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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS             

Butler-Warke, A. and Warke, M.R. 2021. Foundation stone of empire: the role of Portland Stone in ‘heritage’, commemoration, and identity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46(4), 958-972. Open access here.

Zavina-James, N., Zerkle, A., Steele, R.C.J., Warke, M.R., Izon, G. and Savage, P. 2021. Copper isotope evidence for aerobic methanotrophy in the Late Archaean. Precambrian Research. 362, 106267.

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Pettigrew, R.P, Priddy, C., Clarke, S.M., Warke, M.R., Stüeken, E.E., and Claire, M.W. 2020. Sedimentology and Isotope Geochemistry of Transitional Evaporitic Environments within Arid Continental Settings: From Erg to Saline Lakes. Sedimentology, 68(3), 907-942. Open Access here.

Warke, M.R., Di Rocco, T., Zerkle, A.L., Lepland, A., Prave, A.R., Martin, A.P, Ueno, Y., Condon, D.J., and Claire, M.W., 2020. The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 117(24), 13314-13320. Open access here.

Warke, M.R., Strauss, H., and Schröder, S. 2020. Positive cerium anomalies imply pre-GOE redox stratification and manganese oxidation in Paleoproterozoic shallow marine environments. Precambrian Research, 334, 105767. 

Warke, M.R., Edwards, N.P., Wogelius, R.A., Manning, P.L., Bergmann, U., Egerton, V.M., Kimball, K.C., Garwood, R.J., Beukes, N.J. and Schröder, S., 2019. Decimeter-scale mapping of carbonate-controlled trace element distribution in Neoarchean cuspate stromatolites. Geochimica et Cosmochemica Acta, 261, 56-75. Open access here.

Warke, M.R., Schröder, S and Strauss, H., 2018. Testing models of pre-GOE environmental oxidation: a Paleoproterozoic marine signal in platform dolomites of the Tongwane Formation (South Africa). Precambrian Research, 313, 205-220. Open access here.    

Warke, M.R. and Schröder, S., 2018. Synsedimentary fault control on the deposition of the Duitschland Formation (South Africa): Implications for depositional settings, Paleoproterozoic stratigraphic correlations, and the GOE. Precambrian Research, 310, 348-364. Open access here.

Blättler, C.L., Claire, M.W., Prave, A.R., Kirsimäe, K., Higgins, J.A., Medvedev, P.V., Romashkin, A.E., Rychanchik, D.V., Zerkle, A.L., Paiste, K., Kreitsmann, T., Millar, I.L., Hayles, J.A., Bao, H., Turchyn, A.V., Warke, M.R., and Lepland, A. 2018. Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation. Science, 360, 320-323. Open access here. 

Schröder, S. and Warke, M.R., 2016. Termination of BIF deposition in the Paleoproterozoic: the Tongwane Formation, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 119, 329-346. Open access here.

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Cooper, M., Floyd, J., Barker, G., Ture, M., Hodgson, J., McConnell, B. and Warke, M., 2016. The geological significance of electrical conductivity anomalies of the Ordovician-Silurian Moffat Shale Group, Northern Ireland. In: Young, M.E. (eds): Unearthed: Impacts of the Tellus surveys of the north of Ireland. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 440 pp. Open access here.

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GENERAL INTEREST PUBLICATIONS

Warke, M. and Butler-Warke, A. The symbolic power of stone. Geoscientist, 31(4), Winter 2021. Read here. 

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Warke, M and Butler-Warke, A. Portland Stone: how a creamy British limestone became a symbol of empire and elitism. The Conversation, 30 July 2021. Read here. 

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Warke, M. Earth’s habitability has an end date, and falling oxygen concentrations are to blame. The Conversation, 2 March 2021. Read here. 

Warke, M. Billions of years ago, the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere caused a worldwide deep freeze. The Conversation, 2 June 2020. Read here. 

Warke, M. GOE Figure. Geoscientist, 25(5), June 2015. Read here.

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