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  • SARChi Postdoctoral Researcher Centre for Crustal Petrology
  • Email: cuttsk@sun.ac.za
 
 
 


  • BSc Majoring in Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Geoscience, University of Adelaide, 2005.
  • BSc(Hons) First class, University of Adelaide, 2006.
  • PhD University of Adelaide, 2007-2010.
 

  • Phase-equilibria modelling of amphibolite to granulite facies rocks
  • Metamorphic record in amphibolite facies garnet
  • Monazite and zircon geochronology
 

  • Metamorphic evolution of the Barberton granite-greenstone belt. Collaborators: Gary Stevens
  • Metamorphic evolution of HT-UHT rocks of the Gawler Craton, South Australia. Collaborators: Martin Hand, Dave Kelsey & Katie Howard.
  • Neoproterozoic tectonics along the Laurentian margin of Rodinia. Collaborators: Rob Strachan, Martin Hand, Dave Kelsey and Anna Bird.
  • The Caledonian metamorphic record of Scotland and Shetland. Collaborators: Martin Hand, Rob Strachan, Dave Kelsey and Anna Bird.
 

Cutts, K.A. & Hand, M. Age constraints on the terrain-scale Karari Shear Zone in the Gawler Craton, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, accepted.
 

Cutts, K.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E. & Strachan, R.A. P-T constraints and timing of Barrovian metamorphism in the Shetland Islands, Scottish Caledonides: implications for the structural setting of the Unst ophiolite. Journal of the Geological Society, London, accepted.

 
Cutts, K.A., Hand, M. & Kelsey, D.E. Evidence for early Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1590 Ma) ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism in southern Australia. Lithos, in press
 
Cawood, P.A., Strachan, R.A., Cutts, K.A., Kinny, P.D., Hand, M. & Pisarevsky, S. 2010. Neoproterozoic orogeny along the margin of Rodinia: Valhalla orogen, North Atlantic. Geology, 38, 99-102.
 
Cutts K.A., Kinny, P.D., Strachan, R.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E., Emery, M., Friend, C.R.L. & Leslie, A.G. 2010. Three metamorphic events recorded in a single garnet: Integrated phase modelling, in situ LA-ICPMS and SIMS geochronology from the Moine Supergroup, NW Scotland. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28, 249-267.
 
Cutts, K.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E., Wade, B., Strachan, R.A., Clark, C. & Netting, A., 2009. Evidence for 930 Ma metamorphism in the Shetland Islands, Scottish Caledonides: implications for Neoproterozoic tectonics in the Laurentia-Baltica sector of Rodinia. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 1033-1048.
 
Cutts, K.A., Hand, M., Kelsey, D.E. & Strachan, R.A., 2009. Orogenic versus extensional settings for regional metamorphism: Knoydartian events in the Moine Supergroup revisited Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 201-204