Prof Andy Gleadow

Professor Gleadow has been a pioneer in the development of fission track dating methods for understanding the thermal and tectonic evolution of the continental crust, establishing Australia at the forefront of this field internationally. He has published widely on fission track and other thermochronological methods, especially as applied to extensional tectonics, the evolution of cratons and orogenic belts, sedimentary basin analysis, and landscape evolution.

He currently leads a major collaborative dating project aimed at establishing a robust time scale for the remarkable Indigenous rock art of the Kimberley Region of NW Australia. He has been Head of the Schools of Earth Sciences at both Melbourne and La Trobe Universities, and a Program Coordinator in both the Australian Geodynamics, and Predictive Mineral Discovery CRCs, amongst many other roles. His work has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Research Medal of the Royal Society of Victoria; the Stillwell and Selwyn Medals of the Geological Society of Australia, the Gold Medal of the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, the Centenary Medal of the Australian Government, the Jaeger Medal of the Australian Academy of Science and the Laslett Prize for Fission Track Thermochronology. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Geological Society of Australia and the American Geophysical Union, and Geochemical Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry. He is currently a Director of the Kimberley Foundation Australia and has previously served as President of the Geological Society of Australia and Councillor for the Australian Academy of Science. In 2017, he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the earth sciences and education.

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Andy Gleadow's highlights

FEATURED Journal article

The Fish Canyon Tuff: A new look at an old low-temperature thermochronology standard

Andy Gleadow's selected work

High Resolution Timeframe For Hominin Evolution In The Turkana Basin, Kenya

Research Grant

The hi-tech archaeological scientists

NEWS ARTICLE

Post Gondwana breakup evolution of the SE Australia rifted margin revisited

Journal article

Dating The Aboriginal Rock Art Sequence Of The Kimberley In Nw Australia

Research Grant

Is this the oldest rock art in the world?

NEWS ARTICLE

Etching of fission tracks in monazite: An experimental study

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 31 most recent projects by Andy Gleadow.

High Resolution Timeframe For Hominin Evolution In The Turkana Basin, Kenya

This project aims to establish a high-resolution timeframe for hominin evolution in the famed Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya. The Basin hosts a va..

2018 - 2021

Active

Dating The Aboriginal Rock Art Sequence Of The Kimberley In Nw Australia

This project aims to develop a robust time scale for the known aboriginal rock art sequence in the Kimberley, Western Australia (WA). The pr..

2018 - 2022

Active

Dating The Aboriginal Rock Art Sequence Of The Kimberley In Nw Australia

This project aims to develop a robust time scale for the known aboriginal rock art sequence in the Kimberley, Western Australia (WA). The pr..

2018 - 2022

Active

Kimberley Visions: Rock Art Style Provinces In Northern Australia

This project aims to examine the role that art has played in managing social and environmental change over the past 50 000 years. The projec..

2016 - 2021

Active

A New National Electron Microprobe Facility - Uom Contributions (Non-Lead Arc Lief)

Precise chemical microanalysis underpins research on Earth materials. The Electron Microprobe (EMP) is the main instrument to achieve this. ..

2015 - 2016

Completed

The South Australian Thermochronometry Hub (Sa Thermo) - Uom Cash Contribution For Lief 2015 Project

This project aims to set up a thermochronometry hub which will complement existing Australian geo- and thermochronological facilities by foc..

2015 - 2016

Completed

Dating The Aboriginal Rock Art Of The Kimberley Region, Wa - Landscape Geochemistry, Surface Processes And Complementary Dating Techniques

The age of much of the spectacular rock art of the Kimberley region of Western Australia remains unknown, especially in its earliest stages...

2014 - 2017

Completed

Dating The Aboriginal Rock Art Of The Kimberley Region, Wa - Landscape Geochemistry, Surface Processes And Complementary Dating Techniques

The age of much of the spectacular rock art of the Kimberley region of Western Australia remains unknown, especially in its earliest stages...

