Refereed research papers and reviews

1. Parsons I (1965) The sub-surface shape of the Loch Ailsh intrusion, Assynt, as deduced from magnetic anomalies across the contact, with a note on traverses across the Loch Borralan complex. Geol Mag 102: 48-58
2. Parsons I (1965) The feldspathic syenites of the Loch Ailsh intrusion, Assynt, Scotland. J Petrol 6: 365-394
3. Parsons I (1968) Homogeneity in alkali feldspars. Min Mag 36: 1061-1077
4. Parsons I (1968) The origin of the basic and ultrabasic rocks of the Loch Ailsh alkaline intrusion, Assynt. Scot J Geol 4: 221-234
5. Parsons I (1968) An experimental study of ordering in sodium-rich alkali feldspars. Min Mag 36: 1061-1077
6. Parsons I (1969) Subsolidus crystallization behaviour in the system KAlSi₃O₈-NaAlSi₃O₈-H₂O. Min Mag 37: 174-180
7. Parsons I, Boyd R (1971) Distribution of potassium feldspar polymorphs in intrusive sequences. Min Mag 38: 295-311
8. Parsons I (1972) Petrology of the Puklen syenite-alkali granite complex, Nunarssuit, South Greenland. Meddr om Grønland 195 nr 3: 1-74
9. Parsons I (1972) Comparative petrology of the leucocratic syenites of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Geol J 8: 71-82
10. Parsons I (1972) A Preliminary description of the Klokken Intrusion. Grønlands Geol Unders, Report of Activities 1971: 29-32
11. Parsons I (1973) Classification of K-feldspar polymorphs by X-ray means. Min Mag 39: 117-119
12. Robertson RCR, Parsons I (1974) The Loch Loyal syenites. Scot J Geol 10: 129-146
13. Smith P, Parsons I (1974) The alkali-feldspar solvus at 1 kilobar water vapour pressure. Min Mag 39: 747-767
14. Parsons I, Smith P (1974) Experimental studies of sodic microperthites from the Loch Ailsh syenite. Lithos 7: 217-225
15. Parsons I (1975) High temperature homogenization behaviour of some sodic microperthites. Min Mag 40: 59-64
16. Blaxland AB, Parsons I (1975) Age and origin of the Klokken gabbro-syenite intrusion, South Greenland: Rb-Sr study. Medd Dansk Geol Foren 24: 27-32
17. Parsons I (1978) Feldspars and fluids in cooling plutons (Hallimond Lecture 1977). Min Mag 42: 1-17
18. Parsons I (1978) Alkali-feldspars: which solvus? Phys Chem Min 2: 199-213
19. Parsons I (1979) The Klokken gabbro-syenite complex, South Greenland: cryptic variation and origin of inversely graded layering. J Petrol 20: 653-694
20. Parsons I (1979) The Assynt alkaline suite. In: Harris AL, Holland CH, Leake BE, eds: British Caledonides Reviewed. Geol Soc London: 677-681
21. Parsons I (1980) Alkali-feldspar and Fe-Ti oxide exsolution textures as indicators of the distribution and subsolidus effects of magmatic 'water' in the Klokken layered syenite intrusion, South Greenland. Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 71: 1-12
22. Parsons I (1981) The Klokken gabbro-syenite intrusion, South Greenland: quantitative interpretation of mineral chemistry. J Petrol 22: 233-260
23. Parsons I, Butterfield AW (1981) Sedimentary features of the Nunarssuit and Klokken syenites, South Greenland. J Geol Soc London 138: 289-306
24. Brown WL, Parsons I (1981) Towards a more practical two feldspar geothermometer. Contrib Mineral Petrol 76: 369-377
25. Jacquemin H, Gouhier J, Brown WL, Parsons I (1981) Les associations minerales du complexe anorogenique de Mboutou (Nord Cameroun). Comptes Rendues Acad Sci Paris 292: 203-206
26. Batten DJ, Brown PE, Dawes PR, Higgins AK, Eske Koch B, Parsons I, Soper NJ (1981) Peralkaline volcanicity on the Eurasia Basin margin. Nature 294: 150-152
27. Brown PE, Parsons I (1981) The Kap Washington Group volcanics. Report of the 1980 geological expedition to the Peary Land region, North Greenland. Rapp Grønlands Geol Unders 106: 65-68
28. Parsons I (1981) Volcanic centres between Frigg Fjord and Midtkap, Eastern North Greenland. Report of the 1980 geological expedition to the Peary Land region, North Greenland. Rapp Grønlands Geol Unders 106: 69-75
29. Brown WL, Parsons I, Becker SM (1982) L'evolution des textures des cryptoperthites en fonction de leur position dans le succession litée de la syenite de Klokken, Groenland. Comptes Rendues Acad Sci Paris 294: 583-586
30. Parsons I, McKirdy AP (1983) The inter-relationship of igneous activity and thrusting in Assynt: excavations at Loch Borralan. Scot J Geol 19: 59-67
31. Parsons I, Brown WL (1983) A TEM and microprobe study of a two-perthite alkali gabbro: implications for the ternary feldspar system. Contrib Mineral Petrol 82: 1-12
32. Brown WL, Becker SM, Parsons I (1983) Cryptoperthites and cooling rate in a layered syenite pluton: a chemical and TEM study. Contrib Mineral Petrol 82: 13-25
33. Brown WL, Parsons I (1983) Nucleation on perthite-perthite boundaries and exsolution mechanisms in alkali feldspars. Phys Chem Min 10: 55-61
