Dr Dan Barfod
- Research Scientist (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)
telephone:
01355270135
email:
Dan.Barfod@glasgow.ac.uk
Suerc, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride G75 0QF
Research interests
- Rates of geological processes
- 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
- Noble gas geochemistry
- Volcanic & magmatic processes
- Isotope geochronology and geochemistry
- Laser sampling methods for geological materials
Publications
2024
Tremblay, M.M., Mark, D.F. , Barfod, D.N. , Cohen, B.E. , Ickert, R.B., Lee, M.R. , Tomkinson, T. and Smith, C.L. (2024) Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, (Accepted for Publication)
Li, S., Najman, Y., Vermeesch, P., Barfod, D. N. , Millar, I. and Carter, A. (2024) A critical appraisal of the sensitivity of detrital zircon U–Pb provenance data to constrain drainage network evolution in southeast Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(2), e2023JF007. (doi: 10.1029/2023JF007347)
Hall, A., Barfod, D. , Gilg, A., Stuart, F. , Sarala, P. and Al-Ani, T. (2024) Intensive chemical weathering in the Arctic during the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 634, 111927. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111927)
2023
Stone, A., Inglis, R. H., Candy, I., Sahy, D., Jourdan, A.-L., Barfod, D. N. and Alsharekh, A. M. (2023) Humid phases on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula are consistent with the last two interglacials. Quaternary Science Reviews, 319, 108333. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108333)
Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Mark, D. F. , Murray, J., Reidel, S., Szymanowski, D., Barfod, D. and Barry, T. (2023) Eruption history of the Columbia River Basalt Group constrained by high-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 617, 118269. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118269)
Hall, J. R., Allison, M. S., Papadopoulos, M. T., Barfod, D. N. and Jones, S. M. (2023) Timing and consequences of Bering Strait opening: new insights from 40Ar/39 1 Ar dating 2 of the Barmur Group (Tjörnes beds), northern Iceland. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, e2022PA004. (doi: 10.1029/2022PA004539)
Groom, S., Barfod, D. N. , Millar, I. and Downes, H. (2023) The Cumbre Nueva collapse (La Palma, Canary Islands): New age determinations and evidence of an isotopic excursion. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 433, 107708. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107708)
2022
Pickard, H. et al. (2022) The cadmium and zinc isotope compositions of the silicate Earth – Implications for terrestrial volatile accretion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 338, pp. 165-180. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.09.041)
Vidal, C. M. et al. (2022) Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: towards a regional tephrostratigraphy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 290, 107601. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107601)
Tadesse, A.Z. et al. (2022) Eruption frequency and magnitude in a geothermally active continental rift: the Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic complex, Main Ethiopian Rift. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 423, 107471. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107471)
Vidal, C. M. et al. (2022) Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa. Nature, 601(7894), pp. 579-583. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04275-8) (PMID:35022610)
Sunyé-Puchol, I. et al. (2022) Reconstructing the middle to late Pleistocene explosive eruption histories of Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl and Tláloc-Telapón volcanoes in Central México. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 421, 107413. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107413)
2021
Meliksetian, K., Neill, I. , Barfod, D. N. , Milne, E. J.M., Waters, E. C., Navasardyan, G., Grigoryan, E., Olive, V. , Odling, N. and Karakhanian, A. (2021) Pleistocene - Holocene volcanism at the Karkar geothermal prospect, Armenia. Quaternary Geochronology, 66, 101201. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101201)
Sugden, P., Meliksetian, K., Savov, I. P., Barfod, D. , Wilson, M., Connor, C., Navasardyan, G., Grigoryan, E. and Manucharyan, D. (2021) Post-collisional shift from polygenetic to monogenetic volcanism revealed by new 40Ar/39Ar ages in the southern Lesser Caucasus (Armenia). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 412, 107192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107192)
Gilmer, A. K., Sparks, R. S. J., Barfod, D. N. , Brugge, E. R. and Parkinson, I. J. (2021) Duration of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of the Don Manuel porphyry copper system, central Chile. Minerals, 11(2), 174. (doi: 10.3390/min11020174)
2020
Mullineux, S., Sparks, R.S.J., Murphy, M.D., MacNiocaill, C., Barfod, D. , Njorka, J. and Schumacher, J.C. (2020) Columnar-jointed bentonite below a Doleritic Sill, Tideswell Dale, Derbyshire, UK: formation during prograde contact metamorphism. Geological Magazine, 157(7), pp. 1181-1198. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756819001535)
Guimarães, A. R., Fitton, J. G., Kirstein, L. A. and Barfod, D. N. (2020) Contemporaneous intraplate magmatism on conjugate South Atlantic margins: a hotspot conundrum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 536, 116147. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116147)
Sheldrick, T. C., Barry, T. L., Dash, B., Gan, C., Millar, I. L., Barfod, D. N. and Halton, A. M. (2020) Simultaneous and extensive removal of the East Asian lithospheric root. Scientific Reports, 10, 4128. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60925-3) (PMID:32139759) (PMCID:PMC7058094)
