Yr Athro Andrew C Kerr

Reader in Petrology & Director of Postgraduate Research

Ysgol Gwyddorau'r Ddaear a’r Amgylchedd

: kerra@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2087 4578
Fax:: +44 (0)29 2087 4326
: 2.07, Y Prif Adeilad, Plas y Parc, Caerdydd, CF10 3AT

: Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig

Interests

Large igneous provinces
oceanic plateaus
igneous geochemistry
magmatic processes
crustal growth

Reader in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2009 – present)

Senior Lecturer in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2004 – 2009)

Lecturer in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2000 – 2004)

Editor in Chief –Lithos (2007 – present)

Public Relations Officer – Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2011 – 2016)

NERC Post Doctoral Research Assistant –Leicester University (1993 – 1996)

Leverhulme Research Fellow– Leicester University(1996 – 1999)

PhD – Geology, University of Durham (1993)

BSc – Geochemistry, St. Andrews University (1990)

2023

Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Kerr, A. C., Wei, G., Qi, Y., Liu, Y. and Yang, Y. 2023. Sediment recycling by continental subduction indicated by B-Hf-Pb-Nd isotopes from Miocene?Quaternary lavas in the northern margin of Tibet. Lithos 444-44, article number: 107109. (10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107109)
Meng, F. et al. 2023. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Late Permian basalts from the Sichuan Basin, SW China: Implications for the geodynamics of the Emeishan mantle plume. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 241, article number: 105477. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105477)
Ma, L. et al. 2023. Eocene magmatism in the Himalaya: response to lithospheric flexure during early Indian collision?. Geology 51(1), pp. 96-100. (10.1130/G50438.1)

2022

Zhang, X., Wang, Q., Wyman, D., Kerr, A. C., Dan, W. and Qi, Y. 2022. Tibetan Plateau insights into >1100℃ crustal melting in the Quaternary. Geology 50(12), pp. 1432-1437. (10.1130/G50387.1)
Hao, L. et al. 2022. Contribution of continental subduction to very light B isotope signatures in post-collisional magmas: evidence from southern Tibetan ultrapotassic rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 584, article number: 117508. (10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117508)
Meng, F., Tian, Y., Kerr, A. C., Wang, Q., Chen, Y., Zhou, Y. and Yang, F. 2022. Neoarchean reworking of Mesoarchean and Paleoarchean crust (3.4 ∼ 3.0 Ga) within the North China Craton: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and Lu-Hf isotopes from the basement of the Bohai Bay Basin. Precambrian Research 369, article number: 106497. (10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106497)
Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C. and Hastie, A. R. 2022. Chronology and geochemistry of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province in Jamaica. Results in Geochemistry 6, article number: 100015. (10.1016/j.ringeo.2022.100015)
Hao, L., Nan, X., Kerr, A. C., Li, S., Wu, Y., Wang, H. and Huang, F. 2022. Mg-Ba-Sr-Nd isotopic evidence for a mélange origin of early Paleozoic arc magmatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 577, article number: 117263. (10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117263)

2021

Coombs, H., Kerr, A., Pindell, J., Buchs, D., Weber, B. and Solari, L. 2021. Petrogenesis of the crystalline basement along the Western Gulf of Mexico: Post-collisional magmatism during the formation of Pangaea. In: Martens, U. C. and Molina Garza, R. S. eds. Southern and Central Mexico: Basement Framework, Tectonic Evolution, and Provenance of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Basins. GSA Special Papers. Geological Society of America, (10.1130/2020.2546(02))
Huang, S., Wang, W., Kerr, A. C., Zhao, J., Xiong, Q. and Wang, J. 2021. The Fuchuan Ophiolite in South China: Evidence for modern-style plate tectonics during Rodinia breakup. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22(11), article number: e2021GC010137. (10.1029/2021GC010137)
Hao, L. et al. 2021. Post-collisional crustal thickening and plateau uplift of southern Tibet: insights from Cenozoic magmatism in the Wuyu area of the eastern Lhasa block. Geological Society of America Bulletin 133(7-8), pp. 1634-1648. (10.1130/B35659.1)
Hastie, A. R., Cox, S. and Kerr, A. C. 2021. Northeast- or southwest-dipping subduction in the Cretaceous Caribbean gateway?. Lithos, pp. 386-387. (10.1016/j.lithos.2021.105998)
Naeem, A., Kerr, A. C., Kakar, M. I., Siddiqui, R. H., Khan, M. A. and Ahmed, N. 2021. Petrology and geochemistry of volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks from Zhob ophiolite, North-Western Pakistan. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14(2), article number: 97. (10.1007/s12517-020-06352-0)

