly J.S., Chew, D.M., Page, L.M. (2008) The Finnmarkian Orogeny revisited: an isotopic investigation in eastern Finnmark, Arctic Norway. Tectonophysics, 460, 158–177.

Chew, D.M., Flowerdew, M.J., Page, L.M., Crowley, Q.G., Daly J.S., Cooper, M.J. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2008) The tectonothermal evolution and provenance of the Tyrone Central Inlier, Ireland: Grampian imbrication of an outboard Laurentian microcontinent? Journal of the Geological Society, London, 165, 675-685. [Text] [Supplementary Publication]

Chew, D.M., Kirkland, C., Schaltegger, U and Goodhue, R. (2007) Neoproterozoic glaciation in the Proto-Andes: Tectonic implications and global correlation. Geology, 35, 1095-1099. [Text] [Supplementary Publication]

Chew, D.M., Graham, J.R. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2007) U-Pb zircon geochronology of plagiogranites from the Lough Nafooey (= Midland Valley) arc in western Ireland: constraints on the onset of the Grampian orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 164, 747-750. [Text] [Supplementary Publication]

Chew, D.M., Schaltegger, U., Košler, J., Whitehouse, M.J., Gutjahr, M., Spikings R.A. and Miškovic, A. (2007) U-Pb geochronologic evidence for the evolution of the Gondwanan margin of the north-central Andes. The Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 697-711. [Text] [Data Repository] [Cover image]

Vallejo, C, Spikings, R.A., Luzieux, L., Winkler, W., Chew, D. & Page, L.M. (2006) The early interaction between the Caribbean Plateau and the NW South American Plate, Terra Nova, 18, 264-269.

Chew, D.M. & Schaltegger, U. (2005) Constraining sinistral shearing in NW Ireland: a precise U-Pb zircon crystallisation age for the Ox Mountains Granodiorite. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 23, 55-63.

Chew, D.M. (2005) 1:2,500 Geological Map of South Achill Island and Achill Beg, western Ireland. Journal of Maps, 18-29.

Clift, P.D., Dewey, J.F., Draut, A.E., Chew, D.M., Mange, M. and Ryan, P.D. (2004). Rapid tectonic exhumation, detachment faulting and orogenic collapse in the Caledonides of Western Ireland. Tectonophysics, 384, 91-113.

Chew, D.M., Daly J.S., Flowerdew, M.J., Kennedy, M.J. and Page, L.M. (2004) Crenulation-slip development in a Caledonian shear zone in NW Ireland: evidence for a multi-stage movement history. In: Transport and flow processes in shear zones. (Eds, Alsop, G.I., Holdsworth, R.E., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Hand, M.) Geological Society of London Special Publication, 224, 337-352.

Draut, A.E., Clift, P.D., Chew, D.M., Cooper, M.J., Taylor, R.N. and Hannigan, R. (2004) Laurentian crustal recycling in the Ordovician Grampian Orogeny: Nd isotopic evidence from western Ireland. Geological Magazine, 141 (2), 195-207.

Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S., Page, L.M., Kennedy, M.J. (2003) New constraints on Grampian orogenesis and the development of blueschist-facies metamorphism in western Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 160, 911-924.

Chew, D.M. (2003) An Excel spreadsheet for finite strain analysis using the Rf / phi technique. Computers & Geosciences 29 (6), 795-799. [rfphi.xls] [synthetic.xls] [test.xls] [readme.doc]

Chew, D.M. (2003) Structural and stratigraphic relationships across the continuation of the Highland Boundary Fault in western Ireland. Geological Magazine 140 (1), 73-85.

Chew, D.M., (2001) Basement protrusion origin of serpentinite in the Dalradian. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 19, 23-35.

Chew, D.M. (2001) The relationship between the Dalradian Supergroup and the Clew Bay Complex, Co. Mayo, western Ireland. Ph.D. thesis, University College Dublin, 287 pp.

- Conference abstracts and non-peer reviewed publications

2012

Doepke, D. and Chew, D.M. (2012) Modelling the thermal structure of onshore Ireland and its offshore basins. In programme abstracts of the Atlantic Ireland 2012 conference, Dublin, 72.