Sheldrick, T., Barry, T. L., Millar, I. L., Barfod, D. N. , Halton, A. M. and Smith, D. J. (2020) Evidence for southward subduction of the Mongol-Okhotsk oceanic plate: implications from Mesozoic adakitic lavas from Mongolia. Gondwana Research, 79, pp. 140-156. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.09.007)
Carey, S. et al. (2020) The polygenetic Kahouanne Seamounts in the northern Lesser Antilles island arc: evidence for large-scale volcanic island subsidence. Marine Geology, 419, 106046. (doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106046)
2019
Inglis, R. H., Fanning, P. C., Stone, A., Barfod, D. N. , Sinclair, A., Chang, H.-C., Alsharekh, A. M. and Bailey, G. (2019) Paleolithic artifact deposits at Wadi Dabsa, Saudi Arabia: a multiscalar geoarchaeological approach to building an interpretative framework. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 34(3), pp. 272-294. (doi: 10.1002/gea.21723)
Zhang, P. et al. (2019) Palaeodrainage evolution of the large rivers of East Asia, and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics. Earth Science Reviews, 192, pp. 601-630. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.02.003)
Villaseca, C., Belousova, E. A., Barfod, D. N. and González-Jiménez, J. M. (2019) Dating metasomatic events in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Calatrava volcanic field (central Spain). Lithosphere, 11(2), pp. 192-208. (doi: 10.1130/L1030.1)
2018
Hutchison, M. T., Faithfull, J. W. , Barfod, D. N. , Hughes, J. W. and Upton, B. G.J. (2018) The mantle of Scotland viewed through the Glen Gollaidh aillikite. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 115-132. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0610-y)
Fielding, L., Najman, Y., Millar, I., Butterworth, P., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Barfod, D. and Kneller, B. (2018) The initiation and evolution of the River Nile. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 489, pp. 166-178. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.031)
Siegburg, M., Gernon, T. M., Bull, J. M., Keir, D., Barfod, D. N. , Taylor, R. N., Abebe, B. and Ayele, A. (2018) Geological evolution of the Boset-Bericha Volcanic Complex, Main Ethiopian Rift: 40 Ar/ 39 Ar evidence for episodic Pleistocene to Holocene volcanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 351, pp. 115-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.12.014)
Hatter, S.J., Palmer, M.R., Gernon, T.M., Taylor, R.N., Cole, P.D., Barfod, D.N. and Coussens, M. (2018) The evolution of the Silver Hills volcanic center, and revised 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, with implications for island arc volcanism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(2), pp. 427-452. (doi: 10.1002/2017GC007053)
2017
Gilmer, A. K., Sparks, R.S.J., Rust, A. C., Tapster, S., Webb, A. D. and Barfod, D. N. (2017) Geology of the Don Manuel igneous complex, central Chile: Implications for igneous processes in porphyry copper systems. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(7-8), pp. 920-946. (doi: 10.1130/B31524.1)
Coussens, M., Cassidy, M., Watt, S. F.L., Jutzeler, M., Talling, P. J., Barfod, D. , Gernon, T. M., Taylor, R., Hatter, S. J. and Palmer, M. R. (2017) Long-term changes in explosive and effusive behaviour at andesitic arc volcanoes: Chronostratigraphy of the Centre Hills Volcano, Montserrat. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 333-34, pp. 15-35. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.01.003)
D'Amato, D., Pace, B., Di Nicola, L., Stuart, F.M. , Visini, F., Azzaro, R., Branca, S. and Barfod, D.N. (2017) Holocene slip rate variability along the Pernicana fault system (Mt. Etna, Italy): Evidence from offset lava flows. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(3-4), pp. 304-317. (doi: 10.1130/B31510.1)
Fielding, L., Najman, Y., Millar, I., Butterworth, P., Ando, S., Padoan, M., Barfod, D. and Kneller, B. (2017) A detrital record of the Nile River and its catchment. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(2), pp. 301-317. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2016-075)
2016
Hutchison, W., Pyle, D. M., Mather, T. A., Yirgu, G., Biggs, J., Cohen, B. E. , Barfod, D. N. and Lewi, E. (2016) The eruptive history and magmatic evolution of Aluto volcano: new insights into silicic peralkaline volcanism in the Ethiopian rift. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 328, pp. 9-33. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.09.010)
Hutchinson, W. et al. (2016) A pulse of mid-Pleistocene rift volcanism in Ethiopia at the dawn of modern humans. Nature Communications, 7, 13192. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13192) (PMID:27754479) (PMCID:PMC5071850)
Knott, T. R., Branney, M. J., Reichow, M. K., Finn, D. R., Coe, R. S., Storey, M., Barfod, D. and McCurry, M. (2016) Mid-Miocene record of large-scale Snake River−type explosive volcanism and associated subsidence on the Yellowstone hotspot track: the Cassia Formation of Idaho, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(7-8), pp. 1121-1146. (doi: 10.1130/B31324.1)
Reichow, M.K., Saunders, A.D., Scott, R.A., Millar, I.L., Barfod, D. , Pringle, M.S., Rogers, N.W. and Hammond, S. (2016) Petrogenesis and timing of mafic magmatism, South Taimyr, Arctic Siberia: a northerly continuation of the Siberian Traps? Lithos, 248, pp. 382-401. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.01.018)
Chicharro, E., Boiron, M.-C., López-García, J. Á., Barfod, D. N. and Villaseca, C. (2016) Origin, ore forming fluid evolution and timing of the Logrosán Sn-(W) ore deposits (Central Iberian Zone, Spain). Ore Geology Reviews, 72(1), pp. 896-913. (doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.09.020)
2015
Kalnins, L.M., Cohen, B.E. , Fitton, J.G., Mark, D.F. , Richards, F.D. and Barfod, D.N. (2015) The East Australian, Tasmantid, and Lord Howe Volcanic Chains: Possible Mechanisms Behind a Trio of Hotspot Trails. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.
Mather, T.A., Hutchison, W., Yirgu, G., Biggs, J., Cohen, B.E. , Barfod, D.N. , Lewi, E. and Pyle, D.M. (2015) The Lifecycle of Caldera-Forming Volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Insights from Aluto Volcano. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.
Benito-Calvo, A., Barfod, D. N. , McHenry, L. J. and de la Torre, I. (2015) Erratum to “The geology and chronology of the Acheulean deposits in the Mieso area (East-Central Ethiopia)” [J. Hum. Evol. 76 (2014) 26–38]. Journal of Human Evolution, 82, p. 198. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.01.006)
Gannoun, A., Burton, K.W., Barfod, D.N. , Schiano, P., Vlastélic, I. and Halliday, A.N. (2015) Resolving mantle and magmatic processes in basalts from the Cameroon volcanic line using the Re–Os isotope system. Lithos, 224-25, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.02.017)
2014
Benito-Calvo, A., Barfod, D. N. , McHenry, L. J. and de la Torre, I. (2014) The geology and chronology of the Acheulean deposits in the Mieso area (East-Central Ethiopia). Journal of Human Evolution, 76, pp. 26-38. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.08.013) (PMID:25440135)
Monaghan, A. A., Browne, M. A. E. and Barfod, D. N. (2014) An improved chronology for the Arthur's Seat volcano and Carboniferous magmatism of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50(2), pp. 165-172. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2014-009)
Barfod, D. N. and Fitton, J. G. (2014) Pleistocene volcanism on São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 21, pp. 77-89. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.006)
Barfod, D. , Mark, D.F. , Tait, A., Dymock, R.C. and Imlach, J. (2014) Argon extraction from geological samples by CO2 scanning laser step-heating. Journal of the Geological Society, 378, pp. 79-90. (doi: 10.1144/SP378.23)
Mark, D.F. , Petraglia, M., Smith, V.C., Morgan, L.E., Barfod, D. , Ellis, B., Pearce, N.J., Pal, J.N. and Korisettar, R. (2014) A high precision Ar/Ar age for the young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: forcing of quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupations if India. Quaternary Geochronology, 21(1), pp. 90-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.12.004)
Morgan, L. E., Mark, D. F. , Imlach, J., Barfod, D. and Dymock, R. (2014) FCs-EK: a new sampling of the Fish Canyon Tuff 40Ar/39Ar neutron flux monitor. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, pp. 63-67. (doi: 10.1144/SP378.21)
2013
Fenton, C. R., Mark, D. F. , Barfod, D. N. , Niederman, S., Goethals, M. M. and Stuart, F. M. (2013) 40Ar/39Ar dating of the SP and bar ten lava flows AZ, USA: laying the foundation for the SPICE cosmogenic nuclide production-rate calibration project. Quaternary Geochronology, 18, pp. 158-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.01.007)
Mark, D.F. , Petraglia, M., Smith, V. C., Morgan, L.E., Barfod, D.N. , Ellis, B.S., Pearce, N.J., Pal, J.N. and Korisettar, R. (2013) Multiple interpretive errors? Indeed. Reply to: Climate effects of the 74 ka Toba super-eruption: multiple interpretive errors in 'A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra' by Michael Haslam. Quaternary Geochronology, 18, pp. 173-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.05.002)
Dalziel, I. W. D., Lawver, L. A., Pearce, J. A., Barker, P. F., Hastie, A. R., Barfod, D. N. , Schenke, H.-W. and Davis, M. B. (2013) A potential barrier to deep Antarctic circumpolar flow until the late Miocene? Geology, 41(9), pp. 947-950. (doi: 10.1130/G34352.1)
Hastie, A. R., Mitchell, S. F., Treloar, P. J., Kerr, A. C., Neill, I. and Barfod, D. N. (2013) Geochemical components in a Cretaceous island arc: The Th/La–(Ce/Ce*)Nd diagram and implications for subduction initiation in the inter-American region. Lithos, 162-63, pp. 57-69. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.001)
2012
Najman, Y. et al. (2012) The record of Himalayan erosion preserved in the sedimentary rocks of the Hatia Trough of the Bengal Basin and the Cittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Basin Research, 24(5), pp. 499-519. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00540.x)
Ellis, B.S., Branney, M.J., Barry, T.L., Barfod, D. , Bindeman, I., Wolff, J.A. and Bonnichsen, B. (2012) Geochemical correlation of three large-volume ignimbrites from the Yellowstone hotspot track, Idaho, USA. Bulletin of Volcanology, 74(1), pp. 261-277. (doi: 10.1007/s00445-011-0510-z)
2011
