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Professor Martin Van Kranendonk

Professor Martin Van Kranendonk

Professor
Science
School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences

My research interests span the lithosphere, biosphere. and atmosphere, across a broad range of disciplines relating to early Earth, from global tectonics to early life, and pretty much everything in between. This work has been achieved through multi-disciplinary collaboration with researchers from around the world and is published in 148 papers, 34 geological maps, 4 books, and three popular science articles that have had significant impact (Google Scholar h-index of 50; 8837 citations).

I joined UNSW at the start of 2012, after almost two decades in government geological surveys. At UNSW, I supervise a team of Higher Degree Research students, annually present two undergraduate courses (GEOS2131 Field Methds and mapping, and GEOS3171 Earth Structures), and act as the director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology (https://www.aca.unsw.edu.au/), as well as UNSW's Big Questions Institute (http://bqi.unsw.edu.au/). In 2017-2018 I was the Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, the largest school in the Faculty of Science and relinquished the position in order to devote time to my newly awarded ARC Discovery Project.

Transformative science breakthroughs include the recognition of the oldest Wilson Cycle associated with a 3.2 Ga onset of modern-style plate tectonics, a plume-related origin for Archean crust of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons, a hydrothermally-dominated volcanic caldera setting for the earliest convincing evidence of life on Earth, the co-discovery of the world’s oldest stromatolites in 3.7 billion-year-old rocks from West Greenland, secular changes in the tectonics of Earth, and remains of organic matter trapped in 3.5 billion-year-old stromatolites.

Our group’s research on early life has established a connection between the earliest putative fossil remains and low-temperature hydrothermal systems (including terrestrial hot springs), and recognised that life in the early Archean was already diverse, occupying different niches. Through mapping and collaborative laboratory research, we have developed new and comprehensive geological models for the environments of Earth’s oldest fossils. This research has also helped to establish the biogenicity of ancient fossils, through a wide variety of tests based on field and laboratory studies in collaboration with experts from around the globe. The results have been widely published in major journals and have been used in the search for life on Mars in collaboration with NASA scientists. In August 2019, I led the science mission teams for both NASA’s Perseverance and the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover teams on a week-long fieldtrip through the Pilbara as training for their upcoming exploration of the Red Planet (see links at bottom of this page).

I am a regular invited keynote speaker at international conferences and have presented for many television documentary programs, including BBC’s Stargazing Live program, ABC TV’s QandA program, and many others. In 2016, I and my PhD student Tara Djokic, were the feature scientists for an hour-long 3-D IMAX movie, Earth Story, released globally in 2018-19. Tara’s research was also highlighted in a TedX talk that has received half-a-million views.

Top 10 publications

  1. Nutman, A.P., Bennett, V.C., Friend, C.R.L., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Chivas, A. (2016): Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures. Nature 537, 535-538. DOI 10.1038/nature19355
  2. Van Kranendonk, M.J. (2006): Volcanic degassing, hydrothermal circulation and the flourishing of early life on Earth: new evidence from the Warrawoona Group, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Earth-Science Reviews, v. 74, p. 197-240.
  3. Baumgartner, R., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Wacey, D., Fiorentini, M., Saunders, M., Caruso, S., Pagès, A., Homann, M., and Guagliardo, P., (2019): Nano-porous pyrite and organic matter in 3.5 billion-year-old stromatolites record primordial life. Geology, v. 47, p. 1039-1043.
  4. Van Kranendonk, M.J., Philippot, P., Lepot, K., Bodorkos, S., Pirajno, F. (2008): Geological setting of Earth’s oldest fossils in the c. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 167, 93-124.
  5. Van Kranendonk, M.J., Smithies, R.H., Hickman, A.H., Champion, D.C. (2007): Secular tectonic evolution of Archaean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia. Terra Nova, v. 19(1), p. 1-38.
  6. Brasier, M.D., Green, O.R., Jephcoat, A.P., Kleppe, A.K., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Lindsay, J.F., Steele, A., Grassineau, N. (2002): Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils. Nature, v. 416, p. 76-81.
  7. Van Kranendonk, M.J., Kirkland, C.L. (2016): Conditioned duality of the Earth System: Geochemical tracing of the supercontinent cycle through the Precambrian. Earth-Science Reviews 160, 171-187. DOI 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.05.009
  8. Van Kranendonk, M.J. (2010): Two types of Archean continental crust: plume and plate tectonics on early Earth. American Journal of Science 310, 1187–1209.
  9. Williford, K.H., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Ushikubo, T., Kozdon, R., Valley, J.W. (2011): Constraining atmospheric oxygen and seawater sulfate concentrations during Paleoproterozoic glaciation: in situ sulfur three-isotope microanalysis of pyrite from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 5686–5705.
  10. Van Kranendonk, M.J., Collins, W.J., Hickman, A.H., Pawley, M.J. (2004): Critical tests of vertical vs horizontal tectonic models for the Archaean East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, v. 131, p. 173-211.

Online links

1/09/2019: ABC news online

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-01/nasa-in-western-australia-looking-for-clues-to-mars-mission/11452250

1/09/2019: ABC TV National News Sunday Special Feature

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Zl4yLJpMGcc

Channel 9 Today Weekend breakfast 8/09/19

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/e07f59cf1774711745bb997f8c64aedd20190911033226/4c0506541a26829e8a79a1f3ce6993e620190911033226/0ec148

17/06/2019: Q&A on ABC TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNvUhbLfDt4

Tara’s Djokic’s TedX talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idfv7Lw4Y_s&t=36s

 
Phone
+61 2 9065 1822
E-mail
martin.vankranendonk@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 201B Biological Sciences North (D26) UNSW, Kensington 2052
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2023, 'Archean Tectonics', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 181 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65093-6_100
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2023, 'Fortescue Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1072 - 1072, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65093-6_588
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2023, 'Pilbara Craton', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 2326 - 2329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65093-6_1213
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2023, 'Warrawoona Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 3215 - 3215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65093-6_1675
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Djokic T; Baumgartner R; Bontognali TRR; Sugitani K; Kiyokawa S; Walter MR, 2021, 'Life analog sites for Mars from early Earth: diverse habitats from the Pilbara Craton and Mount Bruce Supergroup, Western Australia', in Mars Geological Enigmas: From the Late Noachian Epoch to the Present Day, pp. 357 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820245-6.00013-6
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Van Kranendonk M, 2019, 'Chapter 19 - Paleoarchean Development of a Continental Nucleus: The East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', in Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, pp. 437 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00019-8
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Van Kranendonk M, 2019, 'Chapter 20 - The Oldest Well-Preserved Felsic Volcanic Rocks on Earth: Geochemical Clues to the Early Evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and Implications for the Growth of a Paleoarchean Protocontinent', in Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, pp. 463 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00020-4
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Van Kranendonk M, 2019, 'Chapter 40 - Depositional Setting of the Fossiliferous, c.3480 Ma Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: A Review', in Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, pp. 985 - 1006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00040-X
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Johnson CM; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2018, 'Ancient life and plate tectonics', in Handbook of Astrobiology, pp. 195 - 205
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Johnston JF; van Kranendonk MJ, 2018, 'A conversation about geology and tourism in a remote area of Australia', in Handbook of Geotourism, pp. 264 - 273
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Djokic T; Deamer D, 2018, 'Wie entstand das Leben?', in Leben bleibt rätselhaft, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 13 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56670-1_2
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'Archean Tectonics', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 135 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_100
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'Fortescue Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 885 - 885, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_588
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'Pilbara Craton', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1894 - 1897, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_1213
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'Warrawoona Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 2627 - 2627, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44185-5_1675
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Archean Tectonics', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_100-4
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Fortescue Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_588-3
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Pilbara Craton', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_1213-3
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Warrawoona Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_1675-3
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Altermann W; Beard BL; Hoffman PF; Johnson CJ; Kasting JF; Melezhik VA; Nutman AP; Papineau D; Pirajno F, 2012, 'A chronostratigraphic division of the Precambrian: possibilities and challenges', in Gradstein FM; Ogg JG; Schmitz MD; Ogg GJ (ed.), The Geologic Time Scale 2012, Elsevier, Boston
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Fortescue Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 606 - 606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_588
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Archean Tectonics', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 69 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_100
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Pilbara Craton', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1257 - 1260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_1213
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Warrawoona Group', in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1761 - 1761, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_1675
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Furnes H; McLoughlin N; Muehlenbachs K; Banerjee N; Staudigel H; Dilek Y; de wit M; Van Kranendonk M; Schiffman P, 2008, 'Oceanic pillow lavas and hyaloclastites as habitats for microbial life through time – a review', in Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, pp. 1 - 68
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Smithies RH; Champion DC; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'Chapter 4.2 The Oldest Well-Preserved Felsic Volcanic Rocks on Earth: Geochemical Clues to the Early Evolution of the Pilbara Supergroup and Implications for the Growth of a Paleoarchean Protocontinent', in , pp. 339 - 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15042-8
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Smithies RH; Bennett VC, 2007, 'Preface: Aims, Scope, and Outline of the Book', in , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15092-1
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Smithies RH; Hickman AH; Champion DC, 2007, 'Chapter 4.1 Paleoarchean Development of a Continental Nucleus: the East Pilbara Terrane of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', in , pp. 307 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15041-6
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'Chapter 7.2 A Review of the Evidence for Putative Paleoarchean Life in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', in , pp. 855 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15072-6
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'Chapter 8.6 Tectonics of Early Earth', in , pp. 1105 - 1116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15086-6
  • Edited Books | 2018
    Van Kranendonk M; Bennett VC; Hoffman JE, (eds.), 2018, Earth's Oldest Rocks, Elsevier, https://www.elsevier.com/books/earths-oldest-rocks/van-kranendonk/978-0-444-63901-1
    Edited Books | 2007
    Van Kranendonk M; Bennett VC; Hoffmann JE, (eds.), 2007, Earth’s Oldest Rocks, Elsevier Science, https://www.elsevier.com/books/earths-oldest-rocks/van-kranendonk/978-0-444-63901-1
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Barlow EV; House CH; Liu MC; Wetherington MT; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2024, 'Distinctive microfossil supports early Paleoproterozoic rise in complex cellular organisation', Geobiology, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12576
    Journal articles | 2024
    Baumgartner RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Caruso S; Campbell KA; Dobson MJ; Teece BL; Verrall M; Homann M; Lalonde S; Visscher PT, 2024, 'Pyritic stromatolites from the Paleoarchean Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: Resolving biogenicity and hydrothermally influenced ecosystem dynamics', Geobiology, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12610
    Journal articles | 2024
    Djokic T; Bolhar R; Brengman LA; Havig JR; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2024, 'Trace elements (REE + Y) reveal marine, subaerial, and hydrothermal controls on an early Archean habitat for life: The 3.48 Ga volcanic-caldera system of the dresser formation, Pilbara Craton', Chemical Geology, 644, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121865
    Journal articles | 2024
    Fletcher C; Van Kranendonk M; Oliver C, 2024, 'Exogeoconservation of Mars', Space Policy, 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spacepol.2024.101627
    Journal articles | 2023
    Baumgartner RJ; Teece BL; Rasmussen B; Muhling J; Rickard WDA; Pejcic B; Hu S; Bourdet J; Caruso S; Van Kranendonk MJ; Grice K, 2023, 'Exceptional preservation of organic matter and iron-organic colloidal mineralization in hydrothermal black smoker-type sulfide mineralization from the Paleoarchean seafloor', Chemical Geology, 618, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121296
    Journal articles | 2023
    Caruso S; Baumgartner RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Fiorentini ML; Dosseto A, 2023, 'The mobilization of boron and lithium in the hydrothermal system of the ∼3.48 Ga Dresser caldera: A stable isotope perspective', Chemical Geology, 616, pp. 121232 - 121232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121232
    Journal articles | 2023
    Marien CS; Jäger O; Tusch J; Viehmann S; Surma J; Van Kranendonk MJ; Münker C, 2023, 'Interstitial carbonates in pillowed metabasaltic rocks from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A vestige of Archean seawater chemistry and seawater-rock interactions', Precambrian Research, 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107109
    Journal articles | 2023
    Sriaporn C; Campbell KA; Van Kranendonk MJ; Handley KM, 2023, 'Bacterial and archaeal community distributions and cosmopolitanism across physicochemically diverse hot springs.', ISME Commun, 3, pp. 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00291-z
    Journal articles | 2023
    Teece BL; Havig JR; George SC; Hamilton TL; Baumgartner RJ; Hartz J; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2023, 'Biogeochemistry of Recently Fossilized Siliceous Hot Spring Sinters from Yellowstone, USA', Astrobiology, 23, pp. 155 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0012
    Journal articles | 2022
    Alohali R; Al-Zubaidi F; Van Kranendonk M; Clark S, 2022, 'Automated Fault Detection in the Arabian Basin', Geophysics, 87, pp. 1 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0474.1
    Journal articles | 2022
    Baumgartner RJ; Hu S; Van Kranendonk MJ; Verrall M, 2022, 'Taphonomy of microorganisms and microbial microtextures at sulfidic hydrothermal vents: A case study from the Roman Ruins black smokers, Eastern Manus Basin', Geobiology, 20, pp. 479 - 497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12490
    Journal articles | 2022
    Johnson CM; Zheng XY; Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Czaja AD; Roden EE; Beard BL, 2022, 'Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition', Earth-Science Reviews, 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103992
    Journal articles | 2022
    Johnson CM; Zheng XY; Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Czaja AD; Roden EE; Beard BL, 2022, 'Reply to Comment by Birger Rasmussen and Janet R. Muhling on “Early Archean biogeochemical iron cycling and nutrient availability: New insights from a 3.5 Ga land-sea transition” by Johnson et al.', Earth-Science Reviews, 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104087
    Journal articles | 2022
    Nutman AP; Friend CRL; Bennett VC; Yi K; Van Kranendonk M, 2022, 'Review of the Isua supracrustal belt area (Greenland) Eoarchean geology from integrated 1:20,000 scale maps, field observations and laboratory data: Constraints on early geodynamics', Precambrian Research, 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106785
    Journal articles | 2022
    Runge EA; Duda JP; Van Kranendonk MJ; Reitner J, 2022, 'Earth’s oldest tsunami deposit? Early Archaean high-energy sediments in the ca 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation (Pilbara, Western Australia)', Depositional Record, 8, pp. 590 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dep2.175
    Journal articles | 2022
    Steller LH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wang A, 2022, 'Dehydration Enhances Prebiotic Lipid Remodeling and Vesicle Formation in Acidic Environments', ACS Central Science, 8, pp. 132 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.1c01365
    Journal articles | 2022
    Teece BL; Guido DM; Campbell KA; Van Kranendonk MJ; Galar A; George SC, 2022, 'Exceptional molecular preservation in the Late Jurassic Claudia palaeo-geothermal field (Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina)', Organic Geochemistry, 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104504
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Automated fault detection in the Arabian Basin', GEOPHYSICS, 87, pp. IM101 - IM109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0474.1
    Journal articles | 2021
    Caruso S; Van Kranendonk MJ; Baumgartner RJ; Fiorentini ML; Forster MA, 2021, 'The role of magmatic fluids in the ~3.48 Ga Dresser Caldera, Pilbara Craton: New insights from the geochemical investigation of hydrothermal alteration', Precambrian Research, 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106299
    Journal articles | 2021
    Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Campbell KA; Havig JR; Walter MR; Guido DM, 2021, 'A Reconstructed Subaerial Hot Spring Field in the ∼3.5 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Astrobiology, 21, pp. 1 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2072
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hasenstab E; Tusch J; Schnabel C; Marien CS; Van Kranendonk MJ; Smithies H; Howard H; Maier WD; Münker C, 2021, 'Evolution of the early to late Archean mantle from Hf-Nd-Ce isotope systematics in basalts and komatiites from the Pilbara Craton', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 553, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116627
    Journal articles | 2021
    Joshi MP; Steller L; Van Kranendonk MJ; Rajamani S, 2021, 'Influence of Metal Ions on Model Protoamphiphilic Vesicular Systems: Insights from Laboratory and Analogue Studies', Life, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life11121413
    Journal articles | 2021
    Murphy RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Baumgartner R; Ryan C, 2021, 'Biogenicity of Spicular Geyserite from Te Kopia, New Zealand: Integrated Petrography, High-Resolution Hyperspectral and Elemental Analysis', Astrobiology, 21, pp. 115 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2067
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nutman AP; Bennett VC; Friend CRL; Polat A; Hoffmann E; Van Kranendonk M, 2021, 'Fifty years of the Eoarchean and the case for evolving uniformitarianism', Precambrian Research, 367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106442
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nutman AP; Bennett VC; Friend CRL; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2021, 'In support of rare relict ∼3700 Ma stromatolites from Isua (Greenland)', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, pp. 116850 - 116850, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116850
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nutman AP; Friend CRL; Bennett VC; Van Kranendonk M; Chivas AR, 2021, 'GEODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE CA. 3800 MA OUTER ARC GROUP, ISUA (GREENLAND)', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 321, pp. 643 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.2475/06.2021.01
    Journal articles | 2021
    Rouillard J; Van Kranendonk MJ; Lalonde S; Gong J; van Zuilen MA, 2021, 'Correlating trace element compositions, petrology, and Raman spectroscopy data in the ∼3.46 Ga Apex chert, Pilbara Craton, Australia', Precambrian Research, 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106415
    Journal articles | 2021
    Sriaporn C; Campbell KA; Van Kranendonk MJ; Handley KM, 2021, 'Genomic adaptations enabling Acidithiobacillus distribution across wide-ranging hot spring temperatures and pHs', Microbiome, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01090-1
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tusch J; Münker C; Hasenstab E; Jansen M; Marien CS; Kurzweil F; van Kranendonk MJ; Smithies H; Maier W; Garbe-Schönberg D, 2021, 'Convective isolation of hadean mantle reservoirs through archean time', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2012626118
    Journal articles | 2021
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Baumgartner R; Djokic T; Ota T; Steller L; Garbe U; Nakamura E, 2021, 'Elements for the Origin of Life on Land: A Deep-Time Perspective from the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia', Astrobiology, 21, pp. 39 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2107
    Journal articles | 2021
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2021, 'Gliding and overthrust nappe tectonics of the Barberton Greenstone Belt revisited: A review of deformation styles and processes', South African Journal of Geology, 124, pp. 181 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0017
    Journal articles | 2021
    Viehmann S; Hohl SV; Tepe N; Van Kranendonk M; Reitner J; Hofmann T; Koeberl C; Meister P, 2021, 'Trace metals and Nd isotopes in 3.35 Ga old stromatolites of the Strelley Pool Formation (Australia) unravel the genesis of carbonates and chert', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1984
    Journal articles | 2020
    Baumgartner RJ; Caruso S; Fiorentini ML; Van Kranendonk MJ; Martin L; Jeon H; Pagès A; Wacey D, 2020, 'Sulfidization of 3.48 billion-year-old stromatolites of the Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: Constraints from in-situ sulfur isotope analysis of pyrite', Chemical Geology, 538, pp. 119488, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119488
    Journal articles | 2020
    Baumgartner RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Fiorentini ML; Pagès A; Wacey D; Kong C; Saunders M; Ryan C, 2020, 'Formation of micro-spherulitic barite in association with organic matter within sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton', Geobiology, 18, pp. 415 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12392
    Journal articles | 2020
    Baumgartner RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Pagès A; Fiorentini ML; Wacey D; Ryan C, 2020, 'Accumulation of transition metals and metalloids in sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion–year–old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton', Precambrian Research, 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105534
    Journal articles | 2020
    Fischer-Gödde M; Elfers BM; Münker C; Szilas K; Maier WD; Messling N; Morishita T; Van Kranendonk M; Smithies H, 2020, 'Ruthenium isotope vestige of Earth’s pre-late-veneer mantle preserved in Archaean rocks', Nature, 579, pp. 240 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2069-3
    Journal articles | 2020
    Nomchong BJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2020, 'Diverse thrombolites from the c. 2.4 Ga Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105593
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ruff SW; Campbell KA; Van Kranendonk MJ; Rice MS; Farmer JD, 2020, 'The case for ancient hot springs in gusev crater, mars', Astrobiology, 20, pp. 475 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2044
    Journal articles | 2020
    Sriaporn C; Campbell KA; Millan M; Ruff SW; Van Kranendonk MJ; Handley KM, 2020, 'Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide-ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities', Geobiology, 18, pp. 619 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12395
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tadbiri S; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2020, 'Structural analysis of syn-depositional hydrothermal veins of the 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Australia', Precambrian Research, 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105844
    Journal articles | 2020
    Teece BL; George SC; Djokic T; Campbell KA; Ruff SW; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2020, 'Biomolecules from fossilized hot spring sinters: Implications for the search for life on mars', Astrobiology, 20, pp. 537 - 551, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.2018
    Journal articles | 2020
    Viehmann S; Hohl SV; Tepe N; Van Kranendonk M; Reitner J; Hofmann T; Koeberl C; Meister P, 2020, 'Carbonate and chert genesis in the 3.35 Ga old Strelley Pool Formation (Australia): Insights from trace metals and Sm/Nd dating', , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6909
    Journal articles | 2020
    Viehmann S; Reitner J; Tepe N; Hohl SV; Van Kranendonk M; Hofmann T; Koeberl C; Meister P, 2020, 'Carbonates and cherts as archives of seawater chemistry and habitability on a carbonate platform 3.35 Ga ago: Insights from Sm/Nd dating and trace element analysis from the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105742
    Journal articles | 2019
    Baumgartner RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wacey D; Fiorentini ML; Saunders M; Caruso S; Pages A; Homann M; Guagliardo P, 2019, 'Nano-porous pyrite and organic matter in 3.5-billion-year-old stromatolites record primordial life', Geology, 47, pp. 1039 - 1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G46365.1
    Journal articles | 2019
