TES Themes
Deep Time Plate Tectonics, Critical Minerals and the Development of our Habitable Planet
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Statement from Alan
Major Funding
ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL240100114
"Plate Tectonics, Critical Metals and our Habitable Earth"
CI Alan Collins
"Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet?"
ARC DISCOVERY DPxxxx
"Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet?"
CIs Alan Collins, Morgan Blades, Juraj Farkas
Ocean Water Chemistry Evolution Through Deep Time
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Statement from Alan
Major Funding
ARC DISCOVERY DPxxxx
"Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet?"
CIs Alan Collins, Morgan Blades, Juraj Farkas
ARC Linkage Project LP200301457
"Reconstructing the Beetaloo/Greater McArthur Basin System"
TES Group CIs: Alan Collins, Juraj Farkas, ssss
Partners: NT Government (NTGS), Santos, BHP, TECK, Beetaloo Energy, University of Copenhagen, CSIRO [URLs to all]
ARC Linkage Project LP210200822
"Novel isotope techniques to explore the Centralian Superbasin, Australia"
TES Group CIs: Juraj Farkas, Alan Collins, Morgan Blades
Partners: xxx
Mineral Exploration Co-operative Research Centre
Partners: MinEXCRC
Age, Stratigraphy and Tectonic Evolution of Proterozoic (mainly) Sedimentary Basins
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Statement from Alan
Major Funding
ARC Linkage Project LP200301457
"Reconstructing the Beetaloo/Greater McArthur Basin System"
TES Group CIs: Alan Collins, Juraj Farkas, ssss
Partners: NT Government (NTGS), Santos, BHP, TECK, Beetaloo Energy, University of Copenhagen, CSIRO [URLs to all]
ARC Linkage Project LP210200822
"Novel isotope techniques to explore the Centralian Superbasin, Australia"
TES Group CIs: Juraj Farkas, Alan Collins, Morgan Blades
Partners: xxx
Mineral Exploration Co-operative Research Centre
Partners: MinEXCRC
ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL240100114
Past Plate Tectonic Controls on Critical Metal Systems
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Statement from Alan
Major Funding
Mineral Exploration Co-operative Research Centre
Partners: MinEXCRC
ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL240100114
"Plate Tectonics, Critical Metals and our Habitable Earth"
CI Alan Collins
What we do
The Tectonics and Earth Systems (TES) Group explores how deformation of the solid earth over deep time built a human-habitable, resource-rich planet.
The Tectonics and Earth Systems Group is a part of the Mawson Centre for Geoscience and its research spans the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) and the Environment Institute.
TES Group members are geologists and geochemists, and our aim is to develop an evolving model of the world where every aspect is testable and mutable.
Methodology
We use geochronology, thermochronology, structural geology, geochemistry, igneous geology and sedimentology to unravel the tectonic geography of a region through deep time.
Our work is data focussed and built from the rock record. As such we work with geochemical proxies for tectonic processes, redox, salinity, productivity, erosion and hydrothermal activity, many of which are pioneering and developmental.
We are also investigating new, rapid, accurate dating techniques, such as laser-ablation analysis of Rb–Sr and K–Ca isotope systems via plasma mass spectrometry (see also our Metal Isotope Group) and are grappling with data analytical approaches to apply to the sizable and diverse data we generate and interpret.
Research Aims
By combining these studies, we attempt to reconstruct the past continents and oceans of the world in a full plate-tectonic manner; focussing on the last 2 billion years of earth history, when we consider plate tectonics operated in a similar manner as it does today.
From these novel, full-earth, reconstructions we strive to quantify feedbacks between geosphere phenomena (such as mountain belt topographic evolution, ocean basin connectivity, and rift development), chemistry of the atmosphere/hydrosphere and the development of the biosphere.