BSc(Sheff) PhD(Otago)
Office - Geology Gn8
alan.cooper@otago.ac.nz
Professor Alan F Cooper's Inaugural Professorial Lecture 2002
Research Interests
- Metamorphic mineralogy & petrology of the Haast Schists
- Petrogenesis of carbonatites
- N.Z. lamprophyre dyke swarms
- Alpine Fault structure and activity
- Mantle petrology
- Ross Orogen, Antarctica
Recent Postgraduate Student Supervision
- Nathalie Lefebvre (2013) - Volcanological Factors Controlling the Diamond Distribution within Kimberlite Pipes Using Drill Core Information and Modern Analogues From Selected Pipes in the Attawapiskat Kimberlite Field, Northern Ontario, Canada and Hopi Buttes, Arizona, USA. (PhD)
- Andreas Auer (2013)– Sedimentary response to debris avalanche and eruption at Mt Ruapehu (PhD)
- Nic Barth (2013)- Comparative fault mechanics in quartzofeldspathic, mafic and ultramafic protoliths: a study of the Alpine Fault Zone in South Westland (PhD
- Anne Ford (2012)- Pleistocene stone tool use at Kosipe, Papua New Guinea (PhD)
- Nick Hogg (2011) On the edge: studying colonization and mobility in the Western Pacific (MSc)
- Ben Teele (2011)- Chemical analysis of Lapita and Polynesian Plainware ceramics from Samoa in order to determine settlement mobility and changes that occur to Samoan settlement strategies over the first 1,000 years of occupation. (MA)
- Sophie Briggs - Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the Alpine Dike Swarm north of the Haast River (BSc(Hons))
- Giulia Airoldi - Magma transport and propagation of intrusive sheets, Ferrar Dolerite, Allan Hills and Solitary Rocks, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Campbell Ryland - Geology, mineralisation, and structural evolution of the Bald Hill-Maori Saddle Region, South Westland, New Zealand (MSc)
- Stephen Read – Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province: Late Neoproterozoic extension in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (PhD)
- Ake Fagereng - Subduction-related fault processes: Ancient and active. (PhD)
- Adam Martin - Mount Morning volcanism, Antarctica (PhD)
- Hanne-Kristen Paulsen - Volcanology, Mount Morning, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Tim Popham - Pounamu and Scott Basin. (MSc)
- James Scott- Petrology of Eastern Fiordland. (PhD)
- Virginia Toy - Mylonites and pseudotachylytes found adjacent to the central Alpine Fault. (PhD)
- Heather Campbell - The Alpine Fault at Jackson River, South Westland. (PhD)
- Stefan Olsson - The dykes of the Dunedin Volcano; structural and petrological implications. (PhD)
- Mark Walrond - Alpine Fault Structure. (PhD)
- Anton Barber - Felsic magmatism and host metasediments of the Ross Orogeny at Reeves Bluff, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- John Cottle -Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Doc Richardson - Metasediments and mafic intrusions of the Ross Orogeny, Mulock Glacier, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (MSc)
- Matthew Wynyard - Skelton Group metamorphism: structure and petrology. (MSc)
Publications
Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Hydrous veined mantle lithosphere and implications for the source of Zealandia intraplate magmas. Lithos. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107608 Journal - Research Article
Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2023). Hydrous veins in the New Zealand mantle lithosphere and their implications for intraplate magmatism. In G. E. Frontin-Rollett & S. D. Nodder (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 164A, (pp. 51). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Craw, D., le Roux, P. J., Dalton, H. B., & Palmer, M. C. (2023). Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo-drainage. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2023.2224579 Journal - Research Article
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Doherty, C. L., & Gamble, J. A. (2023). A review of mantle xenoliths in volcanic rocks from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In A. P. Martin & W. van der Wal (Eds.), The geochemistry and geophysics of the Antarctic mantle (Geological Society Memoir no. 56). (pp. 33-55). Bath, UK: Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/M56-2019-42 Chapter in Book - Research
Cooper, A. F. (2023). Origin and evolution of nephrites, diopsidites and giant diopside crystals from the contact zones of the Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 66(1), 88-101. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2022.2050771 Journal - Research Article
2024
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2024). Hydrous veined mantle lithosphere and implications for the source of Zealandia intraplate magmas. Lithos. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107608
2023
Chapter in Book - Research
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Doherty, C. L., & Gamble, J. A. (2023). A review of mantle xenoliths in volcanic rocks from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In A. P. Martin & W. van der Wal (Eds.), The geochemistry and geophysics of the Antarctic mantle (Geological Society Memoir no. 56). (pp. 33-55). Bath, UK: Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/M56-2019-42
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Craw, D., le Roux, P. J., Dalton, H. B., & Palmer, M. C. (2023). Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo-drainage. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2023.2224579
Cooper, A. F. (2023). Origin and evolution of nephrites, diopsidites and giant diopside crystals from the contact zones of the Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 66(1), 88-101. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2022.2050771