34. Brown WL, Parsons I (1984) Exsolution mechanisms and kinetics in an ordered cryptoperthite series. Contrib Mineral Petrol 86: 3-18
35. Parsons I, Brown WL (1984) Feldspars and the thermal history of igneous rocks. In: Brown WL ed: Feldspars and feldspathoids: structure, properties and occurrences. NATO ASI Series C, Reidel Publishing Co Dordrecht: 317-371
36. Brown WL, Parsons I (1984) The nature of potassium feldspar, exsolution microtextures and development of dislocations as a function of composition in perthitic alkali feldspars. Contrib Mineral Petrol 86: 335-341
37. Brown WL, Parsons I (1985) Calorimetric and phase-diagram approaches to two-feldspar geothermometry: a critique. Amer Min 70: 356-361
38. Mason RA, Parsons I, Long JVP (1985) Trace and minor element chemistry of alkali feldspars in the Klokken layered syenite series. J Petrol 26: 952-970
39. Parsons I, Becker SM (1986) High temperature fluid-rock interactions in a layered syenite pluton. Nature 321: 764-769
40. Parsons I, Brown WL (1986) Feldspars as cooling-rate meters in igneous rocks. In: Geology in the real world-the Kingsley Dunham volume. Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: 321-332
41. Parsons I, Brown WL, Jacquemin H (1986) Mineral chemistry and crystallization conditions of the Mboutou layered gabbro-syenite complex, North Cameroon. J Petrol 27: 1305-1329
42. Parsons I, Becker SM (1987) Layering, compaction and postmagmatic processes in the Klokken intrusion. In: Parsons I ed: Origins of Igneous Layering. NATO ASI Series, C 196, Reidel Publishing Co, Dordrecht: 29-92
43. Halliday AN, Aftalion M, Parsons I, Dickin AP, Johnson MRW (1987) Syn-orogenic alkaline magmatism and its relationship to the Moine Thrust Zone and the thermal state of the lithosphere in Northwest Scotland. J Geol Soc London 144: 707-715
44. Brown PE, Parsons I, Becker SM (1987) Peralkaline volcanicity in the Arctic Basin - the Kap Washington Volcanics, petrology and palaeotectonics.  J Geol Soc London 144: 707-715
45. Parsons I, Brown WL (1988) Sidewall crystallization in the Klokken intrusion: zoned ternary feldspars and coexisting minerals. Contrib Mineral Petrol 98: 431-443
46. Brown WL, Parsons I (1988) Zoned ternary feldspars in the Klokken intrusion: exsolution textures and mechanisms. Contrib Mineral Petrol 98: 444-454
47. Parsons I, Rex DC, Guise P, Halliday AN (1988) Argon-loss by alkali feldspars. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 52: 1097-1112
48. Brown WL, Parsons I (1989) Alkali feldspars: ordering rates, phase transformations and behaviour diagrams for igneous rocks. Min Mag 53: 25-42
49. Harrison TN, Parsons I, Brown PE (1990) Mineralogical evolution of fayalite-bearing rapakivi granites from the Prins Christian Sund pluton, South Greenland. Min Mag 54: 57-66
50. Worden RH, Walker FDL, Parsons I, Brown WL (1990) Development of microporosity, diffusion channels and deuteric coarsening in perthitic alkali feldspars. Contrib Mineral Petrol 104: 507-515
51. Parsons I, Brown WL (1991) Mechanisms and kinetics of exsolution - structural control of diffusion and phase behavior in alkali feldspars. In: Ganguly J ed: Diffusion and flow in minerals and fluids. Advances in physical geochemistry, vol 9. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 306-346
52. Parsons I, Mason RA, Finch AA, Becker SM (1991) Biotite equilibria and fluid circulation in the Klokken intrusion. J Petrol 32: 1299-1333
53. Burgess R, Kelley SP, Parsons I, Walker FDL, Worden RH (1992) ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar analysis of perthite microtextures and fluid inclusions in alkali feldspars from the Klokken syenite, South Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 109: 147-167
54. Waldron KA, Parsons I (1992) Feldspar microtextures and the multi-stage thermal history of syenites from the Coldwell Complex, Ontario. Contrib Mineral Petrol 111: 222-234
55. Brown WL, Parsons I (1993)  Storage and release of elastic strain energy:  the driving force for low temperature reactivity and alteration of alkali feldspars. In: Boland, JN and Fitz Gerald J, eds: Defects and Processes in the Solid State:  Geoscience Applications (The McLaren Volume).  Elsevier: 267-290
56. Waldron KA, Parsons I, Brown WL (1993) Solution-redeposition and the orthoclase-microcline transformation: evidence from granulites and relevance to ¹⁸O exchange. Mineral Mag 57: 687-695
57. Burgess R, Parsons I (1994) Argon and halogen geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids in the Loch Ainort granite, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Contrib Mineral Petrol 115: 345-355
