Castillo, P. R. (2025). Saline fluids play a major role in continental crust formation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 13, 1547196. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1547196

Durkin, K., Castillo, P. R., Straub, S. M., Mallick, S., Saal, A., & Muller, J. K. (2025). Widespread contamination of the Pacific upper mantle during the mid-Cretaceous. Marine Geology, 480, 107460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107460

Balbas, A., Konrad, K., Onderdonk, N., Castillo, P. R., & Behl, R. (2024). Oligocene and Miocene blowtorch volcanism within the California Borderland and its influence on the plate-boundary transition. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G52175.1

Wei, X., Zhang, G.-L., Zhang, J., Shi, X.-F., Castillo, P. R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, W.-F., Xu, Y.-G., Li, H.-Y., & Zhang, H. (2024). Overlapping hotspot tracks and melts from diffuse plume materials in the upper mantle generated intraplate seamount groups in the West Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 643, 118901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118901

Durkin, K., Day, J. M. D., Panter, K. S., Xu, J.-F., & Castillo, P. R. (2023). Petrogenesis of alkaline magmas across a continent to ocean transect, northern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Chemical Geology, 641, 121780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121780

Herret, M.-T., Peters, B. J., Kim, D., Castillo, P. R., & Mundl-Petermeier, A. (2023). Decoupling of short-lived radiogenic and helium isotopes in the Marquesas hotspot. Chemical Geology, 640, 121727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121727

Castillo, P. R. (2023). An alternative new view of convergent margin magmatism. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 256, 105834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105834

Wang, W., Tian, L., Castillo, P. R., Wu, T., Dong, Y., Liu, H., & Chen, L. (2023). Petrogenesis of high-alumina basalts: Implications for magmatic processes associated with the opening of the South China Sea. Chemical Geology, 636, 121641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121641

Portner, R., Dreyer, B. M., Clague, D. A., Daczko, N. R., & Castillo, P. R. (2022). Oceanic Zircon Records Extreme Fractional Crystallization of MORB to Rhyolite on the Alarcon Rise Mid-Ocean Ridge. Journal of Petrology, 63(6), egac040. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac040

Wei, X., Zhang, Y., Shi, X. F., Castillo, P. R., Xu, Y. G., Yan, Q. S., & Liu, J. H. (2022). Co-occurrence of HIMU and EM1 Components in a single Magellan seamount: Implications for the formation of West Pacific Seamount Province. Journal of Petrology, 63(4), 19. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac022

Castillo, P. R. (2022). Arc magmatism and porphyry-type ore deposition are primarily controlled by chlorine from seawater. Chemical Geology, 589, 18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120683

Wei, X., Shi, X. F., Xu, Y. G., Castillo, P. R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, L., & Zhang, H. (2022). Mid-Cretaceous Wake seamounts in NW Pacific originate from secondary mantle plumes with Arago hotspot composition. Chemical Geology, 587, 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120632

Wei, X., Zhang, Y., Shi, X.-F., Castillo, P. R., & Xu, Y.-G. (2022). Concurrent magma mixing and crystallization processes revealed by clinopyroxene macrocrysts from Lamont guyot lavas in NW Pacific. Lithos, 428–429, 106833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106833

Nicklas, R. W., Day, J. M. D., Jones, T. D., & Castillo, P. R. (2022). Evidence for a primitive deep mantle component in the source of Marquesas Islands Lavas from Os isotope and highly siderophile element abundance systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 329, 51–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.05.012

Chen, Y. H., Niu, Y. L., Xue, Q. Q., Gao, Y. J., & Castillo, P. (2021). An iron isotope perspective on back-arc basin development: Messages from Mariana Trough basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 572, 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117133

Liu, X. J., Xu, J. F., Castillo, P. R., Xiao, W. J., Shi, Y., Zhang, Z. G., Wang, X. C., Ao, S. J., Wang, B. H., Hu, R. G., Shi, X. F., Yu, H. X., Liu, P. D., & Song, Y. J. (2021). Long-lived low Th/U Pacific-type isotopic mantle domain: Constraints from Nd and Pb isotopes of the Paleo-Asian Ocean mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117006

Castillo, P. R. (2021). Chlorine from seawater is key to the generation of calc-alkaline lavas. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104753