2020

Boraiaha, C. K., Joshi, K. B., Kerr, A. C., Padhi, J. K., Mishra, S. S. and Chandan, R. 2020. Field, petrographic and geochemical characteristics of Sullya alkaline complex in the Cauvery Shear Zone (CSZ), southern India: Implications for petrogenesis. Journal of Earth System Science 129, article number: 111. (10.1007/s12040-020-1369-1)
Khan, M. A., Kakar, M. I., Ulrich, T., Ali, L., Kerr, A. C., Mahmood, K. and Siddiqui, R. H. 2020. The genesis of manganese deposits in the Ali Khanzai Block from the Zhob Ophiolite, Pakistan: inferences from geochemistry and mineralogy. Journal of Earth Science 31, pp. 884-895. (10.1007/s12583-020-1337-3)
Jerram, M., Bonnand, P., Kerr, A. C., Nisbet, E. G., Puchtel, I. S. and Halliday, A. N. 2020. The δ53Cr isotope composition of komatiite flows and implications for the composition of the bulk silicate Earth. Chemical Geology 551, article number: 119761. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119761)
Ciborowski, T. J. R., Phillips, B. A., Kerr, A. C., Barfod, D. N. and Mark, D. F. 2020. Petrogenesis of Siletzia: the world’s youngest oceanic plateau. Chemie der Erde / Geochemistry 1, article number: 100004. (10.1016/j.ringeo.2020.100004)

2012

Peate, D. W., Peate, I. U., Rowe, M. C., Thompson, J. M. and Kerr, A. C. 2012. Petrogenesis of high-MgO lavas of the lower Mull Plateau Group, Scotland: insights from melt inclusions. Journal of Petrology 53(9), pp. 1867-1886. (10.1093/petrology/egs036)
Hibbert, K. E. J., Williams, H. M., Kerr, A. C. and Puchtel, I. S. 2012. Iron isotopes in ancient and modern komatiites: evidence in support of an oxidised mantle from Archean to present. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 321-22, pp. 198-207. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.011)
Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A., Pindell, J., Millar, I. L. and Atkinson, N. 2012. Age and petrogenesis of the Lower Cretaceous North Coast Schist of Tobago, a fragment of the pre-Greater Antilles inter-American arc system. Journal of Geology 120(4), pp. 367-384. (10.1086/665798)
Kerr, A. C. and Menzies, M. A. 2012. Phanerozoic volcanism. In: Roberts, D. G. and Bally, A. W. eds. Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 40-74., (10.1016/B978-0-444-53042-4.00002-9)
Kakar, M. I., Mahmood, K., Kerr, A. C., Collins, A. S., Shah, M. T. and Kasi, A. K. 2012. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the volcanic rocks from Bagh complex, northern Balochistan, Pakistan. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences 45(1), pp. 17-29.
Knox, R. W. et al. 2012. Examining the case for the use of the Tertiary as a formal period or informal unit. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123(3), pp. 390-393. (10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.05.004)