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cooper, N. P., Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Palmer, M. C., le Roux, P. J., Cooper, A. F., Reid, M. R., & Stirling, C. H. (2023). Hydrous veins in the New Zealand mantle lithosphere and their implications for intraplate magmatism. In G. E. Frontin-Rollett & S. D. Nodder (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 164A, (pp. 51). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]
2022
Journal - Research Article
Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., Negrini, M., Kuo, L.-W., Wu, W.-H., & Cooper, A. F. (2022). An evolutionary model and classification scheme for nephrite jade based on veining, fabric development, and the role of dissolution-precipitation. Scientific Reports, 12, 7823. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11560-7
2021
Chapter in Book - Research
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Kyle, P. R., & Gamble, J. A. (2021). Erebus Volcanic Province: Petrology. In J. L. Smellie, K. S. Panter & A. Geyer (Eds.), Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 million years of subduction, rifting and continental break-up (Geological Society Memoir no. 55). (pp. 447-489). Bath, UK: Geological Society. doi: 10.1144/M55-2018-80
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Pearson, D. G., Liu, J., Auer, A., Cooper, A. F., Li, D., Palmer, M. C., Read, S. E., Reid, M. R., & Woodland, S. J. (2021). Osmium isotopes in peridotite xenoliths reveal major mid-Proterozoic lithosphere formation under the Transantarctic Mountains. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 312, 25-43. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.08.009
2020
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, A. F., Reay, A., Ireland, T. R., & Norman, M. D. (2020). Cretaceous molybdenite in metasomatic epidosite associated with the Pounamu ophiolite, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(2), 227-236. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1691018
Cooper, A. F. (2020). Petrology and petrogenesis of an intraplate alkaline lamprophyre-phonolite-carbonatite association in the Alpine Dyke Swarm, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 63(4), 469-488. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2019.1684324
2018
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2018). Two-sided accretion and polyphase metamorphism in the Haast Schist belt, New Zealand: Constraints from detrital zircon geochronology. GSA Bulletin, 130(9-10), 1501-1518. doi: 10.1130/b31826.1
Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., & Reay, A. (2018). Geochemistry and origin of a Mesozoic ophiolite: The Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 61(4), 444-460. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2018.1494005
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Martin, A., Cooper, A., Price, R., Kyle, P., & Gamble, J. (2018). Petrogenetic overview of the Erebus volcanic province, Antarctica: Recent developments. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 181). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
2017
Journal - Research Article
Townend, J., Sutherland, R., Toy, V. G., Doan, M.-L., Célérier, B., Massiot, C., … Williams, J., … Cooper, A., … Craw, L., … Kirilova, M., … Lukacs, A., … Prior, D. J., Sauer, K., … Zimmer, M. (2017). Petrophysical, geochemical, and hydrological evidence for extensive fracture-mediated fluid and heat transport in the Alpine Fault's hanging-wall damage zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(12), 4709-4732. doi: 10.1002/2017GC007202
Toy, V. G., Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Allen, M. J., Becroft, L., Boles, A., … Cooper, A., … Kirilova, M., … Norris, R., Prior, D., Sauer, K., … Williams, J., Yeo, S., … Craw, L., … Marx, R., … Pooley, B., … & DFDP-2 Science Team. (2017). Bedrock geology of DFDP-2B, central Alpine Fault, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(4), 497-518. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1375533
Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2017). Structural evolution of the semischist–schist transition in an accretionary complex: The Otago Schist section at Lake Hāwea, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(3), 296-313. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1331916
Sutherland, R., Townend, J., Toy, V., Upton, P., Coussens, J., Allen, M., … Becroft, L., … Cooper, A., … Cox, S., Craw, L., … Grieve, J., … Kirilova, M., … Lukacs, A., … Mathewson, L., … Prior, D., Sauer, K., … Williams, J., … Zimmer, M. (2017). Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault. Nature, 546, 137-140. doi: 10.1038/nature22355
2016
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Crase, J. A., Waight, T. E., van der Meer, Q., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., … Münker, C. (2016). Peridotitic lithosphere metasomatized by volatile-bearing melts, and its association with intraplate alkaline HIMU-like magmatism. Journal of Petrology, 57(10), 2053-2078. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egw069
Hagen-Peter, G., Cottle, J. M., Smit, M., & Cooper, A. F. (2016). Coupled garnet Lu–Hf and monazite U–Pb geochronology constrain early convergent margin dynamics in the Ross orogen, Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 34(4), 293-319. doi: 10.1111/jmg.12182
Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., & Collins, A. K. (2016). Fenitization of metabasic rocks by ferrocarbonatites at Haast River, New Zealand. Lithos, 244, 109-121. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.11.035
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Cooper, A. F. (2016). Richard John Norris, BA MA DPhil (Oxon) FGS FRSNZ (1945–2016) [Obituary]. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 46(3-4), 232-234. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2016.1231128
2015
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Auer, A., Czertowicz, T. A., Cooper, A. F., Billia, M. A., & Kennedy, A. K. (2015). New P–T and U–Pb constraints on Alpine Schist metamorphism in south Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(4), 385-397. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1093005
