•   Publications

  • Leroux, H., Rietmeijer, F.J.M., Velbel, M.A., Brearley, A.J., Jacob, D. Langenhorst, F. Bridges, J.C., Zega, T.J., Stroud, R.M., Cordier, P. Harvey, R.P., Lee, M. Gounelle, M. and Zolensky, M.E. (2008). A TEM study of thermally modified Comet 81P/Wild 2 dust particles by interactions with the aerogel matrix during the Stardust capture process. Meteoritics and Planetary Science (in press).

  • Chizmadia, L.J., Xu, Y., Schwappach, C. and Brearley, A.J. (2007) Characterization of micron-sized Fe,Ni metal grains in fine-grained rims In the Y‑791198 CM2 carbonaceous chondrite: Implications for asteroidal and preaccretionary models for aqueous alteration. Meteoritics and Planetary Science (in revision)

  • Chizmadia, L.J. and Brearley, A.J. (2008) Mineralogy, aqueous alteration and primitive textural characteristics of fine-grained rims in the Y791198 CM2 carbonaceous chondrite: TEM observations and comparison to ALH81002. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71.

  • Hawkins, A., Selverstone, J. Brearley, A.J., Beane, R. J., Ketcham, R. and Carlson, W.D. (2007) Origin and mechanical significance of fishnet (honeycomb) garnets in high-pressure metasedimentary rocks from the Tauern Window, Eastern Alps. J. Metamorphic Geology 25, 565-583. doi:10.1111/.1525-1314.2007.00714x.

  • Sharp, Z.D. Barnes, J.D., Brearley, A.J. Fischer, T., Chaussidon, M. and Kamenetsky, V.S. (2007) Chlorine isotope homogeneity of the crust, mantle and carbonaceous chondrites. Nature 446, 1062-1065.

  • Brearley, A.J. (2006) The action of water. In ‘Meteorites and the Early Solar System II” (Eds Dante Lauretta, H.Y. McSween Jr and L. Leshin), Arizona University Press, pp. 587-624.

  • Jones, C.L. and Brearley A.J. (2006) Experimental aqueous alteration of the Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite; Insights into asteroidal aqueous alteration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (in press).For a PDF file of this paper click here

  • Krot, A.N., Hutcheon, I.D., Brearley, A.J., Pravdivtseva, O.V., Petaev, M.I. and Hohenberg, C.M. (2006) Timescales for secondary alteration of chondritic meteorites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds Lauretta, McSween and Leshin), Arizona University Press, pp.525-554

  • Pfeffer, M., Rietmeijer, F.J.M. Brearley, A.J. and Fischer, T.P., (2006) Electron microbeam analysis of aerosols from the plume of Poás volcano and comparison with equilibrium plume chemistry modeling. Journal of Volcanological Research 152, 174-188.

  • Zolensky, M.E. and multiple authors (2006) Mineralogy and Petrology of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Nucleus Samples. Science 314, 1735-1739.

  • Brownlee, D. and multiple authors (2006) Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope. Science 314, 1711-1716.

  • Grossman, J.N. and Brearley, A.J. (2005) The onset of metamorphism in ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, 87-122.

  • Abreu, N.M and Brearley, A.J. (2005) Carbonate in the Vigarano CV3 carbonaceous chondrite: Terrestrial, preterrestrial or both? Meteoritics and Planetary Science 40, 609-625.

  • Nuth, J.A. Jr III, Brearley, A.J. and Scott, E.R.D. (2005) Microcrystals and amorphous materials in comets and primitive meteorites: keys to understanding processes in the early solar system.In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk. ASP Conference Series Vol 341 (eds. Krot, A.N., Scott, E.R.D. Reiperth, B).  pp. 675-700.For a PDF file of this paper click here

  • Wooden, D.H., Harker, D.E. and Brearley, A.J. (2005) Thermal processing and radial mixing of dust: Evidence from Comets, Chondrules and Matrices of Primitive Meteorites. Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk. ASP Conference Series Vol 341 (eds. Krot, A.N., Scott, E.R.D. Reiperth, B).  pp. 774-808.For a PDF file of this paper click here

  • Moecher, D.P and Brearley, A.J. (2004) Mineralogy and petrology of a mullite-bearing pseudotachylyte: constraints on the temperature of coseismic frictional fusion. American Mineralogist 89, 1486-1495.

  • Golden D. C., Ming D. W., Morris R. V., Brearley, A.J., Lauer, H.V., Jr., Bazylinsky, D.A., Treiman, A. Zolensky, M.E., Schwandt C. S. and Lofgren G. E. and McKay, G.A. (2004, in press) Morphology of [111]-elongated magnetite crystals in Martian meteorite ALH84001, magnetotactic bacterial strain MV-1, and thermal decomposition of hydrothermally precipitated Fe-rich carbonate: Evidence for inorganic-only formation of magnetite in the Martian meteorite. American Mineralogist 89, 681-695.For a PDF file of this paper click here

  • Brearley, A.J.  (2003) Magnetite in ALH 84001: An origin by thermal decomposition of Fe-bearing carbonate. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, 849-870.

