Professor Martin Hand

Biography/ Background

After completing an Honours degrees at the University of Newcastle, I undertook a PhD at Melbourne University, completing in 1995. My PhD work focused on the structural and metamorphic evolution of Proterozoic terrains in Antarctica and central Australia.

Following my PhD I was awarded an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD) at the University of Adelaide where I continued to investigate the thermal evolution of the continental crust. I was then awarded a Australian Research Council Research Fellowship (ARF). The emphasis of this research involved investigating the origin of high temperature processes in the crust, and the role that heat producing elements such as uranium and thorium play in controlling the geological record of the Australian continent.

After being appointed as a lecturer in 2000 at the University of Adelaide, together with colleagues I formed the Continental Evolution Research Group (CERG). This group currently has a number of project foci, both in Australia and overseas (see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/cerg/), and now forms a unit within the Centre for Tectonics Resources and Exploration (see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/trax/), of which I was formerly the director.

More recently I have integrated my research interests with the emerging geothermal energy industry in South Australia, and I am currently the Director of the South Australian Centre for Geothermal Energy Research (see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/geothermal/).  SACGER is funded from the State Government of South Australia, and seeks to assist the geothermal energy sector in bringing projects to demonstration.

Qualifications

1995 PhD Geology University of Melbourne.

Teaching Interests

I teach Geoscience subjects from level 1 to level III, with a focus on metamorphic geology, tectonics and field work.  I coordinate Field Geoscience III and Igneous and Metamorphic Geology III.

Field Geoscience III
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to independent geological mapping and the construction of geological maps. You will develop the skills required to interpret and solve geological relationships at a variety of scales, and synthesise them into four-dimensional models that describe the geological evolution of terrains. These skills include hand specimen and outcrop geology, mapping and stratigraphic analysis at a range of scales, aerial photo interpretation, remote sensing and the integration of geophysical datasets into geological mapping and interpretation. Thus, the course will draw upon the principals of structural geology and combine them with an understanding of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock systems. Fieldwork will focus on the Precambrian terrains of southern and central Australia, however the acquired skills will be transferable into any aged geological system.

Igneous and Metamorphic Geology III
This course will introduce the methods and techniques appropriate to the study of igneous and metamorphic processes. We will introduce the principles of heat flow and its application to understanding thermal gradients in the lithosphere and explore techniques used to understand metamorphic systems. The course will also examine the origin and evolution of silicate melts and their role in the differentiation of the Earth.

Research Interests

I like working on tectonic problems using whatever tools are required to make progress.   Together with collegues within the Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration I am committed to fundamental and applied research in tectonic systems using a broad based approach that integrates petrological and isotopic tools with geophysics and field mapping.

Our work has been currently supported by a number of research grants including:

Hand et al (2004-2008 ARC linkage) - Gawler Craton ($1.8M), Hand et al (2005-2008 ARC linkage) - Musgrave Province ($1.2M), Hand (2005-2007 ARC Discovery) - Intracratonic orogeny ($300K), Collins, Hand, Barovich, Heinson (2007-2009 ARC Discovery) Ancient eclogites ($120K), Collins, Hand, Clark, et al (2006-2009 ASAC) - Enigmatic Orogeny ($625K). Collins et al., Kelsey et al 2010-2012 ARC linkage) - Orogeny and reworking in the west Musgrave  Province ($300K), Collins, Hand, Condie 2010-2012 ARC Discovery) Crustal growth and supercontinent formation ($240K).  Additionally we have a number of collaborative projects funded from Industry.

 

 

Publications

Selected 2005-2010

 

A flavour of what I have been doing for the last couple of years (mostly with PhD students) can be seen from the manuscripts below.

 

1.             Smithies, R.H., Howard, H.M., Evins, P.M., Kirkland, C.L., Kelsey, D.E., Hand, M., Wingate, M.T.D., Collins, A.S., Belousova, E. High-temperature granite magmatism, UHT metamorphism and crustmantle interaction - the Mesoproterozoic evolution of the Musgrave Province, central Australia's longlived hot-spot. Journal of Petrology (accepted with revisions, September 2010).

 

2.             Howard, K., Hand, M. Barovich, K. Belousova, E. Provenance of late Palaeoproterozoic cover sequences in the central eastern Gawler Craton: exploring stratigraphic correlations in eastern Proterozoic Australia using detrital zircon, zircon Hf and Nd isotopic data. Australian Journal of Earth Science (accepted with revisions, August 2010).

 

3.             Howard, K., Hand, M., Barovich, K., Payne, J. and Belousova E. U-Pb, Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on provenance and depositional timing of metasedimentary rocks in the western Gawler Craton: Implications for Proterozoic reconstruction models. Precambrian Research (in press).

 

4.             Cutts, K., Hand. M. Kelsey, D. Early Mesoproterozoic high-temperature granulites from the Gawler Craton, southern Australia. Lithos (in press).

 

5.             Buick, I.S., Clark, C. Rubatto, D., Hermann, J. Pandit, M. Hand, M. Constraints on the Proterozoic evolution of the Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic belt (NW India) from monazite geochronology and mineral trace element geochemistry. Lithos (in press).

 

6.             Selway, K., Hand, M., Payne, J., Heinson, G., Reid, A., Scroggs, M., Sealing, C. Lithospheric continuity between two major cratonic regions of southern Australia as revealed by magnetotelluric imaging. Geological Society of London (in press).

 

7.             Raimondo, R., Collins, A.S., Hand, M., Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, R.H., Evins, P.M. & Howard, H.M. The anatomy of a deep intracontinental orogen. Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2009TC002504.

 

8.             Phillips, G., Hand, M. & Offler, R. 2010. P–T–X controls on phase stability and composition in LTMP metabasite rocks – a thermodynamic evaluation Journal of Metamorphic Geology. doi:10.1111/j.1525- 1314.2010.00874.x

 

9.             Payne, J.L. Ferris, G Barovich, K., Hand, M. 2010. Pitfalls of classifying ancient magmatic suites with tectonic discrimination diagrams: An example from the Paleoproterozoic Tunkillia Suite, southern Australia. Precambrian Research 177 227–240.

 

10.          Cutts, K.A., Kinny, P.D., Strachan, R.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E., Emery, M., Friend, C.R.L., Leslie, A.G. 2010. Three metamorphic events recorded in a single garnet: coupled phase modelling with in situ LAICPMS, and SIMS geochronology from the Moine Supergroup, NW Scotland. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00863.x.

 

11.          Dutch, R.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E. 2010. Unravelling the tectonothermal evolution of reworked Archaean granulite-facies metapelites using in situ geochronology, an example from the Gawler Craton, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2010.00867.x

 

12.          Cawood, P.A., Strachan, R., Cutts, K., Kinny, P.D., Hand, M. & Pisarevsky, S. 2009. Neoproterozoic orogeny along the margin of Rodinia: Valhalla Orogen, North Atlantic. Geology 38; p. 99–102.

 

13.          Clark, C. & Hand, M. 2009 Unravelling the effects of poly-metamorphism in Willyama Complex pelites from the Olary Domain, South Australia. Gondwana Research, Volume 17, Pages 59-74.

 

14.          Cutts, K.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E, Wade, B, Strachan, R.A., Clark, C. & Netting, A. 2009 Evidence for 930 Ma metamorphism in the Shetland Islands, Scottish Caledonides: implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics in the Laurentia-Baltica sector of Rodinia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 1– 15. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492009-006.

 

15.          Dutch, R. & Hand, M. 2009. Retention of Sm-Nd isotopic ages in garnets subjected to high-grade thermal reworking: Implications for diffusion rates of major and rare earth elements and the Sm-Nd closure temperature in garnet. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00410-009- 0418-1.

 

16.          Selway, K., Hand, M., Heinson, G.S. & Payne, J.L. 2009. Magnetotelluric constraints on subduction polarity: reversing reconstruction models for Proterozoic Australia. Geology, 37(9), 799–802.

 

17.          Howard, K.E., Hand, M. Barovich, K.M., Reid, A., Wade, B.P & Belousova, E.A. 2009. Detrital zircon ages: Improving interpretation via Nd and Hf isotopic data. Chemical Geology, 262, 277-292.

 

18.          Raimondo, T., Collins, A.S., Hand, M. Walker-Hallam, A., Smithies, R.H., Evins, P.M. & Howard, H.M. 2009. Ediacaran intracontinental channel flow. Geology, 37, 291 – 294.

 

19.          Cutts, K.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E. & Strachan, R.A. 2009. Orogenic versus extensional settings for regional metamorphism: Knoydartian events in the Moine Supergroup revisited. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 201-204.

 

20.          Payne, J.L., Hand, M., Barovich, K.M., Reid, A. & Evins, D.A.D. 2009. A global context for the Palaeoproterozoic evolution of the Mawson Continent. In: S.M. Reddy, R. Mazumder, D.A.D. Evans, A.S. Collins (eds), Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 323, p. 319-355.

 

21.          Phillips, G., Hand, M. & Offler, R. 2008. P-T-t-deformation framework of an ancient accretionary prism, southern New England Orogen, eastern Australia: implications for blueschist exhumation and metamorphic switching. Tectonics, 27, TC6017, doi:10.1029/2008TC002323.

