| External Collaborators / Partners | University of Queensland, University of Melbourne, Australian National University and 43 other national and international institutions, organisations and industry companies. |
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| UTAS Collaborators | School of Earth Sciences, IMAS, Central Science Laboratory. |
| Funding Source | ARC and Industry |
| Project Status | Current |
Objective: To better understand the links between tectonic setting, magmatism, basin evolution and ore deposit formation in modern and ancient settings.
The Location Program hosts the majority of fundamental research being carried out in CODES, with a strong emphasis on magmatic petrology and geochemistry, tectonics, and volcanology. Researchers within this program work across the scales from microscopic to mountain belt, and from laboratory- to field-based studies, attempting to better understand the major controls on the location, timing and size of key ore deposits, particularly those in arc-backarc settings and in continental rift basins. Current projects cover a diverse range of themes, from fundamental to more strategic in nature, and Team Members with a more fundamental science background are strongly encouraged to become involved in at least one industry- or mineralisation-related project.
Core Projects:
SUMMARY OF TWO SPECIFIC PROJECTS WITHIN PROGRAM 1:
P1A3 - GLOBAL ocean chemistry, marine basins and mineralisation
Leader: Peter McGoldrick
This project aims to decipher processes that controlled the sulfur chemistry and redox state of oceans that existed in northern Australia approximately 1.65 billion years ago; understand how coeval ocean water interacted with hydrothermal fluids responsible for forming the giant northern Australian Proterozoic SEDEX Zn-Pb-Ag deposits; and elucidate the role played by (micro-) organisms during seafloor venting of fluids responsible for forming Proterozoic sedimentary Zn mineralisation.
In September 2011, a ‘Letter to Nature’ was published describing the results of work arising from McGoldrick’s collaboration with Tim Lyons’s group at University of California Riverside.
An Honours project by Torsten Jensen focussed on the lower Rocky Cape Group in NW Tasmania, which hosts rare ‘string-of-beads’ fossils (Horodyskia sp.). New monazite and zircon dates from the Balfour Subgroup indicate that these rocks are several hundred million years older than previously thought. Jensen presented the new dates at the ‘Explore the Science’ – GSA/AusIMM meeting held in Strahan in December.
P1B1 – FELSIC MAGMAS IN VOLCANIC ARCS AND INTRAPLATE VOLCANIC PROVINCES – ERUPTION STYLE, DEGASING PROCESSES, FLUID EVOLUTION AND LINKS TO MINERALISATION.
Leaders: Jocelyn McPhie, Vadim Kamenetsky
This project concentrates on volatiles and metals in felsic magmas, using a combination of melt inclusion research and physical volcanology. One of the aims is to determine how degassing of felsic magmas affects eruption styles and products, as well as the influences of magmatic volatiles on metal budgets in related hydrothermal systems. The research is being conducted in the Gawler Range Volcanics (South Australia), Mount Read Volcanics (Tasmania), Taupo Volcanic Zone (New Zealand), Izu-Bonin arc (Japan), Southern Aegean Volcanic Arc (Greece), Cascade Range (Washington, USA) and a selection of porphyry Cu-Au districts.
2010 Research Output - Program 1
Agangi, A., Kamenetsky, V.S., and McPhie, J., 2010, The role of fluorine in the concentration and transport of lithophile trace elements in felsic magmas: Insights from the Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia: Chemical Geology, v. 273, p. 314-325.
Allen, S.R., Fiske, R.S., and Tamura, Y., 2010, Effects of water depth on pumice formation in submarine domes at Sumisu, Izu-Bonin arc, western Pacific: Geology, v. 38, p. 391-394.
Baker, M.J., Crawford, A.J., and Withnall, I.W., 2010, Geochemical, Sm-Nd isotopic characteristics and petrogenesis of Paleoproterozoic mafic rocks from the Georgetown Inlier, north Queensland: Implications for relationship with the Broken Hill and Mount Isa Eastern Succession: Precambrian Research, v. 177, p. 39-54.
Bhattacharya, H.N., and Bull, S., 2010, Tectono-sedimentary setting of the Paleoproterozoic Zawar Pb-Zn deposits, Rajasthan, India: Precambrian Research, v. 177, p. 323-338.
Chalot-Prat, F., Falloon, T.J., Green, D.H., and Hibberson, W.O., 2010, An experimental study of liquid compositions in equilibrium with plagioclase plus spinel lherzolite at low pressures (0.75 GPa): Journal of Petrology, v. 51, p. 2349-2376.
Feig, S.T., Koepke, J., and Snow, J.E., 2010, Effect of oxygen fugacity and water on phase equilibria of a hydrous tholeiitic basalt: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 160, p. 551-568.
Green, D.H., Hibberson, W.O., Kovacs, I., and Rosenthal, A., 2010, Water and its influence on the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: Nature, v. 467, p. 448-U97.
Hanski, E., Kamenetsky, V.S., Luo, Z.Y., Xu, Y.G., and Kuzmin, D.V., 2010, Primitive magmas in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, southwestern China and northern Vietnam: Lithos, v. 119, p. 75-90.
