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Dr Alexander Brasier

Dr Alexander Brasier
Dr Alexander Brasier
Dr Alexander Brasier

Senior Lecturer

51cg
Email Address
a.brasier@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273449
School/Department
School of Geosciences

Biography

Senior Lecturer in Geology, 51cg, 2018 - 

Lecturer in Geology, 51cg, 2014 - 2018

Tenure track postdoc, VU University Amsterdam, 2012 - 2014

Postdoc, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre / Glasgow University, 2009 - 2012

Stratigrapher, Neftex, 2007 - 2009

PhD, University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences, 2003 - 2007

International Exchange student, Queens University Ontario, Canada, 2001 - 2002

BSc Geology, University of Edinburgh, 1999 - 2003

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Honorary Museum Curator for Geology collections, 51cg

Examinations Officer for Geology 2018 - 2023

Academic Lead for Aberdeen Centre for Electron Microscopy, Analysis and Characterisation (ACEMAC): /business-info/facilities-and-expertise/acemac-nano-scale-electron-microscopy-and-analysis-facility-846.php

Member of the Core Facilities / Research Facilities Working Group (2017 - )

Member of the Space Enhanced Teaching Working Group (2018); several Science Teaching Hub working groups (2019 onwards); Reimagining our Campus - Research and Innovation Working Group (2023 - ).

External Memberships

Chair of the Organising Committee, 37th International Meeting of Sedimentology, IAS Aberdeen 2024 (2017 - 2024)

Chief Editor, Sedimentology (2021 - 2024)

Member of the Bureau / Council of Management, International Association of Sedimentologists (2021 - 2024)

Associate Editor, Sedimentology (2017 - 2020)

External examiner for PhD theses, including Hannes Claes (KU Leuven, 2015), Matthew Warke (University of Manchester, 2017), Ying Shields-Zhou (UCL, 2017), Justin Drummond (Queen's Ontario, 2023), Jessica von der Meyden (Cape Town, 2024), Tom Kibblewhite (Bristol, 2025); MRes thesis Stefania Schania (UEA, 2023).

Member of the board of the Scottish Microscopy Society (2021 - )

Prizes and Awards

2020 - 2021 - Funniest Lecturer Award (Aberdeen University Students Association / 51cg)

2018 - 2019 - Most Inspiring Lecturer Award (Aberdeen University Students Association / 51cg)

2020 Sun Shu Prize (International), International Association of Sedimentologists

Research

Current Research

Stable isotope and elemental geochemistry combined with petrography (optical and electron microscopy) of carbonate rocks and sediments for palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, exploring connections between climate, biosphere and tectonics through all of Earth history, from the Quaternary to the Archaean.

Astrobiology and geobiology, including processes of microbe fossilisation and identification of ancient microbial fossils (see for example  and ).

Diagenesis, particularly of carbonate rocks and sediments, distinguishing original from secondary (alteration) features.

Examining deposition and diagenesis of non-marine carbonates (microbial tufas, hot-spring travertines, soil calcretes and cave speleothems), including the impact of the arrival and diversification of vascular plants on these terrestrial carbonates, and on muddy Palaeozoic reefs. I do this using a combination of field techniques, petrography and (isotope and elemental) geochemistry. This work has both applied and academic relevance.

Collaborations

Numerous collaborators, including (but certainly not limited to):

Peir Pufahl (Queen's University, Ontario)

John Reijmer and Hubert Vonhof (VU University, Amsterdam / MPI Mainz)

Enrico Capezzuoli (University of Florence)

Mike Rogerson (Northumbria University)

Tony Fallick (SUERC), Tony Prave (St Andrews), Victor Melezhik (NGU), Dan Condon (BGS)

Anneleen Foubert and Eva de Boever (Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland)

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate Teaching:

GL1005 The Earth through Geological Time (Palaeontology and Stratigraphy)

GL1505 Earth's Materials (Sedimentology)

GL2017 Earth's Life, Environments and Climate through Time (Course Coordinator)

GL2510 Introduction to Field Geology (Arran fieldtrip)

