Greg Yaxley

About

I use high pressure experimental petrology on piston-cylinder and multi-anvil apparatus to investigate deep earth processes. My main research interests include
• petrogenesis and evolution of carbonatites as sources of critical metals (rare earth elements, niobium etc)
• petrological and geochemical evolution of the cratonic mantle lithosphere
• petrogenesis of kimberlites
• applications of microbeam analysis to natural and experimental samples, in particular FEG-electronprobe microanalysis and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Employment

• Australian National University Professor of Experimental Petrology
  2000 - Present
• The Australian National University

Education

• University of Tasmania PhD
  1989 - 1993

Projects & Funding

• The carbonate geology of the critical metal niobium Australian Research Council
  2024 - 2026
• ARC Training Centre in Critical Resources for the Future Australian Research Council
  2024 - 2029
• Experimental and empirical insight into melting of the early Earth's mantle Australian Research Council
  2022 - 2025
• The geochemistry of rare earth elements in carbonate melts Australian Research Council
  2019 - 2021
• A new national electron microprobe facility Australian Research Council
  2015 - 2015
• The earth's deep carbon cycle Australian Research Council
  2014 - 2016
• Redox conditions in the earth's upper mantle and the implications for kimberlite petrogenesis, diamond formation and mantle metasomatism Australian Research Council
  2010 - 2014
• Mantle heterogeneity: an exploration of the melting behaviours of compositional heterogeneities in the Earth's Mantle Australian Research Council
  2006 - 2008
• Advancing diamond exploration - novel techniques for the interpretation of indicator minerals Australian Research Council
  2006 - 2007

Publications

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