Emeritus Professor Alan F Cooper

2023

Chapter in Book - Research

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Doherty, C. L., & Gamble, J. A. (2023). A review of mantle xenoliths in volcanic rocks from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In A. P. Martin & W. van der Wal (Eds.), The geochemistry and geophysics of the Antarctic mantle (Geological Society Memoir no. 56). (pp. 33-55). Bath, UK: Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/M56-2019-42

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Craw, D., le Roux, P. J., Dalton, H. B., & Palmer, M. C. (2023). Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo-drainage. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2023.2224579

Cooper, A. F. (2023). Origin and evolution of nephrites, diopsidites and giant diopside crystals from the contact zones of the Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 66(1), 88-101. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2022.2050771

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2023). Hydrous veins in the New Zealand mantle lithosphere and their implications for intraplate magmatism. In G. E. Frontin-Rollett & S. D. Nodder (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 164A, (pp. 51). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

2022

Journal - Research Article

Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., Negrini, M., Kuo, L.-W., Wu, W.-H., & Cooper, A. F. (2022). An evolutionary model and classification scheme for nephrite jade based on veining, fabric development, and the role of dissolution-precipitation. Scientific Reports, 12, 7823. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11560-7

2021

Chapter in Book - Research

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Kyle, P. R., & Gamble, J. A. (2021). Erebus Volcanic Province: Petrology. In J. L. Smellie, K. S. Panter & A. Geyer (Eds.), Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 million years of subduction, rifting and continental break-up (Geological Society Memoir no. 55). (pp. 447-489). Bath, UK: Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/M55-2018-80

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Pearson, D. G., Liu, J., Auer, A., Cooper, A. F., Li, D., Palmer, M. C., Read, S. E., Reid, M. R., & Woodland, S. J. (2021). Osmium isotopes in peridotite xenoliths reveal major mid-Proterozoic lithosphere formation under the Transantarctic Mountains. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 312, 25-43. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.08.009

2020

Journal - Research Article

Cooper, A. F., Reay, A., Ireland, T. R., & Norman, M. D. (2020). Cretaceous molybdenite in metasomatic epidosite associated with the Pounamu ophiolite, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(2), 227-236. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1691018

Cooper, A. F. (2020). Petrology and petrogenesis of an intraplate alkaline lamprophyre-phonolite-carbonatite association in the Alpine Dyke Swarm, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(4), 469-488. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1684324

2018

Journal - Research Article

Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2018). Two-sided accretion and polyphase metamorphism in the Haast Schist belt, New Zealand: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology. GSA Bulletin, 130(9-10), 1501-1518. doi: 10.1130/b31826.1

Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., & Reay, A. (2018). Geochemistry and origin of a Mesozoic ophiolite: The Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 61(4), 444-460. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1494005

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Martin, A., Cooper, A., Price, R., Kyle, P., & Gamble, J. (2018). Petrogenetic overview of the Erebus volcanic province, Antarctica: Recent developments. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 181). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2017

Journal - Research Article

Townend, J., Sutherland, R., Toy, V. G., Doan, M.-L., Célérier, B., Massiot, C., … Williams, J., … Cooper, A., … Craw, L., … Kirilova, M., … Lukacs, A., … Prior, D. J., Sauer, K., … Zimmer, M. (2017). Petrophysical, geochemical, and hydrological evidence for extensive fracture-mediated fluid and heat transport in the Alpine Fault's hanging-wall damage zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(12), 4709-4732. doi: 10.1002/2017GC007202

Toy, V. G., Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Allen, M. J., Becroft, L., Boles, A., … Cooper, A., … Kirilova, M., … Norris, R., Prior, D., Sauer, K., … Williams, J., Yeo, S., … Craw, L., … Marx, R., … Pooley, B., … & DFDP-2 Science Team. (2017). Bedrock geology of DFDP-2B, central Alpine Fault, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(4), 497-518. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1375533

Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2017). Structural evolution of the semischist–schist transition in an accretionary complex: The Otago Schist section at Lake Hāwea, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(3), 296-313. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1331916

Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Toy, V., Upton, P., Coussens, J., Allen, M., … Becroft, L., … Cooper, A., … Cox, S., Craw, L., … Grieve, J., … Kirilova, M., … Lukacs, A., … Mathewson, L., … Prior, D., Sauer, K., … Williams, J., … Zimmer, M. (2017). Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault. Nature, 546, 137-140. doi: 10.1038/nature22355

2016

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Crase, J. A., Waight, T. E., van der Meer, Q., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., … Münker, C. (2016). Peridotitic lithosphere metasomatized by volatile-bearing melts, and its association with intraplate alkaline HIMU-like magmatism. Journal of Petrology, 57(10), 2053-2078. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw069

Hagen-Peter, G., Cottle, J. M., Smit, M., & Cooper, A. F. (2016). Coupled garnet Lu–Hf and monazite U–Pb geochronology constrain early convergent margin dynamics in the Ross orogen, Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34(4), 293-319. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12182

Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., & Collins, A. K. (2016). Fenitization of metabasic rocks by ferrocarbonatites at Haast River, New Zealand. Lithos, 244, 109-121. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.11.035

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Cooper, A. F. (2016). Richard John Norris, BA MA DPhil (Oxon) FGS FRSNZ (1945–2016) [Obituary]. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 46(3-4), 232-234. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2016.1231128

2015

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Auer, A., Czertowicz, T. A., Cooper, A. F., Billia, M. A., & Kennedy, A. K. (2015). New P–T and U–Pb constraints on Alpine Schist metamorphism in south Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(4), 385-397. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1093005

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Turnbull, R. E., & Roberts, N. M. W. (2015). The petrology, geochronology and significance of Granite Harbour Intrusive Complex xenoliths and outcrop sampled in western McMurdo Sound, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(1), 33-51. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.982660

Cooper, A. F., Collins, A. K., Palin, J. M., & Spratt, J. (2015). Mineralogical evolution and REE mobility during crystallisation of ancylite-bearing ferrocarbonatite, Haast River, New Zealand. Lithos, 216-217, 324-337. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.005

Martin, A. P., Price, R. C., Cooper, A. F., & McCammon, C. A. (2015). Petrogenesis of the rifted Southern Victoria land lithospheric mantle, Antarctica, inferred from petrography, geochemistry, thermobarometry and oxybarometry of peridotite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Mount Morning eruptive centre. Journal of Petrology, 56(1), 193-226. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egu075

Cooper, A. F., & Ireland, T. R. (2015). The Pounamu terrane, a new Cretaceous exotic terrane within the Alpine Schist, New Zealand: Tectonically emplaced, deformed and metamorphosed during collision of the LIP Hikurangi Plateau with Zealandia. Gondwana Research, 27(3), 1255-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.11.011

2014

Journal - Research Article

Martin, A. P., Price, R. C., & Cooper, A. F. (2014). Constraints on the composition, source and petrogenesis of plagioclase-bearing mantle peridotite. Earth-Science Reviews, 138, 89-101. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.08.006

Scott, J. M., Waight, T. E., van der Meer, Q. H. A., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., & Münker, C. (2014). Metasomatized ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the young Zealandia microcontinent and its role in HIMU-like intraplate magmatism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(9), 3477-3501. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005300

Scott, J. M., Hodgkinson, A., Palin, J. M., Waight, T. E., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., & Cooper, A. F. (2014). Ancient melt depletion overprinted by young carbonatitic metasomatism in the New Zealand lithospheric mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 167, 963. doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-0963-0

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2014). Increased mantle heat flow with on-going rifting of the West Antarctic rift system inferred from characterisation of plagioclase peridotite in the shallow Antarctic mantle. Lithos, 190-191, 173-190. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.12.012

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Waight, T. E., Palin, J. M., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., Cooper, A. F., & Münker, C. (2014). The lithospheric mantle beneath Zealandia and its role in HIMU-like intraplate magmatism. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 95-96). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2013

