2023 Awarded Prestwich Medal: Geological Society

2023 Board of Directors (SAERI Falklands Limited)

2020 Science Advisory Committee: South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute

2018 Trustee: South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute

2017 President of British Science Association (Geology)

2016-2018 External examiner (Part II) University of Cambridge

2015 Deputy science leader: Geology & Geophysics

2011 Promoted to Band 4 scientist

2010 Awarded Polar Medal

2005-2015 Geologist, Head of Long Term Survey and Mapping department, Geological Science, British Antarctic Survey

2000-2005 Geochemist, MAMOG project, Geological Sciences, British Antarctic Survey

2004 Awarded Laws Prize, British Antarctic Survey

2000 Promoted to Senior Scientific Officer

1997-2000 Higher Scientific Officer, British Antarctic Survey

1995-1997 Contract geochemist, British Antarctic Survey

1991-1995 Ph.D. Geochemistry, University of Bristol

1988-1991 B.Sc. (Hons) Geology, University of Leicester

Thirty years experience in petrology and geochemistry of many aspects of continental and oceanic volcanism. Over 30 years experience in Antarctic geology, including sixteen Antarctic field seasons and two marine geology/geophysics cruises. Recent research has investigated the origins of silicic volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonian South America, geochronology and geochemistry of Gondwana break-up magmatism, and volcanism of the South Sandwich intra-oceanic island arc. Previous experience includes the petrogenesis of Recent alkaline and carbonatite volcanism of Germany. Over 120 publications since 1997 in refereed journals.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

