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Professor Ray A.F Cas

Qualifications

B.Sc.(Hons) Syd., Ph.D. Macq.

Research Interests

  • Volcanology
  • Clastic sedimentology
  • Tectonics
  • Dynamic processes in modern and ancient volcanic and volcano-sedimentary systems

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Rm 128 Building 28
Clayton campus
Monash University

p: +61 3 9905 4897
f: +61 3 9905 4903
e: Ray Cas

Head of School
Honours & Masters Preliminary Coordinator

Ray cas

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Recent Publications:

Book Chapters:

  • Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F., Wolff, J.A., Nichols, H.J., Larson, P.B. and Marti, J. 2008. The use of lithic clast distributions in pyroclastic deposits to understand pre- and syn-caldera collapse processes: a case study of the Abrigo Ignimbrite,Tenerife, Canary Islands. In: Gottsman, J. and Marti, J. (eds), Caldera volcanism: analysis, modeling and response. Developments in volcanology 10. Elsevier. 97-142.
  • Cas, R.A.F. 2005. Volcanoes and the geological cycle. In: Martí, J. and Ernst, G. (eds). Volcanoes and the Environment. Cambridge University Press, pp. 121 - 151.
  • Cas, R.A.F., O’Halloran, G., Long, J.A. and VandenBerg, A.H.M. 2003. Middle Devonian to Carboniferous: late to post-tectonic sedimentation and magmatism in an arid continental setting. Chapter 6. In Birch, W.D. (ed) Geology of Victoria. Geol. Soc. Aust. Vic. Division, 157-193.

Refereed journal articles:

  • Bear, A.N., Cas, R. A. F & Giordano, G. (in press, 2009) Variations in eruptive style and depositional processes associated with explosive, phonolitic composition, caldera-forming eruptions: the 151 ka Sutri Eruption, Vico Caldera, Central Italy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,
  • Bear, A. N., Giordano, G., Giampaolo, C & Cas, R. A. F (in press, 2009). Volcanological constraints on the post-emplacement zeolitisation of ignimbrites and geoarchaeological implications for Etruscan tomb construction (6th – 3rd century B.C) in the Tufo Rosso a Scorie Nere, Vico Caldera, Central Italy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Cas, R.A.F., Porritt, L., Hayman, P.C., and Pittari, A., (in press, 2009).A practical guide to terminology for kimberlite facies: a systematic progression from descriptive to genetic, including a pocket guide. Special Issue of Lithos: Proceedings of the 9th International Kimberlite Conference.
  • Bear, A. N., Cas, R.A.F & Giordano, G. (2009) Implications of spatter, pumice and lithic clast rich proximal co-ignimbrite lag breccias on the dynamics of caldera-forming eruptions: The 151 ka Sutri eruption, Vico Volcano, Central Italy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol 181 pp.1-24.
  • LaBerge, R.D., Porreca, M., Mattei, M., Giordano, G. and Cas, R.A.F. 2009. Meandering flow of a pyroclastic density current documented by the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS): the case of the Pleistocene peperino tipico ignimbrite (Monte Cimino Volcanic Complex, Central Italy). Tectonophysics, 466, 64-78.
  • Porritt, L.A. and Cas, R.A.F. 2009. Reconstruction of a kimberlite  eruption, using an integrated volcanological, geochemical and numerical approach: a case study of the Fox Kimberlite, NWT, Canada. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 179, 241-264.
  • Tait, M.A., Cas, R.A.F. and Viramonte, J. 2009. The origin of an unusual tuff ring of perlitic rhyolite pyroclasts: the last explosive phase of the Ramadas Volcanic Centre, Andean Puna, Salta, NW Argentina. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 183, 1-16.
  • Cas, R.A.F., Hayman, P., Pittari, A. and Porritt, L. 2008. Some major problems with existing models and terminology associated with kimberlite pipes from a volcanological perspective, and some suggestions. In Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F.  and Russell,K. (eds) Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 209-225.
  • Cas, R.A.F., Porritt, L., Pittari, A. and Hayman, P. 2008. A new approach to kimberlite facies terminology using a revised general approach to the nomenclature of all volcanic rocks and deposits: descriptive to genetic. In Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F.  and Russell,K. (eds) Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of  J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 226-240.
  • Hayman, P.C., Cas, R.A.F. and Johnson, M. 2008. Difficulties in distinguishing coherent from fragmental kimberlite: a case study of the Muskox pipe (Northern Slave Province, Nunavut, Canada). In Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F.  and Russell,K. (eds) Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of  J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 139-151.
  • Houlé, M.G., Gibson, H.L., Lesher, C.M., Davis, P.C., Cas, R.A.F., Beresford, S.W. and Arndt, N.T. 2008 2008. Komatiitic Sills and Multigenerational Peperite at Dundonald Beach, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Ontario: Volcanic Architecture and Nickel Sulfide Distribution In: Ayer, J. A., Thurston, P. C. and Lafrance, B. (eds) A Special Issue Devoted to Base Metal and Gold Metallogeny at Regional, Camp, and Deposit Scales in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Econ. Geol., 103, 1269-1284.
  • Lesti, C., Giordano, G., Salvini, F. and Cas, R.A.F. 2008. The volcano-tectonic setting of the intraplate, Pliocene-Holocene, Newer Volcanic Province (SE Australia): the role of crustal fracture zones. J. Geophys. Res., 113, B07407, doi:10.1029/2007JB005110.
  • Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F., Lefebvre, N., Robey, J., Kurszlaukis, S. and Webb, K.J. 2008. Eruption processes and facies architecture of the Orion Central kimberlite volcanic complex, Fort à la Corne, Saskatchewan; kimberlite mass flow deposits in a sedimentary basin. In Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F.  and Russell,K. (eds) Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of  J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 152-170.
  • Porritt, L.A., Cas, R.A.F. and Crawford, B. 2008a. In-vent column collapse as an alternative model for massive volcaniclastic kimberlite emplacement: an example from the Fox Kimberlite, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Canada. In Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F. and Russell,K. (eds) Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 90-102.
  • Porritt, L.A., Cas, R.A.F. and Crawford, B., 2008b. Discussion. Reply to: Discussion by Brown et al. on “In-vent column collapse as an alternative model for massive volcaniclastic kimberlite emplacement: An example from the Foxkimberlite, Ekati Diamond Mine, NWT, Canada”. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174, 851-854.
  • Bear, A.N. and Cas, R.A.F. 2007. The complex facies architecture and emplacement sequence of a Miocene submarine mega-pillow lava flow system, Muriwai, North Island, New Zealand. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 160, 1 – 22.
  • Edgar, C.J., Wolff, J.A., Olin, P.H., Nichols, H.J., Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F., Reiners, P.W., Spell, T.L. and Marti, J. 2007. The late Quaternary Diego Hernandez Formation, Tenerife: Volcanology of a complex cycle of voluminous explosive phonolitic eruptions. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 160, 59-85.
  • Gencalioglu-Kuscu, G., Atilla, C., Cas, R.A.F. and Kuscu, I. 2007. Base surge deposits, eruption history, and depositional processes of a wet phreatomagmatic volcano in central Anatolia (Cora Maar). J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 159, 198-209.
  • Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F., Monaghan, J.J. and Marti, J. 2007. Instantaneous dynamic pressure effects on the behaviour of lithic boulders in pyroclastic flows: the Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands.  Bull. Volcanol. 69, 265-279
  • Giordano, G., Benedetti, A.A. De, Diana, A., Gaudioso, F., Marasco, F., Micelli, M., Mollo, S., Cas, R.A.F. and Funicello, R. 2006. The Colli Albano mafic caldera (Roma, Italy): stratigraphy, structure and petrology. In. Giordano, G. and Cas, R.A.F. (eds) Explosive mafic and ultramafic volcanism. Special Issue J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 155, 49-80.
  • LaBerge, R., Giordano, G. and Cas, R.A.F. 2006. Substrate deformation produced by the shear effects of a pyroclastic density current: Cimino Ignimbrite, northern Lazio, Italy. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 158, 307-320.
  • Pike, G., Cas, R.A.F. and Hickman, A. H. 2006. Archaean volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Whim Creek Greenstone Belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Western Australian Geological Survey Report 101, 104pp.
  • Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F., Edgar, C., Nichols, H., Wolff, J.A.  and Marti, J. 2006. The influence of palaeotopography on facies architecture and pyroclastic flow processes of a lithic-rich ignimbrite in a high gradient setting: the Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 152, 273-315.
  • Trofimovs, J., Davis, B., Cas, R.A.F., Barley, M. and Tripp, G.I. 2006. Reconstructing the event stratigraphy from the complex structural-stratigraphic architecture of an Archaean volcanic-intrusive-sedimentary succession: the Boorara Domain, Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 53, 347-371.
  • Hare, A.G. and Cas, R.A.F. 2005. The volcanology and evolution of the Werribee Plains intra-plate, basaltic lava flow-field, Newer Volcanics Province, SE Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci., 52, 59-78.
  • Hare, A.G., Cas, R.A.F., Musgrave, R., and Phillips, D. 2005. Magnetic and chemical stratigraphy for the Werribee Plains basaltic lava flow-field, Newer Volcanics Province, SE Australia: implications for eruption frequency. Aust. J. Earth Sci., 52, 41-58.
  • Pittari, A., Cas, R.A.F. and Martí, J. 2005.  The occurrence and origin of prominent massive, pumice rich ignimbrite lobes within the Late Pleistocene Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 139, 271-193.
  • Rosengren, N.M., Beresford, S., Grguric, B.A. and Cas, R.A.F. 2005. An intrusive origin for the giant komatiitic MKD5 nickel deposit, Mount Keith, Western Australia. Econ. Geol., 100, 149 -156.
  • Simpson. C.J., Cas, R.A.F. and Arundell, M. 2005. Transitions from distal, basinal volcaniclastic apron facies associations to more proximal edifice slope facies associations in a long-lived Ordovician island arc stratovolcano province, Parkes region, Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia. Aust. J. Earth Sci., 52, 863-886.
  • Pittari A. and Cas R.A.F. 2004. Sole marks at the base of the late Pleistocene Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife: implications for transport and depositional processes at the base of pyroclastic flows. Bull. Volcanol., 66, 356-363.
  • Trofimovs, J, Davis, B.K., and Cas, R.A.F. 2004. Contemporaneous ultramafic and felsic intrusive and extrusive magmatism in the Archaean Boorara Domain, Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia, and its implications. Precambrian Res. 131, 283–304.
  • Trofimovs, J., Cas, R.A.F. and Davis, B. 2004. An Archaean submarine volcanic debris avalanche deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, with komatiite, basalt and dacite megablocks: the product of dome collapse. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res, 138, 111-126.

Other publications:
Guest editorships of special issues of peer reviewed journals:

  • Mitchell, R., Scott Smith, B, Cas, R.A.F. and Russell,K. (eds) 2008. Kimberlite emplacement processes. Special Issue of J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 174
  • Cas, R.A.F. and Giordano, G. (eds) 2006. Explosive mafic and ultramafic volcanism. Special issue of J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. 155, 1 – 150.