2011

Hastie, A. R., Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C., Minifie, M. J. and Millar, I. L. 2011. Geochemistry of rare high-Nb basalt lavas: Are they derived from a mantle wedge metasomatised by slab melts?. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 75(17), pp. 5049-5072. (10.1016/j.gca.2011.06.018)
Neill, I., Kerr, A. C., Hastie, A. R., Stanek, K. and Millar, I. L. 2011. Origin of the Aves Ridge and Dutch-Venezuelan Antilles: interaction of the Cretaceous 'Great Arc' and Caribbean-Colombian Oceanic Plateau?. Journal of the Geological Society 168(2), pp. 333-348. (10.1144/0016-76492010-067)
Zalasiewicz, J. et al. 2011. Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369(1938), pp. 1036-1055. (10.1098/rsta.2010.0315)

2010

Neill, I., Gibbs, J. A., Hastie, A. R. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Origin of the volcanic complexes of La Désirade, Lesser Antilles: implications for tectonic reconstruction of the Late Jurassic to Cretaceous Pacific-proto Caribbean margin. Lithos 120(3-4), pp. 407-420. (10.1016/j.lithos.2010.08.026)
Hastie, A., Kerr, A. C., McDonald, I., Mitchell, S. F., Pearce, J. A., Wolstencroft, M. and Millar, I. L. 2010. Do Cenozoic analogues support a plate tectonic origin for Earth's earliest continental crust?. Geology 38(6), pp. 495-498. (10.1130/G30778.1)
Hastie, A. R. et al. 2010. Geochronology, geochemistry and petrogenesis of rhyodacite lavas in eastern Jamaica: a new adakite subgroup analogous to early Archaean continental crust?. Chemical Geology 276(3-4), pp. 344-359. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.002)
Kerr, A. C., Khan, M. and McDonald, I. 2010. Eruption of basaltic magma at Tor Zawar, Balochistan, Pakistan on 27 January 2010: geochemical and petrological constraints on petrogenesis. Mineralogical Magazine 74(6), pp. 1027-1036. (10.1180/minmag.2010.074.6.1027)
Hastie, A. R., Ramsook, R., Mitchell, S. F., Kerr, A. C., Millar, I. L. and Mark, D. F. 2010. Geochemistry of Compositionally Distinct Late Cretaceous Back-Arc Basin Lavas: Implications for the Tectonomagmatic Evolution of the Caribbean Plate. Journal of Geology 118(6), pp. 655-676. (10.1086/656353)
van der Lelij, R., Spikings, R. A., Kerr, A. C., Kounov, A., Cosca, M., Chew, D. and Villagomez, D. 2010. Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone. Tectonics 29(6), article number: TC6003. (10.1029/2009TC002654)
Kamenetsky, V. S., Gurenko, A. A. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Composition and temperature of komatiite melts from Gorgona Island, Colombia, constrained from olivine-hosted melt inclusions. Geology 38(11), pp. 1003-1006. (10.1130/G31143.1)
Kerr, A. C., Khan, M., Mahoney, J. J., Nicholson, K. N. and Hall, C. M. 2010. Late Cretaceous alkaline sills of the south Tethyan suture zone, Pakistan: initial melts of the Réunion hotspot?. Lithos 117(1-4), pp. 161-171. (10.1016/j.lithos.2010.02.010)
Hastie, A. R. and Kerr, A. C. 2010. Mantle plume or slab window?: physical and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Caribbean oceanic plateau. Earth-Science Reviews 98(3-4), pp. 283-293. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.11.001)

2009

Montgomery, H. and Kerr, A. C. 2009. Rethinking the origins of the red chert at La Desirade, French West Indies. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 457-467. (10.1144/SP328.18)
Kerr, A. C., Pearson, D. G. and Nowell, G. M. 2009. Magma source evolution beneath the Caribbean oceanic plateau: new insights from elemental and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopic studies of ODP Leg 165 Site 1001 basalts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 809-827. (10.1144/SP328.31)
Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Mitchell, S. F. and Millar, I. L. 2009. Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic significance of Lower Cretaceous island arc lavas from the Devils Racecourse Formation, eastern Jamaica. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 328(1), pp. 339-360. (10.1144/SP328.14)