Journal - Research Article

Cooper, A. F., & Ireland, T. R. (2013). Cretaceous sedimentation and metamorphism of the western Alpine Schist protoliths associated with the Pounamu Ultramafic Belt, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(4), 188-199. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.809776

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2013). Petrogenesis of Cenozoic, alkalic volcanic lineages at Mount Morning, West Antarctica and their entrained lithospheric mantle xenoliths: Lithospheric versus asthenospheric mantle sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 122, 127-152. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.08.025

Van der Meer, Q. H. A., Scott, J. M., Waight, T. E., Sudo, M., Scherstén, A., Cooper, A. F., & Spell, T. L. (2013). Magmatism during Gondwana break-up: New geochronological data from Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(4), 229-242. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.826699

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

Toy, V. G., Norris, R. J., Prior, D. J., Walrond, M., & Cooper, A. F. (2013). 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, 50, 187-198. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.06.006

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2013). Increased mantle heat flow with on-going rifting of the West Antarctic Rift system inferred from characterisation of plagioclase peridotite. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 63). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Doherty, C., Class, C., Goldstein, S. L., Shirey, S. B., Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., … Gamble, J. A. (2013). Re-Os systematics of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Western Ross Sea area, Antarctica: Depletion ages and dynamic response during rifting. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 46th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/

2012

Journal - Research Article

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

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

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., Toy, V., Read, S., & Easterbrook, L. (2012). Three-dimensional structure of the Alpine Fault zone in the region around the Waitangi-taona and Whataroa rivers. In A. Pittari & R. J. Hansen (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 70). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Doherty, C., Class, C., Goldstein, S. L., Shirey, S. B., Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., … Gamble, J. A. (2012). Constraining the dynamic response of subcontinental lithospheric mantle to rifting using Re-Os model ages in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 45th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

2011

Journal - Research Article

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

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

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 & 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., 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 & Petrology, 161(5), 667-681. doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0556-5

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., & Maas, R. (2011). Evidence recorded in the lithopspheric mantle of Antarctica for the Ocean Island Basalt signature and the HIMU signature in SW Pacific and Antarctic Cenozoic volcanic rocks, and global intraplate volcanic rocks: Sr-Nd-Pb isotope and trace element data from mafic volcanic rocks and mantle and crustal xenoliths from Mount Morning, Southern Victoria Land. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2011/

2010

Journal - Research Article

Fagereng, Å., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). The metamorphic history of rocks buried, accreted and exhumed in an accretionary prism: An example from the Otago Schist, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28(9), 935-954. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2010.00900.x

Martin, A. P., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Post 3.9 Ma fault activity within the West Antarctic rift system: Onshore evidence from Gandalf Ridge, Mount Morning eruptive centre, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22(5), 513-521. doi: 10.1017/S095410201000026X

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 & Geophysics, 53(1), 57-70. doi: 10.1080/00288301003631806

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Dunlap, W. J. (2010). Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica: Two-phase evolution of a long-lived trachyte-basanite-phonolite eruptive center. Bulletin of Volcanology, 72(3), 357-371. doi: 10.1007/s00445-009-0319-1

Toy, V. G., Craw, D., Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2010). Thermal regime in the central Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand: Constraints from microstructures, biotite chemistry and fluid inclusion data. Tectonophysics, 485, 178-192. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.013

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooper, A. F., Durmus, B., & Palin, J. M. (2010). Petrology and petrogenesis of carbonatitic rocks in syenites from Central Anatolia, Turkey. Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica: Abstract Series. 6, (pp. 551). [Abstract]

Toy, V. G., Reid Lindroos, Z., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Along-strike variation in dip-slip rate on the Alpine Fault is a consequence of lithologic variation? Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/waisfm10.html

Other Research Output

Cooper, A. (2010, July). Carbonatites I have known: A pictorial essay. University of Otago Department of Geology Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2009

