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Nuru Said

Research Assistant Professor
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)

Contact details

Address
Robert Street Building, Rm 217
Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET)
The University of Western Australia (M006)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone
+618 6488 1516
Email
nuru.said@uwa.edu.au

Key research

The evolution of the Archean and Proterozoic mafic and ultramafic rocks. In particular links between geodynamics and volcanic geochemistry.


Publications

Said, N., Kerrich, R, 2009. Geochemistry of coexisting depleted and enriched Paringa Basalts, in the 2.7 Ga Kalgoorlie Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Evidence for a heterogeneous mantle plume event. Precambrian Research, 174, 287-309.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., 2010a. Elemental and Nd-Isotope Systematics of the Upper Basalt Unit, 2.7Ga Kambalda Sequence: Quantitative Modeling of Progressive Crustal Contamination of Plume Asthenosphere. Chemical Geology, 273, 193-211.

Said, N., Kerrich, R, 2010b. Magnesian dyke suites of the 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence: Evidence for coeval melting of plume asthenosphere and metasomatised lithospheric mantle. Precambrian Research 180, 183-203.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., Groves, D.I., 2010. Geochemical Systematics of Basalts of the Lower Basalt Unit, 2.7Ga Kambalda Sequence: Plume Impingement at a Rifted Craton Margin. Lithos, 115, 82-100.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., 2010. The 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence LIP, Western Australia: Mantle Source, Crustal Contamination, Crustal Recycling, Mantle Lithosphere, and Geodynamic Setting.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., Maier, W.D., McCuiag, C., 2011. The behaviour of chalcophile metals (Cu, Ni, PGE and Au) in basaltic magmas of the 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence, Kalgoorlie Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Submitted to Geochimica et Cosmochemica Acta 75, 2882–2910

Kerrich, R., Said, N. 2011. Extreme Positive Ce-Anomalies in a 2.8 Ga Submarine Volcanic Sequence, Murchison Province: Oxygenated Marine Bottom Waters. Chemical Geology 280, 232–241.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., 2010. 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence: Plume Impingement at a Rifted Craton Margin. 5th International Archaean Symposium, Early Earth, Perth, September 2010, Abstract Volume, Tyler, I.M. and Knox-Robinson, C.M., (Eds), Planet formation, crustal growth and evolving lithosphere, 186-188.

Said, N and Kerrich, R, 2010. 2.69 GA Paringa Basalts: Crustal Recycling into the Asthenosphere Source. 5th International Archaean Symposium, Early Earth, Perth, September 2010, Abstract Volume, Tyler, I.M. and Knox-Robinson, C.M., (Eds), Planet formation, crustal growth and evolving lithosphere, 123-126.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., 2010. The 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence LIP, Western Australia: Mantle Source, Crustal Contamination, Crustal Recycling, Mantle Lithosphere, and Geodynamic Setting. International LIP Programme, http://www.largeigneousprovinces.org/10may.html. Invited.

Said, N., Kerrich, R., Manikyamba, C., 2011. Positive Ce anomalies and U-enrichment in Archean volcanics: Implications for oxygenated oceans. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts.