Research
TRaX researchers shed light on the evolving Earth and its resource potential. South Australia's unique geological characteristics can offer insights for global mineral and resource sectors.
Our Research Areas Include
Lithosphere Evolution: the growth, destruction and modification of both the Crust and the Upper Mantle with direct applications to minerals and petroleum exploration;
Geofluids: sedimentology, geochemistry, mineralogy, structural geology, ore genesis, deformation processes, diagenesis, and the migration and accumulation of hydrocarbons;
Regolith and Landscape Evolution: the nature and evolution of the cover sequences, plant, animal and micro-organism biogeochemical expression of buried substrates, regional landscape evolution models, regolith-landform mapping;
Tectonics And Metallogeny; nature of basement rocks in South Australia and Australia, their tectonic evolution and their mineral prospectivity including stress and structure of the Earth.
Geophysical Exploration: techniques to map the physical properties and infer the composition of cover and basement rocks; seismic profiling, crustal heat flow mapping, geochemical sampling groundwater detection and numerical modelling;
Minerals, microbes and solutions: study of metal complexes under hydrothermal conditions, high pressure-high temperature flow conditions, and biosensors.
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Businesses can engage with TRaX in a range of opportunities including specific project collaboration, consultancy, collaboration involving leveraging government funds and partnership.
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