• Twinn, G., Riley, T.R. & Carter, A. (in press). Origins of Antarctic Peninsula topography: constraints from low-temperature apatite thermochronometry. Tectonics.
• Archibald, E., Marschalek, J., Muxworthy, A., Riley, T.R., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Jordan, T.A., Vermeesch, P., Flowerdew, M.J., Siegert, M., Hodgson, D.A. & van de Flierdt, T. (2026). Geochemical characterisation of the Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains crustal block: a critical piece in the puzzle to unravel ice retreat in West Antarctica. Chemical Geology, 76, 123290. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2026.123290
• Riley, T.R. & Carter, A. (2026). Age of granitoid magmatism in South Georgia and correlations to the Cordillera Darwin and northern Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 105882, 10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105882
• Riley, T.R., Carter, A., Flowerdew, M.J., Millar, I.L & Whitehouse, M.J. (2026). South Georgia in a West Gondwana context: detrital zircon geochronology of a late Permian accretionary complex. Andean Geology, 53 (2). 10.5027/andgeoV53n2-3845
• Monteath, A.J., Young, E.F., Dawson, H., Jensen, B., Smellie, J.L., Manning, C.J., Riley, T.R., Jordan, T.A, & Roberts, S.J. (2025). Major-minor-trace element analyses and oceanographic modelling confirms circumpolar transport of the 1962 Protector Shoal pumice raft. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2025JC022827. 10.1029/2025JC022827
• Riley, T.R., Curtis, M.L., Crame, J.A., Cantrill, D.J. & Macdonald, D.I.M. (2025). Geological map of Alexander Island (1:500 000 scale). Antarctic Science. 10.1017/S0954102025100321
• Jordan, T.A., Johnson, J.S., Riley, T.R., Conrad, E. & Carter, A. (2025). Subglacial geology and palaeo flow of Pine Island Glacier from combining glacial erratics with geophysics. Nature Communications Earth and Environment, 6, 826. 10.1038/s43247-025-02783-3
• North, R., White, L.T., Riley, T.R., Tanner, D. & Barrows, T.T. (2025). Age and geology of granitoids in northeast Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula. Lithos. 10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108188
• Jordan, T.A., Lowe, M., & Riley, T.R. (2025). New insights into western Antarctic Peninsula magmatism from joint inversion of UAV magnetic and gravity data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030909. 10.1029/2024JB030909
• Riley, Teal R., Carter, Andrew, Hunter, Morag. A., Millar, Ian L., Flowerdew, Michael J., Curtis, Michael L. & Hodgson, Dominic A. (2025). Provenance and correlation of Permian successions from the Falkland/Malvinas Islands with West Gondwana: implications for a Natal Embayment palaeo-location. Journal of the Geological Society. 10.1144/jgs2024-282
• Riley, T.R., Curtis, M.L., Crame, J.A., Cantrill, D.J. & Macdonald, D.I.M. (2025). Geological map of Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula (1:500 000 scale). BAS GEOMAP 2 Series, sheet 8, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.
• Eren, M.I., Lycett, S.J., Bebber, M.R., Key, A., Buchanan, B., Benson, J., Gürbüz, R.B., Cebeiro, A., Finestone, E., Garba, R., Grunow, A., Lovejoy, C.O., MacDonald, D., Maletic, E., Miller, G.L.,Ortiz, J.D., Paige, J., Pargeter, J., Profitt, T., Raghanti, M.A., Riley, T., Rose, J.I., Singer, D.M. & Walker, R.S. (2025). What can lithics tell us about hominin technology’s ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of mother nature. Archaeometry. 10.1111/arcm.13075
• Johnson, J.S., Nichols, K.A., Riley, T.R., Venturelli, R.A., Hodgson, D.A., Balco, G., Hall, B., Smith, J.A. & Woodward, J. (2025). Glacial geology of the Hudson Mountains, Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 350, 17pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109027
• Jordan, T.A. & Riley, T.R. (2024). Reinvestigating the Dufek Intrusion, through joint gravity and magnetic models. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107268
• Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Green, C., Lösing, M., Riley, T. & Larter, R. (2024). The 3D crustal structure of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, using variation of information joint inversion of gravity and magnetic data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, e2023JB027794. 10.1029/2023JB027794
• Gibson, S.A., Crosby, J., Day, J.A.F., Stuart, F.M., DiNicola, L., & Riley, T.R. (2024). Systematic behaviour of ³He/⁴He in Earth’s continental mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 384, 44-64. 10.1016/j.gca.2024.09.009
• Riley, Teal R., Flowerdew, Michael J., Carter, Andrew, Curtis, Michael L., Millar, Ian L., Crame, J. Alistair & Whitehouse, Martin J. (2024). Tracking the tempo of a continental margin arc: Insights from a fore-arc succession in West Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 19 pp. 10.1130/B37558.1
