News: Honours projects - Geology
The Proterozoic Planetary Pivot: Oxygen, Snowballs and Metals
![Kingsmill Creek Arkaroola from the air](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/Blades%20photo.jpg?h=6bcd3f39&itok=3kMfHsnl)
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
![Crustal and Mantle Xenolith](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/hasterok-derrick-fire-down-below-xenolith.png?h=14104e03&itok=yU0O8npg)
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
![Quartz monzonite by James St. John (CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-10/quartz-monzonite-jamestjohn.jpg?h=9bfa156b&itok=JsjBVpME)
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
![Large Crustal Shear Zone](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/hasterok-derrick-hot-water-large-crustal-shear-zone.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=5cRQUgpK)
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
![Nanosatellite](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/heinson-graham-sensor-geophysics-nanosatellite.png?h=4a83b47b&itok=tji1EpME)
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
![Cornelia Wilkes honours project Noble gases in ancient fluid droplets in minerals](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-09/cornelia-wilkes-honours_project.jpg?h=9a2ab9c4&itok=IIKIPggK)
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
![Histogram for Global Detrital Zircon](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/glorie-stijn-crustal-histogram.png?h=f504fcaf&itok=xGWfzXQg)
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?
![Volcanoes](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/mgee-lucy-tracking-sediment-volcanoes.jpg?h=b0b2650f&itok=LcXiXke-)
Honours project: Explore the chemistry of magma to trace what the inputs to volcanoes are at depth.
The Curnamona Cube
![Curnamona](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/heinson-graham-curnamona.png?h=8f821dc7&itok=v-SxnahJ)
Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Fossils under a new light
![Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-fossil-front-visible.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=rsvzpMcx)
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.