Allen, M.B., Mark, D.F. , Kheirkhah, M., Barfod, D. , Emami, M.H. and Saville, C. (2011) 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary lavas in northwest Iran: constraints on the landscape evolution and incision rates of the Turkish-Iranian plateau. Geophysical Journal International, 185(3), pp. 1175-1188. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05022.x)
2010
Hastie, A.R., Kerr, A.C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S.F., Pearce, J.A., Millar, I.L., Barfod, D. and Mark, D.F. (2010) Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: A new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust? Chemical Geology, 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
Henderson, A.L., Najman, Y., Parrish, R., BouDagher-Fadel, M., Barfod, D. , Garzanti, E. and Ando, S. (2010) Geology of the Cenozoic Indus Basin sedimentary rocks: Paleoenvironmental interpretation of sedimentation from the western Himalaya during the early phases of India-Eurasia collision. Tectonics, 29, TC6015. (doi: 10.1029/2009TC002651)
2009
Mark, D. , Barfod, D. , Stuart, F. and Imlach, J. (2009) The ARGUS multicollector noble gas mass spectrometer: Performance for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10(2), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1029/2009GC002643)
Najman, Y., Bickle, M., Garzanti, E., Pringle, M., Barfod, D. , Brozovic, N., Burbank, D. and Ando, S. (2009) Reconstructing the exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya, NW India, from a multitechnique provenance study of the foreland basin Siwalik Group. Tectonics, 28(TC5018), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1029/2009TC002506)
2008
Allen, R., Najman, Y., Carter, A., Barfod, D. , Bickle, M.J., Chapman, H.J., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Ando, S. and Parrish, R.R. (2008) Provenance of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks of the Indo-Burman Ranges, Burma (Myanmar): Burman arc or Himalayan-derived? Journal of the Geological Society, 165(6), pp. 1045-1057. (doi: 10.1144/0016-76492007-143)
Barfod, D. , Mark, D.F. and Stuart, F.M. (2008) Application of multi-collector mass spectrometery to Ar-Ar geochronology. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(S12), A53. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.05.005)
Sparks, R.S.J., Folkes, C.B., Humphreys, M.C.S., Barfod, D.N. , Clavero, J., Sunagua, M.C., McNutt, S.R. and Pritchard, M.E. (2008) Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia: volcanic unrest due to mid-crustal magma intrusion. American Journal of Science, 308(6), pp. 727-769. (doi: 10.2475/06.2008.01)
2007
Persano, C., Barfod, D., Stuart, F. and Bishop, P. (2007) Constraints on early Cenozoic underplating-driven uplift and denudation of western Scotland from low temperature thermochronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 263(3-4), pp. 404-419. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.016)
Drits, V.A., Lindgreen, H., Sakharov, B.A., Jørgen, H., Fallick, A.E., Salyn, A.L., Dainyak, L.G., Zviagina, B.B. and Barfod, D.N. (2007) Formation and transformation of mixed-layer minerals by tertiary intrusives in cretaceous mudstones, West Greenland. Clays and Clay Minerals, 55(3), pp. 260-283. (doi: 10.1346/CCMN.2007.0550304)
2005
Rice, C.M., Steele, G.B., Barfod, D.N. , Boyce, A.J. and Pringle, M.S. (2005) Duration of magmatic, hydrothermal, and supergene activity at Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia. Economic Geology, 100(8), pp. 1647-1656. (doi: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.8.1647)
Articles
Tremblay, M.M., Mark, D.F. , Barfod, D.N. , Cohen, B.E. , Ickert, R.B., Lee, M.R. , Tomkinson, T. and Smith, C.L. (2024) Dating recent aqueous activity on Mars. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, (Accepted for Publication)
Li, S., Najman, Y., Vermeesch, P., Barfod, D. N. , Millar, I. and Carter, A. (2024) A critical appraisal of the sensitivity of detrital zircon U–Pb provenance data to constrain drainage network evolution in southeast Tibet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(2), e2023JF007. (doi: 10.1029/2023JF007347)
Hall, A., Barfod, D. , Gilg, A., Stuart, F. , Sarala, P. and Al-Ani, T. (2024) Intensive chemical weathering in the Arctic during the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 634, 111927. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111927)
Stone, A., Inglis, R. H., Candy, I., Sahy, D., Jourdan, A.-L., Barfod, D. N. and Alsharekh, A. M. (2023) Humid phases on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula are consistent with the last two interglacials. Quaternary Science Reviews, 319, 108333. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108333)
