Dr. Ian Nicholls

Qualifications B.Sc., M.Sc. Melb., Ph.D. Cantab. Research Interests Petrology and geochemistry of granitic complexes, especially in the Lachlan Fold Belt Petrology/geochemistry/volcanology of island arc volcanoes Analytical geochemistry, especially laser-based ICP-MS analysis and other high spatial resolution (single mineral) techniques Petrology/geochemistry of SE Australian Mesozoic-Cenozoic basaltic suites associated with Gondwana breakup Contact Ian p: +61 3 9905 4894 f: +61 3 9905 4903 e: Ian Nicholls

Deputy Head of School and Reader Postgraduate coordinator Research | Publications | Other

Recent publications

• Nicholls, I. A., Moir, A & Heyworth, Z., 2007. Young trachyandesite lava domes of the Gisborne area, central Victoria, Australia: Products of shallow or deeper crustal contamination of tholeitic basaltic magmas? geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 86, pp 71-76.
• Reubi, O & Nicholls, I A. 2005. Structure and dynamics of a silicic magmatic system associated with caldera-forming eruptions at Batur Volcanic Field, Bali, Indonesia. Journal of Petrology, 46, 1367-1391.
• Reubi, O & Nicholls, I.A, 2004. 'Magmatic evolution at Batur volcanic field, Bali, Indonesia: petrological evidence for polybaric fractional crystallization and implications for caldera-forming eruptions', Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 138, pp345-369
• Reubi, O & Nicholls, I.A, 2004. 'Variability in eruption dynamics associated with caldera collapse: an example from two successive eruptions at Batur volcanic field Bali Indonesia', Bulletin of Volcanology, 66, pp134-148
• Reubi, O & Nicholls, I.A, 2003. Variability in eruption dynamics associated with caldera collapse: an example from two successive eruptions at Batur volcanic field, Bali, Indonesia, Bulletin of Volcanology, 66, (2), pp134-148
• Price, R, Nicholls, I.A & Gray, C M, Cainozoic igneous activity', Geology of Victoria, (Sydney, Australia), pp361-376, Geological Society of Australia, 1 876125 33 0, W.D.Birch, 2003
• Maas, R. and Nicholls, I.A., 2002. Nd-Sr isotopic evidence for the origin of Devonian granitic and felsic volcanic rocks of the Western Lachlan Fold Belt. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 67, p135.
• Reubi, O. and Nicholls, I.A., 2002. Evolution of mafic magmas at Slamet volcano, Java, Indonesia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, 67, p89.
• Reubi, O., Nicholls, I.A. and Kamenetsky, V.S., 2002. Early mixing and mingling in the evolution of basaltic magmas: evidence from phenocryst assemblages, Slamet volcano, Java, Indonesia, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 119, 255-27