2008

Thompson, P. M., Kempton, P. D. and Kerr, A. C. 2008. Evaluation of the effects of alteration and leaching on Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf systematics in submarine mafic rocks. Lithos 104(1-4), pp. 164-176. (10.1016/j.lithos.2007.12.005)
Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Mitchell, S. F. and Millar, I. L. 2008. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Cretaceous oceanic plateau lavas in eastern Jamaica. Lithos 101(3-4), pp. 323-343. (10.1016/j.lithos.2007.08.003)
Zalasiewicz, J. et al. 2008. Are we now living in the Anthropocene?. GSA Today 18(2), pp. 4-8. (10.1130/GSAT01802A.1)

2007

Khan, M., Kerr, A. C. and Mahmood, K. 2007. Formation and tectonic evolution of the Cretaceous-Jurassic Muslim Bagh ophiolitic complex, Pakistan: Implications for the composite tectonic setting of ophiolites. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 31(2), pp. 112-127. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2007.04.006)
Kerr, A. C. and Mahoney, J. J. 2007. Oceanic plateaus: Problematic plumes, potential paradigms. Chemical Geology 241(3-4), pp. 332-353. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.019)
Campbell, I. H. and Kerr, A. C. 2007. The Great Plume Debate: Testing the plume theory. Chemical Geology 241(3-4), pp. 149-152. (10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.01.013)
Sobolev, A. V. et al. 2007. The amount of recycled crust in sources of mantle-derived melts. Science 316(5823), pp. 412-417. (10.1126/science. 1138113)
Hastie, A. R., Kerr, A. C., Pearce, J. A. and Mitchell, S. F. 2007. Classification of Altered Volcanic Island Arc Rocks using Immobile Trace Elements: Development of the Th Co Discrimination Diagram. Journal of Petrology 48(12), pp. 2341-2357. (10.1093/petrology/egm062)

2006

Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2006. The Quebradagrande Complex: A Lower Cretaceous ensialic marginal basin in the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21(4), pp. 423-436. (10.1016/j.jsames.2006.07.002)

2005

Kerr, A. C. 2005. Oceanic LIPs: The kiss of death. Elements 1(5), pp. 289-292. (10.2113/gselements.1.5.289)
Kerr, A. C. 2005. La Isla de Gorgona, Colombia: A petrological enigma?. Lithos 84(1-2), pp. 77-101. (10.1016/j.lithos.2005.02.006)
Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2005. Tectonic evolution of the Caribbean and northwestern South America. The case for accretion of two Late Cretaceous oceanic plateaus. Geology 33(4), pp. 269-272. (10.1130/G21109.1)

2004

Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Kempton, P. D., Pringle, M. S. and Nivia, A. 2004. Mafic pegmatites intruding oceanic plateau Gabbros and ultramafic cumulates from Bolívar, Colombia: Evidence for a ‘wet’ mantle plume?. Journal of Petrology 45(9), pp. 1877-1906. (10.1093/petrology/egh037)
Thompson, P. M. E., Kempton, P. D., White, R. V., Saunders, A. D., Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J. and Pringle, M. S. 2004. Elemental, Hf-Nd isotopic and geochronological constraints on an island arc sequence associated with the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau: Bonaire, Dutch Antilles. Lithos 74(1-2), pp. 91-116. (10.1016/j.lithos.2004.01.004)
Thompson, P. M. E. et al. 2004. Hf-Nd isotope constraints on the origin of the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau and its relationship to the Galapagos plume. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 217(1-2), pp. 59-75. (10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00542-9)