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., Tulloch, A. J., Kula, J., Jongens, R., … Pearson, N. J. (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

Allibone, A. H., Jongens, R., Scott, J. M., Tulloch, A. J., Turnbull, I. M., Cooper, A. F., Powell, N. G., Ladley, E. B., … Rattenbury, M. S. (2009). Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in eastern and central Fiordland, New Zealand: Field relations, geochemistry, correlation, and nomenclature. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 101-148. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509882

Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2009). A younger age constraint on high-grade metamorphism near George Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 67-71. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509879

Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2009). Beehive Diorite: A Late Jurassic two-pyroxene pluton at Lake Manapouri, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 59-65. doi: 10.1080/00288300809509852

Cooper, A. F., & Beck, R. J. (2009). 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 & Geophysics, 52(1), 27-36. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509875

Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Fagereng, Å., & King, R. P. (2009). Polymetamorphism, zircon growth and retention of early assemblages through the dynamic evolution of a continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27(4), 281-294. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00817.x

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Jugum, D., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Toy, V. G. (2009). West Coast student trip [Field Trip Guide]. In I. M. Turnbull (Ed.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128B, (pp. 1-39). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2009). Arc magmatism on the Gondwana margin: Borland Road, Southland. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 45). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2008

Edited Book - Research

Graham, I. J., Skinner, D. N. B., Isaac, M. J., Cooper, R. A., Mortimer, N., Cooper, A. F., … Carter, L., Fordyce, R. E., … Johnston, M. R. (Eds.). (2008). A continent on the move: New Zealand geoscience into the 21st century. Wellington, New Zealand: Geological Society of New Zealand and GNS Science, 377p.

Journal - Research Article

Scott, J. M., Turnbull, I. M., Ewing, T. A., Allibone, A. H., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Petrology and geochronology of the volcaniclastic and volcanogenic Mesozoic Loch Burn Formation in eastern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 51(2), 89-103. doi: 10.1080/00288300809509852

Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2008). Carbonatites from a lamprophyric dyke-swarm, South Westland, New Zealand. Canadian Mineralogist, 46(4), 753-777. doi: 10.3749/canmin.46.4.753

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Ryland, C. B., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Ti-in-Quartz geothermometry: A new tool for minerals exploration. Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. (pp. 507-516). Carlton, Australia: AusIMM. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

King, C. L., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Geothermometry in the Alpine and Otago schists: Is titaniuim-in-quartz the answer? Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 224). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Norris, R., Toy, V., Cooper, A., Prior, D., & Walrond, M. (2008). Alpine Fault kinematics: How does a creeping shear zone at depth link to a sliding fault at the surface? Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 236). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Martin, A., & Cooper, A. (2008). Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 229). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2008). Carbonatite evolution in a lamprophyric dyke swarm, South Westland, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 137). Wellington,New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Cambridge, K., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2008). Tectonic affiliation of metabasite in mesozoic tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Otago Schist. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 207). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

van Woerden, T., Price, R. C., Cooper, A., & Martin, A. (2008). Geochemistry of plio-pleistocene volcanic rocks from the northern flanks of Mount Morning, West Antarctic Rift. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 199). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Dunlap, W. J. (2008). Volcanic history of Mount Morning: A story based upon new geochronological data. Proceedings of the Annual Antarctic Conference. (pp. 27). Christchurch, New Zealand: Antarctica New Zealand. [Abstract]

Martin, A., Cooper, A., Palin, M., & McCammon, C. (2008). Plagioclase-spinel 5-phase iherzolite from Mount Morning, Antarctica: Oxidation state and trace element geochemistry of shallow mantle from a continental rift. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0#

Scott, J., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. (2008). Tectonic evolution of the Fiordland convergent Gondwana margin. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0

Scott, J., Palin, M., & Cooper, A. (2008). Linking U-Pb isotopes with fabric development and orogenesis: Case studies from Fiordland, New Zealand. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0

2007

Chapter in Book - Research

Eberhart-Phillips, D., Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R. A., Stern, T., Beavan, J., … Cox, S., Norris, R. J., … Cooper, A. F., … Stirling, M. (2007). Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand. In D. Okaya, T. Stern & F. Davey (Eds.), A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. (pp. 235-251). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. doi: 10.1029/175GM12

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface geology and field relationships. In D. Okaya, T. Stern & F. Davey (Eds.), A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. (pp. 157-175). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.

