Dr Bob Cliff

Visiting Research Fellow

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 31649
Email address: r.a.cliff@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 8.122

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Publications

Pointon MA; Cliff RA; Chew DM (2012) The provenance of Western Irish Namurian Basin sedimentary strata inferred using detrital zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology, GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 47, pp.77-98. doi: 10.1002/gj.1335
Box MR; Krom MD; Cliff RA; Bar-Matthews M; Almogi-Labin A; Ayalon A; Paterne M (2011) Response of the Nile and its catchment to millennial-scale climatic change since the LGM from Sr isotopes and major elements of East Mediterranean sediments, QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 30, pp.431-442. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.005
Meyer MC; Cliff RA; Spoetl C (2011) Speleothems and mountain uplift, GEOLOGY, 39, pp.447-450. doi: 10.1130/G31881.1
Cliff RA; Spoetl C; Mangini A (2010) U-Pb dating of speleothems from Spannagel Cave, Austrian Alps: A high resolution comparison with U-series ages, QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY, 5, pp.452-458. doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.12.002
Meyer MC; Cliff RA; Spoetl C; Knipping M; Mangini A (2009) Speleothems from the earliest Quaternary: Snapshots of paleoclimate and landscape evolution at the northern rim of the Alps, QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 28, pp.1374-1391. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.010
John EH; Cliff R; Wignall PB (2008) A positive trend in seawater (87)Sr/(86)Sr values over the Early-Middle Frasnian boundary (Late Devonian) recorded in well-preserved conodont elements from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, 269, pp.166-175. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.031
McCaig AM; Cliff RA; Escartin J; Fallick AE; MacLeod CJ (2007) Oceanic detachment faults focus very large volumes of black smoker fluids, GEOLOGY, 35, pp.935-938. doi: 10.1130/G23657A.1
Chiaradia M; Konopelko D; Seltmann R; Cliff RA (2006) Lead isotope variations across terrane boundaries of the Tien Shan and Chinese Altay, MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, 41, pp.411-428. doi: 10.1007/s00126-006-0070-x
Walker J; Cliff RA; Latham AG (2006) U-Pb isotopic age of the StW 573 hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa, SCIENCE, 314, pp.1592-1594. doi: 10.1126/science.1132916
Chiaradia M; Banks D; Cliff R; Marschik R; de Haller A (2006) Origin of fluids in iron oxide-copper-gold deposits: constraints from delta Cl-37, Sr-87/Sr-86(i) and Cl/Br, MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, 41, pp.565-573. doi: 10.1007/s00126-006-0082-6
Meffan-Main S; Cliff RA; Barnicoat AC; Lombardo B; Compagnoni R (2004) A tertiary age for Alpine high-pressure metamorphism in the Gran Paradiso massif, Western Alps: a Rb-Sr microsampling study, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 22, pp.267-281. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2004.00512.x
Reddy SM; Wheeler J; Butler RWH; Cliff RA; Freeman S; Inger S; Pickles C; Kelley SP (2003) Kinematic reworking and exhumation within the convergent Alpine Orogen, TECTONOPHYSICS, 365, pp.77-102. doi: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00017-9
Stanley JD; Krom MD; Cliff RA; Woodward JC (2003) Short contribution: Nile flow failure at the end of the old kingdom, Egypt: Strontium isotopic and petrologic evidence, GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 18, pp.395-402. doi: 10.1002/gea.10065
Cliff RA; Meffan-Main S (2003) Evidence from Rb-Sr microsampling geochronology for the timing of Alpine deformation in the Sonnblick Dome, SE Tauern Window, Austria, 220, pp.159-172. doi: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.220.01.09
Fisher QJ; Cliff RA; Dodson MH (2003) U-Pb systematics of an Upper Carboniferous black shale from South Yorkshire, UK, CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 194, pp.331-347. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00383-2
Masoudi F; Yardley BWD; Cliff RA (2002) Rb-Sr geochronology of pegmatites, plutonic rocks and a hornfels in the region south-west of Arak, Iran, Journal of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, 13, pp.249-254.
Krom MD; Stanley JD; Cliff RA; Woodward JC (2002) Nile River sediment fluctuations over the past 7000 yr and their key role in sapropel development, GEOLOGY, 30, pp.71-74. doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0071:NRSFOT>2.0.CO;2
Wheeler J; Reddy SM; Cliff RA (2001) Kinematic linkage between internal zone extension and shortening in more external units in the NW Alps, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 158, pp.439-443.
