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Professor Alan F Cooper

Alan F Cooper

BSc(Sheff) PhD(Otago)

 

Office - Geology 1N1

Tel 64 3 479 7515
alan.cooper@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

 

Professor Alan F Cooper's Inaugural Professorial Lecture 2002

Teaching

100 Level

200/300 Level

300 Level

400 Level

Research Interests

  • metamorphic mineralogy & petrology of the Haast Schists
  • petrogenesis of carbonatites and the N.Z. lamprophyre dyke swarms
  • Alpine Faultstructure and activity
  • Ross Orogen, Antarctica

Selected Recent Publications

  • Cooper, A.F., Beck, R.J. River capture and Main Divide migration in the Haast River catchment assessed from the fluvial distribution of sodalite-bearing dike rocks and fenites. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 52, 27-36 (2009).
  • Scott, J.M., Palin, J.M., Cooper, A.F., Fagereng, A., King, R.P. Polymetamorphism, zircon growth and the retention of early assemblages through the dynamic evolution of a continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of metamorphic Geology 27, 281-294 (2009).
  • Allibone, A.H., Jongens, R., Scott, J.M., Tulloch, A.J., Turnbull, I.M., Cooper, A.F., Powell, N.G., Ladley, E. B., King, R.P., Rattenbury, M. S. Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in eastern and central Fiordland, New Zealand: field relations, geochemistry, correlation and nomenclature. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 52, 101-148 (2009).
  • Scott, J.M., Cooper, A.F., Palin, J.M. Beehive Diorite: a Late Jurassic two-pyroxene pluton at Lake Manapouri, Fiordland New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 52, 59-65 (2009).
  • Scott, J.M., Palin, J.M., Cooper, A.F. A younger age constraint on high-grade metamorphism near George Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 52, 67-71 (2009)
  • Scott, J.M., Turnbull, I.M., Ewing, T.A., Allibone, A.H., Palin, J.M., Cooper, A.F. Petrology and geochronology of the volcaniclastic and volcanogenic Mesozoic Loch Burn Formation in eastern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51, 89-103. (2008).
  • Cooper, A.F., Paterson, L.A. Carbonatites from a lamprophyric dyke-swarm, South Westland, New Zealand. Canadian Mineralogist 46, 753-777 (2008).
  • Norris, R.J., Cooper, A.F. The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface geology and field relationships. In: A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Geophysical Monograph Series 175, American Geophysical Union, p 157-175 (2007).
  • Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R.A., Stern, T., Beavan, J., Ellis, S., Henrys, S., Cox, S., Norris, R.J., Berryman, K.R., Townend, J., Bannister, S., Pettinga, J., Leitner, B., Wallace, L., Little, T.A., Cooper, A.F., Yetton, M., Stirling, M. Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand? . In: A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. Geophysical Monograph Series 175, American Geophysical Union, p 235-251 (2007)
  • Cooper, A.F., Adam, L.J., Coulter, R.F., Eby, G.N., McIntosh, W.C. Geology, geochronology and geochemistry of a basanitic volcano, White Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 165, 189-216 (2007).
  • Allibone, A.H., Turnbull, I.M., Tulloch, A.J., Cooper, A.F. Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand:  field relations, geochemistry, and correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 50, 283-314 (2007).
  • Cottle, J.M., Cooper, A.F. The Fontaine pluton: an early Ross Orogeny calc-alkaline gabbro from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49, 177-189 (2006).
  • Cottle, J.M., Cooper, A.F. Geology, geochemistry and geochronology of an A-type granite in the Mulock Glacier area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49, 191-202 (2006).
    Cooper, A.F., Kostro, F. Late Quaternary raised marine shoreline deposits, Knights Point, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49, 203-216 (2006).
  • Veevers, J.J., Belousova, E.A., Saeed, A., Sircombe, K., Cooper, A.F., Read, S.E. Pan-Gondwanaland detrital zircons from Australia analysed for Hf isotopes and trace elements reflect an ice-covered Antarctic provenance of 700-500 Ma age, TDM of 2.0-1.0 Ga, and alkaline affinity. Earth Science Reviews 76, 135-174 (2006).
  • Scott, J.M., Cooper, A.F. Early Cretaceous extensional exhumation of the lower crust of a magmatic arc: evidence from the Mt Irene Shear Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics 25,TC3018, doi:10.1029/2005TC001890. (2006).
  • Hoernle, K., White, J.D.L., van den Bogaard, P., Hauff, F., Coombs, D.S., Werner, R., Timm, C., Garbe-Schonberg, D., Reay, A., Cooper, A.F. Cenozoic intraplate volcanism on New Zealand: upwelling induced by lithospheric removal. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 248, 335-352. (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.001) (2006).
  • Phillips,C J, Cooper, A F, Palin, J M, & Nathan, S. 2005. Geochronological constraints on Cretaceous-Paleocene volcanism in South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics V48: 1-14.
  • Mortimer, N & Cooper, A F. 2004. U-Pb and Sm-Nd ages from the Alpine Schist, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 47: 21-28.
  • Morton, J P & Cooper A F. 2003. Mn-mineralisation in pumpellyite-actinolite facies schist of the Mount Patriarch Area, High Burn Valley, Lake Hawea. The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand Branch 36th Annual Conference, Greymouth. 3-5 September.
  • Norris, R J & Cooper, A F. 2003. Very high strains recorded in mylonites along the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: implications for the deep structure of plate boundary faults. Journal of Structural Geology 25: 2141-2157.
  • Price, R C, Cooper, A F, Woodhead, J D & Cartwright, I. 2003. Phonolitic Diatremes within the Dunedin Volcano, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology V44(11): 2053-2080.
  • McClintock, M K & Cooper, A F. 2003. Geochemistry, mineralogy, and metamorphic history of kyanite-orthoamphibole-bearing Alpine Fault mylonite, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics V46: 47-62.
  • Koons, P O, Norris, R J, Craw, D & Cooper, A F. 2003. Influence of exhumation on the structural evolution of transpressional plate boundaries: An example from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geology v.31(1): 3-6.
  • Simpson, A.L. & Cooper, A.F. 2002. Short Note: Geochemistry of the Darwin Glacier region granitoids, southern Victoria Land. Antarctic Science 14(4): 425-426.
  • Mellish, S.D., Cooper, A.F. & Walker, N.W. 2002. Panorama Pluton: a composite gabbro-monzodiorite early Ross Orogeny intrusion in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctica at the close of a millennium. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 35: 129-141.
  • Read, S.E., Cooper, A.F. & Walker, N.W. 2002. Geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province, Royal Society Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Antarctica at the close of a millennium. Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 35: 143-151.

