Dr. James Scott
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Office 1s13 Foundation for Research, Science & Technology post-doctoral fellow |
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Research Interests
- Metamorphic processes, and thermodynamic modeling of metamorphic systems
- Petrogensis of plutonic rocks and zircon crystallisation
- Lithospheric mantle composition and dynamics
- Controls on base-metal mineralisation
- Geology and tectonics of Zealandia and its sub-Antarctic Islands
Please see Petrology Research pages for more detailed information
Major externally funded research projects
- What lies beneath? Mantle xenoliths and history of the Alpine Fault (Foundation for Research, Science & Technology)
Peer-reviewed publications
- Scott JM, Muhling J, Fletcher I, Billia M, Palin JM, Elliot TJG, Günter C (2011). The relationship of Palaeozoic metamorphism and S-type magmatism on the paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin. Lithos, in press.
- Scott JM, Palin JM (2011). Molybdenite in Pomona Island Granite. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, in press.
- Scott JM, Cooper AF, Tulloch AJ, Spell TL (2011). Crustal thickening on the New Zealand Gondwana margin. Gondwana Research, 20, 380-394.
- Scott JM, Palin JM, Cooper AF, Sagar MW, Allibone AH, Tulloch AJ (2011). From richer to poorer: zircon inheritance in Pomona Island Granite. Contributions to Mineralogy Petrology, 161, 5, 667-681.
- Cooper AF, Maas R, Scott JM, Barber AJW (2010). Dating of volcanism and sedimentation in the Skelton Group, Trans-Antarctic Mountains: Implications for the Rodinia‐Gondwana transition in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 3-4, 681-702.
- Scott JM, Palin JM, Cooper AF, Tulloch AJ, Kula J, Jongens R, Spell TL, Pearson N (2009). Tracking the influence of a continental margin on growth of a magmatic arc (Fiordland, New Zealand) using thermobarometry, thermochronology, and zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes. Tectonics, 28, TC6007, doi:10.1029/2009TC002489.
- Scott JM, Palin JM, Cooper AF (2009). A younger age constraint on high‐grade metamorphism near George Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 52, 2, 67-71.
- Scott JM, Cooper AF, Palin JM (2009). Beehive Diorite: A Late Jurassic two‐pyroxene pluton at Lake Manapouri, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 52, 2, 59-65.
- Scott JM, Palin JM, Cooper AF, Fagereng A, King RP (2009). Polymetamorphism, zircon growth and retention of early assemblages through the dynamic evolution of a continental arc. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 281-294.
- Allibone AH, Jongens R, Scott JM, Tulloch AJ, Turnbull IM, Powell N, Ladley EB, King RP, Rattenbury MS (2009). Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in eastern Fiordland: Field relations, geochemistry and correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 52, 2, 101-148.
- Scott JM, Turnbull IM, Ewing TA, Allibone AH, Palin JM, Cooper AF (2008). Petrology and geochronology of the volcaniclastic and volcanogenic Loch Burn Formation in eastern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 51, 89-103.
- Scott JM, Palin JM (2008). LA‐ICP‐MS U‐Pb zircon ages from Mesozoic plutonic rocks in eastern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 51, 105-111.
- Scott JM, Cooper AF (2006). Early Cretaceous extensional exhumation of the lower crust of a magmatic arc; evidence from the Mt. Irene Shear Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics, vol 25, TC2018, doi:10.1029/2005TC001890