Journal - Research Article

Allibone, A. H., Turnbull, I. M., Tulloch, A. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand: Field relations, geochemistry, and correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 50(4), 283-314. doi: 10.1080/00288300709509838

Cooper, A. F., Adam, L. J., Coulter, R. F., Eby, G. N., & McIntosh, W. C. (2007). Geology, geochronology and geochemistry of a basanitic volcano, White Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 165, 189-216.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Robertson, J. C., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Vennell, R. (2007). Shear zones and boundary layers: Modelling of Alpine Fault mylonites. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 143). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Toy, V. G., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Prior, D. J. (2007). Rheological evolution of high strain fault rocks along a retrograde P-T path: The Alpine Fault mylonites. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 170). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2007). Plagioclase and garnet compositions reveal structure of the Alpine Fault mylonite zone. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 31). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). Dating of fabric development by U-Pb isotopes: Case studies from Fiordland, New Zealand. In I. T. Graham (Ed.), Proceedings of the Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology Second Bi-Annual Conference. 86, (pp. 82-86). Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia, SGGMP. [Abstract]

2006

Journal - Research Article

Veevers, J. J., Belousova, E. A., Saeed, A., Sircombe, K., Cooper, A. F., & Read, S. E. (2006). Pan-Gondwanaland detrital zircons from Australia analysed for Hf-isotopes and trace elements reflect an ice-covered Antarctic provenance of 700-500 Ma age, T_DM of 2.0-1.0 Ga, and alkaline affinity. Earth-Science Reviews, 76, 135-174.

Scott, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Early Cretaceous extensional exhumation of the lower crust of a magmatic arc: Evidence from the Mount Irene Shear Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics, 25. Retrieved from http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005TC001890.shtml

Cooper, A. F., & Kostro, F. (2006). A tectonically uplifted marine shoreline deposit, Knights Point, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 203-216. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515160

Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). The Fontaine Pluton: An early Ross Orogeny calc-alkaline gabbro from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 177-189. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515158

Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Geology, geochemistry, and geochronology of an A-type granite in the Mulock Glacier area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 191-202. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515159

Hoernle, K., White, J. D. L., van den Bogaard, P., Hauff, F., Coombs, D. S., Werner, R., … Reay, A., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Cenozoic intraplate volcanism on New Zealand: Upwelling induced by lithospheric removal. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 248, 335-352.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R. A., Stern, T., Beavan, J., Ellis, S., … Norris, R. J., … Cooper, A. F., … Stirling, M. (2006). Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand? In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 101). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Beinlich, A., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2006). Petrology and thermochronology of the deep crust of Zealandia: Evidence from the Pigroot Creek, Eastern Otago. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 20-21). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). The Alpine Fault mylonites: A zone of localised ductile shear within the mid to lower crust. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 78-79). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Beinlich, A., Palin, J., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Accessory mineral U-Pb Ti-Zr thermochronology of the deep crust of Zealandia: Rift, breakup and drift from 90-20 Ma. Eos 87 (52, Fall Meeting Suppl.). V31B-0581. [Abstract]

Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., & Tulloch, A. J. (2006). Did Cretaceous accretion of eastern Fiordland to the Gondwana margin cause high-P metamorphism and partial melting? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 38(7), (pp. 450). [Abstract]

2005

Journal - Research Article

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, 48, 1-14.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Scott, J., Cooper, A., Palin, M., & Tulloch, A. (2005). Petrology and tectonics of Eastern Fiordland: Some early results. In J. R. Pettinga & A. M. Wanders (Eds.), Proceedings of the Geological Society of New Zealand 50th Annual Conference. (pp. 78). Kaikoura, New Zealand: Geological Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

2004

Journal - Research Article

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.

