Teaching
My teaching focusses on developing self-confidence and knowledge through hands-on experience gained via field-based geological training. My lectures aim to complement that training and centre on introducing students to the techniques that enable documenting and interpreting Earth’s sedimentary rock record.
Research areas
My research utilises field-based observations and isotope geochemistry to create, test and constrain ideas about the processes that shaped Earth’s surface environments. My interests are keenest on those pivotal times of geological history during which wholesale Earth system change occurred.
Selected publications
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A metasedimentary outlier of the Laurentian continental margin preserved on the Tonian Loch Ness Supergroup, Scottish Caledonides
Strachan, R. A., Prave, A. R., Morton, A., Frei, D., Kirsimäe, K. & Cutts, K. A., 1 May 2026, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 183, 3, 13 p., jgs2025-210.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Large domal stromatolites in the Paleoarchean ocean at 3.47 Ga
Stüeken, E. E., Prave, A. R., O’Connor, L., Kaempf, J., Clarke, A., Johnson, T. E. & Kirkland, C. L., 1 Mar 2026, In: Geology. 54, 3, p. 237-241Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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1 billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth
Kirkland, C., Erickson, T. & Prave, T., 29 Apr 2025, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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A one-billion-year-old Scottish meteorite impact
Kirkland, C. L., Erickson, T. M., Johnson, T. E., Prave, T., Strachan, R. A., Daggitt, M. L., Hartnady, M. I. H., Reddy, S. M., Taylor, R. J. M., Ribeiro, B. V., Rankenburg, K., Kirscher, U. & Fischer, S., 28 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geology. Early publication, 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early basin development of the Dalradian Supergroup
Rugen, E. J., Webster, D., Shields, G. A., Bowyer, F., Vermeesch, P. & Prave, A., 1 Dec 2025, In: Scottish Journal of Geology. 61, 1, p. 1-12 12 p., sjg2025-006.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estuaries house Earth’s oldest known non-marine eukaryotes
Nielson, G. C., Stüeken, E. E. & Prave, A. R., 1 Feb 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 401, p. 107278 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluating the biosignature potential of ammonium in Proterozoic red beds and implications for the search for life on Mars
Stueeken, E. E., Fralick, P., Hillier, S. & Prave, T., 18 Jul 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Physics. Accepted Articles, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How great is the Great Glen Fault?
Prave, A. R., Stephens, W. E., Fallick, A. E., Williams, I. S. & Kirsimäe, K., 4 Nov 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 181, 6, 12 p., jgs2024-085.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Local sedimentary effects shaped key sulfur records after the Great Oxidation Event
Bryant, R. N., Todes, J. P., Richardson, J. A., Kalia, T. C., Prave, A. R., Lepland, A., Kirsimäe, K. & Blättler, C. L., 15 Dec 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 648, 119113.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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End-Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.08 Ga) epeiric seaway of the Nonesuch Formation, Wisconsin and Michigan, USA
Stewart, E. K., Bauer, A. M. & Prave, A. R., 8 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geological Society of America Bulletin. 136, 7-8, p. 2940–2960 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review