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., Turnbull, R. E., & Roberts, N. M. W. (2015). The petrology, geochronology and significance of Granite Harbour Intrusive Complex xenoliths and outcrop sampled in western McMurdo Sound, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 58(1), 33-51. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.982660
Cooper, A. F., Collins, A. K., Palin, J. M., & Spratt, J. (2015). Mineralogical evolution and REE mobility during crystallisation of ancylite-bearing ferrocarbonatite, Haast River, New Zealand. Lithos, 216-217, 324-337. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.005
Martin, A. P., Price, R. C., Cooper, A. F., & McCammon, C. A. (2015). Petrogenesis of the rifted Southern Victoria land lithospheric mantle, Antarctica, inferred from petrography, geochemistry, thermobarometry and oxybarometry of peridotite and pyroxenite xenoliths from the Mount Morning eruptive centre. Journal of Petrology, 56(1), 193-226. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egu075
Cooper, A. F., & Ireland, T. R. (2015). The Pounamu terrane, a new Cretaceous exotic terrane within the Alpine Schist, New Zealand: Tectonically emplaced, deformed and metamorphosed during collision of the LIP Hikurangi Plateau with Zealandia. Gondwana Research, 27(3), 1255-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.11.011
2014
Journal - Research Article
Martin, A. P., Price, R. C., & Cooper, A. F. (2014). Constraints on the composition, source and petrogenesis of plagioclase-bearing mantle peridotite. Earth-Science Reviews, 138, 89-101. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.08.006
Scott, J. M., Waight, T. E., van der Meer, Q. H. A., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., & Münker, C. (2014). Metasomatized ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the young Zealandia microcontinent and its role in HIMU-like intraplate magmatism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(9), 3477-3501. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005300
Scott, J. M., Hodgkinson, A., Palin, J. M., Waight, T. E., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., & Cooper, A. F. (2014). Ancient melt depletion overprinted by young carbonatitic metasomatism in the New Zealand lithospheric mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 167, 963. doi: 10.1007/s00410-014-0963-0
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2014). Increased mantle heat flow with on-going rifting of the West Antarctic rift system inferred from characterisation of plagioclase peridotite in the shallow Antarctic mantle. Lithos, 190-191, 173-190. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2013.12.012
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Scott, J. M., Brenna, M., Waight, T. E., Palin, J. M., Van der Meer, Q. H. A., Cooper, A. F., & Münker, C. (2014). The lithospheric mantle beneath Zealandia and its role in HIMU-like intraplate magmatism. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 95-96). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
2013
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, A. F., & Ireland, T. R. (2013). Cretaceous sedimentation and metamorphism of the western Alpine Schist protoliths associated with the Pounamu Ultramafic Belt, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(4), 188-199. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.809776
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2013). Petrogenesis of Cenozoic, alkalic volcanic lineages at Mount Morning, West Antarctica and their entrained lithospheric mantle xenoliths: Lithospheric versus asthenospheric mantle sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 122, 127-152. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.08.025
Van der Meer, Q. H. A., Scott, J. M., Waight, T. E., Sudo, M., Scherstén, A., Cooper, A. F., & Spell, T. L. (2013). Magmatism during Gondwana break-up: New geochronological data from Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(4), 229-242. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.826699
Mortimer, N., Nathan, S., Jongens, R., Kawachi, Y., Ryland, C., Cooper, A. F., … Randall, S. (2013). Regional metamorphism of the early Palaeozoic Greenland Group, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 56(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2012.734830
Toy, V. G., Norris, R. J., Prior, D. J., Walrond, M., & Cooper, A. F. (2013). How do lineations reflect the strain history of transpressive shear zones? The example of the active Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 50, 187-198. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.06.006
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Price, R. C. (2013). Increased mantle heat flow with on-going rifting of the West Antarctic Rift system inferred from characterisation of plagioclase peridotite. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 63). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Doherty, C., Class, C., Goldstein, S. L., Shirey, S. B., Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., … Gamble, J. A. (2013). Re-Os systematics of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Western Ross Sea area, Antarctica: Depletion ages and dynamic response during rifting. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 46th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/
2012
Journal - Research Article
Toy, V. G., Prior, D. J., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Walrond, M. (2012). Relationships between kinematic indicators and strain during syn-deformational exhumation of an oblique slip, transpressive, plate boundary shear zone: The Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 333-334, 282-292. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.037
