Tracing ancient groundwater to discover copper
An update on the 'Go with the flow' project — an ARC Industry Research Fellowship with BHP that combines continent-scale groundwater modelling with copper exploration to find new …
Our latest paper reveals how plate tectonics has driven Earth's climate shifts
New research published in Communications Earth & Environment shows that the balance between volcanic outgassing and carbon sequestration into oceanic lithosphere is the key driver …
Mapping craton edges to find critical metals
Our new paper in Geoscience Frontiers uses full-waveform seismic tomography and machine learning to map craton boundaries worldwide — and shows that 85% of target mineral deposits …
Ray + Zarr: a better way to scale plate reconstruction workflows
Why I've moved from Dask to Ray for distributed raster processing, and why Zarr is the natural storage format to pair with it.
GPlately 2.0 is here
GPlately version 2.0 has been released on GitHub — a major milestone for our open-source Python library for plate tectonic reconstructions. Here's a quick tour of what it can do.
How deep can carbon hide in the Pacific?
Our paper in Frontiers in Earth Science presents six new regional reconstructions of the carbonate compensation depth across the Pacific Ocean over the last 30 million years, …
Seafloor scars point to where copper deposits form
Our paper in International Geology Review shows that fracture zones, seamounts, and large igneous provinces on the subducting ocean floor promote porphyry copper formation — …
A billion-year carbon budget for the solid Earth
Our paper in G-Cubed couples plate tectonic models with thermodynamic carbon outflux estimates to build the most comprehensive reconstruction of solid Earth carbon degassing and …
How mantle plumes steer spreading ridges
Our paper in Nature Communications reveals a new mechanism for mid-ocean ridge migration: plumes with high buoyancy flux can capture and anchor ridges in place, and when they wane, …
What kept Earth frozen for 57 million years?
A new paper in Geology links the duration of the Sturtian Snowball Earth glaciation to exceptionally low CO2 outgassing from mid-ocean ridges — not volcanic arcs.