Publications in refereed journals (pre-2006):

Abraham, A.C., Francis, D., and Polvé, M.; 2005: Origin of recent alkaline lavas by lithospheric thinning in the northern Canadian Cordillera.  Can. J. Earth Sciences 42, 1073-1095.

Kent, A.J.R., Stolper, E.M., Francis, D., Woodhead, J., Frei, R. and Eiler, J.; 2004:  Mantle heterogeneity during the formation of the North Atlantic Igneous Province: constraints from trace elements and Sr-Nd-Os-O isotope systematics of Baffin Island picrites.  Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems,  DOI 10.1029/2004GC000743.

Yaxley, G.M., Kamenetsky, V.S., Kamenetsky, M., Norman, M.D., Francis, D.; 2004: Origins of compositional heterogeneity in olivine-hosted melt inclusions from the Baffin Island picrites.  Contributions Mineralogy Petrology, ISSN: 0010-7999 (Paper) 1432-0967 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s00410-004-0613-z. 
 
Francis, D., 2003: Cratonic Mantle roots, remnants of a more chondritic Archean Mantle? Lithos 71, 135-152. 

Modeland, S., Francis, D., and Hynes, A.; 2003: Enriched mantle components in Proterozoic continental flood basalts of the Cape Smith foldbelt, northern Québec. Lithos 71, 1-17.

Schmidberger, S.S. Simonetti, A., and Francis, D.; 2003: Small-scale Sr isotope investigation of clinopyroxenes from peridotite xenoliths by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS – implications for mantle metasomatism. Chemical Geology 199, 317-329.

Maurice, C., Francis, D., and Madore, L.; 2003: Constraints on early Archean crustal extraction and tholeiitic-komatiitic volcanism in greenstone belts of the Northern Superior Province.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 40, 431-445.

Peslier, A.H., Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 2002: The lithospheric mantle beneath continental margins: melting and melt-rock reaction in Canadian Cordillera xenoliths. J. Petrology 43, 2013-2048.

Schmidberger, S.S., Simonetti, A., Francis, D., and Gariepy, C.; 2002 : Probing Archean Lithosphere Using the Lu-Hf Isotope Systematics of Peridotite Xenoliths From Somerset Island Kimberlites, Canada. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 197, 245-259.

Schmidberger, S.S., Simonetti, A., and Francis, D.; 2001: Sr-Nd-Pb isotope systematics of mantle xenoliths from Somerset Island kimberlites: evidence for lithospheric stratification beneath Arctic Canada.  Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 65, 4243-4255.

Schmidberger, S.S. and Francis, D.; 2001. Constraints on trace element metasomatism of Archean mantle roots, Arctic Canada.  J. Petrology 42, 1095-1117

Abraham, A.C., Francis, D., and Polvé, M.; 2001 Recent alkaline basalts as probes of the lithospheric mantle roots of the northern Canadian Cordillera. Chemical Geology 175, 361-386.

Peslier, A.H., Reisberg, L., Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 2000: Re-Os constraints on harzburgite and lherzolite formation in the lithospheric mantle: a study of northern Canadian Cordilleran xenoliths.  Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 64, 3061-3071.  

Peslier, A.H., Reisberg, L. Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 2000: Os isotopic systematics in mantle xenoliths; age constraints on the Canadian Cordillera lithosphere.  Chemical Geology 166, 85-101.
 
Francis, D., Scowen, P., Panneton, G., and Doig, R.; 2000: Contrasting Si-saturation in troctolite - anorthosite intrusions along the Manicouagan corridor of the Abitibi-Grenville transect. Canadian J. Earth Science 37, 271-289.

Schmidberger, S.S., and Francis, D.; 1999: Nature of the mantle roots beneath the North American craton: mantle xenolith evidence from Somerset Island kimberlites. Lithos. 48, 195-216.

Francis, D., Ludden, J., Johnstone, R., and Davis, W.; 1999: Picrite evidence for more Fe in Archean mantle reservoirs.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters 167, 197-213.

Shi, L., Francis, D., Ludden, J., Frederiksen, A., & Bostock, M.; 1998: Xenolith evidence of lithospheric melting above anomalously hot mantle under the northern Canadian Cordillera.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 131, 39-53.

Vyacheslav, V.A., Roden, M.F., Francis, D., Apt, J., and Moll-Stalcup, E.; 1997: Compositional and thermal state of the upper mantle beneath the Bering Sea basalt province: evidence from the Chukchi Peninsula of Russia. Canadian J. Earth Science 34, 789-800.  

