Name: Simon Wilde
Position: Professor, Director of TIGeR
Department: Applied Geology
Office Location: 312-311
Ph: (+61) (08) 9266 3580
Fax: (+61) (08) 9266 3153
Email: s.wilde@curtin.edu.au
Main field(s) of research
Crustal Evolution, Isotope Geochronology
Current Projects
Crustal evolution of Asia, including the North China Craton, Central Asian Orogenic Belt and Tibet.
Age and Chemistry of ancient zircons in Western Australia and North China.
For recent publications list see
http://www.geology.curtin.edu.au/local/Staff_pages/publications/simon_wildepub.htm
Biography
Simon has over 30 years experience as an active geoscientist whose research strengths are in the application of fieldwork, petrology, geochemistry and geochronology to the study of continental crustal evolution.
All projects are international in scope, with current research being concentrated in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam and Western Australia.
He has published extensively over the past 10 years (since relinquishing the position of Head of School(!).
An overarching theme to this research is the desire to understand the range of processes that contribute to crustal growth.
Most of the work over the past decade has involved the application of U-Pb SHRIMP (zircon, baddeleyite and perovskite) and Ar-Ar (hornblende, biotite and muscovite) geochronology to key lithologies in the Yilgarn and North China cratons.
The necessity to interpret complex zircon structures at the single crystal level has led to collaborative investigations on oxygen isotope distribution with Prof John Valley and his group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (using the Cameca 1270 and 1280 ion microprobes) and on hafnium isotope systematics with Prof Fuyuan Wu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences-Beijing (using LA-MC-ICP-MS).