58. Brown WL, Parsons I (1994) Feldspars in igneous rocks.  In: Parsons I, ed: Feldspars and Their Reactions. NATO ASI Series, C 421, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 449-499
59. Waldron KA, Lee MR, Parsons I (1994) The microstructures of perthitic alkali feldspars revealed by hydrofluoric acid etching.  Contrib Mineral Petrol 116: 360-364
60. Young BN, Parsons I, Threadgould R (1994) Carbonatite near the Loch Borralan Intrusion, Assynt. J Geol Soc. 150: 945-954
61. Lee MR, Waldron KA, Parsons I (1995) Exsolution and alteration microtextures in alkali feldspar phenocrysts from the Shap granite.  Mineral Mag. 59: 63-78
62. Walker FDL, Lee MR, Parsons I (1995) Micropores and micropermeable texture in alkali feldspars: geochemical and geophysical implications.  Mineral Mag. 59: 507-536
63. Lee MR, Parsons I (1995) Microtextural controls of weathering of perthitic alkali feldspars. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 59: 4465-4488
64. Finch AA, Parsons I, Mingard SC (1995) Biotites as indicators of fluorine fugacities in late-stage magmatic fluids: the Gardar province of South Greenland. J Petrol 36: 1701-1728
65. Upton BGJ, Parsons I, Emeleus CH, Hodson ME (1996) Layered alkaline igneous rocks of the Gardar province, South Greenland.  In: Cawthorn, G, ed: Proceedings of meeting on layered igneous rocks, South Africa, 1993: 331-363
66. Lee MR, Parsons I (1997) Compositional and microtextural zoning in alkali feldspars from the Shap granite and its geochemical implications.  Journal of the Geological Society of London 154: 183-188
67. Lee MR, Waldron KA, Parsons I, Brown WL (1997) Feldspar--fluid interactions in braid microperthites: pleated rims and vein microperthites. Contrib Mineral Petrol 127: 291-304
68. Brown WL, Lee MR, Waldron KA, Parsons I (1997) Strain-driven disordering of low microcline to low sanidine during partial phase separation in microperthites.  Contrib Mineral Petrol 127: 305-313
69. Lee MR, Parsons I (1997)  Dislocation formation and albitization in alkali feldspars from the Shap granite. American Mineralogist 82: 557-570
70. Zhang M, Salje EKH, Carpenter MA, Parsons I, Kroll H, Reed SJB, Graeme-Barber A (1997)  Exsolution and Al-Si disorder in alkali feldspars: Their analysis by infrared spectroscopy.  American Mineralogist 82: 849-857
71. Hodson ME, Lee MR, Parsons I (1997)  Origins of the surface roughness of unweathered alkali feldspar grains.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61: 3885-3896
72. Lee MR, Parsons I (1998) Microtextural controls of diagenetic alteration of detrital alkali feldspars: a case study of the Shap conglomerate (Lower Carboniferous), North-west England.  J Sedimentary Research 68: 198-211
73. Thompson P, Parsons I, Graham CM, Jackson B (1998)  The breakdown of potassium feldspar at high water pressures.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 130: 176-186
74. Lee MR, Hodson, ME and Parsons I (1998)  The role of intragranular microtextures and microstructures in chemical and mechanical weathering: direct comparisons of experimentally and naturally weathered alkali feldspars.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62: 2771-2788
75. Parsons I, Lee MR, Smith JV (1998)  Biochemical evolution: II.  Origin of life in tubular microstructures on weathered feldspar surfaces.  Proc National Academy of Sciences USA 95: 15173-15176
76. Smith JV, Arnold FP, Parsons I, Lee MR (1999)  Biochemical evolution: III.  Polymerization on organophilic silica-rich surfaces; crystal chemical modeling; formation of the first cells; geological clues.  Proc National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 3479-3485
77. Parsons I, Brown WL, Smith JV (1999)  ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar thermochronology using alkali feldspars: real thermal history or mathematical mirage of microtexture?  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 136: 92-110
78. Lee MR, Parsons I (1999)  Biomechanical and biochemical weathering of lichen-encrusted granite: textural controls on organic–mineral reactions and deposition of silica-rich layers.  Chemical Geology 161: 385-397
79. Parsons I, Lee MR (2000)  Alkali feldspars as microtextural markers of fluid flow.  In:  Stober, I and Bucher, K eds: Hydrogeology of crystalline rocks.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht: 27-50
80. Lee MR, Thompson P, Poeml P, Parsons I (2003)  Peristeritic plagioclase in North Sea hydrocarbon reservoir rocks: implications for diagenesis, provenance and stratigraphic correlation.  American Mineralogist 88: 866-875
81. Lee MR, Parsons I (2003)  Microtextures of authigenic Or-rich feldspar in the Upper Jurassic Humber Group, UK North Sea.  Sedimentology 50: 1-12.
