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PROF MIKE SANDIFORD



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Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: ARC SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australian Academy of Science Mawson Medal 30-Mar-2004

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
Approaching anion solvation from the bottom up: infrared studies of negatively charged complexes and clusters Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Neotectonics of the Indo-Australian plate Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Murray Basin: a unique archive of late neogene global change Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
3D COMPUTATIONALMODELS OF GEOLOGICAL BASIN AND HINTERLAND EVOLUTION INCORPORATING LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE AND SURFACE PROCESSES Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 07/12/2007
INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE CONTINENTAL CRUST: A VIRTUAL FACILITY FOR THERMOCHRONOLOGY, NOBLE GAS GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008
Thermal structure and evolution of the Australian continent Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
LOW EMISSION COAL CONSORTIUM - MOU Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND 15/06/2009

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 2008

Book Chapters

  • Present day stresses, seismicity and Neogene-to-Recent tectonics of Australia's 'passive' margins: intraplate deformation controlled by plate boundary forces
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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  • Uranium-series isotope and thermal constraints on the rate and depth of sicilic magma genesis
    Year: 2008
    Book: Dynamics of Crustal Magma Transfer, Storage and Differentiation
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Cenozoic Eucla Basin and associated palaeovalleys, southern Australia- Climatic and tectonic influences on landscape evolution, sedimentation and heavy mineral accumulation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Sedimentary Geology
    Volume: 203
    Page numbers: 112-130
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  • Enhanced intraplate seismicity along continental margins: Some causes and consequences
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 457
    Page numbers: 197-208
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  • Seismic moment release during slab rupture beneath the Banda Sea
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geophysical Journal International
    Volume: 174
    Page numbers: 659-671
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  • The mechanics of clay smearing along faults
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 787-790
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  • U-Pb SHRIMP zircon geochronology and T-t-d history of the Kampa Dome, southern Tibet
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 446
    Page numbers: 97-113
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A new Strategy for discrete element numerical models: 2. Sandbox applications
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 1-12
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  • Bedrock erosion and relief production in the Northen Flinders ranges, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 929-944
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  • Distinguishing tectonic from climatic controls on range-front sedimentation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Basin Research
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 491-505
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  • Landscape responses to intraplate tectonism: Quantitative constraints from 10Be nuclide abundances
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 261
    Page numbers: 120-133
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  • The tilting continent: A new constraint on the dynamic topographic field from Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 261
    Page numbers: 152-163
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  • U-Series isotope and geodynamic constraints on mantle melting processes beneath the newer volcanic province in South Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 261
    Page numbers: 517-533
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Lower Crustal rheological expression in inverted basins
    Year: 2006
    Book: Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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  • Thermal and Mechanical Controls on the Evolution of Archean Crustal Deformation: Examples From Western Australia
    Year: 2006
    Book: Archean Geodynamics and Environments Geophysical Monograph Series 164
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Washington DC)
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  • Thermo-mechanical controls on heat production distributions and the long-term evolution of the continents
    Year: 2006
    Book: Evolution and Differentiation of the Continental Crust
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Kampa Dome, southern Tibet: Implications for tectonic evolution of the North Himalayan gneiss domes


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 421
    Page numbers: 269-297
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  • Beryllium and Other Trace Elements in Paragneisses and Anatectic Veins of the Ultrahigh-Temperature Napier Complex, Enderby Land, East Antarctica: Role of Sapphirine


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 859-882
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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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  • Present-day state-of-stress of southeast Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The APPEA Journal
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 283-305
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  • Quaternary faults of south-central Australia: palaeoseismicity, slip rates and origin.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 285-301
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Buried Inset-Valleys in the Eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Geomorphology, Age, and Allogenic Control
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Geology
    Volume: 113
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 471-493
    Publisher: University of Chicago Press(Illinois)
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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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  • Evaluating slab-plate coupling in the Indo-Australian plate
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 113-116
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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  • Late Neogene strandlines of southern Victoria: a unique record of eustasy and tectonics in southeast Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 277-295
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Modes of active intraplate deformation, Flinders Ranges, Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Tectonics
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 1-17
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A high-resolution, calibrated airborne radiometric dataset applied to the estimation of crustal heat production in the Archaean northern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 57-82
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Conductive incubation and the origin of dome-and-keel structure in Archean granite-greenstone terrains: A model based on the eastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Tectonics
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Washington DC)
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  • Origin of the in situ stress field in south-eastern Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Basin Research
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 325-338
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Neotectonics of southeastern Australia: linking the Quarternary faulting record with seismicity and in situ stress
    Year: 2003
    Book: Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate
    Publisher: Geological Society of Australia(Sydney)
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  • The hot southern continent: heat flow and heat production in Australian Proterozoic terranes
    Year: 2003
    Book: Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate
    Publisher: Geological Society of Australia(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Geomorphic constraints on the Late Neogene tectonics of the Otway Range, Victoria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 69-80
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • The long-term thermal consequences of rifting: implications for basin reactivation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Basin Research
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 23-43
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Geological Constraints on Active Seismicity in Southeast Australia
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Earthquake Risk Mitigation
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of a conference held by the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: Australian Earthquake Engineering Society(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Style and timing of late Quaternary faulting on the Lake Edgar Fault, southwest Tasmania, Australia: implications for hazard assessment in intracratonic areas
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Geoscience Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Thermochronology of high heat-producing crust at Mount Painter, South Australia: Implications for tectonic reactivation of continental interiors


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tectonics
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 2-1
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  • Granite Production in the Delamerian Orogen, South Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
    Volume: 159
    Page numbers: 557-575
    Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House(Brassmill Lanebath)
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  • High-T, low-P metamorphism in the Palaeoproterozoic Halls Creek Orogen, northern Australia: the middle crustal response to a mantle-related transient thermal pulse
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 217-237
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Long-term thermal consequences of the redistribution of heat-producing elements associated with large-scale granitic complexes
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 87-98
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Low thermal Peclet number intraplate orogeny in central Australia
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 201
    Issue:
    Page numbers: 309-320
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Tectonic feedback and the ordering of heat producing elements within the continental lithosphere
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 204
    Issue:
    Page numbers: 133-150
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • The P-T record of synchronous magmatism, metamorphism and deformation at Petrel Cove, southern Adelaide Fold Belt
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 351-363
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Long-term thermal consequences of tectonic activity at Mount Isa, Australia: Implications for polyphase tectonism in the Proterozoic
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
    Volume: 184
    Page numbers: 219-236
    Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House(Brassmill Lanebath)
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  • Palaeozoic synorogenic sedimentation in central and northern Australia: a review of distribution and timing with implications for the evolution of intracontinental orogens
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 911-928
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Tectonic feedback, intraplate orogeny and the geochemical structure of the crust: a central Australian perspective
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
    Volume: 184
    Page numbers: 195-218
    Publisher: Geological Society Publishing House(Brassmill Lanebath)
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