Earth Sciences research projects
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Meteorite projects
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Earth and Planetary sciences are currently performing research on the following areas referring to minerals:
- Analysis and description of new meteorites found in Western Australia
- Recovery of observed meteorite falls from the Nullarbor Region using the Desert Fireball Camera Network in collaboration with Imperial College, London and the Ondrejov Observatory, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Mineral research projects
0 Research Projects | Updated 2 years ago
Earth and Planetary sciences are currently performing research on the following areas referring to minerals:
- Dating of secondary minerals from the oxidised zone in WA, using the U–Th–He technique
- Origin of the Speewah fluorite deposit in the north Kimberley region, Western Australia
- Research into the minerals from the Shangri La Mine, Kimberley, Western Australia.
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Double-Dating Techniques
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Staff are part of a consortium of agencies, led by CSIRO, that were successful in obtaining MERIWA funding for the research project “Application of U-Th-Pb-He Double-Dating Techniques to Diamond Exploration” (MERIWA project M405).
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Lamniform Sharks – Cardabiodon ricki
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Earth and Planetary sciences are currently performing a research project examining the growth rate, size at birth and age at death of the 95 million-year-old, giant lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki. This species is based on material found near Exmouth, Western Australia. The project is a collaboration including researchers from WAM and the Tyrell Museum, Alberta, Canada.
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Lamniform Sharks – Cretoxyrhina vraconensis
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Earth and Planetary sciences are currently performing a research project focusing on the large lamniform shark Cretoxyrhina vraconensis from the Vraconian stage of the Lower Cretaceous. This species is very poorly known and the revision, based on material from Kazakhstan, will expand our knowledge about this apex predator. The project includes palaeontologists from the Western Australian Museum, the Natural History Museum in London, UK, and Lund University, Sweden.
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Desert Fireball Networking
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In September 2010, a team comprising members of the WA Museum’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department; London’s Natural History Museum, Imperial College London and Germany’s Münster University headed out to the Nullarbor in search of meteorites. This was no ordinary meteorite search, but part of the ongoing cooperative of the “Desert Fireball Network” that utilises a number of cameras spread across the Nullarbor to record meteorite fireballs as they fall to Earth. Once identified by the camera system, field-crews head out to locate the falls.