2003

Geldmacher, J. et al. 2003. Hafnium isotopic variations in volcanic rocks from the Caribbean Large Igneous Province and Galapagos hot spot tracks. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(7), article number: 1062. (10.1029/2002GC000477)
Kerr, A. C. 2003. Oceanic plateaus. In: Rudnick, R. ed. The Crust. Treatise on Geochemistry Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 537-565., (10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/03033-4)

2002

Kerr, A. C., Aspden, J. A., Tarney, J. and Pilatasig, L. F. 2002. The nature and provenance of accreted oceanic terranes in western Ecuador: geochemical and tectonic constraints. Journal of the Geological Society 159(5), pp. 577-594. (10.1144/0016-764901-151)
Thompson, P. M. E., Kempton, P. D., White, R. V., Saunders, A. D., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 2002. Hf-Nd isotope systematics of the Gorgona komatiites, and their relationship with the Caribbean Plateau. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(Supp1), pp. A773-A773.
Schaefer, B. F., Parkinson, I. J., Hole, M. J., Kerr, A. C., Scarrow, J. H. and Rogers, N. W. 2002. Re-Os isotope systematics of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province; Multiple mantle sources in the proto-Iceland plume. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(Supp1), pp. A672-A672.
Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Kempton, P. D., Spadea, P., Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F. and Duncan, R. A. 2002. Pervasive mantle plume head heterogeneity: Evidence from the late Cretaceous Caribbean-Colombian oceanic plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 107(B7), article number: 2140. (10.1029/2001JB000790|)

2001

Kerr, A. C. and Arndt, N. T. 2001. A note on the IUGS reclassification of the high-Mg and picritic volcanic rocks. Journal of Petrology 42(11), pp. 2169-2171. (10.1093/petrology/42.11.2169)

2000

Scarrow, J. H., Curran, J. M. and Kerr, A. C. 2000. Major element records of variable plume involvement in the North Atlantic Province tertiary flood basalts. Journal of Petrology 41(7), pp. 1155-1176. (10.1093/petrology/41.7.1155)
Kerr, A. C., White, R. V. and Saunders, A. D. 2000. LIP reading: Recognizing oceanic plateaux in the geological record. Journal of Petrology 41(7), pp. 1041-1056. (10.1093/petrology/41.7.1041)
Hauff, F., Hoernle, K., Tilton, G., Graham, D. W. and Kerr, A. C. 2000. Large volume recycling of oceanic lithosphere over short time scales: geochemical constraints from the Caribbean Large Igneous Province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 174(3-4), pp. 247-263. (10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00272-1)

1999

Revillon, S., Arndt, N. T., Hallot, E., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 1999. Petrogenesis of picrites from the Caribbean Plateau and the North Atlantic magmatic province. Lithos 49(1-4), pp. 1-21. (10.1016/S0024-4937(99)00038-9)
Kerr, A. C., Kent, R. W., Thomson, B. A., Seedhouse, J. K. and Donaldson, C. H. 1999. Geochemical evolution of the Tertiary Mull volcano, Western Scotland. Journal of Petrology 40(6), pp. 873-908. (10.1093/petroj/40.6.87)
Walker, R. J., Storey, M., Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J. and Arndt, N. T. 1999. Implications of Os-187 isotopic heterogeneities in a mantle plume: Evidence from Gorgona Island and Curacao. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 63(5), pp. 713-728. (10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00041-1)
White, R. V., Tarney, J., Kerr, A. C., Saunders, A. D., Kempton, P. D., Pringle, M. S. and Klaver, G. T. 1999. Modification of an oceanic plateau, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean: Implications for the generation of continental crust. Lithos 46(1), pp. 43-68.
Kerr, A. C., Iturralde-Vinent, M. A., Saunders, A. D., Babbs, T. L. and Tarney, J. 1999. A new plate tectonic model of the Caribbean: Implications from a geochemical reconnaissance of Cuban Mesozoic volcanic rocks. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111(11), pp. 1581-1599. (10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1581:ANPTMO>2.3.CO;2)