Kasbohm, J., Schoene, B., Mark, D. F. , Murray, J., Reidel, S., Szymanowski, D., Barfod, D. and Barry, T. (2023) Eruption history of the Columbia River Basalt Group constrained by high-precision U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 617, 118269. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118269)
Hall, J. R., Allison, M. S., Papadopoulos, M. T., Barfod, D. N. and Jones, S. M. (2023) Timing and consequences of Bering Strait opening: new insights from 40Ar/39 1 Ar dating 2 of the Barmur Group (Tjörnes beds), northern Iceland. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, e2022PA004. (doi: 10.1029/2022PA004539)
Groom, S., Barfod, D. N. , Millar, I. and Downes, H. (2023) The Cumbre Nueva collapse (La Palma, Canary Islands): New age determinations and evidence of an isotopic excursion. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 433, 107708. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107708)
Pickard, H. et al. (2022) The cadmium and zinc isotope compositions of the silicate Earth – Implications for terrestrial volatile accretion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 338, pp. 165-180. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.09.041)
Vidal, C. M. et al. (2022) Geochronology and glass geochemistry of major pleistocene eruptions in the Main Ethiopian Rift: towards a regional tephrostratigraphy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 290, 107601. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107601)
Tadesse, A.Z. et al. (2022) Eruption frequency and magnitude in a geothermally active continental rift: the Bora-Baricha-Tullu Moye volcanic complex, Main Ethiopian Rift. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 423, 107471. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107471)
Vidal, C. M. et al. (2022) Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa. Nature, 601(7894), pp. 579-583. (doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04275-8) (PMID:35022610)
Sunyé-Puchol, I. et al. (2022) Reconstructing the middle to late Pleistocene explosive eruption histories of Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl and Tláloc-Telapón volcanoes in Central México. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 421, 107413. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107413)
Meliksetian, K., Neill, I. , Barfod, D. N. , Milne, E. J.M., Waters, E. C., Navasardyan, G., Grigoryan, E., Olive, V. , Odling, N. and Karakhanian, A. (2021) Pleistocene - Holocene volcanism at the Karkar geothermal prospect, Armenia. Quaternary Geochronology, 66, 101201. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101201)
Sugden, P., Meliksetian, K., Savov, I. P., Barfod, D. , Wilson, M., Connor, C., Navasardyan, G., Grigoryan, E. and Manucharyan, D. (2021) Post-collisional shift from polygenetic to monogenetic volcanism revealed by new 40Ar/39Ar ages in the southern Lesser Caucasus (Armenia). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 412, 107192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107192)
Gilmer, A. K., Sparks, R. S. J., Barfod, D. N. , Brugge, E. R. and Parkinson, I. J. (2021) Duration of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of the Don Manuel porphyry copper system, central Chile. Minerals, 11(2), 174. (doi: 10.3390/min11020174)
Mullineux, S., Sparks, R.S.J., Murphy, M.D., MacNiocaill, C., Barfod, D. , Njorka, J. and Schumacher, J.C. (2020) Columnar-jointed bentonite below a Doleritic Sill, Tideswell Dale, Derbyshire, UK: formation during prograde contact metamorphism. Geological Magazine, 157(7), pp. 1181-1198. (doi: 10.1017/S0016756819001535)
Guimarães, A. R., Fitton, J. G., Kirstein, L. A. and Barfod, D. N. (2020) Contemporaneous intraplate magmatism on conjugate South Atlantic margins: a hotspot conundrum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 536, 116147. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116147)
Sheldrick, T. C., Barry, T. L., Dash, B., Gan, C., Millar, I. L., Barfod, D. N. and Halton, A. M. (2020) Simultaneous and extensive removal of the East Asian lithospheric root. Scientific Reports, 10, 4128. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60925-3) (PMID:32139759) (PMCID:PMC7058094)
Sheldrick, T., Barry, T. L., Millar, I. L., Barfod, D. N. , Halton, A. M. and Smith, D. J. (2020) Evidence for southward subduction of the Mongol-Okhotsk oceanic plate: implications from Mesozoic adakitic lavas from Mongolia. Gondwana Research, 79, pp. 140-156. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.09.007)