Jutzeler, M., Schmincke, H.U., and Sumita, M., 2010, The incrementally zoned Miocene Ayagaures ignimbrite (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands): Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 196, p. 1-19.
Kamenetsky, V.S., and Kamenetsky, M.B., 2010, Magmatic fluids immiscible with silicate melts: examples from inclusions in phenocrysts and glasses, and implications for magma evolution and metal transport: Geofluids, v. 10, p. 293-311.
Kamenetsky, V.S., Gurenko, A.A., and Kerr, A.C., 2010, Composition and temperature of komatiite melts from Gorgona Island, Colombia, constrained from olivine-hosted melt inclusions: Geology, v. 38, p. 1003-1006.
Mortimer, N., Gans, P.B., Palin, J.M., Meffre, S., Herzer, R.H., and Skinner, D.N.B., 2010, Location and migration of Miocene- Quaternary volcanic arcs in the SW Pacific region: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 190, p. 1-10.
Rawlinson, N., Tkalcic, H., and Reading, A.M., 2010, Structure of the Tasmanian lithosphere from 3D seismic tomography: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 57, p. 381-394.
Rosa, C.J.P., McPhie, J., and Relvas, J.M.R.S., 2010, Type of volcanoes hosting the massive sulfide deposits of the Iberian Pyrite Belt: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 194, p. 107- 126.
Teklay, M., Scherer, E.E., Mezger, K., and Danyushevsky, L., 2010, Geochemical characteristics and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope compositions of mantle xenoliths and host basalts from Assab, Eritrea: implications for the composition and thermal structure of the lithosphere beneath the Afar Depression: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 159, p. 731-751.
Thomas, R., and Davidson, P., 2010, Hambergite-rich melt inclusions in morganite crystals from the Muiane pegmatite, Mozambique and some remarks on the paragenesis of hambergite: Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 100, p. 227-239.
Ulrich, M., Picard, C., Guillot, S., Chauvel, C., Cluzel, D., and Meffre, S., 2010, Multiple melting stages and refertilization as indicators for ridge to subduction formation: The New Caledonia ophiolite: Lithos, v. 115, p. 223-236.
Zimmermann, U., Niemeyer, H., and Meffre, S., 2010, Revealing the continental margin of Gondwana: the Ordovician arc of the Cordon de Lila (northern Chile): International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 99, p. S39-S56.
2011 Research Output - Program 1
Agangi, A., McPhie, J., and Kamenetsky, V.S., 2011, Magma chamber dynamics in a silicic LIP revealed by quartz: The Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics: Lithos, v. 126, p. 68-83.
Bonyadi, Z., Davidson, G.J., Mehrabi, B., Meffre, S., and Ghazban, F., 2011, Significance of apatite REE depletion and monazite inclusions in the brecciated Se-Chahun iron oxide-apatite deposit, Bafq district, Iran: Insights from paragenesis and geochemistry: Chemical Geology, v. 281, p. 253-269.
Borisov, A., and Danyushevsky, L., 2011, The effect of silica contents on Pd, Pt and Rh solubilities in silicate melts: An experimental study: European Journal of Mineralogy, v. 23, p. 355-367, DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2011/0023-2107.
Bull, S.W., Selley, D., Broughton, D., Hitzman, M., Cailteux, J., Large, R., and McGoldrick, P., 2011, Sequence and carbon isotopic stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Roan Group strata of the Zambian copperbelt: Precambrian Research, v. 191, p. 70-89.
Cluzel, D., Adams, C.J., Maurizot, P., and Meffre, S., 2011, Detrital zircon records of Late Cretaceous syn-rift sedimentary sequences of New Caledonia: An Australian provenance questioned: Tectonophysics, v. 501, p.17-27.
Cook, N.J., Ciobanu, C., Danyushevsky, L., and Gilbert, S., 2011, Minor and trace elements in bornite and associated Cu-(Fe)-sulfides: a LA-ICP-MS study: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, p. 6473-6496.
Cook, N.J., Sundblad, K., Valkama, M., Nygard, R., Ciobanu, C.L., and Danyushevsky, L., 2011, Indium mineralisation in A-type granites in southeastern Finland: Insights into mineralogy and partitioning between coexisting minerals: Chemical Geology, v. 284, p. 62-73.
Craven, S.J., Daczko, N.R., and Halpin, J.A., 2011, Thermal gradient and timing of high-T—low-P metamorphism in the Wongwibinda Metamorphic Complex, Southern New England orogen, Australia: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00949.x.
Danyushevsky, L., and Plechov, P., 2011, Petrolog3: Integrated software for modeling crystallization processes: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 12, Q07021, DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003516.
Esposito, R., Bodnar, R.J., Danyushevsky, L., De Vivo, B., Fedele, L., Hunter, J., Lima, A., and Shimizu, N., 2011, Volatile evolution of magma associated with the Solchiaro Eruption in the Phlegrean Volcanic District (Italy): Journal of Petrology, v. 52, p. 2431-2460.
Fulignati, P., Kamenetsky, V.S., Marianelli, P., Sbrana, A., and Meffre, S., 2011, First insights on the metallogenic signature of magmatic fluids exsolved from the active magma chamber of Vesuvius (AD 79 ”Pompei” eruption): Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 200, p. 223-233.