GL4031 Geochemistry and Geofluids (Thurso fieldtrip)

GL4033 Planetary Geology / Applied Geological Synthesis (Course Coordinator)

GL4532 Integrative Geology through Fieldwork

 

MSc Teaching:

GL5561 Earth and Planetary Surface and Internal Processes

GL5563 Astrobiology for Explorers (Course Coordinator)

GL5044 Applied sedimentology and structural geology

Publications

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  • Hot-springs through time, and how to find them

    Brasier, A., Capezzuoli, E., Vonhof, H., Weij, R., Verdegaal, S. J. A., Brogi, A., Rogerson, M., Pufahl, P., Hetherington, A. J., Han, C., Parnell, J.
    Geological Society Special Publications
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  • Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi

    Loron, C. C., Cooper, L. M., Mcmahon, S., Jordan, S. F., Gromov, A. V., Humpage, M., Rodgers, N., Pichevin, L., Vondracek, H., Alexander, R., Dzul, E. R., Brasier, A. T., Krings, M., Hetherington, A. J.
    Science Advances, vol. 12, no. 4, eaec6277
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  • Formation of Mg-silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): environmental versus microbiological drivers

    Mercedes-Martín, R., Sánchez-Román, M., Ayora, C., Rogerson, M., Thomas, C., Van Spanning, R., Brasier, A., Wacey, D., Reijmer, J. J. G.
    Sedimentology, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 1518-1547
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  • Formation of Mg-silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): environmental versus microbiological drivers

    Mercedes-Martín, R., Sánchez-Román, M., Ayora, C., Rogerson, M., Thomas, C., Van Spanning, R., Brasier, A., Wacey, D., Reijmer, J.
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  • Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high-resolution climatic cycles

    Simonet Roda, M., Kim, D., Brasier, A. T., Griesshaber, E., Lee, J. H.
    Sedimentology, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 2448-2469
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  • Ratification of the base of the ICS Geological Time Scale: the Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (GSSA) for the Hadean lower boundary

    Halla, J., Noffke, N., Reis, H., Awramik, S., Bekker, A., Brasier, A., Callefo, F., Choudhury, A., Duda, J., Fedo, C., Galante, D., Haddock, J., Haines, P., Hinnov, L., Hofmann, A., Homann, M., Huston, D., Johnson, S., Kah, L., Kaufman, A., Kovalick, A., Kuchenbecker, M., Köykkä, J., Lowe, D., Nhleko, N., Reno, B., Sanchez, E., Shukla, Y., Smith, A., Zuilen, M. V., Westall, F., Whitehouse, M.
    EPISODES: Journal of International Geoscience , vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 381-389
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  • Did evaporite cements and infiltrated silts assist preservation of reptile tracks in Permian desert sediments?

    Flett, K. E., Hopkins, C., Pugsley, J., Brasier, A.
    Sedimentary Geology, vol. 462, 106591
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  • Sequence stratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications of Cenomanian–Santonian dinocyst assemblages from the Trans¬-Sahara epicontinental seaway: a multivariate statistical approach.

    Usman, M. B., Jolley, D., Brasier, A., Boyce, A. J.
    The Depositional Record, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 91-123
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  • Searching for Life in Hot Spring Carbonate Systems: Investigating Raman Spectra of Carotenoid-Bearing Organic Carbonaceous Inclusions from Travertines of Italy

    O'Donnell, A., Muirhead, D., Brasier, A., Capezzuoli, E.
    Astrobiology, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 163-176
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  • Ikaite formation in streams affected by steel waste leachate: first report and potential impact on contaminant dynamics

    Bastianini, L., Rogerson, M., Brasier, A., Prior, T. J., Hardman, K., Dempsey, E., Bird, A., Mayes, W.
    Chemical Geology, vol. 644, 121842
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  • Insights into the response of coral biomineralisation to environmental change from aragonite precipitations in vitro

    Castillo Alvarez, C., Penkman, K., Kröger, R., Finch, A., Clog, M., Brasier, A., Still, J., Allison, N.
    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 364, pp. 184-194
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  • Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants

    Spencer, C., Davies, N., Gernon, T. M., Wang, X., McMahon, W., Morrell, T. R., Hincks, T., Pufahl, P., Brasier, A., Seraine, M., Lu, G.
    Nature Geoscience, vol. 15, pp. 735-740
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  • The Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), inorganic aragonite precipitation and seawater chemistry: Insights from the Middle - Late Cambrian Port au Port Group, Newfoundland

    Neilson, J., Barili, R., Brasier, A., De Ros, L. F., Ledingham, S. R.
    Depositional Record, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 502-523
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  • The geomorphological distribution of subaqueous tufa columns within a hypersaline lake: Mono Lake, USA

    Keevil, C., Rogerson, M., Parsons, D., Mercedes-Martín, R., Brasier, A. T., Reijmer, J., Matthews, A.
    Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 530-545
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  • Effects of seawater pCO2 on the skeletal morphology of massive Porites spp. Corals

    Allison, N., Ross, P., Brasier, A., Cieminska, N., López Martín, N., Cole, C., Hintz, C., Hintz, K., Finch, A.
    Marine Biology, vol. 169, no. 6, 73
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  • A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the preCryogenian time scale

    Shields, G. A., Strachan, R. A., Porter, S. M., Halverson, G. P., MacDonald, F., Plumb, K. A., de Alvarenga, C. J., Banerjee, D. M., Bekker, A., Bleeker, W., Brasier, A., Chakraborty, P. P., Collins, A. S., Condie, K., Das, K., Evans, D. A., Ernst, R., Fallick, A. E., Frimmel, H., Fuck, R. A., Hoffman, P. F., Kamber, B. S., Kuznetsov, A. B., Mitchell, R. N., Poire, D. G., Poulton, S. W., Riding, R., Sharma, M., Storey, C., Stueeken, E., Tostevin, R., Turner, E., Xiao, S., Zhang, S., Zhou, Y., Zhu, M.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 179, no. 1, jgs2020-222
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  • Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers

    McMahon, S., Matthews, J., Brasier, A., Still, J.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1962, 20211875
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  • Towards a morphology diagram for terrestrial carbonates: evaluating the impact of carbonate supersaturation and alginic acid in calcite precipitate morphology

    Mercedes-Martín, R., Rogerson, M., Prior, T. J., Brasier, A., Reijmer, J. J., Billing, I., Matthews, A., Love, T., Lepley, S., Pedley, M.
    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 306, pp. 340-361
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  • Observations of reservoir quality alteration in proximity to igneous intrusions for two distinct sandstones units in Scotland

    Duffy, M. H., Farrell, N., Raeside, R., Muirhead, D. K., Healy, D., Brasier, A. T., Schofield, N.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 129, 105071
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  • The North West Highlands UNESCO Global Geopark: Oldest Fossils in Europe

    Benton, M. J., Brasier, A., Harrison, P., Hamlet, L.
    Geoconservation Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 25-42
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  • Did the Benue Trough connect the Gulf of Guinea with the Tethys Ocean in the Cenomanian?: New evidence from the Palynostratigraphy of the Yola Sub-basin

    Usman, M. B., Brasier, A. T., Jolley, D. W., Abubakar, U., Mukkafa, S.
    Cretaceous Research, vol. 119, 104683
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  • Spotting alien life – how ‘microfossils’ could fool scientists

    Brasier, A.
    The Conversation
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  • Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia: Reply

    Liu, A. G., McMahon, S. M., Matthews, J. J., Still, J. W., Brasier, A. T., Marosi, D.
    Geology, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. E474-E474
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  • Detecting ancient life: Investigating the nature and origin of possible stromatolites and associated calcite from a one billion year old lake

    Brasier, A. T., Dennis, P. F., Still, J., Parnell, J., Culwick, T., Brasier, M. D., Wacey, D., Bowden, S. A., Crook, S., Boyce, A. J., Muirhead, D. K.
    Precambrian Research, vol. 328, pp. 309-320
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  • Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia

    Liu, A. G., McMahon, S., Matthews, J. J., Still, J. W., Brasier, A. T.
    Geology, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 215-218
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  • Carbon isotopes, stratigraphy and environmental change: the Middle-Upper Cambrian Positive Excursion (SPICE) in Port-au-Port Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada

    Barili, R., Neilson, J. E., Brasier, A. T., Goldberg, K., Bardola, T. P., De Ros, L. F., Leng, M.
    Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 1209-1222
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  • A microbial role in the construction of Mono Lake carbonate chimneys?