Berryman, K., Cooper, A., Norris, R., Villamor, P., Sutherland, R., Wright, T., … Biasi, G. (2012). Late Holocene rupture history of the alpine fault in South Westland, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(2), 620-638. doi: 10.1785/0120110177
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., Toy, V., Read, S., & Easterbrook, L. (2012). Three-dimensional structure of the Alpine Fault zone in the region around the Waitangi-taona and Whataroa rivers. In A. Pittari & R. J. Hansen (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 70). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Doherty, C., Class, C., Goldstein, S. L., Shirey, S. B., Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., … Gamble, J. A. (2012). Constraining the dynamic response of subcontinental lithospheric mantle to rifting using Re-Os model ages in the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 45th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/
2011
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2011). Inverted metamorphic sequences in Alpine fault mylonites produced by oblique shear within a plate boundary fault zone, New Zealand. Geology, 39(11), 1023-1026. doi: 10.1130/G32273.1
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Tulloch, A. J., & Spell, T. L. (2011). Crustal thickening of the Early Cretaceous paleo-Pacific Gondwana margin. Gondwana Research, 20(2-3), 380-394. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.10.008
Cooper, A. F., Boztuğ, D., Palin, J. M., Martin, C. E., & Numata, M. (2011). Petrology and petrogenesis of carbonatitic rocks in syenites from central Anatolia, Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 161(5), 811-828. doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0566-3
Cooper, A. F., Maas, R., Scott, J. M., & Barber, A. J. W. (2011). Dating of volcanism and sedimentation in the Skelton Group, Transantarctic Mountains: Implications for the Rodinia-Gondwana transition in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123(3/4), 681-702. doi: 10.1130/B30237.1
Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Sagar, M. W., Allibone, A. H., & Tulloch, A. J. (2011). From richer to poorer: Zircon inheritance in Pomona Island Granite, New Zealand. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 161(5), 667-681. doi: 10.1007/s00410-010-0556-5
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., Price, R. C., & Maas, R. (2011). Evidence recorded in the lithopspheric mantle of Antarctica for the Ocean Island Basalt signature and the HIMU signature in SW Pacific and Antarctic Cenozoic volcanic rocks, and global intraplate volcanic rocks: Sr-Nd-Pb isotope and trace element data from mafic volcanic rocks and mantle and crustal xenoliths from Mount Morning, Southern Victoria Land. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2011/
2010
Journal - Research Article
Fagereng, Å., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). The metamorphic history of rocks buried, accreted and exhumed in an accretionary prism: An example from the Otago Schist, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28(9), 935-954. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2010.00900.x
Martin, A. P., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Post 3.9 Ma fault activity within the West Antarctic rift system: Onshore evidence from Gandalf Ridge, Mount Morning eruptive centre, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 22(5), 513-521. doi: 10.1017/S095410201000026X
Fagereng, Å., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Petrology of metabasalts from the Chrystalls Beach accretionary melange: Implications for tectonic setting and terrane origin. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 53(1), 57-70. doi: 10.1080/00288301003631806
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Dunlap, W. J. (2010). Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica: Two-phase evolution of a long-lived trachyte-basanite-phonolite eruptive center. Bulletin of Volcanology, 72(3), 357-371. doi: 10.1007/s00445-009-0319-1
Toy, V. G., Craw, D., Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2010). Thermal regime in the central Alpine Fault zone, New Zealand: Constraints from microstructures, biotite chemistry and fluid inclusion data. Tectonophysics, 485, 178-192. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.12.013
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cooper, A. F., Durmus, B., & Palin, J. M. (2010). Petrology and petrogenesis of carbonatitic rocks in syenites from Central Anatolia, Turkey. Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica: Abstract Series. 6, (pp. 551). [Abstract]
Toy, V. G., Reid Lindroos, Z., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2010). Along-strike variation in dip-slip rate on the Alpine Fault is a consequence of lithologic variation? Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/waisfm10.html
Other Research Output
Cooper, A. (2010, July). Carbonatites I have known: A pictorial essay. University of Otago Department of Geology Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2009
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., Tulloch, A. J., Kula, J., Jongens, R., … Pearson, N. J. (2009). Tracking the influence of a continental margin on growth of a magmatic arc, Fiordland, New Zealand, using thermobarometry, thermochronology, and zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopes. Tectonics, 28, TC6007. doi: 10.1029/2009tc002489
Allibone, A. H., Jongens, R., Scott, J. M., Tulloch, A. J., Turnbull, I. M., Cooper, A. F., Powell, N. G., Ladley, E. B., … Rattenbury, M. S. (2009). Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in eastern and central Fiordland, New Zealand: Field relations, geochemistry, correlation, and nomenclature. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 101-148. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509882
Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2009). A younger age constraint on high-grade metamorphism near George Sound in Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 67-71. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509879
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2009). Beehive Diorite: A Late Jurassic two-pyroxene pluton at Lake Manapouri, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(2), 59-65. doi: 10.1080/00288300809509852
Cooper, A. F., & Beck, R. J. (2009). River capture and Main Divide migration in the Haast River catchment assessed from the fluvial distribution of sodalite-bearing dike rocks and fenites. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 52(1), 27-36. doi: 10.1080/00288300909509875
Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Fagereng, Å., & King, R. P. (2009). Polymetamorphism, zircon growth and retention of early assemblages through the dynamic evolution of a continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27(4), 281-294. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00817.x
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Jugum, D., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Toy, V. G. (2009). West Coast student trip [Field Trip Guide]. In I. M. Turnbull (Ed.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128B, (pp. 1-39). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2009). Arc magmatism on the Gondwana margin: Borland Road, Southland. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 45). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
2008
Edited Book - Research
Graham, I. J., Skinner, D. N. B., Isaac, M. J., Cooper, R. A., Mortimer, N., Cooper, A. F., … Carter, L., Fordyce, R. E., … Johnston, M. R. (Eds.). (2008). A continent on the move: New Zealand geoscience into the 21st century. Wellington, New Zealand: Geological Society of New Zealand and GNS Science, 377p.
Journal - Research Article
Scott, J. M., Turnbull, I. M., Ewing, T. A., Allibone, A. H., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Petrology and geochronology of the volcaniclastic and volcanogenic Mesozoic Loch Burn Formation in eastern Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 51(2), 89-103. doi: 10.1080/00288300809509852
Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2008). Carbonatites from a lamprophyric dyke-swarm, South Westland, New Zealand. Canadian Mineralogist, 46(4), 753-777. doi: 10.3749/canmin.46.4.753
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Ryland, C. B., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Ti-in-Quartz geothermometry: A new tool for minerals exploration. Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. (pp. 507-516). Carlton, Australia: AusIMM. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
King, C. L., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2008). Geothermometry in the Alpine and Otago schists: Is titaniuim-in-quartz the answer? Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 224). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Norris, R., Toy, V., Cooper, A., Prior, D., & Walrond, M. (2008). Alpine Fault kinematics: How does a creeping shear zone at depth link to a sliding fault at the surface? Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 236). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Martin, A., & Cooper, A. (2008). Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 229). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2008). Carbonatite evolution in a lamprophyric dyke swarm, South Westland, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 137). Wellington,New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Cambridge, K., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2008). Tectonic affiliation of metabasite in mesozoic tectonostratigraphic terranes of the Otago Schist. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 207). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
van Woerden, T., Price, R. C., Cooper, A., & Martin, A. (2008). Geochemistry of plio-pleistocene volcanic rocks from the northern flanks of Mount Morning, West Antarctic Rift. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 199). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Martin, A. P., Cooper, A. F., & Dunlap, W. J. (2008). Volcanic history of Mount Morning: A story based upon new geochronological data. Proceedings of the Annual Antarctic Conference. (pp. 27). Christchurch, New Zealand: Antarctica New Zealand. [Abstract]
Martin, A., Cooper, A., Palin, M., & McCammon, C. (2008). Plagioclase-spinel 5-phase iherzolite from Mount Morning, Antarctica: Oxidation state and trace element geochemistry of shallow mantle from a continental rift. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0#
Scott, J., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. (2008). Tectonic evolution of the Fiordland convergent Gondwana margin. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0
Scott, J., Palin, M., & Cooper, A. (2008). Linking U-Pb isotopes with fabric development and orogenesis: Case studies from Fiordland, New Zealand. Proceedings of the 33rd International Geological Congress. Retrieved from http://www.33igc.org/coco/Handlers/COCO/Search.aspx?pageid=5002&tab=0
2007
Chapter in Book - Research
Eberhart-Phillips, D., Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R. A., Stern, T., Beavan, J., … Cox, S., Norris, R. J., … Cooper, A. F., … Stirling, M. (2007). Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand. In D. Okaya, T. Stern & F. Davey (Eds.), A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. (pp. 235-251). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. doi: 10.1029/175GM12
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). The Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Surface geology and field relationships. In D. Okaya, T. Stern & F. Davey (Eds.), A continental plate boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand. (pp. 157-175). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
