Emeritus Professor Alan F Cooper
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BSc(Sheff) PhD(Otago)
Office - Geology 1N1 Tel 64 3 479 7515
Professor Alan F Cooper's Inaugural Professorial Lecture 2002 |
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Research Interests
- Metamorphic mineralogy & petrology of the Haast Schists
- Petrogenesis of carbonatites
- N.Z. lamprophyre dyke swarms
- Alpine Fault structure and activity
- Mantle petrology
- Ross Orogen, Antarctica
Selected Recent Publications
- Mortimer, N., Nathan, S., Jongens, R., Kawachi, Y., Ryland, C., Cooper, A. F., … Randall, S. (2013). Regional metamorphism of the early Palaeozoic Greenland Group, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2012.734830
- Berryman, K., Cooper, A., Norris, R., Villamor, P., Sutherland, R., Wright, T., … Biasi, G. (2012). Late Holocene rupture history of the alpine fault in South Westland, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(2), 620-638. doi: 10.1785/0120110177
- Toy, V. G., Norris, R. J., Prior, D. J., Walrond, M., & Cooper, A. F. (2012). How do lineations reflect the strain history of transpressive shear zones? The example of the active Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.06.006
- Toy, V. G., Prior, D. J., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Walrond, M. (2012). Relationships between kinematic indicators and strain during syn-deformational exhumation of an oblique slip, transpressive, plate boundary shear zone: The Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 333-334, 282-292. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.037
- Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2011). Inverted metamorphic sequences in Alpine fault mylonites produced by oblique shear within a plate boundary fault zone, New Zealand. Geology, 39(11), 1023-1026. doi: 10.1130/G32273.1
- Cooper, A. F., Boztuğ, D., Palin, J. M., Martin, C. E., & Numata, M. (2011). Petrology and petrogenesis of carbonatitic rocks in syenites from central Anatolia, Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 161(5), 811-828.doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0566-3
- Cooper, A. F., Maas, R., Scott, J. M., & Barber, A. J. W. (2011). Dating of volcanism and sedimentation in the Skelton Group, Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for the Rodinia-Gondwana transition in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123(3/4), 681-702. doi: 10.1130/B30237.1
- Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Tulloch, A. J., & Spell, T. L. (2011). Crustal thickening of the Early Cretaceous paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin.Gondwana Research, 20(2-3), 380-394. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.10.008
- Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Sagar, M. W., Allibone, A. H., & Tulloch, A. J. (2011). From richer to poorer: Zircon inheritance in Pomona Island Granite, New Zealand. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology,161(5), 667-681. doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0556-5
- Fagereng, Å., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Petrology of metabasalts from the Chrystalls Beach accretionary melange: Implications for tectonic setting and terrane origin. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 53(1), 57-70.doi: 10.1080/00288301003631806
Also See Publications
Recent Postgraduate Student Supervision
- Nathalie Lefebvre (2013) - 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)
- Andreas Auer (2013)– Sedimentary response to debris avalanche and eruption at Mt Ruapehu (PhD)
- Nic Barth (2013)- Comparative fault mechanics in quartzofeldspathic, mafic and ultramafic protoliths: a study of the Alpine Fault Zone in South Westland (PhD
- Anne Ford (2012)- Pleistocene stone tool use at Kosipe, Papua New Guinea (PhD)
- Nick Hogg (2011) On the edge: studying colonization and mobility in the Western Pacific (MSc)
- Ben Teele (2011)- Chemical analysis of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware ceramics from Samoa in order to determine settlement mobility and changes that occur to Samoan settlement strategies over the first 1,000 years of occupation. (MA)
- Sophie Briggs - Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Alpine Dike Swarm north of the Haast River (BSc(Hons))
- Giulia Airoldi - Magma transport and propagation of intrusive sheets, Ferrar Dolerite, Allan Hills and Solitary Rocks, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Campbell Ryland - Geology, mineralisation, and structural evolution of the Bald Hill-Maori Saddle Region, South Westland, New Zealand (MSc)
- Stephen Read – Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province: Late Neoproterozoic extension in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Ake Fagereng - Subduction-related fault processes: Ancient and active. (PhD)
- Adam Martin - Mount Morning volcanism, Antarctica (PhD)
- 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)
- 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)