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  1. Hot-springs through time, and how to find them

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, September 2026, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  2. Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi

    Article • Science Advances, January 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alex Brasier

  3. Formation of Mg‐silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): Environmental versus microbiological drivers

    Article • Sedimentology, May 2025, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  4. Formation of Mg-silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): environmental versus microbiological drivers

    Article • February 2025, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Alex Brasier

  5. Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolution climatic cycles

    Article • Sedimentology, July 2024, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  6. Ratification of the base of the ICS Geological Time Scale: the Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (GSSA) for the Hadean lower boundary

    Article • Episodes, March 2024, International Union of Geological Sciences

    Alex Brasier

  7. Did evaporite cements and infiltrated silts assist preservation of reptile tracks in Permian desert sediments?

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  8. Sequence stratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications of Cenomanian–Santonian dinocyst assemblages from the Trans‐Sahara epicontinental seaway: a multivariate statistical approach

    Article • The Depositional Record, December 2023, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  9. Searching for Life in Hot Spring Carbonate Systems: Investigating Raman Spectra of Carotenoid-Bearing Organic Carbonaceous Inclusions from Travertines of Italy

    Article • Astrobiology, November 2023, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Alex Brasier

  10. Ikaite formation in streams affected by steel waste leachate: First report and potential impact on contaminant dynamics

    Article • Chemical Geology, November 2023, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  11. Insights into the response of coral biomineralisation to environmental change from aragonite precipitations in vitro

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, October 2023, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  12. Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  13. The geomorphological distribution of subaqueous tufa columns in a hypersaline lake: Mono Lake, U.S.A.

    Article • Journal of Sedimentary Research, June 2022, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Alex Brasier

  14. Effects of seawater pCO2 on the skeletal morphology of massive Porites spp. corals

    Article • Marine Biology, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  15. The Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE), inorganic aragonite precipitation and sea water chemistry: Insights from the Middle–Late Cambrian Port au Port Group, Newfoundland

    Article • The Depositional Record, November 2021, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  16. Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Alex Brasier

  17. Observations of reservoir quality alteration in proximity to igneous intrusions for two distinct sandstones in Scotland

    Article • Marine and Petroleum Geology, July 2021, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  18. A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian time scale

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, June 2021, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  19. Towards a morphology diagram for terrestrial carbonates: Evaluating the impact of carbonate supersaturation and alginic acid in calcite precipitate morphology

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, April 2021, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  20. Did the Benue Trough connect the Gulf of Guinea with the Tethys Ocean in the Cenomanian? New evidence from the palynostratigraphy of the Yola Sub-basin

    Article • Cretaceous Research, March 2021, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  21. Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia: REPLY

    Article • Geology, August 2019, Geological Society of America

    Alex Brasier

  22. Detecting ancient life: Investigating the nature and origin of possible stromatolites and associated calcite from a one billion year old lake

    Article • Precambrian Research, July 2019, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  23. Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia

    Article • Geology, January 2019, Geological Society of America

    Alex Brasier

  24. Carbon isotopes, stratigraphy and environmental change: the Middle/Upper Cambrian Positive Excursion (SPICE) in Port-au-Port Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, July 2018, Canadian Science Publishing

    Alex Brasier

  25. A microbial role in the construction of Mono Lake carbonate chimneys?

    Article • Geobiology, June 2018, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  26. What do we really know about early diagenesis of non-marine carbonates?

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, November 2017, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  27. A depositional model for spherulitic carbonates associated with alkaline, volcanic lakes

    Article • Marine and Petroleum Geology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  28. Are spherulitic lacustrine carbonates an expression of large-scale mineral carbonation? A case study from the East Kirkton Limestone, Scotland

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2017, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  29. Sedimentary characterization of the carbonate source rock of Upper Kimmeridgian Parnac Formation of the Aquitaine Basin (Quercy area)

    Article • BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin, January 2017, EDP Sciences

    Alex Brasier

  30. Contributions of Professor Martin Brasier to the study of early life, stratigraphy and biogeochemistry

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2017, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  31. Earliest Cretaceous cocoons or plant seed structures from the Wealden Group, Hastings, UK

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2017, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  32. Evaluating evidence from the Torridonian Supergroup (Scotland, UK) for eukaryotic life on land in the Proterozoic

