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Professor. Ian Cartwright

Qualifications

B.Sc. UCW Aberystwyth, Ph.D. Univ. Wales

Research Interests

  • Environmental Isotopes
  • Groundwater Chemistry
  • Groundwater-surface water interaction

Research Projects

Contact Ian

Rm 137, Building 28
Clayton campus
Monash University

p: +61 3 9905 4887
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Ian Cartwright

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Recent publications

  • Hagendorn, K.B. & Cartwright, I., 2009. Climatic and lithologic controls on the temporal and spatial variability of CO2 consumption via chemical weathering: An example from the Australian Victorian Alps. Chemical Geology (in press)
  • Cartwright, I. & Simmons I., 2008. Impact of Changing Climate and Landuse on the Hydrogeology of Southeast Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (Invited Publication). 55, 1009-1022.
  • Cartwright, I. , Weaver, T.R., & Tweed, S.O., 2008. Integrating Physical Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry, and Environmental Isotopes to Constrain Regional Groundwater Flow: Southern Riverine Province, Murray Basin, Australia. IAH Special Publication “Groundwater Flow Systems: Regional to Local”. Balkema. Invited Publication, p. 109-132.
  • Smith. M., Chantraorasert, S., Morley, C.K., & Cartwright, I. 2007. Structural geometry and timing of deformation in the Chainat duplex, Thailand. In: Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bands (Cunningham, W.D. & Mann O., eds) Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 290, 305-323.
  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T., & Petrides, B. 2007. Controls on 87Sr/86Sr ratios of groundwater in silicate-dominated aquifers: SE Murray Basin, Australia. Chemical Geology, 246, 107-123.
  • Holgate, G., Cartwright, I., Blackburn, W., Wallace, M., Gallagher, S., Wagstaffe, B., & Chung, L. 2007. The middle Miocene Yallourn coal seam - The last coal in Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, 70, 95-115.
  • Sakakibara, M, Umeki, M, & Cartwright, I., 2007. Isotopic evidence for channeled fluid flow in low-grade metamorphosed Jurassic accretionary complex in the Northern Chichibu belt, western Shikoku, Japan. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 383-400
  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R., Stone, D., & Reid, M., 2007. Constraining modern and historical recharge from bore hydrographs, 3H, 14C, and chloride concentrations: applications to dual-porosity aquifers in dryland salinity areas, Murray Basin, Australia. Journal of Hydrology, 332, 69-92.
  • Drysdale, R.N., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom. J.C., Fallick, A.E., McDonald, J., Cartwright, I., 2007. Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial. Geology, 35, 77-80.
  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R., & Tweed, S.O., 2007. Integrating Physical Hydrogeology, Hydrochemistry, and Environmental Isotopes to Constrain Regional Groundwater Flow: Southern Riverine Province, Murray Basin, Australia. IAH Special Publication “Groundwater Flow Systems: Regional to Local”. Balkema. Invited Publication.
  • Cartwright, I., Hannam, K., & Weaver, T., 2007. Constraining flow paths of saline groundwater at basin margins using hydrochemistry and environmental isotopes: Lake Cooper, Murray Basin, Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 1103-1122.
  • Tweed, S.O., Weaver, T.R., Cartwright, I., & Schaefer, B., 2006. Behavior of rare earth elements in groundwater during flow and mixing in fractured rock aquifers: an example from the Dandenong Ranges, southeast Australia. Chemical Geology, 234, 291-307
  • Miller, J.A. & Cartwright, I., 2006. Albite vein formation during exhumation of high-pressure terranes: a case study from alpine Corsica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24, 353-428
  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R., & Fifield, L.K., 2006. Cl/Br ratios and environmental isotopes as indicators of recharge variability and groundwater flow: an example from the southeast Murray Basin, Australia. Chemical Geology, 231, 38-56.
  • Petrides, B. & Cartwright, I., 2006. The hydrogeology and hydrochemistry and of the Barwon Downs Graben aquifer, Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 14 809-826.
  • Petrides, B., Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R., 2006. The evolution of groundwater in the Tyrrell catchments, south-central Murray Basin, Victoria, Australia. Hydrogeology Journal 14, 1522-1543.
  • Drysdale, R., Zanchetta, G., Hellstrom, J., Maas, R., Fallick, A.,Pickett, M., Cartwright, I. & Piccini, L., 2006. Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilisations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone. Geology, 34, 101-104.
  • Weaver, T.R., Cartwright, I., Tweed, S., Ahearne, D., Cooper, M., Czapnik, K. & Tranter, J., 2006. Controls on chemistry during fracture-hosted flow of cold CO2-bearing mineral springs, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia: implications for resource protection. Applied Geochemistry, 21, 289-304
  • Cartwright, I. & Weaver, T.R. 2005. Hydrogeochemistry of the Goulburn Valley region of the Murray Basin, Australia: implications for flow paths and resource vulnerability. Hydrogeology Journal, 13, 752-770.
  • Tweed, S.O., Weaver, T.R. & Cartwright, I. 2005. Groundwater chemistry as a means of distinguishing local and regional flow systems in a fractured rock aquifer: Dandenong Ranges, southeast Australia. Hydrogeology Journal, 13, 771-786.
  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R., Fulton, S., Nichol, C., Reid, M., & Cheng, X. 2004. Origins of solutes and groundwater from a dryland salinity region of the southern Murray Basin, Victoria, Australia: constraints from hydrochemistry and environmental stable isotopes. Applied Geochemistry, 19, 1233-1254
  • Bierlein, F.P., Arne, D.C. & Cartwright, I., 2004. Stable isotope (C, O, S) systematics in alteration haloes associated with orogenic gold mineralization in the Victorian gold province, SE Australia. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis, 4, 191-211.
  • Johnson, T.E., Gibson, R.L., Brown, M., Buick, I.S., & Cartwright, I., 2003. Partial melting of metapelitic rocks beneath the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Journal of Petrology,  44, 789-813.
  • Buick, I.S., Williams, I.S., Gibson, R.L., Cartwright, I., Miller, J.A., 2003. Carbon and U–Pb evidence for a Palaeoproterozoic crustal component in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 601-612.
  • Cartwright, I. & Barnicoat, A.C., 2003. Geochemical and Stable Isotope Resetting in Shear Zones from Täschalp: Constraints on Fluid Flow During Exhumation in the Western Alps. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 143-161.
  • Price, R.C., Cooper, A.F., Woodhead, J.D., & Cartwright, I., 2003. Phonolitic Diatremes within the Dunedin Volcano, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology, 44, 2053-2080.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Cartwright, I., Weaver, T.R. & Petrides B. 2006. Cation-exchange as a control on Sr isotopes in groundwater from the SE Murray Basin, Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.087.
  • Weaver, T.R., Carrara, E.A., Cartwright, I., Cresswell, R. & Maas, R. 2006. Uranium and carbon isotopes as indicators of pre-development groundwater flow in a semi-arid aquifer system. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.1506.
  • Cartwright, I., Maguire, A. & Weaver, T. 2005. Groundwater-surface water interaction in the Ovens River, Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of IAH Conference “Where waters meet”. Auckland, November 2005 (CD Publication).
  • Cartwright, I. & Weaver, T.R. 2004. Chemical and isotopic constraints on hydrogeological processes in the Murray Basin, Australia. Proceedings of the IAH Congress, Zacatecas, Mexico, October 2004 (CD publication).
  • Weaver, T.R. & Cartwright, I. 2004. Refining dryland salinity models: examples from the southeast Murray Basin, Australia. Proceedings of IAH Congress, Zacatecas, Mexico, October 2004 (CD Publication)
  • Cartwright, I. & Weaver, T.R. 2004. Hydrogeology of the Goulburn Valley, Murray Basin, Australia. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 383-388. Carrara, E.A., Weaver, T.R., Cartwright, I. (15%) & Cresswell, R. 2004. 14C and 36Cl as indicators of groundwater flow, Bland Catchment, NSW. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 377-382.
  • Hannam, K., Cartwright, I., & Weaver, T.R. 2004. Hydrogeochemistry of the Lake Cooper region, Murray Basin. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 405-410.
  • Tweed, S.O., Weaver, T.R. & Cartwright, I. 2004. Controls on REE during groundwater flow and mixing in fractured rock aquifers. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 503-508.
  • Petrides, B., Cartwright, I., & Weaver, T.R. 2004. The evolution of groundwater in the Tyrrell region, south-central Murray Basin, Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 481-484
  • Weaver, T.R., Bush, A., Singh, T., Cartwright, I., & Irvine, E. 2004. Models for development of dryland salinity, Murray Basin, Australia. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 519-522.
  • Carrara, E.A., Weaver, T.R., Cartwright, I., & Cresswell, R.G. 2004. 14C and 36Cl as indicators of groundwater flow, Bland Catchment, NSW. Proceedings of Water-Rock Interaction 11, 377-381.
  • Cartwright, I., & Weaver, T.R., 2003. Hydrochemistry and isotopic constraints on flow systems in the Goulburn region of the Murray Basin, Australia. Proceedings of AIG 5, 121-123.
  • Weaver, T.R., Cartwright, I., Swane, I.P., & Lawrence, C., 2003. Salt and water inputs to groundwater in the Wimmera region of the south-eastern Murray Basin. Proceedings of AIG 5, 143-146.