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DR ROLAND MAAS



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Organization: Earth Sciences
Position: ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY LAB MANAGER
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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
DERIVATION OF LONG-TERM HYDROCLIMATIC SEQUENCES FOR WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING, MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2005
WHEN THE ICE MELTS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE CAUSES OF QUATERNARY GLACIAL TERMINATIONS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2011

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 2011

Journal Articles

  • A Chronology for late Quaternary weathering in the Murray basin, southeastern Australia: evidence from 230Th/U dating of secondary uranium phosphates in the lake Boga and Wycheproof granites, Victoria
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 835-845
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  • Crustal contamination and mantle source characteristics in continental intra-plate volcanic rocks: Pb, Hf and Os isotopes from central European volcanic province basalts
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
    Volume: 75
    Page numbers: 2664-2683
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  • Dating of volcanism and sedimentation in the Skelton Group, Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for the Rodinia-Gondwana transition in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Geological Society of America Bulletin
    Volume: 123
    Issue: 3/4
    Page numbers: 681-702
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  • Rare earth element and strontium geochemistry of the Australian Victorian Alps Drainage System: Evaluating the dominance of carbonate vs. aluminosilicate weathering under varying runoff.
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 284
    Page numbers: 105-126
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Publications in 2010

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  • Collision-related granitic magmatism in the Granites-Tanami Orogen,
    Western Australia
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 177
    Page numbers: 212-226
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  • Crustal and mantle influences and U-Th-Ra disequilibrium in andesitic lavas of Ngauruhoe volcano, New Zealand
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Chemical Geology
    Volume: 277
    Page numbers: 355-373
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  • Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
    Volume: 11
    Article number: Q0AA06
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  • Speleothem climate records from deep time? Exploring the potential with an example from the Permian
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 455-458
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Publications in 2009

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  • Chlorine from the mantle: Magmatic halides in the Udachnaya-East kimberlite, Siberia

    Year: 2009
    Journal: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    Volume: 285
    Page numbers: 96-104
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  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 325
    Page numbers: 1527-1531
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  • Geochronological and isotopic constraints on Palaeoproterozoic skarn base metal mineralisation in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Ore Geology Reviews
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 350-362
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 9: A guide to depth profiling and imaging applications of LA-ICP-MS
    Year: 2008
    Book: Laser ablation ICP-MS in the Earth Sciences: current practices and outstanding issues
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Journal Articles

  • Exploring the plutonic- volcanic link: a zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope study of paired volcanic and granitic units from southeastern Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Royal Society of Edinburgh. Transactions. Earth and Environmental Science
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 337-355
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  • Isotopic and geochemical constraints on the age and origin of granitoids from the central Mawson Escarpment southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
    Volume: 155
    Page numbers: 379-400
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  • Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria, mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 281-299
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  • The pre-1.8 Ga Tectono-Magmatic Evolution of the Kalkadoon-Leichhardt Belt- Implications for the Crustal Architecture and Metallogeny of the Mt Isa Inlier
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Page numbers: -
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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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  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 331-343
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  • Multiple mantle plume components involved in the petrogenesis of subduction-related lavas from the northern termination of the Tonga Arc and northern Lau Basin: Evidence from the geochemistry of arc and backarc submarine volcanics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 9
    Article number: Q09003
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  • The Timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo belt (South Africa); Constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and REE partitioning

    Year: 2007
    Journal: Lithos
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 97-117
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Geochronological constraints on tourmaline formation in the Western Fold Belt of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Evidence for large-scale metamorphism at 1.57 Ga?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Precambrian Research
    Volume: 146
    Page numbers: 120-137
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  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 101-104
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  • SHRIMP ion probe zircon geochronology and Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry for southern Longwood Range and Bluff Peninsula intrusive rocks of Southland, New Zealand
    Year: 2006
    Journal: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 291-303
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  • U-Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quaternary Geochronology
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 208-221
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Nd and Sr isotopic signatures of metasedimentary rocks around the South Pacific margin and implications for their provenance
    Year: 2005
    Book: Terrane Processes at the Margins of Gondwana
    Publisher: Geological Society of London(London)
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Journal Articles

  • In situ Sr-isotope analysis of carbonates by LA-MC-ICP-MS: interference corrections, high spatial resolution and an example from otolith studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 22-27
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
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  • Sr, Nd and Pb isotope evidence for a mantle origin of alkali chlorides and carbonates in the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 549-552
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Isotopic constraints on crustal architecture and Permo-Triassic tectonics in New Guinea: possible links with eastern Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 107-122
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Kimberlite melts rich in alkali chlorides and carbonates: A potent metasomatic agent in the mantle
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Geology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 845-848
    Publisher: Geological Society of America(Colorado)
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  • Provenance analysis using conglomerate clast lithologies: a case study from the Pahau terrane of New Zealand
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Sedimentary Geology
    Volume: 167
    Page numbers: 57-89
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  • Provenance of the sedimentary Rakaia sub-terrane, Torlesse Terrane, South Island, New Zealand: the use of igneous clast compositions to define the source
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Sedimentary Geology
    Volume: 168
    Page numbers: 193-226
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Strontium isotope dating of the New Zealand Oligocene
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 719-730
    Publisher: RSNZ Publishing
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  • Zoned (Cretaceous and Cenozoic) garnet and the timing of high grade metamorphism, Southern Alps, New Zealand
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 137-157
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Direct dating of ore minerals: A feasibility study of the Pb-Pb isotope step-leaching technique
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Dynamic Earth: Past, present and future, 17th Australian Geological Convention
    Conference Publication: Dynamic Earth: Past, present and future. 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, 8-13 February 2004
    Volume: 73
    Page numbers: 251-251
    Publisher: Geological Society of Australia(Sydney)
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  • Pb-Pb step - leaching: Progress and future prospects for the direct dating of minerals
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre June 2004 Conference
    Conference Publication: Geoscience Australia Record
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 9-12
    Publisher: Geoscience Australia(Canberra)
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  • Rapid High Precision U Series
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 8th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: 8th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference 2004
    Page numbers: 56-58
    Publisher: School of Earth Sciences(Melbourne)
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