6th International Archean Symposium

8:30 am - 9:00 am - 25 July 2023

Opening Remarks & Welcome

Plenary - Welcome - Room 1

8:30 am

Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Welcome to Country

9:00 am - 9:30 am - 25 July 2023

Theme 5 Keynote Address

Keynote - Cratons and craton margins: structure, composition and tectonic history - Room 1

9:00 am

Heterogeneous lithospheric mantle and kimberlites sampling

Prof. Irina Artemieva - Distinguished professor - SinoProbe Lab, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (Beijing, China); China University of Geosciences (Wuhan, China); GEOMAR Helmholtz Center (Kiel, Germany)

9:30 am - 10:00 am - 25 July 2023

Theme 2 Keynote Address

Keynote - Emergence of atmosphere and life on early Earth and other terrestrial planets - Room 1

9:30 am

Nitrogen cycling on the Archean Earth: assessing the role of lighting and hydrothermal vents

Dr Eva Stueeken - University of St Andrews

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 25 July 2023

Morning Tea/Coffee

Break - Break

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 1.1 (T5)

Concurrent - Cratons and craton margins: structure, composition and tectonic history - Room 1

10:30 am

Endogenic oxidation and the formation of Archean TTG crust

Prof. Ming Tang - Peking University

10:45 am

Craton Modification as identified from Geophysical Observation

Prof. Hans Thybo - Distinguished Professor - SinoProbe laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China; China University of Geological Sciences Wuhan, China; Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

11:00 am

Using stable and radiogenic Nd isotopes to trace secular evolution of the Archean crust

Dr Alex McCoy-West - Lecturer/DECRA Fellow - James Cook University

11:15 am

Continental Growth at Neoarchean Cratonic Margins

Ass.Prof Derek Wyman - University of Sydney

11:30 am

Reactivation of craton margins: insight from seismic images

Prof. Liang Zhao - 1State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:45 am

Archean tectonic processes from seismic reflection surveys of the Superior, Yilgarn, and Pilbara cratons

Prof. Andy Calvert - Simon Fraser University

12:00 pm

Plate tectonic limits on the assembly of cratonic Australia

Dr Weronika Gorczyk - UWA

12:15 pm

Insights from the c. 1.8 Ga Bridget Suite: Unveiling the youngest felsic magmatism in the Pilbara Craton

Dr Yongjun Lu - Acting Manager Analytical Data Acquisition - Geological Survey of Western Australia

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 2.1 (T2)

Concurrent - Emergence of atmosphere and life on early Earth and other terrestrial planets - Room 2

10:30 am

Stromatolites from the 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation: crossroads between geology and biology

Dr Raphael Baumgartner - CSIRO Perth

10:45 am

Atmospheric and hydrothermal sulfur isotope signatures recorded in Archean deep marine sedimentary pyrites from the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Dr Mimi Chen - Peking University

11:00 am

The effect of the giant 3.26 Ga meteorite impact on the early surface environment and life

Prof. Nadja Drabon - Harvard University

11:15 am

Geochemical constraints on the origin and depositional setting of the Kabirdham Banded Iron Formations, Chilpi Group, India

Dr Prasanta Kumar Mishra - Dharanidhar Autonomous College, Keonjhar, Odisha, India, 758001

11:30 am

Storm Deposits in Microbialite systems past and present: Examples from Western Australia

Dr Therese Morris - Curtin University / Blue Earth Science

11:45 am

Storm Deposits in Microbialite systems past and present: Examples from Western Australia

Dr Janaina Avila - Research Fellow - University of Queensland

12:00 pm

Geological setting of the stromatolite-bearing, c. 3.48 Ga Dresser Formation (Pilbara, Australia): A review

Prof. Martin Van Kranendonk - Professor - UNSW

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 25 July 2023

Lunch

Break - Break

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 1.2 (T5)

Concurrent - Cratons and craton margins: structure, composition and tectonic history - Room 1

1:30 pm

Crustal evolution of the south-east Superior Craton and insights into Archean geodynamics

Dr David Mole - Geochronologist - Geoscience Australia

1:45 pm

Interdisciplinary analysis of mantle structure suggests a North Caribou superterrane in the Superior craton, North America

Dr David Snyder - Research scientist - Metal Earth, MERC, Laurentian University, Canada

2:00 pm

New geophysical, geologic, and geochemical data from the western Wabigoon and Winnipeg River terranes: Implications for Neoarchean geodynamics in the western Superior craton

Dr Chong Ma - Research Associate - Laurentian University

2:15 pm

A Cratonic Scale Early ensialic Successor Basin in the Superior Province

Dr Phil Thurston - Adjunct Professor - Laurentian University (Harquail School of Earth Sciences)