Chew, D.M., Donelick, M.B. and Donelick R.A. (2012) Apatite chlorine concentration measurements by LA-ICPMS. In programme abstracts of the 13th International Conference on Thermochronology, Guilin, China 24-28 August, 2012, 9. [Abstract] [Poster]

Doepke, D. and Chew, D.M. (2012) Modelling the thermal structure of onshore Ireland and its offshore basins. In programme abstracts of the Third Conjugate Margins Conference, Dublin 2012, 147-148.

Chew, D.M. and Donelick, R.A. (2012) Apatite as a provenance indicator in sedimentary systems. In programme abstracts of the Third Conjugate Margins Conference, Dublin 2012, 134-135.

Chew, D.M. (2012) The Grampian evolution of the Caledonides of NW Ireland. Open University Geological Society Journal, 33 (1), 19-25.

Chew, D.M., Pointon, M., and Stanislawska, M. (2012) Measuring time in Palaeozoic sedimentary sequences by geochronology. VIII South American Symposium on Isotope Geology, Medellin, Colombia.

Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S., Page, L.M., Whitehouse, M.J. (2012) Timing of ophiolite obduction and regional metamorphism in the Grampian orogen. In programme abstracts of the GAC-MAC Joint Annual Meeting, Newfoundland, Canada.

Chew, D.M and Donelick, R.A. (2012) Combined apatite fission track and U-Pb dating by LA-ICPMS and its application in apatite provenance analysis. MAC Short course on Quantitative Mineralogy and Microanalysis of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks.Newfoundland, Canada.

Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S., Page, L.M., Whitehouse, M.J. (2012) Timing of ophiolite obduction and regional metamorphism in the Grampian orogen. In programme abstracts of the EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna.

Chew, D.M. and Donelick, R.A.D. (2012) Combined apatite fission track and U-Pb dating by LA-ICPMS. In programme abstracts of the EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna.

Cochrane, R., Spikings, R., Chew, D. and Wotzlaw, J. (2012) Apatite U-Pb Thermochronology: A combined ID-TIMS and LA-ICP-MS study from southern Ecuador. In programme abstracts of the EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna.

McDonnell, M., Chew, D. and Sevastopulo, G. (2012) The bedrock geology of Dublin Bay. In Abstracts of the 55th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, Cork, 11-12.

O'Sullivan, J., Brennan, D., Jones, S., Hardy, R. and Chew, D. (2012) Could Early Cretaceous lignites have helped to source the giant Kinsale Head gas field, offshore Ireland? In Abstracts of the 55th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, Cork, 13.

2011

Chew, D.M., and Doepke, D. (2011) Modelling the thermal structure of onshore Ireland and its offshore basins.  In abstracts of the Atlantic Ireland 2011 conference, Dublin, 53-54.

Chew, D.M., Sylvester. P.J., Tubrett, M.N. (2011) U-Pb and Th-Pb dating of apatite by LA-ICPMS.  In programme abstracts of the Goldschmidt 2011 conference, Prague, 663.

Chew, D. (2011) The Grampian Evolution of the Caledonides of North-west Ireland and Scotland.  In programme abstracts of the 39th Annual Symposium of the Open Symposium of the Open University Geological Society, Stirling.

O’Sullivan, J., Jones, S., Hardy, R. and Chew, D. (2011) The Brendan Volcanic Centre – Evidence of a Lower Cretaceous volcanic episode in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland? In Abstracts of the 54rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, Galway, 23.

Hollis, S.P., Roberts, S., Cooper, M.R., Herrington, R., Chew, D., Crowley, G.G., Noble, S.R., Condon, D.J., Archibald, S.M. and Piercey, S.J. (2011) Evolution of an early Ordovician peri-Laurentian arc-ophiolite complex within theCaledonian-Appalachian orogen: New constraints from Northern Ireland. In programme abstracts of the GAC-MAC Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa.

2010

Chew, D.M., Sylvester, P.J. and Tubrett, M.N. (2010) U-Pb and Th-Pb dating of apatite by LA-ICPMS.  12th International Conference on Thermochronology, Glasgow, 302.

Chew, D.M., Ganerød, M., Smethurst, M.A., Troll, V.R., Corfu, F. and Meade, F. (2010) Geochronology of the Tardree Rhyolite, Northern Ireland: implications for zircon fission track and (U-Th)/He studies.  12th International Conference on Thermochronology, Glasgow, 89.