Smuk, K.A., Williams-Jones, A.E., and Francis, D.; 1997: The Carmacks hydrothermal event: an alteration study in the southern Dawson Range, Yukon.  Yukon Exploration & Geology 1996. 92-106.

Johnston, S.T., Wynne, P.J., Francis, D., Hart, C.J.R., Enkin, R.J., and Engebretson, D.C.; 1996: Yellowstone in Yukon: the late Cretaceous Carmacks Group.  Geology 24, 997-1000.

Carignan, J., Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 1996: On the recent enrichment of subcontinental lithosphere: a detailed U-Pb study of spinel lherzolite xenoliths, Yukon, Canada.  Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 60, 4241-4252.

Charland, A., Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1995: The relationship between hawaiites and alkaline olivine basalts in the Itcha Mountain volcanic complex, central British Columbia.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 121, 289-302.

Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1995: The signature of amphibole in mafic alkaline lavas, a study in the northern Canadian Cordillera.  J. Petrology 36, 1171-1192.

Dunphy, J., Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 1995: Geochemistry of mafic magmas from the Ungava Orogen, Québec Canada and implications for mantle reservoir compositions at 2.0 Ga.  Chemical Geology 120, 361-380.

Barnes, S.-J., and Francis, D.; 1995: The distribution of Platinum-group elements, Ni, Copper, and Gold in the Muskox Layered Intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada.   Economic Geology 90, 135-154.

Ludden, J.N., Feng, R., Gauthier, G., Stix, J., Shi, L., Francis, D., Machado, N., and Wu, G.; 1995: Applications of LAM-ICP-MS analysis to minerals.  Canadian Mineralogist 33, 419-434.

Francis, D.; 1995: Implications of picritic lavas for the mantle sources of terrestrial volcanism.  Lithos 34, 89-105.
Legault, F., Francis, D., Hynes, A. & Budkewitsch, P.; 1994: The petrogenesis of Proterozoic volcanism in the Belcher Islands with implications for the evolution of the circum Ungava Fold Belt.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences. 31, 1536-1549.

Carignan, J., Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 1994: Isotopic constraints on the mantle sources for Quaternary continental alkaline magmas in the northern Canadian Cordillera.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters 128, 271-286. 

Ji, S., Zhao, X, and Francis, D.; 1994: Calibration of shear-wave splitting in the  subcontinental upper mantle beneath active orogenic belts using the ultramafic xenoliths from the Canadian Cordillera and Alaska.  Tectonophysics 239, 1-28.  

Hynes, A., Francis, D., and Legault, F.; 1994: Basalt petrochemistry as a probe of crustal thickness in the Hudson Bay Arc, Québec.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters 27, 11-24.    

Francis, D.; 1994: Chemical interaction between picritic magmas and upper crust along the margins of the Muskox intrusion, N.W.T., Canada.  Geological Survey Canada Special Paper 92-12, 94 p.

Toft, P.B., Scowen, P.A.H., J. Arkani-Hamed, and Francis, D.; 1993: Demagnetization of continental Collision zones through hydration: evidence from deep crustal rocks in the Grenville Province of Québec, Canada.  Geology 21, 999-1002. 

Charland, A., Francis, D., Ludden, J.; 1993: Stratigraphy and geochemistry of the Itcha volcanic complex, central British Columbia.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 30, 132-144.

Robillard, I., Francis, D., Ludden, J.N.; 1992: Trace element constraints on the origin of the Baffin Bay lavas.  Contribution Mineralogy & Petrology 112. 230-241.

Gaonac'h, H., Ludden, J.N., Picard, C., and Francis, D.; 1992: Highly alkaline lavas in a Proterozoic rift zone: implications for Precambrian mantle metasomatic processes. Geology 20, 247-250.

Skulski, T., Francis, D., Ludden, J.N.; 1992: Volcanism in an arc-transform transition zone: the stratigraphy of the St. Clare Creek volcanic field, Wrangell Volcanic Belt, Yukon, Canada.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences, 29, 446-461. 

Francis, D.; 1991: Some implications of xenolith glass for the mantle sources of alkaline magma.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 108, 175-180.  

Skulski, T., Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1991: Arc-transform magmatism in the Wrangell volcanic belt.  Geology 19, 11-14.

Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1990:  The mantle source for olivine nephelinite, basanite, and alkaline olivine basalt at Fort Selkirk, Yukon, Canada.  J. Petrology 31, 371-400. 
 
Nadeau, S., Pineau, F., Javoy, M., and Francis, D.; 1990: Carbon concentrations and isotopic ratios in fluid inclusions and other carbonaceous components present in upper mantle xenoliths along the northwestern margin of North America.  Chemical Geology 81, 271-299. 

Gaonac'h, H., Picard, C., Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 1989: Alkaline rocks from a Proterozoic volcanic island in the Cape Smith thrust Belt, New Quebec. Geoscience Canada 16, 137-139.

Bédard, J., Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1988: Petrology and pyroxene chemistry of Monteregian dykes: the origin of concentric zoning and green cores in clinopyroxene from alkali basalts and lamprophyres.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 25, 2041-2058. 

Skulski, T., Hynes, A., and Francis, D.; 1988: Basic lavas of the Archean La Grande Greenstone Belt: products of polybaric fractionation and crustal contamination.   Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology, 100, 236-245. 
 
StamatelopoulouSeymour, K., and Francis, D.; 1988: Magmatic interaction between mantle and crust during the evolution of the Archean Lac Guyer Greenstone Belt, New Quebec.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 25, 691-700. 
 
Francis, D.; 1987: Mantle  melt interactions recorded in spinel lherzolite xenoliths from the Alligator Lake volcanic complex, Yukon, Canada. J. Petrology 28, 569597. 
 
Eiche, G., Francis, D., Ludden, J; 1987: Primary alkaline magmas in the Quaternary Alligator Lake volcanic complex, Yukon, Canada.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 95, 191201. 
 
Bedard, J., Ludden, J.N., and Francis, D.; 1987: The Megantic intrusive complex Quebec: a study of the derivation of silicaoversaturated anorogenic magmas of alkaline affinity.  J. Petrology 28, 355388. 
 
Francis, D.; 1986: The pyroxene paradox in MORB glasses  a signature of picritic parental magmas?  Nature 319, 586589. 
 
Francis, D.; 1985: The Baffin Bay lavas and the value of picrites as analogues of primary magmas.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 89, 144154. 

Ludden, J.N., Francis, D., and Allard, G.O.; 1984: The geochemistry and evolution of the volcanic rocks of the Chibougamau region of the Abitibi metavolcanic belt. in:  Chibougamau  Stratigraphy and Mineralization, J. Guha and E.H. Chown (eds.), CIM Special Vol. 34, 2034.

Rivard, B. and Francis, D.; 1984: Preliminary models for basalt evolution in the La Grande greenstone belt. in: Chibougamau Stratigraphy and Mineralization, J. Guha and E.H. Chown (eds.), CIM Special Vol. 34, 4856. 
 
Skulski, T., Hynes, A.J., and Francis, D.; 1984: Stratigraphic and lithogeochemical characterization of cyclic volcanism in the LG3 area, La Grande River greenstone belt, Quebec. in: Chibougamau  Stratigraphy and Mineralization, J. Guha and E.H. Chown (eds.), CIM Special Vol. 34, 5772. 

Roden, M.F., Frey, F.A., and Francis, D.; 1984:  An example of consequent mantle metasomatism in peridotite inclusions from Nunivak Island, Alaska.  J. Petrology 25, 546577. 
 
Bedard, J.H., Francis, D., Hynes, A.J., and Nadeau, S.; 1984: Fractionation in the feeder system at a Proterozoic rifted margin.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 21, 489499. 
 
Francis, D., Ludden, J., and Hynes, A.; 1983:  Magma evolution in a Proterozoic rifting environment.  J. Petrology 24, 556582. 
 
StamatelopoulouSeymour, K., Francis, D., and Ludden, J.; 1983: The petrogenesis of the Lac Guyer komatiites and basalts and the nature of the komatiite  komatiitic basalt compositional gap.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 84, 614. 

Hynes, A.J., and Francis, D.; 1982:  A transect of the early Proterozoic Cape Smith fold belt, New Quebec.  Tectonophysics 88, 2360. 
 
Hynes, A., and Francis, D.; 1982:  Komatiite basalts of the Cape Smith fold belt, New Quebec, Canada. In: Komatiites, N.T. Arndt and E.G. Nisbet (eds.) Allen and Unwin, 159170. 
 
Francis, D., Hynes, A.J., Ludden, J., and Bedard, J.; 1981: Crystal fractionation and partial melting in the petrogenesis of a Proterozoic highMgO volcanic suite, Ungava, Quebec.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 78, 2736. 