Journal - Research Article
Allibone, A. H., Turnbull, I. M., Tulloch, A. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). Plutonic rocks of the Median Batholith in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand: Field relations, geochemistry, and correlation. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 50(4), 283-314. doi: 10.1080/00288300709509838
Cooper, A. F., Adam, L. J., Coulter, R. F., Eby, G. N., & McIntosh, W. C. (2007). Geology, geochronology and geochemistry of a basanitic volcano, White Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research, 165, 189-216.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Robertson, J. C., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Vennell, R. (2007). Shear zones and boundary layers: Modelling of Alpine Fault mylonites. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 143). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Toy, V. G., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Prior, D. J. (2007). Rheological evolution of high strain fault rocks along a retrograde P-T path: The Alpine Fault mylonites. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 170). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (2007). Plagioclase and garnet compositions reveal structure of the Alpine Fault mylonite zone. In N. Mortimer & L. Wallace (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 123A, (pp. 31). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Scott, J. M., Palin, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2007). Dating of fabric development by U-Pb isotopes: Case studies from Fiordland, New Zealand. In I. T. Graham (Ed.), Proceedings of the Geological Society of Australia Specialist Group in Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology Second Bi-Annual Conference. 86, (pp. 82-86). Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia, SGGMP. [Abstract]
2006
Journal - Research Article
Veevers, J. J., Belousova, E. A., Saeed, A., Sircombe, K., Cooper, A. F., & Read, S. E. (2006). Pan-Gondwanaland detrital zircons from Australia analysed for Hf-isotopes and trace elements reflect an ice-covered Antarctic provenance of 700-500 Ma age, TDM of 2.0-1.0 Ga, and alkaline affinity. Earth-Science Reviews, 76, 135-174.
Scott, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Early Cretaceous extensional exhumation of the lower crust of a magmatic arc: Evidence from the Mount Irene Shear Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics, 25. Retrieved from http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005TC001890.shtml
Cooper, A. F., & Kostro, F. (2006). A tectonically uplifted marine shoreline deposit, Knights Point, Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 203-216. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515160
Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). The Fontaine Pluton: An early Ross Orogeny calc-alkaline gabbro from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 177-189. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515158
Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Geology, geochemistry, and geochronology of an A-type granite in the Mulock Glacier area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 49(2), 191-202. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515159
Hoernle, K., White, J. D. L., van den Bogaard, P., Hauff, F., Coombs, D. S., Werner, R., … Reay, A., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Cenozoic intraplate volcanism on New Zealand: Upwelling induced by lithospheric removal. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 248, 335-352.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Sutherland, R., Eberhart-Phillips, D., Harris, R. A., Stern, T., Beavan, J., Ellis, S., … Norris, R. J., … Cooper, A. F., … Stirling, M. (2006). Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine Fault in central South Island, New Zealand? In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 101). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Beinlich, A., Cooper, A. F., & Palin, J. M. (2006). Petrology and thermochronology of the deep crust of Zealandia: Evidence from the Pigroot Creek, Eastern Otago. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 20-21). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). The Alpine Fault mylonites: A zone of localised ductile shear within the mid to lower crust. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 78-79). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]
Beinlich, A., Palin, J., & Cooper, A. F. (2006). Accessory mineral U-Pb Ti-Zr thermochronology of the deep crust of Zealandia: Rift, breakup and drift from 90-20 Ma. Eos 87 (52, Fall Meeting Suppl.). V31B-0581. [Abstract]
Scott, J. M., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., & Tulloch, A. J. (2006). Did Cretaceous accretion of eastern Fiordland to the Gondwana margin cause high-P metamorphism and partial melting? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 38(7), (pp. 450). [Abstract]
2005
Journal - Research Article
Phillips, C. J., Cooper, A. F., Palin, J. M., & Nathan, S. (2005). Geochronological constraints on Cretaceous-Paleocene volcanism in South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 48, 1-14.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Scott, J., Cooper, A., Palin, M., & Tulloch, A. (2005). Petrology and tectonics of Eastern Fiordland: Some early results. In J. R. Pettinga & A. M. Wanders (Eds.), Proceedings of the Geological Society of New Zealand 50th Annual Conference. (pp. 78). Kaikoura, New Zealand: Geological Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]
2004
Journal - Research Article
Mortimer, N., & Cooper, A. F. (2004). U-Pb and Sm-Nd ages from the Alpine Schist, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 47, 21-28.