Rosenbaum JM; Cliff RA; Coleman ML (2000) Chlorine stable isotopes: A comparison of dual inlet and thermal ionization mass spectrometric measurements, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, 72, pp.2261-2264. doi: 10.1021/ac991297q
Banks DA; Green R; Cliff RA; Yardley BWD (2000) Chlorine isotopes in fluid inclusions: Determination of the origins of salinity in magmatic fluids, GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 64, pp.1785-1789. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00407-X
Krom MD; Michard A; Cliff RA; Strohle K (1999) Sources of sediment to the Ionian Sea and western Levantine basin of the Eastern Mediterranean during S-1 sapropel times, MARINE GEOLOGY, 160, pp.45-61. doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(99)00015-8
Reddy SM; Wheeler J; Cliff RA (1999) The geometry and timing of orogenic extension: an example from the Western Italian Alps, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 17, pp.573-589.
Krom MD; Cliff RA; Eijsink LM; Herut B; Chester R (1999) The characterisation of Saharan dusts and Nile particulate matter in surface sediments from the Levantine basin using Sr isotopes, MARINE GEOLOGY, 155, pp.319-330. doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00130-3
Richards DA; Bottrell SH; Cliff RA; Strohle K; Rowe PJ (1998) U-Pb dating of a speleothem of Quaternary age, GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 62, pp.3683-3688. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00256-7
Cliff RA; Barnicoat AC; Inger S (1998) Early Tertiary eclogite facies metamorphism in the Monviso Ophiolite, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 16, pp.447-455. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1998.00147.x
Freeman SR; Butler RWH; Cliff RA; Inger S; Barnicoat AC (1998) Deformation migration in an orogen-scale shear zone array: an example from the Basal Brianconnais Thrust, internal Franco-Italian Alps, GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 135, pp.349-367. doi: 10.1017/S0016756898008693
Cliff RA; Oberli F; Meier M; Droop GTR (1998) Achieving geological precision in metamorphic geochronology: a Th-Pb age for the syn-metamorphic formation of the Mallnitzermulde synform, Tauern Window, from individual allanite porphyroblasts, Mineralogical Magazine, 62A, pp.337-338.
Cliff RA; Rex DC; Guise PG (1998) Geochronological studies of Proterozoic crustal evolution in the northern Outer Hebrides, PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 91, pp.401-418. doi: 10.1016/S0301-9268(98)00060-6
Freeman SR; Butler RWH; Cliff RA; Rex DC (1998) Direct dating of mylonite evolution: a multi-disciplinary geochronological study from the Moine Thrust Zone, NW Scotland, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 155, pp.745-758. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.155.5.0745
Rowe PJ; Richards DA; Atkinson TC; Bottrell SH; Cliff RA (1997) Geochemistry and radiometric dating of a Middle Pleistocene peat, GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 61, pp.4201-4211. doi: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00213-5
Freeman SR; Inger S; Butler RWH; Cliff RA (1997) Dating deformation using Rb-Sr in white mica: Greenschist facies deformation ages from the Entrelor shear zone, Italian Alps, TECTONICS, 16, pp.57-76. doi: 10.1029/96TC02477
Eijsink LM; Krom MD; Cliff RA (1997) Proportion of Nile derived sediment vs. Saharan Dust in surface sediments from the Levantine basin as determined by 87Sr/86Sr ration, Proceedings of International Conference on progress in oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea, Rome, pp.279-281.
Todt W; Cliff RA; Hanser A; Hofmann AW (1996) Evaluation of a 202Pb-205Pb double spike for high precision lead isotope analysis, In: Basu A; Hart SR (Ed) Earth processes: reading the isotopic code, Geophysical Monograph, 95, American Geophysical Union, pp.429-437.
Haggerty R; Cliff RA; Bottrell SH (1996) Pb-isotope evidence for the timing of episodic mineralization in the Llanrwst and Llanfair-Talhaiarn orefields, North Wales, MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, 31, pp.93-97.
Cliff RA; Yardley BWD; Bussy FR (1996) U-Pb and Rb-Sr geochronology of magmatism and metamorphism in the Dalradian of Connemara, western Ireland, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 153, pp.109-120. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.1.0109
Inger S; Ramsbotham W; Cliff RA; Rex DC (1996) Metamorphic evolution of the Sesia-Lanzo Zone, Western Alps: Time constraints from multi-system geochronology, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 126, pp.152-168. doi: 10.1007/s004100050241
KAMBER B; KRAMERS J; NAPIER R; CLIFF R; ROLLINSON H (1995) THE TRIANGLE SHEARZONE, ZIMBABWE, REVISITED - NEW DATA DOCUMENT AN IMPORTANT EVENT AT 2.0-GA IN THE LIMPOPO BELT, PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 70, pp.191-213. doi: 10.1016/0301-9268(94)00039-T
HAGGERTY R; BOTTRELL S; CLIFF R; REX D (1995) CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE AND GENESIS OF THE LLANRWST AND LLANFAIR-TALHAIARN OREFIELDS, NORTH WALES FROM K-AR AND RB-SR STUDIES, GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, 132, pp.387-398.