Meade, F., Troll, V., Chew, D., Meighan, I., Cooper, M. and Emeleus, H. (2010) Caldera Controversy at the Ring of Gullion, County Down. Earth Science Ireland, 8, 12-15.

Rooney, A.D., Chew, D.M. and Selby, D. (2010) Re-Os geochronology of the Neoproterozoic – Cambrian Dalradian Supergroup of Scotland and Ireland: implications for Neoproterozoic stratigraphy, glaciations and Re-Os systematics. 2010 GSA Denver Annual Meeting, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 42, No. 5.

van Staal, C., Chew, D.M., Zagorevski, A., Skulski, T., Castonguay, S., McNicoll, V. and Joyce, N. (2010) Ediacaran-Early Ordovician tectonic evolution of the peri-Laurentian domain in the northern Appalachians And British Caledonides. In programme abstracts of the 2010 Spring Technical Meeting of the Newfoundland and Labrador Section of the Geological Association of Canada.

Chew, D.M, McFarlane, J.A.S., Cooper, M.R. and Fleming, C.M. (2010) New geological insights into the Dalradian Lack Inlier, Northern Ireland and correlative sequences: implications for lithostratigraphical correlation and gold mineralisation. In Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 16.

Hollis, S., Roberts, S., Earls, G., Cooper, M.R., Herrington, R., Crowley Q.G., and Chew, D. (2010) Ordovician arc-continent collision within Northern Ireland: new constraints from the Tyrone Igneous Complex. In Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 21-22.

Pointon, M.,Chew, D., Ovtcharova, M., and Sevastopulo, G.D. (2010) High-precision U-Pb zircon CA-ID-TIMS age constraints from Western European Carboniferous ash layers. In Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 32.

Stanislawska, M., Selby, D. and Chew, D. (2010) Re and Os isotopic age for the base of the Marsdenian (Pennine Basin, UK) In Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 57-58.

Chew D.M., van Staal C., Sylvester P.J. & Daly J.S. (2010) Geochronological constraints on the timing of rift-related serpentinite mélange formation along the Laurentian margin. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.

Hollis, S., Roberts, S., Earls, G., Cooper, M.R., Herrington, R., Crowley Q., & Chew D. (2010) Arc-continent collision within Northern Ireland: new field, whole- rock geochemical, Nd-isotopic and U-Pb zircon constraints from the Tyrone Igneous Complex. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.

Leslie, A.G., Cooper, M.R., McFarlane, J.A.S., and Chew, D.M. (2010) The structural setting of the Cavanacaw gold deposit in the Dalradian Lack Inlier, Northern Ireland: Implications for the regional deformation chronology. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.

2009

McFarlane, J.A.S, Cooper, M.R. and Chew, D.M. (2009) New geological and geophysical insights into the Dalradian Lack Inlier, Northern Ireland: Implications for lithostratigraphy and gold mineralisation. 2009 IAEG Annual Review.

Pointon, M.A., Chew, D., Ovtcharova and Sevastopulo, G.D. (2009) Constraining Carboniferous climatic fluctuations using high precision U-Pb zircon CA-ID-TIMS geochronology. In programme abstracts of the Mineralogical Society Micro-Analysis, Processes, Time (MAPT) meeting, Edinburgh, 47-48.

Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S., Magna, T., Kirkland, C.L., Cardona, A. (2009) New constraints on the magmatic record of NE Laurentia from the opening to the closing of the Iapetus Ocean. In Programme abstracts of the Geological Society of London Fermor Meeting 2009, "Rodinia: Supercontinents, Superplumes and Scotland", Edinburgh, 10.

Pointon, M.A., Chew, D., Ovtcharova and Sevastopulo, G.D. (2009) High-precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age constraints from Western European Lower Carboniferous volcanic ash layers. Abstracts of the 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(13), Supplement 1, A1035.

Clift, P.D., Draut, A.E., Amato, J. and Chew, D. (2009) The role of island arc collisions in building the continental crust: evidence from Tyrone, Ireland. Abstracts of the 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(13), Supplement 1, A230.