2003

Journal - Research Article

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, 31(1), 3-6.

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, 46, 47-62.

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(12), 2141-2157.

Price, R. C., Cooper, A. F., Woodhead, J., & Cartwright, I. (2003). Phonolitic diatremes within the Dunedin Volcano, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology, 44(11), 2053-2080.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Morton, J. P., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Mn-mineralisation in pumpellyite-actinolite facies schist of the Mount Patriarch Area, High Burn Valley, Lake Hawea. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (New Zealand branch): Opportunities for the New Zealand mining and minerals industry. Greymouth: AIMM. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Strain localisation on a major plate boundary fault zone: The Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 5, 04766. [Abstract]

2002

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

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.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Read, S. E., Cooper, A. F., & Walker, N. (2002). Geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province, Royal Society Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. In J. A. Gamble, D. N. B. Skinner & S. Henrys (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a millennium. (pp. 143-151). Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society of New Zealand. [Full Paper]

Mellish, S. D., Cooper, A. F., & Walker, N. (2002). Panorama Pluton: A composite gabbro-monzodiorite early Ross Orogeny intrusion in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In J. A. Gamble, D. N. B. Skinner & S. Henrys (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a millennium. (pp. 129-141). Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society of New Zealand. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Meeting Abstracts. 83(22), (pp. SE22B-04). [Abstract]

Barber, A. J. W., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Transitional extensional-convergent magmatism at Reeves Bluff, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 112A, (pp. 5). [Abstract]

Simpson, A. L., Read, S. E., Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Adakitic magma generation in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Meeting Abstracts. 83(22), (pp. SE22B-05). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Prior, D. J., Cooper, A. F., Norris, R. J., & Walrond, M. T. (2002). Kinematics without lineations: High shear strain in the Alpine Fault mylonites, South Island, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Shear Zone Meeting of the Geological Society of London, London, UK.

Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2002, June). Cogenetic silicate and carbonatitic magmatism in the South Island, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Eurocarb Workshop, Italy.

2001

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Cooper, A. F., & Mellish, S. D. (2001). Nepheline syenite and carbonate from the Transantartic Mountains of southern VIctoria Land. Research Terrae. (19), Serie A, (pp. 7). [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Wright, T. (2001). Earthquake ruptures on the southern section of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 110A, (pp. 116). [Abstract]

Commissioned Report for External Body

Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., Wright, T., & Berryman, K. R. (2001). Dating of Past Alpine Fault Rupture in South Westland EQC Research Report 99/341. Commissioned by Earthquake Commission. Wellington: EQC. 69p.

2000

Journal - Research Article

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Late Quaternary slip rates and slip partitioning on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 507-520.

Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (2000). The association of potassic trachytes and carbonatites at the Dicker Willem Complex, southwest Namibia: Coexisting, immiscible, but not cogenetic magmas. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 139, 570-583.

Cox, S. C., Parkinson, D. L., Allibone, A. H., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Isotopic character of Cambro-Ordovician plutonism, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 43, 501-520.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Mellish, S. D., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). An association of nepheline syenite and carbonatite from the Transantartic Mountains. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 108A, (pp. 100). [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Late Quaternary slip rates and their significance for slip partitioning on the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 108A, (pp. 114). [Abstract]

Commissioned Report for External Body

Cooper, A. F., & Aitken, J. J. (2000). New Zealand's Alpine Fault. Leaflet 104. Commissioned by The Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: The Royal Society of New Zealand. 7p.

