News: Honours projects - Geology
The Proterozoic Planetary Pivot: Oxygen, Snowballs and Metals
Honours project: A MinEx CRC project looking at how sediments of the Adelaide Superbasin record the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event.
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The fire down below: Heat generation in the lower crust
Honours project: Help develop a crustal radioactivity model using pieces of rock brought to the surface and trapped in lavas.
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Compositional controls on physical properties: new constraints from laboratory measurements
Honours projects: Improve predictive models of density and thermal conductivity to improve geophysical models by making new lab measurements.
The Impact of Fluid Flow on Crustal Radioactivity: Pushing heat around during tectonic reworking
Honours project: Head into the field to analyse natural radioactivity of fluid-altered crust.
Nanosatellites and drone geophysics: new technologies for Earth, Moon and Mars
Honours project: Be part of the exciting space exploration program, connecting remote networks of geophysical sensors to satellites.
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Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals
Honours projects: Extract rare noble gas isotopes from specific mineral phases such as quartz.
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Crustal evolution through the lens of apatite crystals
Honours project: Contribute to the development of a new archive of the evolution of the continents.
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What goes down, must come up?
Honours project: Explore the chemistry of magma to trace what the inputs to volcanoes are at depth.
The Curnamona Cube
Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Fossils under a new light
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
