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Nicolas Thebaud

Research Assistant Professor
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)

Contact details

Address
Robert Street Building, Rm 206
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
The University of Western Australia (M006)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone
+618 6488 7139
Email
nicolas.thebaud@uwa.edu.au

Nicolas Thebaud's research focused on tectonic processes, their petrological and geochemical impacts, and their control on the formation of ore deposits. During his Ph.D (2002-2006), Thebaud's conducted competitive and interdisciplinary research, combining hard-rock field geology, structural geology, and petrography with cutting edge analytical techniques including high-resolution synchrotron microfluorescence X techniques for the analysis of single fluid inclusions. He applied this multidisciplinary approach to characterised and model the geometry and hydrodynamics of a Mesoarchean plumbing system in the Pilbara, to constrain the scale and magnitude of fluid circulations, their relationships with Archaean crustal geodynamics and their impact on the formation of ore deposits. From 2006 to late 2007 Thebaud spent 18 months expanding his skills and experience in mineral exploration as a structural geologist for Mercator Gold Australia. In October 2007 Thebaud became Research Fellow within the Centre for Exploration Targeting, School for the Earth and Environment, the University of Western Australia. He has, since then focus his work on the tectonostratigraphic reconstructions of key 2.7 and 2.9 Ga nickel and Au systems in the Yilgarn Craton using a GIS integrated geological, (U-Pb SHRIMP geochronology and Hf-isotopic geochemistry) and geophysical approach combined with 3D and 4D digital modelling.

Key Research

Archean geology, Structural geology, Mineralisation, Geochronology, 3D Modelling.

Publications

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Thébaud N and Barnes S, (2011 Accepted) Geochemistry of komatiites from the Southern Cross Belt, Youamni Terrane, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Thébaud N, Barnes S, and Fiorentini M, (2011 in-press). Komatiites of the Wildara-Leonora belt, Yilgarn Craton, WA: the missing link in the Kalgoorlie Terrane. Precambrian Research.

Gallardo L and Thébaud N, (2011 in-press). 3D mapping of Archean terrane through joint gravity and magnetic inversion: an emerging strategy for high accuracy imaging of unexposed cratonic areas. Geology.

Thébaud, N., J. Miller, and C. McCuaig. (2010). Leonora Camp. Controls on giant mineral systems in Yilgarn Craton field guide. C. McCuaig, J. Miller and S. Beresford. Perth, Geological Survey of Western Australia record 2010: 192.

Thébaud N, Philippot P, Rey P, Brugger J, Van Kranendonk M and Grassineau N, (2008). Protracted fluid-rock interaction in the mid-Archaean and implication for gold mineralization: Example from the Warrawoona Syncline (WA).  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 272, Issues 3-4, Pages 639-655.

Thébaud N, Philippot P, Rey P and Cauzid J, (2006). Composition and origin of fluids associated with lode gold deposits in a mid-Archaean greenstone belt (Warrawoona Syncline, Pilbara, WA) using Synchrotron radiation X-Ray Fluorescence.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Nº 152, 4, 485-503.

Rey P, Philippot P and Thébaud N, (2003).  Contribution of mantle plumes, crustal thickening and greenstone blanketing to the 2.75–2.65 Ga global crisis. Precambrian Research, Volume 127, Issues 1-3, 10, Pages 43-60

International Meetings and Conferences
Gallardo L and Thébaud N, (2011 Submitted) Joint gravity and magnetic inversion: an emerging strategy for high accuracy imaging of under cover cratonic areas. SGA- 11th biennial meeting.

Mole DR, Fiorentini M, Thébaud N, McCuaig TC, Cassidy KF, Kirkland C, Romano S, Doublier M, Belousova EA, and Barnes SJ, (2011 submitted) 4D imaging of an Archean craton: Implications for the localisation of komatiite-hosted nickel camps. SGA- 11th biennial meeting.

Mole DR, Fiorentini M, Thébaud N, McCuaig TC, Cassidy KF, Kirkland C, Romano S, Doublier M, Belousova EA, and Barnes SJ, (2011 submitted) Lithospheric controls on mineral systems. SGA- 11th biennial meeting.

Thébaud N, John Miller, Campbell McCuaig, Inna Mudrovska, Bob Love, Adrian McArthur, and Luis Gallardo, (2010). 3D modelling of the Leonora district, Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia) Implication for the tectonostratigraphic evolution and Au – mineralisation, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU conference, Vienna, 2010-6234-1.

Thébaud N, Duclaux G, Gessner K and Doublier M, (2010). 3D Thermal-mechanical models of Archean dome and keel formation: insights from Southern Cross district. 5th International Archean Symposium extended abstract, Perth.

Romano SS, Doublier MP, Mole D, Thébaud N, Wingate MTD and Kirkland CL, (2010). Age constraints in the southern part of the Southern Cross domain of the Yilgran Craton. 5th International Archean Symposium extended abstract, Perth.

Isaac C, Fiorentini M, Cassidy KF, McCuaig TC, Thébaud N, Belousova  E, Perring C, Wyche S and Kirkland C, (2010). Isotopic Geochemistry of the Northern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia:Setting the scene for komatiite emplacement. 5th International Archean Symposium extended abstract, Perth.

Mole DR, Fiorentini M, Thébaud N, McCuaig TC, Cassidy KF, Barnes SJ, Belousova EA, Mudrovska I and Doublier M, (2010). Lithospheric controls on the localisation of komatiite-hosted nickel-sulfide deposits. 5th International Archean Symposium extended abstract, Perth.

Thébaud N, Miller J, (2009). U-Pb age constrain on the siliciclastic sediments from the upper supracrustal cover in the Southern Cross greenstone belt, Youanmi Terrane, Western Australia, SGA conference, Townsville.