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Dr Richard Brown
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Admissions Director
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Associate Professor, Undergraduate Admissions Director in the Department of Earth Sciences | +44 (0) 191 33 42303 |
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Biography
2015-present — Associate Professor, Durham University
2011–2015 — Lecturer and Director of the Volcanic Margins Research Consortium, Durham University
2008–2011 — Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Open University
2004–2008 — Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
2002–2004 — Research Fellow, Vesuvius Volcano Observatory, Naples
2002—PhD, University of Leicester
Career Research Interests
Volcanology in general, pyroclastic sedimentology, and the mass movement of debris across the Earth's surface following geo-catastrophes. Primarily use field studies of deposits to derive information about emplacement processes. Application of volcanology to the petroleum and mining industries. Specifically interested in:
- the transport and deposition of tephra by pyroclastic density currents
- basaltic volcanism, effusive and explosive
- volcanic edifice growth and evolution, encompassing all scales from monogenetic cones, to calderas, ocean island volcanoes and large igneous provinces
- aggregation mechanisms in atmospheric dust clouds applied to volcanic eruptions and meteorite impacts
- kimberlite volcanism and conduit processes
- dispersal of ejecta following large meteorite impacts
- climatic impacts of explosive volcanic eruptions
I currently have ongoing research projects in El Salvador (AD563 Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango); Campi Flegrei and Ischia, Italy; Tenerife; Iceland, UK Lake District.
Committee and Society Service
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Volcanology
Secretary, Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group
Leader of Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group 40th Anniversary fieldtrip to Tenerife, 2006
Media interest in our 2011 Journal of Geology paper revealing how meteorite ejecta blankets are emplaced.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44952418/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Ut0-BxCny70
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111018095124.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/90060/meteorite-impact-sites-treated-to-csi-techniques/
http://www.livescience.com/30855-gas-blast-from-meteorite-strike-resembled-volcanic-eruption.html
Conferences and Workshops
2013 — Convener “Observation, theory and experiments on volcanogenic mass flows” IAVCEI General Assembly, Kagoshima, Japan,2013.
2012 — Co-organiser Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group AGM, Durham, UK,2012.
2010 — Convener “What can pyroclasts tell us?” AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2010.
2007 — Leader of IAVCEI Commission on Explosive Volcanism field workshop: Pyroclastic Density Currents and Topography, Tenerife, 2007.
2006 — Leader of Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group 40th Anniversary fieldtrip to Tenerife, 2006.
Keynotes
2013 — IAVCEI General Assembly
2012 — VMSG Annual Meeting, Durham
2011 — IUGG, Melbourne
2011 — 5th VVSG Goias, Brazil
Membership of Organisations and Societies
Member, IAVCEI
Recent and Current Grants
2012 — £27 000 NIGFSC, “Priming a magma chamber for catastrophic eruption timescales of magma supply beneath the caldera volcano of Ischia, Italy” PI- RJ Brown and others
2011 — £111 000 Hess Limited, “Characterising the architecture and petrophysical properties of basaltic rocks from fissure eruptions”, studentship, PI
2010 — £15 000 National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration Grant (No. 8562-08), “Large eruptions through large lakes”, PI; Co-I — Prof. Bruce Houghton (Hawaii), Dr. James Vallance (USGS)
2009 — £4 000 Royal Society International Travel Grant, PI, Co-I — S Manya
2009 — £2 500 NERC GEF Loan of GPS Equipment (No. 894), RSJ Sparks (Bristol), RJ Brown
2008 — £17 000 National Geographic Committee on Research and Exploration Grant (No. 8562-08), “Understanding how kimberlite magmas behave at the Earth’s surface”, PI - RJ Brown; Co-Is — S Manya (Dar es Salaam), RSJ Sparks, M Field, C Storey (Bristol)
2007 — £38 700 co-supervisor of NERC-CASE Studentship at Oxford University
