GEMOC ARC National Key CentreGEMOC's international links
background
- GEMOC has strong international links particularly with Russia and with Asia, including China, Japan, Mongolia, Burma and Thailand.
- targeted Asian regions have geological similarities and contrasts to interpret the geological structure and metallogenic framework of the Australian continent.
- they provide more easily studied analogues to some of the tectonic terranes
- models for continental breakup and reassembly show that during at least two major times of continental rearrangement, parts of the Australian continent split off and ultimately docked to form parts of east Asia
- detailed investigations of terrane boundaries in Asia and eastern Australia should be able to shed more light on this aspect of great significance to the location of some economic deposits
examples of active projects in Asia
- nature and geophysical signature of the lithosphere in eastern China
- fundamental terrane boundaries in Japan
- nature of volcanism at collision margins from deep-sea ashes
- metallogenesis of southeastern China
- granitoid genesis in southeastern China
- diamond exploration in Asia
- basaltic volcanism and basin development, north China
- structure and composition of Mongolia lithosphere
- thermal contrasts and paleogeotherms in Siberia, Mongolia, eastern China
- sapphire occurrences and origin
- diamond exploration, tectonism, and geophysical nature of the lithosphere, Siberia
- mantle terrains and tectonic environment, Siberia
- Rodinia and Gondwana dispersal and docking of Australian terranes in Asia
other international links
funded collaborative projects include:
- Nature of Siberian Lithosphere (with Almazi-Rossii Sakha, Siberia)
- Canadian shield lithosphere structure (with Mr B. Doyle, Kennecott)
- Inclusions in diamonds from Canadian lithosphere (with Mr B. Doyle, Kennecott)
- Thermal and petrologic structure of the Rio Grande Rift (with Prof Paul Morgan, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff)
- Thailand diamonds, sapphires and basalts (with Dr Pornsawat Wathanakul)
GEMOC participants also have a wide range of research collaborations with colleagues in UK, USA, Europe (France, Germany, Norway).
other activities 1996
- Special Symposium D-2 at the International Geological Congress in Beijing in August 1996 dedicated to the results and global implications of 3-D and 4-D Lithosphere Mapping (see report, appendix 9)
- Extended visits by nine international collaborators to undertake discrete research projects (see appendix 4)
- Refer to the Research Program and Postgraduate sections of this Report for details of collaborative research projects and postgraduate exchanges.