Recent Papers


Bowtell,S, Cliff,R.A. & Barnicoat,A.C.  1994, Sm-Nd isotopic evidence on the age of eclogitisation in the Zermatt-Saas ophiolite. J.Metamorphic Geology 12, 187-196

Ramsbotham, W., Inger, S., Cliff, R.A., Rex, D.C. & Barnicoat, A.C., 1994, Time constraints on the metamorphic and structural evolution of the southern Sesia-Lanzo Zone, Western Italian Alps. Mineralogical Magazine,  58A, (V.M.Goldschmidt Conference, Ext.Abstracts.), 758-759

Park, R.G., Cliff, R.A., Fettes, D.J. & Stewart, A.D. 1994, Precambrian rocks in northwest Scotland west of the Moine Thrust: the Lewisian Complex and Torridonian. in A revised correlation of  Precambrian rocks in the British Isles, Gibbons,W. & Harris, A.L. eds.,Geological Society, London, Special Report No.22, 6-22

 Inger,S. & Cliff,R.A., 1994, Timing of metamorphism in the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps: Rb-Sr ages and fabric formation. J.Metamorphic Geology 12, 695-707

Barnicoat,A.C., Rex,D.C., Guise,P.G. & Cliff, R.A., 1995, The timing and nature of greenschist facies deformation and metamorphism in the upper Pennine Nappes. Tectonics, 14, 279-293

Haggerty,R., Bottrell,S.H., Cliff, R.A. & Rex,D.C., 1995, Constraints on the age and genesis of the Llanrwst and Llanfair-Talhaiarn orefields, North Wales from K-Ar and Rb-Sr studies. Geological Magazine, 132, 387-398

Kamber,B.S., Kramers,J.D., Napier,R, Cliff,R.A. & Rollinson,H.R., 1995, The Triangle Shear Zone, Zimbabwe, revisited: what remains of the Archaean Limpopo orogeny? Precambrian Research, 70, 191-213

Cliff,R.A., Yardley,B.W.D. & Bussy,F., 1996, U-Pb and Rb-Sr geochronology of magmatism and metamorphism in the Dalradian of Connemara, W.Ireland. J.Geological Society, 153, 109-120

Haggerty, R., Cliff, R.A. & Bottrell, S.H., 1996, Pb-isotope evidence for the timing of episodic mineralisation in the Llanrwst and Llanfair-Talhaiarn orefields, North Wales. Mineralium Depositum 31, 93-97

Inger, S., Ramsbotham, W.R., Cliff, R.A. & Rex, D.C., 1996, Metamorphic evolution of the Sesia Lanzo Zone, Western Alps: time constraints from multi-system geochronology. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 126, 152-168.

Todt,W., Cliff,R.A., Hanser,A & Hofmann,A.W., 1996,
Evaluation of a 202Pb-205Pb double spike for high precision lead isotope analysis. in Earth Processes: Reading the isotopic code. A.Basu & S.R.Hart (eds), Geophysical Monograph 95, American Geophysical Union, 429-437.

Freeman,S.R., Inger,S., Butler,R.W.H. & Cliff, R.A., 1997, Dating deformation using Rb-Sr in white micas: greenschist facies deformation ages for the Enterlor Shear Zone, Italian Alps. Tectonics, 16, 57-76.

Rowe, P.J., Richards, D.A., Atkinson, T.C., Bottrell, S.H. & Cliff, R.A., 1997, Geochemistry and radiometric dating of a middle Pleistocene peat. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 4201-4211

Cliff, R.A., Barnicoat, A.C. & Inger, S., 1998, Early Tertiary eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Monviso Ophiolite. Journal Metamorphic Geology, 16, 447-455

Cliff, R.A., Rex, D.C. & Guise, P.G., 1998, Geochronological studies of Proterozoic crustal evolution in the northern Outer Hebrides,
Precambrian Research, 91, 401-418

Napier, R.W., Guise, P.G. and Rex, D.C., 1998,  40Ar/39Ar constraints on the timing and history of amphibolite facies gold mineralisation in the Southern Cross area, Western Australia.  Austral. Jour. Earth Sciences. 45, 285-296

Smellie, J.L., Millar, I.L., Rex, D.C. and Butterworth, P.J., 1998,  Subaqueous, basaltic lava dome and carapace breccia on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.  Bull. Volcanol. 59, 245-261

Upton, B.G.J., Aspen, P., Rex, D.C. Melcher, F. and Kinny, P, 1998,. Lower crustal and possible shallow mantle samples from beneath the Hebrides: evidence from a xenolithic dyke at Gribun, western Mull.  Jour. Geol. Soc. 155, 813-828

Whitehouse, M.J., Windley, B.F., Fanning, C.M. Mahfood, A.O.B. and Rex, D.C., 1998,  Crustal evolution and terrane correlation in the eastern Arabian Shield, Yemen: geochronological constraintsJour. Geol. Soc. 155, 281-295.