1997 — Awarded NERC studentship (N4/97/144), Leicester
Esteem Indicators
- 2000: Invited talks: North East Geological Society, 2013; University of British Columbia, Canada, 2011, Edinburgh Geological Society, 2011; University of Glasgow, 2011; LMU Munich, 2010; Museum fur Naturkunde, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2010; Earth Observatory Singapore, 2010; Open University, UK, 2007; NSF Workshop, Prescott, AZ, 2007; University of Leicester, UK, 2004
- 2000: Scientific Community Roles: Secretary IAVCEI Commission on Volcanogenic Sedimentation
Publications
Chapter in book
- Durant, A., & Brown, R. Ash Aggregation in Volcanic Clouds. In S. Mackie, K. Cashman, H. Ricketts, A. Rust, & M. Watson (Eds.), Volcanic Ash (53-66). Elsevier
- Brown., R., & Andrews, G. Deposits of Pyroclastic Density Currents. In Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. (2nd Ed). Elsevier
- Branney, M., Brown, R., & Calder, E. (2021). Pyroclastic Rocks. In S. Elias, & D. Alderton (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology (277-300). (2nd). Elsevier
- Brown, R. (2008). The Formation of Diamonds. In M. Benton (Ed.), The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames-Hudson
- Brown, R. (2008). Which was the Largest Ever Volcanic Eruption?. In M. Benton (Ed.), The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World. Thames-Hudson
- Brown, R., & Calder, E. (2005). Pyroclastics (including Tuffs, Ignimbrites and Ash). In R. Selley, L. Cocks, & I. Plimer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology (386-397). Elsevier
Journal Article
- Paine, A. R., Baldini, J. U., Ünal-İmer, E., Wadsworth, F. B., Iveson, A. A., Humphreys, M. C., Brown, R. J., Müller, W., & Ottley, C. J. (2024). Abrupt climate change at the MIS 5/4 transition recorded in a speleothem from the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews, 339, Article 108841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108841
- Pelullo, C., Chakraborty, S., Montagna, C. P., Arienzo, I., Brown, R. J., D’Antonio, M., de Vita, S., D’Oriano, C., Nazzari, M., Pappalardo, L., & Petrosino, P. (2024). A multi-methodological approach to record dynamics and timescales of the plumbing system of Zaro (Ischia Island, Italy). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 179(5), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02138-9
- Allgood, C., Llewellin, E. W., Humphreys, M. C. S., Mathias, S. A., Brown, R. J., & Vye‐Brown, C. (2024). Banding in the Margins of Basaltic Dykes Indicates Pulsatory Propagation During Emplacement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129(4), Article e2023JB028007. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jb028007
- Bowers, O., Dávila Harris, P., Winstanley, R., Wadsworth, F. B., & Brown, R. J. (2023). Alternating Subplinian and phreatomagmatic phases during the construction of a phonolitic maar-diatreme volcano (Caldera del Rey, Tenerife, Canary Islands). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 443, 107920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107920
- Vineberg, S. O., Isaia, R., Albert, P. G., Brown, R. J., & Smith, V. C. (2023). Insights into the explosive eruption history of the Campanian volcanoes prior to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 443, Article 107915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107915
- Scarrow, J. H., Schmitt, A. K., Danišík, M., Chamberlain, K. J., Davies, B. V., Rushton, J., Brown, R. J., & Barclay, J. (2023). Zircon double-dating, trace element and O isotope analysis to decipher late Pleistocene explosive-effusive eruptions from a zoned ocean-island magma system, Ascension Island. Quaternary Science Reviews, 319, Article 108304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108304
- Baldini, J. U. L., Brown, R. J., Wadsworth, F. B., Paine, A. R., Campbell, J. W., Green, C. E., Mawdsley, N., & Baldini, L. M. (2023). Possible magmatic CO2 influence on the Laacher See eruption date. Nature, 619(7968), E1-E2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05965-1
- Sanford, O., Schofield, N., Hobbs, R., & Brown, R. (2023). Seismic wave propagation around subsurface igneous sill complexes. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 152, Article 106232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106232