• Bastias-Silva, J., Burton-Johnson, A., Chew, D., Riley, T., Jara, W. & Chiaradia, M. (2024). A temporal control on the isotopic compositions of the Antarctic Peninsula arc. Communications Earth & Environment, 5. 11 pp. 10.1038/s43247-024-01301-1
• Anderson, D.W., Saal, A.E., Mallick, S., Wang, J., Riley, T.R., Keller, R.A. & Haase, K.M. (2024). Source variations in volatile contents of Bransfield Strait back-arc and Phoenix/West Scotia mid-ocean ridge lavas, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Chemical Geology, 646. 18 pp. 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121839
• Riley, Teal R., Burton-Johnson, Alex, Hogan, Kelly A., Carter, Andrew & Leat, Philip T. (2023). Cretaceous – Paleogene tectonic reconstructions of the South Scotia Ridge and implications for the initiation of subduction in the Scotia Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, 180. 10 pp. 10.1144/jgs2023-013
• Eren, Metin I., Bebber, Michelle R., Buchanan, Briggs, Grunow, Anne, Key, Alastair, Lycett, Stephen J., Maletic, Eric & Riley, Teal. (2023). Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites. Antiquity, 97. 11 pp. 10.15184/aqy.2023.4
• Flowerdew, Michael J., Fleming, Edward J., Chew, David M., Morton, Andrew C., Frei, Dirk, Benedictus, Aukje, Omma, Jenny, Riley, Teal. R., Badenszki, Eszter & Whitehouse, Martin J. (2023). The Importance of Eurekan Mountains on Cenozoic Sediment Routing on the Western Barents Shelf. Geosciences, 13. 25 pp. 10.3390/geosciences13030091
• Anderson, D.W., Saal, A.E., Lee, J.I., Mallick, S.M., Riley, T.R., Keller, R.A. & Haase, K.M. (2023). Tracing mantle components and the effect of subduction processes beneath the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 343. 16 pp. 10.1016/j.gca.2022.11.018
• Riley, Teal R., Millar, Ian L., Carter, Andrew, Flowerdew, Michael J., Burton-Johnson, Alex, Bastias, Joaquin, Storey, Craig D., Castillo, Paula, Chew, David & Whitehouse, Martin J. (2023). Evolution of an accretionary complex (LeMay Group) and terrane translation in the Antarctic Peninsula. Tectonics, 42. 10.1029/2022TC007578
• Bastías, Joaquín, Chew, David, Villanueva, Camila, Riley, Teal, Manfroi, Joseline, Trevisan, Cristine, Leppe, Marcelo, Castillo, Paula, Poblete, Fernando, Tetzner, Dieter Giuliani, Gregory, López, Bastián, Chen, Hong, Zheng, Guang-Gao, Zhao, Yue, Rauch, Anna & Jaña, Ricardo A. (2023). The South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: unified lithostratigraphy and geological map. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10. 24 pp. 10.3389/feart.2022.1002760
• Bastias, Joaquin, Spikings, Richard, Riley, Teal, Chew, David, Grunow, Anne, Ulianov, Alexey, Chiaradia, Massimo & Burton-Johnson, Alex. (2023). Cretaceous magmatism in the Antarctic Peninsula and its tectonic implications. Journal of the Geological Society, 180. 18 pp. 10.1144/jgs2022-067
• Riley, Teal R., Burton-Johnson, Alex, Flowerdew, Michael J., Poblete, Fernando, Castillo, Paula, Hervé, Francisco, Leat, Philip T., Millar, Ian L., Bastias, Joaquin & Whitehouse, Martin J. (2023). Palaeozoic – Early Mesozoic geological history of the Antarctic Peninsula and correlations with Patagonia: Kinematic reconstructions of the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana. Earth-Science Reviews, 236. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104265
• Burton-Johnson, A., Riley, T.R., Harrison, R.J., Mac Niocaill, C., Muraszko, J.R. & Rowley, P.D. (2022). Does tectonic deformation control episodic continental arc magmatism? Evidence from granitic magnetic fabrics (AMS). Gondwana Research, 112. 23 pp. 10.1016/j.gr.2022.09.006
• Riley, Teal R., Carter, Andrew, Burton-Johnson, Alex, Leat, Philip T., Hogan, Kelly A. & Bown, Paul R. (2022). Crustal block origins of the South Scotia Ridge. Terra Nova, 34. 8 pp. 10.1111/ter.12613
• Hodgson, Dominic A., Jordan, Tom A., Ross, Neil, Riley, Teal R. & Fretwell, Peter. (2022). Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network. The Cryosphere, 16. 13 pp. 10.5194/tc-16-4797-2022
• Twinn, G., Riley, T., Fox, M. & Carter, A. (2022). Thermal history of the southern Antarctic Peninsula during Cenozoic oblique subduction. Journal of the Geological Society, 179. 11 pp. 10.1144/jgs2022-008
• Gao, L., Pei, J., Zhao, Y., Yang, Z., Riley, T.R., Liu, X., Zhang, S.H. & Liu, J.M. (2021). New Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Cretaceous Tectonic Framework of the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 10.1029/2021JB022503
• Riley, T.R., Burton-Johnson, A, Leat, P.T., Hogan, K.A. & Halton, A.R. (2021). Geochronology and geochemistry of the South Scotia Ridge: Miocene island arc volcanism of the Scotia Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 205, 103615. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103615.
• Bastias, J., Spikings, R.A., Riley, T.R., Ulianov, A., Grunow, A., Chiaradia, M. & Hervé, F. (2021). Data on the arc magmatism developed in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia during the Late Triassic – Jurassic: a compilation of new and previous geochronology, geochemistry and isotopic tracing results. Data in Brief. 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107042
