Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)

Profile

General Information

I specialise in isotopic and geochemical methods applied to metamorphic, igneous and hydrothermal systems. In particular, I develop novel Laser Ablation ICP-MS techniques for the in-situ study of accessory minerals. 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. In addition, I have projects investigating the primary composition of kimberlitic magma as a probe of the lithospheric mantle, the evolution of the Sudbury impact melt sheet and the formation of Fe-oxide, copper and gold mineralization in Arctic Sweden. My ongoing interest is the tectonic evolution of the northwest Highlands of Scotland. 

Teaching

I teach metamorphic petrology to the first year and second year undergraduates at Portsmouth (SEES 405 Earth Materials and SEES 519 Petrology, the latter as unit co-ordinator). I also co-lead our 2nd year field mapping training trip to Madrid and field trip to Almeria as well as several other short trips for first years. I assist with 1st year mapwork. In addition, I supervise a PhD student at Portsmouth and two at Bristol.

Career History

• 2009-: 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

Professional Record

• Member of the NERC ion microprobe facility steering committee
• Council Member of the Mineralogical Society
• Subject editor Mineralogical Magazine (Metamorphic Petrology)
• Member of Mineralogical Society Awards Committee
• Council member of the Metamorphic Studies Group (formerly Honorary Secretary)
• Fellow of the Geological Society
• Member of the American Geophysical Union
• Journal reviewer for Geology, Journal of the Geological Society, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Lithos, Journal of Petrology, Chemical Geology, Precambrian Research, Geological Magazine, European Journal of Mineralogy and Antarctic Science

Research

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 Hadean and Early Archaean but other projects are focusing on Australia, northwest Scotland, Antarctica and Ukraine

Formation of the Sudbury Impact Melt Sheet – one of the largest and oldest on Earth and a possible analogue for conditions on the Early Earth

The mantle source and signature of kimberlites – new insights into kimberlite magma from the geochemistry and radiogenic isotopes within kimberlitic perovskite

Insights into formation of Fe-oxide and related copper and gold mineralization through use of novel geochemical and isotopic tracers within the mineral titanite

Tectonic evolution of the northwest Highlands of Scotland

Tectonic evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula

Development of novel techniques for in-situ geochemical and isotopic measurements by Laser Ablation ICP-MS

Grants

• Storey, C.D. 2011. The onset of modern plate tectonics from the perspective of rutile. NERC Ion Microprobe Facility, worth equivalent £20,000.
• Storey, C.D. 2010. IRD heavy minerals as a provenance tool for ice coverage on Greenland. NERC small grant NE/H014187/1. £29,047.40.
• Storey, C.D. 2009. Petrogenesis of Kimberlite: mantle sources and shallow level contamination. NERC Ion Microprobe Facility, worth equivalent £30,000.
• Storey, C.D. 2008. Resolving controversies over the birth and growth of continental crust on Earth. NERC Isotope Geosciences Facility Steering Committee, worth equivalent £17,000.
• Storey, C.D. and Hawkesworth, C.J. 2007. Probing the birth and growth of continents via isotopic records of titanite. NERC Ion Microprobe Facility, worth equivalent £10,000.
• Storey, C.D. 2006. The search for records of Earth’s earliest crust to test terrestrial planet early global differentiation models. NERC fellowship NE/D008891/1. £257,069.
• Hawkesworth, C.J. and Storey, C.D. 2007. Episodic growth models for the continental crust; new tests from Hf and O isotopes in zircon. NERC standard grant NE/E005225/1. £272,035.
• Kelley, S.P., Vaughan, A.P.M., Millar, I.L. and Storey, C.D. (recognised researcher) 2003. Tectonic and thermal history of suspect terranes on the Pacific margin of Gondwana. NERC grant AFI NER/G/S/2003/00013. £149,998.
• Geological Society of America, 2000. Student bursary to attend Penrose Conference, The Iapetus Ocean – Its Birth, Life and Death: The Wilson Cycle, Edinburgh. £500

Recent Publications

More recent publications

 

Publications Before 2008

2007

R. Anczkiewicz, J. Szczepański, S.Mazur, C.D. Storey, Q. Crowley, I.M. Villa, M.F. Thirlwall and T.E. Jeffries, 2007, Lu-Hf geochronology and trace element distribution in garnet: Implications for uplift and exhumation of ultra-high pressure granulites in the Sudetes, SW Poland, Lithos 95, 363-380.

