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Geology and geophysics

Exploring Earth’s geological past to help understand it future

Our research examines the origin, structure resources, and history of the Earth, including the evolution of its materials, processes, organisms, environments and habitability.

Early Earth evolution

Our interests lie in understanding the origin and evolution of early life on Earth and the dynamics of Precambrian provinces with multiphase thermal and deformational histories.

Earthbyte

EarthByte is an internationally leading eGeoscience collaboration between several Australian universities, international centres of excellence and industry partners.

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Earth systems

We are developing an experimental virtual planet to assimilate sparse geological observations into deep time Earth models to understand the intricate pathways in Earth’s evolution.

Environmental geology and geochemistry

Geological and geochemical research in marine, estuarine and riverine environments.

Geophysics

We investigate how geophysical methods are applied at all scales, from the study of the behaviour core samples through to the entire earth.

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Resource exploration

We're investigating aspects of resource exploration, including mineral resources based on petrographic, geochemical, computational and geophysical methods.

Tectonics, landscapes and environment

We're understanding the processes affecting the structure of the Earth's lithosphere, its resources, its environment and biodiversity.

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School of Geosciences

A dynamic group of disciplines made up of geology, geography and geophysics. We tackle key issues facing society including climate change, resource management and sustainability.