Professor Mark Barley
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Contact Details: Email: mbarley@cyllene.uwa.edu.au Phone +61 (0)8 6488 7322 |
Professor and Graduate Research Coordinator,
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences,
The University of Western Australia,
M004, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009,
Australia.
Key Research and Expertise:
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, biosphere, oceans and ore deposits.
Other Expertise:
Igneous petrology and geochemistry.
Tectonic controls on Au and Cu deposits, the origin of iron ores, komatiite hosted Ni deposits, and volcanogenic massive Cu-Zn sulphide deposits.
Member, Steering Committee NASA Astrobiology Drilling Program,
Editorial Board Precambrian Research
Associate Member, Penn State Astrobiology Research Centre
Sellected Publications:
Kump L.R. and Barley M.E., 2007. Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago. Nature, v. 448, p. 1033-1036.
Barley M.E., Bekker A. and Krapez B., 2005. Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 238, p. 156-171.
Barley M.E., Pickard A.L., Khin Zaw, Rak P. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and Vearncombe J.R., 1989. Late Archean convergent margin tectonics and gold mineralization: a new look at the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia. Geology, 17, 826-829.
Barley M.E., 1986. Incompatible element enrichment in Archaean basalts: a consequence of contamination by older sialic crust rather than mantle heterogeneity.Geology, 14,947-950.
Barley M.E., Dunlop J.S.R., Glover J.E. & Groves D.I., 1979. Sedimentary evidence for an Archaean shallow-water volcano-sedimentary facies, Eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 43,74-84.