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Matthew De Paoli, BSc(Hons), BA

PhD Candidate

Madsen Building (F09), Room 407
Phone: +61 2 9351 8199
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Supervisor
A/Prof Geoffrey Clarke

Research

PhD title: High-Pressure Granulite To Eclogite Facies Metamorphism: Mechanisms Of Formation And Tectonometamorphic Implications, Fiordland, New Zealand

Matthew De Paoli is a postgraduate student in metamorphic petrology at the University of Sydney. Matthew's research interests are high-P granulite and eclogite rocks from New Zealand and New Caledonia. He is currently investigating the development of high-P granulites from Southern Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand. With particular research emphasis focused on the metamorphic environment, generation, and tectonometamorphic implications of these high-P granulites so as to better understand the crustal evolution of the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss from its Cretaceous intrusion to subsequent metamorphism and exhumation. Matthew’s studies involve detailed petrological analysis and forward modeling of high-P granulite through to eclogite mineral equilibria in THERMOCALC. Through his research Matthew hopes to decipher the physiochemical conditions (pressure – temperature, aH2O, volume change etc.), which resulted in the generation of these high-P granulite assemblages.

Selected Publications/Conference Abstracts

  • De Paoli, M.C., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., (In Prep). Petrography and thermobarometry of the Breaksea Gneiss and hosted orthopyroxene-bearing eclogite to orthopyroxene-free eclogite, Breaksea Sound, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Petrology.
  • De Paoli, M.C., Clarke, G.L., (In Prep). Pseudosection modeling in NCKFMASHTO; results from the lower most levels of a doubly thickened magmatic arc, Breaskea Sound, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Petrology.
  • De Paoli M.C., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis , K.A., and Turbull, I., 2007. Interlayered high-P Granulites & Eclogites, Fiordland, New Zealand. , Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract.
  • De Paoli, M.C., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., and Turbull, I., 2007. The Metamorphic Evolution of a Magmatic Arc: Coronas and Shear Zones in the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss, New Zealand. Geological Society of Australia, ABSTRACTS. 86, SGGMP. Dunedin 2007.
  • Klepeis, Keith A., Daniel King, Matthew De Paoli, Geoffrey L. Clarke and George Gehrels, (2006) Interaction of strong lower and weak middle crust during lithospheric extension in Western New Zealand, Tectonics, submitted.
  • M. C. De Paoli, J. A. Fitzherbert, G. L. Clarke, (2006) Tracking the metamorphic evolution of the root to a magmatic arc: coronas and shear zones in the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss, Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, AGU Fall Meeting 2006 Abstracts, submitted.
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