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Geoff Batt

Research Associate Professor
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)

Contact details

Address
Robert Street Building, Rm 219
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
The University of Western Australia (M006)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone
+618 6488 2686
Email
geoff.batt@uwa.edu.au
 Blog
rockysubjects.wordpress.com

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Dr Batt is currently exploring structural controls on mineralisation around the giant Telfer Au-Cu deposit in northern Australia. He completed a B.Sc. honours degree in Geology at Otago University in 1994, graduated with a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the Australian National University in 1999, and was awarded a Qualification  d’Professor de Universities by the French Ministry of Education in 2007. Geoff was a Damon Wells Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Yale University, and worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London for eight years prior to taking up a position at UWA in 2008. While there, he was awarded an ExxonMobil Teaching Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to education and student development in applied geoscience. Geoff has an extensive research portfolio built around dynamic tectonic and structural systems - and particularly in assessing and integrating understanding of their temporal evolution - and has undertaken field-based research programmes in a diversity of environments across 5 continents. Geoff is a strong advocate of geoscience education and public engagement, and a popular speaker on these subjects.


Key Research

I want to know how the world works. I am inspired by the complexities of the natural world, and seek to better understand the nature and function of Earth systems through scientific enquiry.

My research sits at the cusp between the fields of isotopic and computational geoscience, integrating geological mapping, isotopic dating of minerals, and computer simulations of geological processes to investigate the operational dynamics and history of geological systems.

My current research interests include:

1. The chemical and thermal history of polyphase geological systems
2. Evaluation of 4-D structural architecture
3. Coupled tectonic and erosional processes and their influence on landform evolution
4. The mineral system approach to ore deposit evolution
5. The exhumation and preservation of hypogene mineral systems

Publications

Selected Publications

LIN, X., CHEN, H. L., WYRWOLL, K.-H., BATT, G. E., LIAO, L., & XIAO, J., (2011). The uplift history of the Haiyuan‐Liupan Shan region northeast of the present Tibetan Plateau: Integrated constraint from stratigraphy and thermochronology. The Journal of Geology 119: 372-393.

WATKINSON, I., ELDERS, C., BATT, G. E., JOURDAN, F., & HALL, R., (2011). Strike-slip shear in Thailand pre-dating the Himalayan Orogeny. Journal of Geophysical Research 116, B09403, doi:10.1029/2011JB008379.

YU, X., YANG, S. F., CHEN, H. L., CHEN, Z. Q., LI, Z. L., BATT, G. E., & LI, Y. Q., (2011). Permian flood basalts from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating and geochemical characteristics. Gondwana Research, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.009.

ZHANG, F. Q., CHEN, H. L., YU, X., DONG, C. W., YANG, S. F., PANG, Y. M., & BATT, G. E., (2011). Early Cretaceous volcanism in the northern Songliao Basin, NE China, and its geodynamic implication. Gondwana Research 19: 163-176 - available online as doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.03.011.

BRAUN, J., HERMAN, F., & BATT, G. E., (2010). Kinematic strain localization. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 300: 197-204 - available online as doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.018.

BATT, G. E., CASHMAN, S. M., GARVER, J. I., & BIGELOW, J. J., (2010). Thermotectonic Evidence for Two-stage Extension on the Trinity Detachment Surface, Eastern Klamath Mountains, California. American Journal of Science 310: 261-281.

BATT, G. E., HARPER, G. D., HEIZLER, M., & RODEN-TICE, M., (2010). Cretaceous Sedimentary Blanketing and Tectonic Rejuvenation in the Western Klamath Mountains: Insights from Thermochronology. Central European Journal of Geosciences 2: 138-151.

HALL, R., COTTAM, M., SUGGATE, S., TONGKUL, F., SPERBER, C., & BATT, G. E., (2008), ‘The Geology of Mount Kinabalu’, Sabah Parks Publication 13, 76 pp.

BRAUN, J., VAN DER BEEK, P., & BATT, G. E., (2006). ‘Quantitative Thermochronology’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 272 pp. ISBN 0521830575.

LITTLE, T. A., COX, S., VRY, J. K., & BATT, G. E., (2005). Variations in exhumation level and uplift-rate related to oblique-slip ramp geometry, Alpine Fault, Central Southern Alps, New Zealand, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117: 707-723.

BATT, G. E., BALDWIN, S. L., COTTAM, M., FITZGERALD, P., & BRANDON, M. T. (2004). Cenozoic Plate Boundary Evolution in the South Island of New Zealand: New Thermochronological Constraints, Tectonics 23: Available online as Tectonics manuscript TC4001 10.1029/2003TC001527.

Rahn, M. K., Brandon, M. T., Batt, G. E., & Garver, J. I., (2004). A zero-damage model for fission-track annealing in zircon, American Mineralogist 89: 473-484.

BATT, G. E., AND BRANDON, M. T., (2002). Lateral Thinking: 2-D Interpretation of Thermochronology in Convergent Orogenic Settings, Tectonophysics 239: 185-201.

BATT, G. E., BRANDON, M. T., FARLEY, K. A., AND RODEN-TICE, M., (2001). Tectonic synthesis of the Olympic Mountains segment of the Cascadia wedge, using 2-D thermal and kinematic modeling of isotopic age, Journal of Geophysical Research 106: 26731-26746.

BATT, G. E., (2001). The approach to steady state thermochronological distribution following orogenic development in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, American Journal of Science 301: 374-384.

BATT, G. E., BRAUN, J., KOHN, B. P., & MCDOUGALL, I., (2000). Thermochronological analysis of the dynamics of the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geological Society of America Bulletin 112: 250-266.