    Beaty DW; Grady MM; McSween HY; Sefton-Nash E; Carrier BL; Altieri F; Amelin Y; Ammannito E; Anand M; Benning LG; Bishop JL; Borg LE; Boucher D; Brucato JR; Busemann H; Campbell KA; Czaja AD; Debaille V; Des Marais DJ; Dixon M; Ehlmann BL; Farmer JD; Fernandez-Remolar DC; Filiberto J; Fogarty J; Glavin DP; Goreva YS; Hallis LJ; Harrington AD; Hausrath EM; Herd CDK; Horgan B; Humayun M; Kleine T; Kleinhenz J; Mackelprang R; Mangold N; Mayhew LE; McCoy JT; McCubbin FM; McLennan SM; Moser DE; Moynier F; Mustard JF; Niles PB; Ori GG; Raulin F; Rettberg P; Rucker MA; Schmitz N; Schwenzer SP; Sephton MA; Shaheen R; Sharp ZD; Shuster DL; Siljeström S; Smith CL; Spry JA; Steele A; Swindle TD; ten Kate IL; Tosca NJ; Usui T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wadhwa M; Weiss BP; Werner SC; Westall F; Wheeler RM; Zipfel J; Zorzano MP, 2019, 'The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return: International MSR Objectives and Samples Team (iMOST)', Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54, pp. S3 - S152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maps.13242
    Journal articles | 2019
    Beaty DW; Grady MM; McSween HY; Sefton-Nash E; Carrier BL; Altieri F; Amelin Y; Ammannito E; Anand M; Benning LG; Bishop JL; Borg LE; Boucher D; Brucato JR; Busemann H; Campbell KA; Czaja AD; Debaille V; Des Marais DJ; Dixon M; Ehlmann BL; Farmer JD; Fernandez-Remolar DC; Filiberto J; Fogarty J; Glavin DP; Goreva YS; Hallis LJ; Harrington AD; M. Hausrath E; Herd CDK; Horgan B; Humanyun M; Kleine T; Kleinhenz J; Mackelprang R; Mangold N; Mayhew LE; McCoy JT; McCubbin FM; McLennan SM; Moser DE; Moynier F; Mustard JF; Niles PB; Ori GG; Raulin F; Rettberg P; Rucker MA; Schmitz N; Schwenzer SP; Sephton MA; Shaheen R; Sharp ZD; Schuster DL; Siljestrom S; Smith CL; Spry JA; Steele A; Swindle TD; ten Kate IL; Tosca NJ; Usui T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wadhwa M; Weiss BP; Werner SC; Westall F; Wheeler RM; Zipfel J; Zorzano MP, 2019, 'The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return', Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54, pp. 667 - 671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maps.13232
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nutman AP; Bennett VC; Friend CRL; Kranendonk MV, 2019, 'The Eoarchean legacy of Isua (Greenland) worth preserving for future generations', Earth-Science Reviews, 198, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102923
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nutman AP; Bennett VC; Friend CRL; Van Kranendonk MJ; Rothacker L; Chivas AR, 2019, 'Cross-examining Earth's oldest stromatolites: Seeing through the effects of heterogeneous deformation, metamorphism and metasomatism affecting Isua (Greenland) ∼3700 Ma sedimentary rocks', Precambrian Research, 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105347
    Journal articles | 2019
    Nutman AP; Friend CRL; Bennett VC; Van Kranendonk M; Chivas AR, 2019, 'Reconstruction of a 3700 Ma transgressive marine environment from Isua (Greenland): Sedimentology, stratigraphy and geochemical signatures', Lithos, 346-347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105164
    Journal articles | 2019
    Soares GG; Van Kranendonk MJ; Belousova E; Thomson S, 2019, 'Phosphogenesis in the immediate aftermath of the Great Oxidation Event: Evidence from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 320, pp. 193 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.10.017
    Journal articles | 2019
    Steller LH; Nakamura E; Ota T; Sakaguchi C; Sharma M; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2019, 'Boron Isotopes in the Puga Geothermal System, India, and Their Implications for the Habitat of Early Life', Astrobiology, 19, pp. 1459 - 1473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1966
    Journal articles | 2019
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2019, 'The setting for the origin of life: A geological- geochemical perspective', Biochemist, 40, pp. 18 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio04006018
    Journal articles | 2018
    Barlow EV; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2018, 'Snapshot of an early Paleoproterozoic ecosystem: Two diverse microfossil communities from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Geobiology, 16, pp. 449 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12304
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cammack JN; Spicuzza MJ; Cavosie AJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Hickman AH; Kozdon R; Orland IJ; Kitajima K; Valley JW, 2018, 'SIMS microanalysis of the Strelley Pool Formation cherts and the implications for the secular-temporal oxygen-isotope trend of cherts', Precambrian Research, 304, pp. 125 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.11.005
    Journal articles | 2018
    Czaja AD; Van Kranendonk MJ; Beard BL; Johnson CM, 2018, 'A multistage origin for Neoarchean layered hematite-magnetite iron formation from the Weld Range, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia', Chemical Geology, 488, pp. 125 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.04.019
    Journal articles | 2018
    Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2018, 'Textural biosignatures from the Pilbara: an important benchmark for early life on Earth', PalZ, 92, pp. 191 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0406-8
    Journal articles | 2018
    Duda JP; Thiel V; Bauersachs T; Mißbach H; Reinhardt M; Schäfer N; Van Kranendonk MJ; Reitner J, 2018, 'Ideas and perspectives: Hydrothermally driven redistribution and sequestration of early Archaean biomass-the "hydrothermal pump hypothesis"', Biogeosciences, 15, pp. 1535 - 1548, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1535-2018
    Journal articles | 2018
    Homann M; Sansjofre P; Van Zuilen M; Heubeck C; Gong J; Killingsworth B; Foster IS; Airo A; Van Kranendonk MJ; Ader M; Lalonde SV, 2018, 'Erratum to: Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago (Nature Geoscience, (2018), 11, 9, (665-671), 10.1038/s41561-018-0190-9)', Nature Geoscience, 11, pp. 965, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0253-y
    Journal articles | 2018
    Homann M; Sansjofre P; Van Zuilen M; Heubeck C; Gong J; Killingsworth B; Foster IS; Airo A; Van Kranendonk MJ; Ader M; Lalonde SV, 2018, 'Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago', Nature Geoscience, 11, pp. 665 - 671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0190-9
    Journal articles | 2018
    Otálora F; Mazurier A; Garcia-Ruiz JM; Van Kranendonk MJ; Kotopoulou E; El Albani A; Garrido CJ, 2018, 'A crystallographic study of crystalline casts and pseudomorphs from the 3.5 Ga dresser formation, Pilbara Craton (Australia)', Journal of Applied Crystallography, 51, pp. 1050 - 1058, http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718007343
    Journal articles | 2018
    Philippot P; Ávila JN; Killingsworth BA; Tessalina S; Baton F; Caquineau T; Muller E; Pecoits E; Cartigny P; Lalonde SV; Ireland TR; Thomazo C; Van Kranendonk MJ; Busigny V, 2018, 'Globally asynchronous sulphur isotope signals require re-definition of the Great Oxidation Event', Nature Communications, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04621-x
    Journal articles | 2018
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Deamer DW; Djokic T, 2018, 'Life Springs', Scientific American, 27, pp. 4 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamericantimerevolution0718-4
    Journal articles | 2017
    Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ; Campbell KA; Walter MR; Ward CR, 2017, 'Corrigendum: Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits (Nature Communications, (2017), 8, 1, (15263), 10.1038/ncomms15263)', Nature Communications, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16149
    Journal articles | 2017
    Djokic T; VanKranendonk MJ; Campbel KA; Walter MR; Ward CR; Van Kranendonk M, 2017, 'Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits', Nature Communications, 8, pp. 15263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15263
    Journal articles | 2017
    Hwong YL; Oliver C; Van Kranendonk M; Sammut C; Seroussi Y, 2017, 'What makes you tick? The psychology of social media engagement in space science communication', Computers in Human Behavior, 68, pp. 480 - 492, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.068
    Journal articles | 2017
    Sugitani K; Van Kranendonk MJ; Oehler DZ; House CH; Walter MR, 2017, 'Comment: Archean coastal-plain paleosols and life on land', Gondwana Research, 44, pp. 265 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2016.12.002
    Journal articles | 2017
    Van MJ; Deamer DW; Djokic T, 2017, 'Life springs', Scientific American, 317, pp. 28 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0817-28
    Journal articles | 2016
    Barlow E; Van Kranendonk MJ; Yamaguchi KE; Ikehara M; Lepland A, 2016, 'Lithostratigraphic analysis of a new stromatolite–thrombolite reef from across the rise of atmospheric oxygen in the Paleoproterozoic Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Geobiology, 14, pp. 317 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12175
    Journal articles | 2016
    Duda JP; Van Kranendonk MJ; Thiel V; Ionescu D; Strauss H; Schäfer N; Reitner J, 2016, 'A rare glimpse of paleoarchean life: Geobiology of an exceptionally preserved microbial mat facies from the 3.4 ga strelley pool formation, Western Australia', PLoS ONE, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147629
    Journal articles | 2016
    Flannery DT; Allwood AC; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2016, 'Lacustrine facies dependence of highly 13C-depleted organic matter during the global age of methanotrophy', Precambrian Research, 285, pp. 216 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.09.021
    Journal articles | 2016
    Gardiner NJ; Kirkland CL; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2016, 'The Juvenile Hafnium Isotope Signal as a Record of Supercontinent Cycles', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 38503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38503
    Journal articles | 2016
    Herrero-Bervera E; Krasa D; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2016, 'A whole rock absolute paleointensity determination of dacites from the Duffer Formation (ca. 3.467 Ga) of the Pilbara Craton, Australia: An impossible task?', Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 258, pp. 51 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.07.001
    Journal articles | 2016
    Morag N; Williford KH; Kitajima K; Philippot P; Van Kranendonk MJ; Lepot K; Thomazo C; Valley JW, 2016, 'Microstructure-specific carbon isotopic signatures of organic matter from ~3.5 Ga cherts of the Pilbara Craton support a biologic origin', Precambrian Research, 275, pp. 429 - 449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2016.01.014
    Journal articles | 2016
    Murphy RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Kelloway SJ; Wainwright IE, 2016, 'Complex patterns in fossilized stromatolites revealed by hyperspectral imaging (400-2496 nm)', Geobiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12184
    Journal articles | 2016
    Nutman AP; Bennett VC; Friend CRL; Van Kranendonk MJ; Chivas AR, 2016, 'Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures', Nature, 537, pp. 535 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19355
    Journal articles | 2016
    Sossi PA; Eggins SM; Nesbitt RW; Nebel O; Hergt JM; Campbell IH; O'Neill HSC; Kranendonk MV; Rhodri Davies D, 2016, 'Petrogenesis and geochemistry of Archean Komatiites', Journal of Petrology, 57, pp. 147 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egw004