    Brasier, A., Wacey, D., Rogerson, M., Guagliardo, P., Saunders, M., Kellner, S., Mercedes-Martín, R., Prior, T., Taylor, C., Matthews, A., Reijmer, J.
    Geobiology, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 540-555
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  • The hunt for life on Mars: new findings on rock 'chimneys' could hold key to success

    Brasier, A., Wacey, D., Rogerson, M.
    The Conversation
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  • What do we really know about early diagenesis of non-marine carbonates?

    De Boever, E., Brasier, A. T., Foubert, A., Kele, S.
    Sedimentary Geology, vol. 361, pp. 25-51
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  • A depositional model for spherulitic carbonates associated with alkaline, volcanic lakes

    Mercedes-Martín, R., Brasier, A. T., Rogerson, M., Reijmer, J. J. G., Vonhof, H., Pedley, M.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 86, pp. 168-191
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  • Are spherulitic lacustrine carbonates an expression of large-scale mineral carbonation?: A case study from the East Kirkton Limestone, Scotland

    Rogerson, M., Mercedes-Martín, R., Brasier, A. T., McGill, R. A., Prior, T. J., Vonhof, H., Fellows, S. M., Reijmer, J. J. G., McClymont, E. L., Billing, I., Matthews, A., Pedley, M.
    Gondwana Research, vol. 48, pp. 101-109
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  • Earth System Evolution and Early Life: A Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier

    Brasier, A. T., McIlroy, D., McLoughlin, N.
    Books and Reports: Anthologies
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  • Caractérisation sédimentaire de la formation roche mère carbonatée Parnac du Kimméridgien supérieur du Bassin d'Aquitaine (Quercy)

    Bastianini, L., Caline, B., Hoareau, G., Bonnel, C., Martinez, M., Lézin, C., Baudin, F., Brasier, A., Guy, L.
    Bulletin de la Socie´te´ Ge´ologique de France, vol. 188, no. 5, pp. 1-16
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  • Contributions of Professor Martin Brasier to the study of early life, stratigraphy and biogeochemistry

    Brasier, A. T., McIlroy, D., McLoughlin, N.
    Earth System Evolution and Early Life: a Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier. Brasier, A. T., McIlroy, D., McLoughlin, N. (eds.). Geological Society, Specialist Publications, pp. 1-17, 17 pages
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  • Earliest Cretaceous cocoons or plant seed structures from the Wealden Group, Hastings, UK

    Brasier, A. T., Cotton, L. J., Garwood, R. J., Baker-Brian, J., Howlett, E., Brasier, M. D.
    Earth System Evolution and Early Life: a Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier. Brasier, A., McLoughlin, N., McIlroy, D. (eds.). Geological Society, Specialist Publications, pp. 399-411, 13 pages
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  • Evaluating evidence from the Torridonian Supergroup (Scotland, UK) for Eukaryotic life on land in the Proterozoic

    Brasier, A. T., Culwick, T., Battison, L., Callow, R. H. T., Brasier, M. D.
    Earth System Evolution and Early Life: a Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier. Brasier, A. T., McLoughlin, N., McIlroy, D. (eds.). Geological Society, Specialist Publications, pp. 121-144, 24 pages
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  • Primary aragonite and high-Mg calcite in the late Cambrian (Furongian): Potential evidence from marine carbonates in Oman

    Neilson, J. E., Brasier, A. T., North, C. P.
    Terra Nova, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 306-315
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  • 3.46 Ga Apex chert 'microfossils' reinterpreted as mineral artefacts produced during phyllosilicate exfoliation

