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  • Professor
  • Metamorphic Petrology
 
 
 
  • Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)
  • M.Sc. (University of Adelaide)
  • B.Sc. (Hons) (University of Adelaide)
 
  • High grade metamorphism and anatexis
  • In situ U/Pb geochronology via SIMS or LA-ICP-MS
  • Mineral-scale trace element geochemistry
  • Thermodynamic forward-modelling of metamorphism
  • Stable isotope geochemistry
 
  • Light isotope (Li, B, O) and mineral-scale trace element constraints on prograde metamorphism and anatexis
  • Proterozoic evolution of the Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt, NW India.
  • Petrogenesis of granulite-facies borosilicate minerals, Mt Stafford, central Australia.
  • Length scales and time scales of metamorphic equilibration
  • Metamorphic and tectonic evolution of the Southern Zone, Damara Orogenic Belt (Namibia)
  • Integrating U/Pb accessory phase (zircon, monazite, titanite) ages with metamorphic petrology through mineral trace element geochemistry
  • Development of mineral standards for U/Pb LA-ICP-MS geochronology
  • Timing, isotopic tracing and petrogeneisis of c. 1 Ga pegmatite dyke swarms, Northern Cape (South Africa) and S Namibia
 
Recent and current field areas include: Namaqualand, Western Cape, Central Zone of the Limpopo Metamorphic Belt (all Sth Africa); Damara Orogen (Namibia); Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic Belt, and Kerala Khondalite belt (India); Aileron and Irindina Provinces (central Australia).
 
Taylor, J., Stevens, G., Buick, I.S. & Lana, C., 2012. High-grade polymetamorphism in the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland: insights into the mid-crustal response to Mesoarchaean orogeny affecting the SE margin of the proto-Kaapvaal Craton. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (in press).
 
Villaros A., Buick I.S., Stevens G., 2012. Isotopic variations in S-type granites: an inheritance from a heterogeneous source? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 163, 243-257
 
Acosta-Vigil, A., Buick, I.S., Cesare, B., London, D., and Morgan, G.B., VI, 2012. Extent of melt-residuum equilibration during crustal anatexis from the study of partially melted metapelitic enclaves, and implications for crustal differentiation. Journal of Petrology (in press).
 

Buick, I.S., Lana, C., & Gregory, C., 2011. A LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP U/Pb age constraint on the timing of REE mineralisation associated with Bushveld Granites. South African Journal of Geology,114, 1-14.
 
Lana, C., Buick, I.S., Stevens, G., Rossouw, R. and De Wet, W., 2011. Upper crustal fold-and-trust tectonics and associated mid-crustal extensional magmatism in the eastern margins of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. Journal of Structural Geology, 33, 844-58
 
Palya, A., Buick, I.S. & Bebout, G.E., 2010. Storage and mobility of organic nitrogen and carbon in the continental crust: evidence from partially melted metasedimentary rocks, Mt. Stafford, Australia. Chemical Geology, 281, 211-226.
 
Buick, I.S., Clark, C., Rubatto, D.,Hermann, J., Pandit, M., Hand, M., 2010. Constraints on the Proterozoic evolution of the Aravalli-Delhi Orogenic belt (NW India) from monazite geochronology and mineral trace element geochemistry. Lithos, 120, 511-520.
 
Acosta-Vigil, A., Buick, I.S., Hermann, J., Cesare, B., Rubatto, D., London, D., and Morgan, G.B., VI, 2010. Mechanisms of Crustal Anatexis: a Geochemical Study of Partially Melted Metapelitic Enclaves and Host Dacite, SE Spain. Journal of Petrology, 51, 785-821.
 
Villaros, A., Stevens, G., Moyen, J.-F. & Buick, I.S., 2009. The trace element compositions of S-type granites: Evidence for disequilibrium melting and accessory phase entrainment in the source Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 158, 543-561.
 
Villaros, A., Stevens, G. & Buick, I.S., 2009. Tracking S-type granite from source to emplacement: Clues from garnet in the Cape Granite Suite. Lithos 112, 217-235.
 