1998

Kerr, A. C. and Kent, R. W. 1998. Discussion on application of palynological data to the chronology of the Palaeogene lava fields of the British Province. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 733-735. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0733)
Kerr, A. C. 1998. Oceanic plateau formation: a cause of mass extinction and black shale deposition around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary?. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 619-626. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0619)
Kent, R. W., Thomson, B. A., Skelhorn, R. R., Kerr, A. C., Norry, M. J. and Walsh, J. N. 1998. Emplacement of Hebridean Tertiary flood basalts: evidence from an inflated pahoehoe lava flow on Mull, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 155(4), pp. 599-607. (10.1144/gsjgs.155.4.0599)
Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Marriner, G. F. and Saunders, A. D. 1998. The internal structure of oceanic plateaus: inferences from obducted Cretaceous terranes in western Colombia and the Caribbean. Tectonophysics 292(3-4), pp. 173-188.
Kerr, A. C. 1998. Mineral chemistry of the Mull-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, western Scotland. Mineralogical Magazine 62(3), pp. 295-312.
Kerr, A. C. 1998. On the nature of the parental magma of the Palaeogene Staffa Magma sub-type, Isle of Mull, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Earth Sciences 89, pp. 87-93.

1997

Kerr, A. C. 1997. The geochemistry and significance of plugs intruding the Tertiary Mull-Morvern lava succession, western Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 33(2), pp. 157-167. (10.1144/sjg33020157)
Kerr, A. C., Marriner, G. F., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Saunders, A. D., Thirlwall, M. F. and Sinton, C. W. 1997. Cretaceous basaltic terranes in western Colombia: Elemental, chronological and Sr-Nd isotopic constraints on petrogenesis. Journal of Petrology 38(6), pp. 677-702. (10.1093/petroj/38.6.677)
Arndt, N. T., Kerr, A. C. and Tarney, J. 1997. Dynamic melting in plume heads: the formation of Gorgona komatiites and basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146(1-2), pp. 289-301.
Kerr, A. C. 1997. Asteroid impact and mass extinction at the K-T boundary: an extinct red herring. Geology Today 13(4), pp. 157-159. (10.1046/j.1365-2451.1997.t01-1-00014.x)
Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Nivia, A. and Saunders, A. D. 1997. The Caribbean-Colombian Cretaceous igneous province: The internal anatomy of an oceanic plateau. In: Mahoney, J. J. and Coffin, M. F. eds. Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism. AGU Geophysical Monograph Vol. 100. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, pp. 123-144., (10.1029/GM100p0123)
Saunders, A. D., Fitton, J. G., Kerr, A. C., Norry, M. J. and Kent, R. W. 1997. The north Atlantic igneous province. In: Mahoney, J. J. and Coffin, M. F. eds. Large Igneous Provinces: Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcanism. AGU Geophysical Monograph Vol. 100. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, pp. 45-93., (10.1029/GM100p0045)

1996

Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Klaver, G. T., Saunders, A. D. and Thirlwall, M. F. 1996. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the late-Cretaceous picrites and basalts of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles: A remnant of an oceanic plateau. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 124(1), pp. 29-43. (10.1007/s004100050171)
Emeleus, C. H., Allwright, E. A., Kerr, A. C. and Williamson, I. T. 1996. Red tuffs in the Palaeocene lava successions of the Inner Hebrides. Scottish Journal of Geology 32(1), pp. 83-89. (10.1144/sjg32010083)
Kerr, A. C., Marriner, G. F., Arndt, N. T., Tarney, J., Nivia, A., Saunders, A. D. and Duncan, R. A. 1996. The petrogenesis of Gorgona komatiites, picrites and basalts: New field, petrographic and geochemical constraints. Lithos 37(2-3), pp. 245-260.
Saunders, A. D., Tarney, J., Kerr, A. C. and Kent, R. W. 1996. The formation and fate of large oceanic igneous provinces. Lithos 37(2-3), pp. 81-95.
Kerr, A. C., Tarney, J., Marriner, G. F., Nivia, A., Klaver, G. T. and Saunders, A. D. 1996. The geochemistry and tectonic setting of late Cretaceous Caribbean and Colombian volcanism. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9(1-2), pp. 111-120.