    Wacey, D., Saunders, M., Kong, C., Brasier, A., Brasier, M.
    Gondwana Research, vol. 36, pp. 296-313
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  • Unusual, basin-scale, fluid–rock interaction in the Palaeoproterozoic Onega basin from Fennoscandia: Preservation in calcite δ18O of an ancient high geothermal gradient

    Fallick, A. E., Melezhik, V. A., Brasier, A. T., Prave, A. R.
    Precambrian Research, vol. 281, pp. 224-235
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  • Growing spherulitic calcite grains in saline, hyperalkaline lakes: Experimental evaluation of the effects of Mg-clays and organic acids

    Mercedes-Martin, R., Rogerson, M. R., Brasier, A. T., Vonhof, H. B., Prior, T. J., Fellows, S. M., Reijmer, J. J. G., Billing, I., Pedley, H. M.
    Sedimentary Geology, vol. 335, pp. 93-102
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  • The Palaeoproterozoic global carbon cycle: insights from the Loch Maree Group, NW Scotland

    Kerr, G. B., Prave, A. R., Martin, A. P., Fallick, A. E., Brasier, A. T., Park, R. G.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 170-176
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  • A Test of the Biogenicity Criteria Established for Microfossils and Stromatolites on Quaternary Tufa and Speleothem Materials Formed in the “Twilight Zone” at Caerwys, UK

    Brasier, A. T., Rogerson, M. R., Mercedes-Martin, R., Vonhof, H. B., Reijmer, J.
    Astrobiology, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 883-900
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  • Carbonate deposition in the Palaeoproterozoic Onega basin from Fennoscandia: a spotlight on the transition from the Lomagundi-Jatuli to Shunga events

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Brasier, A. T., Lepland, A.
    Earth Science Reviews, vol. 147, pp. 65-98
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  • Travertine precipitation in the Paleoproterozoic Kuetsjärvi Sedimentary Formation, Pechenga Greenstone Belt, NE Fennoscandian Shield

    Salminen, P. E., Brasier, A. T., Karhu, J. A., Melezhik, V. A.
    Precambrian Research, vol. 255, no. 1, pp. 181-201
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  • Carbon isotopic evidence for organic matter oxidation in soils of the Old Red Sandstone (Silurian to Devonian, South Wales, UK)

    Brasier, A. T., Morris, J. L., Hilier, R. D.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 171, no. 5, pp. 621-634
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  • Petrography and geochemistry of carbonate rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Russia: Documentation of C-13-depleted non-primary calcite

    Crne, A. E., Melezhik, V. A., Lepland, A., Fallick, A. E., Prave, A. R., Brasier, A. T.
    Precambrian Research, vol. 240, pp. 79-93
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  • Archaean Soils, Lakes and Springs: Looking for Signs of Life

    Brasier, A. T.
    Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life. Dilek, Y., Furnes, H. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 367-384, 18 pages
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  • Earth's earliest global glaciation? Carbonate geochemistry and geochronology of the Polisarka Sedimentary Formation, Kola Peninsula, Russia

    Brasier, A. T., Martin, A. P., Melezhik, V. A., Prave, A. R., Condon, D. J., Fallick, A. E., FAR-DEEP Scientists
    Precambrian Research, vol. 235, pp. 278-294
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  • Caliche

    Brasier, A. T., Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V. A., Kump, L. R., Fallick, A. E., Strauss, H., Hanski, E. J., Prave, A. R., Lepland, A. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 1419-1434, 16 pages
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  • Earth’s Earliest Travertines

    Brasier, A. T., Salminen, P. E., Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E.
    Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V. A., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer, pp. 1435-1456, 22 pages
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  • Enhanced Accumulation of Organic Matter: The Shunga Event

    Strauss, H., Melezhik, V. A., Lepland, A., Fallick, A. E., Hanski, E. J., Filippov, M. M., Deines, Y. E., Illing, C. J., Črne, A. E., Brasier, A. T.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1195-1273, 79 pages
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  • Palaeoproterozoic Stromatolites from the Lomagundi-Jatuli Interval of the Fennoscandian Shield

    Mcloughlin, N., Melezhik, V. A., Brasier, A. T., Medvedev, P. V.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1298-1352, 55 pages
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  • Polisarka sedimentary formation: FAR-DEEP hole 3A

