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PROF ROGER POWELL



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Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: APF THERMAL FRAMEWORK EARTH
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/people/powell
Work: 8344 6533
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 448
Level: 04
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
China Chinese Academy of Sciences Research
China Beijing Research
United Kingdom University of Cambridge Research
Italy University of Pavia Research
Switzerland ETH Zurich - Geologisches Institut Research
France Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Research
Austria Technische Universitaet Graz Research
United States The University of Montana Research
France Universite Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I) Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Durham 31-Dec-1970
Doctor of Philosophy University of Oxford 31-Dec-1973

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 01-Jan-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Mineralogical Society (London) Schlumberger Medal of the Mineralogical Society (London) 01-Jan-2007

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
Mineral equilibria modelling for earth processes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
READING THE OROGENIC RECORD: MINERAL TEXTURES, METAMORPHIC PROCESSES & CRUSTAL EVOLUTION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Building the thermodynamic framework for modelling the Earth Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

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 2009

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Contrasting metamorphic histories of lenses of high-pressure rocks and host migmatites with a flat orogenic fabric (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic): a result of tectonic mixing within horizontal crustal flow?


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 623-646
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  • Calculated phase equilibria involving chemical potentials to investigate the textural evolution of metamorphic rocks
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 181-198
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  • Establishing the P-T path for Alpine Schist ,Southern Alps near Hokitika, New Zealand
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 81-97
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  • Garnet-clinopyroxene intermediate granulites in the St. Leonhard massif of the Bohemian Massif: ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism at high pressure or not?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 253-271
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  • Granulite facies metamorphism and subsolidus fluid-absent reworking, Strangways Range, Arunta Block, central Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 603-622
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  • On thermobarometry
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 155-179
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  • Partial melting of metagreywacke: a calculated mineral equilibria study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 837-853
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  • Phase equilibria modelling of kyanite-bearing anatectic paragneisses from the central Grenville Province
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 815-836
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  • Quantitative phase petrology of cordierite-orthoamphibole gneisses and related rocks
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 795-814
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  • Transforming mylonitic metagranite by open-system interactions during melt flow
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 55-80
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  • Ultrahigh-pressure garnet peridotites from the devolatilization of sea-floor hydrated ultramafic rocks
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 695-716
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A new thermodynamic model for clino- and orthoamphiboles in the system Na2O-CaO-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-O
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 631-656
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  • An order-disorder model for omphacitic pyroxenes in the system jadeite-diopside-hedenbergite-acmite, with applications to eclogitic rocks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Mineralogist
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 1181-1189
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  • DES-code: A metacode to aid calculation of the chemical potential of aqueous solutions at elevated temperatures and pressures
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Computers & Geosciences
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 789-807
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  • Formation of eclogite, and reaction during exhumation to mid-crustal levels, Snowbird tectonic zone, western Canadian Shield
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 953-974
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  • Progress relating to calculation of partial melting equilibria for metapelites
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 511-527
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  • The pressure dependence of the zirconium-in-rutile thermometer
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 703-713
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  • Timing of Gold Mineralization Relative to the Peak of Metamorphism at Bronzewing, Western Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
    Volume: 102
    Page numbers: 379-392
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  • Understanding K-feldspar 40Ar/39Ar data: reconciling models, methods and microtextures
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
    Volume: 164
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 941-944
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  •  Devolatilization of metabasic rocks during greenschist-amphibolite facies metamorphism
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 497-513
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  • A method for activity calculations in saline and mixed solvent solutions at elevated temperature and pressure: A framework for geological phase equilibria calculations


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 5488-5506
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  • Mineral activity-composition relations and petrological calculations involving cation equipartition in multisite minerals: a logical inconsistency


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 851-861
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  • Palaeozoic Intraplate Crustal Anatexis in the Mount Painter Province, South Australia: Timing, Thermal Budgets and the Role of Crustal Heat Production