1999

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1999). The mylonite zone on the alpine fault: Strain estimates, displacement and implications for the deep structure of major faults. Geological Society of Australia Abstract Series. 53, (pp. 170-171). [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1999). The mylonite zone on the Alpine Fault: strain estimates, displacemant and implications for the deep structure of major faults. Geological Society of Australia Abstract Series. 53, (pp. 170-171). Melbourne. [Abstract]

1998

Journal - Research Article

Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1998). Nepheline Sövites as Parental Magmas in Carbonatite Complexes: Evidence from Dicker Willem, Southwest Namibia. Journal of Petrology, 39, 2123-2136.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1998). Potassic trachytes from Dicker Willem, Southwest Namibia: Melted Fenites? Proceedings of the IAVCEI International Volcanological Congress, Cape Town. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Berryman, K. R., Cooper, A. F., Norris, R. J., Sutherland, R., & Villamor, P. (1998). Paleoseismic investigation of the Alpine Fault at Haast and Okuru. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 44). [Abstract]

Koons, P. O., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Craw, D. (1998). Mechanics of a single structure accommodating oblique convergence; the development of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 138). [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Structure, kinematics and paleoseismicity of the central and southern sections of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 180). [Abstract]

Wright, C. A., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Paleoseismic history of the central Alpine Fault. In K. N. Bassett & D. C. Nobes (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 249). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Reid, D. L., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Carbonate and silicate magnas at Dicker Willem, southern Namibia: Their origin and source region charactersitics. Verbal presentation at the 7th International Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town.

1997

Chapter in Book - Research

Cooper, A. F., Worley, B. A., Armstrong, R., & Price, R. C. (1997). Synorogenic Alkaline and Carbonatitic Magmatism in the Transantarctic Mountains of South Victoria Land, Antarctica. In C. A. Ricci (Ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. (pp. 245-252). Siena: Terra Antartica Publication.

Journal - Research Article

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Erosional control on the structural evolution of a transpressional thrust complex on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 19(10), 1323-1342.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Wright, C. A., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Mapping of the central Alpine Fault, Stage 1: Mikonui to Waitaha Rivers, Westland. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 172). [Abstract]

Wright, C. A., Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (1997). Paleoseismological potential of the Alpine Fault at Waitaha River, Westland. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 171). [Abstract]

Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Erosional control on the structural evolution of range-front faulting on the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 136). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1997, May). Nepheline-sovites: Parental carbonite magnatism and source of cumulate ijolites and urtites. Verbal presentation at the GAC/MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa.

1996

Journal - Research Article

Adams, C. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1996). K-Ar age of a lamprophyre dike swarm near Lake Wanaka, west Otago, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 39, 17-23. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514691

Cooper, A. F. (1996). Nb-rich baotite in carbonatites and fenites at Haast River, New Zealand. Mineralogical Magazine, 60(3), 473-482. doi: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.400.08

1995

Journal - Research Article

Chamberlain, C. P., Zeitler, P. K., & Cooper, A. F. (1995). Geochronologic constraints of the uplift and metamorphism along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(4), 515-523. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514678

Cooper, A. F., Paterson, L. A., & Reid, D. L. (1995). Lithium in carbonatites: Consequence of an enriched mantle source? Mineralogical Magazine, 59(3), 401-408. doi: 10.1180/minmag.1995.059.396.03

Worley, B. A., Cooper, A. F., & Hall, C. E. (1995). Petrogenesis of carbonate-bearing nepheline syenites and carbonatites from Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Origin of carbon and the effects of calcite-graphite equilibrium. Lithos, 35(3-4), 183-199. doi: 10.1016/0024-4937(94)00050-C

Worley, B. A., & Cooper, A. F. (1995). Mineralogy of the Dismal Nepheline Syenite, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Lithos, 35(1-2), 109-128. doi: 10.1016/0024-4937(94)00049-8

Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (1995). Displacement on the Alpine Fault at Haast River, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(4), 509-514. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514677

Cooper, A. F. (1995). Nephrite and metagabbro in the Haast Schist at Muddy Creek, northwest Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(3), 325-332. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514660

Hall, C. E., Cooper, A. F., & Parkinson, D. L. (1995). Early Cambrian carbonatite in Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society, 152, 721-728. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.152.4.0721