Gurenko, A.A., and Kamenetsky, V.S., 2011, Boron isotopic composition of olivine-hosted melt inclusions from Gorgona komatiites, Colombia: New evidence supporting wet komatiite origin: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 312, p. 201-212.
Henderson, R.A., Innes, B.M., Fergusson, C.L., Crawford, A.J., and Withnall, I.W., 2011, Collisional accretion of a Late Ordovician oceanic island arc, northern Tasman Orogenic Zone, Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 58, p. 1-19.
Johnson, E.R., Kamenetsky, V., McPhie, J., and Wallace, P.J., 2011, Degassing of the H2O-rich rhyolites of the Okataina Volcanic Center, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: Geology, v. 39, p. 311-314.
Jutzeler, M., Varley, N., and Roach, M., 2011, Geophysical characterization of hydrothermal systems and intrusive bodies, El Chichón volcano (Mexico): Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, B04104, DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007992.
Kamenetsky, V.S., and Eggins, S.M., 2011, Systematics of metals, metalloids, and volatiles in MORB melts: Effects of partial melting, crystal fractionation and degassing (a case study of Macquarie Island glasses): Chemical Geology, v. 202-203, p. 76-86.
McPhie, J., Kamenetsky, V., Allen, S., Ehrig, K., Agangi, A., and Bath, A., 2011, The fluorine link between a supergiant ore deposit and a silicic large igneous province: Geology, v. 39, p. 1003-1006.
McPhie, J., Kamenetsky, V.S., Chambefort, I., Ehrig, K., and Green, N., 2011, Origin of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia: Was a sedimentary basin involved?: Geology, v. 39, p. 795-798.
Mernagh, T.P., Kamenetsky, V.S., and Kamenetsky, M.B., 2011, A Raman microprobe study of melt Inclusions in kimberlites from Siberia, Canada, SW Greenland and South Africa: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, v. 80A(1), p. 82-87.
Mousivand, F., Rastad, E., Meffre, S., Peter, J.M., Solomon, M., and Zaw, K., 2011, U-Pb geochronology and Pb isotope characteristics of the Chahgaz volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, southern Iran: International Geology Review, v. 53(10), p. 1239-1262.
Paul, B., Woodhead, J.D., Hergt, J., Danyushevsky, L., Kunihiro, T., and Nakamura, E., 2011, Melt inclusion Pb-isotope analysis by LA-MC-ICPMS: Assessment of analytical performance and application to OIB genesis: Chemcial Geology, v. 289, p. 210-223.
Planavsky, N.J., McGoldrick, P.J., Scott, C.T., Li, C., Reinhard, C.T., Kelly, A.E., Chu, X., Bekker, A., Love, G.D., and Lyons, T.W., 2011, Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean: Nature, v. 477, p. 448-452.
Sack, P.J., Berry, R.F., Meffre, S., Falloon, T.J., Gemmell, J.B., and Friedman, R.M., 2011, In situ location and U-Pb dating of small zircon grains in igneous rocks using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems G3, v. 12, Q0AA14, DOI:10.1029/2010GC003405.
Safonov, O.G., Kamenetsky, V.S., and Perchuk, L.L., 2011, Links between carbonatite and kimberlite melts in chloride-carbonate-silicate systems: Experiments and application to natural assemblages: Journal of Petrology, v. 52(7-8), p. 1307-1331.
Song, X.Y., Xie, W., Deng, Y.F., Crawford, A.J., Zheng, W.Q., Zhou, G.F., Deng, G., Cheng, S.I., Li, J., 2011, Slab break-off and the formation of Permian mafic-ultramafic intrusions in southern margin of Central Asian Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang, NW China: Lithos, v. 127, p. 128-143.
Sun, W.D., Ding, X., Hu, Y.H., Zartman, R.E., Arculus, R.J., Kamenetsky, V.S., and Chen, M., 2011, The fate of subducted oceanic crust: A mineral segregation model: International Geology Review, v. 53(8), p. 879-893.
Thomas, R., Davidson, P., and Beurlen, H., 2011, Manganotantalite from the Borborema Pegmatite Province, northeastern Brazil: Remarks on conditions of formation: Mineralium Deposita, v. 46(7), p. 749-759.
Thomas, R., Davidson, P., and Schmidt, C., 2011, Extreme alkali bicarbonate- and carbonate-rich fluid inclusions in granite pegmatite from the Precambrian Rønne granite, Bornholm Island, Denmark: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 161(2), p. 315-329.
Thomas, R., Webster, J.D., and Davidson, P., 2011, Be-daughter minerals in fluid and melt inclusions – Implications for the enrichment of Be in granite-pegmatite systems: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 161(3), p. 483-495.
Members (External)
Professor Tony Crawford (Program Leader) Tony.Crawford@utas.edu.au
Dr Peter McGoldrick P.McGoldrick@utas.edu.au
Professor Jocelyn McPhie J.McPhie@utas.edu.au
Professor Vadim Kamenetsky Dima.Kamenetsky@utas.edu.au