2014 - 2017

Completed

Simulation Analysis And Modelling Melbourne

2014 - 2019

Completed

Earth Composition And Evolution-Melbourne Thermochronology

2013 - 2023

Active

Geodynamics And Continental Extension In The East African Rift System - Origin And Evolution Of The Turkana Depression In Northern Kenya

The Lake Turkana region in northern Kenya, famous for its fossil evidence of human origins, occupies a critical position within the Great Ri..

2013 - 2017

Completed

Education Investment Fund (Eif) Auscope Participant Agreement - Australian Geophysical Observing System - Agos-Sob

2011 - 2017

Completed

Education Investment Fund (Eif) Auscope Participant Agreement - Australian Geophysical Observing System - Agos-Geo

2011 - 2014

Completed

The Dynamic Evolution Of Sheared Continental Margins

This project will contribute to the fundamental science of understanding plate tectonic processes, and also have important practical implica..

2010 - 2013

Completed

Long-Term System Evolution Of The Krishna-Godavari Basin And Its Hinterland In Eastern India: A Partnership For Enhancing Offshore Hydrocarbon Exploration Success

2009 - 2013

Completed

The Dynamic Evolution Of Rifted Continental Margins

2009 - 2009

Completed

Investigating The Structure And Evolution Of The Continental Crust: A Virtual Facility For Thermochronology, Noble Gas Geochemistry And Geochronology

Australian research groups have been responsible for a number of leading technical developments in geological dating. This project will cont..

2008 - 2008

Completed

Predictive Mineral Discovery Crc

Developing A Fully Automated Analytical System For The Next Generation Of Fission-Track Thermochronology

This project aims to develop a revolutionary new generation of research tools for analysing the temperature history of rocks in the upper se..

Atomic Force Microscopy Nanoscale Study Of Implanted Heavy Ions As A Proxy For Spontaneous U Fission Fragments

Completed

A New Generation Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer Facility For Advanced Research In The Earth, Planetary And Environment Sciences

The current proposal, to establish a new Noble Gas Analytical Consortium for noble gas chronological and geochemical analyses, will generate..

Earth Composition And Evolution Component Of The Auscope National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Facility

Assessing The Long-Term Post-Tectonic Evolution Of Continental Nuclei

Developing A Fully Automated Analytical System For The Next Generation Of Fission-Track Thermochronology

This project aims to develop a revolutionary new generation of research tools for analysing the temperature history of rocks in the upper se..

The Application Of Fission Track Analysis To Fundamental Problems In The Earth Sciences

From Crystal To Craton: Unravelling The Low-Temperature Thermal Evolution And Long-Term Stability Of Cratonic Lithosphere

The project will expand Australia's knowledge base by increasing fundamental scientific knowledge about the evolution of cratons, the old nu..

Integrated Chronologies & Dynamics Of Continental Extension

Knowledge about how the Earth's crust is stretched and eventually broken apart to form new ocean basins is fundamental to understanding the ..

Reconstructing The Morphotectonic Evolution Of Rifted Continental Margins From Low-Temperature Thermochronology

Knowledge of how continental rifting occurs will improve our ability to predict the locations of important oil and gas resources on the marg..

The Application Of Fission Track Analysis To Fundamental Problems In Earth Science

Quantifying The Phanerozoic Thermal Evolution And Long-Term Stability Of Cratonic Lithosphere Using Integrated Low Temperature Thermochronology

The Earth's most ancient crustal regions (i.e. cratons) are thought to have remained remarkably stable since their formation >2.5 billion..

The Application Of Fission Track Analysis To Fundamental Problems In Earth Science

Completed

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 186 most recent scholarly works by Andy Gleadow.

