Tony Prave

Tel: 01334 462381

e-mail: ap13@st-andrews.ac.uk

FAX: 01334 463949
Profile
B.S. 1980 (Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania)
M.S. 1983 (Penn State University)
Ph.D. 1986 (Penn State University)
Assist. - Assoc. Professor of Geoscience, City College of New York (1986 - 1996)
Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews (1996 - 2002)
Reader, University of St Andrews (2002 - )

Responsibilities
Co-ordinator of 1st Year Geosciences course
Head, Geosciences Research Group
Co-ordinator, School Seminar Series
Member, School Research Committee
Member, Field Training Committee

Research Interests
Tectonostratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins
Neoproterozoic Earth history

Recent Awards
NIGL 2002-2003. The Moine and Grampian problem of the Scottish Highlands.
 Carnegie Trust 2002-2003. The Neoproterozoic geoogical evolution of the western United States.
Russell Trust 2002-2003. Testing hypotheses for the evolution of multi-cellular life.

Selected Publications

Prave, A. R. 2002. Life on land in the Proterozoic: Evidence from the Torridonian rocks of northwest Scotland. Geology, 30, 811-814.
Miller, M. G. & Prave, A. R. 2002. Rolling hinge or fixed basin?: A test of continental extensional models in Death Valley, California, United States. Geology, 30, 847-850.
Condon, D. J., Prave, A. R. & Benn, D. I. 2002. Neoproterozoic glacial-rainout intervals: Observations and implications. Geology, 30, 35-38.
Kennedy, M. J., Christie-Blick, N. & Prave, A. R. 2001. Carbon isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic glacial carbonates as a test of paleo-oceanographic models for snowball Earth phenomena. Geology, 29, 1135-1138.
Brain, C. K., Hoffmann, K. H., Prave, A. R., Fallick, A. E., Coetzee, J. & Botha, A. J. 2001. Interpretive problems in a search for micro-invertebrate fossils from a Neoproterozoic limestone in Namibia. Palaeontologia Africana, 37, 1-15.
Condon, D. J. & Prave, A. R. (2000) Two from Donegal: Neoproterozoic glaciogenic episodes on the northeast margin of Laurentia. Geology, 28, 951-954.

Prave, A.R., Kessler, L.G., II, Malo, M., Bloechl, W.V. & Riva, J. (2000) Ordovician arc collision and foredeep evolution in the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec: the Taconic Orogeny in Canada and its bearing on the Grampian Orogeny in Scotland: Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157, 393-400.

Conference Presentations

Kirkland, C., Alsop, G. I. & Prave, A. R. 2002. Fracture patterns around a major sinistral strike-slip fault system, Donegal, Ireland. Tectonic Studies Group.

Prave, A. R. 2001. Plenary Speaker: Neoproterozoic Earth history: The view from Namibia, SW USA and Scotland. GeoMargins Kiel, Deutsch Geologische Gesellschaft und Geolgoische Vereingung.

Prave, A. R., Hoffmann, K. H., Fallick, A. E., Condon, D. J. & Benn, D. I. 2001. Testing the tenents of the Snowball Earth model. British Sed. Research Group.

Prave, A.R., Fallick, A.E., Hoffmann, K.H., Benn, D. & Condon, D.J. 2001. The aftermath of Neoproterozoic glaciations. Geological Society of America & Geological Society of London, Earth Systems Processes, Edinburgh.

Prave, A. R., Fallick, A. E., Condon, D. J. & Benn, D. 2001. Observations of the Neoproterozoic rock record: Implications for palaeoclimate (snowball Earth) models. European Union of Geosciences.

Dehler, C. L., Prave, A. R., Crossey, L. J., Karlstrom, K. E., Atudorei, V. & Porter, Susannah M. 2001. Linking mid-Neoproterozoic successions in the western U.S.: The Chuar Group-Uinta Mountain Group-Pahrump Group (CHUMP). Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section.

Crossey, L. J., Timmons, J. M., Karlatrom, K.E., Ashby, J., Rampe, J., Tyson, A., Johnson, S., Marshall, K., Dehler, C.M. & Prave, A.R., 2001. Petrologic approaches to correlate Late Mesoproterozoic to Mid-Neoproterozoic stratigraphic successions in western North America. Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section.

Prave, A. R., Oliver, G. J. H. & Parrish, R. 2000. An objective reappraisal of the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution of Scotland. Tectonic Studies Group.

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