82. Parsons I, Thompson P, Lee MR, Cayzer N (in review) Alkali feldspar microtextures as provenance indicators in siliciclastic rocks and their role in feldspar dissolution during transport and diagenesis.  Journal of Sedimentary Research
83. Lee MR, Parsons I (in prep)  Microtextural evolution of pegmatite alkali feldspars: fluid-mediated alteration of strain controlled perthites and formation of semicoherent Albite pseudotwins.  American Mineralogist
84. Young, BN, Goodenough K, Parsons I (in prep)  The minor intrusive rocks of Assynt.  Mineralogical Magazine

Minor Publications

1. Parsons I (1979) Alkali-feldspars: which solvus? Progress in Experimental Petrology: 4th Progress Report of Research Supported by NERC, 1975-1978: 248-249
2. Parsons I (1979) Feldspars and fluids in cooling plutons. Progress in Experimental Petrology: 4th Progress Report of Research Supported by NERC, 1975-1978: 249-251
3. Parsons I (1980) Intrusive centres south of the Harder Fjord fault and dolerite dykes east of Weyprecht Sund. Express Report, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, Peary Land - Kronprins Christian Land expedition, 1980.
4. Brown PE, Parsons I (1980) The Kap Washington volcanics. Express Report, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, Peary Land - Kronprins Christian Land expedition, 1980.
5. Parsons I, Brown WL (1981) Two feldspar geothermometers. Progress in Experimental Petrology: 5th Progress Report of Research Supported by NERC, 1978-1980: 219-22
6. Parsons I (1981) Effect of pressure on the alkali feldspar solvus. Progress in Experimental Petrology: 5th Progress Report of Research Supported by NERC, 1978-1980: 222-24
7. Parsons I (1985) Perthite. 1986 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology: 338-340
8. 8 Parsons I (1985) Encyclopaedia Britannica (Micropaedia) Entry on Feldspar
9. Parsons I (1989) Encyclopaedia of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology. Ed Bowes DR . Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.  Sections on: diorite and tonalite (128-129); feldspathoidal rocks - genesis (163-166); intermediate rocks (251-252); monzonite (389-390); nephelinite (391-392); phonolite (461-462); syenite (551-553); trachyte (571-572).
10. Parsons I (1992) Arthur Holmes 'Physical Geology'. Edited by D Duff. Revision of Chapter on Materials of the Earth's Crust: Atoms and Minerals, pp.33-55.
11. Parsons I (1992) The British Tertiary Volcanic Province. CH Emeleus and M Gyopari.  Geological Conservation Review. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Chapman and Hall, London.  Foreword.
12. Parsons I (1993) The Encyclopaedia of the Solid‑Earth Sciences. Ed Kearney P. Blackwell Scientific Publications. Sections on: Feldspar Minerals, (240-244); Feldspathoid Minerals, (244-245); Silica Minerals, (568-569).