2003
Journal - Research Article
Price, R. C., Cooper, A. F., Woodhead, J., & Cartwright, I. (2003). Phonolitic diatremes within the Dunedin Volcano, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology, 44(11), 2053-2080.
Koons, P. O., Norris, R. J., Craw, D., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Influence of exhumation on the structural evolution of transpressional plate boundaries: An example from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geology, 31(1), 3-6.
McClintock, M. K., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Geochemistry, mineralogy, and metamorphic history of kyanite-orthoamphibole-bearing Alpine Fault mylonite, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 46, 47-62.
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Very high strains recorded in mylonites along the Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Implications for the deep structure of plate boundary faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 25(12), 2141-2157.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Morton, J. P., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Mn-mineralisation in pumpellyite-actinolite facies schist of the Mount Patriarch Area, High Burn Valley, Lake Hawea. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (New Zealand branch): Opportunities for the New Zealand mining and minerals industry. Greymouth: AIMM. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2003). Strain localisation on a major plate boundary fault zone: The Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 5, 04766. [Abstract]
2002
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Simpson, A. L., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Short Note: Geochemistry of the Darwin Glacier region granitoids, southern Victoria Land. Antarctic Science, 14(4), 425-426.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Read, S. E., Cooper, A. F., & Walker, N. (2002). Geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province, Royal Society Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. In J. A. Gamble, D. N. B. Skinner & S. Henrys (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a millennium. (pp. 143-151). Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society of New Zealand. [Full Paper]
Mellish, S. D., Cooper, A. F., & Walker, N. (2002). Panorama Pluton: A composite gabbro-monzodiorite early Ross Orogeny intrusion in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In J. A. Gamble, D. N. B. Skinner & S. Henrys (Eds.), Antarctica at the close of a millennium. (pp. 129-141). Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society of New Zealand. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Simpson, A. L., Read, S. E., Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Adakitic magma generation in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Meeting Abstracts. 83(22), (pp. SE22B-05). [Abstract]
Cottle, J. M., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Mafic magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Meeting Abstracts. 83(22), (pp. SE22B-04). [Abstract]
Barber, A. J. W., & Cooper, A. F. (2002). Transitional extensional-convergent magmatism at Reeves Bluff, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 112A, (pp. 5). [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Cooper, A. F., & Paterson, L. A. (2002, June). Cogenetic silicate and carbonatitic magmatism in the South Island, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Eurocarb Workshop, Italy.
Prior, D. J., Cooper, A. F., Norris, R. J., & Walrond, M. T. (2002). Kinematics without lineations: High shear strain in the Alpine Fault mylonites, South Island, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Shear Zone Meeting of the Geological Society of London, London, UK.
2001
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Cooper, A. F., & Mellish, S. D. (2001). Nepheline syenite and carbonate from the Transantartic Mountains of southern VIctoria Land. Research Terrae. (19), Serie A, (pp. 7). [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Wright, T. (2001). Earthquake ruptures on the southern section of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 110A, (pp. 116). [Abstract]
Commissioned Report for External Body
Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., Wright, T., & Berryman, K. R. (2001). Dating of Past Alpine Fault Rupture in South Westland EQC Research Report 99/341. Commissioned by Earthquake Commission. Wellington: EQC. 69p.
2000
Journal - Research Article
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Late Quaternary slip rates and slip partitioning on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 507-520.
Cox, S. C., Parkinson, D. L., Allibone, A. H., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Isotopic character of Cambro-Ordovician plutonism, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 43, 501-520.
Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (2000). The association of potassic trachytes and carbonatites at the Dicker Willem Complex, southwest Namibia: Coexisting, immiscible, but not cogenetic magmas. Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology, 139, 570-583.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Mellish, S. D., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). An association of nepheline syenite and carbonatite from the Transantartic Mountains. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 108A, (pp. 100). [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (2000). Late Quaternary slip rates and their significance for slip partitioning on the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 108A, (pp. 114). [Abstract]
Commissioned Report for External Body
Cooper, A. F., & Aitken, J. J. (2000). New Zealand's Alpine Fault. Leaflet 104. Commissioned by The Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: The Royal Society of New Zealand. 7p.