 

22.          Thomas, J.L., Direen, N.G. & Hand, M. 2008. Blind Orogen: integrated appraisal of multiple episodes of Mesoproterozoic deformation and reworking in the Fowler Domain, western Gawler Craton, Australia. Precambrian Research, 166, 263-282.

 

23.          Swain, G. Barovich, K., Hand, M., Ferris, G. & Schwarz, M. 2008. Petrogenesis of the St Peter Suite, southern Australia: Arc magmatism and Proterozoic crustal growth of the South Australian Craton. Precambrian Research, 166, 283-296.

 

24.          Barovich, K. & Hand, M. 2008. Tectonic setting and provenance of the Palaeoproterozoic Willyama Supergroup, Curnamona Province, Australia: Geochemical and Nd isotopic constraints on contrasting source terrain components. Precambrian Research, 166, 318-337.

 

25.          Wade, B.P., Kelsey, D.E, Hand, M. & Barovich, K. 2008. The Musgrave Province; Stitching North, West, and South Australia. Precambrian Research, 166, 370-386.

 

26.          Dutch, R., Hand, M. & Kinny, P.D. 2008. High-grade Palaeoproterozoic reworking in the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 1063–1081.

 

27.          Reid, A., Hand, M., Jagodinski, E., Kelsey, D. & Pearson, N. 2008. Paleoproterozoic orogenesis in the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 449-471.

 

28.          Payne, J.L., Hand, M., Barovich, K.M. & Wade, B.P., 2008. Temporal constraints on the timing of highgrade metamorphism in the northern Gawler Craton. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 623-640.

 

29.          Wade, B.P., Hand, M., Maidment, D.W., Close, D.F. & Scrimgeour, I.R., 2008. Origin of metasedimentary and igneous rocks from the Entia Dome, eastern Arunta Region, central Australia: a U-Pb LA-ICPMS, SHRIMP, and Sm-Nd isotope study. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55, 703- 719.

 

30.          Kelsey, D.E., Wade, B.P., Collins, A.S., Hand, M., Sealing, C.R. & Netting, A. 2008. Discovery of a Neoproterozoic basin in the Prydz belt in East Antarctica and its implications for Gondwana assembly and ultrahigh temperature metamorphism. Precambrian Research, 161, 355-388.

 

31.          Kelsey, D.E., Clark, C. & Hand, M. 2008. Thermobarometric modelling of zircon and monazite growth in melt-bearing systems: examples using model metapelitic and metapsammitic granulites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 26, 199-212.

 

32.          Hand, M., Reid, A. & Jagodzinski, L. 2007. Tectonic framework and evolution of the Gawler Craton, southern Australia. Economic Geology, 102, 1377-1395.

 

33.          Wade, B.P., Payne, J.L., Hand, M., & Barovich, K.M. 2007. Petrogenesis of ca. 1.50 Ga granitic gneiss of the Coompana Block: filling the “magmatic gap” of Mesoproterozoic Australia. Australia Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 1089-1102.

 

34.          Clark, C., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E. & Goscombe, B. 2007. Linking crustal reworking to terrane accretion. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 164, 937-940.

 

35.          Maidment, D.W., Williams, I.S., & Hand, M. 2007. Testing long-term patterns of basin sedimentation by detrital zircon geochronology, Centralian Superbasin, Australia. Basin Research, 19, 335-360.

 

36.          Clarke, C., Kelsey, D.E. & Hand, M. 2007. Assembling Proterozoic Australia: Inside out or outside in? Gondwana Research, 11, 575–576.

 

37.          Kelsey, D.E., Hand, M., Clark, C & Wilson, C.J.L. 2007. On the application of in-situ monazite chemical geochronology to constraining P-T-t histories in high temperature (>850°C) polymetamorphic granulites from Prydz Bay, east Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 164, 667-683.

 

38.          Rutherford, L., Hand, M. & Barovich, K. 2007. Timing of Proterozoic metamorphism in the southern Curnamona Province: implications for tectonic models and continental reconstructions. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 65-81.

 

39.          Collins, A.S., Clark, C., Sajeev, K., Santosh, M., Kelsey, D.E. & Hand, M. 2007. Passage through India: the Mozambique Ocean suture, high-pressure granulites and the Palghat-Cauvery shear zone system. Terra Nova, 19, 141-147.

 

40.          Howard, K., Reid, A., Hand, M., Barovich, K. & Belousova, E. 2007. Does the Kalinjala Shear Zone represent a palaeosuture zone? Implications for distribution of styles of Mesoproterozoic mineralisation in the Gawler Craton. Mesa Journal, 43, 16-20.

 

41.          Dutch, R., Hand, M. & Reid, A. 2007. Orogen-parallel flow during continental convergence: Numerical experiments and Archean field examples: Comment. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G24419C.1.

