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| PhD
University of Witwatersrand |
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- Geology
of high-grade terrains
- Melt
migration and granite emplacement
- Archaean
tectonics
- Controls
of hydrothermal fluid flow and lode-gold deposits
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| Current
Research Projects |
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| SOUTH
AFRICA |
| 1.
Lower-crustal structure in Bushmanland in the Northern Cape
Province (in cooperation with the Council for Geoscience and
numerous students) |
- Formation
and significance of dome structures in southern Namaqualand
(2009)
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Geology of the late-Namaquan Pofadder Shear Zone (since
2009)
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Melt migration in the lower crust of Bushmanland (2010)
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Pan-African Saldana belt (Western Cape) |
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| NAMIBIA |
| (in
cooperation with researchers from Stellenbosch, Stefan Jung
(Univ. Hamburg/Lund), Navachab Gold Mine and the Geol. Survey
of Namibia) |
- Geology
and structural evolution of the Southern Zone of the Damara
Belt, a Pan-African accretionary complex (in cooperation
with Francesca Meneghini (post-doctoral fellow) and Ian
Buick, start in 2010)
- Controls
of melting, melt migration and granite emplacement in the
Central Zone of the Damara Belt – selected case histories
(with numerous students, ongoing since 2004)
- Geology
of the south Central Zone – a structural transect
through a mid-crustal forearc (in cooperation with Navachab
Gold Mine (NGM) and students, since 2007)
- Controls
of hydrothermal fluid flow around the Navachab gold mine
(in cooperation with the NGM and students, start in 2010)
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| GREENLAND |
| (in
cooperation with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
(GEUS) and various participants of the Greenland expeditions) |
- Structural
geology of the high-grade TTG-gneiss terrain around the
Graedefjord in SW Greenland as a possible late-Archean suture
(2009)
- Geology
of the Tartoq Group, SW Greenland (2010)
- Geology
and hydrothermal mineralization in SW Greenland (2010)
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| GUINEA |
| (in
cooperation with AngloGold Ashanti and the Siguiri Mine) |
- Structural
geology of the Siguiri mine and controls of auriferous quartz
veining (2010)
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| Recent
projects |
- Archean
geology of the Barberton greenstone belt and its surrounding
granitoid-gneiss terrain (funded by the NRF between 2001
and 2009)
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| Kisters,
A.F.M. , Belcher, R.W., Poujol, M. Dziggel, A. (2010).
Continental growth and convergence-related arc magmatism in
the Mesoarchaean: evidence from the Barberton granitoid-greenstone
terrain, South Africa. Precambrian Research 178, 15-26.
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| Lana,
C., Kisters, A.F.M, and Stevens, G (2010).
Exhumation of Mesoarchaean TTG gneisses from the middle crust:
Insights from the Steynsdorp core complex, Barberton granitoid
greenstone terrain, South Africa. Geological Society of America
Bulletin 122, 183-197. |
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| Dziggel,
A., Poujol, M., Otto, A., Kisters, A.F.M.,
Trieloff, M., Meyer, F.M. (2010). New U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar ages
from the northern margin of the Barberton greenstone belt, South
Africa: implications for the formation of orogenic gold deposits.
Precambrian Research 179, 206-222. |
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| Clemens,
J.D., Belcher, R.W., Kisters, A.F.M. (2010).
The Heerenveen batholith, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa:
Mesoarchaean, potassic felsic magmas formed by melting of an
ancient subduction complex. Journal of Petrology, doic10.1093/petrology/egq014. |
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| Taylor,
J.M., Stevens, G., Armstrong, R.A., Kisters, A.F.M.
(2010). Granulite-facies anatexis in the Ancient Gneiss Complex,
Swaziland, at 2.73Ga: Mid-crustal metamorphic evidence for mantle
heating of the Kaapvaal Craton during Ventersdorp magmatism.
Precambrian Research 177, 88-102. |
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| Kisters,
A.F.M., Ward, R.A., Anthonissen, C.J., and Vietze,
M.E (2009). Melt segregation and far-field melt transfer in
the mid-crust. Journal of the Geological Society London 166,
905-918. |
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| Dziggel,
A., Knipfer, S., Kisters, A.F.M. and Meyer,
F.M. (2006). P-T and structural evolution during exhumation
of high-T, medium-P basement rocks in the Barberton Mountain
Land. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, in press |
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| Johnson,
S.D., Poujol, M, and Kisters, A.F.M. (2006).