• Bastias, J., Spikings, R.A., Riley, T.R., Ulianov, A., Grunow, A., Chiaradia, M. & Hervé, F. (2021). A revised interpretation of the Chon Aike magmatic province: Active margin origin and implications for the opening of the Weddell Sea. Lithos, 386-387. 14 pp. 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106013
• 74. Riley, T.R. & Leat, P.T. (2021). Chapter 2.2a: Palmer Land and Graham Land volcanic groups (Antarctic Peninsula): In: Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up (eds. Smellie, J.L., Panter, K.S. & Geyer, A.). Geological Society of London Memoir 55.
• 73. Riley, T.R. & Leat, P.T. (2021). Chapter 2.2b: Palmer Land and Graham Land volcanic groups (Antarctic Peninsula): Petrology. In: Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up (eds. Smellie, J.L., Panter, K.S. & Geyer, A.). Geological Society of London Memoir 55.
• Leat, P.T. & Riley, T.R. (2021). Chapter 3.1a: Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands: Volcanology. In: Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up (eds. Smellie, J.L., Panter, K.S. & Geyer, A.). Geological Society of London Memoir 55.
• 71. Leat, P.T. & Riley, T.R. (2021). Chapter 3.1b: Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands: In: Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-Up (eds. Smellie, J.L., Panter, K.S. & Geyer, A.). Geological Society of London Memoir 55.
• Castillo, P., Fanning, C.M. & Riley, T.R. (2020) Zircon O and Hf isotope constraints on the genesis of Permian–Triassic magmatic and metamorphic rocks in the Antarctic Peninsula and correlations with Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 104. 10 pp. 10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102848
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Millar, I.L. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2020) Triassic magmatism and metamorphism in the Antarctic Peninsula: identifying the extent and timing of the Gondwanide Orogeny. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 103. 19 pp. 10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102732
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Burton-Johnson, A., Leat, P.T., Millar, I.L. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2020) Cretaceous arc volcanism of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula: Zircon U-Pb geochronology. geochemistry, distribution and field relationships. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 401. 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106969
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Pankhurst, R.J., Millar, I.L. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2020). Late Mesoproterozoic magmatism and metamorphism of Haag Nunataks, Coats Land and Shackleton Range (Antarctica); new U-Pb zircon geochronology constraining the extent of juvenile arc terranes. Precambrian Research, 340, 105646. doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105646
• 66. Jordan, T.A., Riley, T.R. & Siddoway, C.S. (2020). Anatomy and evolution of a complex continental margin: Geologic history of West Antarctica. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 1, 117-133. doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0013-6.
• Riley, T.R., Jordan T. A., Leat, P.T., Curtis, M.L. & Millar, I.L. (2020). Magmatism of the Weddell Sea rift system in Antarctica: Implications for the age and mechanism of rifting and early stage Gondwana breakup. Gondwana Research, 79, 185-196. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2019.09.014
• Bastias, J., Spikings, R.A., Ulianov, A., Riley, T.R., Burton-Johnson, A., Chiaradia, M. & Hervé, F. (2020). The Gondwanan margin in West Antarctica: insights from Late Triassic magmatism of the Antarctic Peninsula. Gondwana Research, 81, 1-20. 10.1016/j.gr.2019.10.01871
• Riley, T.R., Carter, A., Leat, P.T., Burton-Johnson, A., Bastias, J., Spikings, R.A., Tate, A.J., & Bristow, C.S. (2019). Geochronology and geochemistry of the northern Scotia Sea: a revised interpretation of the North and West Scotia ridge junction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 518, 136-147.
• Bohoyo, F., Larter, R.D., Galindo-Zaldívar, J., Leat, P.T., Maldonado, A., Tate, A.J., Gowland, E.J.M., Arndt, J.E., Dorschel, B., Kim, Y.D., Hong J.K., Flexas M.M., López-Martínez, J., Maestro, A., Bermudez, O., Nitsche, F.O., Livermore, R. A., Riley, T.R. (2019). Morphological and geological features of Drake Passage, Antarctica, from a new digital bathymetric model. Journal of Maps. doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1543618.
• Liu, H., Xu, Y., Zhong, Y., Luo, Z., Mundil, R., Riley, T.R., Zhang, L. & Xie, W. (2019). Crustal melting above a mantle plume: Insights from the Permian Tarim large igneous province, NW China. Lithos, 326-327, 370-383.