1999
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1999). The mylonite zone on the alpine fault: Strain estimates, displacement and implications for the deep structure of major faults. Geological Society of Australia Abstract Series. 53, (pp. 170-171). [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1999). The mylonite zone on the Alpine Fault: strain estimates, displacemant and implications for the deep structure of major faults. Geological Society of Australia Abstract Series. 53, (pp. 170-171). Melbourne. [Abstract]
1998
Journal - Research Article
Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1998). Nepheline Sövites as Parental Magmas in Carbonatite Complexes: Evidence from Dicker Willem, Southwest Namibia. Journal of Petrology, 39, 2123-2136.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1998). Potassic trachytes from Dicker Willem, Southwest Namibia: Melted Fenites? Proceedings of the IAVCEI International Volcanological Congress, Cape Town. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Berryman, K. R., Cooper, A. F., Norris, R. J., Sutherland, R., & Villamor, P. (1998). Paleoseismic investigation of the Alpine Fault at Haast and Okuru. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 44). [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Structure, kinematics and paleoseismicity of the central and southern sections of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 180). [Abstract]
Wright, C. A., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Paleoseismic history of the central Alpine Fault. In K. N. Bassett & D. C. Nobes (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 249). [Abstract]
Koons, P. O., Norris, R. J., Cooper, A. F., & Craw, D. (1998). Mechanics of a single structure accommodating oblique convergence; the development of the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 101A, (pp. 138). [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Reid, D. L., & Cooper, A. F. (1998). Carbonate and silicate magnas at Dicker Willem, southern Namibia: Their origin and source region charactersitics. Verbal presentation at the 7th International Kimberlite Conference, Cape Town.
1997
Chapter in Book - Research
Cooper, A. F., Worley, B. A., Armstrong, R., & Price, R. C. (1997). Synorogenic Alkaline and Carbonatitic Magmatism in the Transantarctic Mountains of South Victoria Land, Antarctica. In C. A. Ricci (Ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes. (pp. 245-252). Siena: Terra Antartica Publication.
Journal - Research Article
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Erosional control on the structural evolution of a transpressional thrust complex on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 19(10), 1323-1342.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Wright, C. A., Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (1997). Paleoseismological potential of the Alpine Fault at Waitaha River, Westland. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 171). [Abstract]
Wright, C. A., Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Mapping of the central Alpine Fault, Stage 1: Mikonui to Waitaha Rivers, Westland. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 172). [Abstract]
Norris, R. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1997). Erosional control on the structural evolution of range-front faulting on the Alpine Fault. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 95A, (pp. 136). [Abstract]
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Cooper, A. F., & Reid, D. L. (1997, May). Nepheline-sovites: Parental carbonite magnatism and source of cumulate ijolites and urtites. Verbal presentation at the GAC/MAC Annual Meeting, Ottawa.
1996
Journal - Research Article
Adams, C. J., & Cooper, A. F. (1996). K-Ar age of a lamprophyre dike swarm near Lake Wanaka, west Otago, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 39, 17-23. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514691
Cooper, A. F. (1996). Nb-rich baotite in carbonatites and fenites at Haast River, New Zealand. Mineralogical Magazine, 60(3), 473-482. doi: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.400.08
1995
Journal - Research Article
Chamberlain, C. P., Zeitler, P. K., & Cooper, A. F. (1995). Geochronologic constraints of the uplift and metamorphism along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(4), 515-523. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514678
Cooper, A. F., Paterson, L. A., & Reid, D. L. (1995). Lithium in carbonatites: Consequence of an enriched mantle source? Mineralogical Magazine, 59(3), 401-408. doi: 10.1180/minmag.1995.059.396.03
Worley, B. A., Cooper, A. F., & Hall, C. E. (1995). Petrogenesis of carbonate-bearing nepheline syenites and carbonatites from Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Origin of carbon and the effects of calcite-graphite equilibrium. Lithos, 35(3-4), 183-199. doi: 10.1016/0024-4937(94)00050-C
Worley, B. A., & Cooper, A. F. (1995). Mineralogy of the Dismal Nepheline Syenite, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Lithos, 35(1-2), 109-128. doi: 10.1016/0024-4937(94)00049-8
Cooper, A. F., & Norris, R. J. (1995). Displacement on the Alpine Fault at Haast River, South Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(4), 509-514. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514677
Cooper, A. F. (1995). Nephrite and metagabbro in the Haast Schist at Muddy Creek, northwest Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 38(3), 325-332. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1995.9514660
Hall, C. E., Cooper, A. F., & Parkinson, D. L. (1995). Early Cambrian carbonatite in Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society, 152, 721-728. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.152.4.0721