Processus volcaniques
et hydrothermaux
Genèse minérale
Vincent.vanHinsberg [at] mcgill.ca
The abundance of water on Earth has a profound impact on how our planet operates; aqueous fluids facilitate melting and subduction, and hence plate tectonics; control the redistribution of elements to make ore deposits; and determine the availability of (trace) element nutrients to life. Knowledge of the compositions of these fluids is therefore essential. Unfortunately, direct fluid samples are rare, especially for deep in the Earth and for its earliest history. However, minerals with preserved compositions are readily available, sampling environments to more than 200 km depth and back to at least 4.2 billion years ago. Minerals capture a fingerprint of the associated fluid by element exchange, and in my research I investigate how to read this mineral record. This involves understanding how elements partition among minerals, fluids and melts in experiments from surface conditions to high temperature and pressure; computational modelling of mineral lattices to see where elements reside and how they are accommodated, and in-situ trace element work on natural samples. My group applies these tools to research as diverse as early Earth subduction, volcano hazard monitoring, and metal (re)cycling.
Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V., Szilas, K., 2023. Pressure-Temperature history of the 1.9 Ga Nagssugtoqidian Orogeny in the Tasiilaq Region, South-East Greenland: Amphibolite facies metamorphism of a Palaeoproterozoic accretionary prism. Lithos 438-439, 106993.
Poulsen, M. D., Keulen, N., van Hinsberg, V. J., Kolb, J., Frei, R., Thomsen, T. B., 2023. Geological processes defining the formation of plumasite-type corundum in the Paleoproterozoic Isertoq Terrane, South-East Greenland. Precambrian Research 385, 106940.
Stüeken, E. E., Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V. J., 2023. Evaluating the biosignature potential of nitrogen concentrations in graphite and associated K-silicates. Chemical Geology 617, 121274.
Berlo, K., van Hinsberg, V., Lauzeral, R., Zwillich, F., Gonzalez, J., 2022. The analysis of volcanic brines by freezing stage tandem LIBS-ICP-MS. Chemical Geology 603, 120910.
Crotty, C., van Hinsberg, V., Szilas, K., Poulsen, D. M., 2022. Palaeoproterozoic arc related supracrustal units from the Tasiilaq Region, SE Greenland: Insights into the convergence of the Rae and North Atlantic Cratons. Precambrian Research 379, 106808.
Nisbet, H., Migdisov, A., Goncharov, V., van Hinsberg, V., Williams-Jones, A., Xu, H., Guo, X., 2022. The solubility and speciation of Nd in carbonate-bearing hydrothermal fluids up to 250°C. Chemical Geology 611, 121122.
Nisbet, H., Migdisov, A.A., Williams-Jones, A.E., van Hinsberg, V.J., Xu, H., Roback, R., 2022. The solubility of thorium in carbonate-bearing solutions at hydrothermal conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 330, 80-92.
Pinti, D., Haut-Labourdette, M., Poirier, A., Saby, M., Hinsberg, V., Berlo, K., Castro, M.C., Gautason, B., Sigurðardóttir, Á., 2022. 87Sr/86Sr Ratios and Atmospheric Noble Gases in Theistareykir Geothermal Fluids: A Record of Glacial Water. Geosciences 12, 119.
Saby, M., van Hinsberg, V., Pinti, D.L., Berlo, K., Gautason, B., Sigurdardottir, A., Brown, K., Rocher, O., 2022. The behaviour of metals in deep fluids of NE Iceland. Scientific Reports 12, 21952.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Berlo, K., Pinti, D.L., Ghaleb, B., 2021. Gypsum precipitating from volcanic effluent as an archive of volcanic activity. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 1042.
van Hinsberg, V., Yakymchuk, C., Jepsen, A.T.K., Kirkland, C.L., Szilas, K., 2021. The corundum conundrum: Constraining the compositions of fluids involved in ruby formation in metamorphic melanges of ultramafic and aluminous rocks. Chemical Geology 571, 120180.
Codeço, M.S., Weis, P., Trumbull, R.B., Van Hinsberg, V., Pinto, F., Lecumberri-Sanchez, P., Schleicher, A.M., 2020. The imprint of hydrothermal fluids on trace-element contents in white mica and tourmaline from the Panasqueira W–Sn–Cu deposit, Portugal. Mineralium Deposita 56, 481–508.
Guzmán, H.M., Kaiser, S., van Hinsberg, V.J., 2020. Accumulation of trace elements in leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs from the south-western Caribbean indicates potential health effects to consumers. Chemosphere 243, 125424.
Saby, M., Pinti, D.L., van Hinsberg, V., Gautason, B., Sigurdardóttir, Á., Castro, C., Hall, C., Óskarsson, F., Rocher, O., Hélie, J.F., Méjean, P., 2020. Sources and transport of fluid and heat at the newly-developed Theistareykir Geothermal Field, Iceland. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 405, 107062.
Utami, S.B., van Hinsberg, V.J., Ghaleb, B., van Dijk, A.E., 2020. Oxygen isotope fractionation between gypsum and its formation waters: Implications for past chemistry of the Kawah Ijen volcanic lake, Indonesia. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials 105(5), 756-763.
van Hinsberg, V., Berlo, K., Lowenstern, J., 2020. An Experimental Investigation of Interaction between Andesite and Hyperacidic Volcanic Lake Water. Minerals 10(2), 96.
Beard, C.D., van Hinsberg, V.J., Stix, J., Wilke, M., 2019. Clinopyroxene/melt trace element partitioning in sodic alkaline magmas. Journal of Petrology 60(9), 1797-1823.
Nisbet, H., Migdisov, A.A., Williams-Jones, A.E., Xu, H., van Hinsberg, V.J., Roback, R., 2019. Challenging the thorium-immobility paradigm. Scientific Reports 9(1), 17035.
Utami, S.B., van Hinsberg, V.J., Ghaleb, B., Pinti, D.L., 2019. Growth-zoned gypsum stalactite from the Kawah Ijen volcanic lake, Indonesia, records a> 40-year record of volcanic activity. Bulletin of Volcanology 81(9), 52.
Yang, L., van Hinsberg, V.J., 2019. Liquid immiscibility in the CaF2-granite system and trace element partitioning between the immiscible liquids. Chemical Geology.
Lowenstern, J.B., van Hinsberg, V., Berlo, K., Liesegang, M., Iacovino, K., Bindeman, I.N., Wright, H.M., 2018. Opal-a in glassy pumice, acid alteration, and the 1817 phreatomagmatic eruption at kawah ijen (Java), Indonesia. Frontiers in Earth Science 6, art. no. 11. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00011
Nisbet, H., Migdisov, A., Xu, H., Guo, X., van Hinsberg, V., Williams-Jones, A.E., Boukhalfa, H., Roback, R., 2018. An experimental study of the solubility and speciation of thorium in chloride-bearing aqueous solutions at temperatures up to 250 °C. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 239, 363-373. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.08.001
Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V., McDonald, I., Næraa, T., Rollinson, H., Adetunji, J., Bird, D., 2018. Highly refractory Archaean peridotite cumulates: Petrology and geochemistry of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, SW Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers 9 (3), 689-714. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.05.003
Yang, L., Van Hinsberg, V.J., Samson, I.M., 2018. A new method to deconvolute binary mixture in LA-ICP-MS analyses to quantify the composition of phases smaller than the laser spot size. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 33 (9), 1518-1528. DOI: 10.1039/c8ja00078f
van Hinsberg, V., Crotty, C., Roozen, S., Szilas, K., Kisters, A., 2018. Pressure–Temperature History of the> 3 Ga Tartoq Greenstone Belt in Southwest Greenland and Its Implications for Archaean Tectonics. Geosciences 8 (10), 367.
Berryman, E.J., Kutzschbach, M., Trumbull, R.B., Meixner, A., van Hinsberg, V., Kasemann, S.A., Franz, G., 2017. Tourmaline as a petrogenetic indicator in the Pfitsch Formation, Western Tauern Window, Eastern Alps. Lithos 284-285, 138-155.
Gunawan, H., Caudron, C., Pallister, J., Primulyana, S., Christenson, B., Mccausland, W., Van Hinsberg, V., Lewicki, J., Rouwet, D., Kelly, P., Kern, C., Werner, C., Johnson, J.B., Utami, S.B., Syahbana, D.K., Saing, U., Suparjan, Purwanto, B.H., Sealing, C., Cruz, M.M., Maryanto, S., Bani, P., Laurin, A., Schmid, A., Bradley, K., Agung Nandaka, I.G.M., Hendrasto, M., 2017. New insights into Kawah Ijen's volcanic system from the wet volcano workshop experiment. Geological Society of London Special Publication 437 (1), 35-56.
Ross, D.A.N., Guzmán, H.M., Potvin, C., van Hinsberg, V.J., 2017. A review of toxic metal contamination in marine turtle tissues and its implications for human health. Regional Studies in Marine Science 15, 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2017.06.003
Siegel, K., Williams-Jones, A.E., van Hinsberg, V.J., 2017. The amphiboles of the REE-rich A-type peralkaline Strange Lake pluton – fingerprints of magma evolution. Lithos 288-289, 156-174. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.07.012
van Hinsberg, V.J., Franz, G., Wood, B.J., 2017. Determining subduction-zone fluid composition using a tourmaline mineral probe. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 3 (1), 160-169. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.1719
van Hinsberg, V., Vigouroux, N., Palmer, S., Berlo, K., Mauri, G., Williams-Jones, A., Mckenzie, J., Williams-Jones, G., Fischer, T., 2017. Element flux to the environment of the passively degassing crater lake-hosting Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia, and implications for estimates of the global volcanic flux. Geological Society of London Special Publication 437 (1), 9-34.