Stanislawska, M., Selby, D. and Chew D. (2009) Re-Os depositional age for extremely thermally mature Upper Carboniferous organic-rich shales: Challenges and insights. Abstracts of the 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73(13), Supplement 1, A1264.

Chew, D. M., Cooper, M. R., McFarlane, J.A.S. & Leslie, A.G. (2009) Fuchsite and other ultramafic related mineral occurrences in the Lack Inlier, Northern Ireland: evidence for an upper Argyll Group affinity of the southern Sperrin Mountains and implications for gold source and occurrence. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group.

Daly, J.S., Flowerdew, M.J., Horstwood, M.S.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Mcateer, C. & Chew D.M. (2009) Tectonic events affecting Palaeoproterozoic orthogneiss on Colonsay, SW Scotland. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group.

Cooper, M. R., Noble, S. R., Crowley, Q. G., Merriman, R. J., & Chew D.M. (2009) Geology, geochemistry and U-Pb zircon age constraints the Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland: plate models and Grampian orogenic amalgamation. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group.

Daly, J.S., Flowerdew, M.J., McAteer, C., Horstwood, M.S.A., Whitehouse, M.J. and Chew, D.M. (2009) Palaeoproterozoic orthogneiss on Colonsay, SW Scotland. In Abstracts of the 52nd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 28.

Pointon, M.A., Chew, D.M., Schaltegger, U., Ovtcharova, M. and Sevastopulo, G.D. (2009) Calibrating the Carboniferous Timescale: New high precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age constraints from European diagenetically altered volcanic ash layers. In Abstracts of the 52nd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 48.

Pointon, M.A., Cliff, R.A., Yardley, B.W.D., Chew, D.M. (2009) Provenance of Western Irish Namurian Basin sediments inferred using LA-ICP-MS detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. In Abstracts of the 52nd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 85.

Stanislawska, M., Klötzli, U., Klötzli, E., Chew, D., Lustenhouwer, W. (2009) Phosphatic overgrowths on zircon grains in Carboniferous sandstones. In Abstracts of the 52nd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 92.

Van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D., 2009. Thermal and tectonic history of the Leeward Antilles: Aruba and Bonaire. Circum-Caribbean and North Andean tectonomagmatic
evolution: impacts on palaeoclimate and resource formation, workshop, University of Cardiff, 2-4 September, p. 13.

2008

Chew, D. Ganerød, M., Troll, V., Corfu, F. and Meade, F. (2008) U-Pb TIMS zircon age constraints on the Tardree Rhyolite zircon fission track standard. In OnTrack (The electronic newsletter of the international thermochronology community) Dec 2008, Vol 16, Issue 31.

Meade, F.C. Chew, D.M., Troll, V.R., Ellam, R.M. (2008) Magma ascent along a major terrane boundary: Crustal contamination and magma mixing at the Drumadoon intrusive complex, isle of Arran. In Programme abstracts of the 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo.

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Magna, T., Daly, J.S., Kirkland, C.L., Whitehouse, M.J. and Spikings, R. (2008) Constraints on the timing of deformation in the Highland Border Complex and correlative rocks in western Ireland. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 35.

Flowerdew, M, Daly, S., Chew, D, Millar, I. and Horstwood, M (2008) In-situ Hf isotope measurements of complex zircons from Irish granitoids reveal hidden Palaeoproterozoic and Archaean sources at depth. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 24.

Chew, D., Magna, T., Kirkland, C.L., Miškovic, A, Cardona, A., Spikings, R. & Urs Schaltegger. (2008) Detrital zircon fingerprint of the Proto-Andes: evidence for early birth of the Iapetus Ocean? In Abstracts of the 51st Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 21.

Kerrigan, M. McDonnell, G., Meade, F., Troll, V. and Chew, D. (2008) Multiple versus composite intrusions: revisiting Judd’s Dykes on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. In Abstracts of the 51st Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 63.

Stanislawska, M.and Chew, D. (2008) Xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones – a new insight into the geological history of the Clare and the Pennine Basins. In Abstracts of the 51st Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 52.