    Melezhik, V. A., Hanski, E. J., Prave, A. R., Lepland, A., Romashkin, A. E., Rychanchik, D. V., Brasier, A. T., Fallick, A. E., Luo, Z. Y., Sharkov, E. V., Bogina, M. M.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: The Core Archive of the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer Heidelberg, pp. 530-550, 21 pages
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  • The Imandra/Varzuga Greenstone Belt

    Melezhik, V. A., Prave, A. R., Lepland, A., Hanski, E. J., Romashkin, A. E., Rychanchik, D. V., Luo, Z., Sharkov, E. V., Bogina, M. M., Brasier, A. T., Fallick, A. E.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: The Core Archive of the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 505-590, 86 pages
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  • The Palaeoproterozoic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lomagundi-Jatuli Isotopic Event

    Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., Martin, A. P., Condon, D. J., Kump, L. R., Brasier, A. T., Salminen, P. E.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V. A., Prave, A. R., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 1111-1150, 40 pages
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  • Tulomozero formation: FAR-DEEP holes 10A and 10B

    Melezhik, V. A., Prave, A. R., Brasier, A. T., Lepland, A., Romashkin, A. E., Rychanchik, D. V., Hanski, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Medvedev, P. V.
    Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: The Core Archive of the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Melezhik, V., Prave, A. R., Hanksi, E. J., Fallick, A. E., Lepland, A., Kump, L. R., Strauss, H. (eds.). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 773-888, 116 pages
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  • Isotopic evidence for massive oxidation of organic matter following the Great Oxidation Event

    Kump, L. R., Junium, C., Arthur, M. A., Brasier, A., Fallick, A., Melezhik, V., Lepland, A., Crne, A. E., Luo, G.
    Science, vol. 334, no. 6063, pp. 1694-1696
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  • Coastal sabkha dolomites and calcitised sulphates preserving the Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotope signal

    Brasier, A. T., Fallick, A. E., Prave, A. R., Melezhik, V. A., Lepland, A., FAR-DEEP Scientists
    Precambrian Research, vol. 189, no. 1-2, pp. 193-211
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  • Diagenesis or dire genesis? The origin of columnar spar in tufa stromatolites of central Greece and the role of chironomid larvae

    Brasier, A. T., Andrews, J. E., Kendall, A. C.
    Sedimentology, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 1283-1302
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  • Searching for travertines, calcretes and speleothems in deep time: Processes, appearances, predictions and the impact of plants

    Brasier, A. T.
    Earth Science Reviews, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 213-239
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  • Earth’s oldest putative fossil assemblage from the ~3.5 Ga Apex chert, Chinaman Creek, Western Australia: a field and petrographic guide

    Brasier, M. D., Green, O. R., Lindsay, J. F., McLoughlin, N., Stoakes, C. A., Brasier, A. T., Wacey, D.
    Perth, Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia. 60 pages
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  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling pursuant to the great oxidation event: evidence from the paleoproterozoic of fennoscandia

    Kump, L., Junium, C., Arthur, M., Brasier, A., Fallick, A., Melezhik, V., Lepland, A., Crne, A., Genming, L., FAR-DEEP Drilling Team
    Journal of earth science, vol. 21, no. S1, pp. 4-5
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  • Depositional continuity of seasonally laminated tufas: implications for delta O-18 based palaeotemperatures

    Brasier, A. T., Andrews, J. E., Marca-Bell, A. D., Dennis, P. F.
    Global and Planetary Change, vol. 71, no. 3-4, pp. 160-167
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  • Late-Pliocene timing of Corinth (Greece) rift-margin fault migration

    Leeder, M. R., Mack, G. H., Brasier, A. T., Parrish, R. R., McIntosh, W. C., Andrews, J. E., Duermeijer, C. E.
    Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 274, no. 1-2, pp. 132-141
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  • Seasonal records of climatic change in annually laminated tufas: short review and future prospects

    Andrews, J. E., Brasier, A. T.
    Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 20, pp. 411-421
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