Professor Craig Storey
Biography
I specialise in isotopic and geochemical methods applied to metamorphic, igneous and hydrothermal systems. I am particularly focussed on the novel use of accessory minerals, such as zircon, titanite, rutile and apatite, to investigate large-scale problems in Earth Science. I manage the Crustal Evolution Research Group at Portsmouth, one of the largest dedicated groups of its kind in Europe. We are equipped with an array of state-of-the-art electron microscopes, x-ray equipment, plasma mass spectrometers, lasers and sample preparation facilities, all supported by dedicated professional technical staff. My current research focus is on the secular evolution of the continental crust and complementary depleted mantle from the beginnings of the Earth through to the present day. I am also investigating the onset of “modern” plate tectonics and how to use accessory minerals to provenance ice coverage on Greenland.
- 2009-now: Senior Lecturer, Principal Research Fellow, Reader now Professor, University of Portsmouth
- 2009-2012: Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 2006-2009: NERC Research Fellow, University of Bristol
- 2004-2006: Research Fellow, Open University
- 2004-: Scientific Associate: The Natural History Museum
- 2003-2004: Research Officer, University of Brighton/Natural History Museum
- 2002: Scientific Officer, NERC Geoscience Laboratories
- 1998-2002: PhD research, University of Leicester
- 1994-1998: BSc (hons), Oxford Brookes University
Research interests
Provenance of Ice on Greenland during the Mid-Pliocene as a potential analogue for the future state of the ice sheet.
The onset of “modern” plate tectonics on Earth.
Evolution of the continental crust – particularly in the Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic. I am particularly interested in using novel techniques on accessory minerals to investigate this important geological boundary.
Insights into formation of Fe-oxide and related copper and gold mineralization through use of novel geochemical and isotopic tracers within the mineral titanite.
Research outputs
2024
Coeval TTG and sanukitoid magmatism during the Rhyacian tectonic evolution of the Juiz de Fora Complex (São Francisco Paleocontinent, SE-Brazil)
Mauri, S., Heilbron, M., Bruno, H., Bersan, S., Almeida, R., de Abreu Marques, R., Lacerda, S., Marra de Souza, A., Paravidini, G., Neto, C., de Morisson Valeriano, C., Chapman, G., Fowler, M., Mottram, C.,
1 Nov 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 414, 21p., 107585
Research output: Article
Late Tonian (c. 735 Ma) A-type granite magmatism on the passive margin of the São Francisco paleocontinent was coeval with outboard subduction
Paravidini, G., Valeriano, C. d. M., Mottram, C., Strachan, R., Bruno, H., Heilbron, M., Chapman, G., Gomes, D. G. d. C., Bersan, S., Storey, C.
1 Oct 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 413, 18p., 107578
Research output: Article
Barium-Mg isotopes in high Ba-Sr granites record a melt-metasomatized mantle source and crustal growth
Zhu, R., Fowler, M., Huang, F., Bruand, E., Wang, X., Chen, L., Storey, C., Yin, J., Lai, S.
15 Aug 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 379
Research output: Article
Rhyacian-Orosirian transitional arc-collisional magmatism in the Archean Piedade Microcontinent, southern São Francisco Paleocontinent, Brazil
Carvalho, M., Bruno, H., Bersan, S., Storey, C., Mottram, C., Chapman, G., Fowler, M., Valeriano, C., Lana, C., Neto, C., Heilbron, M.
1 May 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 404, 107343
Research output: Article
New U-Pb and Hf data of the contact region between the Oriental and Cabo Frio terranes, Central Ribeira Belt, Brazil: Implications for the closure of the Ediacaran-Cambrian oceanic space
de Freitas, N. C., Heilbron, M., Almeida, J., Dussin, I., Cutts, K., Carvalho, M., Mottram, C., Storey, C., Chapman, G.
1 Feb 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 401, 22p., 107272
Research output: Article
2023
Sub-arc mantle fugacity shifted by sediment recycling across the Great Oxidation Event
Moreira, H., Storey, C., Bruand, E., Darling, J., Fowler, M., Cotte, M., Villalobos-Portillo, E., Parat, F., Seixas, L., Philippot, P., Dhuime, B.
1 Oct 2023, In: Nature Geoscience. 16
Research output: Article
Structural integrity and skeletal trace elements in intertidal coralline algae across the Northeast Atlantic reveal a distinct separation of the leading and the trailing edge populations
Kolzenburg, R., Moreira, H., Storey, C., Ragazzola, F.
1 Sep 2023, In: Marine Environmental Research. 190, 12p., 106086
Research output: Article
A rutile and titanite record of subduction fluids: Integrated oxygen isotope and trace element analyses in Franciscan high‐pressure rocks
Page, F. Z., Storey, C. D.
1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 41, 6, p. 767-786, 20p.
Research output: Article
Sedimentary provenance in continental rifts: U–Pb detrital zircon, Nd and Sr isotopes and lithogeochemistry of the Eocene alluvial sandstones of the Resende Basin, SE–Brazil
de Oliveira Carvalho, M., Mottram, C. M., De Morisson Valeriano, C., Rodriguez Cabral Ramos, R., Parrish, R., Dunlop, J., Cota, N., Paravidini, G., Aguiar Neto, C. C., Heilbron, M., Storey, C.
15 Jul 2023, In: Sedimentary Geology. 453, 106452
Research output: Article
Mineral-whole rock isotope fidelity? A comparative study of Hf-Nd-O from high Ba Sr granitoids
Bruand, E., Storey, C., Fowler, M., Dhuime, B., Doucelance, R.
20 May 2023, In: Chemical Geology. 624, 11p., 121425
Research output: Article