Gregory, C.J., Buick, I.S., Hermann, J. & Rubatto, D., 2008. Mineral-scale trace element and U-Th-Pb age constraints on melting and metamorphism during the Petermann Orogeny (central Australia). Journal of Petrology 50, 251-287
 
Buick, I.S., Storkey, A. & Williams, I.S., 2008. Timing relationship between pegmatite emplacement, metamorphism and deformation during the intraplate Alice Springs Orogeny, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 26, 915-937.
 
Acosta-Vigil, Buick, I.S., Hermann, J., Cesare, B. & Rubatto, D., 2008. Mechanisms and kinetics of crustal anatexis from a LA-ICP-MS study of partially melted metapelitic enclaves and host El Hoyazo dacite, SE Spain. Geotemas 10, 1369-1372.
 
Buick, I.S., Grew, E.S., Armbruster, T., Medenbach, O., Yates, M.G., Bebout, G.E. & Clarke, G.L., 2008. Boromullite, Al9BSi2O19, a new mineral from granulite-facies metapelites, Mount Stafford, central Australia, and a natural analogue of "boron-mullite". European Journal of Mineralogy 20, 935-950.
 
Grew, E.S., Graetsch, H.A., Pöter, B., Yates, M.G., Buick, I.S., Bernhardt, H.-J., Schreyer, W., Werding, G., Carson, C.J., & Geoffrey L. Clarke, G.L., 2008. Boralsilite, Al16B6Si2O37, and “boron-mullite”: compositional variations and associated phases in nature and experiment. American Mineralogist, 93, 283-299
 
Buick, I.S., Hermann, J., Maas, R., Gibson, R.L., 2007. The timing of sub-solidus hydrothermal alteration in the Central Zone, Limpopo Belt (South Africa): constraints from titanite U-Pb geochronology and REE partitioning. Lithos 98, 97-117.
 
Forbes, C.J., Betts, P.G., Weinberg, R. & Buick, I.S., 2007. Reply to a comment on: - “A structural metamorphic study of the Broken Hill Block, NSW, Australia” by C.J Forbes, P.G. Betts, R. Weinberg & I.S. Buick, Journal of Metamorphic Geology 2005, 23, 745-770- by B.J.P. Stevens. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 25, 719-723.
 
Buick, I.S., Allen, C., Pandit, M., Rubatto, D. & Hermann, J., 2006. Laser-ablation ICP-MS U-Pb zircon constraints on the magmatic and metamorphic history of the Banded Gneiss Complex, central Rajasthan, India. Precambrian Research 151, 119-142.
 
Rubatto, D., Hermann, J. & Buick, I.S. (2006). Temperature and bulk composition control on the growth of monazite and zircon during low-pressure anatexis (Mount Stafford, central Australia),. Journal of Petrology 47, 1973-1996.
 
Buick, I.S., Hermann, J., Williams, I.S., Gibson, R.L., Rubatto, D. 2006. A SHRIMP U-Pb and LA-ICPMS trace element study of the petrogenesis of garnet-cordierite-orthoamphibole gneisses from the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. Lithos, 88, 150-172.
 
Forbes, C., Betts, P., Weinburg, R. & Buick, I.S., 2005. Metamorphism and high-temperature shear zones in the Broken Hill Block, NSW, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology . 23, 745-770.
 
Storkey, A., Hermann, J., Hand, M. & Buick, I.S., 2005. Using in-situ trace element determinations to monitor partial melting processes in metabasites. Journal of Petrology, 46, 1283-1308.
 
Buick, I.S., Hand, M., Willliams, I.S., Mawby, J., Miller, J.A. & Nichol, R., 2005. Detrital zircon provenance constraints on the evolution of the Harts Range Metamorphic Complex (central Australia): links to the Centralian Superbasin. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 162, 777-787.
 
Shabeer, K.P., Satish-Kumar, M.,Armstrong, R & Buick, I.S., 2005. Constraints on the timing of Pan-African granulite-facies metamorphism on the Kerala Khondalite belt of southern India: SHRIMP mineral ages and Nd isotopic systematics. Journal of Geology 113, 95-106.
 
Buick, I.S., Stevens, G. & Gibson, R.L., 2004. The role of water-retention in the anatexis of metapelites in the Bushveld Complex aureole, South Africa: an experimental study. Journal of Petrology, 45, 1777-1797.
 
