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PROF DAVID GRAY



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Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/php/view_profile.php?id=drgray
Work: 8344 6931
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 344
Level: 03
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy Macquarie University 31-Dec-1976

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
Obduction, lithospheric flexure and basin formation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002

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

  • A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana
    Year: 2008
    Book: West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Correlations Across the South Atlantic Region
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Structure and strain variation at mid-crustal levels in a transpressional orogen: A review of Kaoko Belt structure and the character of West Gondwana amalgamation and dispersal


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Gondwana Research
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 45-85
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  • Paleozoic crustal growth structure, strain rate, and metallogeny in the Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Arizona Geological Society Digest
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 1-13
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Continental growth and recycling by accretion of deformed turbidite fans and remnant ocean basins: Examples from Neoproterozoic and Phanerozoic orogens
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geological Society of America - Special Papers
    Volume: 200
    Page numbers: 63-92
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  • Intrusion mechanisms in a turbidite sequence: the Voetspoor and Doros plutons in NW Namibia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Structural Geology
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 481-496
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  • Strain rate in Paleozoic thrust sheets, the western Lachlan Orogen, Australia: Strain analysis and fabric geochronology
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geological Society of America - Special Papers
    Volume: 433
    Page numbers: 349-368
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  • The coastal terrane of the Kaoko Belt, Namibia: Outboard arc-terrane and tectonic significance
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 155
    Page numbers: 139-158
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Structural style and crustal architecture of the Tasmanides of eastern Australia: Example of a composite accretionary orogen
    Year: 2006
    Book: Styles of Continental Contraction
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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Journal Articles

  • 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Pan-African Damara Orogen, Namibia, with implications for tectonothermal and geodynamics evolution
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 150
    Page numbers: 49-72
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  • Crust restoration for the western Lachlan Orogen using the strain-reversal, area balancing technique: implications for crustal components and original thicknesses
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 329-341
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  • Crustal architecture of the Himalayan metamorphic front in eastern Nepal
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Gondwana Research
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 232-255
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Age and Stratigraphic Relationships of Structurally Deepest Level Rocks, Oman Mountains: U/Pb SHRIMP Evidence for Late Carboniferous Neotethys Rifting
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Geology
    Volume: 113
    Page numbers: 611-626
    Publisher: University of Chicago Press(Illinois)
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  • Comment on "Structural evolution, metamorphism and restoration of the Arabian continental margin, Saith Hatat region, Oman Mountains" by M.P. Searle et al.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Structural Geology
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 371-374
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Event geochronology of the Pan-African Kaoko Belt, Namibia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 140
    Issue: 103
    Page numbers: 1-41
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Extrusional Tectonics in the core of a Transpressional Orogen; the Kaoko Belt,Namibia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 46 (6)
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1203-1241
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Strain state and kinematic evolution of a fold-nappe beneath the Samail Ophiolite, Oman
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Structural Geology
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1986-2007
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Timing of Subduction and exhumation along the Cambrian East Gondwana margin, and the formation of Paleozoic backarc basins
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geological Society of America Bulletin
    Volume: 117
    Issue: 1/2
    Page numbers: 105-116
    Publisher: Association of Engineering Geologists, Geological Society of America(Texas)
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  • Timing of orogenic gold mineralisation in northeastern Tasmania: implications for the tectonic and metallogenetic evolution of Palaezoic SE Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Mineralium Deposita
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 890-903
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Tethyan- and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: Implications for the evolution of the Tasmanides
    Year: 2004
    Book: Ophiolites in Earth's History
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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Journal Articles

  • 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic constraints on deformation, metamorphism and cooling/exhumation of a Mesozoic accretionary wedge, Otago Schist, New Zealand
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 385
    Page numbers: 181-210
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Comment on "Eoalpine (Cretaceous) evolution of the Oman Tethyan continental margin: insights from a structural field study in Jabal Akhdar (Oman Mountains)" by Jean-Paul Breton et al.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: GeoArabia
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 143-147
    Publisher: Gulf PetroLink
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  • Lachlan Orogen subduction-accretion systematics revisited
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 549-553
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Ophiolite accretion in the Lachlan Orogen, Southeastern Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Structural Geology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 87-112
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Sm-Nd and Zircon U-Pb ages from garnet-bearing eclogites, NE Oman: constraints on High-P metamorphism
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 222
    Page numbers: 407-422
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, southeast Australia: historical review, data synthesis and modern perspectives
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 773-817
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Transition from subduction- to exhumation-related fabrics in glaucophone-bearing eclogites, Oman: evidence from relative fabric chronology and 40Ar/39Ar ages
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Tectonophysics
    Volume: 389
    Page numbers: 35-64
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Variation in Metamorphic Style along the Northern Margin of the Damara Orogen, Namibia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 1261-1295
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Ophiolite obduction and the Samail Ophiolite: the behaviour of the underlying margin
    Year: 2003
    Book: Ophiolites in Earth History
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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  • Ophiolite obduction and the Samail Ophiolite: the behaviour of the underlying margin
    Year: 2003
    Book: Ophiolites in Earth History
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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  • Structure, metamorphism, geochronology and tectonics of Palaeozoic rocks: interpreting a complex, long-lived orogenic system
    Year: 2003
    Book: Geology of Victoria
    Publisher: Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division)(Melbourne)
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  • Tethyan- and Cordilleran-type ophiolites of eastern Australia: implicatioins for the evolution of the Tasmanides
    Year: 2003
    Book: Ophiolites in Earth History
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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  • The Tasman Orogenic Belt, Eastern Australia: An example of Paleozoic Tectonic Accretion
    Year: 2003
    Book: Earth Structure - An introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics
    Publisher: WW Norton & Company(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Evolution of the boundary between the western and central Lachlan Orogen: implications for Tasmanide tectonics
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 725-749
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Fault geometry as evidence for inversion of a former rift basin in the Eastern Lachlan Orogen
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 513-523
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  • Formation and emplacement of the Dolodrook serpentinite body, Lachlan Orogen, Victoria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 709-723
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  • The Metamorphic Architecture of a Transpressional Orogen: the Kaoko Belt, Namibia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Petrology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 679-711
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The importance of diffusion, advection, and host-rock lithology on vein formation:A stable isotopic study from the Paleozoic Ouchita Orogoenic belt, Arkansas and Oklahoma
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Geological Society of America Bulletin
    Volume: 114
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1343-1355
    Publisher: Association of Engineering Geologists, Geological Society of America(Texas)
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