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Associate Professor Roberto Weinberg

Qualifications

B.Sc. Rio de Janeiro, Ph.D. Uppsala

Research Interests

  • Magma Segregation and Transport
  • Magma Mingling/Mixing and Porphyry Copper Deposits
  • Continental Extension: Heat Flow, Core Complexes and Continental Break-Up
  • Orogenic Gold and Fluid Flow in the Crust
  • Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Yilgarn Craton, SW Australia
  • Curnamona Block

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Roberto Weinberg

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Recent publications

  • Bierlein, F P, Murphy, F, Weinberg, R F & Lees, T C 2006 Distribution of orogenic gold deposits in relation to fault zones and gravity gradients: targeting tools applied to the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Mineralium Deposita, vol. 41, pp 107-126
  • Regenauer-Lieb, K, Weinberg, R F & Rosenbaum, G 2006 The effect of energy feedbacks on continental strength, Nature, vol. 442, pp 67-70
  • Weinberg, R F 2006 Melt segregation structures in granitic plutons, Geology, vol. 34, pp 305-308
  • Regenauer-Lieb, K., Weinberg, R., and Rosenbaum, G. 2006. The effects of energy feedbacks on continental strength. Nature 442, 67-70.
  • Goff, B. H., Weinberg, R., Groves, D.I., Vielreicher, N.M., Fourie, P.J. 2004, The Giant Vergenoeg Fluorite Deposit in a Magnetite-Fluorite-Fayalite REE Pipe: A Hydrothermally-Altered Carbonatite-Related Pegmatoid? Mineralogy and Petrology 80, 173-199.
  • Weinberg, R.F., Sial, A.N, Mariano, G., 2004, Plutons and Shear Zones in the Borborema Province, Brazil, Geology 32, 377-380.
  • Comments and reply to Plutons and Shear Zones in the Borborema Province, Brazil, Geology Forum e72-e73.
  • Weinberg, R.F., Hodkiewicz, P. Groves, D.I., 2004, What Controls Gold Distribution in Archean Terranes, Geology 32, 545-548.
  • Forbes, C., Betts, P.G., Weinberg, R.F., and Buick, I.S., 2005, A structural metamorphic study of the Broken Hill Block, NSW, Australia, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 745-770. .
  • Rosenbaum, G., Giles, D., Saxon, M., Betts, P.G., Weinberg, R.F. and Duboz, C., 2005, Subduction of the Nazca Ridge and the Inca Plateau: Insights into the formation of ore deposits in Peru, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 239, 18-32. .
  • Rosenbaum, G., Regenauer-Lieb, Weinberg, R.F., Continental Extension from Metamorphic Core Complex to Rigid Block Rotation: Thermodynamic Modelling and the Western Mediterranean Example, Geology, 33, 609-612.
  • Wijns, C., Weinberg, R.F., Gessner, K., Moresi, L., Mode of Crustal Extension Determined by Crustal Layering, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.236, 120-134.
  • Weinberg, R.F., van der Borgh, P., Bateman, R.J., Groves, D.I., in press, Kinematic History of the Boulder-Lefroy Shear Zone System and Controls on Associated Gold Mineralization, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Econ. Geol..
  • Ganne, J , Betts, P., Weinberg, R., Noble, M., Structural complexity in the Curnamona Province (South Australia): polyphase strain partitioning and reactivation, Precambrian Research (in press).
  • Hodkiewicz, P.F., Weinberg, R.F., Gardoll, S.J., Groves, D.I., Complexity gradients in the Yilgarn Craton: fundamental controls on crustal-scale fluid flow and the formation of world-class orogenic gold deposits, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (in press)
  • Morey, A., Weinberg, R.F., Bierlein, F.P., Deformation history and multliple gold mineralisations events within the Bardoc Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. In Mao, J. and Bierlein, F.P. (eds), Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (in press).
  • R. F. Weinberg , P. van der Borgh, Extension in the Archean Kalgoorlie Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Under Confidentiality.

Recent Student Theses

  • Brown, L. 2005. The Coastal Range of Taiwan: an Archaean Analogue. Honours Thesis.

For more publications, visit Roberto's Geosite