  • Brearley, A.J. (2003) Nebular vs parent body processing of chondritic meteorites. In ‘Treatise on Geochemistry’ , Cosmochemistry Vol. 1. Editors Holland and Turekian. Elsevier. pp.1-22.

  • Grossman, J.N., Alexander, C.M.O.’D., Wang, J. and Brearley, A.J. (2002) Zoned chondrules in Semarkona: Evidence for high- and low-temperature processing. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 37, 49-74.

  • Herd, C.D.K., Papike, J. and Brearley, A.J. (2001) Oxygen fugacity of martian basalts from electron microprobe oxygen and TEM-EELS analyses of Fe-Ti oxides. American Mineralogist 86, 1015-1024.

  • Hanowski, N.P. and Brearley, A.J. (2001) Aqueous alteration of chondrules in the CM carbonaceous chondrites, Allan Hills 81002., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65, 495-518.

  • Krot, A.N., Petaev, M.I., Brearley, A.J., Kallemeyn, G.W., Sears, D.W.G., Benoit, P.H., Hutcheon, I.D. and Keil, K. (2000) MAC88107, ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite with affinities to CM-CO clan: evidence for in situ growth of fayalite and hedenbergite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 1365-1386.

  • Steffen, K., Selverstone, J. and Brearley, A.J. (2001) Episodic weakening and strengthening during the synmetamorphic deformation in a deep-crustal shear zone in the Alps. In The Nature and Tectonic significance of Fault Zone Weakening (Holdsworth, R.E., Strachan, R.A., Magloughlin, J.F. and Knipe, R.J. eds) Geological Society of London. Special Publication 186, 141-156.

  • Hanowski, N.P. and Brearley, A.J. (2000) Iron-rich aureoles in the CM carbonaceous chondrites, Murray, Murchison and ALH81002: Evidence for in situ alteration. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 1291-1308.

  • Grossman, J.N., Alexander, C.M.O’D., Wang, J. and Brearley, A.J. (2000) Bleached chondrules: Evidence for Widespread aqueous processes on the parent asteroids of ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 467-486.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1999) Origin of graphitic carbon and pentlandite in matrix olivines in the Allende meteorite. Science 285, 1380-1383. For a PDF file of this paper click here.

  • Krot, A.N., Brearley, A.J., Ulyanov, A.A., Biryukov, V.V., Swindle, T.D., Keil, K., Mittlefehldt, D.W., Scott, E.R.D., Clayton, R.N. and Mayeda, T.K. (1999) Mineralogy, petrography and bulk chemical, I-Xe, and oxygen isotopic compositions of dark incusions in the reduced CV3 chondrite Efremovka. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 34, 67-90.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Jones, R.H. (1998) Chondritic meteorites. In Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy, Volume 36. Planetary Materials. (Ed. J.J. Papike). 400pp.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1997) Disordered biopyriboles, amphibole and talc in the Allende meteorite: products of nebular or parent body aqueous alteration. Science 276, 1103-1105. For a PDF file of this paper click here.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1997) Phyllosilicates in the matrix of the unique carbonaceous chondrite, LEW 85332 and possible implications for the aqueous alteration of CI chondrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 32, 377-388.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1996) The nature of matrix in unequilibrated chondritic meteorites and its possible relationship to chondrules. In Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk (eds, R.H. Hewins, R.H. Jones and E.R.D. Scott) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (pp. 137-151).

  • Haack, H., Scott, E.R.D., Love, S.G., Brearley, A.J. and McCoy, T.J. (1996) Thermal histories of type IVA stony-iron and iron mteorites: evidence for asteroid fragmentation and reaccretion. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 3103-3114.

  • Rubin, A.E. and Brearley, A.J. (1996) A critical evaluation of the evidence for hot accretion. Icarus 124, 86-96.

  • Brearley, A.J., Bajt, S. and Sutton, S.R. (1995) Distribution of moderately volatile trace elements in chondrule rims in the unequilibrated CO3 chondrite, ALH A77307. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59 4307-4316,

  • Brearley, A.J. (1995) Aqueous alteration and brecciation in Bells, an unusual, saponite-bearing CM carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59 2291-2317.

  • McCoy, T.J., Keil, K., Bogard, D.D., Garrison, D.H., Casanova, I., Lindstrom, M.M., Brearley, A.J., Kehm, K., Nichols, R.H. and Hohenberg, C.M. (1995). Origin and history of impact melt rocks from the EL chondrite parent body. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59, 161-175.

  • Hammouda, T., Pichavant, M., Barber, P. and Brearley, A.J. (1995) Synthesis of fluorophlogopite single crystals: Applications to experimental studies. European Journal of Mineralogy 7, 1381-1387.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Rubie, D.C. (1994) Transformation mechanisms of San Carlos olivine to (-phase under subduction zone conditions. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 86, 45-67.

  • Petaev, M.I. and Brearley, A.J. (1994) Exsolution in ferromagnesian olivine of the Divnoe meteorite. Science 266, 1545-1547.

  • Rubie, D.C. and Brearley, A.J. (1994) Phase Transitions Between beta and gamma (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 in the Earth's Mantle: Mechanisms and Rheological Implications. Science 264,1445-1448.

  • Harlan, S., Snee, L.W., Geissman, J.W. and Brearley, A.J. (1994) Paleomagnetism of the Middle Proterozoic Laramie anorthosite complex and Sherman Granite, southern Laramie Range, Wyoming and Colorado. J. Geophys. Research 99, 17997-18020.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1993) Occurrence and possible significance of rare Ti-oxides (Magneli phases) in carbonaceous chondrite matrices. Meteoritics 28, 590-595.

  • Spilde, M.N., Brearley, A.J. and Papike, J.J. (1993) Alteration of plagioclase and pyroxene phenocrysts in a fissure fumarole, Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska. American Mineralogist 78, 1066-1081.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Prinz, M. (1992) CI-like clasts in the Nilpena polymict ureilite: Implications for aqueous alteration processes in CI chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56, 1373-1386.

  • Brearley, A.J., Rubie, D.C. and Ito E. (1992) Mechanisms of the transformations between the a , b and g polymorphs of Mg2SiO4 at 15 GPa. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. 18, 343-358.

  • Brearley, A.J., Casanova, I., Miller, M.L. and Keil K. (1991) Mineralogy and possible origin of an unusual Cr-rich inclusion in the Los Martinez (L6) chondrite Meteoritics 26, 287-300.

  • Rubie, D.C. and Brearley, A.J. (1990) Mechanism of the g -b -phase transformation of Mg2SiO4 at high pressure and temperature. Nature 348, 628-631.

  • Rubie, D.C., Tsuchida, Y., Yagi, T., Utsumi, W., Kikegawa, T., Shimomura, O. and Brearley, A.J. (1990) An in situ X-ray diffraction study of the kinetics of the Ni2SiO4 olivine spinel transformation. J. Geophysical Research. 95, 15829-15844.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Rubie D.C. (1990)- The effects of H2O on the disequilibrium breakdown of muscovite + quartz. J. Petrology. 31, 925-956.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1990) Carbon-rich aggregates in type 3 ordinary chondrites: Characterization, origins and thermal history. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 54, 831-850.

  • Keil, K., Taylor, G.J., Ntaflos, T., Newsom, H.E., Brearley, A.J. and Romig, A.D. (1989) The Shallowater aubrite: Evidence for origin by planetesimal impact. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 53, 3291-3307.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1989) - Nature and origin of matrix in the unique chondrite, Kakangari. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53, 2395-2411.

  • Brearley, A.J., Scott, E.R.D., Keil, K., Clayton, R.N., Mayeda, T.K., Boynton, W.V. and Hill, D.H. (1989)- Chemical, isotopic and mineralogical evidence for the origin of matrix in ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 53, 2081-2093.

  • Geissman, J.W., Harlan, S. and Brearley, A.J. (1988) The physical isolation and identification of carriers of geologically stable RM: Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic microanalysis and electron microscopy. Geophys. Res. Letters. 15, 479-482.

  • Scott, E.R.D., Brearley, A.J., Keil, K., Grady, M.M., Pillinger, C.T., Mayeda, T.K., Clayton, R.N., Wieler, R. and Signer, P. (1988) Nature and origin of C-rich ordinary chondrites and chondritic clasts. Proc. Lunar and Planet Sci. Conf. XVIII. 513-523.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1988) Chloritoid in low-grade pelitic rocks from North Wales. Mineralogical Magazine 52. 394-396.

  • Rubie, D.C. and Brearley, A.J. (1987) Metastable melting during the breakdown of muscovite + quartz. Bulletin de Mineralogie 110, 533-549.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1987) An experimental and kinetic study of the breakdown of aluminous biotite at 800°C: Reaction microstructures and mineral chemistry. Bulletin de Mineralogie 110. 513-532.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1987) A natural example of the disequilibrium breakdown of biotite at elevated temperature: TEM observations and comparison with experimental kinetic data. Mineralogical Magazine 51, 93-106.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Champness, P.E. (1986) Magnetite exsolution in almandine garnet. Mineralogical Magazine. 50, 621-633.

  • Brearley, A.J. (1986) An electron optical study of muscovite breakdown in pelitic xenoliths during pyrometamorphism. Mineralogical Magazine 50. 385-397.

  • Brearley, A.J. and Champness, P.E. (1983) The high temperature reaction behaviour of biotite in pelitic xenoliths, Mull, Scotland. Proc. 41st. EMSA (Phoenix, Arizona) 187-8.