Lewicki, J.L., Caudron, C., van Hinsberg, V.J., Hilley, G.E., 2016. High spatio-temporal resolution observations of crater lake temperatures at Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia. Bulletin of Volcanology 78 (8), art. no. 53.
Ross, D.A., Guzmán, H.M., Van Hinsberg, V.J., Potvin, C., 2016. Metal contents of marine turtle eggs (Chelonia mydas; Lepidochelys olivacea) from the tropical eastern pacific and the implications for human health. Journal of Environmental Science and Health - Part B Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes 51 (10), 675-687.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Berlo, K., Migdisov, A., Williams-Jones, A.E., 2016. CO2-fluxing collapses metal mobility in magmatic vapour. Geochemical Perspective Letters 2 (2), 169-177. DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.1617
Caudron, C., Syahbana, D.K., Lecocq, T., Van Hinsberg, V., McCausland, W., Triantafyllou, A., Camelbeeck, T., Bernard, A., 2015. Surono Kawah Ijen volcanic activity: a review. Bulletin of Volcanology 77 (3), 39p., DOI 10.1007/s00445-014-0885-8
Backeberg, N.R., Rowe, C.D., Van Hinsberg, V.J., Bellefroid, E.J. 2014, Structural and metamorphic evidence for Mesoarchaean subduction in the Finlayson Lake greenstone belt, Superior Province, Ontario, Precambrian Research, vol. 249, pp. 100-114.
Berlo, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., Vigouroux, N., Gagnon, J.E. , Williams-Jones, A.E. 2014, Sulfide breakdown controls metal signature in volcanic gas at Kawah Ijen volcano, Indonesia, Chemical Geology, vol. 371, pp. 115-127.
Keulen, N., Schumacher, J.C., Næraa, T., Kokfelt, T.F., Scherstén, A., Szilas, K., van Hinsberg, V.J., Schlatter, D.M., Windley, B.F. 2014, Meso- and Neoarchaean geological history of the Bjørnesund and Ravns Storø Supracrustal Belts, southern West Greenland: Settings for gold enrichment and corundum formation, Precambrian Research, vol. 254, pp. 36-58.
King J, Williams-Jones AE, van Hinsberg VJ, Williams-Jones G. 2014, High-Sulfidation Epithermal Pyrite-Hosted Au (Ag-Cu) Ore Formation by Condensed Magmatic Vapors on Sangihe Island, Indonesia. Economic Geology, vol. 109, no 6, pp. 1705-1733.
Migdisov, A.A., Bychkov, A., Williams-Jones, A.E., van Hinsberg, V.J. 2014, A predictive model for the transport of copper by HCl-bearing water vapour in ore-forming magmatic-hydrothermal systems: Implications for copper porphyry ore formation, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 129, pp. 33-53.
Szilas, K., Van Hinsberg, V.J., Creaser, R.A., Kisters, A.F.M. 2014, The geochemical composition of serpentinites in the Mesoarchaean Tartoq Group, SW Greenland: Harzburgitic cumulates or melt-modified mantle?, Lithos, vol. 198-199, no. 1, pp. 103-116.
Szilas, K., Van Hinsberg, V.J., Kisters, A.F.M., Hoffmann, J.E., Windley, B.F., Kokfelt, T.F., Scherstén, A., Frei, R., Rosing, M.T., Münker, C. 2013, Remnants of arc-related Mesoarchaean oceanic crust in the Tartoq Group of SW Greenland, Gondwana Research, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 436-451.
Van Hinsberg, V., Zinngrebe, E., Melzer, S., Van Der Laan, S., Jonckbloedt, R. 2013, Influence of texture and trace element composition on hematite to wüstite reduction rates of fine iron ore fragments, ISIJ International, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 2018-2027.
Kisters, A.F.M., van Hinsberg, V.J., Szilas, K. 2012. Geology of an Archaean accretionary complex - The structural record of burial and return flow in the Tartoq Group of South West Greenland, Precambrian Research, vol. 220-221, pp. 107-122.
Matthews, N.E., Pyle, D.M., Smith, V.C., Wilson, C.J.N., Huber, C., van Hinsberg, V. 2012. Quartz zoning and the pre-eruptive evolution of the ~340-ka Whakamaru magma systems, New Zealand, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 163, no. 1, pp. 87-107.