StamatelopoulouSeymour, K., and Francis, D.; 1980: Metamorphic olivine in peridotitic komatiite flows, Lac Guyer, Quebec.  Canadian Mineralogist 18, 265270. 
 
StamatelopoulouSeymour, K., and Francis, D.; 1980: An Archean ultramafic turbidite from Lac Guyer, James Bay Area, Que.  Canadian J. Earth Sciences 17, 15761582. 
 
Francis, D., and Hynes, A.J.; 1979: Komatiitederived tholeiites in the Proterozoic of New Quebec.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters 44, 473481. 
 
Arndt, N.T., Francis, D., and Hynes, A.J.; 1979: The field characteristics and petrology of Archean and Proterozoic komatiites.  Canadian Mineralogist 17, 147163. 

Francis, D.; 1978: The implications of the compositional dependence of texture in spinel lherzolite xenoliths.  J. Geology 86, 473485. 

Peterson, R.C., and Francis, D.; 1977: The origin of spherical sulfide inclusions in a clinopyroxene megacryst.  American Mineralogist 62, 10491051. 
 
Francis, D.; 1976: Amphibole pyroxenite xenoliths: Cumulate or replacement phenomena from the upper mantle.  Contributions Mineralogy & Petrology 58, 5161. 
 
Francis, D.; 1976: Coronabearing pyroxene granulite xenoliths and the lower crust beneath Nunivak Island, Alaska.  Canadian Mineralogist 15, 291298. 
 
Francis, D.; 1976: The origin of amphibole in lherzolite xenoliths from Nunivak Island, Alaska.  J. Petrology 17, 357387. 


Other Publications:

Francis, D., 2003: Implications of major element composition for the mantle sources of kimberlite, aillikite, olivine lamproite, and meimechite. 8th International Kimberlite volume.

Maurice, C., and Francis, D., 2003: L’étude géochemique des roches archéennes de l’extrême nord de la Province du Supérieur: état des travaux. in: Projet de cartographie du Grand Nord, rapport d’atelier, compilé par Alain Leclair. Ministère des Ressources naturel, Québec; MB 2003-01,  45-48.

Maurice, C., and Francis, D., 2002: Différences géologiques et géochemiques des ceintures volcaniques archéennes du Lac Natais et du Complex Faribault-Thury. in: Projet de cartographie du Grand-Nord, rapport d’atelier, compilé par Alain Leclair. Ministère des Ressources naturel, Québec; MB 2002-01, 11-14.

Maurice, C., and Francis, D., 2001: La volcanisme mafic du Complex Faribault-Thury, Domaine de Douglas Harbour. in: Projet de cartographie du Grand-Nord, rapport d’atelier, compilé par Alain Leclair. Ministère des Ressources naturel, Québec; MB 2001-03, 52-57.

Francis, D., and Schmidberger, S.S., 2001: The Composition, Age, and Origin of the Canadian Continental Lithospheric Mantle, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Short Course Notes. 2001 Toronto Prospector’s and Developer’s Convention. 

Francis, D., and Schmidberger, S.S., 1999: The Composition and Origin of Canadian Continental Lithospheric Mantle. Yellowknife 1999 Short Course Notes. 

Ludden, J., and Francis, D.; 1993: Future Research Trends in Mantle Studies.  Geoscience Canada 20, 95-100.
 
Scowen, P.A.H., Lavoie, J., Francis, D.; 1993: The significance of decreasing silica-saturation in troctolite-anorthosite intrusions across the Baie Comeau-Fermont Corridor, Abitibi-Grenville Transect. Abitibi-Grenville Workshop Report 33, 183-187.

Francis, D.; 1992: The marginal rocks of the Muskox Intrusion. in Canada-Northwest Territories Mineral Development Subsidiary Agreement 1987-1991.  Geological Survey Canada, Open File 2484, 83-88.

Francis, D.; 1990: The marginal rocks of the Muskox Intrusion. 1990 Mineral Development Agreement Report, Geological Survey Canada 100 p. 

Francis, D.; 1990: Volcano Mountain. in Wood, C.A., and Kienle, J. eds., Volcanoes of North America, Cambridge University Press, 118-119.
 
Skulski, T., and Francis, D.; 1987: On the geology of the Tertiary Wrangell lavas in the St. Clare Province, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory. Yukon Geology 1, 161170.