Carey, S. et al. (2020) The polygenetic Kahouanne Seamounts in the northern Lesser Antilles island arc: evidence for large-scale volcanic island subsidence. Marine Geology, 419, 106046. (doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106046)
Inglis, R. H., Fanning, P. C., Stone, A., Barfod, D. N. , Sinclair, A., Chang, H.-C., Alsharekh, A. M. and Bailey, G. (2019) Paleolithic artifact deposits at Wadi Dabsa, Saudi Arabia: a multiscalar geoarchaeological approach to building an interpretative framework. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 34(3), pp. 272-294. (doi: 10.1002/gea.21723)
Zhang, P. et al. (2019) Palaeodrainage evolution of the large rivers of East Asia, and Himalayan-Tibet tectonics. Earth Science Reviews, 192, pp. 601-630. (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.02.003)
Villaseca, C., Belousova, E. A., Barfod, D. N. and González-Jiménez, J. M. (2019) Dating metasomatic events in the lithospheric mantle beneath the Calatrava volcanic field (central Spain). Lithosphere, 11(2), pp. 192-208. (doi: 10.1130/L1030.1)
Hutchison, M. T., Faithfull, J. W. , Barfod, D. N. , Hughes, J. W. and Upton, B. G.J. (2018) The mantle of Scotland viewed through the Glen Gollaidh aillikite. Mineralogy and Petrology, 112(S1), pp. 115-132. (doi: 10.1007/s00710-018-0610-y)
Fielding, L., Najman, Y., Millar, I., Butterworth, P., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Barfod, D. and Kneller, B. (2018) The initiation and evolution of the River Nile. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 489, pp. 166-178. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.031)
Siegburg, M., Gernon, T. M., Bull, J. M., Keir, D., Barfod, D. N. , Taylor, R. N., Abebe, B. and Ayele, A. (2018) Geological evolution of the Boset-Bericha Volcanic Complex, Main Ethiopian Rift: 40 Ar/ 39 Ar evidence for episodic Pleistocene to Holocene volcanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 351, pp. 115-133. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.12.014)
Hatter, S.J., Palmer, M.R., Gernon, T.M., Taylor, R.N., Cole, P.D., Barfod, D.N. and Coussens, M. (2018) The evolution of the Silver Hills volcanic center, and revised 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, with implications for island arc volcanism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19(2), pp. 427-452. (doi: 10.1002/2017GC007053)
Gilmer, A. K., Sparks, R.S.J., Rust, A. C., Tapster, S., Webb, A. D. and Barfod, D. N. (2017) Geology of the Don Manuel igneous complex, central Chile: Implications for igneous processes in porphyry copper systems. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(7-8), pp. 920-946. (doi: 10.1130/B31524.1)
Coussens, M., Cassidy, M., Watt, S. F.L., Jutzeler, M., Talling, P. J., Barfod, D. , Gernon, T. M., Taylor, R., Hatter, S. J. and Palmer, M. R. (2017) Long-term changes in explosive and effusive behaviour at andesitic arc volcanoes: Chronostratigraphy of the Centre Hills Volcano, Montserrat. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 333-34, pp. 15-35. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.01.003)
D'Amato, D., Pace, B., Di Nicola, L., Stuart, F.M. , Visini, F., Azzaro, R., Branca, S. and Barfod, D.N. (2017) Holocene slip rate variability along the Pernicana fault system (Mt. Etna, Italy): Evidence from offset lava flows. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 129(3-4), pp. 304-317. (doi: 10.1130/B31510.1)
Fielding, L., Najman, Y., Millar, I., Butterworth, P., Ando, S., Padoan, M., Barfod, D. and Kneller, B. (2017) A detrital record of the Nile River and its catchment. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(2), pp. 301-317. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2016-075)
Hutchison, W., Pyle, D. M., Mather, T. A., Yirgu, G., Biggs, J., Cohen, B. E. , Barfod, D. N. and Lewi, E. (2016) The eruptive history and magmatic evolution of Aluto volcano: new insights into silicic peralkaline volcanism in the Ethiopian rift. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 328, pp. 9-33. (doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.09.010)
Hutchinson, W. et al. (2016) A pulse of mid-Pleistocene rift volcanism in Ethiopia at the dawn of modern humans. Nature Communications, 7, 13192. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms13192) (PMID:27754479) (PMCID:PMC5071850)
