Reading the orogenic record: mineral textures, metamorphic processes and crustal evolution

这项研究将通过对适当地区的直接考察和对形成澳大利亚的地质过程的制约，产生与澳大利亚板块地质演化有关的新信息。我们建议研究的变质带拥有澳大利亚的几个主要矿藏，这些矿藏是造山作用产生的重要经济资源，与它们的变质演化有着内在的联系。这里开发的方法以及由此产生的对造山作用的更好理解将直接应用于成矿的许多方面。

This research will produce new information relevant to the geological evolution of the Australian plate by direct examination of appropriate areas and by providing constraints on the geological processes that formed Australia. The metamorphic belts we propose to study host several of Australia's major mineral deposits, economically-important resources generated as a consequence of orogenesis, intrinsically linked to their metamorphic evolution. The methodologies developed here and the resulting greater understanding of orogenesis will have direct application to many aspects of ore formation.