C.D. Storey, M.P. Smith and T.E. Jeffries, 2007, In situ LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of metavolcanics of Norrbotten, Sweden: Records of extended geological histories in complex titanite grains, Chemical Geology 240, 163-181.

Lehmann, B., Storey, C., Mainkar, D. and Jeffries, T, 2007, In-situ dating of titanite in the Tokapal-Bhejripadar kimberlite system, central India, Journal of the Geological Society of India 69, 553-556.

2006

C.D. Storey, T.E. Jeffries and M. Smith, 2006, Common lead corrected Laser Ablation ICP-MS U-Pb systematics and geochronology of titanite, Chemical Geology 227, 37-52.

J.D. Keppie, D. Nance, J.F. Fernandez-Suarez, C.D. Storey, T.E. Jeffries and B. Murphy, 2006, Detrital zircon data from the eastern Mixteca terrane: evidence for an Ordovician-Mississippian continental rise and a Permo-Triassic clastic wedge adjacent to Oaxaquia, International Geology Review 48, 97-111.

J.B. Murphy, J.D. Keppie, R.D. Nance, B.V. Miller, J. Dostal, M. Middleton, J. Fernandez-Suarez, T.E. Jeffries and C.D. Storey, 2006, Geochemistry and U-Pb protolith ages of eclogitic rocks of the Asís Lithodeme, Piaxtla Suite, Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: tectonothermal activity along the southern margin of the Rheic ocean, Journal of the Geological Society 163, 683-695.

Ǻ. Edfelt, A. Sandrin, K. Billström, P. Evins, T. Jeffries, C. Storey, S-Ǻ. Elming and O. Martinsson, 2006,  Stratigraphy and tectonic setting of the host rocks to the Tjårrojäka Fe-oxide Cu-Au deposits, Kiruna area, northern Sweden, GFF 128, 221-232.

C.D. Storey, 2006, Review: Terrane Processes at the Margins of Gondwana, In: A.P.M. Vaughan, P.T. Leat and R.J. Pankhurst (Eds), Antarctic Geological Society of London Special Publication Science, 18, pp. 155-156.

2005

C.D. Storey and D.J. Prior, 2005, Plastic deformation and recrystallisation of garnet: a mechanism to facilitate diffusion creep, Journal of Petrology 46, 2593-2613.

C.D. Storey, T.S. Brewer and S. Temperley, 2005, P-T conditions of Grenville-age eclogite facies metamorphism and amphibolite facies retrogression of the Glenelg-Attadale Inlier, NW Scotland, Geological Magazine 142, 605-615.

2004

C.D. Storey, T.S. Brewer and R.R. Parrish, 2004, Late-Proterozoic tectonics in northwest Scotland: one contractional orogeny or several?, Precambrian Research 134, 227-247.

T.S. Brewer, K.-I. Ǻhäll, J.F. Menuge, C.D. Storey and R.R. Parrish, 2004, Mesoproterozoic bimodal volcanism in SW Norway, evidence for recurring pre-Sveconorwegian continental margin tectonism, Precambrian Research 134, 249-273.

2003

T. Brewer, C. Storey, R. Parrish, S. Temperley and B. Windley, 2003, Grenvillian age decompression of eclogites within the Glenelg-Attadale Inlier, NW Scotland, Journal of the Geological Society London 160, 565-574.

2002

D. Prior, J. Wheeler, R. Spiess, L. Peruzzo and C. Storey, 2002, Some garnet microstructures: an illustration of the potential of orientation maps and misorientation analysis in microstructural studies, Journal of Structural Geology 24, 999-1011.

C.D. Storey, 2002, Tectono-metamorphic Evolution of the Glenelg-Attadale Inlier, NW Scotland, PhD Thesis, University of Leicester, UK.