Knott, T. R., Branney, M. J., Reichow, M. K., Finn, D. R., Coe, R. S., Storey, M., Barfod, D. and McCurry, M. (2016) Mid-Miocene record of large-scale Snake River−type explosive volcanism and associated subsidence on the Yellowstone hotspot track: the Cassia Formation of Idaho, USA. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(7-8), pp. 1121-1146. (doi: 10.1130/B31324.1)
Reichow, M.K., Saunders, A.D., Scott, R.A., Millar, I.L., Barfod, D. , Pringle, M.S., Rogers, N.W. and Hammond, S. (2016) Petrogenesis and timing of mafic magmatism, South Taimyr, Arctic Siberia: a northerly continuation of the Siberian Traps? Lithos, 248, pp. 382-401. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2016.01.018)
Chicharro, E., Boiron, M.-C., López-García, J. Á., Barfod, D. N. and Villaseca, C. (2016) Origin, ore forming fluid evolution and timing of the Logrosán Sn-(W) ore deposits (Central Iberian Zone, Spain). Ore Geology Reviews, 72(1), pp. 896-913. (doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.09.020)
Benito-Calvo, A., Barfod, D. N. , McHenry, L. J. and de la Torre, I. (2015) Erratum to “The geology and chronology of the Acheulean deposits in the Mieso area (East-Central Ethiopia)” [J. Hum. Evol. 76 (2014) 26–38]. Journal of Human Evolution, 82, p. 198. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.01.006)
Gannoun, A., Burton, K.W., Barfod, D.N. , Schiano, P., Vlastélic, I. and Halliday, A.N. (2015) Resolving mantle and magmatic processes in basalts from the Cameroon volcanic line using the Re–Os isotope system. Lithos, 224-25, pp. 1-12. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.02.017)
Benito-Calvo, A., Barfod, D. N. , McHenry, L. J. and de la Torre, I. (2014) The geology and chronology of the Acheulean deposits in the Mieso area (East-Central Ethiopia). Journal of Human Evolution, 76, pp. 26-38. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.08.013) (PMID:25440135)
Monaghan, A. A., Browne, M. A. E. and Barfod, D. N. (2014) An improved chronology for the Arthur's Seat volcano and Carboniferous magmatism of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50(2), pp. 165-172. (doi: 10.1144/sjg2014-009)
Barfod, D. N. and Fitton, J. G. (2014) Pleistocene volcanism on São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 21, pp. 77-89. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.11.006)
Barfod, D. , Mark, D.F. , Tait, A., Dymock, R.C. and Imlach, J. (2014) Argon extraction from geological samples by CO2 scanning laser step-heating. Journal of the Geological Society, 378, pp. 79-90. (doi: 10.1144/SP378.23)
Mark, D.F. , Petraglia, M., Smith, V.C., Morgan, L.E., Barfod, D. , Ellis, B., Pearce, N.J., Pal, J.N. and Korisettar, R. (2014) A high precision Ar/Ar age for the young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: forcing of quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupations if India. Quaternary Geochronology, 21(1), pp. 90-103. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.12.004)
Morgan, L. E., Mark, D. F. , Imlach, J., Barfod, D. and Dymock, R. (2014) FCs-EK: a new sampling of the Fish Canyon Tuff 40Ar/39Ar neutron flux monitor. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, pp. 63-67. (doi: 10.1144/SP378.21)
Fenton, C. R., Mark, D. F. , Barfod, D. N. , Niederman, S., Goethals, M. M. and Stuart, F. M. (2013) 40Ar/39Ar dating of the SP and bar ten lava flows AZ, USA: laying the foundation for the SPICE cosmogenic nuclide production-rate calibration project. Quaternary Geochronology, 18, pp. 158-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.01.007)
Mark, D.F. , Petraglia, M., Smith, V. C., Morgan, L.E., Barfod, D.N. , Ellis, B.S., Pearce, N.J., Pal, J.N. and Korisettar, R. (2013) Multiple interpretive errors? Indeed. Reply to: Climate effects of the 74 ka Toba super-eruption: multiple interpretive errors in 'A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra' by Michael Haslam. Quaternary Geochronology, 18, pp. 173-175. (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.05.002)
Dalziel, I. W. D., Lawver, L. A., Pearce, J. A., Barker, P. F., Hastie, A. R., Barfod, D. N. , Schenke, H.-W. and Davis, M. B. (2013) A potential barrier to deep Antarctic circumpolar flow until the late Miocene? Geology, 41(9), pp. 947-950. (doi: 10.1130/G34352.1)
Hastie, A. R., Mitchell, S. F., Treloar, P. J., Kerr, A. C., Neill, I. and Barfod, D. N. (2013) Geochemical components in a Cretaceous island arc: The Th/La–(Ce/Ce*)Nd diagram and implications for subduction initiation in the inter-American region. Lithos, 162-63, pp. 57-69. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.12.001)
