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Simon P.E. Blockley is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Archeology, and Geophysics.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological formations and processes

Blockley has published extensively, appearing frequently in these journals and venues:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary Geochronology
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Nature

Their recent papers include:

  • "Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene" (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years" (2021) published in Nature
  • "The first Holocene varve chronology for the UK: Based on the integration of varve counting, radiocarbon dating and tephrostratigraphy from Diss Mere (UK)" (2020) published in Quaternary Geochronology
  • "Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia)" (2021) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals" (2021) published in Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Celia Martín-Puertas
  • Rhys Timms
  • Huw S. Groucutt
  • Eleanor M. L. Scerri
  • James Blinkhorn

Best Publications

  • A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

    Sune O. Rasmussen;Matthias Bigler;Simon P. Blockley;Thomas Blunier

  • A new and less destructive laboratory procedure for the physical separation of distal glass tephra shards from sediments

    S P E Blockley;S P E Blockley;S D F Pyne-O'Donnell;J J Lowe;I P Matthews

  • Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k

    Simon P.E. Blockley;Christine S. Lane;Mark Hardiman;Sune Olander Rasmussen

  • Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka

    Victoria C. Smith;Richard A. Staff;Simon P.E. Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Volcanic ash reveals time-transgressive abrupt climate change during the Younger Dryas

    Christine S. Lane;Achim Brauer;Simon P.E. Blockley;Peter Dulski

  • Early levallois technology and the lower to middle paleolithic transition in the southern caucasus

    D. S. Adler;K. N. Wilkinson;S. Blockley;D. F. Mark

  • Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

    John Lowe;Nick Barton;Simon Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Paul G. Albert;Simon P.E. Blockley;Mark Hardiman

  • Integrating the INTIMATE records using tephrochronology rising to the challenge

    Siwan M. Davies;Peter M. Abbott;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;Stefan Wastegård

  • Was the 12.1 ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind

    C.S. Lane;S.P.E. Blockley;J. Mangerud;J. Mangerud;V.C. Smith

  • Distal tephra record for the last ca 105,000 years from core PRAD 1-2 in the central Adriatic Sea: implications for marine tephrostratigraphy

    A.J. Bourne;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi;A. Asioli

  • Devensian Lateglacial environmental changes in Britain: a multi-proxy environmental record from Llanilid, South Wales, UK

    M.J.C Walker;G.R Coope;C Sheldrick;C.S.M Turney

  • Building and testing age models for radiocarbon dates in Lateglacial and Early Holocene sediments

    S. P. E. Blockley;C. Bronk Ramsey;van der Johannes Plicht;van der Johannes Plicht;Maarten Blaauw

  • Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: Towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy

    John J. Lowe;Simon Blockley;Fabio Trincardi;Alessandra Asioli

  • Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability

    Selina Brace;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Love Dalén;Adrian M. Lister

  • Tephrochronology and absolute centennial scale synchronisation of European and Greenland records for the last glacial to interglacial transition: A case study of Soppensee and NGRIP

    C.S. Lane;S.P.E. Blockley;C. Bronk Ramsey;A.F. Lotter

  • Tephrochronology and the extended intimate (integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) event stratigraphy 8-128 ka b2k

    Simon P.E. Blockley;Anna J. Bourne;Achim Brauer;Siwan M. Davies

  • Reevaluating the age of the Iberomaurusian in Morocco

    A. Bouzouggar;R. N. E. Barton;S. Blockley;C. Bronk-Ramsey

  • Improved age modelling and high-precision age estimates of late Quaternary tephras, for accurate palaeoclimate reconstruction

    Simon P.E. Blockley;C. Bronk Ramsey;D.M. Pyle

  • Improved age modelling approaches as exemplified by the revised chronology for the Central European varved lake Soppensee

    S.P.E. Blockley;C.Bronk Ramsey;C.S. Lane;A.F. Lotter

  • Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene

    Armand Hernández;Celia Martin-Puertas;Paola Moffa-Sánchez;Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro

Frequent Co-Authors

J. John Lowe
J. John Lowe Royal Holloway University of London
Christine S. Lane
Christine S. Lane University of Cambridge
Victoria C. Smith
Victoria C. Smith University of Oxford
Richard A. Staff
Richard A. Staff Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Sabine Wulf
Sabine Wulf University of Portsmouth
Ian Candy
Ian Candy Royal Holloway University of London
Martin Menzies
Martin Menzies Royal Holloway University of London
Darren F. Mark
Darren F. Mark University of Glasgow
Emma L. Tomlinson
Emma L. Tomlinson Trinity College Dublin

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