    Journal articles | 2016
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Kirkland CL, 2016, 'Conditioned duality of the Earth system: Geochemical tracing of the supercontinent cycle through Earth history', Earth-Science Reviews, 160, pp. 171 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.05.009
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kurzweil F; Wille M; Schoenberg R; Taubald H; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'Continuously increasing δ98Mo values in Neoarchean black shales and iron formations from the Hamersley Basin', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 164, pp. 523 - 542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.009
    Journal articles | 2015
    Martindale RC; Strauss JV; Sperling EA; Johnson JE; Van Kranendonk MJ; Flannery D; French K; Lepot K; Mazumder R; Rice MS; Schrag DP; Summons R; Walter M; Abelson J; Knoll AH, 2015, 'Sedimentology, chemostratigraphy, and stromatolites of lower Paleoproterozoic carbonates, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 266, pp. 194 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2015.05.021
    Journal articles | 2015
    Mazumder R; Van Kranendonk MJ; Altermann W, 2015, 'A marine to fluvial transition in the Paleoproterozoic Koolbye Formation, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 258, pp. 161 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.12.005
    Journal articles | 2015
    Pagès A; Grice K; Welsh DT; Teasdale PT; Van Kranendonk MJ; Greenwood P, 2015, 'Lipid Biomarker and Isotopic Study of Community Distribution and Biomarker Preservation in a Laminated Microbial Mat from Shark Bay, Western Australia', Microbial Ecology, 70, pp. 459 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0598-3
    Journal articles | 2015
    Roberts NMW; Van Kranendonk MJ; Parman S; Clift PD, 2015, 'Continent formation through time', Geological Society Special Publication, 389, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP389.13
    Journal articles | 2015
    Schopf JW; Kudryavtsev AB; Walter MR; Van Kranendonk MJ; Williford KH; Kozdon R; Valley JW; Gallardo VA; Espinoza C; Flannery DT, 2015, 'Reply to Dvořák et al.: Apparent evolutionary stasis of ancient subseafloor sulfur cycling biocoenoses', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, pp. E2560, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503754112
    Journal articles | 2015
    Schopf JW; Kudryavtsev AB; Walter MR; Van Kranendonk MJ; Williford KH; Kozdon R; Valley JW; Gallardo VA; Espinoza C; Flannery DT, 2015, 'Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution's null hypothesis', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112, pp. 2087 - 2092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419241112
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sugitani K; Mimura K; Takeuchi M; Yamaguchi T; Suzuki K; Senda R; Asahara Y; Wallis S; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'A Paleoarchean coastal hydrothermal field inhabited by diverse microbial communities: The Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Geobiology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12150
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sugitani K; Mimura K; Takeuchi M; Yamaguchi T; Suzuki K; Senda R; Asahara Y; Wallis S; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2015, 'A Paleoarchean coastal hydrothermal field inhabited by diverse microbial communities: The Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Geobiology, 13, pp. 522 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12150
    Journal articles | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Hugh Smithies R; Griffin WL; Huston DL; Hickman AH; Champion DC; Anhaeusser CR; Pirajno F, 2015, 'Making it thick: A volcanic plateau origin of Palaeoarchean continental lithosphere of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons', Geological Society Special Publication, 389, pp. 83 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP389.12
    Journal articles | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Kirkland CL; Cliff J, 2015, 'Oxygen isotopes in Pilbara Craton zircons support a global increase in crustal recycling at 3.2Ga', Lithos, 228-229, pp. 90 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2015.04.011
    Journal articles | 2015
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Mazumder R; Yamaguchi KE; Yamada K; Ikehara M, 2015, 'Sedimentology of the Paleoproterozoic Kungarra Formation, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia: A conformable record of the transition from early to modern Earth', Precambrian Research, 256, pp. 314 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.09.015
    Journal articles | 2015
    Van kranendonk MJ; Altermann W; Mazumder R, 2015, 'A squall by the seashore ca 2.3 billion years ago: Raindrop imprints in a Paleoproterozoic tidal flat deposit, Kungarra Formation, Western Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 62, pp. 265 - 274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2015.1016105
    Journal articles | 2014
    Barnes SJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Archean andesites in the east Yilgarn craton, Australia: Products of plume-crust interaction?', Lithosphere, 6, pp. 80 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L356.1
    Journal articles | 2014
    Flannery DT; Van Kranendonk MJ; Mazumder R; Walter MR, 2014, 'The ca 2.74 Ga Mopoke Member, Kylena Formation: a marine incursion into the northern Fortescue Group?', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 61, pp. 1095 - 1108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2014.960898
    Journal articles | 2014
    Hollis JA; Van Kranendonk MJ; Cross AJ; Kirkland CL; Armstrong RA; Allen CM, 2014, 'Low δ18O zircon grains in the Neoarchean Rum Jungle Complex, northern Australia: An indicator of emergent continental crust', Lithosphere, 6, pp. 17 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L296.1
    Journal articles | 2014
    Nebel O; Campbell IH; Sossi PA; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Hafnium and iron isotopes in early Archean komatiites record a plume-driven convection cycle in the Hadean Earth', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 397, pp. 111 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.028
    Journal articles | 2014
    Ushikubo T; Williford KH; Farquhar J; Johnston DT; Van Kranendonk MJ; Valley JW, 2014, 'Development of in situ sulfur four-isotope analysis with multiple Faraday cup detectors by SIMS and application to pyrite grains in a Paleoproterozoic glaciogenic sandstone', Chemical Geology, 383, pp. 86 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.06.006
    Journal articles | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Kröner A; Hoffman JE; Nagel T; Anhaeusser CR, 2014, 'Just another drip: Re-analysis of a proposed mesoarchean suture from the Barberton mountain land, South Africa', Precambrian Research, 254, pp. 19 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.07.022
    Journal articles | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Mazumder R, 2014, 'Two Paleoproterozoic glacio-eustatic cycles in the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 127, pp. 596 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B31025.1
    Journal articles | 2014
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2014, 'Early Earth atmosphere and environments: A review.', Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 504, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2014.2504(12)
    Journal articles | 2013
    Li W; Czaja AD; Van Kranendonk MJ; Beard BL; Roden EE; Johnson CM, 2013, 'An anoxic, Fe(II)-rich, U-poor ocean 3.46 billion years ago', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 120, pp. 65 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.06.033
    Journal articles | 2013
    Mazumder R; Van kranendonk MJ, 2013, 'Palaeoproterozoic terrestrial sedimentation in the Beasley River Quartzite, lower Wyloo Group, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 231, pp. 98 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2013.03.018
    Journal articles | 2013
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Ivanic TJ; Wingate MTD; Kirkland CL; Wyche S, 2013, 'Long-lived, autochthonous development of the archean murchison domain, and implications for yilgarn craton tectonics', Precambrian Research, 229, pp. 49 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.08.009
    Journal articles | 2013
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Kirkland CL, 2013, 'Orogenic climax of Earth: The 1.2-1.1 Ga Grenvillian superevent', Geology, 41, pp. 735 - 738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G34243.1
    Journal articles | 2013
    Wille M; Nebel O; Van Kranendonk MJ; Schoenberg R; Kleinhanns IC; Ellwood MJ, 2013, 'Mo-Cr isotope evidence for a reducing Archean atmosphere in 3.46-2.76Ga black shales from the Pilbara, Western Australia', Chemical Geology, 340, pp. 68 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.12.018
    Journal articles | 2012
    Barnes SJ; Van kranendonk MJ; Sonntag I, 2012, 'Geochemistry and tectonic setting of basalts from the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59, pp. 707 - 735, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2012.687398
    Journal articles | 2012
    Hickman A; Van kranendonk MJ, 2012, 'Early Earth evolution; evidence from the 3.5-1.8 Ga geological history of the Pilbara region of Western Australia', Episodes, 35, pp. 283 - 297
    Journal articles | 2012
    Hofmann B; Greber N; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2012, '3D-Visualization of Well-Preserved Subsurface Carbonaceous Filaments of Archaean Age from the Pilbara Craton, Australia', PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 46, pp. 1060 - 1060, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000314047500006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2012
    Ivanic TJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Kirkland CL; Wyche S; Wingate MTD; Belousova EA, 2012, 'Zircon Lu-Hf isotopes and granite geochemistry of the Murchison Domain of the Yilgarn Craton: Evidence for reworking of Eoarchean crust during Meso-Neoarchean plume-driven magmatism', Lithos, 148, pp. 112 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.006
    Journal articles | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Cool greenstone drips and the role of partial convective overturn in Barberton greenstone belt evolution', Journal of African Earth Sciences, 60, pp. 346 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2011.03.012
    Journal articles | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Morphology as an indictor of biogenicity for 3.5-3.2 Ga Fossil stromatolites from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 131, pp. 537 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_32
    Journal articles | 2011
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2011, 'Onset of plate tectonics', Science, 333, pp. 413 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1208766
    Journal articles | 2011