13. Threadgould R, Parsons I, Young BN (1994) The Assynt Carbonatite. Earth Heritage 1: 25-26
14. Parsons I (2002) Mineralogy for the New Millenium.  (Introduction).  Mineralogical Magazine–A Journal of Mineral Sciences, 66: 625

Books

1. Johnson MRW, Parsons I (1979) Geological Excursion Guide to the Assynt District of Sutherland. Edinburgh Geological Society, pp 76
2. Parsons I ed (1987) Origins of Igneous Layering. NATO ASI Series, C 196,
   D. Reidel Publishing Co, Dordrecht, pp 666 + xxii
3. Parsons I ed (1994) Feldspars and Their Reactions. NATO ASI Series, C 421, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 650 + xxx
4. Stephenson D, Bevins RE, Millward D, Highton AJ, Parsons I, Stone P, Wadsworth, WJ (2000) Caledonian Igneous Rocks of Great Britain.  Geological Conservation Review, Volume 17 pp 648.  (Chapter 4: Late Ordovician to mid-Silurian alkaline intrusions of the North-west Highlands of Scotland, 345-393).  Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
5. Parsons I ed (2002)  Mineralogy for the New Millenium.  Plenary lectures of the 18th IMA General Meeting, Edinburgh, 2002.  Edited number of Mineralogical Magazine-A Journal of Mineral Sciences

Maps

1. 1:100 000 Harder Fjord (1986). Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (with PE Brown, JD Friderichsen, AK Higgins, SAS Pedersen, NJ Soper)
2. 1:500 000 Peary Land. Geological Map of Greenland, sheet 8 (1986). Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (with 25 others)
3. 1:500 000 Nyeboe Land. Geological Map of Greenland, sheet 7 (1989). Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse (with 21 others)

Book reviews

1. 1970 Feldspars, by TFW Barth. Geological Journal 7
2. 1974 The Feldspars. Eds WS MacKenzie and J Zussman. New Scientist 62
3. 1974 Feldspar Minerals, vols 1 and 2, by JV Smith. Nature 252
4. 1975 Feldspar Minerals, vol 2, by JV Smith. Min Mag 40
5. 1977 Elementary thermodynamics for geologists, by BJ Wood and D Fraser. Min Mag 41
6. 1981 An introduction to mineralogy, by WJ Phillips, and Principles of mineral behaviour, by A Putnis and JDC McConnell. Open Earth 13
7. 1982 Crystallography: an introduction for Earth Science (and other solid state) students, by EJW Whittaker, and Mineralogy for students by MH Battey. Open Earth 16
8. 1984 Thermodynamics of minerals and melts by A Navrotsky and BJ Wood. Open Earth 20
9. 1984 Rock forming minerals, vol 1A: Orthosilicates, by WA Deer, RA Howie and J Zussman. Open Earth 20
10. 1985 Igneous petrology, by CJ Hughes, and Petrology: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic by EG Ehlers and H Blatt. Open Earth 21
11. 1988 Igneous petrology, by AR McBirney. Min Mag 52
12. 1988 Alkaline igneous rocks, eds GD Fitton and BGJ Upton. J Petrol 29
13. 1992 Mixtures and mineral reactions, by J Ganguly and SK Saxena. Min Mag 56
14. 1992 Rock Forming Minerals: 2nd edition, by WA Deer, RA Howie and J Zussman. Min Mag 56
15. 1993 Modern methods in igneous petrology: understanding magmatic processes, eds J Nicholls and JK Russell. Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy, vol 24. Min Mag 57
16. 1998 Alkaline rocks: petrology and mineralogy, eds RH Mitchell, GN Eby and RF Martin.  Special number of Canadian Mineralogist, 34 part 2.  Min Mag 62
17. 1999 Geology of Rum and adjacent islands.  Memoir for 1: 50 000 Geological Sheet 60 (Scotland), by CH Emeleus.  British Geological Survey.  Scott J Geol 35
18. 2001 Rock Forming Minerals: 2nd edition:  Feldspars, by WA Deer, RA Howie and J Zussman. Min Mag 65

Abstracts (since 1976 only)

1. Mason RA, Parsons I (1976) New data on the stability of low albite and the effect of ordering on the alkali feldspar solvus. Min Soc Bull 30: 9
2. Parsons I (1976) Feldspars and fluids in cooling plutons. Min Soc Bull 33: 5-6
3. Parsons I (1976) Alkali feldspars: which solvus? Programme, NATO ASI 'Thermodynamics in Geology', Oxford
4. Brown WL, Parsons I (1978) Les geothermometres a deux feldspaths - une critique. 6^e Reunion Annuelle des Sciences de la Terre, Orsay: 75
5. Brown WL, Parsons I (1978) Evolution des textures des perthites dans le massif de Klokken, province du Gardar (Groenland du Sud). 6^e Reunion Annuelle des Sciences de la Terre, Orsay: 301
6. Parsons I (1980) Magmatic processes in layered syenites and granites from the Gardar province, South Greenland. Geol Soc Newsletter 9: 29
7. Brown WL, Parsons I, Becker SM (1982) Evolution des textures des cryptoperthites en fonction de leur hauteur dans le serie litee de la syenite de Klokken, Groenland. Etude en microscopie electronique. 7^e Reunion Annuelle des Sciences de la Terre, Paris.