Post Gondwana breakup evolution of the SE Australia rifted margin revisited

Malcolm McMillan, Andrew Gleadow, Barry Kohn, Christian Seiler

Journal article | 2019 | Terra Nova

Etching of fission tracks in monazite: An experimental study

Sean Jones, Andy Gleadow, Barry Kohn, Steven M Reddy

Journal article | 2019 | Terra Nova

New developments in the radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests

Damien Finch, Andrew Gleadow, Janet Hergt, Vladimir A Levchenko, David Fink

Journal article | 2019 | Quaternary Geochronology

Tectonothermal Evolution of the Broadly Rifted Zone, Ethiopian Rift

SC Boone, M-L Balestrieri, BP Kohn, G Corti, AJW Gleadow, C Seiler

Journal article | 2019 | Tectonics

Long-term reactivation and morphotectonic history of the Zambezi Belt, northern Zimbabwe, revealed by multi-method thermochronometry

Vhairi Mackintosh, Barry Kohn, Andrew Gleadow, Kerry Gallagher

Journal article | 2019 | Tectonophysics

Tectono-thermal evolution of a long-lived segment of the East African Rift System: Thermochronological insights from the North Lokichar Basin, Turkana, Kenya

Samuel C Boone, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Christopher K Morley, Christian Seiler, David A Foster, Ling Chung

Journal article | 2018 | Tectonophysics

An apatite U-Pb thermal history map for the northern Gawler Craton, South Australia

James W Hall, Stijn Glorie, Anthony J Reid, Samuel C Boone, Alan S Collins, Andrew Gleadow

Journal article | 2018 | Geoscience Frontiers

Observations on three-dimensional measurement of confined fission track lengths in apatite using digital imagery

Qingyang Li, Andrew Gleadow, Christian Seiler, Barry Kohn, Pieter Vermeesch, Andrew Carter, Anthony Hurford

Journal article | 2018 | American Mineralogist

Eocene to Miocene Out-of-Sequence Deformation in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Shortening Structures in the Sichuan Basin

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Nansheng Qiu, Yusong Yuan, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow, Peizhen Zhang

Journal article | 2018 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Influence of Rift Superposition on Lithospheric Response to East African Rift System Extension: Lapur Range, Turkana, Kenya

Samuel C Boone, Christian Seiler, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, David A Foster, Ling Chung

Journal article | 2018 | Tectonics

Characterisation of mineral deposition systems associated with rock art in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia

Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Damien Finch

Journal article | 2017 | Data in Brief

Phanerozoic Morphotectonic Evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton: Unexpected Outcomes From a Multiple Low-Temperature Thermochronology Study

Vhairi Mackintosh, Barry Kohn, Andrew Gleadow, Yuntao Tian

Journal article | 2017 | Tectonics

Mineral deposition systems at rock art sites, Kimberley, Northern Australia - Field observations

Helen Green, Andrew Gleadow, Damien Finch, Janet Hergt, Sven Ouzman

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Composition and orientation dependent annealing of ion tracks in apatite - Implications for fission track thermochronology

A Nadzri, D Schauries, P Mota-Santiago, C Trautmann, AJW Gleadow, A Hawley, P Kluth

Journal article | 2017 | Chemical Geology

Late Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene deformation in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Pre-Cenozoic thickened crust?

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, David Phillips, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow, Andrew Carter

Journal article | 2016 | Tectonics

Composition dependent thermal annealing behaviour of ion tracks in apatite

A Nadzri, D Schauries, P Mota-Santiago, S Muradoglu, C Trautmann, AJW Gleadow, A Hawley, P Kluth

Journal article | 2016 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

An Upper Cretaceous paleo-aquifer system in the Eromanga Basin of the central Gawler Craton, South Australia: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology

SC Boone, C Seiler, AJ Reid, B Kohn, A Gleadow

Journal article | 2016 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Thermotectonic evolution of the western margin of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia: New insights from Ar-40/Ar-39 analysis of muscovite and biotite

S Lu, D Phillips, BP Kohn, AJW Gleadow, EL Matchan

Journal article | 2015 | Precambrian Research

The Fish Canyon Tuff: A new look at an old low-temperature thermochronology standard

Andrew Gleadow, Mark Harrison, Barry Kohn, Raul Lugo-Zazueta, David Phillips

Journal article | 2015 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Post break-up tectonic inversion across the southwestern cape of South Africa: New insights from apatite and zircon fission track thermochronometry

Mark Wildman, Roderick Brown, Ron Watkins, Andrew Carter, Andrew Gleadow, Michael Summerfield