    Williford KH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Ushikubo T; Kozdon R; Valley JW, 2011, 'Constraining atmospheric oxygen and seawater sulfate concentrations during Paleoproterozoic glaciation: In situ sulfur three-isotope microanalysis of pyrite from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, pp. 5686 - 5705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.010
    Journal articles | 2010
    Ivanic TJ; Wingate MTD; Kirkland CL; van Kranendonk MJ; Wyche S, 2010, 'Age and significance of voluminous mafic-ultramafic magmatic events in the Murchison Domain, Yilgarn Craton', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, pp. 597 - 614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2010.494765
    Journal articles | 2010
    Kirkland CL; Whitehouse MJ; Pease V; Van Kranendonk M, 2010, 'Oxygen isotopes in detrital zircons: Insight into crustal recycling during the evolution of the Greenland Shield (vol 2, pg 3, 2010)', LITHOSPHERE, 2, pp. 472 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L80.E
    Journal articles | 2010
    Kirkland CL; Whitehouse MJ; Pease V; Van Kranendonk M, 2010, 'Oxygen isotopes in detrital zircons: Insight into crustal recycling during the evolution of the Greenland Shield', Lithosphere, 2, pp. 3 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35051550
    Journal articles | 2010
    Kirkland CL; Whitehouse MJ; Pease V; Van Kranendonk M, 2010, 'Oxygen isotopes in detrital zircons: Insight into crustal recycling during the evolution of the Greenland Shield', Lithosphere, 2, pp. 3 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/L80.1
    Journal articles | 2010
    Sugitani K; Lepot K; Nagaoka T; Mimura K; Van Kranendonk MJ; Walter MR; Oehler DZ, 2010, 'Biogenicity of morphologically diverse carbonaceous microstructures from the ca. 3400 Ma Strelley pool formation, in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Astrobiology, 10, pp. 899 - 920, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2010.0513
    Journal articles | 2010
    Tessalina SG; Bourdon B; Van Kranendonk M; Birck JL; Philippot P, 2010, 'Influence of Hadean crust evident in basalts and cherts from the Pilbara Craton', Nature Geoscience, 3, pp. 214 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo772
    Journal articles | 2010
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Hugh Smithies R; Hickman AH; Wingate MTD; Bodorkos S, 2010, 'Evidence for Mesoarchean (∼3.2 Ga) rifting of the Pilbara Craton: The missing link in an early Precambrian Wilson cycle', Precambrian Research, 177, pp. 145 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2009.11.007
    Journal articles | 2010
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2010, 'Two types of Archean continental crust: Plume and plate tectonics on early earth', American Journal of Science, 310, pp. 1187 - 1209, http://dx.doi.org/10.2475/10.2010.01
    Journal articles | 2009
    Gérard E; Moreira D; Philippot P; Van Kranendonk MJ; López-García P, 2009, 'Modern subsurface bacteria in pristine 2.7 Ga-old fossil stromatolite drillcore samples from the fortescue group, Western Australia', PLoS ONE, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005298
    Journal articles | 2009
    Philippot P; Van Kranendonk M; Van Zuilen M; Lepot K; Rividi N; Teitler Y; Thomazo C; Blanc-Valleron MM; Rouchy JM; Grosch E; de Wit M, 2009, 'Early traces of life investigations in drilling Archean hydrothermal and sedimentary rocks of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia and Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa', Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 8, pp. 649 - 663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2009.06.006
    Journal articles | 2009
    Smithies RH; Champion DC; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2009, 'Formation of Paleoarchean continental crust through infracrustal melting of enriched basalt', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 281, pp. 298 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.003
    Journal articles | 2009
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Kröner A; Hegner E; Connelly J, 2009, 'Age, lithology and structural evolution of the c. 3.53 Ga Theespruit Formation in the Tjakastad area, southwestern Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, with implications for Archaean tectonics', Chemical Geology, 261, pp. 115 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.11.006
    Journal articles | 2008
    Gradstein FM; Ogg JG; van Kranendonk M, 2008, 'On the Geologic Time Scale 2008', Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 43, pp. 5 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0078-0421/2008/0043-0005
    Journal articles | 2008
    McLoughlin N; Furnes H; Banerjee NR; Staudigel H; Muehlenbachs K; De Wit M; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2008, 'Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: Extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust', Current Developments in Bioerosion, pp. 371 - 396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_19
    Journal articles | 2008
    Pease V; Percival J; Smithies H; Stevens G; Van Kranendonk M, 2008, 'When did plate tectonics begin? evidence from the orogenic record', Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 440, pp. 199 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2008.2440(10)
    Journal articles | 2008
    Philippot P; Van Kranendonk M, 2008, 'Drilling the outback', NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 1, pp. E3 - E3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo116
    Journal articles | 2008
    Philippot P; Van Zuilen M; Lepot K; Thomazo C; Farquhar J; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2008, 'Response to comment on "early archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate"', Science, 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1151414
    Journal articles | 2008
    Thébaud N; Philippot P; Rey P; Brugger J; Van Kranendonk M; Grassineau N, 2008, 'Protracted fluid-rock interaction in the Mesoarchaean and implication for gold mineralization: Example from the Warrawoona syncline (Pilbara, Western Australia)', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272, pp. 639 - 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.030
    Journal articles | 2008
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Philippot P; Lepot K; Bodorkos S; Pirajno F, 2008, 'Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 167, pp. 93 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2008.07.003
    Journal articles | 2007
    Benerjee NR; Simonetti A; Furnes H; Muehlenbachs K; Staudigel H; Heaman L; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'Direct dating of Archean microbial ichnofossils', Geology, 35, pp. 487 - 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G23534A.1
    Journal articles | 2007
    Bolhar R; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'A non-marine depositional setting for the northern Fortescue Group, Pilbara Craton, inferred from trace element geochemistry of stromatolitic carbonates', Precambrian Research, 155, pp. 229 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2007.02.002
    Journal articles | 2007
    Marshall C; Love G; Snape CE; Hill C; Allwood AC; Walter MR; Van Kranendonk MJ; Bowden SA; Sylva SP; Summons R, 2007, 'Structural characteriztion of kerogen in 3,4 Ga archaean cherts from the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 155, pp. 1 - 23
    Journal articles | 2007
    Philippot P; Van Zuilen M; Lepot K; Thomazo C; Farquhar J; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2007, 'Early archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate', Science, 317, pp. 1534 - 1537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1145861
    Journal articles | 2007
    Smithies RH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Champion DC, 2007, 'The Mesoarchean emergence of modern-style subduction', Gondwana Research, 11, pp. 50 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2006.02.001
    Journal articles | 2007
    Sugitani K; Grey K; Allwood AC; Nagaoka T; Mimura K; Minami M; Marshall C; Van Kranendonk MJ; Walter MR, 2007, 'Diverse microstructures from Archaean chert from the Mount Goldsworthy-Mount Grant area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Microfossils, dubiofossils, or pseudofossils?', Precambrian Research, 158, pp. 228 - 262
    Journal articles | 2007
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Hugh Smithies R; Hickman AH; Champion DC, 2007, 'Review: Secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia', Terra Nova, 19, pp. 1 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00723.x
    Journal articles | 2006
    Chen SF; Hickman A; Cassidy KF; Kranendonk MV; Groenewald B; Wyche S, 2006, 'Archaean tectonics in the Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons', ASEG Extended Abstracts, 2006, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aseg2006ab025
    Journal articles | 2006
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Bleeker W; Ketchum J, 2006, 'Phreatomagmatic boulder conglomerates at the tip of the ca 2772 Ma Black Range dolerite dyke, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53, pp. 617 - 630, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090600686777
    Journal articles | 2006
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2006, 'Volcanic degassing, hydrothermal circulation and the flourishing of early life on Earth: A review of the evidence from c. 3490-3240 Ma rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Earth-Science Reviews, 74, pp. 197 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.09.005
    Journal articles | 2005
    Bolhar R; Van Kranendonk MJ; Kamber BS, 2005, 'A trace element study of siderite-jasper banded iron formation in the 3.45 Ga Warrawoona Group, Pilbara Craton - Formation from hydrothermal fluids and shallow seawater', Precambrian Research, 137, pp. 93 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2005.02.001
    Journal articles | 2005
    Pirajno F; van Kranendonk MJ, 2005, 'Review of hydrothermal processes and systems on Earth and implications for Martian analogues', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52, pp. 329 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090500134571
    Journal articles | 2005
    Smithies RH; Champion DC; Van Kranendonk MJ; Howard HM; Hickman AH, 2005, 'Modern-style subduction processes in the Mesoarchaean: Geochemical evidence from the 3.12 Ga Whundo intra-oceanic arc', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 231, pp. 221 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2004.12.026
    Journal articles | 2005
    Smithies RH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Champion DC, 2005, 'It started with a plume - Early Archaean basaltic proto-continental crust', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 238, pp. 284 - 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.023
    Journal articles | 2004
    Sandiford M; Van Kranendonk MJ; Bodorkos S, 2004, 'Conductive incubation and the origin of dome-and-keel structure in Archean granite-greenstone terrains: A model based on the eastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Tectonics, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002TC001452
    Journal articles | 2004
