Deep Time Plate Tectonics, Critical Minerals and the Development of our Habitable Planet
About the project
A grand science quest is to understand how our life-nurturing planet came to be.
This Fellowship aims to use abundant geological information to build a tectonic, bathymetric and topographic digital twin of the Earth’s surface through its middle age (1800–500 million years ago)—then apply this to investigate how deep earth processes including earthquakes, volcanos and plate tectonics endowed our planet with critical metals and built a habitable
world.
Contributing Researchers
Leading the project is
Professor Alan S Collins, Mawson Chair at Adelaide University, with a large team of academic, post-doctoral researchers as well as PhD and Hons students - all contributing to the researcher outputs.
Key team members are:
Andrew Merdith, xxxx
Morgan Blades, xxx
Researchers working on this project’ – obviously this one would have me, Morgan, Sandro, Juraj, Tian, Yousef and PhD students Stella, Kate, Matt, Holly, Debbie
Specific projects and funding
Plate Tectonics, Critical Metals and our Habitable Earth, ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL240100114
https://www.arc.gov.au/2024-laureate-profile-professor-alan-collins
Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet? ARC DECRA, DE230101642
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE230101642
Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet? ARC DECRA, DE230101642
Most recent publications / outputs
Ensure your geological research papers and data sets adhere to our archival standards. We prioritize studies that contribute to our understanding of lithospheric dynamics and crustal evolution.
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Deep Time Plate Tectonics, Critical Minerals And The Development Of Our Habitable Planet
A grand science quest is to understand how our life-nurturing planet came to be.
This Fellowship aims to use abundant geological information to build a tectonic, bathymetric and topographic digital twin of the Earth’s surface
through its middle age (1800–500 million years ago)—then apply this to investigate how deep earth processes including earthquakes, volcanos and plate tectonics endowed our planet with critical metals and built a habitable world.
Outcomes include ground-breaking data-driven geology and actualistic deep-time full-earth modelling that have not been attempted before.
Expected benefits include de-risking mineral exploration, therefore providing jobs, and honing our responses to challenges facing the modern-day biosphere.
Researchers
Alan Collins, Morgan Blades, Andrew Merdith .....
Specific Projects and Funding
Plate Tectonics, Critical Metals and our Habitable Earth, ARC Laureate Fellowship, FL240100114”
Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet? ARC DECRA, DE230101642
Reconstructing the Beetaloo/Greater McArthur Basin System, LP20030145