Also See Publications

Postgraduate Student Supervision

Current

  • Nathalie Lefebvre - Volcanological Factors Controlling the Diamond Distribution within Kimberlite Pipes Using Drill Core Information and Modern Analogues From Selected Pipes in the Attawapiskat Kimberlite Field, Northern Ontario, Canada and Hopi Buttes, Arizona, USA. (PhD)
  • Giulia Airoldi - Magma transport and propagation of intrusive sheets, Ferrar Dolerite, Allan Hills and Solitary Rocks, Antarctica. (PhD)
  • Ake Fagereng - Subduction-related fault processes: Ancient and active. (PhD)
  • AdamMartin - Mount Morning volcanism, Antarctica. (PhD)
  • Matthew Hennessey - A Morphological, Stylistic and Physico-Chemical Analysis of Ceramics from the 'Early Papuan Pottery' Culture of South Central Papua. (MSc)
  • Nick Hogg (MSc)
  • Campbell Ryland - Geology, Mineralisation, and structural evolution of the Bald Hill-Maori Saddle Region, South Westland, New Zealand (MSc)

Recent

  • Hanne-Kristen Paulsen - Volcanology, Mount Morning, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
  • Tim Popham - Pounamu and Scott Basin. (MSc)
  • James Scott- Petrology of Eastern Fiordland. (PhD)
  • Virginia Toy - Mylonites and pseudotachylytes found adjacent to the central Alpine Fault. (PhD)
  • Heather Campbell - The Alpine Fault at Jackson River, South Westland. (PhD)
  • Stefan Olsson - The dykes of the Dunedin Volcano; structural and petrological implications. (PhD)
  • Stephen Read - Magmatic and tectonic evolution of part of the Ross Orogen, southern Victorialand, Antarctica. (PhD)
  • Mark Walrond - Alpine Fault Structure. (PhD)
  • Anton Barber - Felsic magmatism and host metasediments of the Ross Orogeny at Reeves Bluff, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
  • John Cottle -Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
  • Doc Richardson - Metasediments and mafic intrusions of the Ross Orogeny, Mulock Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
  • Matthew Wynyard - Skelton Group metamorphism: structure and petrology. (MSc)