Constraining the timing and migration of collisional tectonics
in the Damara belt, Namibia: U-Pb zircon ages for the syntectonic
Salem-type Stinkbank granite. South African Journal of Geology,
109, 427-440 |
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Moyen,
J.-F., Stevens, G., Kisters, A.F.M. (2006).
Record of Mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the
Barberton terrain of South Africa. Nature, 442, 559-562 |
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| Belcher,
R.W. and Kisters, A.F.M. (2006). Progressive
adjustments of ascent and emplacement controls during incremental
construction of the 3.1 Ga Heerenveen batholith, South Africa.
Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 1406-1421. |
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| Diener,
J.F.A., Stevens, G. Kisters, A.F.M., Poujol,
M. (2005). Metamorphism and exhumation of the basal parts of
the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Constraining the
rates of Mesoarchaean tectonism. Precambrian Research 143, 87-112 |
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| Westraat,
J., Kisters, A.F.M., Poujol, M. and Stevens,
G. (2005). Transcurrent shearing, granite sheeting and the incremental
construction of the tabular, 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi batholith, Barberton
granite-greenstone terrain, South Africa. Journal of the Geological
Society of London, 162, 373-388. |
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| Kisters,
A.F.M. (2005). Controls of gold-quartz vein formation
during regional folding in amphibolite-facies, marble dominated
metasediments of the Navachab Gold Mine in the Pan-African Damara
Belt, Namibia. South African Journal of Geology 108, 365-380. |
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| Belcher,
R.W. and Kisters, A.F.M. (2006). Syntectonic
emplacament and deformation of the Heerenveen batholith: conjectures
on the structural setting of the 3.1 Ga granite magmatism in
the Barberton granite-greenstone terrain, South Africa. Geological
Society of America, Special Publ. No 405, 211-231 |
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| Diener,
J.F.A., Stevens, G. Kisters, A.F.M. (2005).
High-pressure low-temperature metamorphism in the southern Barberton
granitoid greenstone terrain, South Africa: a record of overthickening
and collapse of Mid-Archaean continental crust. In: Benn, K.,
Mareschal, J-C. And Condie, K. (eds.) Archaean geodynamics and
environments. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph
Series, vol. 164, 370pp. ISBN 0-87590-429-7. |
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Blenkinsop,
T.G. and Kisters, A.F.M. (2005). Subvertical
extrusion of late-Archaean granulites in the Northern Marginal
Zone, Zimbabwe: normal-sense shear but no gravitational collapse.
In: Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics from minerals
to the lithosphere, D.Gapais, J.-P. Brun, P.R. Cobbold (eds.)
Geological Society of London Special Publication 243, 193-204.
ISBN 1-86239-176-9 |
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| Kolb,
J., Sindern, S., Kisters, A.F.M., Meyer, F.M.,
Hoernes, S., Schneider, J. (2005): Timing of gold mineralization
at Kochkar in the evolution of the East Uralian Granite-Gneiss
Terrane. Mineralium Deposita, 40, 473-491. |
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Kisters,
A.F.M., Jordaan, L.S. and Neumaier, K. (2004). Thrust-related
dome structures in the Karibib district and the origin of
orthogonal fabric domains in the south Central Zone of the
Pan-African Damara Belt, Namibia. Precambrian Research, 133,
283-303. |
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| Kolb,
J., Kisters, A.F.M., Meyer, F.M., Siemes, H.
(2003): Polyphase deformation of mylonites from the Renco gold
mine (Zimbabwe): identified by crystallographic preferred orientation
of quartz. Journal of Structural Geology, 25, 253-262. |
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| Lana,
C., Gibson, R.L., Kisters, A.F.M., Reimold,
W.U. (2003): Archaean crustal structure of the Kaapvaal Craton,
South Africa – evidence from the Vredefort Dome. Earth
and Planetary Science Letters 206, 133-144. |
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| Kisters,
A.F.M., Stevens, G., Dziggel, A., Armstrong, R.A. (2003).
