The Olympic Cu-Au Province, Gawler Craton: a review of the lithospheric architecture, geodynamic setting, alteration systems, cover successions and prospectivity

A Reid - Minerals, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Olympic Cu-Au Province is a metallogenic province in South Australia that contains one
of the world's most significant Cu-Au-U resources in the Olympic Dam deposit. The Olympic …

Radiogenic isotopes, ore deposits and metallogenic terranes: Novel approaches based on regional isotopic maps and the mineral systems concept

DC Champion, DL Huston - Ore Geology Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Radiogenic isotopes have long been used in mineralisation studies, not just for
geochronological determinations of mineralising events but also as tracers, providing, for …

Global distribution of sediment-hosted metals controlled by craton edge stability

MJ Hoggard, K Czarnota, FD Richards, DL Huston… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sustainable development and the transition to a clean-energy economy drives ever-
increasing demand for base metals, substantially outstrip** the discovery rate of new …

Lithospheric controls on magma composition along Earth's longest continental hotspot track

DR Davies, N Rawlinson, G Iaffaldano, IH Campbell - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Hotspots are anomalous regions of volcanism at Earth's surface that show no obvious
association with tectonic plate boundaries. Classic examples include the Hawaiian …

The crust and upper mantle structure of central and West Antarctica from Bayesian inversion of Rayleigh wave and receiver functions

W Shen, DA Wiens, S Anandakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a new seismic model for central and West Antarctica by jointly inverting
Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities along with P wave receiver functions. Ambient …

Lithospheric architecture and mantle metasomatism linked to iron oxide Cu‐Au ore formation: Multidisciplinary evidence from the Olympic Dam region, South Australia

RG Skirrow, SE Van Der Wielen… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The role of lithospheric architecture and the mantle in the genesis of iron oxide copper‐gold
(IOCG) deposits is controversial. Using the example of the Precambrian Gawler Craton …

Transient hydrology-induced elastic deformation and land subsidence in Australia constrained by contemporary geodetic measurements

Y Pan, H Ding, J Li, CK Shum, R Mallick, J Jiao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Earth's lithospheric deformation in response to geophysical and climatic processes
manifests as a wide range of spatio-temporal elastic/viscoelastic deformation, including …

Multidisciplinary constraints on the abundance of diamond and eclogite in the cratonic lithosphere

JM Garber, S Maurya, JA Hernandez… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Some seismic models derived from tomographic studies indicate elevated shear‐wave
velocities (≥ 4.7 km/s) around 120–150 km depth in cratonic lithospheric mantle. These …

Next-generation seismic model of the Australian crust from synchronous and asynchronous ambient noise imaging

Y Chen, E Saygin, B Kennett, MT Qashqai… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The proliferation of seismic networks in Australia has laid the groundwork for high-resolution
probing of the continental crust. Here we develop an updated 3D shear-velocity model using …

Structure and evolution of the Australian plate and underlying upper mantle from waveform tomography with massive data sets

JI De Laat, S Lebedev, NL Celli… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a new S-wave velocity tomographic model of the upper mantle beneath the
Australian Plate and its boundaries that we call Aus22. It includes azimuthal anisotropy and …