8. Parsons I, Brown WL, Becker SM (1982) Cryptoperthites and cooling rate in a layered syenite pluton. Min Soc Bull 56: 3
9. Parsons I, Brown WL (1982) A TEM, microprobe and cathodoluminescence study of a two-perthite alkali gabbro: implications for the ternary feldspar system. Min Soc Bull 56: 4
10. Brown WL, Parsons I (1983) Exsolution and coarsening mechanisms in cryptoperthites from a layered syenite pluton - subsolidus and hydrothermal effects. 3rd EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Cognita 3: 160
11. Parsons I, Brown WL (1983) A TEM and microprobe study of a two-perthite alkali-gabbro - phase relations, dislocation periodicity and exsolution mechanisms. 3rd EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Cognita 3: 160
12. Brown WL, Parsons I (1983) Exsolution periodicities, morphologies and ordering rates in alkali feldspars as a function of cooling rate. NATO ASI on feldspars and feldspathoids, Rennes. Abstracts: 56
13. Brown WL, Parsons I (1983) Exsolution mechanisms in alkali feldspars. NATO ASI on feldspars and feldspathoids, Rennes. Abstracts: 59
14. Parsons I, Brown WL (1983) Feldspars and the thermal history of igneous rocks. NATO ASI on feldspars and feldspathoids, Rennes. Abstracts: 88-90
15. Parsons I (1985) Feldspars as cooling rate meters in igneous rocks. Dunham-Durham Reunion Meeting - Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Abstracts
16. Brown WL, Parsons I (1985) Exsolution microtextures in triclinic-to-monoclinic zoned ternary feldspars.  4th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Cognita 5
17. Parsons I, Brown WL (1985) The petrogenetic significance of the low sanidine to orthoclase or microcline transformation. AGU San Francisco. EOS 66: 1116
18. Parsons I, Rex DC, Guise P, Halliday AN (1985) An ³⁹Ar/⁴⁰Ar study of some Proterozoic crypto- and microperthitic alkali feldspars characterized by TEM.  AGU San Francisco. EOS 66: 1116
19. Brown WL, Parsons I (1985) Phase and twin boundary interaction in exsolution textures in ternary feldspars.  AGU San Francisco. EOS 66: 1117
20. Parsons I, Rex DC, Guise P, Halliday AN (1986) Argon-loss in alkali feldspars. 6th International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Cambridge. Terra Cognita 6.
21. Parsons I, Mason RA, Becker SM (1986) Biotite equilibria and fluid circulation in the Klokken intrusion. Min Soc Geochem Group Meeting, Egham.
22. Brown WL, Parsons I (1988) Intra- and intercrystalline exchange and geothermometry in granulite-facies feldspars. Granulite Conference, Clermont-Ferrand. Terra Cognita 8: 263
23. Harrison TN, Brown PE, Parsons I, Hutton DHW, Dempster TJ, Becker SM (1988) Granulite facies metamorphism, magmatism, and extensional tectonics in the Ketilidian mobile belt of Southern Greenland. Mineralogical Society meeting on High Temperature Metamorphism and Crustal Anatexis. Min Soc Bull 80: 8
24. Worden RH, Walker FDL, Parsons I, Brown WL (1989) Micropores and perthite coarsening. 5th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 1: 290-291
25. Kelly SP, Parsons I, Worden RH, Walker FDL (1989) A laser ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar study of preheated alkali feldspars.  5th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 1: 353
26. Kelly SP, Parsons I, Worden RH, Walker FDL (1989) A laser probe study of argon-loss by alkali feldspars with applications to thermal modelling.  AGU San Francisco. EOS 70: 1404-1405
27. Worden RH, Walker FDL, Parsons I, Elphick SC, Brown WL (1989) Micropores, perthite coarsening and oxygen exchange in alkali feldspars.  AGU San Francisco. EOS 70: 1406
28. Parsons I, Burgess R, Kelly SP (1990) Microtextural controls of argon loss by feldspars. Mineralogical Society meeting on Mineral Textures, Manchester.