• Leat, P.T., Jordan T. A., Flowerdew, M. J., Riley, T.R., Ferraccioli, F. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2018). Jurassic High Heat Production granites associated with the Weddell rift system, Antarctica. Tectonophysics, 722, 249-264.
• Riley, T.R., Burton-Johnson, A., Flowerdew, M.J. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2018). Episodicity within a mid-Cretaceous magmatic flare-up in West Antarctica: U-Pb ages of the Lassiter Coast intrusive suite, Antarctic Peninsula and correlations along the Gondwana margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi.org/10.1130/B31800.1.
• Carter. A., Riley, T.R., Hillenbrand, C.-D. & Rittner, M. (2017). Evidence for an extensive Antarctic ice sheet during the Late Eocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, 49-57.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Pankhurst, R.J., Curtis, M.L., Millar, I.L., Fanning, C.M. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2017). Early Jurassic subduction-related magmatism on the Antarctic Peninsula and potential correlation with the Subcordilleran plutonic belt of Patagonia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 174, 365-376.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Pankhurst, R.J., Millar, I.L., Leat, P.T., Fanning, C.M. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2017). A revised geochronology of Thurston Island, West Antarctica and correlations along the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana. Antarctic Science, 29, 47-60.
• Bohoyo, F., Larter, R.D., Galindo-Zaldívar, J., Leat, P.T., Maldonado, A., Tate, A.J., Gowland, E.J.M., Arndt, J.E., Dorschel, B., Kim, Y.D., Hong J.K., Flexas M.M., López-Martínez, J., Maestro, A., Bermudez, O., Nitsche, F.O., Livermore, R. A., Riley, T.R. (2016). Bathymetry and Geological Setting of the Drake Passage (1:1 500 000). BAS GEOMAP 2 series, Sheet 7, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.
• Black, M. Riley, T.R., Ferrier, G., Fleming, A.H. & Fretwell, P.T. (2016). Automated lithological mapping using airborne hyperspectral thermal infrared data: a case study from Anchorage Island, Antarctica. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 176, 225-241.
• Neave, D.A., Black, M., Riley, T.R., Gibson, S.A., Ferrier, G., Wall, F. & Broom-Fendley, S. (2016). On the feasibility of imaging carbonatite-hosted rare earth element (REE) deposits using remote sensing. Economic Geology, 111, 641-665. doi:10.2113/econgeo.111.3.641
• Riley, T.R., Curtis, M.L., Flowerdew, M.J. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2016). Evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula lithosphere: evidence from Mesozoic mafic rocks. Lithos, 244, 59-73.
• Heinonen, J.S., Jennings, E.S. & Riley, T.R. (2015). Crystallisation temperatures of the most Mg-rich magmas of the Karoo LIP on the basis of Al-in-olivine thermometer. Chemical Geology, 411, 26-35.
• Burton-Johnson, A. & Riley, T.R. (2015). Autochthonous vs. accreted terrane development of continental margins: a revised in situ tectonic history of the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 172, 822-835.
• Jordan, T.A., Neale, R.F., P.T. Leat, Vaughan, A.P.M., Flowerdew, M.J., Riley, T.R., Whitehouse, M.J. & Ferraccioli, F. (2014). Structure and evolution of Cenozoic arc magmatism on the Antarctic Peninsula; a high resolution aeromagnetic perspective. Geophysical Journal International, 198, 1758-1774.
• Black, M., Fleming, A., Riley, T.R., Ferrier, G. Fretwell, P., McFee, J., Achal, S. & Umana Diaz, A. (2014). On the atmospheric correction of Antarctic airborne hyperspectral data. Remote Sensing, 6, 4498-4514.
• Riley, T.R. & Millar, I.L. (2014). Geochemistry of the 1100 Ma intrusives from the Ahlmannryggen region, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 26, 389-399.
• Heinonen, J.S., Carlson, R.W., Riley, T.R. & Luttinen, A.V. (2014). Subduction-modified oceanic crust mixed with a depleted mantle reservoir in the sources of the Karoo continental flood basalt province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 394, 229-241.
• Heinonen, J.S., Luttinen, A.V., Riley, T.R. & Michallik, R. (2013). Mixed pyroxenite–peridotite sources for mafic and ultramafic dikes from the Antarctic segment of the Karoo continental flood basalt. Lithos, 177, 366-380.
• Storey, B.C., Vaughan, A.P.M. & Riley, T.R. (2013). The links between large igneous provinces, continental break-up and environmental change: evidence reviewed from Antarctica. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, 104, 17-30.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2012). U-Pb zircon chronology of basement inliers of eastern Graham Land, Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 169, 381-393.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2012). Litho- and chronostratigraphy of a fore- to intra-arc basin: Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Geological Magazine, 149, 768-782.
• Flowerdew, M.J., Tyrell, S., Riley, T.R., Whitehouse, M.J., Mulvaney, R.W., Leat, P.T. & Marschall, H.R. (2012). Distinguishing East and West Antarctic sediment sources using the Pb isotope composition of detrital K feldspar. Chemical Geology, 292-293, 88-102.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J. & Haselwimmer, C.E. (2011). Geological Map of Eastern Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. BAS GEOMAP2 series, number 1, edition 1. 1: 625 000 scale.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J. & Haselwimmer, C.E. (2011). Geological Map of Adelaide Island, SW Graham Land. BAS GEOMAP2 series, number 2, edition 1. 1: 200 000 scale.
• Flowerdew, M.J., Riley, T.R. & Haselwimmer, C.E. (2011). Geological Map of the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. BAS GEOMAP2 series, number 3, edition 1. 1: 150 000 scale.
• Curtis, M.L., Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J. & Tate, A.J. (2011). The application and benefits of digital geological mapping in Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 23, 387-388.
• Haselwimmer, C.E., Riley, T.R. & Liu, J.G. (2011). Lithologic mapping in the Oscar II Coast area, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula using ASTER data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32, 2013-2035.
• Curtis, M.L., Flowerdew, M.J., Riley, T.R. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2010). Andean sinistral transpression and kinematic partitioning in South Georgia. Journal of Structural Geology. 32, 464-477.
• Haselwimmer, C.E., Riley, T.R. & Liu, J.G. (2010). Assessing the potential of multispectral remote sensing for lithologic mapping on the Antarctic Peninsula: case study from eastern Adelaide Island, Graham Land. Antarctic Science, 22 (3), 299-318.
• Riley, T.R., Flowerdew, M.J., Hunter, M.A. & Whitehouse, M.J. (2010). Middle Jurassic rhyolite volcanism of eastern Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula: age correlations and stratigraphic relationships. Geological Magazine, 147 (4), 581-595.
• Haselwimmer, C.E & Riley, T.R. (2009). Mapping from on High. Planet Earth.
• Leat, P.T., Flowerdew, M.J., Riley, T.R., Whitehouse, M.J., Scarrow, J.H. & Millar, I.L. (2009). Zircon U-Pb dating of Mesozoic volcanic and tectonic events in Northwest Palmer Land and Southeast Graham Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 21, 633-641.
• Riley, T.R., Curtis, M.L., Leat, P.T. & Millar, I.L. (2009). The geochemistry of Middle Jurassic dykes associated with the Straumsvola – Tvora alkaline plutons, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica and their association with the Karoo large igneous province. Mineralogical Magazine, 73, 223-244.
• Curtis, M.L., Riley, T.R., Owens, W.H., Leat, P.T. & Duncan, R.A. (2008). The form, distribution and anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of Jurassic dykes in H.U. Sverdupfjella, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Implications for dyke swarm emplacement. Journal of Structural Geology, 30, 1429-1447.
• Flowerdew, M.J., Daly, J.S. & Riley, T.R. (2007). New Rb-Sr mineral ages temporally link plume events with accretion at the margin of Gondwana. In Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES (eds A. K. Cooper & C. R. Raymond). USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 012, 4 pp. 10.3133/of2007-1047.srp012
• Leat, P.T., Curtis, M.L., Riley, T.R. & Ferraccioli, F. (2007). Jurassic magmatism in Dronning Maud Land; results of the MAMOG project, in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10^th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al. USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 033, 4 p. 10.3133/of2007-1047.srp033
• Hunter, M.A., Riley, T.R., Cantrill, D.J., Flowerdew, M.J. & Millar, I.L. (2006). A new stratigraphy for the Latady Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: Part 1, Ellsworth Land volcanic group. Geological Magazine, 143, 777-796.
• Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T. & Curtis, M.L. (2006). Karoo large igneous province: Brevity, origin, and relation to mass extinction questioned by new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age data. Geology, 10.1130/G22380C.1.
• Riley, T.R., Curtis, M.L, Leat, P.T., Watkeys, M.K., Duncan, R.A., Millar, I.L & Owens, W.H. (2006). Overlap of Karoo and Ferrar magma types in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. Journal of Petrology, 47, 541-566.
• Riley, T.R. (2005). Supervolcanoes. Planet Earth, Summer 2005, 8-9.
• Leat, P.T., Dean, A.A., Millar, I.L., Kelley, S.P., Vaughan, A.P.M. & Riley, T.R. (2005). Lithospheric mantle domains beneath Antarctica. In: Vaughan, A.P.M., Leat, P.T. & Pankhurst, R.J. (eds) Terrane processes at the margins of Gondwana. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 246, 359-380.
