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DR RICHARD WILLIAM WHITE



Contact Details

Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/php/view_profile.php?id=rwwhite
Work: 8344 6540
Fax: 8344 7761
Room: 446
Level: 04
Building: Mccoy Building/Earth Sciences
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Metamorphic Geology Metamorphism, migmatite Australia, Australian Antarctic Territory

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Cambridge Research
United States Montana State University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Sydney
Master of Science University of Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy Macquarie University

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
READING THE OROGENIC RECORD: MINERAL TEXTURES, METAMORPHIC PROCESSES & CRUSTAL EVOLUTION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

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

Journal Articles

  • On the roles of deformation and fluid during rejuvenation of a polymetamorphic terrane: inferences on the geodynamic evolution of the Ruker Province, East Antarctica


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 855-871
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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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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  • Preservation of evidence for prograde metamorphism in ultrahigh-temperature, high-pressure kyanite-bearing granulites, South Harris, Scotland.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 263-279
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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
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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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
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • 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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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • The metamorphic evolution of metapelitic granulites from Radok Lake, northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica; evidence for an anticlockwise P–T path
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 285-298
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • 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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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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