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Dr. Greg Yaxley
ARC Future Fellow
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Canberra 0200
AUSTRALIA
T: +61 2 6125 8334
F: +61 2 6125 4835
E: Greg.Yaxley@anu.edu.au
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Research Interests
I am a high-pressure experimental petrologist with interests in upper
mantle processes. I mainly use piston-cylinder presses (up to 6.5 GPa)
and sophisticated micro-analytical techniques (electronprobe
microanalysis, LA-ICPMS, synchrotron-based XANES) to investigate how
carbon in the mantle is influenced by pressure, temperature and oxygen
fugacity. This work has important implications for understanding the
earth’s deep carbon cycle, the formation of magmas by partial melting
in the mantle and the stability of diamond or carbonate in the cratonic
lithosphere. More details of my current and recent research projects
are available here (coming soon).
Student Projects
I have research projects available for students at the Honours, Masters
or PhD levels. Further details of individual projects are available here.
Details of applications for a PhD stipend and admission to ANU’s PhD
program are here.
The projects listed are not fixed – there is plenty of room to adapt
them to potential students’ interests. Please feel free to contact me if you are
interested.
Current and Recent Students
Anja Rosenthal - PhD topic - Exploring
the melting behaviour of the Earth's heterogeneous upper mantle
Kate Kiseeva - PhD topic - Deep recycling of carbonate in the earth and
its role in petrogenesis
Brendan Hanger - PhD topic - Redox conditions in the cratonic
lithosphere and implications for partial melting and metasomatism
Jason Doull - Honours topic - Metasomatism of garnet peridotite
xenoliths from the Kaapvaal Craton
Postdoctoral Projects
Because I was a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship,
German researchers with a PhD who are 38 or younger may be able to
apply for a Feodor
Lynen Research Fellowship through the AvH Foundation
to carry out research with me at RSES. Please contact me if you are
interested.
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