matt de paoli | geologist

I currently hold a postdoc position at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich working with Alan Thompson. My research at ETH concerns understanding the inter-relationships of the PT evolutionary path that rocks take through orogenic systems and the textural relationships and mineralogical zoning that such rocks ultimately preserve. More generally, I am interested in and fascinated by metamorphic processes in high-grade geological terranes and deciphering the interaction between igneous, structural and metamorphic processes within such terranes.
My postgraduate studies at the University of Sydney, Australia focused on high-P granulite and eclogite rocks of southern Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand. To date this research has involved investigating the metamorphic environment, generation, and tectono-metamorphic implications of these rocks so as to better understand the lower-crustal evolution of the Fiordland magmatic arc from its Cretaceous intrusion through to its subsequent metamorphism and exhumation. These studies involved detailed outcrop, petrological and textural analysis, thermobarometry and mineral equilibria forward modelling in THERMOCALC of high-P granulite through to eclogite to gain insight into the physiochemical conditions (P–T, aH2O, volume change etc.), which resulted in the generation of these high-grade assemblages.

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