News: Honours Projects - Alan Collins
Dating shales in the world’s oldest petroleum basin

Honours project: An exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of a new dating technique with many industry applications in both minerals, petroleum and research.
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Dating the structural evolution of Pichi Richi

Honours project: Help solve this missing part of the puzzle in the absolute timing of fault movements and landscape evolution of the southern Flinders Ranges.
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Depths of erosion

This project will develop a model of igneous and sedimentary protoliths and produce a model of heat production variation.
Exhuming ore deposits of the Altai (China, Mongolia)

Honours project: Apply multi-method apatite thermochronology and calcite dating to constrain the timing of formation and exhumation of the Altai ore provinces.
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Resolving the stratigraphy of the McArthur Basin via in-situ Rb-Sr dating of glauconites

Honours project: Use new technology to undertake quick and precise Rb-Sr isotope dating of selected authigenic minerals.
Geological framework of the McArthur Basin zinc province

Honours project: Unravel the stratigraphy and mineral prospectively of the McArthur Basin.
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Age & basin evolution of the wild Central Officer Basin: far west SA

Honours project: Valuable drill core samples from the west of the state will be investigated for age and provenance information.
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Reconstructing past plate configurations using radiogenic heat production

Honours project: Reconstruct the supercontinent Gondwana using geochemical, geophysical, structural and geochronologic data.
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