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A/PROF BARRY PAUL KOHN



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/php/view_profile.php?id=bkohn
Work: 8344 7217
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 420A
Level: 04
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Geochronology Thermochronology, tectonics, landscape evolution, basin evolution Canada, Israel, Brazil, Mexico

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Royal Holloway, University of London Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom The University of Glasgow Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United Kingdom Imperial College London Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States U.S. Geological Survey Research
Mexico Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Canada Geological Survey of Canada Research
United States Columbia University Research
United States University of California - Los Angeles Research
Germany Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Research
Israel Ben-Gurion University of The Negev Research
Switzerland University of Geneva Research
United States California Institute of Technology Research
United States University of Florida Research
Germany Universitaet Tuebingen Research
Israel Geological Survey of Israel Research
Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Research
Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Research, Technical Assistance/Training
China Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
English Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Victoria University of Wellington
Doctor of Philosophy Victoria University of Wellington

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Geological Society of Australia 01-Jan-1996
Registered Geological Society of America 01-Jan-1997
Registered American Geophysical Union 01-Jan-1997

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering 01-Jan-1997
Prize Victoria University of Wellington 01-Jan-1973

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
Integrated chronologies & dynamics of continental extension Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Developing a fully automated analytical system for the next generation of fission-track thermochronology Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
AUTOSCAN SYSTEMS PTY LTD
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
The application of fission track analysis to fundamental problems in the Earth Sciences Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2005
From crystal to craton: unravelling the low-temperature thermal evolution and long-term stability of cratonic lithosphere Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Reconstructing the morphotectonic evolution of rifted continental margins from low-temperature thermochronology Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
The application of fission track analysis to fundamental problems in Earth Science Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY NANOSCALE STUDY OF IMPLANTED HEAVY IONS AS A PROXY FOR SPONTANEOUS U FISSION FRAGMENTS Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
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
A NEW GENERATION NOBLE GAS MASS SPECTROMETER FACILITY FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH IN THE EARTH, PLANETARY AND ENVIRONMENT SCIENCES Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL)

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 2007

Book Chapters

  • Thermochronometric reconstruction of the prethrust paleogeothermal gradient and initial thickness of the Lewis thrust sheet, southeastern Canadian Cordillera foreland belt
    Year: 2007
    Book: Whence the Mountains? Inquiries into the Evolution of Orogenic systems: A Volume in Honor of Raymond A. Price
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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Journal Articles

  • Morphotectonic evolution of the central Kenya rift flanks: Implications for late Cenozoic environmental change in East Africa
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 427-430
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  • The effect of long-term low-temperature exposure on apatite fission track stability: A natural annealing experiment in the deep ocean
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 4512-4537
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Cretaceous and Cenozoic cooling history across the ultrahigh pressure Tongbai-Dabie belt, central China, from apatite fission-track thermochronology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 420
    Page numbers: 409-429
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  • Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic evolution along a transect from the north China craton through the Qinling orogen into the Yangtze craton, central China
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tectonics
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1-15
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  • Late-stage evolution of the Chemehuevi and Sacramento detachment faults from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry - Evidence for mid-Miocene accelerated slip 
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geological Society of America Bulletin
    Volume: 118
    Page numbers: 689-709
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  • Low-temperature (<1100C) thermal history of the Mt Isa and Murphy Inliers, northeast Australia: evidence from apatite fission track thermochronology
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 151-165
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  • Reply to Comment by Guedes et al. on: "Low temperature Phanerozoic history of the Northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia"
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 419
    Page numbers: 107-109
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Muccan Batholith, Eastern Pilbara, Western Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: Regolith Lanscape Evolution Across Australia
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exp(Bentley WA)
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Journal Articles

  • Computational Tools for Low-Temperature Thermochronometer Interpretation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 589-622
    Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
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  • Low temperature Phanerozoic history of the Northern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 400
    Page numbers: 127-151
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Visualizing Thermotectonic and Denudation Histories Using Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 527-565
    Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Combined apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He thermochronometry in a slowly cooled terrane: results from a 3440-m-deep drill hole in the southern Canadian Shield
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 227
    Page numbers: 87-104
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Discussion and Reply Fission track studies, Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 646-650
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • How the Harcuvar Mountains metamorphic core complex became cool: Evidence from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 985-988
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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  • Quantitative resolution of the debate over antiquity of the central Australian landscape: implications for the tectonic and geomorphic stability of cratonic interiors
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 219
    Page numbers: 21-34
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Sediment supply to the Gippsland Basin from thermal history analysis: constraints on Emperor-Golden Beach Reservoir Composition
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The APPEA Journal
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 397-415
    Publisher: Australian Petroleum Exploration Association(Canberra)
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Reports

  • Apatite fission track thermochronology of bonoboro project samples, North Eastern Brazil
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Universidade Federale de Rio Grande de Norte Natal(Natal)
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  • Application of apatite fission track thermochronology to dating basement reactivation: Program of investigations
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Ontario Power Generation(Ontario)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Comment on: ‘‘Experimental evidence for the pressure dependence of fission track annealing in apatite’’ by A.S. Wendt et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 201(2002) 593-607]
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 215
    Page numbers: 299-306
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Discussion and Reply Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 646-650
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • (U-Th)/He Dating: An evolving technique
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 3rd Qarternary Dating Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 3rd Quaternary Dating Workshop
    Page numbers: 64-66
    Publisher: Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering(Lucas Hieghts)
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Reports

  • Integrated Chronologies and Dynamics of Continental Extension
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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  • Quantifying the Phanerozoic Thermal Evolution and Long-Term Stability of Cratonic Lithosphere Using Integrated Low Temperature Thermochronology
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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  • Thermal History of samples from the Pernambuco and Paraíba Sub-Basins, Northeastern Brazil: Implications from apatite fission track analysis
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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  • Zircon fission track dates from volcanics in the Pernambuco sub-basin area, Northeastern Brazil
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Evaluating thermal history models for the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia, using (U-Th)/He and fission-track data from borehole apatites
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 349
    Page numbers: 277-295
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Fission Track Dating of Phosphate Minerals and the Thermochronology of Apatite
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 579-630
    Publisher: Mineralogical Society of America
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  • Fission track thermotectonic imaging of the Australian continent
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 349
    Page numbers: 5-21
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Low-temperature thermochronology of the Mt Painter Province, South Australia