Szilas, K., Elis Hoffmann, J., Scherstén, A., Rosing, M.T., Windley, B.F., Kokfelt, T.F., Keulen, N., van Hinsberg, V.J., Næraa, T., Frei, R., Münker, C. 2012. Complex calc-alkaline volcanism recorded in Mesoarchaean supracrustal belts north of Frederikshåb Isblink, southern West Greenland: Implications for subduction zone processes in the early Earth, Precambrian Research, vol. 208-211, pp. 90-123.
Szilas, K., Næraa, T., Scherstén, A., Stendal, H., Frei, R., van Hinsberg, V.J., Kokfelt, T.F., Rosing, M.T. 2012. Origin of Mesoarchaean arc-related rocks with boninite/komatiite affinities from southern West Greenland, Lithos, vol. 144-145, pp. 24-39.
Migdisov, A., Williams-Jones, A.E., van Hinsberg, V., Salvi, S. 2011. An experimental study of the solubility of baddeleyite (ZrO 2) in fluoride-bearing solutions at elevated temperature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 75, no. 23, pp. 7426-7434.
Palmer, S.C.J., van Hinsberg, V.J., McKenzie, J.M., Yee, S. 2011. Characterization of acid river dilution and associated trace element behavior through hydrogeochemical modeling: A case study of the Banyu Pahit River in East Java, Indonesia, Applied Geochemistry, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 1802-1810.
Van Hinsberg, V.J. 2011. Preliminary experimental data on trace-element partitioning between tourmaline and silicate melt, Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 153-163.
Van Hinsberg, V.J., Henry, D.J., Marschall, H.R. 2011. Tourmaline: An ideal indicator of its host environment, Canadian Mineralogist,vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
Van Hinsberg, V.J., Schumacher, J.C. 2011. Tourmaline as a petrogenetic indicator mineral in the haut-allier metamorphic suite, Massif Central, France, Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 177-194.
Von Goerne, G., Franz, G., Van Hinsberg, V.J. 2011. Experimental determination of NA-CA distribution between tourmaline and fluid in the system CaO-Na 2O-MgO-Al 2O 3-SiO 2-B 2O 3-H 2O, Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 137-152.
van Hinsberg, V., Berlo, K., Sumarti, S., van Bergen, M., Williams-Jones, A. 2010. Extreme alteration by hyperacidic brines at Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia: II. Metasomatic imprint and element fluxes, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol. 196, no. 3-4, pp. 169-184.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Migdisov, A.A., Williams-Jones, A.E. 2010. Reading the mineral record of fluid composition from element partitioning, Geology, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 847-850.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Marschall, H.R. 2007. Boron isotope and light element sector zoning in tourmaline: Implications for the formation of B-isotopic signatures, Chemical Geology, vol. 238, no. 3-4, pp. 141-148.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Schumacher, J.C. 2007. Intersector element partitioning in tourmaline: A potentially powerful single crystal thermometer, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 289-301.
Van Hinsberg, V.J., Schumacher, J.C. 2007. Using estimated thermodynamic properties to model accessory phases: The case of tourmaline, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 769-779.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Zinngrebe, E., de Wus, H., Vriend, S.P. 2007. Thermo-chronology of the Barlet metamorphic basement unit: Evidence for a Stephanian thermal event linked to Sb mineralizations in the Haut Allier, France, Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 164, no. 2, pp. 393-404.
van Hinsberg, V.J., Schumacher, J.C., Kearns, S., Mason, P.R.D., Franz, G. 2006. Hourglass sector zoning in metamorphic tourmaline and resultant major and trace-element fractionation, American Mineralogist, vol. 91, no. 5-6, pp. 717-728.
Van Hinsberg, V.J., Vriend, S.P., Schumacher, J.C. 2005. A new method to calculate end-member thermodynamic properties of minerals from their constituent polyhedra I: Enthalpy, entropy and molar volume, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 165-179.
Van Hinsberg, V.J., Zinngrebe, E., De Wijs, C.J., Vriend, S.P. 2003. A new model for Sb deposition in the French Massif Central based upon thermodynamic modeling of the mineralizing fluid, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol. 78-79, pp. 75-79.
Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Tourmaline in Isua: What can it tell us about the P-T-t history of the belt and the sources of boron.
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Willemite as a tracer of ore fluid composition in base metal ore deposits by experimentally determining element partitioning between willemite and aqueous fluids at hydrothermal conditions
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Experimentally constraining the fate of B and its isotopes during diagenesis and metamorphism to groundtruth models of B on the Early Earth
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill
Sujet de recherche : Reconstruction de la composition des fluides par l’utilisation de la tourmaline dans la ceinture de roche verte Mésoarchéenne de Tartoq dans le Sud-Ouest du Groenland, de l’origine de la vie au métamorphisme, au dépôt d’or