Ben Mather

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Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper emplacement

Ben Mather , Dietmar Müller, Chris Alfonso, Nicky Wright, Maria Seton 350% increase in copper demand by 2050 for renewable energy plants and EVs. No significant copper discoveries …

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Carbon emissions along divergent plate boundaries modulate icehouse-greenhouse climates

Carbon emissions along divergent plate boundaries modulate icehouse-greenhouse climate transitions through mid-ocean ridge and rift degassing.

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Craton boundary detection from full-waveform tomography model reveals links to critical metal deposits

Using full-waveform seismic tomography to detect craton boundaries and their spatial links to critical metal deposit locations.

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Regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene

Reconstructing regional carbonate compensation depth variability in the Pacific Ocean since the Oligocene to understand deep-sea carbon cycling.

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Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper formation

Plate tectonic reconstructions and machine learning show that subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper deposit formation.

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Solid Earth Carbon Degassing and Sequestration Since 1 Billion Years Ago

Coupling plate tectonic models with thermodynamic carbon outflux estimates to reconstruct solid Earth carbon degassing over the last billion years.

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Spreading ridge migration enabled by plume-ridge de-anchoring

Numerical modelling shows that high-buoyancy mantle plumes can capture and de-anchor spreading ridges, enabling their migration over vast distances.

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Spatio-temporal copper prospectivity in the American Cordillera predicted by positive-unlabeled machine learning featured image

Spatio-temporal copper prospectivity in the American Cordillera predicted by positive-unlabeled machine learning

A positive-unlabeled machine learning model predicts spatio-temporal copper prospectivity along the American Cordillera from subduction zone dynamics.

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Unravelling the origins of enigmatic volcanism to discover critical metals

Ben Mather | EarthByte Group | The University of Sydney Mt Fuji, Japan Last Eruption: 1707 St Helens, USA Last Eruption: 1980 Mauna Loa, Hawaii Last Eruption: 1984

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Understanding the deep-time tectonic carbon cycle by linking thermodynamic and plate tectonic models

Dietmar Müller EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney Geology and Geophysics Research Group at the University of Sydney established in 2002 www.earthbyte.org …

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