Dr Matthew Warke

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463688

Email

mw438@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

My current research revolves around trying to understand how atmospheric redox proxies are preserved in the rock record. Specifically, I use multiple oxygen and sulfur isotopes to track fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen concentration across Earth history. 

Selected publications

• Billions of years ago, the rise of oxygen in Earth?s atmosphere caused a worldwide deep freeze

  Warke, M., 2 Jun 2020, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication ? Article

• Positive cerium anomalies imply pre-GOE redox stratification and manganese oxidation in Paleoproterozoic shallow marine environments

  Warke, M. R., Strauss, H. & Schröder, S., 30 Apr 2020, In : Precambrian Research. In press, 105767.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic "snowball Earth"

  Warke, M. R., Di Rocco, T., Zerkle, A. L., Lepland, A., Prave, T., Martin, A., Ueno, Y., Condon, D. & Claire, M., 1 Jun 2020, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Latest Articles, 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Decimeter-scale mapping of carbonate-controlled trace element distribution in Neoarchean cuspate stromatolites

  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. & Schröder, S., 15 Sep 2019, In : Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 261

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Synsedimentary fault control on the deposition of the Duitschland Formation (South Africa): implications for depositional settings, Paleoproterozoic stratigraphic correlations, and the GOE

  Warke, M. R. & Schröder, S., Jun 2018, In : Precambrian Research. 310, p. 348-364

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Testing models of pre-GOE environmental oxidation: a Paleoproterozoic marine signal in platform dolomites of the Tongwane Formation (South Africa)

  Warke, M. R., Schröder, S. & Strauss, H., Aug 2018, In : Precambrian Research. 313, p. 205-220 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth's great oxidation

  Blättler, C., Claire, M., 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. & Lepland, A., 20 Apr 2018, In : Science. 360, 6386, p. 320-323 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Ground Truthing of Tellus EM Anomalies Associated with the Ordovician?Silurian Moffat Shale Group, Northern Ireland

  Cooper, M., Floyd, J., Barker, G., Desissa Ture, M., Hodgson, J., McConnell, B. & Warke, M. R., 2016, Unearthed: impacts of the Tellus surveys of the north of Ireland. Young, M. (ed.). Dublin: Royal Irish Academy

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Termination of BIF deposition in the Paleoproterozoic Tongwane Formation, South Africa

  Schroeder, S. & Warke, M. R., Jun 2016, In : South African Journal of Geology. 119, 2, p. 329-346 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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