Najman, Y. et al. (2012) The record of Himalayan erosion preserved in the sedimentary rocks of the Hatia Trough of the Bengal Basin and the Cittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Basin Research, 24(5), pp. 499-519. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00540.x)
Ellis, B.S., Branney, M.J., Barry, T.L., Barfod, D. , Bindeman, I., Wolff, J.A. and Bonnichsen, B. (2012) Geochemical correlation of three large-volume ignimbrites from the Yellowstone hotspot track, Idaho, USA. Bulletin of Volcanology, 74(1), pp. 261-277. (doi: 10.1007/s00445-011-0510-z)
Allen, M.B., Mark, D.F. , Kheirkhah, M., Barfod, D. , Emami, M.H. and Saville, C. (2011) 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary lavas in northwest Iran: constraints on the landscape evolution and incision rates of the Turkish-Iranian plateau. Geophysical Journal International, 185(3), pp. 1175-1188. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05022.x)
Hastie, A.R., Kerr, A.C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S.F., Pearce, J.A., Millar, I.L., Barfod, D. and Mark, D.F. (2010) Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: A new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust? Chemical Geology, 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
Henderson, A.L., Najman, Y., Parrish, R., BouDagher-Fadel, M., Barfod, D. , Garzanti, E. and Ando, S. (2010) Geology of the Cenozoic Indus Basin sedimentary rocks: Paleoenvironmental interpretation of sedimentation from the western Himalaya during the early phases of India-Eurasia collision. Tectonics, 29, TC6015. (doi: 10.1029/2009TC002651)
Mark, D. , Barfod, D. , Stuart, F. and Imlach, J. (2009) The ARGUS multicollector noble gas mass spectrometer: Performance for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10(2), pp. 1-9. (doi: 10.1029/2009GC002643)
Najman, Y., Bickle, M., Garzanti, E., Pringle, M., Barfod, D. , Brozovic, N., Burbank, D. and Ando, S. (2009) Reconstructing the exhumation history of the Lesser Himalaya, NW India, from a multitechnique provenance study of the foreland basin Siwalik Group. Tectonics, 28(TC5018), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1029/2009TC002506)
Allen, R., Najman, Y., Carter, A., Barfod, D. , Bickle, M.J., Chapman, H.J., Garzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., Ando, S. and Parrish, R.R. (2008) Provenance of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks of the Indo-Burman Ranges, Burma (Myanmar): Burman arc or Himalayan-derived? Journal of the Geological Society, 165(6), pp. 1045-1057. (doi: 10.1144/0016-76492007-143)
Barfod, D. , Mark, D.F. and Stuart, F.M. (2008) Application of multi-collector mass spectrometery to Ar-Ar geochronology. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72(S12), A53. (doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2008.05.005)
Sparks, R.S.J., Folkes, C.B., Humphreys, M.C.S., Barfod, D.N. , Clavero, J., Sunagua, M.C., McNutt, S.R. and Pritchard, M.E. (2008) Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia: volcanic unrest due to mid-crustal magma intrusion. American Journal of Science, 308(6), pp. 727-769. (doi: 10.2475/06.2008.01)
Persano, C., Barfod, D., Stuart, F. and Bishop, P. (2007) Constraints on early Cenozoic underplating-driven uplift and denudation of western Scotland from low temperature thermochronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 263(3-4), pp. 404-419. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.016)
Drits, V.A., Lindgreen, H., Sakharov, B.A., Jørgen, H., Fallick, A.E., Salyn, A.L., Dainyak, L.G., Zviagina, B.B. and Barfod, D.N. (2007) Formation and transformation of mixed-layer minerals by tertiary intrusives in cretaceous mudstones, West Greenland. Clays and Clay Minerals, 55(3), pp. 260-283. (doi: 10.1346/CCMN.2007.0550304)
Rice, C.M., Steele, G.B., Barfod, D.N. , Boyce, A.J. and Pringle, M.S. (2005) Duration of magmatic, hydrothermal, and supergene activity at Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia. Economic Geology, 100(8), pp. 1647-1656. (doi: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.8.1647)
Conference or Workshop Item
Kalnins, L.M., Cohen, B.E. , Fitton, J.G., Mark, D.F. , Richards, F.D. and Barfod, D.N. (2015) The East Australian, Tasmantid, and Lord Howe Volcanic Chains: Possible Mechanisms Behind a Trio of Hotspot Trails. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.
Mather, T.A., Hutchison, W., Yirgu, G., Biggs, J., Cohen, B.E. , Barfod, D.N. , Lewi, E. and Pyle, D.M. (2015) The Lifecycle of Caldera-Forming Volcanoes in the Main Ethiopian Rift: Insights from Aluto Volcano. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-18 Dec 2015.