 

42.          Goscombe, B., Gray, D. & Hand, M. 2006. Crustal architecture of the Himalayan metamorphic front in eastern Nepal. Gondwana Research, 10, 232-255.

 

43.          Kelsey, D.E., Clark, C., Hand, M., Collins, A.S. 2006. Comment on “First report of garnet-corundum rocks from southern India: Implications for prograde high-pressure (eclogite-facies?) metamorphism”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 529-534.

 

44.          Payne, J.L., Barovich, K.M. & Hand, M. 2006. Provenance of metasedimentary rocks in the northern Gawler Craton, Australia: implications for Palaeoproterozoic reconstructions. Precambrian Research, 148, 275-291.

 

45.          Jones, R.R, Holdsworth, R.E., Hand, M. & Goscombe, B. 2006. Ductile extrusion in continental collision zones. In: R.D. Law, M.P. Searle & L. Godin (eds), Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 268, p.237-260.

 

46.          Rutherford, L., Barovich, K., Hand, M. & Foden, J. 2006. Continental ca 1.7-1.69 Ga Fe-rich metatholeiites in the Curnamona Province, Australia: a record of melting of a heterogeneous, subduction-modified lithospheric mantle. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53, 501-519.

 

47.          Clark, C., Hand, M., Faure, K. & Mumm, A.S. 2006. Up-temperature flow of surface-derived fluids in the mid-crust: the role of pre-orogenic burial of hydrated fault rocks. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24, 367-387.

 

48.          Clark, C., Mumm, A.S., Hand, M., Faure, K. 2006. Episodic shear zone associated fluid flow in the Curnamona Province, South Australia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 89(1-3), 69-72.

 

49.          Selway, K., Heinson, G. & Hand, M. 2006. Electrical evidence of continental accretion: steeply-dipping crustal-scale conductivity contrast. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L06305, doi:10.1029/2005GL025328.

 

50.          Rutherford, L., Hand, M. & Mawby, J. 2006. Delamerian-aged metamorphism in the southern Curnamona Province, Australia: implications for the evolution of the Mesoproterozoic Olarian Orogeny. Terra Nova, 18(2), 138-146. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00673.x

 

51.          Wade, B.P., Barovich, K.M., Hand, M., Scrimgeour, I.R. & Close, D.P. 2006. Evidence for early Mesoproterozoic arc magmatism in the Musgrave Block, central Australia: Implications for Proterozoic crustal growth and tectonic reconstructions of Australia. Journal of Geology, 114, 43-63.

 

52.          Swain, G., Woodhouse, A., Hand, M., Barovich, K., Schwarz, M. & Fanning, C.M. 2005. Provenance and tectonic development of the late Archaean Gawler Craton, Australia; U-Pb zircon, geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic implications. Precambrian Research, 141, 106-136.

 

53.          Swain, G.M., Hand, M., Teasdale, J., Rutherford, L. & Clark, C. 2005. Age constraints on terrane-scale shear zones in the Gawler Craton, southern Australia. Precambrian Research, 139, 164-180.

 

54.          Maidment, D.W., Hand, M. & Williams, I.S. 2005. Tectonic cycles in the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, Arunta Inlier, central Australia: geochronological evidence for exhumation and basin formation between two high-grade metamorphic events. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52, 205- 215.

 

55.          Dutch, R.A., Hand, M., & Clark, C. 2005. Cambrian reworking of the southern Australian Proterozoic Curnamona Province: constraints from regional shear-zone systems. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 763-775.

 

56.          Direen, N.G., Brock, D. & Hand, M. 2005. Geophysical testing of balanced cross-sections of fold-thrust belts with potential field data: an example from the Fleurieu Arc of the Delamerian Orogen, South Australia. Journal of Structural Geology, 27, 964-984.

 

57.          Buick I.S., Hand, M., Williams, I.S., Mawby, J., Miller, J.A & Nicoll, R.S. 2005. Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the evolution of the Harts Range Metamorphic Complex (central Australia): links to the Centralian Superbasin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 777-787.

 

58.          Goscombe, B., Gray, D., Hand, M. 2005. Extrusional tectonics in the core of a transpressional orogen; the Kaoko Belt, Namibia. Journal of Petrology, 46, 1203-1241.

 

59.          Storkey, A.C., Hermann, J., Hand, M. & Buick, I.S. 2005. Using in situ trace-element determinations to monitor partial-melting processes in metabasites. Journal of Petrology, 46, 1283-1308.

 

60.          Wade, B.P, Hand, M. & Barovich, K.M. 2005. Nd isotopic and geochemical constraints on provenance of sedimentary rocks in the eastern Officer Basin, Australia: implications for the duration of the intracratonic Petermann Orogeny. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 513-530.

 

 

 

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