Kerrigan, M. McDonnell, G., Meade, F., Troll, V. and Chew, D. (2008) Multiple versus composite intrusions: revisiting Judd’s Dykes on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. In Abstracts of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Meeting 2008,

2007

Chew, D.M., Schaltegger, U., Košler, J., Whitehouse, M.J., Gutjahr, M., Spikings R.A. and Miškovic, A. (2007) U-Pb geochronologic evidence for the evolution of the Gondwanan margin of the north-central Andes. Invited presentation, AGU Summer Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico.

Meade, F.C., Troll, V.R., Chew, D.M., Ellam, R.M., Font, L., Chadwick, J.P. (2007) Crustal contamination in the British and Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province: mechanisms, timing and implications for the formation of granitic magmas. Goldschmidt 2007, Conference abstracts, A648.

Meade, F.C., Troll, V.R., Chew, D.M., Ellam, R.M., Font, L., Chadwick, J.P. (2007) Crustal contamination in the British and Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province: mechanisms, timing and implications. Golden Rum – Past, Present and Future research in the North Atlantic Igneous Province: a celebration of 50 years of Rum research, Conference Abstracts.

Meade, F.C., Chew, D.M., Troll, V.R. (2007). Magma ascent at a major terrane boundary: crustal contamination at the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. EGU 2007, Vienna, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 03904.

Stanislawska, M and Chew, D. (2007) Authigenic xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones from the Clare Basin, Ireland and the Pennine Basin, Northern England. EURISPET - State-of-the-Art Analytical and Imaging Techniques in Petrology, Paris, France, October 20-28, 2007.

Stanislawska, M and Chew, D (2007) SEM-EDS in a preliminary petrographic study for U-Pb dating of diagenetic xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones. Mineralogia Polonica - Special Papers 30: 46.

Stanislawska, M, Selby, D. and Chew, D. (2007) Re and Os isotopic systematics in organic-rich shales from the Clare Basin, Ireland – preliminary results. In Abstracts of the 50th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 41.

2006

Chew, D.M., Devuyst, F-X., Ovtcharova, M., Delcambre, B. and Sevastopulo, G.D. (2006) Preliminary, accurate radiometric dates for the base of the Livian substage (Mississippian), Belgium. In Abstracts of the 48th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 12.

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Daly, J.S., Whitehouse, M.J., Spikings, R. (2006) Timing of metamorphism in the Clew Bay Complex and Highland Border Complex Ophiolites. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 4-5.

Flowerdew, M.J., Daly, J.S., Chew, D.M., Whitehouse, M.J., and Horstwood, M.S.A. (2006) Determining granitoid sources using in-situ U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic analyses of zircon. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 9.

Meade, F., Chew, D.M., Troll, V. and Nicholas, C. (2006) Geochemistry of the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. In Abstracts of the 48th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 49.

Meade, F., Chew, D.M., Troll, V. and Nicholas, C. (2006) Geochemistry of the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. In Abstracts of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Leeds.

Meade, F., Chew, D.M. and Troll, V. (2006) Magma ascent at a major terrane boundary: crustal contamination at the Drumadoon Intrusive Complex, Isle of Arran, Scotland. In Abstracts of the Fermor 2006 meeting: Minerals, Magmas and Megastructures, Natural History Museum, London.

Schaltegger, U., Chew, D.M., and Miškovic, A. (2006) Neoproterozoic to Early Mesozoic evolution of the western Gondwana margin: evidence from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru. In Abstracts of the XIII Congreso Peruano de Geologia, Lima, 17-20 October, 2006.

2005

Chew, D.M., Schaltegger, U., Kosler, J., Fontignie, D., Spikings R.A. and Miškovic, A. (2005) Evolution of the Gondwanan margin of the northern Andes. Abstracts of the 3rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich.

Chew, D.M., Schaltegger, U., Miškovic, A, Fontignie, D. and Frank, M. (2005) Deciphering the tectonic evolution of the Peruvian segment of the Gondwanan margin. ISAG – The 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Barcelona, Spain.

Chew, D.M., Daly, J.S., Page, L.M. & Spikings, R.A. (2005) Constraints on the Grampian Orogeny through dating blueschist metamorphism and ophiolite obduction in western Ireland. Recent developments in the geological history of the British Isles – W. Stuart McKerrow tribute meeting. 13.

