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R. J. Korsch is affiliated with Geoscience Australia and has contributed to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's primary research topics encompass geological and geophysical studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Crustal architecture and tectonic development of western Queensland, Australia, based on deep seismic reflection profiling: Implications for Proterozoic continental assembly and dispersal, 2024, Tectonophysics
  • Detrital zircons in Triassic-Cretaceous sandstones, Clarence-Moreton Basin, eastern Australia: speculations upon Australia and Zealandia provenances, 2022, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Australia's Onshore Basin Inventories - foundational knowledge synthesis for better design of precompetitive data acquisition, 2023, The APPEA Journal
  • Understanding potential resource prospectivity: 1-D burial and thermal history modelling of the Adavale Basin, 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Onshore Basin Inventories: Building foundational understanding of energy resources for Australia's Future., 2023, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably Adam Bailey, Lidena Carr, Tehani Palu, Kamal Khider, and Dianne S. Edwards.

The main venues for their publications include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Tectonophysics, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, and The APPEA Journal.

Best Publications

  • TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology

    Lance P Black;Sandra L Kamo;Charlotte M Allen;John N Aleinikoff

  • Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID-TIMS, ELA-ICP-MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards

    Lance P. Black;Lance P. Black;Sandra L. Kamo;Charlotte M. Allen;Donald W. Davis

  • Determination of Tectonic Setting of Sandstone-Mudstone Suites Using SiO2 Content and K2O/Na2O Ratio

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  • Provenance signatures of sandstone-mudstone suites determined using discriminant function analysis of major-element data

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  • The application of SHRIMP to Phanerozoic geochronology; a critical appraisal of four zircon standards

    Lance P Black;Sandra L Kamo;Ian S Williams;Roland Mundil

  • Assembling Australia: Proterozoic building of a continent

    Peter Cawood;R.J. Korsch

  • Characterisation of a plume-related ∼ 800 Ma magmatic event and its implications for basin formation in central-southern Australia

    Jian-xin Zhao;Malcolm T. McCulloch;Russell J. Korsch

  • Plate tectonic model for the Carboniferous evolution of the New England Fold Belt

    C. G. Murray;C. L. Fergusson;P. G. Flood;W. G. Whitaker

  • Geochemical characterization, evolution and source of a Mesozoic accretionary wedge: the Torlesse terrane, New Zealand

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  • Crustal architecture of the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia and associated metallogeny

    S.P. Johnson;A.M. Thorne;I.M. Tyler;R.J. Korsch

  • Crustal architecture of central Victoria: results from the 2006 deep crustal reflection seismic survey

    Ross A Cayley;R J Korsch;David Moore;Ross Costelloe

  • Contractional structures and deformational events in the Bowen, Gunnedah and Surat Basins, eastern Australia

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  • Mid-Cretaceous uplift and denudation of the Bowen and Surat Basins, eastern Australia: relationship to Tasman Sea rifting from apatite fission-track and vitrinite-reflectance data

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  • Subsidence history and basin phases of the Bowen, Gunnedah and Surat Basins, eastern Australia

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  • Timing the breakup of a Proterozoic supercontinent: Evidence from Australian intracratonic basins

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  • The Geological Evolution of New Zealand and the New Zealand Region

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  • Whole-rock geochemical variations and evolution of the arc-derived Murihiku Terrane, New Zealand

    B. P. Roser;D. S. Coombs;R. J. Korsch;J. D. Campbell

  • Crustal architecture and geodynamics of North Queensland, Australia: Insights from deep seismic reflection profiling

    R. J Korsch;D. L Huston;Robert Henderson;Richard Blewett

  • A framework for the palaeozoic geology of the southern part of the New England Geosyncline

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  • Deep seismic reflection profiling in the Archaean northeastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for crustal architecture and mineral potential

    B.R. Goleby;R.S. Blewett;R.J. Korsch;D.C. Champion

  • Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic

    R.J. Korsch;N. Kositcin;D.C. Champion

  • Geodynamic modelling of aspects of the Bowen, Gunnedah, Surat and Eromanga Basins from the perspective of convergent margin processes

    P. Waschbusch;R. J. Korsch;C. Beaumont

  • Geochronology and provenance of the Late Paleozoic accretionary wedge and Gympie Terrane, New England Orogen, eastern Australia∗

    R. J. Korsch;C. J. Adams;L. P. Black;D. A. Foster

  • Crustal architecture of central Australia based on deep seismic reflection profiling

    R.J. Korsch;B.R. Goleby;J.H. Leven;B.J. Drummond

  • Significance of Devonian–Carboniferous igneous activity in Tasmania as derived from U–Pb SHRIMP dating of zircon

    Lance Black;M McClenaghan;Russell J Korsch;John L. Everard

  • Crustal structure of the Ordovician Macquarie Arc, Eastern Lachlan Orogen, based on seismic-reflection profiling

    R. A. Glen;R. J. Korsch;R. J. Korsch;N. G. Direen;N. G. Direen;L. E. A. Jones;L. E. A. Jones

  • Preliminary 3‐D geological model of the Kalgoorlie region, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, based on deep seismic‐reflection and potential‐field data

    B. R. Goleby;R. J. Korsch;T. Fomin;B. Bell

  • Geological interpretation of a deep seismic‐reflection transect across the boundary between the Delamerian and Lachlan Orogens, in the vicinity of the Grampians, western Victoria

    R J Korsch;Timothy J Barton;David R Gray;A Owen

  • Interplay of tectonics and sea-level changes in basin evolution: an example from the intracratonic Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    John F. Lindsay;R. J. Korsch

Frequent Co-Authors

David R Gray
David R Gray University of Tasmania
David A. Foster
David A. Foster University of Florida
David C. Champion
David C. Champion Geoscience Australia

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