Castillo, P. R., Liu, X. J., & Scarsi, P. (2020). The geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic ratios of high He-3/He-4 Afar and MER basalts indicate a significant role of the African Superplume in EARS magmatism. Lithos, 376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105791

Wei, X., Zhang, G. L., Castillo, P. R., Shi, X. F., Yan, Q. S., & Guan, Y. L. (2020). New geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope evidence for FOZO and Azores plume components in the sources of DSDP Holes 559 and 561 MORBs. Chemical Geology, 557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119858

Yan, Q. S., Straub, S., Castillo, P., Zhang, H. T., Tian, L. Y., & Shi, X. F. (2020). Hafnium isotope constraints on the nature of the mantle beneath the Southern Lau basin (SW Pacific). Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74565-0

Durkin, K., Castillo, P. R., Straub, S. M., Abe, N., Tamura, Y., & Yan, Q. S. (2020). An origin of the along-arc compositional variation in the Izu-Bonin arc system. Geoscience Frontiers, 11(5), 1621–1634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2019.12.004

Paquet, M., Day, J. M. D., & Castillo, P. R. (2019). Osmium isotope evidence for a heterogeneous 3He/4He mantle plume beneath the Juan Fernandez Islands. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 261, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.06.039

Castillo, P. R., MacIsaac, C., Perry, S., & Veizer, J. (2018). Marine Carbonates in the Mantle Source of Oceanic Basalts: Pb Isotopic Constraints. Scientific Reports, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33178-4

Yazdani, S., Castillo, P. R., & Hassanzadeh, J. (2018). Crust-mantle interaction inferred from the petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Eocene arc lavas from the Kahrizak Mountains, north-central Iran. Lithos, 318, 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.08.018

Panter, K. S., Castillo, P., Krans, S., Deering, C., McIntosh, W., Valley, J. W., Kitajima, K., Kyle, P., Hart, S., & Blusztajn, J. (2018). Melt origin across a rifted continental margin: A case for subduction-related metasomatic agents in the lithospheric source of alkaline basalt, NW Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Petrology, 59(3), 517–557. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy036

Truong, T. B., Castillo, P. R., Hilton, D. R., & Day, J. M. D. (2018). The trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Juan Fernandez lavas reveal variable contributions from a high-3He/4He mantle plume. Chemical Geology, 476, 280–291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.024

Liu, X. J., Xiao, W. J., Xu, J. F., Castillo, P. R., & Shi, Y. (2017). Geochemical signature and rock associations of ocean ridge-subduction: Evidence from the Karamaili Paleo-Asian ophiolite in east Junggar, NW China. Gondwana Research, 48, 34–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.03.010

Liu, X. J., Liang, Q. D., Li, Z. L., Castillo, P. R., Shi, Y., Xu, J. F., Huang, X. L., Liao, S., Huang, W. L., & Wu, W. N. (2017). Origin of Permian extremely high Ti/Y mafic lavas and dykes from Western Guangxi, SW China: Implications for the Emeishan mantle plume magmatism. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 141, 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.09.005

Shi, Y., Pei, X. L., Castillo, P. R., Liu, X. J., Ding, H. H., & Guo, Z. C. (2017). Petrogenesis of the similar to 500 Ma Fushui mafic intrusion and Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Northern Qinling Belt, Central China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 141, 74–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.09.003

Castillo, P. R. (2016). A proposed new approach and unified solution to old Pb paradoxes. Lithos, 252, 32–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.02.015

Liu, X. J., Xu, J. F., Xiao, W. J., Castillo, P. R., Shi, Y., Wang, S. Q., Huo, Q. Y., & Feng, Z. H. (2015). The boundary between the Central Asian Orogenic belt and Tethyan tectonic domain deduced from Pb isotopic data. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 113, 7–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.04.039

Yan, Q. S., Castillo, P., Shi, X. F., Wang, L. L., Liao, L., & Ren, J. B. (2015). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of volcanic rocks from Daimao Seamount (South China Sea) and their tectonic implications. Lithos, 218, 117–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2014.12.023

Castillo, P. R. (2015). The recycling of marine carbonates and sources of HIMU and FOZO ocean island basalts. Lithos, 216, 254–263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2014.12.005