BARNICOAT A; REX D; GUISE P; CLIFF R (1995) THE TIMING OF AND NATURE OF GREENSCHIST FACIES DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM IN THE UPPER PENNINE ALPS, TECTONICS, 14, pp.279-293. doi: 10.1029/94TC02017
BOWTELL S; CLIFF R; BARNICOAT A (1994) SM-ND ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE ON THE AGE OF ECLOGITIZATION IN THE ZERMATT-SAAS OPHIOLITE, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 12, pp.187-196. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1994.tb00013.x
INGER S; CLIFF R (1994) TIMING OF METAMORPHISM IN THE TAUERN WINDOW, EASTERN ALPS - RB-SR AGES AND FABRIC FORMATION, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 12, pp.695-707. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1994.tb00052.x
CLIFF R; YARDLEY B; BUSSY F (1993) U-PB ISOTOPIC DATING OF FLUID INFILTRATION AND METASOMATISM DURING DALRADIAN REGIONAL METAMORPHISM IN CONNEMARA, WESTERN IRELAND, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 11, pp.185-191. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1993.tb00141.x
REDDY S; CLIFF R; EAST R (1993) THERMAL HISTORY OF THE SONNBLICK DOME, SOUTH-EAST TAUERN WINDOW, AUSTRIA - IMPLICATIONS FOR HETEROGENEOUS UPLIFE WITHIN THE PENNINE BASEMENT, GEOLOGISCHE RUNDSCHAU, 82, pp.667-675.
CLIFF R; RICKARD D (1992) ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS OF THE KIRUNA MAGNETITE ORES, SWEDEN .2. EVIDENCE FOR A SECONDARY EVENT 400 MY AFTER ORE FORMATION, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, 87, pp.1121-1129.
YARDLEY B; BOTTRELL S; CLIFF R (1991) EVIDENCE FOR A REGIONAL-SCALE FLUID LOSS EVENT DURING MIDCRUSTAL METAMORPHISM, NATURE, 349, pp.151-154. doi: 10.1038/349151a0
Cliff RA; Drewery SE; Leeder MR (1991) Sourcelands for the Carboniferous Pennine river system: constraints from sedimentary evidence and U-Pb geochronology using zircon and monazite, Developments in sedimentary provenance studies, pp.137-159.
Yardley B; Bottrell SH; Cliff RA (1991) Metamorphic fluid flow [12], Nature, 352, pp.484-484.
CLIFF R; BAKER P; MATEER N (1991) GEOCHEMISTRY OF INACCESSIBLE ISLAND VOLCANICS, CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, 92, pp.251-260. doi: 10.1016/0009-2541(91)90073-Z
DALY J; MUIR R; CLIFF R (1991) A PRECISE U-PB ZIRCON AGE FOR THE INISHTRAHULL SYENITIC GNEISS, COUNTY-DONEGAL, IRELAND, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 148, pp.639-642. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.148.4.0639
DALY J; AITCHESON S; CLIFF R; GAYER R; RICE A (1991) GEOCHRONOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM DISCORDANT PLUTONS FOR A LATE PROTEROZOIC OROGEN IN THE CALEDONIDES OF FINNMARK, NORTHERN NORWAY, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 148, pp.29-40. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.148.1.0029
YARDLEY B; BOTTRELL S; CLIFF R (1991) METAMORPHIC FLUID-FLOW - REPLY, NATURE, 352, pp.484-484. doi: 10.1038/352484a0
HUHMA H; CLIFF R; PERTTUNEN V; SAKKO M (1990) SM-ND AND PB ISOTOPIC STUDY OF MAFIC ROCKS ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY PROTEROZOIC CONTINENTAL RIFTING - THE PERAPOHJA SCHIST BELT IN NORTHERN FINLAND, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 104, pp.369-379. doi: 10.1007/BF00321491
CLIFF R; RICKARD D; BLAKE K (1990) ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS OF THE KIRUNA MAGNETITE ORES, SWEDEN .1. AGE OF THE ORE, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, 85, pp.1770-1776.
LEROEX A; CLIFF R; ADAIR B (1990) TRISTAN-DA-CUNHA, SOUTH-ATLANTIC - GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS OF A BASANITE PHONOLITE LAVA SERIES, JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY, 31, pp.779-812.