- Brown, R. J., Van Eaton, A. R., Hernández, W., Condren, P., Sweeney, C., Tournigand, P.-Y., & Vallance, J. W. (2023). Ash aggregate-rich pyroclastic density currents of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, Ilopango caldera, El Salvador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 439, Article 107845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107845
- Sanford, O., Hobbs, R., Brown, R., & Schofield, N. (2023). Uncertainties in Ray-Tracing Tomography Models Used for Sub-Basalt Seismic Imaging. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 180(1), 145-156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-022-03199-2
- Hoult, H., Brown, R. J., Van Eaton, A. R., Hernandez, W., Dobson, K. J., & Woodward, B. (2022). Growth of complex volcanic ash aggregates in the Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 431, Article 107670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107670
- Brown, R. J., Hernández, W., Escobar, D., Gutierrez, E., Crummy, J., Cole, R., & Tournigand, P.-Y. (2022). Reconstruction of the 29th December 2013 eruption of San Miguel volcano, El Salvador, using video, photographs, and pyroclastic deposits. Volcanica, 5(2), 271 - 293. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.05.02.271293
- Jones, T. J., Russell, J. K., Brown, R. J., & Hollendonner, L. (2022). Melt stripping and agglutination of pyroclasts during the explosive eruption of low viscosity magmas. Nature Communications, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28633-w
- D'Antonio, M., Arienzo, I., Brown, R. J., Petrosino, P., Pelullo, C., & Giaccio, B. (2021). Petrography and Mineral Chemistry of Monte Epomeo Green Tuff, Ischia Island, South Italy: Constraints for Identification of the Y-7 Tephrostratigraphic Marker in Distal Sequences of the Central Mediterranean. Minerals, 11(9), Article 955. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11090955
- Preece, K., Barclay, J., Brown, R. J., Chamberlain, K. J., & Mark, D. F. (2021). Explosive felsic eruptions on ocean islands: A case study from Ascension Island (South Atlantic). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 416, Article 107284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107284
- Davies, B. V., Brown, R. J., Barclay, J., Scarrow, J. H., & Herd, R. A. (2021). Rapid eruptive transitions from low to high intensity explosions and effusive activity: insights from textural analysis of a small-volume trachytic eruption, Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Bulletin of Volcanology, 83(9), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01480-1
- Shaikh, A. M., Tappe, S., Bussweiler, Y., Vollmer, C., Brown, R. J., & EIMF. (2021). Origins of olivine in Earth’s youngest kimberlite: Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176(8), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01816-2
- Wadsworth, F. B., Vasseur, J., Llewellin, E. W., Brown, R. J., Tuffen, H., Gardner, J. E., Kendrick, J. E., Lavallée, Y., Dobson, K. J., Heap, M. J., Dingwell, D. B., Hess, K.-U., Schauroth, J., von Aulock, F. W., Kushnir, A. R., & Marone, F. (2021). A model for permeability evolution during volcanic welding. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107118
- Paine, A. R., Baldini, J. U., Wadsworth, F. B., Lechleitner, F. A., Jamieson, R. A., Baldini, L. M., Brown, R. J., Müller, W., Hercman, H., Gąsiorowski, M., Stefaniak, K., Socha, P., Sobczyk, A., & Kasprzak, M. (2021). The trace-element composition of a Polish stalagmite: Implications for the use of speleothems as a record of explosive volcanism. Chemical Geology, 570, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120157
- Chamberlain, K., Barclay, J., Preece, K., Brown, R., McIntosh, I., & EIMF. (2020). Deep and disturbed: conditions for formation and eruption of a mingled rhyolite at Ascension Island, south Atlantic. Volcanica, 3(1), 139-153. https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.03.01.139153
- Chamberlain, K., Barclay, J., Preece, K., Brown, R., & Davidson, J. (2019). Lower Crustal Heterogeneity and Fractional Crystallization Control Evolution of Small-volume Magma Batches at Ocean Island Volcanoes (Ascension Island, South Atlantic). Journal of Petrology, 60(8), 1489-1522. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egz037
