A5084636107- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Geological formations and processes
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Geological Modeling and Analysis
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Landslides and related hazards
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Mining and Resource Management
Geological Survey of Western Australia
2012-2024
Department of Mines and Petroleum
2012-2015
The University of Western Australia
2003-2006
Geoscience Australia
2006
Graduate School USA
2006
GNS Science
1995-1996
University of Canterbury
1979
AbstractA 581 km vibroseis-source, deep seismic reflection survey was acquired through the Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia and, for first time, provides an unprecedented view crustal architecture West Australian Craton. The has imaged three principal suture zones, as well several other lithospheric-scale faults. zones separate four seismically distinct tectonic blocks, which include Pilbara Craton, Bandee Seismic Province (a previously unrecognised block), Glenburgh Terrane Gascoyne...
The Pacific plate obliquely converges with the Australian at latitude 39°50′S along Hikurangi margin off east coast of North Island New Zealand. An extensive and youthful subaerially exposed forearc on in Hawke's Bay area provides opportunity to document contemporaneous deformation this convergent setting. Geologic mapping analysis strain both mesoscale megascale indicates that is partitioning into domains extension, contraction, strike‐slip. are elongate trend parallel margin. Measurements...
Mautia Hill, situated in the Mozambique Belt of East Africa, is a locality famous for its unique high‐pressure whiteschist mineral assemblages. The rocks are located complex regional tectonic setting that critical to understanding amalgamation history Gondwana.The timing Pan‐African Gondwana collision this region still topic considerable debate, especially because age metamorphism/metasomatism has yet be established. We have extracted detrital zircons with extensive low‐U overgrowths and...
Abstract A Late Miocene to Pliocene/Lower Pleistocene sedimentary sequence is located 3–15 km west of the New Zealand Alpine Fault and north-west Lewis Pass. Rappahannock Group non-marine, formations are based on pebble content conglomerates which interbedded with sandstones carbonaceous siltstones. Evidence for timing transcurrent movement provided by provenance studies pebbles in these conglomerates. The basal Frog Flat Formation overlying Spargo contain 58-87% arenite pebbles. These...
Abstract Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology has become the gold standard in evaluating source to sink relationships sedimentary basins. However, physical and chemical robustness of zircon, which make it such a useful mineral for provenance studies, is also hindrance as can be recycled through numerous basins, thus obscuring first cycle relationship. An elegant approach addressing this potential issue compare Pb isotope composition detrital K-feldspar, unlikely survive more than one...
Abstract The Pongaroa‐Akitio area, Northern Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand, is part of the exposed East Coast Deformed Belt at obliquely convergent plate boundary Hikurangi margin. sedimentary succession includes an allochthonous unit Early Cretaceous greywacke basement resting on latest rocks. Since unit's basal contact subparallel to bedding strata it overlies, allochthon inferred be unrooted gliding nappe similar outliers described in Northland and Raukumara Peninsula. southward...
Geochemical fingerprinting of conglomerate clasts from depocenters adjacent to a strike‐slip fault, and source areas on the opposite side provides method determining fault movement history in instances where potential piercing points have been removed by erosion or buried pull‐apart down‐warp basins. Our example demonstrating this is Neogene Maruia Basin New Zealand Alpine Fault, on‐land Australian‐Pacific plate boundary, which shows Permian Pelorus‐Caples terrane offset 480 km. Twenty‐six...
Ancient faults dissect low-grade Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the 1673–1455 Ma Edmund Basin and 1455–1075 Collier in Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia, reveal a protracted history basin formation subsequent deformation. K–Ar dating illite from fine-grained fault gouge separates (ideally <0.1 µm) provide robust dates most recent movement. From Godfrey–Mount Vernon Fault, sample siltstone Kiangi Creek Formation (1590–1514 Ma) Basin, which was collected adjacent to faulting, provided...
Research Article| May 01, 1995 Displacement since the Pliocene along southern section of Alpine fault, New Zealand: Comment and Reply Huntly N. C. Cutten; Cutten 1Institute Geological Nuclear Sciences Ltd., P. O. Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Rupert Sutherland 2Geology Department, Otago University, 56, Dunedin, Author Article Information Publisher: Society America First Online: 02 Jun 2017 Online Issn: 1943-2682 Print 0091-7613...