Daly, J.S., Flowerdew, M.J., Hutton, D.H.W., Chew, D.M., McAteer, C. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2005) Grampian and earlier tectonic events in northwest Ireland and southwest Scotland. Recent developments in the geological history of the British Isles – W. Stuart McKerrow tribute meeting. 12.

Miškovic, A., Schaltegger, U., and Chew, D.M. (2005) Carboniferous plutonism along the Eastern Peruvian Cordillera: Implications for the Late Paleozoic to Early Mesozoic Gondwanan tectonics. ISAG – The 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics, Barcelona, Spain.

Miškovic, A., Schaltegger, U, and Chew, D.M. (2005) The Paleozoic-Mesozoic geodynamic transition along the Western Gondwanan margin – Geochemical and chronometric constraints from the Eastern Peruvian Cordillera. Abstracts of the 3rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich.

Schaltegger, U., Chew, D.M., Miskovic, A., Fontignie, D. & Franks, M. (2005) The active margin of Gondwana in Peru – isotopic and geochronologic constraints. 15th Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, Idaho.

2004

Chew, D.M., and Daly, J.S., (2004). Dating blueschist-facies metamorphism and the onset of Grampian orogenesis in western Ireland. In Onshore offshore structural tectonics, Cenozoic landscape evolution and the environment: Discussion meeting in memory and celebration of the life and work of Prof. Adrian Phillips, 3.

Chew, D.M., and Daly, J.S., (2004). Laurentian passive margin – ophiolite interaction in Western Ireland. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 20.

Chew D.M., Fontignie D., Beuchat S. and Schaltegger, U. (2004). Preliminary results from an isotopic transect across the Peruvian continental margin. Abstracts of the 2nd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 110.

Flowerdew, M.J., Daly, J.S. and Chew, D.M., (2004). Grenville magmatism on Colonsay, Scotland. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 5.

Menuge, J.M., Daly, J.S., Chew, D.M. and Scanlon, R.P., (2004). Provenance of the Irish Dalradian(s): Nd isotope evidence. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 15.

Schaltegger, U, Chew D.M., de Haller, A., Polliand M., Corfu, F. & Fontboté L. (2004) Deciphering the pre-Andean evolution of the Peruvian continental margin. Abstracts of the 2nd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, 285.

2003

Chew, D.M., Flowerdew, M.J. and Daly, J.S., (2003). The tectonothermal evolution of the Tyrone Central Inlier, Ireland: Grampian imbrication of an outboard Laurentian microcontinent. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group.

Chew D.M. and Coxon, P., (2003). "New research on the glacial stratigraphy of western Ireland: a case study from Connemara". Irish Geographer's Conference.

Coxon, P. and Chew D.M., (2003). "Unravelling Connemara's glacial history: An ' Older Drift ' ?". Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA), Spring meeting, 2003.

2002

Chew D.M., Daly J.S., Flowerdew, M.J., Kennedy, M.J. and Page, L.M., (2002). Temporal constraints on fabric reactivation: isotopic dating of normal-slip and reverse-slip crenulation development in the Dalradian Supergroup of NW Ireland. In Programme Abstracts of Transport and flow processes in shear zones. Geological Society of London / Geological Society of America meeting.

2001

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Kennedy, M.J. and Daly, J.S., (2001). Contentious relationships between the Dalradian and Clew Bay Complex resolved in Western Ireland. In Abstracts of the 44th Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 26.

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Kennedy, M.J. and Daly, J.S., (2001). Contentious relationships between the Dalradian and Highland Border Complex resolved in Western Ireland. In Programme Abstracts of the Highlands Workshop of the Tectonic Studies Group, 14.

Chew, D.M. and Scanlon, R.P., (2000) Achill Island Geology - the IGA goes offshore! Guide to the Irish Geological Association field-trip to Achill Island, 24th-25th June.

2000

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Kennedy, M.J. and Daly, J.S., (2000). The structural and metamorphic history of the Laurentian Margin, Western Ireland. In Abstracts of the 43rd Annual Irish Geological Research Meeting, 10.

Chew, D.M., Page, L.M., Kennedy, M.J. and Daly, J.S., (2000). A Grampian blueschist to greenschist facies transition at the Laurentian Margin, Western Ireland. In Abstracts of the Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress meeting.