Freeman, S R; Butler, R W H; Cliff, R A; Inger, S; Barnicoat, A C, 1998, Deformation migration in an orogen-scale shear zone array: an example from the Basal Briançonnais Thrust, internal Franco-Italian Alps. Geological Magazine, 135, 349-367

Freeman, S R; Butler, R W H; Cliff, R A; Rex, D C, 1998, Direct dating of mylonite evolution: a multi-disciplinary geochronological study from the Moine Thrust Zone, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 155, 745-758.

Richards,D.A., Bottrell,S.H., Cliff, R.A., Rowe, P.J. & Ströhle,K-D., 1998, U-Pb dating of a Quaternary-aged speleothem. Geochimica Cosmochmica Acta, 62, 3683-3688.

Clifford, T.N., Rex, D.C., Green, R.,Le Roex, A.P., Pienaar, H.S. and Buhmann, D., 1999  Chromian illite-ankerite-quartz parageneses from the Kintail district of southern Ross-shire, Scotland.  Mineralogical Mag. 63(1), 37-52.

Krom.M.D., Cliff, R.A., Eijsink, L.M., Herut, S. & Chester, R., 1999, The characterisation of Saharan dusts and Nile particulate matter in surface sediments from the Levantine basin using Sr isotopes. Marine Geology, 155, 319-330

Reddy, S,.M., Wheeler, J. & Cliff, R.A., The geometry and timing of orogenic extension: an example from the Western Italian Alps. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, 573-590

Krom, M.D., Michard, A., Cliff, R.A. & Ströhle, K-D., 1999, Sources of sediment to the Ionian Sea and the western Levantine basin of the Eastern Mediterranean during S-1 sapropel time. Marine Geology 160, 45-61

Searle, M.P., Noble, S.R, Hurford, A.J. and Rex, D.C., 1999,   Age of Crustal melting, emplacement and exhumation history of the Shiviling leucogranite, Garhwal HimalayaGeol Mag 136 (5) pp 513-525,

Larsen, L.M., Rex, D.C., Watt, W.S. and Guise, P.G., 1999, 40Ar/39Ar dating of alkali basaltic dykes along the south-west coast of Greenland: Cretaceous and Tertiary igneous activity along the eastern margin of the Labrador SeaGeology of Greenland Survey, Bulletin 184, 19-29, .

Searle, M.P., Waters, D.J, Dransfield, M.W.,Stephenson, B.J., Walker, C.B., Walker, J.D. and Rex, D.C.,  1999, Thermal and mechanical models for the structural and metamorphic evolution of the Zanskar High HimalayaIn Continental Tectonics, Geological Society Special Pub. No. 164, pp 139-156,

Treloar, P.J., Rex, D.C., Guise, P.G.,Wheeler, J, Hurford, A.J. and Carter A.,2000,  Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the Nanga Parbat syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya.  In Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya, Geological Society Special Pub. No. 170, pp 137-162,

Ebinger, C.J., Yemane, T., Harding, D.J., Tesfaye, S., Kelley, S. and Rex, D.C., 2000,  Rift deflection, migration, and propagation: Linkage of the Ethiopian and Eastern rifts, Africa.  GSA Bulletin 112, p 163-176.

Flowerdew, M.J., Daly, J.S., Guise, P.G. and Rex, D.C., 2000,   Isotopic dating of overthrusting, collapse and related granitoid intrusion in the Grampian orogenic belt, nothwestern Ireland Geol. Mag. 137, No. 4, 419-435.

De Jong, K., Kurimoto C. and Guise, P.G. (In press).  40Ar/39Ar whole rock dating of metapelites from the Mikabu and Sambagawa belts, western Kii peninsula, southwest Japan.  Journal of Geol. Soc. of Japan.
Banks, D.A., Green, R, Cliff, R.A. & Yardley, B.W.D., 2000, Chlorine isotopes in fluid inclusions: Determination of the origins of salinity in magmatic fluids. Geochimica Cosmochmica Acta, 64, 1785-1789

Banks, D.A., Green, R, Cliff, R.A. & Yardley, B.W.D., 2000, Chlorine isotopes in fluid inclusions: Determination of the origins of salinity in magmatic fluids. Geochimica Cosmochmica Acta, 64, 1785-1789

Rosenbaum, J.M., Cliff, R.A. & Coleman, M.L., 2000, Chlorine stable isotopes: a comparison of dual inlet and thermal ionisation mass spectrometric measurements. Analytical Chemistry, 72, 2261-2264