29. Parsons I, Finch AA, Mingard SC, Mason RA (1991) Biotite equilibria and fluid composition in Gardar alkaline intrusions. 6th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 3: 433
30. Waldron K, Parsons I, Mitchell RH (1991) TEM analysis of cryptoperthites from syenites of the Coldwell Complex, Ontario, Canada.  6th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 3: 10
31. Walker FDL, Parsons I (1991) Micropores in alkali feldspars. 6th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 3: 9
32. Burgess R, Parsons I, Kelley SP (1991) Laser probe ⁴⁰Ar‑³⁹Ar ages from perthite textures in alkali feldspars.  6th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts 3: 493
33. Burgess R, Parsons I, Kelley SP, Fallick AE (1991) Laser probe ⁴⁰Ar‑³⁹Ar ages from perthite microtextures in alkali feldspars. Frontiers in Isotope Geoscience. Keyworth. Terra Abstracts, supplement to Terra Nova 3: 1
34. Parsons I, Waldron KA, Walker FDL, Burgess R, Kelley SP (1991) Microtextural controls of ⁴⁰Ar loss and ¹⁸O exchange in alkali feldspars. AGU Spring Meeting, 1991. Baltimore.  EOS 72 No. 17: 290 (invited)
35. Burgess R, Fallick AE, Parsons I, Kelley SP (1991) Laser probe ⁴⁰Ar‑³⁹Ar ages from perthitic alkali feldspars.  AGU Spring Meeting, 1991. Baltimore.  EOS 72: 232 (invited)
36. Parsons I, Waldron K, Walker FDL, Burgess R (1992) Fast diffusion pathways in feldspars.  29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto. Workshop on the mineralogical basis of the geochronology of cooling rocks
37. Burgess R, Parsons I, Waldron K (1992) Argon loss and fluids in alkali feldspars.  29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto.  Workshop on the mineralogical basis of the geochronology of cooling rocks
38. Parsons I (1992) How feldspars record the past.  Applications of electron microscopy.  University of Southampton (invited).  
39. Parsons I (1992) Inversely graded layers, load structures and subsolidus modification of mineralogy in the Klokken intrusion, south Greenland.  Meeting of the Societe Francais de Mineralogie et de Cristallographie, Orleans (invited).
40. Hodson MH, Parsons I, Upton BGJ (1993) Layering in the Kungnat and Nunarssuit syenites, South Greenland.  Geological Society, Volcanic Studies Group.  Meeting in memory of Richard Thorpe, Milton Keynes.
41. Waldron KA, Parsons I, Brown WL (1993) Solution‑‑redeposition and the orthoclase‑‑microcline transformation:  evidence from Adirondack granulites.  Geological Society of America, Northeast Section, Burlington, Vermont. GSA Abstracts with Programmes 25, 2: 87
42. Parsons I, Burgess R (1993) Argon and halogen geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids in the Loch Ainort granite, Isle of Skye, Scotland.  7th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts - Supplement No 1 to Terra Nova 5: 465
43. Waldron KA, Parsons I, Brown WL (1993) Alkali feldspar microtextures in Adirondack granulites: Implications for thermal history and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O exchange.  AGU Baltimore. EOS 74, No. 16: 330
44. Finch AA, Parsons I, Hodson M (1994) Biotites as indicators of fluorine fugacities in late stage fluids: the Gardar Province, S. Greenland.  Mineralogical Society, Spring Meeting, 'Mineralogy and geochemistry of the halogens', Kingston University, abstracts.
45. Waldron KA, Lee MR, Parsons I (1994) The microstructures of perthitic alkali feldspars revealed by hydrofluoric acid etching.  Geological Society of America, Spring Meeting. GSA Abstracts with Programmes 26, 3, 78.
46. Parsons I, Lee MR, Waldron KA, Walker FDL, Burgess R, Brown WL (1994) Role of microtexture in isotopic exchange and weathering in alkali feldspars.  4th VM Goldschmidt Conference for the Advancement of Geochemistry, Edinburgh.  Min Mag 58A, 690-1
47. Lee MR, Parsons I, Waldron KA (1994) Exsolution, dislocations, dissolution and reprecipitation in alkali feldspars.  16th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical association, Pisa, 236.
48. 48 Upton BGJ, Parsons I (1995) Dynamic processes in alkalic magma chambers, Gardar Province, South Greenland.  Magmatic Processes.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Sheffield.  Abstracts 13.
49. Hodson M, Parsons I, Upton BGJ, Finch AA (1995) Evidence for the origin of igneous layering phenomena from the Nunarssuit and West Kûngnât syenites, South Greenland.  Magmatic Processes. Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Sheffield.  Abstracts 64.
50. Lee MR, Parsons I (1995)  Microtextural controls on dissolution of perthitic alkali feldspars.  8th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts - Supplement No 1 to Terra Nova 7: 65
51. Parsons I, Lee MR Waldron KA, Brown WL (1995) Mechanisms of fluid-feldspar interaction:  pleats and film perthites.  8th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Abstracts - Supplement No 1 to Terra Nova 7: 152
52. Parsons I, Lee MR (1995) Microtextural answers to geochemical problems: feldspar weathering and fast routes for diffusion.  Geochemistry in Britain: Annual General Meeting of the Geochemistry Group, 1995.  Abstracts.
