Dr Norman Charnley


University Research Associate

Email: norman@earth.ox.ac.uk
TEL: +44 (1865) 272053
FAX: +44 (1865) 272072
Homepage: http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~norman/


Research Profile

A member of the departmental research support staff, I am responsible for all aspects of running the department's electron microprobe and scanning electron microscope laboratories, providing imaging and analytical facilities for postgraduate students and academic staff. I also run the stable isotope laboratories, to measure isotopes of carbon and oxygen on carbonates, and hydrogen and oxygen on waters.

Selected Publications

  • Friend, C.R.L., Charnley, N.R., Clyne, H. & Dye, J., 2008, Experimentally produced glass compared with that occurring at The Torr, NW Scotland, UK: vitrification through biotite melting. Journal of Archaeological Science, v.35, pp.3130-3143.
  • Waters, D.J. and Charnley, N.R., 2002, Local equilibrium in polymetamorphic gneiss and the titanium substitution in biotite. American Mineralogist, v.87, pp.383-396.
  • Agrell, S.O., Charnley, N.R. and Chinner, G.A., 1998, Phosphoran olivine from Pine Canyon, Piute Co., Utah. Mineralogical Magazine, v.62, pp.265-269.
  • Charnley, N.R. and Potts, P.J., 1997, Transmission of X-rays from an extended X-ray source through parallel-bore glass capillary waveguides: implications for the design of a laboratory X-ray microprobe. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, v.12, pp. 761-767.
  • Pimentel, M.M. and Charnley, N.R., 1991, Intracrustal REE fractionation and implications for Sm-Nd model age calculations in late-stage granitic rocks - an example from central Brazil. Chemical Geology, v.86, pp.123-138.