Journal article | 2015 | Tectonophysics

Synchronous fluvial response to surface uplift in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for crustal dynamics

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2015 | Geophysical Research Letters

Fission track dating and thermochronology

AJW Gleadow, C Seiler

Book Chapter | 2015

Intracontinental deformation in southern Africa during the Late Cretaceous

Roderick Brown, Michael Summerfield, Andrew Gleadow, Kerry Gallagher, Andrew Carter, Romain Beucher, Mark Wildman

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of African Earth Sciences

Postorogenic rigid behavior of the eastern Songpan-Ganze terrane: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology and implications for intracontinental deformation in central Asia

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2014 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

The zircon 'matrix effect': evidence for an ablation rate control on the accuracy of U-Pb age determinations by LA-ICP-MS

E Marillo-Sialer, J Woodhead, J Hergt, A Greig, M Guillong, A Gleadow, N Evans, C Paton

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

A thermochronological perspective on the morphotectonic evolution of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Shengbiao Hu

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth

Denudation history of Eastern Indian peninsula from apatite fission track analysis: Linking possible plume-related uplift and the sedimentary record

Himansu S Sahu, Matthias J Raab, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Devender Kumar

Journal article | 2013 | Tectonophysics

Thermal history of the Krishna-Godavari basin, India: Constraints from apatite fission track thermochronology and organic maturity data

Himansu S Sahu, Matthias J Raab, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Kiron D Bal

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Peneplain formation in southern Tibet predates the India-Asia collision and plateau uplift Comment

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Shengbiao Hu

Journal article | 2013 | Geology

Stratigraphy and Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronology of the Santa Rosa basin, Baja California: Dynamic evolution of a constrictional rift basin during oblique extension in the Gulf of California

C Seiler, MC Quigley, JM Fletcher, D Phillips, AJW Gleadow, BP Kohn

Journal article | 2013 | Basin Research

Constructing the Longmen Shan eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Shengbiao Hu

Journal article | 2013 | Tectonics

Scanning force microscopy of (129)Iodine surface impact structures in muscovite, zircon and apatite as proxies for damage of simulated fission fragments in solids

F Kohlmann, BP Kohn, AJW Gleadow, R Siegele

Journal article | 2013 | Radiation Measurements

Detrital zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry of the Mesozoic Daba Shan Foreland Basin, central China: Evidence for timing of post-orogenic denudation

Yuntao Tian, Nansheng Qiu, Barry P Kohn, Chuanqing Zhu, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow, Brent IA McInnes

Journal article | 2012 | Tectonophysics

Thermal annealing of unetched fission tracks in apatite

Weixing Li, Maik Lang, Andrew JW Gleadow, Maxim V Zdorovets, Rodney C Ewing

Journal article | 2012 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Post-orogenic evolution of the Mesozoic Micang Shan Foreland Basin system, central China

Yuntao Tian, Barry P Kohn, Chuanqing Zhu, Ming Xu, Shengbiao Hu, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2012 | Basin Research

Low-temperature thermochronology of northern Baja California, Mexico: Decoupled slip-exhumation gradients and delayed onset of oblique rifting across the Gulf of California

Christian Seiler, John M Fletcher, Barry P Kohn, Andrew JW Gleadow, Asaf Raza

Journal article | 2011 | Tectonics

Cenozoic denudation history of southern Hainan Island, South China Sea: Constraints from low temperature thermochronology

Xiaobin Shi, Barry Kohn, Steven Spencer, Xingwei Guo, Yamin Li, Xiaoqiu Yang, Hongcai Shi, Andrew Gleadow

Journal article | 2011 | Tectonophysics

Neogene structural evolution of the Sierra San Felipe, Baja California: Evidence for proto-gulf transtension in the Gulf Extensional Province?