53. Lee MR, Parsons I (1995) The role of microtexture in feldspar weathering and the importance of sample characterisation.  Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, 1995, New Orleans.  Abstracts with Programmes: A-184
54. Lee MR, Parsons I (1996) Towards quantification of weathering rates in the field: are organic-mineral interactions significant?  Mineralogical Society (Geochemistry Group) Research in Progress meeting, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
55. Parsons I, Lee MR, Brown WL, Waldron KA (1997) Strain-driven reversal of the orthoclase microcline phase transformation during phase separation in braid microperthites.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Cambridge.  Journal of Conference Abstracts 2(1): 57
56. Lee MR, Hodson M, Parsons I (1997) How comparable are the mechanisms of mineral dissolution during natural weathering and in laboratory experiments? 9th EUG, Strasbourg. Terra Nova 9 Abstract Supplement 1: 568
57. Parsons I, Lee MR (1997) Microtextural mechanisms of low temperature replacement reactions in alkali feldspars in cooling granites and warming sediments. 9th EUG, Strasbourg.  Terra Nova 9 Abstract Supplement 1:  422
58. Brown WL, Lee MR, Waldron KA, Parsons I (1997) Strain-driven disordering transformation of low microcline to low sanidine during partial phase separation in pleated rims of cooling braid microperthites.  9th EUG, Strasbourg.  Terra Nova 9 Abstract Supplement 1:  414
59. Lee MR, Hodson ME, Parsons I (1997) The role of microtexture in weathering rates: direct comparisons of experimentally and naturally weathered feldspars.  7th VM Goldschmidt Conference for the Advancement of Geochemistry, Tucson, Arizona.  Abstracts: 124.
60. Parsons I, Lee MR (1997) Replacement reactions in alkali feldspars at near-surface temperaures.  7th VM Goldschmidt Conference for the Advancement of Geochemistry, Tucson, Arizona.  Abstracts: 157.
61. Lee MR, Parsons I (1998) Si-rich layers at lichen-mineral interfaces as an indicator of biochemical weathering.  17th General Meeting, International Mineralogical Association, Toronto.  Abstracts: A49.
62. Parsons I, Lee MR (1998) Chemical zoning in alkali feldspars and its relationship to exsolution microtextures.  17th General Meeting, International Mineralogical Association, Toronto.  Abstracts: A87.
63. Hodson, ME, Lee MR, Parsons I (1998) Direct comparisons of naturally and experimentally weathered feldspar surfaces by scanning probe and electron microscopy.  17th General Meeting, International Mineralogical Association, Toronto.  Abstracts: A90.
64. Lee MR, Parsons I (1999) Biomechanical and biochemical weathering of lichen-encrusted granite: silica-rich layers as diagnostic biochemical reaction products.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Aberdeen
65. Lee MR, Parsons I (1999) What do dissolution experiments tell us about mineral weathering in the field?  Insights from stereo SEM and AFM characterization of alkali feldspars.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Aberdeen
66. Parsons I, Lee MR, Smith JV, Arnold FP (1999).  Feldspar honeycombs and the origin of life.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Aberdeen
67. Parsons I, Lee MR, Brown WL (1999).  Plagioclase microtextures in the Skaergaard and Bushveld intrusions.  AGU Spring Meeting, 1999. Boston.  EOS 80:  S367 (invited)
68. Parsons I, Lee MR, Hodson ME (1999).  Crystal defects in feldspar dissolution and replacement reactions.  Mineralogical Society Winter Meeting, Reading
69. Lee MR, Parsons I (1999)  Persistence of peristeritic plagioclase in the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation (UK North Sea) and its implications for provenance and diagenesis.  British Sedimentology Research Group meeting, Edinburgh
70. Parsons I (2000).  Temporal and thermal evolution of fast diffusion paths in crystals.  Geoscience 2000 Meeting, Manchester.  Abstracts: 160 (invited)
71. Parsons I (2000).  Load structures, compaction and igneous aquifers in the Klokken syenite, South Greenland.  Third Bostok Conference on layered igneous rocks, Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum.  Abtracts.
72. 72 Parsons I, Lee MR (2001).  Etch-pit honeycombs on weathered feldspar surfaces: Catalytic reactors for the origin if life?  11th EUG, Strasbourg.
73. Cayzer NJ, Parsons I, Harley SL (2001).  Feldspar microtextures in Antarctic granulites and the thermal histories of high-grade terrains.  11th EUG, Strasbourg.
74. 74 Lee MR, . Cayzer N, Parsons I (2002) Where is geochronology going?  Insights into intracrystalline reactions from alkali feldspars.  12th VM Goldschmidt Conference for the Advancement of Geochemistry, Davos, Switzerland.  Abstracts
75. Thompson P, Lee MR, Parsons I (2002) The influence of provenance on the diagenetic reactions of detrital feldspars.  18th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Edinburgh.
76. Fitz Gerald JD, Parsons I (2003) A TEM and SEM study of the heating behaviour of alkali feldspar from a subsolvus granite.  Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol.5, 04875.  EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France