• Ferraccioli, F., Jones, P., Curtis, M.L., Leat, P.T. & Riley, T.R. (2005). Tectonic and magmatic patterns in the Jutulstraumen rift region, East Antarctica, as imaged from high resolution aeromagnetic data. Earth Planets and Space, 57, 767-780.
• Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T., Curtis, M.L., Millar, I.L. & Fazel, A. (2005). Early-Middle Jurassic Dolerite Dykes from Western Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica): Identifying Mantle Sources in the Karoo Large Igneous Province. Journal of Petrology, 46, 1489-1524.
• Hunter, M.A., Riley, T.R. & Millar, I.L. (2004). Air fall marker horizon in the sedimentary Latady Formation, eastern Ellsworth Land. Antarctic Science, 16, 185-190.
• Riley, T.R., Millar, I.L., Watkeys, M.K., Curtis, M.L., Leat, P.T., Klausen, M.B. & Fanning, C.M. (2004). U-Pb zircon (SHRIMP) ages for the Lebombo rhyolites, South Africa: refining the duration of Karoo volcanism. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 542-545.
• Curtis, M.L. & Riley, T.R. (2003). Mobilization of fluidized sediment during sill emplacement, western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 15, 393-398.
• Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T., Kelley, S.P., Millar, I.L & Thirlwall, M.F. (2003). Thinning of the Antarctic Peninsula lithosphere through the Mesozoic: evidence from Middle Jurassic basaltic lavas. Lithos, 67, 163-179.
• Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T., Storey, B.C., Parkinson, I.J. & Millar, I.L. (2003). Ultramafic lamprophyres of the Ferrar large igneous province: evidence for a HIMU mantle component. Lithos, 66, 63-76.
• Riley, T.R. & Bailey, D.K. (2003). Barium-rich sanidine megacrysts from the West Eifel (Germany). Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie Monatshefte, 2003 (1), 18-30.
• Bryan, S.E., Riley, T.R., Jerram, D.A. Stephens, C.J. & Leat, P.T. (2002). Silicic volcanism: an under-valued component of large igneous provinces/volcanic rifted margins. In: Menzies, M.A., Klemperer, S.L., Ebinger, C.J. & Baker, J.A., (eds.) Volcanic Rifted Margins, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 363, p. 97-118.
• Leat, P.T., Riley, T.R., Wareham, C.D., Millar, I.L., Kelley, S.P. & Storey, B.C. (2002). Tectonic setting of primitive magmas in volcanic arcs: an example from the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 31-44.
• Riley, T.R. & Knight, K.B. (2001). Age of pre-breakup Gondwana magmatism: a review. Antarctic Science, 13, 99-110.
• Wareham, C.D., Stump, E., Storey, B.C., Millar, I.L. & Riley, T.R. (2001). Petrogenesis of the Cambrian Liv Group, a bimodal volcanic rock suite from the Ross orogen, Transantarctic Mountains. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 113, 360-372.
• Riley, T.R., Leat, P.T., Pankhurst, R.J. & Harris, C. (2001). Origins of large volume silicic volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia by crustal melting. Journal of Petrology, 42, 1043-1065.
• Leat, P.T., Riley, T.R., Storey, B.C., Millar, I.L. & Kelley, S.P. (2000). Middle Jurassic ultramafic lamprophyre dyke within the Ferrar magmatic province, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. Mineralogical Magazine, 64, 95-111.
• Pankhurst, R.J., Riley, T.R., Fanning, C.M. & Kelley, S.P. (2000). Episodic silicic volcanism along the proto-Pacific margin of Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula: plume and subduction influences associated with the break-up of Gondwana. Journal of Petrology, 41, 605-625.
• Curtis, M.L., Leat, P.T., Riley, T.R., Storey, B.C., Millar, I.L. & Randall, D.E. (1999). Middle Cambrian volcanism in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: tectonic implications for the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana. Tectonophysics, 304, 275-299.
• Riley, T.R. & Leat, P.T., (1999). Large volume silicic volcanism along the Gondwana proto-Pacific margin: lithological and stratigraphical investigations from the Antarctic Peninsula. Geological Magazine, 136, 1-16.
• Riley, T.R., Bailey, D.K., Harmer, R.E., Liebsch, H., Lloyd, F.E. & Palmer, M.R., (1999). Isotopic and geochemical investigation of a carbonatite-syenite-phonolite diatreme, West Eifel (Germany). Mineralogical Magazine, 63, 615-631.
• Pankhurst, R.J., Leat, P.T., Sruoga, P., Rapela, C.W., Marquez, M., Storey, B.C. & Riley, T.R., (1998). The Chon-Aike Silicic Igneous Province of Patagonia and Related Rocks in Antarctica: a Silicic LIP. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 81, 113-136.
• Riley, T.R., Crame, J.A., Thomson, M.R.A. & Cantrill, D.J. (1997). Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian‑ Tithonian) macrofossil assemblage from Jason Peninsula, Graham Land: evidence for a significant northward extension of the Latady Formation. Antarctic Science, 9, 434-442.
• Riley, T.R., Bailey, D.K. & Lloyd, F.E. (1996). Extrusive carbonatite from the Quaternary Rockeskyll Complex, West Eifel, Germany. Canadian Mineralogist, 34, 389-401.