- Colombier, M., Mueller, S. B., Kueppers, U., Scheu, B., Delmelle, P., Cimarelli, C., Cronin, S. J., Brown, R. J., Tost, M., & Dingwell, D. B. (2019). Diversity of soluble salt concentrations on volcanic ash aggregates from a variety of eruption types and deposits. Bulletin of Volcanology, 81(7), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1302-0
- Albert, P., Giaccio, B., Isaia, R., Costa, A., Niespolo, E., Pereira, A., Renne, P., Hinchliffe, A., Mark, D., Brown, R., & Smith, V. (2019). Evidence for a large-magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka. Geology, 47(7), 595-599. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45805.1
- Preece, K., Mark, D. F., Barclay, J., Cohen, B. E., Chamberlain, K. J., Jowitt, C., Vye-Brown, C., Brown, R. J., & Hamilton, S. (2018). Bridging the gap: 40Ar/39Ar dating of volcanic eruptions from the ‘Age of Discovery’. Geology, 46(12), 1035-1038. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45415.1
- Baldini, J. U., Brown, R. J., & Mawdsley, N. (2018). Evaluating the link between the sulphur-rich Laacher See volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas climate anomaly. Climate of the Past, 14(7), 969-990. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-969-2018
- Mark, N., Schofield, N., Pugliese, S., Watson, D., Holford, S., Muirhead, D., Brown, R., & Healy, D. (2018). Igneous intrusions in the Faroe Shetland basin and their implications for hydrocarbon exploration; new insights from well and seismic data. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 92, 733-753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.12.005
- Reynolds, P., Schofield, N., Brown, R., & Holford, S. (2018). The architecture of submarine monogenetic volcanoes – insights from 3D seismic data. Basin Research, 30(s1), 437-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12230
- Grove, C., Jerram, D. A., Gluyas, J. G., & Brown, R. J. (2017). Sandstone Diagenesis in Sediment–lava Sequences: Exceptional Examples of Volcanically Driven Diagenetic Compartmentalization in Dune Valley, Huab Outliers, Nw Namibia. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87(12), 1314-1335. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2017.75
- Jones, T., Llewellin, E., Houghton, B., Brown, R., & Vye-Brown, C. (2017). Proximal lava drainage controls on basaltic fissure eruption dynamics. Bulletin of Volcanology, 79(11), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-017-1164-2
- Scarlato, P., Mollo, S., Del Bello, E., von Quadt, A., Brown, R., Gutierrez, E., Martinez-Hackert, B., & Papale, P. (2017). The 2013 eruption of Chaparrastique volcano (El Salvador): Effects of magma storage, mixing, and decompression. Chemical Geology, 448, 110-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.11.015
- Chamberlain, K., Barclay, J., Preece, K., Brown, R., Davidson, J., & EIMF. (2016). Origin and evolution of silicic magmas at ocean islands: Perspectives from a zoned fall deposit on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 327, 349-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.08.014
- Reynolds, P., Brown, R., Thordarson, T., & Llewellin, E. (2016). The architecture and shallow conduits of Laki-type pyroclastic cones: insights into a basaltic fissure eruption. Bulletin of Volcanology, 78(5), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-016-1029-0
- Karaoğlu, O., & Brown, R. (2016). Reconstructing the evolution of an eroded Miocene caldera volcano (Yamanlar volcano, İzmir, Turkey). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 318, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.03.007
- Baldini, J., Brown, R., & McElwaine, J. (2015). Was millennial scale climate change during the Last Glacial triggered by explosive volcanism?. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 17442. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep17442
- Brown, R., Thordarson, T., Self, S., & Blake, S. (2015). Disruption of Tephra Fall Deposits Caused by Lava Flows during Basaltic Eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(10), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0974-3
- Reynolds, P., Brown, R., Thordarson, T., Llewellin, E., & Fielding, K. (2015). Rootless cone eruption processes informed by dissected tephra deposits and conduits. Bulletin of Volcanology, 77(9), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-015-0958-3
- Willcox, A., Buisman, I., Sparks, R., Brown, R., Manya, S., Schumacher, J., & Tuffen, H. (2015). Petrology, geochemistry and low-temperature alteration of lavas and pyroclastic rocks of the kimberlitic Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania. Chemical Geology, 405, 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.04.012
- Tomlinson, E., Albert, P., Wulf, S., Brown, R., Smith, V., Keller, J., Orsi, G., Bourne, A., & Menzies, M. (2014). Age and geochemistry of tephra layers from Ischia, Italy: constraints from proximal-distal correlations with Lago Grande di Monticchio. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 287, 22-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.09.006
- Brown, R., Civetta, L., Arienzo, I., D'Antonio, M., Moretti, R., Orsi, G., Tomlinson, E., Albert, P., & Menzies, M. (2014). Geochemical and isotopic insights into the assembly, evolution and disruption of a magmatic plumbing system before and after a cataclysmic caldera-collapse eruption at Ischia volcano (Italy). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168(3), Article 1035. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-014-1035-1
- Brown, R., Blake, S., Thordarson, T., & Self, S. (2014). Pyroclastic edifices record vigorous lava fountains during the emplacement of a flood basalt flow field, Roza Member, Columbia River Basalt Province, USA. GSA Bulletin, 126(7-8), 875-891. https://doi.org/10.1130/b30857.1
- Jones, T., Russell, J., Porritt, L., & Brown, R. (2014). Morphology and surface features of olivine in kimberlite: implications for ascent processes. Solid Earth, 5(1), 313-326. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-5-313-2014
- for petroleum exploration. AAPG Bulletin, 98(3), 449-463. https://doi.org/10.1306/08141313029
- Watton, T., Cannon, S., Brown, R., Jerram, D., & Waichel, B. (2014). Using formation micro-imaging, wireline logs and onshore analogues to distinguish volcanic lithofacies in boreholes: examples from Palaeogene successions in the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic. Geological Society Special Publications, 397, 173-192. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp397.7
- Brown, R., & Branney, M. (2013). Internal flow variations and diachronous sedimentation within extensive, sustained, density-stratified pyroclastic density currents flowing down gentle slopes, as revealed by the internal architectures of ignimbrites on Tenerife. Bulletin of Volcanology, 75(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-013-0727-0
- Brown, R., & Valentine, G. (2013). Physical characteristics of kimberlite and basaltic intraplate volcanism and implications of a biased kimberlite record. GSA Bulletin, 125(7-8), 1224-1238. https://doi.org/10.1130/b30749.1
- Phillips, J., Humphreys, M., Daniels, K., Brown, R., & Witham, F. (2013). The formation of columnar joints produced by cooling in basalt at Staffa, Scotland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 75(6), Article 715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-013-0715-4
- Brown, R., Manya, S., Buisman, I., Fontana, G., Field, M., Niocaill, C., Sparks, R., & Stuart, F. (2012). Eruption of kimberlite magmas: physical volcanology, geomorphology and age of the youngest kimberlitic volcanoes known on earth (the Upper Pleistocene/ Holocene Igwisi Hills volcanoes, Tanzania). Bulletin of Volcanology, 74(7), 1621-1643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-012-0619-8
- Brown, R., Bonadonna, C., & Durant, A. (2012). A review of volcanic ash aggregation. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 45-46, 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2011.11.001
- Gernon, T., Brown, R., Tait, M., & Hincks, T. (2012). The origin of pelletal lapilli in explosive kimberlite eruptions. Nature Communications, 3, Article 832. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1842
- Brown, R., Blake, S., Bondre, N., Phadnis, V., & Self, S. (2011). ́Áā lava flows in the Deccan Volcanic Province, India, and their significance for the nature of continental flood basalt eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73(6), 737-752. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-011-0450-7
- Fontana, G., Mac Nio Caill, C., Brown, R., Sparks, R., & Field, M. (2011). Emplacement temperatures of pyroclastic and volcaniclastic deposits in kimberlite pipes in southern Africa. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73(8), 1063-1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-011-0493-9
- Branney, M., & Brown, R. (2011). Impactoclastic density current emplacement of terrestrial meteorite-impact ejecta and the formation of dust pellets and accretionary lapilli: Evidence from Stac Fada, Scotland. The Journal of Geology, 119(3), 275-292. https://doi.org/10.1086/659147
- Brown, R., Branney, M., Maher, C., & Davila Harris, P. (2010). Origin of accretionary lapilli within ground-hugging density currents: Evidence from pyroclastic couplets on Tenerife. GSA Bulletin, 122(1-2), 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1130/b26449.1
- Gernon, T., Fontana, G., Field, M., Sparks, R., Brown, R., & Mac Nio Caill, C. (2009). Pyroclastic flow deposits from a kimberlite eruption : the Orapa South Crater, Botswana. Lithos, 112(Supplement 1), 566-578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2009.04.016
- Brown, R., Tait, M., Field, M., & Sparks, R. (2009). Geology of a complex kimberlite pipe (K2 pipe, Venetia Mine, South Africa): Insights into conduit processes during explosive ultrabasic eruptions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-008-0211-4
- Brown, R., Orsi, G., & De Vita, S. (2008). New insights into Late Pleistocene explosive volcanic activity and caldera formation on Ischia (southern Italy). Bulletin of Volcanology, 70(5), 583-603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-007-0155-0
- Brown, R., Field, M., Gernon, T., Gilbertson, M., & Sparks, R. (2008). Problems with an in-vent column collapse model for the emplacement of massive volcaniclastic kimberlite. A discussion of 'In-vent column collapse as an alternative model for massive volcaniclastic kimberlite emplacement: An example from the Fox kimberlite, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Canada' by Porritt et al. [J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 174, 90-102]. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 178(4), 847-850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.06.002
- Brown, R., Buse, B., Sparks, R., & Field, M. (2008). On the welding of pyroclasts from very low-viscosity magmas: examples from kimberlite volcanoes. The Journal of Geology, 116(4), 354-374. https://doi.org/10.1086/588832
- Brown, R., Gernon, T., Stiefenhofer, J., & Field, M. (2008). Geological constraints on the eruption of the Jwaneng Centre kimberlite pipe, Botswana. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 174(1-3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.12.032
- Sparks, R., Brown, R., Field, M., & Gilbertson, M. (2007). Kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature, 450(7172), https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06435
- Brown, R., Kokelaar, B., & Branney, M. (2007). Widespread transport of pyroclastic density currents from a large silicic tuff ring: The Glaramara tuff, Scafell caldera, English Lake District, UK. Sedimentology, 54(5), 1163-1190. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00877.x
- Brown, R., Kavanagh, J., Sparks, R., Tait, M., & Field, M. (2007). Mechanically disrupted and chemically weakened zones in segmented dike systems cause vent localization: Evidence from kimberlite volcanic systems. Geology, 35(9), 815-818. https://doi.org/10.1130/g23670a.1
- Walters, A., Phillips, J., Brown, R., Field, M., Gernon, T., Stripp, G., & Sparks, R. (2006). The role of fluidisation in the formation of volcaniclastic kimberlite: Grain size observations and experimental investigation. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 155(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.02.005
- Sparks, R., Baker, L., Brown, R., Field, M., Schumacher, J., Stripp, G., & Walters, A. (2006). Dynamical constraints on kimberlite volcanism. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 155(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.02.010
- Brown, R., & Branney, M. (2004). Bypassing and diachronous deposition from density currents: Evidence from a giant regressive bed form in the Poris ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. Geology, 32(5), 445-448. https://doi.org/10.1130/g20188.1
- Brown, R., & Branney, M. (2004). Event-stratigraphy of a caldera-forming ignimbrite eruption on Tenerife: The 273 ka Poris Formation. Bulletin of Volcanology, 66(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-003-0321-y
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Supervision students
Ariane Loisel
PhD
Ethan Hamilton
Kathryn Phillips
PhD
Louis Chambers
MScR
Rebecca Winstanley
Ryan Bailey
MScR