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Simon P. Kelley is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily focused within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Materials Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics covered in their work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, earthquake and tectonic studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

Simon P. Kelley has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • Interpreting and reporting 40Ar/39Ar geochronologic data, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • The Boltysh impact structure: An early Danian impact event during recovery from the K-Pg mass extinction, 2021, Science Advances
  • Tracking the behaviour of persistently degassing volcanoes using noble gas analysis of Pele's hairs and tears: A case study of the Masaya volcano (Nicaragua), 2021, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Diversity of critical minerals deposits in the North American Cordilleran alkaline-igneous belt in Southern Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico, 2024, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Expanding the toolbox for dating basaltic lava sequences: 40Ar-39Ar dating of silicic volcanic glass from interbeds, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society

They have collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Darren F. Mark, David W. Jolley, Simone Cogliati, Sarah C. Sherlock, and Alison M. Halton, each with multiple joint publications.

Simon P. Kelley's work has appeared in various publication venues, with notable contributions to The Cambridge Structural Database, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Proceedings volume... annual spring meeting, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

  • Post-collision, shoshonitic volcanism on the Tibetan Plateau: implications for convective thinning of the lithosphere and the source of ocean island basalts

    S. Turner;N. Arnaud;J. Liu;N. Rogers

  • Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years

    Robert A. Spicer;Nigel B. W. Harris;Mike Widdowson;Alexei B. Herman

  • Timing of Hot Spot—Related Volcanism and the Breakup of Madagascar and India

    Michael Storey;John J. Mahoney;Andrew D. Saunders;Robert A. Duncan

  • Episodic Silicic Volcanism in Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula: Chronology of Magmatism Associated with the Break-up of Gondwana

    R. J. Pankhurst;T. R. Riley;C. M. Fanning;S. P. Kelley

  • Timing of Tibetan uplift constrained by analysis of volcanic rocks

    Simon Turner;Chris Hawkesworth;Jiaqi Liu;Nick Rogers

  • Magmatism and continental break-up in the South Atlantic: high precision40Ar-39Ar geochronology

    Simon Turner;Marcel Regelous;Simon Kelley;Chris Hawkesworth

  • Age and composition of dikes in Southern Tibet: new constraints on the timing of east-west extension and its relationship to postcollisional volcanism

    Helen Williams;Simon Turner;Simon Kelley;Nigel Harris

  • Excess argon in K–Ar and Ar–Ar geochronology

    Simon Kelley

  • Nature of the source regions for post-collisional, potassic magmatism in Southern and Northern Tibet from geochemical variations and inverse trace element modelling

    H. M. Williams;S. P. Turner;Julian A. Pearce;S. P. Kelley

  • Earliest magmatism in Ethiopia: Evidence for two mantle plumes in one flood basalt province

    Rhiannon George;Nick Rogers;Simon Kelley

  • Causes and consequences of protracted melting of the mid-crust exposed in the North Himalayan antiform

    Hongfei Zhang;Nigel Harris;Randy Parrish;Simon Kelley

  • Magmatism Associated with Orogenic Collapse of the Betic–Alboran Domain, SE Spain

    S. P. Turner;J. P. Platt;R. M. M. George;S. P. Kelley

  • The Cretaceous World

    Peter W. Skelton;Robert A. Spicer;Simon P. Kelley;Iain Gilmour

  • 3-D, 40Ar39Ar geochronology in the Paraná continental flood basalt province

    Kathy Stewart;Simon Turner;Simon P. Kelley;Chris Hawkesworth

  • Evolution of a volcanic rifted margin: Southern Red Sea, Ethiopia

    Ellen Wolfenden;Cynthia Ebinger;Gezahegn Yirgu;Paul R. Renne

  • Rift deflection, migration, and propagation: Linkage of the Ethiopian and Eastern rifts, Africa

    C. J. Ebinger;T. Yemane;D. J. Harding;S. Tesfaye

  • Post-collision magmatism and tectonics in northwest Anatolia

    Nigel B. W. Harris;Simon Kelley;Aral I. Okay

  • Thermal evolution, rate of exhumation, and tectonic significance of metamorphic rocks from the floor of the Alboran extensional basin, western Mediterranean

    J. P. Platt;J.-I. Soto;M. J. Whitehouse;A. J. Hurford

  • 40Ar-39Ar and Rb-Sr geochronology of high-pressure metamorphism and exhumation history of the Tavsanli Zone, NW Turkey

    Sarah Sherlock;Simon Kelley;Simon Inger;Nigel Harris

  • Paraná magmatism and the opening of the South Atlantic

    C. J. Hawkesworth;K. Gallagher;S. Kelley;M. Mantovani

  • Magmatism and continental break-up in the South Atlantic: high precision 40'AR'-39'AR' geochronology

    Marta Silvia Maria Mantovani;S Turner;M Regelous;S Kelley

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah C. Sherlock
Sarah C. Sherlock The Open University
Susanne P. Schwenzer
Susanne P. Schwenzer The Open University
John Bridges
John Bridges University of Leicester
Andrew G. Tindle
Andrew G. Tindle The Open University
David W. Jolley
David W. Jolley University of Aberdeen
Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris The Open University
Simon Turner
Simon Turner Macquarie University
Mike Widdowson
Mike Widdowson University of Hull
Clare J. Warren
Clare J. Warren The Open University
John G. Spray
John G. Spray University of New Brunswick

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