• Twinn, G., Riley, T., & Carter, A. (2026). Apatite fission track and apatite (helium) data from the Antarctic Peninsula, 2025 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/2f131971-97c7-4901-91fe-4c970545edbf

• Riley, T. (2025). Granite geochronoloy data from South Georgia (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/aeac83d8-b368-4152-9083-5956b84e348e

• Riley, T., Carter, A., & Johnson, J. (2025). Geochronological data from the Hudson Mountains, Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8f999423-ff40-4181-bdf3-964a7e145772

• Riley, T. (2025). Geochemical and geochronological data from the Falkland Islands, 2023-2024 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/612ab314-0398-42a2-8f33-65308a4157dc

• Riley, T. (2025). Geochemical and geochronological data from the Drygalski Fjord region of South Georgia (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/270714e6-f141-4c01-8a13-2bdfaca80ced

• Riley, T. (2023). Geochemical and geochronological data from the Fossil Bluff Group, Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f4f0c90e-7ed6-46f4-8973-dd4475c5dcde

• Riley, T. (2023). 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of basaltic samples from Bruce Bank and Jane Bank of the Scotia Sea (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/417a7f70-4ff2-428e-829d-0423772f66b4

• Riley, T. (2022). Geochemical and geochronological data from the LeMay Group, Antarctic Peninsula (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/c0c56e6d-d13b-4480-bbd3-cd613ab57b33

• Ferraccioli, F., Jones, P., Curtis, M., Leat, P., & Riley, T. (2020). Processed line aeromagnetic data over the Jutulstraumen rift area (2001/02 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/0ea3836d-ec6f-4856-b8ba-173c859372bb

• Ferraccioli, F., Jones, P., Curtis, M., Leat, P., & Riley, T. (2020). Processed line aerogravity data over the Jutulstraumen rift area (2001/02 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/bc870f9e-4200-4ae2-8db0-6cb80b870c09

• Ferraccioli, F., Jones, P., Curtis, M., Leat, P., & Riley, T. (2020). Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding over the Jutulstraumen rift area (2001/02 season) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/84a273d9-8191-4316-b8f6-dc907eb0947a

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