Castillo, P. R., Hilton, D. R., & Halldórsson, S. A. (2014). Trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry of Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania: Implications for a superplume source for East Africa Rift magmatism. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2014.00021

Yan, Q. S., Shi, X. F., & Castillo, P. R. (2014). The late Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 85, 178–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.02.005

Liu, X. J., Xu, J. F., Castillo, P. R., Xiao, W. J., Shi, Y., Feng, Z. H., & Guo, L. (2014). The Dupal isotopic anomaly in the southern Paleo-Asian Ocean: Nd-Pb isotope evidence from ophiolites in Northwest China. Lithos, 189, 185–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2013.08.020

Hahm, D., Hilton, D. R., Castillo, P. R., Hawkins, J. W., Hanan, B. B., & Hauri, E. H. (2012). An overview of the volatile systematics of the Lau Basin - Resolving the effects of source variation, magmatic degassing and crustal contamination. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, 85, 88–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.02.007

Castillo, P. R. (2012). Adakite petrogenesis. Lithos, 134, 304–316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.013

Yan, Q. S., Castillo, P. R., & Shi, X. F. (2012). Geochemistry of basaltic lavas from the southern Lau Basin: input of compositionally variable subduction components. International Geology Review, 54(12), 1456–1474. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2012.664031

Tian, L. Y., Castillo, P. R., Hilton, D. R., Hawkins, J. W., Hanan, B. B., & Pietruszka, A. J. (2011). Major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotope signatures of the northern Lau Basin lavas: Implications for the composition and dynamics of the back-arc basin mantle. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011jb008791

Tian, L. Y., Castillo, P. R., Lonsdale, P. F., Hahm, D., & Hilton, D. R. (2011). Petrology and Sr-Nd-Pb-He isotope geochemistry of postspreading lavas on fossil spreading axes off Baja California Sur, Mexico. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gc003319

Castillo, P. R., Clague, D. A., Davis, A. S., & Lonsdale, P. F. (2010). Petrogenesis of Davidson Seamount lavas and its implications for fossil spreading center and intraplate magmatism in the eastern Pacific. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gc002992

Macpherson, C. G., Chiang, K. K., Hall, R., Nowell, G. M., Castillo, P. R., & Thirlwall, M. F. (2010). Plio-Pleistocene intra-plate magmatism from the southern Sulu Arc, Semporna peninsula, Sabah, Borneo: Implications for high-Nb basalt in subduction zones. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 190(1–2), 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.11.004

Clague, D. A., Paduan, J. B., Duncan, R. A., Huard, J. J., Davis, A. S., Castillo, P. R., Lonsdale, P., & DeVogelaere, A. (2009). Five million years of compositionally diverse, episodic volcanism: Construction of Davidson Seamount atop an abandoned spreading center. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gc002665

Hahm, D., Castillo, P. R., & Hilton, D. R. (2009). A deep mantle source for high He-3/He-4 ocean island basalts (OIB) inferred from Pacific near-ridge seamount lavas. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl040560

Castillo, P. R., Lonsdale, P. F., Moran, C. L., & Hawkins, J. W. (2009). Geochemistry of mid-Cretaceous Pacific crust being subducted along the Tonga-Kermadec Trench: Implications for the generation of arc lavas. Lithos, 112(1–2), 87–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2009.03.041

Regelous, M., Niu, Y. L., Abouchami, W., & Castillo, P. R. (2009). Shallow origin for South Atlantic Dupal Anomaly from lower continental crust: Geochemical evidence from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26 degrees S. Lithos, 112(1–2), 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2008.10.012

Castillo, P. (2009). Data report: geochemistry of volcaniclastic sediments drilled during IODP Expedition 310 in Tahiti. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 310. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.proc.310.202.2009

Tian, L., Castillo, P. R., Hawkins, J. W., Hilton, D. R., Hannan, B. B., & Pietruszka, A. J. (2008). Major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotope signatures of lavas from the Central Lau Basin: Implications for the nature and influence of subduction components in the back-arc mantle. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 178(4), 657–670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.06.039

Castillo, P. R. (2008). Origin of the adakite-high-Nb basalt association and its implications for postsubduction magmatism in Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120(3–4), 451–462. https://doi.org/10.1130/b26166.1