2:30 pm

Crustal growth and tectonometamorphic evolution of the La Grande, Nemiscau and Opatica subprovinces (Superior Province, Canada): a long-lasting history

Miss Rocío Pedreira Pérez - PhD Candidate - Université du Québec à Montréal

2:45 pm

Interrogating the record of Archean tectonics from metamorphism in the Minnesota River Valley, USA (Superior Province)

Ms Yiruo Xu - PhD Candidate - University of Michigan

3:00 pm

Archean gneiss complexes in Finnish Lapland, northern Fennoscandia

Ass.Prof Jaana Halla - Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 2.2 (T2 & T7)

Concurrent - Emergence of atmosphere and life on early Earth and other terrestrial planets, Mineral systems of Archean terranes and their margins (including Paleoproterozoic terranes) - Room 2

1:30 pm

Zircon Preserving Isotopic Biosignatures in Graphitic Inclusions Over Half a Billion Years

Prof. Axel Schmitt - John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University

1:45 pm

Break

2:00 pm

Break

2:15 pm

Proterozoic Pb isotope history recorded in Archean Pilbara conglomerate gold – pilot study

Ass.Prof Svetlana Tessalina - Associate Professor - Curtin University

2:30 pm

Convergent margin metallogenesis constrains onset of subduction on Earth

Dr Michael Doublier - Principal Research Scientist - Geoscience Australia

2:45 pm

Contrasting dome-and-keel and linear accretionary architectures in the eastern Wabigoon subprovince, Archean Superior Province, Canada: Implications for gold mineralization

Dr. Bruno Lafrance - Professor - Laurentian University

3:00 pm

Towards a generalized model of hydrothermal fluid evolution in orogenic gold systems: A systematic study from the Abitibi greenstone belt (Canada)

Dr Györgyi Tuba - Research Associate - Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Laurentian University

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm - 25 July 2023

Afternoon tea/coffee

Break - Break

3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 1.3 (T5)

Concurrent - Cratons and craton margins: structure, composition and tectonic history - Room 1

3:45 pm

The extent of the Kalahari Craton

Prof. Geoffrey Grantham - University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

4:00 pm

Lithospheric architecture and evolution of the Archean NE Congo craton revealed by O-Hf isotopes in zircon

Dr Rose Turnbull - Senior Scientist - Anatoki Geoscience Ltd; GNS Science

4:15 pm

Early earth surface processes, paleoclimate, and crust-mantle interactions: insights from Dharwar craton, India

Prof. PERUMALA VENKATA Raju Sunder - CHIEF SCIENTIST - CSIR-NGRI

4:30 pm

Campaign-style in situ Lu–Hf garnet geochronology to constrain the timing of early Archean metamorphism in the Western Dharwar Craton

Mr Jonas Kaempf - PhD Candidate - Curtin University

4:45 pm

Paleo-Mesoproterozoic tectonics along the margins of Archean Bundelkhand Craton North-Central India: constraints from U-Pb SHRIMP Zircon ages and supercontinent connections

Dr Lopamundra Saha - Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

5:00 pm

A multi-layer isotopic approach to explore the crustal basement of Australia

Dr Bryant Ware - AuScope Geochemistry Network Coordinator - John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University

5:15 pm

Xenolith Constraints on the Lithospheric Architecture and Mantle Geochemistry of the South Australian Craton

Dr Zachary Sudholz - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - The Australian National University

3:45 pm - 5:30 pm - 25 July 2023

Session 2.3 (T7)

Concurrent - Mineral systems of Archean terranes and their margins (including Paleoproterozoic terranes) - Room 2

3:45 pm

Gold mineralization and remobilization in metamorphosed and polydeformed Archean rocks of the Superior Province, Québec: Insights from the Cheechoo deposit and its auriferous pegmatites

Prof. Stéphane De Souza - Université du Québec à Montréal

4:00 pm

Rhyacian gold of the Guiana Shield

Dr Marc Bardoux - Principal Structural Geology - Barrick Gold Corporation

4:15 pm

Structural evolution of the Nyanzaga and Kilimani gold deposits, Sukumaland Greenstone Belt, Tanzania Craton

Miss Celestine Berthier - Université de Lorraine

4:30 pm

Deep crustal architecture of the Archean Yilgarn Craton: insights from multidisciplinary data integration, geological validation, and implications for gold exploration targeting

Dr. Quentin Masurel - Geologist - The University of Western Australia

4:45 pm

Insights into the formation of high-grade gold mineralisation at the 10 M oz. Jundee gold camp in Western Australia

Mr Sumail Sumail - The University of Western Australia

5:00 pm

Carbon contribution to forming high-grade gold mineralisation

Dr Laura Petrella - the University of Western Australia

5:15 pm

Genesis of Archean goldfields

Prof. Neil Phillips - University of Melbourne / Stellenbosch University

Program

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3