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Cassidy K, 2004, 'Comment: An alternative Earth, Warren B. Hamilton, GSA Today, v. 13, no. 11, p. 4–12.', GSA Today, 14, pp. 14 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/1052-5173(2004)014<14:aaec>2.0.co;2
    Journal articles | 2004
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Collins WJ; Hickman A; Pawley MJ, 2004, 'Critical tests of vertical vs. horizontal tectonic models for the Archaean East Pilbara Granite-Greenstone Terrane, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 131, pp. 173 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2003.12.015
    Journal articles | 2004
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Pirajno F, 2004, 'Geochemistry of metabasalts and hydrothermal alteration zones associated with c. 3.45 Ga chert and barite deposits: Implications for the geological setting of the Warrawoona group, Pilbara Craton, Australia', Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 4, pp. 253 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1467-7873/04-205
    Journal articles | 2003
    García-Ruiz JM; Hyde ST; Carnerup AM; Christy AG; Van Kranendonk MJ; Welham NJ, 2003, 'Self-Assembled Silica-Carbonate Structures and Detection of Ancient Microfossils', Science, 302, pp. 1194 - 1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1090163
    Journal articles | 2003
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Webb GE; Kamber BS, 2003, 'Geological and trace element evidence for a marine sedimentary environment of deposition and biogenicity of 3.45 Ga stromatolitic carbonates in the Pilbara Craton, and support for a reducing Archaean ocean', Geobiology, 1, pp. 91 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-4669.2003.00014.x
    Journal articles | 2003
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2003, 'Archaean tectonics in 2001: An Earth odyssey', Precambrian Research, 127, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00177-3
    Journal articles | 2002
    Brasier MD; Green OR; Jephcoat AP; Kleepe AK; Van Kranendonk MJ; Lindsay F; Steele A; Grassineau NV, 2002, 'Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils', GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 66, pp. A101 - A101, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000177423400196&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2002
    Brasier MD; Green OR; Jephcoat AP; Kleppe AK; Van Kranendonk MJ; Lindsay JF; Steele A; Grassineau NV, 2002, 'Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils', Nature, 416, pp. 76 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/416076a
    Journal articles | 2002
    Huston DL; Sun SS; Blewett R; Hickman AH; Van Kranendonk M; Phillips D; Baker D; Brauhart C, 2002, 'The timing of mineralization in the Archean North Pilbara terrain, Western Australia', Economic Geology, 97, pp. 733 - 755, http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.733
    Journal articles | 2002
    Huston DL; Sun SS; Blewett R; Hickman AH; Van Kranendonk M; Phillips D; Baker D; Brauhart C, 2002, 'The timing of mineralization in the archean North Pilbara terrain, Western Australia', ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND THE BULLETIN OF THE SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, 97, pp. 733 - 755, http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/97.4.733
    Journal articles | 2002
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Hickman AH; Smithes RH; Nelson DR, 2002, 'Geology and tectonic evolution of the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Economic Geology, 97, pp. 695 - 732, http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.695
    Journal articles | 2001
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Hickman AH; Collins WJ, 2001, 'Comment on "Evidence for multiphase deformation in the Archaean basal Warrawoona group in the Marble Bar area, East Pilbara, Western Australia" by van Haaften, W.M., White, S.H., 1998: Precambrian Research 88, 53-66', Precambrian Research, 105, pp. 73 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00094-2
    Journal articles | 1999
    Collins WJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 1999, 'Model for the development of kyanite during partial convective overturn of Archean granite-greenstone terranes: The Pilbara Craton, Australia', Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 17, pp. 145 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1314.1999.00187.x
    Journal articles | 1998
    Collins WJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Teyssier C, 1998, 'Partial convective overturn of Archaean crust in the east Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Driving mechanisms and tectonic implications', Journal of Structural Geology, 20, pp. 1405 - 1424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(98)00073-X
    Journal articles | 1998
    Ermanovics E; Van Kranendonk M, 1998, 'Geology of the Archean Nain Province and Paleoproterozoic Torngat Orogen in a transect of the North River-Nutak map areas, Newfoundland (Labrador) and Quebec', Bulletin - Geological Survey of Canada, 497
    Journal articles | 1998
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Collins WJ, 1998, 'Timing and tectonic significance of Late Archaean, sinistral strike-slip deformation in the Central Pilbara Structural Corridor, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', Precambrian Research, 88, pp. 207 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00069-7
    Journal articles | 1997
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Wardle RJ, 1997, 'Crustal-scale flexural slip folding during late tectonic amplification of an orogenic boundary perturbation in the paleoproterozoic torngat Orogen, northeastern Canada', Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 34, pp. 1545 - 1565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e17-126
    Journal articles | 1996
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Wardle RJ, 1996, 'Burwell domain of the Palaeoproterozoic Torngat Orogen, northeastern Canada: Tilted cross-section of a magmatic arc caught between a rock and a hard place', Geological Society Special Publication, 112, pp. 91 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.06
    Journal articles | 1996
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Wardle RJ, 1996, 'Burwell domain of the Palaeoproterozoic Torngat Orogen, northeastern Canada: tilted cross-section of a magmatic arc caught between a rock and a hard place', Precambrian crustal evolution in the North Atlantic region, pp. 91 - 115
    Journal articles | 1996
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 1996, 'Tectonic evolution of the Paleoproterozoic Torngat Orogen: Evidence from pressure-temperature-time-deformation paths in the North River map area, Labrador', Tectonics, 15, pp. 843 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/95TC03771
    Journal articles | 1996
    Wardle RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 1996, 'The Palaeoproterozoic Southeastern Churchill Province of Labrador-Quebec, Canada: orogenic development as a consequence of oblique collision and indentation', Precambrian crustal evolution in the North Atlantic region, pp. 137 - 153
    Journal articles | 1996
    Wardle RJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 1996, 'The palaeoproterozoic Southeastern Churchill Province of Labrador-Quebec, Canada: Orogenic development as a consequence of oblique collision and indentation', Geological Society Special Publication, 112, pp. 137 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.112.01.08
    Journal articles | 1993
    Bertrand JM; Roddick JC; Van Kranendonk MJ; Ermanovics I, 1993, 'U-Pb geochronology of deformation and metamorphism across a central transect of the early Proterozoic Torngat Orogen, North River map area, Labrador', Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, pp. 1470 - 1489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-127
    Journal articles | 1993
    Van Kranendonk MJ; St-Onge MR; Henderson JR, 1993, 'Paleoproterozoic tectonic assembly of Northeast Laurentia through multiple indentations', Precambrian Research, 63, pp. 325 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-9268(93)90039-5
    Journal articles | 1991
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 1991, 'A magmatic sheet origin for thin metagabbroic anorthosite units in the Fishog subdomain of the southern Central Gneiss Belt, Grenville Province, Ontario', Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28, pp. 431 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-038
    Journal articles | 1990
    Bertrand JM; Van Kranendonk M; Hanmer S; Roddick JC; Ermanovics I, 1990, 'Structural and metamorphic geochronology of the Torngat Orogen in the North River-Nutak transect area, Labrador: preliminary results of U-Pb dating', Geoscience Canada, 17, pp. 297 - 301
    Journal articles | 1990
    Ermanovics I; Van Kranendonk M, 1990, 'The Torngat Orogen in the North River-Nutak transect area of Nain and Churchill provinces', Geoscience Canada, 17, pp. 279 - 283
    Journal articles | 1990
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Ermanovics I, 1990, 'Structural evolution of the Hudsonian Torngat Orogen in the North River map area, Labrador: evidence for east-west transpressive collision of Nain and Rae continental blocks', Geoscience Canada, 17, pp. 283 - 288
    Journal articles | 1990
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Helmstaedt H, 1990, 'Late Archean geologic history of the Nain Province, North River- Nutak map area, Labrador, and its tectonic significance', Geoscience Canada, 17, pp. 231 - 237
    Journal articles | 1986
    VANKRANENDONK M, 1986, 'CANADIAN-TECTONICS-GROUP', GEOSCIENCE CANADA, 13, pp. 115 - 116, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1986D351000008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1984
    Schwerdtner WM; Van Kranendonk M, 1984, 'Structure of Stolz Diapir - a well-exposed salt dome on Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic archipelago.', Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 32, pp. 237 - 241
  • Conference Papers | 2023
    Viehmann S; Kraemer D; Hohl S; Koeberl C; Van Kranendonk M, 2023, 'Jaspillites from the 3.5 Ga old Dresser Fm. – a reliable geochemical archive for ancient water chemistry?', in Goldschmidt2023 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2023, 09 July 2023 - 14 July 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.7185/gold2023.19158
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Campbell K; Guido D; Hamilton A; Rowe M; Lyon B; Teece B; Foucher F; Westall F; Ruff S; Van Kranendonk M, 2022, 'Regional to micron-scale controls on preservation of biosignatures in Phanerozoic hot spring microbial sinter', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.11726
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Teece B; Guido D; Campbell K; Van Kranendonk M; Galar A; George S, 2022, 'Geomolecules in the Late Jurassic Claudia paleo-geothermal field: evidence of a complex geological and biological environment', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.11515
