The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Mark Barley

Winthrop Professor
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)

Contact details

Address

Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
The University of Western Australia (M006)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 7322

Fax

6488 1178

Email

mark.barley@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://www.segs.uwa.edu.au/staff/mark.barley

Qualifications

BSc PhD W.Aust.

Key research

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.

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, 826-829.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Igneous petrology and geochemistry.
Tectonic controls on Au and Cu deposits, the origin if iron ores, komatiite hosted Ni deposits, volcanogenic massive Cu-Zn sulphide deposits.

Funding received

ARC Discovery Grant: Precise time scale for the rise of atmospheric oxygen
AMIRA/pmd*CRC project: Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the eastern Yilgarn

Teaching

Coordinator Geology Honours 2005
Coordinator and teaches in Geological Mapping 520.340,
Teaches in Earth Materials 520.231,
Structural Geology and Tectonics 520.343
Our Solar System

Current external positions

Editorial Board Precambrian Research
Member, Executive Research Committee, Predictive Mineral Discovery CRC
Nominating Panel TEE Geology
Member, Steering Committee NASA Astrobiology Drilling Program

Research profile

Research profile and publications