Current Research Projects

CERG is involved in many multidisciplinary research projects around the world including such places as Antarctica, Australia, India, Oman, Tanzania and Scotland. The research projects focus on 8 main themes which are listed below.

Project Themes

Australian Research Council Funded Projects

Associate Professor Martin Hand on sapphirine-bearing metapelites near Kodiakanal in India.

• LP0454301: Developing a Tectonic Framework for the Gawler Craton: Paving the Way for Successful Mineral Exploration Programs. Chief Investigators: Assoc. Prof. Martin Hand, B. Schaefer, Assoc. Prof. Graham Heinson, Dr. Karin Barovich, Dr. Nick Direen, P. Bett

• LP0560887: Deciphering the tectonic history of the Musgrave Block to assist mineral explorers and regional synthesis programs. Chief Investigators: Assoc. Prof. Martin Hand, Graham Heinson, B. Schaefer, P. Betts, Dr. Karin Barovich, Dr. Nick Direen, Prof. John Foden

• DP0559763: How responsive are continental interiors to the geodynamic evolution of plate margins? An Australian case study. Chief Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Martin Hand

• DP0665094: Tectonic links between the Musgrave Province and the North Australian Craton: correlations, event chronology, and tectonothermal regimes. Chief Investigator: Dr. David Kelsey

• DP0773913 The Initiation of Early Palaeozoic Subduction in Eastern Australia and North America: causes and effects: Prof. JD Foden; Dr. BF Schaefer; Dr. PG Betts; Dr. MA Elburg; Prof. GA Jenner; A/Prof CR Kincaid.

• DP0774019 Modern-Style Subduction Reflected in the 2.0 Billion Year Old East African Eclogites Chief and Partner Investigators: Dr. Alan Collins, Assoc. Prof. Martin Hand, Abdul Mruma, Dr. Karin Barovich, Assoc. Prof. Graham Heinson.

Magnetotellurics

Some of the CERG projects either focus on or substantially use magnetotellurics. Follow the links below for more information on how magnetellurics are used at The University of Adelaide.

• Crustal Architecture Beneath Olympic Dam from Magnetotelluric Sounding

• Geophysical investigation of the crustal architecture of the Northern Gawler Craton

• Geophysical Imaging of an Obduction Plate Margin, Oman

• Crustal architecture of central Australia from magnetotellurics

• Is the Oceanic Upper Mantle Electrically Anisotropic?