Extensional detachment faulting and core-complex formation at
the base of the Barberton greenstone belt: evidence for a 3.2
Ga orogenic collapse. Precambrian Research 127, 355-378. |
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| Belcher,
R.W. and Kisters, A.F.M. (2003): Lithostratigraphic
correlations in the western branch of the Saldania Belt, South
Africa: the Malmesbury Group revisited. South African Journal
of Geology 106, 327-342. |
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| Current
Postgraduate Students |
| Name |
Juan
Steyn
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| Degree |
MSc
- 2010 -2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
Structural
geology and controls on gold-quartz veining in the Siguri Mine,
Guinea. |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Pieter
Creus
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| Degree |
MSc
- 2010 -2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
Controls
on auriferous quartz veins in the Navachab corridor, Damara
Belt, Namibia |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Carly
Faber
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| Degree |
MSc
- 2010 - 2011 (Registered at UCT and cosupervised by Dr Johann
Diener UCT) |
| Thesis
Title |
Processes
of melt migration in the mid-crust: an integrative approach
from the Central Zone of the Damara Belt |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Duncan
Hall
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| Degree |
MSc
2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
Emplacement
controls of granitoid dykes and sills and consequences for melt
ascent and arrest in the mid crust |
| Current
Status |
Active
since 2011 |
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| Name |
Andre
Coetzee
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| Degree |
BSc
Honours 2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
Geometry
and emplacement of mafic dykes and sills in the Middleburg coal
fields |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Cornelia
Agenbach
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| Degree |
BSc
Honours 2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
Geology
of the Bloubergstrand Member, Tygerberg Formation, W-Cape |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Kerry
Lee Callaghan
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| Degree |
BSc
Honours 2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
3D
visualization of the Malmesbury Group – Cape Surpergroup
unconformity: the effects of the Permo-Triassic Cape Orogeny
in the Western Cape |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Name |
Kemp
Hugo
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| Degree |
BSc
Honours 2011 |
| Thesis
Title |
An
investigation into the controls and origin of joints in the
Table Mountain Group of the Western Cape |
| Current
Status |
Active |
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| Graduated
Students |
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| Name |
Geoff
Owen |
| Degree |
MSc
- 2009-2010 |
| Thesis
Title |
Geology
of the Kranzberg syncline and controls of pegmatite emplacement
in the Usakos pegmatite field, Damara Belt, Namibia |
| Current
Status |
Geoff
has successfully completed his project and is currently working
as a senior geologist for RTZ in exploration in Canada. |
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| Name |
Shannon
Johnson
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| Degree |
MSc
2005 |
| Thesis
Title |
Structural
geology of the Usakos Dome and environs, south Central Zone,
Damara Belt, Namibia. |
| Current
Status |
Shannon
is currently working in gold exploration in New Zealand. |
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| Name |
Johan
Diener
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| Degree |
MSc
2004 Cum Laude |
| Thesis
Title |
Tectonometamorphic
evolution and geochronology of parts of the Theespruit Formation,
Barberton greenstone belt |
| Current
Status |
Johann
obtained his PhD from Melbourne University in Australia in 2008.
He is now a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. |
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| Name |
Robert
Ward |
| Degree |
PhD
2008 - Co-supervised with Gary Stevens |
| Thesis
Title |
Partial
melting and melt migration in parts of the Damara Orogen - a
petrological, structural and experimental investigation. |
| Current
Status |
Robert
is currently involved in international exploration projects
for McKinsey |
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| Name |
Shawn
Kitt
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| Degree |
MSc
2008 Cum Laude |
| Thesis
Title |
Structural
controls of auriferous quartz veins during regional deformation
in the Usakos Dome, Damara Belt, Namibia |
| Current
Status |
Shawn’s
degree was awarded cum laude. He is currently working for AngloGold
Ashanti in gold exploration in Guinea |
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| Name |
Chris
Anthonissen
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| Degree |
MSc
2009 |
| Thesis
Title |
Structural
geology of a transect through the south Central Zone of the
Damara Belt, Namibia |
| Current
Status |
Chris
produced a superb thesis, aspects of which are currently written
up for publication. He is presently working for RES (Cape Town)
in various exploration projects all over Africa. |
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| Name |
Martin
Vietze
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| Degree |
MSc
2009 Cum Laude |
| Thesis
Title |
Geology
and emplacement of the Stinkbank Granite, Damara Belt, Namibia.
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| Current
Status |
Martin’s
degree was awarded cum laude. He is presently working for RES
in exploration projects in Africa, currently based in Lesotho. |
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