Christian Seiler, John M Fletcher, Mark C Quigley, Andrew JW Gleadow, Barry P Kohn

Journal article | 2010 | Tectonophysics

Thermal evolution of a sheared continental margin: Insights from the Ballenas transform in Baja California, Mexico

Christian Seiler, Andrew JW Gleadow, John M Fletcher, Barry P Kohn

Journal article | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology of rapidly cooled samples: The effect of He implantation

Cornelia Spiegel, Barry Kohn, David Belton, Zsolt Berner, Andrew Gleadow

Journal article | 2009 | Earth and Planetary Science Letters

A new approach to crystallographic orientation measurement for apatite fission track analysis: Effects of crystal morphology and implications for automation

Mark Peternell, Fabian Kohlmann, Christopher JL Wilson, Christian Seiler, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2009 | Chemical Geology

Automated analytical techniques for fission track thermochronology

AJW Gleadow, SJ Gleadow, S Frei, F Kohlmann, BP Kohn

Conference Proceedings | 2009 | Abstracts 19th Annual Goldschmidt Conference, Switzerland

Constraints on the current rate of deformation and surface uplift of the Australian continent from a new seismic database and low-T thermochronological data

J Braun, DR Burbidge, FN Gesto, M Sandiford, AJW Gleadow, BP Kohn, PR Cummins

Journal article | 2009 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

A reappraisal of low-temperature thermochronology of the eastern Fennoscandia Shield and radiation-enhanced apatite fission-track annealing

B KOHN, M LORENCAK, A GLEADOW, F KOHLMANN, A RAZA, KG Osadetz, P Sorjonen-Ward

Book Chapter | 2009

Use of low temperature thermochronology for landscape evolution studies in cratons. Rechecking the rules.

B KOHN, A GLEADOW, SA FREI, F KOHLMANN

Conference Proceedings | 2009 | Abstracts, 7th International Geomorphology 6-11 July Conference,

A reappraisal of low-temperature thermochronology of the eastern Fennoscandia Shield and radiation-enhanced apatite fission-track annealing

Barry P Kohn, Matevz Lorencak, Andrew JW Gleadow, Fabian Kohlmann, Asaf Raza, Kirk G Osadetz, Peter Sorjonen-Ward

Journal article | 2009 | Geological Society, London, Special Publications

Coincidence mapping - a key strategy for the automatic counting of fission tracks in natural minerals

Andrew JW Gleadow, Stewart J Gleadow, David X Belton, Barry P Kohn, Michael S Krochmal, Roderick W Brown

Book Chapter | 2009 | Geological Society Special Publication

Development of geochronology in Victoria

AJW Gleadow, JF Lovering

Journal article | 2008 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Geochronology in Australia

JR De Laeter, AJW Gleadow, I McDougall

Journal article | 2008 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Geochronology in Australia

JR De Laeter, AJW Gleadow, I McDougall

Journal article | 2008 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Development of geochronology in Victoria

AJW Gleadow, JF Lovering

Journal article | 2008 | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

The effect of long-term low-temperature exposure on apatite fission track stability: A natural annealing experiment in the deep ocean

Cornelia Spiegel, Barry Kohn, Asaf Raza, Thomas Rainer, Andrew Gleadow

Journal article | 2007 | Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Low temperature thermochronology Phanerozoic kimberlites and Archaean basement, Slave Province, Canada

F Kohlmann, BP Kohn, AJW Gleadow, KG Osadetz

Conference Proceedings | 2007 | GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Automated fission track dating of apatite and monazite by image analysis and ICP-MS

AJW Gleadow, SJ Gleadow, BP Kohn, MS Krochmal

Conference Proceedings | 2007 | GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Morphotectonic evolution of the central Kenya rift flanks: Implications for late Cenozoic environmental change in East Africa

Cornelia Spiegel, Barry P Kohn, David X Belton, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2007 | Geology

Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic evolution along a transect from the north China craton through the Qinling orogen into the Yangtze craton, central China

Shengbiao Hu, Asaf Raza, Kyoungwon Min, Barry P Kohn, Peter W Reiners, Richard A Ketcham, Jiyang Wang, Andrew JW Gleadow

Journal article | 2006 | Tectonics

The effect of long-term low-temperature exposure on fission track stability and helium diffusion in apatite

C Spiegel, B Kohn, R Donelick, D Belton, A Raza, A Gleadow

Conference Proceedings | 2006 | GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA