Researchers

Earth sciences / BARLEY, MARK E.

mark.barley

Position

Winthrop Professor, School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.

Research interests

The evolution of the early Earth (3,500 to 1,500 million years ago).

In particular links between tectonics, volcanic and sedimentary environments and the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and ore deposits.

Prizes and awards

Publications

Barley M.E., Pickard A.L., Khin Zaw, Rak P. & Doyle M.G., 2003. Jurassic to Miocene magmatism and metamorphism in the Mogok Metamorphic Belt: effects of the India-Eurasia collision in Myanmar. Tectonics. 22(3), doi: 10.1029/2002TC001398.

Krapez B., Barley M.E. & Pickard A.L., 2003. Hydrothermal resedimented origin for precursor sediments to banded iron formation, Early Precambrian Hamersley Province, Western Australia. Sedimentology, 50, 1-33.

Barley, M.E., Rak, P., Wyman, D., 2002. Tectonic controls on magmatic-hydrothermal gold mineralisation in the magmatic arcs of southeast Asia. Special Publication of the Geological Society of London. 204, 39-47.

Kump L., Kasting J. & Barley M.E., 2001. The rise of atmospheric oxygen and the “upside-down” Archean mantle. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems. 2, paper no 2000GC00114, 10pp.

Barley M.E., Kerrich R., Ruedavey I. & Xie Q. 2000. Late Archaean Ti-rich, Al-poor komatiites and komatiitic volcaniclastic rocks from the Murchison Terrane in Western Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci., 47, 873-883.

Barley M.E., Pickard A.L., Hagemann S.G. & Folkert S.L., 1999. Hydrothermal origin for the two billion year old Mount Tom Price giant iron ore deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita. 34, 784-789.

Barley M.E., Kerrich R., Krapez B. & Groves D.I., 1998. The 2.72-2.60 Ga bonanza: metallogenic and environmental consequences of the interaction between mantle plumes, lithospheric tectonics and global cyclicity. Precambrian Research., 91, 65-90.

Barley M.E., Pickard A.L. & Sylvester P.J., 1997. Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2.45 billion years ago. Nature, 385, 55-58.

Barley M.E. & Groves D.I., 1992. Supercontinent cycles and the distribution of metal deposits through time. Geology, 20. 291-294.

Barley M.E., Eisenlohr B.N., Groves D.I., Perring C.S. & Vearncombe J.R., 1989. Late Archean convergent margin tectonics and gold mineralization: a new look at the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia. Geology, 17, 826-82