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A/PROF JANET HERGT



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/
Work: 49866
Fax: 47761
Room: 410
Level: 04
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Isotope and trace element geochemistry, geochronology mantle evolution, climate change, ore deposit formation United Kingdom, Antarctica, Fiji, Tonga, India

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Bristol Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States Oregon State University Research, Technical Assistance/Training
China Jilin University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Italy University 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' of Chieti - Pescara Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) La Trobe University 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Chemical Geology Editorial Board 10-Jul-2008
Member The Geological Society of Australia Professional 01-Jan-1999
Member The Geochemical Society Professional 20-May-2005
Member Journal of the Geological Society (of London) Advisory Editor 01-Jan-2002 31-Dec-2007
Member Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Editorial Board 01-Jan-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
A new x-ray spectrometer facility for VIEPS: major and trace element characterisation of geological materials Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
MAPPING THE FUTURE OF MICROANALYSIS: APPLICATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND PALAEOECOLOGY RESEARCH Chief Investigator HERMON SLADE FOUNDATION Grants 01/07/2006
AUSTRALIAN MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL)

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
MCA INITIATIVE Chief Investigator MINERALS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA 01/01/2001
PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY CRC Chief Investigator PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (PMD*CRC) 01/07/2001
H2: PB-PB STEP LEACHING AS A POSSIBLE MEANS OF DATING MINERALISATION, METAMORPHISM AND DEFORMATION Chief Investigator PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (PMD*CRC) 01/01/2002
ULTRA-TRACE ANALYSIS OF SNOW SAMPLES FOR DETERMINATION OF LEVELS OF SILVER AND INDIUM Chief Investigator SNOWY HYDRO LIMITED 15/06/2005
PMD*CRC CONTRACTS/ WIND UP AGREEMENT Chief Investigator PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (PMD*CRC) 07/08/2008
PMD*CRC WIND UP AGREEMENT Chief Investigator PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (PMD*CRC) 24/10/2008
DEED OF TERMINATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - MANAGEMENT AND TRUST DEED Chief Investigator PREDICTIVE MINERAL DISCOVERY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (PMD*CRC) 29/10/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 9: A guide to depth profiling and imaging applications of LA-ICP-MS
    Year: 2008
    Book: Laser ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: current practices and outstanding issues
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  • Chapter A9: Iolite: software for spatially resolved LA-(quad and MC)-ICP-MS analysis
    Year: 2008
    Book: Laser ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: current practices and outstanding issues
    Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada(Ottawa)
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Journal Articles

  • 40Ar/39Ar constraints on the timing and origin of Miocene leucitite volcanism in southeastern Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 407 - 418
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  • Age and pyrite Pb-isotopic composition of the giant Sukhoi Log sediment-hosted gold deposit, Russia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
    Volume: 72
    Page numbers: 2377-2391
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  • Evolution of Pre-1.8 Ga basement rocks in the western Mt Isa Inlier, northeastern Australia- Insights from SHRIMP U-Pb dating and in-situ Lu-Hf analysis of zircons
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 163
    Page numbers: 159-173
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  • GGR Critical Review of Analytical Developments in 2006-2007
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 397-398
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  • Interaction of adakitic melt-peridotite: Implications for the high-Mg# signature of Mesozoic adakitic rocks in the eastern North China Craton
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 265
    Page numbers: 123 - 137
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A critical evaluation of recent models for Lau-Tonga arc-backarc basin magmatic evolution
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 245
    Page numbers: 9-44
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  • A-type magmatism in the Western Lachlan Fold Belt? A study of granites and rhyolites from the Grampians region, Western Victoria
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Lithos
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 122-139
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  • Granite-greenstone connection in western Victoria: an example from the Bushy Creek Igneous Complex
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 975-990
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  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 331-343
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  • Magmatic and crustal differentiation history of granitic rocks from Hf-O isotopes in zircon
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 315
    Page numbers: 980-983
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  • New insights into the genesis of Indian kimberlites from the Dharwar Craton via in situ Sr isotope analysis of groundmass perovskite
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1011-1014
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  • Pink lanthanite-(Nd) from Whitianga quarry, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Canadian Mineralogist
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1659-1666
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  • Strontium isotope analysis of kimberlitic groundmass perovskite via LA-MC-ICP-MS
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 321-330
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • GGR Critical Review of Analytical Developments in 2004-2005
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 141-207
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • In situ Sr-isotope analysis of carbonates by LA-MC-ICP-MS: interference corrections, high spatial resolution and an example from otolith studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 22-27
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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  • A Preliminary Appraisal of Seven Natural Zircon Reference Materials for In Situ Hf Isotope Determination
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 183-195
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  • GGR Critical Review of Analytical Developments in 2003
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 29/1
    Page numbers: 5-55
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  • Improved in situ isotope analysis of low-Pb materials using LA-MC-ICP-MS with parallel ion counter and Faraday detection
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1350-1357
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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  • Mantle heterogeneity beneath the Cenozoic volcanic provinces of central Victoria inferred from trace element and Sr, Nd, Pb and Hf isotope data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 243-260
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • In situ Sr-isotope analysis of carbonates by LA-MC-ICP-MS: interference corrections, high spatial resolution and an example from otolith studies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 22-27
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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  • Zircon Hf-isotope analysis with an excimer laser, depth profiling, ablation of complex geometries, and concomitant age estimation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 209
    Page numbers: 121-135
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Direct dating of ore minerals: A feasibility study of the Pb-Pb isotope step-leaching technique
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Dynamic Earth: Past, present and future, 17th Australian Geological Convention
    Conference Publication: Dynamic Earth: Past, present and future. 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, 8-13 February 2004
    Volume: 73
    Page numbers: 251
    Publisher: Geological Society of Australia(Sydney)
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  • Pb-Pb step - leaching: Progress and future prospects for the direct dating of minerals
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre June 2004 Conference
    Conference Publication: Geoscience Australia Record
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 9-12
    Publisher: Geoscience Australia(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Pb-Pb step-leaching as a possible means of dating mineralisation, metamorphism and deformation. Final report, 30 September 2004.
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Pb-Pb step-leaching as a possible means of dating mineralisation, metamorphism and deformation. Quarterly report, 31 March 2004.
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Continental setting inferred for emplacement of the 2.9-2.7 Ga Belingwe Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 295-298
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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Reports

  • H2 Annual Report (July)
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • H2 Project Report for 2nd year review (July)
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • H2 Quarterly Report (April)
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • H2 Quarterly Report (November)
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • H2 Quarterly Report (September)
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: PMD-CRC, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Comment on: 'Growth and recycling of early Archaean continental crust: geochemical evidence from the Coonterunah and Warrawoona groups, Pilbara Craton, Australia' by Green, M.G. et al. (Tectonophysics 322, 69-88)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 344
    Page numbers: 289-292
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Improving isochron calculations with robust statistics and the bootstrap.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 191-204
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Pan-African intraplate deformation in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 195
    Page numbers: 195-210
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Pb-and Nd-isotope systematics of stromatolitic limestones from the 2.7 Ga Ngezi Group of the Belingwe Greenstone Belt: constraints on timing of deposition and provenance
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 114
    Page numbers: 277-294
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Hafnium isotope evidence for 'conservative' element mobility during subduction zone processes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 192
    Page numbers: 331-346
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  • On the origin of Tasmanian dolerites
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 543-549
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Stronium, Neodymium and Lead isotope analyses of NIST glass certified reference materials: SRM 610, 612, 614
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Geostandards Newsletter - The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 2-3
    Page numbers: 261-266
    Publisher: Geostandards(Vandoeuvre Nancy)
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  • U-series isotope data on Lau Basin glasses: the role of subduction-related fluids during melt generation in back-arc basins
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1449-1470
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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