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Overview

Peter G Betts is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics, geology, and related subfields such as artificial intelligence applications within Earth sciences, earth-surface processes, and molecular biology.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Geological formations and processes

Betts has authored papers published in multiple venues with a consistent presence in journals such as Tectonophysics and Earth-Science Reviews. Other frequent venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Tectonics, and Gondwana Research.

Recent notable publications by Betts and collaborators include:

  • "The role of inherited crustal and lithospheric architecture during the evolution of the Red Sea: Insights from three dimensional analogue experiments" (2020) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Re-assessment of the depth to the base of magnetic sources (DBMS) in Australia from aeromagnetic data using the defractal method" (2020) in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Plume Versus Slab-Pull: Example from the Arabian Plate" (2021) in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Crustal architecture of the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt and tectonic implications: Constraints from aeromagnetic, gravity and geological data" (2022) in Tectonophysics
  • "Geology from aeromagnetic data" (2024) in Earth-Science Reviews

Their collaborative network includes frequent partnerships with Robin Armit, M. Radhakrishna, M. A. McLean, Alexander R. Cruden, and Yellalacheruvu Giri.

Best Publications

  • The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia

    Peter Graham Betts;David Giles

  • Evolution of the Australian lithosphere

    Peter G Betts;David Giles;G S Lister;L R Frick

  • Subduction of the Nazca Ridge and the Inca Plateau: Insights into the formation of ore deposits in Peru

    Gideon Rosenbaum;David Giles;Mark Saxon;Peter Graham Betts

  • Dynamics of continental accretion

    Louis-Noel Moresi;Peter Graham Betts;Meghan Samantha Miller;Ross A Cayley

  • 1.8–1.5-Ga links between the North and South Australian Cratons and the Early–Middle Proterozoic configuration of Australia

    David Giles;Peter G. Betts;Gordon S. Lister

  • Locating and quantifying geological uncertainty in three-dimensional models: Analysis of the Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia

    Mark Lindsay;Mark Lindsay;Laurent Ailleres;Mark Jessell;Eric Anthony de Kemp

  • Far-field continental backarc setting for the 1.80-1.67 Ga basins of northeastern Australia

    David Giles;Peter Betts;Gordon Lister

  • Geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrain

    M G O'Dea;Gordon S Lister;Tyler C MacCready;Peter G Betts

  • Synthesis of the proterozoic evolution of the Mt Isa Inlier

    Peter Graham Betts;David Giles;Geordie Mark;Gordon Lister

  • The subglacial geology of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

    Alan Robert Alexander Aitken;Duncan Young;Fausto Ferraccioli;Peter Graham Betts

  • Comparing 1800-1600 Ma accretionary and basin processes in Australia and Laurentia: Possible geographic connections in Columbia

    Peter Graham Betts;David Giles;Bruce Franklin Schaefer

  • Tectonic Environment of Shale-Hosted Massive Sulfide Pb-Zn-Ag Deposits of Proterozoic Northeastern Australia

    Peter G. Betts;David Giles;Gordon S. Lister

  • Evolution of the Mount Woods Inlier, northern Gawler Craton, Southern Australia: an integrated structural and aeromagnetic analysis

    Peter G. Betts;Rick K. Valenta;Jim Finlay

  • Australia and Nuna

    Peter Betts;Robin Armit;John Stewart;Alan Aitken

  • Mesoproterozoic plume‐modified orogenesis in eastern Precambrian Australia

    Peter Graham Betts;David Giles;John Foden;Bruce Franklin Schaefer

  • The Australo-Antarctic Columbia to Gondwana transition

    A. R.A. Aitken;P. G. Betts;Duncan A Young;Donald D Blankenship

  • Three-dimensional numerical models of the influence of a buoyant oceanic plateau on subduction zones

    Wendy Mason;Louis-Noel Moresi;Peter Betts;M Miller

  • Constrained potential field modeling of the crustal architecture of the Musgrave Province in central Australia: Evidence for lithospheric strengthening due to crust‐mantle boundary uplift

    Alan Robert Alexander Aitken;Peter Graham Betts;Roberto Ferrez Weinberg;Daniel Gray

  • Laurentian crust in northeast Australia: Implications for the assembly of the supercontinent Nuna

    Adam R. Nordsvan;William J. Collins;Zheng-Xiang Li;Christopher J. Spencer

  • Multi-scale integrated structural and aeromagnetic analysis to guide tectonic models: An example from the eastern Musgrave Province, Central Australia

    Alan Robert Alexander Aitken;Peter Graham Betts

  • Asymmetric extension of the Middle Proterozoic lithosphere, Mount Isa terrane, Queensland, Australia

    P.G Betts;G.S Lister;M.G O'Dea

  • A shortened intraplate rift system in the Proterozoic Mount Isa terrane, NW Queensland, Australia

    Mark G. O'Dea;Gordon S. Lister;Peter G. Betts;Katherine S. Pound

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Ailleres
Laurent Ailleres Monash University
Gordon S. Lister
Gordon S. Lister University of Queensland
Roberto F. Weinberg
Roberto F. Weinberg Monash University
Meghan S. Miller
Meghan S. Miller Australian National University
Mark Jessell
Mark Jessell University of Western Australia
Alexander R. Cruden
Alexander R. Cruden Monash University
Louis Moresi
Louis Moresi Australian National University
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division
Martin J. Siegert
Martin J. Siegert University of Exeter

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