1995

Kerr, A. C. 1995. The melting processes and composition of the North Atlantic (Iceland) plume: geochemical evidence from the Early Tertiary basalts. Journal of the Geological Society 152(6), pp. 975-978. (10.1144/GSL.JGS.1995.152.01.16)
Kerr, A. C., Saunders, A. D., Tarney, J., Berry, N. H. and Hards, V. L. 1995. Depleted mantle-plume geochemical signatures: No paradox for plume theories. Geology 23(9), pp. 843-846. (10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0843:DMPGSN>2.3.CO;2)
Kerr, A. C., Thompson, R. N. and Bernstein, S. 1995. High-pressure fractionation in rift-related basaltic magmatism: Faeroe plateau basalts [Comment]. Geology 23(7), pp. 671-672. (10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0671:HPFIRR>2.3.CO;2)
Kerr, A. C. 1995. The geochemistry of the Mull-Morvern Tertiary lava succession, NW Scotland: an assessment of mantle sources during plume-related volcanism. Chemical Geology 122(1-4), pp. 43-58. (10.1016/0009-2541(95)00009-B)
Kerr, A. C., Kempton, P. D. and Thompson, R. N. 1995. Crustal assimilation during turbulent magma ascent (ATA); new isotopic evidence from the Mull Tertiary lava succession, N. W. Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 119(2-3), pp. 142-154. (10.1007/BF00307277)

1994

Kerr, A. C. 1994. Lithospheric thinning during the evolution of continental large igneous provinces: A case study from the North Atlantic Tertiary province. Geology 22(11), pp. 1027-1030. (10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<1027:LTDTEO>2.3.CO;2)

1993

Kerr, A. C. 1993. Current research in the British Tertiary Igneous Province. Journal of the Geological Society 150(6), pp. 1193-1194. (10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1193)
Kerr, A. C. 1993. Elemental evidence for an enriched small-fraction-melt input into Tertiary Mull basalts, Western Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 150(4), pp. 763-769. (10.1144/gsjgs.150.4.0763)

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Kakar, M. I., Khan, M., Mahmood, K. and Kerr, A. C. . Facies and distribution of metamorphic rocks beneath the Muslim Bagh ophiolite, (NW Pakistan): tectonic implications. Journal of Himalayan Earth Sciences 47(2), pp. 115-124.

I primarily use elemental, isotope and geochronological data from igneous rocks to assess: the petrogenesis and environmental impact of oceanic plateaus and flood basalts, particularly the Caribbean, the North Atlantic Igneous Province; continental crust formation processes through time; supercontinent reconstruction; tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean and northern Andes; petrogenesis and origin of Tethyan ophiolites in the Middle East; geochemical evolution of the mantle.

My research also impacts upon the origin of economic mineralisation associated with large igneous provinces and the formation and thermal maturation of oil source rocks around the Caribbean and in northwestern South A

Age, structure, petrogenesis and impact on marine environments, of oceanic plateaux.
Processes of oceanic plateau accretion.
The relationship between the oceanic plateau and associated arc volcanism.
Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean.
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the British Tertiary Igneous Province.
Nature and origin of mantle plume geochemical signatures.
Identification of oceanic plateaus in the geological record and their role in crustal growth.
Marine environmental impact of large igneous provinces.
Melt inclusions in Large Igneous Provinces
Archean greenstone belts
Supercontinent reconstruction using petrology and geochemistry
Tectonomagmatic evolution of Tethyan igneous rocks from Pakistan
Links between LIP formation and metallogenesis, particularly gold mineralisation.