Dr. Brett Marmo, BSc PhD (Melb)

Brett is currently an ARC Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, examining the geological processes involved with the burial and exhumation of blue-schist to eclogite facies rocks from northern New Caledonia. X-ray element maps are used to look at complex composition distributions in the metamorphic rocks. Complicated textural relationships within the rock are interpreted by intergrating data from the element maps with petrogenetics grids based on the internally-consistent thermodynamic data set of Holland and Powell (1998).