CLIFF R; REX D (1989) EVIDENCE FOR A GRENVILLE EVENT IN THE LEWISIAN OF THE NORTHERN OUTER HEBRIDES, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 146, pp.921-924. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.146.6.0921
Davies GR; Cliff RA; Norry MJ; Gerlach DC (1989) A combined chemical and Pb-Sr-Nd isotope study of the Azores and Cape Verde hot-spots: The geodynamic implications, Geological Society Special Publication, 42, pp.231-255.
Chaffey DJ; Cliff RA; Wilson BM (1989) Characterization of the St Helena magma source, Geological Society Special Publication, 42, pp.257-276.
AGAR S; CLIFF R; DUDDY I; REX D (1989) ACCRETION AND UPLIFE IN THE SHIMANTO BELT, SW JAPAN, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 146, pp.893-896. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.146.6.0893
GERLACH D; CLIFF R; DAVIES G; NORRY M; HODGSON N (1988) MAGMA SOURCES OF THE CAPE-VERDES ARCHIPELAGO - ISOTOPIC AND TRACE-ELEMENT CONSTRAINTS, GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 52, pp.2979-2992. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(88)90162-7
DREWERY S; CLIFF R; LEEDER M (1987) PROVENANCE OF CARBONIFEROUS SANDSTONES FROM U-PB DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS, NATURE, 325, pp.50-53. doi: 10.1038/325050a0
CLIFF R; JONES G; CHOI W; LEE T (1985) STRONTIUM ISOTOPIC EQUILIBRATION DURING METAMORPHISM OF TILLITES FROM THE OGCHEON BELT, SOUTH-KOREA, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 90, pp.346-352. doi: 10.1007/BF00384713
CLIFF R (1985) ISOTOPIC DATING IN METAMORPHIC BELTS, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 142, pp.97-110. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.142.1.0097
CLIFF R; DROOP G; REX D (1985) ALPINE METAMORPHISM IN THE SOUTHEAST TAUERN WINDOW, AUSTRIA .2. RATES OF HEATING, COOLING AND UPLIFT, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, 3, pp.403-415. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.1985.tb00327.x
SKIOLD T; CLIFF R (1984) SM-ND AND U-PB DATING OF EARLY PROTEROZOIC MAFIC FELSIC VOLCANISM IN NORTHERNMOST SWEDEN, PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 26, pp.1-13. doi: 10.1016/0301-9268(84)90015-9
DALY J; PARK R; CLIFF R (1983) RB-SR ISOTOPIC EQUILIBRIUM DURING SVECONORWEGIAN (= GRENVILLE) DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM OF THE ORUST DYKES, SW SWEDEN, LITHOS, 16, pp.307-318. doi: 10.1016/0024-4937(83)90018-X
CLIFF R; GRAY C; HUHMA H (1983) A SM-ND ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE SOUTH HARRIS IGNEOUS COMPLEX, THE OUTER HEBRIDES, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 82, pp.91-98. doi: 10.1007/BF00371178
HUMPHRIES F; CLIFF R (1982) SM-ND DATING AND COOLING HISTORY OF SCOURIAN GRANULITES, SUTHERLAND, NATURE, 295, pp.515-517. doi: 10.1038/295515a0
ROLLINSON H; CLIFF R (1982) NEW RB-SR AGE-DETERMINATIONS ON THE ARCHEAN BASEMENT OF EASTERN SIERRA LEONE, PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, 17, pp.63-72. doi: 10.1016/0301-9268(82)90154-1
CLIFF R (1981) PRE-ALPINE HISTORY OF THE PENNINE ZONE IN THE TAUERN WINDOW, AUSTRIA - U-PB AND RB-SR GEOCHRONOLOGY, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 77, pp.262-266. doi: 10.1007/BF00373541
GRAY C; CLIFF R; GOODE A (1981) NEODYMIUM-STRONTIUM ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR EXTREME CONTAMINATION IN A LAYERED BASIC INTRUSION, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 56, pp.189-198. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(81)90126-6
CLIFF R (1980) URANIUM-LEAD ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FROM ZIRCONS FOR LOWER PALEOZOIC TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN THE AUSTRO-ALPINE NAPPE, THE EASTERN ALPS, CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, 71, pp.283-288. doi: 10.1007/BF00371670
CLIFF R; COHEN A (1980) URANIUM-LEAD ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS IN A REGIONALLY METAMORPHOSED TONALITE FROM THE EASTERN ALPS, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 50, pp.211-218. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(80)90132-6
RODDICK J; CLIFF R; REX D (1980) THE EVOLUTION OF EXCESS ARGON IN ALPINE BIOTITES - A AR-40-AR-39 ANALYSIS, EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 48, pp.185-208. doi: 10.1016/0012-821X(80)90181-8