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| Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago LR Kump, ME Barley Nature 448 (7157), 1033-1036, 2007 | 408 | 2007 |
| A revised geological framework for the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia KF Cassidy, DC Champion, B Krapez, ME Barley, SJA Brown, RS Blewett, ... Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 8 (8), 15, 2006 | 345 | 2006 |
| Supercontinent cycles and the distribution of metal deposits through time ME Barley, DI Groves Geology 20 (4), 291-294, 1992 | 340 | 1992 |
| Record of emergent continental crust∼ 3.5 billion years ago in the Pilbara Craton of Australia R Buick, JR Thornett, NJ McNaughton, JB Smith, ME Barley, M Savage Nature 375 (6532), 574-577, 1995 | 323 | 1995 |
| Jurassic to Miocene magmatism and metamorphism in the Mogok metamorphic belt and the India‐Eurasia collision in Myanmar ME Barley, AL Pickard, K Zaw, P Rak, MG Doyle Tectonics 22 (3), 2003 | 322 | 2003 |
| Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2.45 billion years ago ME Barley, AL Pickard, PJ Sylvester Nature 385 (6611), 55-58, 1997 | 322 | 1997 |
| Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event KO Konhauser, SV Lalonde, NJ Planavsky, E Pecoits, TW Lyons, ... Nature 478 (7369), 369-373, 2011 | 318 | 2011 |
| Genesis of high-grade hematite orebodies of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia D Taylor, HJ Dalstra, AE Harding, GC Broadbent, ME Barley Economic Geology 96 (4), 837-873, 2001 | 307 | 2001 |
| Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen ME Barley, A Bekker, B Krapež Earth and Planetary Science Letters 238 (1-2), 156-171, 2005 | 264 | 2005 |
| Hydrothermal and resedimented origins of the precursor sediments to banded iron formation: sedimentological evidence from the Early Palaeoproterozoic Brockman Supersequence of … B Krapež, ME Barley, AL Pickard Sedimentology 50 (5), 979-1011, 2003 | 234 | 2003 |
| Petrography and geochemistry of the Dales Gorge banded iron formation: Paragenetic sequence, source and implications for palaeo-ocean chemistry E Pecoits, MK Gingras, ME Barley, A Kappler, NR Posth, KO Konhauser Precambrian Research 172 (1-2), 163-187, 2009 | 218 | 2009 |
| Late Archean convergent margin tectonics and gold mineralization: a new look at the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia ME Barley, BN Eisenlohr, DI Groves, CS Perring, JR Vearncombe Geology 17 (9), 826-829, 1989 | 198 | 1989 |
| The Sholl Shear Zone, West Pilbara: evidence for a domain boundary structure from integrated tectonostratigraphic analyses, SHRIMP U Pb dating and isotopic and geochemical … JB Smith, ME Barley, DI Groves, B Krapez, NJ McNaughton, MJ Bickle, ... Precambrian Research 88 (1-4), 143-171, 1998 | 196 | 1998 |
| Atmospheric sulfur in Archean komatiite-hosted nickel deposits A Bekker, ME Barley, ML Fiorentini, OJ Rouxel, D Rumble, SW Beresford Science 326 (5956), 1086-1089, 2009 | 194 | 2009 |
| Rise of atmospheric oxygen and the “upside‐down” Archean mantle LR Kump, JF Kasting, ME Barley Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2 (1), 2001 | 184 | 2001 |
| Provenance and age delimitation of Quadrilátero Ferrífero sandstones based on zircon U–Pb isotopes LA Hartmann, I Endo, MTF Suita, JOS Santos, JC Frantz, MA Carneiro, ... Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20 (4), 273-285, 2006 | 177 | 2006 |
| Age constraints on recycled crustal and supracrustal sources of Archaean metasedimentary sequences, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: evidence from SHRIMP zircon … B Krapez, SJA Brown, J Hand, ME Barley, RAF Cas Tectonophysics 322 (1-2), 89-133, 2000 | 173 | 2000 |
| Sedimentary evidence for an Archaean shallow-water volcanic-sedimentary facies, eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia ME Barley, JSR Dunlop, JE Glover, DI Groves Earth and Planetary Science Letters 43 (1), 74-84, 1979 | 173 | 1979 |
| Nature, genesis, and tectonic setting of mesothermal gold mineralization in the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia DI Groves, ME Barley, SE Ho | 161 | 1989 |
