Honours Projects - Geology & Geophysics
Tectonics and Solid Earth Processes | |
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| Supervisors | Projects |
A/Prof Karin Barovich & A/Prof Martin Hand | The Timing of Growth of Juvenile Continental Crust in Precambian Australia |
Prof John Foden - Flinders Mining | The Northern Margin of the Karroo-Ferrar-Kangaroo Island Plume: A Brief Overview of Jurassic Magmatism in Tasmania-South Australia-Victoria |
Prof John Foden | A Late Cambrian Volcanic Arc: The West Victorian Stavely Belt |
Professor John Foden, Dr Justin Payne & Dr Galen Halverson | The Extent and Origin of Iron Isotope Variation in Some Igneous Suites |
Prof John Foden May be joint supervised by A/Prof Alan Collins - Flinders Mining | The Provenance of the Basal Diamond - and Mantle Derived - Indicator Minerals from the Premo-Triassic Springfield Basin (and other Nearby Small Basin Remnants). |
Dr Caroline Forbes, CMXUC, TRaX and A/Prof Martin Hand, CERG, TRax | Structural Evolution of the Southern Reynolds Ranges |
Dr Caroline Forbes, CMXUC, TRaX and Prof David Giles, CMXUC, TRaX | Tectonothermal Evolution of the Northern Mount Woods Inlier, Gawler Craton |
Dave Kelsey and A/Prof Martin Hand | Thermal Evolution of Central Australia Crust: Past Behaviour and Current Geothermal Potential |
Mineral and Energy Exploration | |
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Supervisors | Projects |
| Dr. Nigel J. Cook | Trace Element Mineralogy of Sphalerite |
Dr. Nigel J. Cook and Dr. Cristiana Ciobanu | Petrogenetic and Mineralogical Study of gold Ores |
Martin Hand – G&G, Graham Baines – G&G, Guillaume Backé – ASP and David Giles – G&G | Geothermal Potential and Prospectivity of South Australia |
Andreas Schmidt Mumm & Prof David Giles. | CU - AU Exploration in the Middleback Ranges |
Andreas Schmidt Mumm & Dr Nigel Cook. | Titatium in Quartz Geothermometry |
Andreas Schmidt Mumm, David Giles & Frank Reith. | Mineral Geochemistry in Exploration |
Dr Frank Reith, Prof Joël Brugger. | Assessing the Fine Structure of Secondary Gold Using Microanalyses Techniques |
Geophysics | |
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Supervisors | Projects |
Graham Baines – G&G & David Giles – G&G | Interpreting Geological Structure and Evolution from Geophysics |
A/Prof Graham Heinson, Dr Kate Selway, Dr Stephan Thiel, Mr Goran Boren | A 3D Electrical Conductivity Model of the Australina Lithosphere and Asthenosphere |
A/Prof Graham Heinson, Dr Stephan Thiel, Mr Goran Boren | Locating Groundwater Resources for Aboriginal Communities in Remote and Aric Parts of SA |
Associate Professor Graham Heinson, Dr Bing Zhou, Dr Stephan Thiel | Three-Dimensional MT & CSEM Modelling and Inversion in Isotropic and Anisotropic Media with Gaussian Quadrature Grids |
A/Prof Graham Heinson, Dr Andy Love, Mr Volmer Berens, Flinders University | 3D Magnetotelluric Monitoring of Groundwater Flow Through The Mound Springs, Great Artesian Basin |
A/Prof Graham Heinson | Geophysical Joint Inversion |
Principal supervisor: Dr Kate Selway Co-supervisor: A/Prof Graham Heinson. Industry partners: BHP Billiton and Teck | Understanding the Stuart Shelf Ore Systems Using Magnetotellurics |
Principal supervisor: Dr Stephan Thiel / Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX). Co-supervisor: A/Prof Graham Heinson / TRaX. Industry Partners: Petratherm Ltd and PIRSA | 4D Magnetotellurics for Geothermal Target Monitoring |
Soil Regolith and Landscape Evolution | |
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Supervisors | Projects |
Dr Steven Hill | Regolith Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Regolith-Landform Mapping and Landscape Evolution in the Southeastern Gawler Craton, SA |
Dr Frank Reith and Dr. Steven Hill | Exploration Geomicrobiology - Developing Bio-Indicator Technology for Mineral Exploration (2x Projects) |
Petroleum Geology and Exploration | |
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Supervisors | Projects |
New Supervisor TBA - Please contact the School Office for information. | B Sc (Honours)(Petroleum Geology & Geophysics) |
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group, Shipwreck Trough, Otway Basin. | |
Seismic Facies Analysis and Reservoir Architecture of Canyon-Channel Complexes - Deepwater Offshore Mauritania. | |
The In Situ Stress Field of the West Tuna Area, Gippsland Basin: Implication for Natural Fracture Permeability & Wellbore Stability. | |
Characterisation and Mapping of Stacking Velocity and Time Effects of Calcite-Cemented Zones, Cooper and Eromanga Basins. | |
Geochemical Analysis and Thermal Modelling of the Tinowon Formation, Surat Basin, Queensland | |
