News 2014 – Page 2

Timothy Chapman commences his PhD with EarthByte

15 March, 20158 March, 2014 by Michael Chin

Timothy Chapman begins his PhD with Prof Geoff Clarke and Assoc Prof Nathan Daczko (Macquarie University). The title of Tim’s PhD is ‘Distinguishing igneous and metamorphic mineral assemblages in high-pressure granulites and eclogites, Western Fiordland Orthogneiss, New Zealand’.

Welcome back Andrew Merdith

10 December, 201418 February, 2014 by Michael Chin

Welcome back to Andrew Merdith who commenced study towards a PhD in February and will be investigating the early supercontinent Nuna.

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems – Community infrastructure and repository for marine magnetic identifications

7 March, 201917 February, 2014 by Michael Chin

Magnetic anomaly identifications form the primary data set from which the age of the oceanic lithosphere can be determined, a critical component of reconstructing the seafloor spreading history of ocean basins. This data is now available as part of an open source, community-driven online repository that contains quality-checked magnetic anomaly picks, organised by ocean basin and publication source.

Solid Earth – Pacific plate slab pull and intraplate deformation in the early Cenozoic

16 December, 201516 February, 2014 by Michael Chin

Butterworth, N. P., Müller, R. D., Quevedo, L., O’Connor, J. M., Hoernle, K., & Morra, G. (2014). Pacific Plate slab pull and intraplate deformation in the early Cenozoic. Solid Earth, 5(2). doi: 10.5194/sed-6-1-2014. Pacific Plate slab pull and intraplate deformation in the early Cenozoic

Geoscientific Model Development – A suite of early Eocene (~55 Ma) climate model boundary conditions

17 October, 201615 February, 2014 by Michael Chin

Herold, N., Buzan, J., Seton, M., Goldner, A., Green, J. A. M., Müller, R. D., Markwick, P., & Huber, M. (2014). A suite of early Eocene (~ 55 Ma) climate model boundary conditions. Geoscientific Model Development, 7(5), 2077-2090. doi: 10.5194/gmd-7-2077-2014.

A suite of early Eocene (~ 55 Ma) climate model boundary conditions

Supplementary data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters – Topographic assymetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching

16 December, 20151 February, 2014 by Michael Chin

Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Seton, M., Skogseid, J., Heine, C., & Müller, R. D. (2014). Topographic asymmetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 387, 107-119. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.017. Topographic asymmetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching … Read more…

2014 Dorothy Hill Award won by Maria Seton

30 March, 20173 January, 2014 by Michael Chin

Congratulations to Maria Seton, who was awarded the 2014 Dorothy Hill Award from the Australian Academy of Sciences, for her contributions to global plate tectonics, long-term sea-level change and global geodynamics and back-arc basin formation. Well done Maria!

Scientific Drilling – Exploring new drilling prospects in the Southwest Pacific

16 December, 20153 January, 2014 by Michael Chin

Arculus, R., D’Hondt, S., Exon, N., Foster, C., Gallagher, S. J., Gurnis, M., … & Wallace, L. (2014). Exploring new drilling prospects in the Southwest Pacific. Scientific Drilling, 17, 45-50. doi: 10.5194/sd-17-45-2014. Exploring new drilling prospects in the southwest Pacific

Geology – Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean

16 December, 20153 January, 2014 by Michael Chin

Heine, C., & Brune, S. (2014). Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean. Geology, 42(3), 211-214. doi:10.1130/G35082.1 107-199. Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean Access supporting data (ref. 2014073)