Dr David Phillips

Director: Argon & Noble Gas Laboratory
School of Earth Sciences
The UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Information:

Address:
School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010.
Tel: 8344-7455. e-mail: dphillip@unimelb.edu.au.

Date of birth:
10th May, 1961, South Africa

Education History:
1984 - 1989: PhD - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
1983 - 1984: M.Sc. - Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
1982: B.Sc.(Hons) Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
1979-1981: B.Sc. - Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Professional Positions held:
15/3/01 - present:
Senior Lecturer, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne.

1/4/99 - 14/3/01: Principal Research Scientist, PRISE,
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University.

20/3/89 - 1/4/99: Divisional Geologist and Section Manager,
De Beers GeoScience Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa

1/12/89- 1/10/90: Technical assistant, CSIR, Pretoria, RSA (National Service).

Committees:
1998 -1999: Foundation Research & Development (FRD) Evaluation Comm, RSA.
1996 -Present: African Isotope GeoScience Steering Committee.

Research Interests:
- The application of K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar techniques to the solution of geological problems.
- The application of 40Ar/39Ar methods to dating tectonic and ore-forming events.
- 40Ar/39Ar laser probe dating of syn-genetic inclusions in diamonds.
- The geochronology of kimberlites and related rocks.

Recent Publications:
Fergusson, C.L. and Phillips, D. (2001). 40Ar/39Ar and K-Ar age constraints on the timing of regional deformation, south coast of New South Wales, Lachlan Fold Belt: problems and implications. Austr. J. of Earth Sci., 48, 395-408.

Gibson, R.L., Reimold, W.U., Phillips, D. and Layer, P.W. (2001). The age of metamorphism in the Witwatersrand Supergroup, Vredefort Dome (South Africa). S. Afr. J. Geol., 103, 175-190.

Pirajno, F., Phillips, D. and Armstrong, R.A. (2001). Volcanology and eruptive histories of the Erongo Volcanic Complex and the Paresis Igneous Complex, Namibia: Implications for mineral deposit styles. The Hennop Martin Memorial Volume. Spec. Publ. Geol. Surv. Namibia (in press).

Phillips, D., Kiviets, G.B., Barton, E.S., Smith, C.B., Viljoen, K.S. and Fourie, L.F. (1999). 40Ar/39Ar dating of kimberlites and related rocks: problems and solutions. Proc. 7th International Kimberlite Conference. The P.H. Nixon Volume, 677 - 688.

Phillips, D., Kiviets, G.B., Madav, M., Biddulph, M. (1999). Cainozoic volcanism of southern Africa. In: T.C. Partridge and R.R. Maud (Eds.) "The Cainozoic Geology of Southern Africa", p.182 - 197.

Van Niekerk, H.S., Gutzmer, J., Beukes, N.J., Phillips, D. and Kiviets, G.B. (1999). An 40Ar/39Ar age of supergene K-Mn oxihydroxides in a post-Gondwana soil profile on the Highveld of South Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 95(10) 450-454

Phillips, D., Machin, K.M., Kiviets, G.B., Roberts, M.A., Skinner, E.M.W. and Fourie, L.F. (1998). A petrographic and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological study of the Voorspoed kimberlite, South Africa: implications for the origin of Group II kimberlite magmatism. S. Afr. J. Geol., 101(4), 299-306.

Viljoen, K.S., Phillips, D., Harris, J.W. and Robinson, D.N. (1999). Mineral inclusions in diamonds from the Venetia kimberlites, Northern Province, South Africa. Proc. 7th International Kimberlite Conference. The P.H. Nixon Volume, 888 - 895.

Cartigny, P., Harris, J.W., Phillips, D., Girard, M. and Javoy, M. (1998). Subduction-related diamonds? The evidence for a mantle-derived origin from coupled 13C-15N determinations. Chem. Geol., 147, 147-159.

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