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, October 2016, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  33. 3.46 Ga Apex chert ‘microfossils’ reinterpreted as mineral artefacts produced during phyllosilicate exfoliation

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  34. Unusual, basin-scale, fluid–rock interaction in the Palaeoproterozoic Onega basin from Fennoscandia: Preservation in calcite δ18O of an ancient high geothermal gradient

    Article • Precambrian Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  35. Primary aragonite and high-Mg calcite in the late Cambrian (Furongian). Potential evidence from marine carbonates in Oman

    Article • Terra Nova, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Joyce E Neilson, Alex Brasier

  36. Growing spherulitic calcite grains in saline, hyperalkaline lakes: experimental evaluation of the effects of Mg-clays and organic acids

    Article • Sedimentary Geology, April 2016, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  37. A Test of the Biogenicity Criteria Established for Microfossils and Stromatolites on Quaternary Tufa and Speleothem Materials Formed in the “Twilight Zone” at Caerwys, UK

    Article • Astrobiology, October 2015, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Alex Brasier

  38. The Palaeoproterozoic global carbon cycle: insights from the Loch Maree Group, NW Scotland

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, September 2015, Geological Society

    Alex Brasier

  39. Carbonate deposition in the Palaeoproterozoic Onega basin from Fennoscandia: a spotlight on the transition from the Lomagundi-Jatuli to Shunga events

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, August 2015, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  40. Travertine precipitation in the Paleoproterozoic Kuetsjärvi Sedimentary Formation, Pechenga Greenstone Belt, NE Fennoscandian Shield

    Article • Precambrian Research, December 2014, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  41. Carbon isotopic evidence for organic matter oxidation in soils of the Old Red Sandstone (Silurian to Devonian, South Wales, UK)

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, July 2014, Geological Society

    Dr Jennifer L Morris, Alex Brasier

  42. Petrography and geochemistry of carbonate rocks of the Paleoproterozoic Zaonega Formation, Russia: Documentation of 13C-depleted non-primary calcite

    Article • Precambrian Research, January 2014, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  43. Archaean Soils, Lakes and Springs: Looking for Signs of Life

    Article • November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  44. Earth's earliest global glaciation? Carbonate geochemistry and geochronology of the Polisarka Sedimentary Formation, Kola Peninsula, Russia

    Article • Precambrian Research, September 2013, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  45. 7.9 Terrestrial Environments

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  46. 7.6 Enhanced Accumulation of Organic Matter: The Shunga Event

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  47. 7.8 Traces of Life

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  48. 6.1 The Imandra/Varzuga Greenstone Belt

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  49. 7.3 The Palaeoproterozoic Perturbation of the Global Carbon Cycle: The Lomagundi-Jatuli Isotopic Event

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  50. 6.3 The Onega Basin

    Article • August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  51. Isotopic Evidence for Massive Oxidation of Organic Matter Following the Great Oxidation Event

    Article • Science, December 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alex Brasier

  52. Coastal sabkha dolomites and calcitised sulphates preserving the Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotope signal

    Article • Precambrian Research, August 2011, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  53. H. M. Pedley & M. Rogerson (eds) 2010. Tufas and Speleothems: Unravelling the Microbial and Physical Controls. Geological Society Special Publication 336. vi + 362pp. Geological Society of London. Price £90.00, US$180.00; GSL £45.00, US$90.00; other qu...

    Article • Geological Magazine, April 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Alex Brasier

  54. Diagenesis or dire genesis? The origin of columnar spar in tufa stromatolites of central Greece and the role of chironomid larvae

    Article • Sedimentology, February 2011, Wiley

    Alex Brasier

  55. Searching for travertines, calcretes and speleothems in deep time: Processes, appearances, predictions and the impact of plants

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, February 2011, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  56. Carbon and nitrogen cycling pursuant to the great oxidation event: Evidence from the paleoproterozoic of fennoscandia

    Article • Journal of Earth Science, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alex Brasier

  57. Depositional continuity of seasonally laminated tufas: Implications for δ18O based palaeotemperatures

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, April 2010, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  58. Late-Pliocene timing of Corinth (Greece) rift-margin fault migration

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, September 2008, Elsevier

    Alex Brasier

  59. Seasonal records of climatic change in annually laminated tufas: short review and future prospects

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, January 2005, Wiley

    Alex Brasier