Department of Earth Sciences
About this community
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography
Earth Sciences is the most multidisciplinary of the Natural Sciences. Our understanding of the Earth and other planets is based on research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences and includes the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, Palaeoceanography. We focus on particular aspects of the earth; its internal structure and evolution, the behaviour and properties of minerals as natural materials, oil, gas and other natural resources, Earth history as recorded in rocks and fossils, the origin of life and global climate change. We draw on the expertise of the neighbouring sciences, mathematics, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geography and the biological sciences.
Sub-communities within this community
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Mineral Science
Research focusing on elucidating the properties and behaviour of minerals and fluids at a fundamental level
Collections in this community
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Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems
Using chemical, isotopic and sedimentary proxies of critical parameters to explore the causes and consequences of rapid climate changes in the last glacial cycle -
Geodynamics, Geophysics and Tectonics
Investigation of a very broad spectrum of structural, tectonic and geodynamical processes using quantitative physical models based on land-, marine- and space-based observations -
Palaeobiology
Straddles Earth Sciences and Biology; aims to investigate whether evolution is open-ended and indeterminate, or highly constrained by physico-chemical factors -
Petrology: Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies
Research of igneous, metamorphic and volcanic processes to enhance understanding of global tectonics as well as their more immediate impacts on our surficial environment
Recent Submissions
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Mantle and crustal controls on the distribution of chalcophile elements in silicate melts
In silicate melts, sulfur-loving chalcophile and siderophile elements (collectively termed CSE) are an important suite of elements both in terms of their economic importance (e.g., porphyry Cu deposits) and use as petrogenetic ... -
Nominally volatile-free mantle minerals: a reservoir for water and fluorine in the Kaapvaal Craton
The extent to which Earth’s sub-cratonic lithospheric mantle acts as a major repository for volatile elements is poorly constrained. This study presents the first systematic investigation into water, fluorine and chlorine ... -
Microanalytical Constraints on the Geometry and Chemical Evolution of Kīlauea’s Volcanic Plumbing System
Kīlauea Volcano is an outstanding natural laboratory in which to investigate basaltic volcanism, owing to over a century of extensive study. In the last decade, there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of ...