 

Conference Presentations

Robert A. Cliff, Koen de Jong, Dave C. Rex & Philip G. Guise, 1997, Evaluation of  Rb-Sr hornblende dating of sheared metabasites from the Kola Peninsula: an alternative to 40Ar/39Ar where excess argon is present. Terra Nova 9, Abstract supplement 1, 488

S. Meffan-Main & R.A. Cliff, 1997, Reliable dating of metamorphic fabrics in Alpine basement rocks using Rb-Sr
microsampling. Terra Nova 9, Abstract supplement 1, 486-487

Ströhle,K., Krom, M.D., Cliff, R.A. & Raiswell, R.W. 1997, Strontium isotope systematics of the eastern Mediterranean detrital sediment fraction. Terra Nova 9, Abstract supplement 1, 409
 

Cliff, R.A. & Dodson, M.H., 1997, New methods for Cl and Rb isotopic analysis: killing two isotopic birds with one molecular stone. In Seventh Annual V.M.Goldschmidt Conference, p52, LPI Contribution No. 921, Lunar and Planetary Science Institute, Houston.

Meffan-Main, S. & Cliff, R.A., 1997, Strontium isotope exchange on a sub-millimetre scale and the implications for rubidium-strontium dating of basement gneisses. In Seventh Annual V.M.Goldschmidt Conference, 139-140, LPI Contribution No 921, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston

Cliff, R.A., Oberli, F., Meier, M. & Droop, G.T.R, 1998, Achieving geological precision in metamorphic geochronology: a Th-Pb age for the syn-metamorphic formation of the Mallnitzermulde synform, Tauern Window, from individual allanite porphyroblasts. ineralogical Magazine, 62A, 337-338

Cliff, R.A., Guise, P.G., Rex, D.C. & de Jong, K., 1998, Comparison of  Rb-Sr and 40Ar-39Ar geochronology of hornblende from the Precambrian of the Kola Peninsula, Russia using microsampling techniques. GAC/MAC Annual Meeting, Québec 1998

Cliff, R.A. & Droop, G.T.R, 1998, Growth of syn-tectonic allanite porphyroblasts in a pelitic schist from the SE Tauern Window, Austria. Metamorphic Studies Group , "Accessory minerals in metamorphism", Geological Society, London, November 1998

De Jong, K., Guise, P.G., Timmerman, M.J. and Daly, J.S.  The Paleoproterozoic Lapland Kola Orogen: the importance of thermal resetting and the existence of tectonic phases, shown by 40Ar/39Ar mineral ages.  Europrobe Svekalapko Workshop, Repino, Russia, 26-29th Nov. 1998.

De Jong K., Kurimoto C., Guise P.G.  and Wijbrans J.R.  40Ar/39Ar whole-rock ages of the Sambagawa Belt from the western Kii Peninsula, (Wakayama Prefecture): constraints on the timing of accretion and reactivation along the Aridagawa tectonic line.  Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan, Matsumoto, Japan 25-27 September, 1998.

Hallam, G.E., Cliff, R.A., Fisher, Q.J., Cook, R. & Macaulay, C.I., 1998, Influence of fluid flow on Rotliegendes Sandstone diagenesis - microstructural and isotopic evidence from the Bell Field, Southern North Sea. Mineral Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality - the way forward, Cambridge, March 1998

Meffan-Main, S. & Cliff, R.A. Meffan-Main S, Palacz Z & Cliff B, 1999, Intercrystalline 3-Dimensional Isotopic Profiling of Minerals: A New era for Geochronology? J.Conf.Abs., 4/1,

Wheeler J, Reddy SM & Cliff RA, 1999, Internal Zone Extension and Alpine Orogenic Dynamics. J.Conf.Abs., 4/1, 1999

de Jong K, Timmerman M, Guise P, Cliff B, Balagansky V, Daly S & Rex D, 1999, The Paleoproterozoic Lapland Kola Orogen (Russia): Late-Stage Thermal Resetting and the Existence of Tectonic Phases, Shown by 40Ar/39Ar Mineral Ages. J.Conf.Abs., 4/1, 1999

De Jong K., Kurimoto C., Wijbrans J.R., and Guise P.G.  40Ar/39Ar whole-rock ages and structural data from the western the Kii peninsula (western Japan): implications for extension and exhumation of the Mikabu and Sambagawa belts. In: Tectonic Evolution of East Asia (Takagi, H., Otoh, S., and Kimura, K.,  eds). The second Joint Meeting of Korean and Japanese Structure and Tectonic Research Groups. Samani, Hokkaido (Japan), August 1999, Abstr. Vol. 56-57.