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2281-2302
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  • Calculated Phase Relations in the System NCKFMASH (Na2O-CaO-K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O) for High-Pressure Metapelites.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 385-408
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  • Calculated Phase Relations in the system Na2O-CaO-K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O with Applications to UHP Eclogites and Whiteschists
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 2047-2071
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  • Evolution of H2O content in a polymetamorphic terrane: The Plattengneiss Shear Zone (Koralpe, Austria).
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 281-295
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  • P-V-T relationships and mineral equilibria in inclusions in minerals.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 244
    Page numbers: 683-694
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  • Rock Buffering of Auriferous Fluids in Altered Rocks Associated with the Golden-Mile-Style Mineralization, Kalgoorlie Gold Field, Western Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 805-817
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  • Separate or shared metamorphic histories of eclogites and surrounding rocks? An example from the Bohemian Massif.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 219-240
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  • The lawsonite paradox: a comparison of field evidence and mineral equilibria modelling
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 715-725
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A thermodynamic model for Ca-Na clinoamphiboles in Na2O-CaO-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-O for petrological calculations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 771-791
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • An in situ metatexite-diatexite transition in upper amphibolite facies rocks from Broken Hill, Australia.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 579-602
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  • Constraining the P-T path of a MORB-type eclogite using pseudosections, garnet zoning and garnet-clinopyroxene thermometry: an example from the Bohemian Massif
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 725-743
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  • Contrast ng styles of Proterozo c crustal evolut on: A hot-plate tecton c model for Austral an terranes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 673-676
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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  • Does ternary feldspar constrain the metamorphic conditions of high-grade meta-igneous rocks? Evidence from orthopyroxene granulites, Bohemian Massif
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 627-647
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Modelling of mineral equilibria in ultrahigh-temperature metamorphic rocks from the Anápolis-Itauçu Complex, central Brazil
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 511-531
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  • Preferential retrogression of high-P metasediments and the preservation of blueschist to eclogite facies metabasite during exhumation, Diahot terrane, NE New Caledonia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Lithos
    Volume: 83
    Page numbers: 67-96
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Truth and beauty in metamorphic phase-equilibria: conjugate variables and phase diagrams
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Canadian Mineralogist
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 21-33
    Publisher: Mineralogical Association of Canada(Ottawa)
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  • calculated phase equilibria in k2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O for silica-undersaturated sapphirine-bearing mineral assemblages
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 23/4
    Page numbers: 217-239
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Calculated Phase Relations in High-Pressure Metapelites in the System NKFMASH (Na2O-K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 183-202
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Calculated phase equilibria for low- and medium- pressure metapelites in the KFMASH and KMnFMASH systems
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 495-508
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  • Calculated phase equilibria in K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O for sapphirine-quartz-bearing mineral assemblages
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 559-578
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  • Spatially-focussed melt formation in aluminous metapelites from Broken Hill, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 825-845
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  • The origin and P-T evolution of peridotites and serpentinites of NE New Caledonia: prograde interaction between continental margin and the mantle wedge
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 327-344
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Publications in 2003

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  • (Th+U)-Pb monazite ages from Al-Mg-rich metapelites, Rauer Group, east Antarctica
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
    Volume: 146
    Page numbers: 326-340
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • A mineral equilibria study of the hydrothermal alterationin mafic greenschist facies rocks at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 455-468
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  • Activity-composition relations for phases in petrological calculations: an asymmetric multicomponent formulation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
    Volume: 145
    Page numbers: 492-501
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Eclogites from the south Tianshan, NW China: petrological characteristic and calculated mineral equilibria in the Na2O-CaO-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 163-179
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  • Lawsonite-Omphacite-Bearing Metabasites of the Pam Peninsula, NE New Caledonia: Evidence for Disrupted Blueschist- to Eclogite-Facies Conditions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 1805-1831
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • New constraints on metamorphism in the Rauer Group,Prydz Bay, east Antarctica
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 739-759
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  • Orthopyroxene–sillimanite–quartz assemblages: distribution,petrology, quantitative P–T–X constraints and P–T paths
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 439-453
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  • Phase relations in high-pressure metapelites in the system KFMASH (K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O) with application to natural rocks
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
    Volume: 145
    Page numbers: 301-315
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  • Prograde Metamorphic Assemblage Evolution during Partial Melting of Metasedimentary Rocks at Low Pressures: Migmatites from Mt Stafford, Central Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 1937-1960
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Publications in 2002

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  • Fractionation of bulk rock composition due to porphyroblast growth: effects on eclogite facies mineral equilibria, Pam Peninsula, New Caledonia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 151-165
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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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  • Melt loss and the preservation of granulite facies mineral assemblages.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 621-632
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  • The Interpretation of reaction textures in Fe-rich metapelitic granulites of the Musgrave Block, central Australia: constraints from mineral equilibria calculations in the system K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O-TiO2-Fe2O3
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 41-55
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  • The formation of eclogite facies metatroctolites and a general petrogenetic grid in Na2O-CaO-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O (NCFMASH)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 813-826
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Calculation of partial melting equilibria in the system Na2O-CaO-K2O-FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O (NCKFMASH)
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 139-153
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  • Calculation of phase relations involving haplogranitic melts using an internally consistent thermodynamic dataset
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 673-683
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • H2O in metamorphism and unexpected behaviour in the preservation of metamorphic mineral assemblages
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 445-454
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  • Strain localisation and high-grade metamorphism at Broken Hill, Australia: a view from the Southern Cross area
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 335
    Page numbers: 193-210
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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