Spicer, E.M., Stevens, G. & Buick, I.S, 2004 The low-pressure partial-melting behaviour of natural metapelites from the Mt Stafford area, Central Australia; including the role of boron as a possible melt fluxing agent. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 148, 160-179.
 
Buick, I.S., Williams, I.S., Gibson, R.L,. Cartwright, I. & Miller, J.A., 2003. d13C and U-Pb evidence for a Palaeoproterozoic crustal component in the Central Zone of the Limpopo Belt, South Africa. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 160, 601-612.
 
Huang, M., Maas, R., Williams, & Buick, I.S, 2003. Crustal response to continental collisions between the Tibet, India, South China and Northern China Blocks: geochronological constrains from the Sonpan-Garzê Orogenic Belt, west China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 223–240.
 
Huang, M., Buick, I.S. & Hou, L.W., 2003. Tectonometamorphic Evolution of the Danba Domal Metamorphic Terrane, Sichuan Province,West China. Journal of Petrology, 44, 255-268.
 
Johnson, T., Gibson, R.L., Brown, M. & Buick, I.S., 2003. Partial melting of metapelitic rocks beneath the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Journal of Petrology, 44, 789-813.
 
Buick, I.S. & Cartwright, I., 2002. Fractured-controlled fluid flow and metasomatism in the contact aureole of the Marulan Batholith (New South Wales, Australia). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 143, 733–749.
 
Harley, S.L., Thompson, P., Hensen, B.J. & Buick, I.S., 2002. Cordierite as a sensor of fluid conditions in high-grade metamorphism and crustal anatexis. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 71-86.
 
Huang, M. & Buick, I.S., 2002. High d13C carbonates from the Songpan-Garzê Orogenic Belt: implications for correlation of Neoproterozoic carbon isotope anomalies across the Yangtze Platform, China. Gondwana Research , 5, 217-226.
 
Miller, J.A., Buick, I.S. & Cartwright, I., 2002. Fluid Processes During the Exhumation of HP Metamorphic Belts. Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 93-119.
 
Buick, I.S., Maas, R. & Gibson, R.L., 2001. Precise U-Pb titanite age constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 158, 3-6.
 
Buick, I.S., Miller, J.A., Williams,I.S. & Cartwright, I., 2001. Ordovician high-grade metamorphism of a newly-recognised late Neoproterozoic terrane in the northern Harts Range, central Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 373 -394.
 
Buick, I.S., Close, D., Scrimgeour, I., Edgoose, C., Miller, J.A., Harris, C. & Cartwright, I., 2001. High-pressure melting and fluid flow during the Petermann Orogeny, central Australia. In: Water-Rock Interaction-10 (Balkema Publishing House, Netherlands), 667-670.
 
Rubatto, D., Williams, I.S. & Buick, I.S., 2001. Zircon and monazite response to prograde metamorphism in the Reynolds Range, central Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 140, 458-468.
 
Miller, J.A., Cartwright, I. & Buick, I.S., 2001. An O-isotope profile through the HP-LT Corsican ophiolite, France and its implications for fluid flow during subduction. Chemical Geology, 178,43-69.
 
Cartwright, I., Buick, I.S. & Vry, J.K., 2001. Fluid-rock interaction in the Reynolds Range, central Australia: superimposed, episodic, and channelled fluid flow system. Continental reactivation and reworking (eds J.A. Miller, R. Holdsworth, I.S. Buick & M. Hand), Geological Society of London Special Publication, 184, 357-380.


Hand, M. & Buick, I.S., 2001. Tectonic history of the Reynolds-Anmatjira Ranges: a case study of reactivation in central Australia. Continental reactivation and reworking (eds J.A. Miller, R. Holdsworth, I.S. Buick & M. Hand), Geological Society of London Special Publication, 184, 237-260.
 
Holdsworth, R.E., Miller, J.A., Hand, M. & Buick, I.S, 2001. Reassessing reactivation and reworking of continental terranes. (eds J.A. Miller, R. Holdsworth, I.S. Buick & M. Hand), Geological Society of London Special Publication, 184, 1-12.
 
Keay, S., Lister, G.L. & Buick, I.S., 2001. The timing of partial melting, Barrovian metamorphism and granite intrusion in the Naxos metamorphic core complex, Cyclades, Greece. Tectonophysics , 342, 275– 312.