Research

I researched the causes of high-temperature metamorphism and anatexis in the late Palaeoproterozoic Mojave Crustal Province in southwestern USA utilising petrographic observations, thermobarometry, and geochronology.

I investigated the temperature, pressure, and depth at which the Newcastle rhyodacites (Phanerozoic analogues of Archean trondhjemites, tonalites, and granodiorites) formed in response to subduction 52 Ma. I utilised petrographic observations, thermodynamic modeling of mid-ocean ridge and adakite-like melt compositions, x-ray powder diffraction analyses, scanning electron microscope analyses and x-ray fluorescence analyses to determine the thickness of Jamaican crust at the time of these adakites' formation and their implication for Archaean tectonics.