Insights from recent and ongoing research at EarthByte for the mining industry were highlighted in a recent edition of Australian Resources and Investment (Vol. 8, 4). Download the Australian Resources and Investment article here – pdf
19 February 2015, Perth WA – Australia A specialised GPlates course, run by PhD candidates Andrew Merdith and Nicholas Barnett-Moore, will be held at the ASEG-PESA conference in Perth.
Congratulations to Sabin Zahirovic who submitted his PhD Thesis today, entitled “Post-Pangea global plate kinematics and geodynamic implications for Southeast Asia”. Well done Sabin!
EarthByte welcomes Qiuge Wang, a visiting PhD student from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan. Qiuge will be studying with us for the next 12 months at the University of Sydney.
Matthews, K. J., Williams, S. E., Whittaker, J. M., Müller, R. D., Seton, M., & Clarke, G. L. (2015). Geologic and kinematic constraints on Late Cretaceous to mid Eocene plate boundaries in the southwest Pacific. Earth-Science Reviews, 140, 72-107. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.10.008. Geologic and kinematic constraints on Late Cretaceous to mid Eocene plate boundaries in the southwest … Read more…
The ARC Research Hub for Basin Geo-dynamics and Evolution of Sedimentary Systems (Basin Genesis Hub, BGH) brings together a broad range of expertise for the development and application of cutting-edge numerical modelling tools with the aim of improving the understanding of the formation and evolution of basins. The coupling of the evolution of mantle flow, … Read more…
EarthByte welcomes James Egan to the group. He will be working with us as a research assistant.
Koopmann, H., Brune, S., Franke, D., & Breuer, S. (2014). Linking rift propagation barriers to excess magmatism at volcanic rifted margins. Geology, 42(12), 1071-1074. doi: 10.1130/G36085. Linking rift propagation barriers to excess magmatism at volcanic rifted margins
Sandwell, D. T., Müller, R. D., Smith, W. H., Garcia, E., & Francis, R. (2014). New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure. science, 346(6205), 65-67. doi: 10.1126/science.1258213.
New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure
EarthByte have launched a new cloud-based GPlates Web Portal that was used by almost 40 000 users over the last long-weekend! It took GPlates software over ten years to get that many users, so this is a huge achievement and also makes GPlates accessible to a broader audience! The GPlates portal can be used to … Read more…
Flament, N. (2014). Linking plate tectonics and mantle flow to Earth’s topography. Geology, 42(10), 927-928. doi: 10.1130/focus102014.1. Download the paper – pdf Download data grid used – grd
Flament, N. (2014). Linking plate tectonics and mantle flow to Earth’s topography. Geology, 42(10), 927-928. doi: 10.1130/focus102014.1. Download the paper – pdf Download data grid used – grd
Müller, R. D., Yatheesh, V., & Shuhail, M. (2014). The tectonic stress field evolution of India since the Oligocene. Gondwana Research. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2014.05.008. The tectonic stress field evolution of India since the Oligocene
Honours student Gabby McDonald was one of 16 students world-wide to be awarded a Student Field Trip Travel Grant from the Society of Economic Geologists to participate in “Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits, Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada”. The field trip was lead by a team of Canadian experts and travelled from Timmins to … Read more…
Rey, P. F., Coltice, N., & Flament, N. (2014). Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature, 513(7518), 405-408. doi: 10.1038/nature13728.
Brune, S. (2014). Evolution of stress and fault patterns in oblique rift systems: 3‐D numerical lithospheric‐scale experiments from rift to breakup. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(8), 3392-3415. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005446.
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The EarthByte group is a finalist for the Eureka Prize from the Australian Museum, for its development of GPlates software! The prize is awarded annually for research innovation and GPlates was nominated for providing a “experimental virtual planet” to investigate geological systems through deep time. You can read more about the Eureka Prize here. Watch the … Read more…
Butterworth, N. P., Müller, R. D., Quevedo, L., O’Connor, J. M., Hoernle, K., & Morra, G. (2014). Pacific Plate slab pull and intraplate deformation in the early Cenozoic. Solid Earth, 5(2). doi: 10.5194/se-5-757-2014. Pacific Plate slab pull and intraplate deformation in the early Cenozoic
Cannon, J., Lau, E., & Müller, R. D. (2014). Plate tectonic raster reconstruction in GPlates. Solid Earth, 5(2), 741-755. doi: 10.5194/sed-5-741-2014. Plate tectonic raster reconstruction in GPlates
Congratulations to Luke Mondy and Mike Tetley. Luke Mondy was awarded the George Harris Award for oustanding efforts and achievement as a post-graduate student in 2013 and Mike Tetley was awarded a University of Sydney Merit Award for excellent achievement in his Honour’s Degree.
Welcome back to Mike Tetley, who has commenced a PhD with EarthByte this week, under the supervision of Dietmar Müller, Simon Williams, Nico Flament and collaborator, Mike Gurnis at CalTech. Mike is a recipient of a University of Sydney Merit Award from his Honour’s degree study which focused on palaeomagnetics of the Palaeozoic Lachlan Orogen.
Brune, S., Heine, C., Pérez-Gussinyé, M., & Sobolev, S. V. (2014). Rift migration explains continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension. Nature communications, 5. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5014. Rift migration explains continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension Download supplementary information – pdf
François, C., Philippot, P., Rey, P., & Rubatto, D. (2014). Burial and exhumation during Archean sagduction in the East Pilbara granite-greenstone terrane. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 396, 235-251. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.025. Burial and exhumation during Archean sagduction in the East Pilbara granite-greenstone terrane Supplementary information is available from Science Direct here Download the combined supplementary tables … Read more…
Zahirovic, S., Seton, M., & Müller, R. D. (2014). The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia. Solid Earth, 5(1), 227-273. doi:10.5194/se-5-227-2014. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia Download supplementary material – zip file
GPlates Version 1.4 has been released! This latest update of GPlates brings added functionality for the export of both numerical floating point-data and colour reconstructed rasters, for a user specified region and resolution. There is also greater flexibility for raster file import, with ERMapper, Erdas Imagine and GeoTIFF files now supported and geo-referencing is retained … Read more…
Barnett-Moore, N., Flament, N., Heine, C., Butterworth, N., & Müller, R. D. (2014). Cenozoic uplift of south Western Australia as constrained by river profiles. Tectonophysics, 622, 186-197. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.03.010. Cenozoic uplift of south Western Australia as constrained by river profiles
PhD student Andrew Merdith presented in the NSW state finals of FameLab, giving a 3 minute run down on his Opal research.
The Big Data Knowledge Discovery launch was featured in a full-length article in the Newsletter of the Geological Society of Australia in March. Download the newsletter – pdf Visit Big Data Knowledge Discovery website.
Bai, Y., Williams, S. E., Müller, R. D., Liu, Z., & Hosseinpour, M. (2014). Mapping crustal thickness using marine gravity data: Methods and uncertainties. Geophysics, 79(2), G27-G36. doi: 10.1190/GEO2013-0270. Mapping crustal thickness using marine gravity data: Methods and uncertainties Download supplementary material
Congratulations to EarthByte’s Sascha Brune and Christian Heine (now at Shell in The Hague) who made it to the Sydney Uni front page with a media piece on “How the world missed out on a Saharan Atlantic ocean”, attracted international media attention and were chosen as a “Research Focus” in the current volume of Geology for their paper: Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean. Well done! … Read more…