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Tusch J; Maier W; Van Kranendonk M; Smithies H; Becker H; Fischer-Gödde M; Hoffmann JE; Münker C; Gerritzen C; Gans P, 2022, 'Investigating the late accretion history and convective homogenization of the terrestrial mantle – new perspectives from coupled Ru isotope and HSE abundance data', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.12232
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Van Kranendonk M; Baumgartner R; Campbell K; Dobson M; Teece B, 2022, 'The plot thickens: an updated view on stromatolite biogenicity in the 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, Australia', in Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2022, 10 July 2022 - 15 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.10663
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Fischer-Gödde M; Münker C; Becker H; Maier W; Szilas K; Gerritzen C; Van Kranendonk M; Smithies H, 2021, 'Ruthenium isotope constraints on the nature of Earth’s late-stage building blocks', in Goldschmidt2021 abstracts, European Association of Geochemistry, presented at Goldschmidt2021, 04 July 2021 - 09 July 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.7185/gold2021.4362
    Preprints | 2021
    Steller LH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wang A, 2021, Dehydration Enhances Prebiotic Lipid Remodeling and Vesicle Formation in Acidic Environments, http://dx.doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-rqs79
    Preprints | 2021
    Steller LH; Van Kranendonk MJ; Wang A, 2021, Dehydration Enhances Prebiotic Lipid Remodeling and Vesicle Formation in Acidic Environments, , http://dx.doi.org/10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-rqs79
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Fischer-Gödde M; Münker C; Becker H; Wolfgang M; Van Kranendonk MJ; Smithies H, 2020, 'Ruthenium Isotopic Evidence for a Missing Late Accretion Component in the Mantle Source of Pilbara Craton', in Goldschmidt Abstracts, Geochemical Society, pp. 719 - 719, presented at Goldschmidt2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2020.719
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Nomchong BJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2020, 'Geochemical Constraints on the Depositional and Diagenetic History of a Unique 2.4 Ga Microbialite Reef', in Goldschmidt Abstracts, Geochemical Society, pp. 1944 - 1944, presented at Goldschmidt2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2020.1944
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Soares GG; Van Kranendonk MJ; Scicchitano MR; Nomchong BJ; Barlow EV, 2020, 'Extracting Primary Information Through Si Isotope Analysis on a c. 2.4 Ga Microbialite Reef', in Goldschmidt Abstracts, Geochemical Society, pp. 2419 - 2419, presented at Goldschmidt2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.46427/gold2020.2419
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Chilton AM; Vázquez-Campos X; Steller L; Djokic T; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2018, 'Microbial profiling of the Himalayan Puga geothermal system: towards an astrobiological model'
    Preprints | 2017
    Duda J-P; Thiel V; Bauersachs T; Mißbach H; Reinhardt M; Schäfer N; Van Kranendonk MJ; Reitner J, 2017, Ideas and perspectives: Hydrothermally driven redistribution and sequestration of early Archaean biomass – the hydrothermal pump hypothesis, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-516
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Kingsley I; Oliver C; Van Kranendonk M, 2017, 'A new instrument to assess scientific literacy for space outreach', in Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, pp. 1671 - 1678
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Kingsley I; Oliver C; Van Kranendonk M, 2017, 'Space science outreach - are we decreasing public understanding?', in Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC, pp. 11299 - 11310
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2016
    Yip AS; Djokic T; Oliver C; Van Kranendonk M, 2016, 3D Mapping Pilbara Sites of Early Life for Immersive, Virtual Learning and Teaching, iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, UNSW, Editor(s): Yip A; Djokic T, 3D Modelling and virtual reality application, Published: 01 June 2016, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Czaja AD; Johnson CM; Beard BL; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2010, 'Iron isotopes reveal an abiological origin for a 2.75 Ga BIF from the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, TN, Knoxville, pp. A201 - A201, presented at Conference on Goldschmidt 2010 - Earth, Energy, and the Environment, TN, Knoxville, 13 June 2010 - 18 June 2010, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000283941400652&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Mojzsis SJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Swanner ED, 2009, 'Microbial community structure and atmospheric oxygen ca. 2.4 Ga', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, SWITZERLAND, Davos, pp. A892 - A892, presented at 19th Annual VM Goldschmidt Conference, SWITZERLAND, Davos, 21 June 2009, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000267229902243&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Tessalina SG; Philippot P; Van Kranendonk M, 2009, 'Genesis of chert-barite-sulphide deposits from the North Pole Dome, Australia', in Williams PJ (ed.), SMART SCIENCE FOR EXPLORATION AND MINING, VOL 1 AND 2, JAMES COOK UNIV, AUSTRALIA, James Cook Univ, Townsville, pp. 294 - 296, presented at 10th Biennial SGA Meeting of the Society-for-Geology-Applied-to-Mineral-Deposits, AUSTRALIA, James Cook Univ, Townsville, 17 August 2009 - 20 August 2009, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000282993400098&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Banerjee NR; Simonetti A; Furnes H; Muehlenbachs K; Staudigel H; McLoughlin N; de Wit M; van Kranendonk M, 2007, 'Direct dating of archean microbial ichnofossils', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, GERMANY, Cologne, pp. A58 - A58, presented at 17th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference, GERMANY, Cologne, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000248789900131&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Furnes H; Banerjee NR; Staudigel H; Muehlenbachs K; McLoughlin N; de Wit M; Van Kranendonk M, 2007, 'Comparing petrographic signatures of bioalteration in recent to Mesoarchean pillow lavas: Tracing subsurface life in oceanic igneous rocks', in Precambrian Research, pp. 156 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.012
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Huston DL; Van Kranendonk MJ; Hickman AH; Pirajno F, 2007, 'Change from plume to convergent tectonics in the early Archaean: metallogenic implications in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', in Andrew CJ (ed.), DIGGING DEEPER, VOLS 1 AND 2, IRISH ASSOC ECON GEOL, IRELAND, Dublin, pp. 23 - 26, presented at 9th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, IRELAND, Dublin, 20 August 2007 - 23 August 2007, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000283766800006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Tessalina SG; Philippot P; Van Kranendonk M; Bourdon B; Birck JL, 2007, 'Isotopic record of Hadean crust in Western Australia', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, GERMANY, Cologne, pp. A1015 - A1015, presented at 17th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference, GERMANY, Cologne, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000248789902402&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Banerjee NR; Simonetti A; Furnes H; Muehlenbachs K; Staudigel H; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2006, 'Direct dating of Archean microfossils preserved in pillow basalts from the Pilbara Cration', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, pp. A33 - A33, presented at 16th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference, AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, - , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.175
    Conference Papers | 2006
    McLoughlin N; Furnes H; Banerjee NR; Staudigel H; Muehlenbachs K; de Wit M; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2006, 'Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust', in Wisshak M; Tapanila L (ed.), CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOEROSION, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, GERMANY, Erlangen, pp. 371 - +, presented at 5th International Bioerosion Workshop, GERMANY, Erlangen, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_19
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Philippot P; Lepot K; Thomazo C; Ader M; Van Kranendonk M, 2006, 'Origin of carbonaceous matter in 3525 Myr-old hydrothermally altered subseafloor sediments from the dresser formation, pilbara craton', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, pp. A489 - A489, presented at 16th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference, AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, - , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.1441
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Pawley MJ; Van Kranendonk MJ; Collins WJ, 2004, 'Interplay between deformation and magmatism during doming of the Archaean Shaw Granitoid Complex, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia', in Precambrian Research, pp. 213 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2003.12.010
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Van Kranendonk MJ, 2004, 'Archaean Tectonics 2004: A review', in Precambrian Research, pp. 143 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2003.12.008
    Conference Papers | 2003
    Van Kranendonk MJ; Webb GE; Kamber B; Pirajno F, 2003, 'Geological setting and biogenicity of 3.45 Ga stromatolitic cherts, east Pilbara, Australia', in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, JAPAN, KURASHIKI, pp. A510 - A510, presented at 13th Annual VM Goldschmidt Conference, JAPAN, KURASHIKI, 07 September 2003 - 12 September 2003, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000185517601005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Pawley MJ; Collins WJ; Van Kranendonk MJ, 2002, 'Origin of fine-scale sheeted granites by incremental injection of magma into active shear zones: Examples from the Pilbara Craton, NW Australia', in Lithos, pp. 127 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00076-2

My Research Supervision

Tara Djokic (PhD): Hot spring deposits and early life in the 3.48 Ga Dresser Fm

Clare Fletcher (MPhil): Conservation of Pilbara stromatolites

Michalea Dobson (PhD, U. Auckland): Hot spring deposits and early life in the 3.48 Ga Dresser Fm

Sahand Tadbiri (PhD): Structural and magmatic history of the Sydney basin

Bonnie Teece (PhD): Organic geochemsitry of ancient rocks

Brendan Nomchong (PhD): Environment of a Paleoproterozoic microbial reef complex, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia

Georgia Soares (PhD): A new type of life in a Paleoproterozoic microbial reef complex, Turee Creek Group, Western Australia

Ruaa Alohali (MSc): Hydrocarbon potential of the Dalim field, Saudi Arabia

Janice Leung (PPhil): Tectonics of the New England Orogen (NSW)

Annaliese Meyer (Scientia PhD): Origin of digitate sinter nodules and the search for life on Mars