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Overview

Alan S. Collins is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics including Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Geology, and Atmospheric Science. Within these fields, their focus areas include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geophysical Studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Collins has contributed extensively to research published in multiple venues. Frequent publication outlets include Precambrian Research, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, and the Journal of the Geological Society.

They have coauthored research with a number of frequent collaborators, including Morgan Blades, Juraj Farkaš, Sarah Gilbert, Stijn Glorie, and Darwinaji Subarkah.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • New Maps of Global Geological Provinces and Tectonic Plates (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Assessment of elemental fractionation and matrix effects during in situ Rb-Sr dating of phlogopite by LA-ICP-MS/MS: implications for the accuracy and precision of mineral ages (2020, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry)
  • Neoproterozoic geochronology and provenance of the Adelaide Superbasin (2020, Precambrian Research)
  • Cambro-Ordovician magmatism in the Delamerian orogeny: Implications for tectonic development of the southern Gondwanan margin (2020, Gondwana Research)

Best Publications

  • Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis

    Z.X. Li;Z.X. Li;S.V. Bogdanova;A.S. Collins;A. Davidson

  • Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens

    Alan S. Collins;Sergei A. Pisarevsky

  • Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution.

    H. Fritz;M. Abdelsalam;K.A. Ali;B. Bingen

  • Late Cryogenian-Ediacaran history of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen

    P.R. Johnson;A. Andresen;A.S. Collins;A.R. Fowler

  • A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

    Andrew S. Merdith;Andrew S. Merdith;Alan S. Collins;Simon E. Williams;Sergei Pisarevsky

  • Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

    Andrew S. Merdith;Simon E. Williams;Alan Collins;Michael G. Tetley

  • The Tectonic Evolution of Central and Northern Madagascar and Its Place in the Final Assembly of Gondwana

    Alan S. Collins;Brian F. Windley

  • Alternative tectonic models for the Late Palaeozoic-Early Tertiary development of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region

    A. H. F. Robertson;J. E. Dixon;S. Brown;A. Collins

  • Processes of Late Cretaceous to Late Miocene episodic thrust-sheet translation in the Lycian Taurides, SW Turkey

    Allan S Collins;Alastair H F Robertson

  • Peninsular India in Gondwana: The tectonothermal evolution of the Southern Granulite Terrain and its Gondwanan counterparts

    A. Collins;Christopher Clark;Diana Plavsa

  • Passage through India: the Mozambique Ocean suture, high-pressure granulites and the Palghat-Cauvery shear zone system

    Alan S. Collins;Chris Clark;K. Sajeev;M. Santosh

  • SHRIMP U-Pb age constraints on magmatism and high-grade metamorphism in the Salem Block, southern India

    Chris Clark;Alan S. Collins;Nicholas E. Timms;Peter D. Kinny

  • Madagascar and the amalgamation of Central Gondwana

    Alan S. Collins

  • Lycian melange, southwestern Turkey: An emplaced Late Cretaceous accretionary complex

    Alan S. Collins;Alastair H. F. Robertson

  • High-Temperature Granite Magmatism, Crust–Mantle Interaction and the Mesoproterozoic Intracontinental Evolution of the Musgrave Province, Central Australia

    Robert H. Smithies;H.M. Howard;P. M. Evins;Christopher L. Kirkland

  • Age and sedimentary provenance of the Southern Granulites, South India: U-Th-Pb SHRIMP secondary ion mass spectrometry

    Alan S. Collins;M. Santosh;I. Braun;C. Clark

  • New maps of global geological provinces and tectonic plates

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  • Delineating crustal domains in Peninsular India: Age and chemistry of orthopyroxene-bearing felsic gneisses in the Madurai Block

    Diana Plavsa;Alan S. Collins;John F. Foden;Louise Kropinski

  • Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian palaeogeography: models and problems

    Sergei Pisarevsky;Sergei Pisarevsky;J.B. Murphy;Peter Cawood;A.S. Collins

  • Cadomian (Ediacaran-Cambrian) arc magmatism in the Bitlis Massif, SE Turkey: Magmatism along the developing northern margin of Gondwana

    P. Ayda Ustaömer;Timur Ustaömer;Alan S. Collins;Alastair H.F. Robertson

  • Structural and thermal history of poly-orogenic basement: U–Pb geochronology of granitoid rocks in the southern Menderes Massif, Western Turkey

    Klaus Gessner;Alan S. Collins;Uwe Ring;Talip GÜngÖr

  • Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution

    S. M. Reddy;R. Mazumder;D. A. D. Evans;A. S. Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Stijn Glorie
Stijn Glorie University of Adelaide
John Foden
John Foden University of Adelaide
Justin L. Payne
Justin L. Payne University of South Australia
Grant M. Cox
Grant M. Cox University of Adelaide
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Christopher K. Morley
Christopher K. Morley PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited
Martin Hand
Martin Hand University of Adelaide
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
David E. Kelsey
David E. Kelsey University of Adelaide
Noreen J. Evans
Noreen J. Evans Curtin University

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