Hayden Dalton

About

Lecturer in Geoscience at The University of Melbourne within the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. My research has focused on the origin and timing of volcanic eruptions across our planet.

I am also a Project team member in the AuScope Geochemistry Network (AGN), an Australian consortium of Earth Science institutes cooperating to develop national geochemistry research infrastructure. The AGN and EarthBank Project is supported by AuScope via funding from the Australian National Collaborative Infrastructure Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

Employment

• The University of Melbourne Lecturer in Geoscience

Education

• University of Melbourne PhD
  2017 - Present
• University of Otago BSc (Hons) 1st Class
  2010 - 2014

Projects & Funding

• Explosive volcanism: evolution and dynamics The University of Melbourne
  2026 - 2026
• Updating Rock Dating with Pychron AuScope Ltd
  2025 - 2026
• AuScope’s EarthBank in the Classroom AuScope Ltd
  2025 - 2027
• Tools for evaluating origin of Plio-Pleistocene volcanism in the Turkana Basin Turkana Basin Institute
  2024 - 2024
• Royal Society of Victoria Young Scientist Research Prize Royal Society of Victoria
  2020 - 2020

Publications (36)

• The complexity of synchronizing rock clocks
  PAGES Magazine 2026 DOI: doi.org/10.22498/pages.34.1.72
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• SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION OF SILICIFIED MELASTOMATACEAE FRUITS BURIED BY INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM IN THE EARLY OLIGOCENE CAPELLA FLORA, EASTERN AUSTRALIA
  International Journal of Plant Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1086/741475
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• Mica Ar-Ar and in-situ Rb-Sr geochronology for the Jingerquan rare-metal pegmatite deposit, Eastern Tianshan
  Journal of Geochemical Exploration 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2025.107958
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• Detrital minerals indicate hidden reservoirs to a REE-mineral placer in Westland, New Zealand
  Lithos 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2026.108405
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• Implications of unexpectedly young seafloor in the Challenger Deep
  Geology 2026 DOI: 10.1130/g53728.1
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• High-resolution 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Koobi Fora Tuff Complex, Turkana Basin: Implications for the hominin bearing strata of the Early Pleistocene (1.6–1.4 Ma)
  Quaternary Geochronology 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2025.101713
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• New geochemical and Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic constraints on the genesis of kimberlites and ultramafic lamprophyres from the Adelaide Fold Belt and Gawler Craton, South Australia
  Hayden B. Dalton, Andrea Giuliani, Angus Fitzpayne

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  • Bradley J. Peters
  Mineralogy and Petrology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00710-025-00938-w
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• Testing the hypothesis of secular thinning and compositional evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath cratons: Implications for kimberlite magmatism
  Soumendu Sarkar, Andrea Giuliani, Hayden B. Dalton

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  • Federico Munch
  • David Phillips
  • Sujoy Ghosh
  Mineralogy and Petrology 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s00710-025-00924-2
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• Origin and HFSE enrichment potential of a Late Cretaceous basalt to peralkaline rhyolite suite in central Queensland, Australia
  Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2025 DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2025.2584262
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• Volcanoes to vugs: Demonstrating a FAIR geochemistry framework with a diverse application of major and trace element data through the AuScope EarthBank platform
  Chemical Geology 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123092
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• High-resolution tephrochronology resolves stratigraphic complexities in archaeologically significant Nariokotome tuffs, Turkana Basin
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2025 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2424142122
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• Extreme enriched-mantle (EM) compositions recorded by the Sr-Nd-Hf isotopes of global cratonic lamproites
  Soumendu Sarkar, Hayden B. Dalton, Andrea Giuliani

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  • David Phillips
  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Geoff M. Nowell
  • Jon David Woodhead
  • Janet Hergt
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  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2025.02.014
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• Kimberlites: The deepest geochemical probes of Earth
  Andrea Giuliani, Hayden B. Dalton, David Graham Pearson
  Treatise on Geochemistry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-99762-1.00064-4
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• Basanite cobbles in Pleistocene sediments in Central Otago and their implications for intraplate volcanism and Clutha River paleo‐drainage
  New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 2024 DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2023.2224579
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• Long‐Term Tectono‐Stratigraphic Evolution of a Propagating Rift System, L’Aquila Intermontane Basin (Central Apennines)
  Tectonics 2024 DOI: 10.1029/2024TC008548
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• An improved methodology for high-resolution LA-ICP-MS trace-element fingerprinting of tephra layers: Insights from the Upper and Lower Nariokotome Tuffs, Turkana Basin, Kenya
  Chemical Geology 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122084
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• Insights into the development of small-volume long lava flows: A case study of the Coalstoun Lakes Volcanic Field, southeast Queensland, Australia
  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108115
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• Detrital or reset? 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating of mica from the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin
  Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2024.2319105
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• Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia
  Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2024.2302360
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• Constraints from lamprophyre petrogenesis on the timing of Eocene lithospheric thinning and associated rifting of Borneo and Sulawesi
  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105952
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