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Roland Maas is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research focus within the domains of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Computer Science. Their scholarly output includes contributions to fields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects related to geological and geochemical analysis, including geochemistry and geologic mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additionally, Maas has worked on speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing techniques, and speech and audio processing.

Frequent co-authors in Maas's publications include Jon Woodhead, Andrea Giuliani, Janet Hergt, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, and Hayden Dalton.

Key venues where Maas has published work are arXiv (Cornell University), Chemical Geology, Lithos, Precambrian Research, and Geology. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary span of their research connecting geoscience and computational methods.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Roland Maas include:

  • An Early Cretaceous subduction-modified mantle underneath the ultraslow spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean, 2020, Science Advances
  • Isotopic analyses of clinopyroxenes demonstrate the effects of kimberlite melt metasomatism upon the lithospheric mantle, 2020, Lithos
  • Staged formation of the supergiant Olympic Dam uranium deposit, Australia, 2021, Geology
  • A comparison of geochronological methods commonly applied to kimberlites and related rocks: Three case studies from Finland, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Testing Nano-Powder and Fused-Glass Mineral Reference Materials for In SituRb-Sr Dating of Glauconite, Phlogopite, Biotite and Feldspar via LA-ICP-MS/MS, 2022, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

These publications span the years 2020 to 2022 and address major topics in geochemical and geochronological methodologies, mantle processes, and mineral dating techniques.

Best Publications

  • Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

    Chad Paton;Chad Paton;Jon D. Woodhead;John C. Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt

  • Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotope systems in zircon

    Peter D. Kinny;Roland Maas

  • The Earth's oldest known crust: A geochronological and geochemical study of 3900-4200 Ma old detrital zircons from Mt. Narryer and Jack Hills, Western Australia

    Roland Maas;Roland Maas;Peter D. Kinny;Peter D. Kinny;Ian S. Williams;Derek O. Froude

  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

    Jon D. Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt;Alan Greig

  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone

    Russell Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas

  • Kimberlite melts rich in alkali chlorides and carbonates: A potent metasomatic agent in the mantle

    Maya B. Kamenetsky;Alexander V. Sobolev;Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Roland Maas

  • Igneous and Metamorphic Enclaves in the S-type Deddick Granodiorite, Lachlan Fold Belt, SE Australia: Petrographic, Geochemical and Nd-Sr Isotopic Evidence for Crustal Melting and Magma Mixing

    Roland Maas;Ian A. Nicholls;Colin Legg

  • Multiple mantle plume components involved in the petrogenesis of subduction‐related lavas from the northern termination of the Tonga Arc and northern Lau Basin: Evidence from the geochemistry of arc and backarc submarine volcanics

    Trevor J. Falloon;Leonid V. Danyushevsky;Tony J. Crawford;Roland Maas

  • In situ Sr-isotope analysis of carbonates by LA-MC-ICP-MS: interference corrections, high spatial resolution and an example from otolith studies

    Jon Woodhead;Stephen Swearer;Janet Hergt;Roland Maas

  • Re–Os isotopic evidence for genesis of Archaean nickel ores from uncontaminated komatiites

    Jeffrey G. Foster;David D. Lambert;Louise R. Frick;Roland Maas

  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II

    R.N. Drysdale;J. C. Hellstrom;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;A. E. Fallick

  • Precise U-Pb titanite age constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa

    Ian Samuel Buick;Roland Maas;R L Gibson

  • Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope evidence for a mantle origin of alkali chlorides and carbonates in the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberia

    Roland Maas;Maya B. Kamenetsky;Alexander V. Sobolev;Vadim S. Kamenetsky

  • U–Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS

    Jon Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas;Russell Drysdale

  • Adakites in the Truong Son and Loei fold belts, Thailand and Laos: Genesis and implications for geodynamics and metallogeny

    Teera Kamvong;Khin Zaw;Sebastien Meffre;Roland Maas

  • Towards a new model for kimberlite petrogenesis: Evidence from unaltered kimberlites and mantle minerals

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Alexander V. Golovin;Alexander V. Golovin;Roland Maas;Andrea Giuliani

  • Fingerprinting feldspar phenocrysts using crystal isotopic composition stratigraphy: implications for crystal transfer and magma mingling in S-type granites

    Tod E. Waight;Roland Maas;Ian A. Nicholls

  • The provenance of Archean clastic metasediments in the Narryer Gneiss Complex, Western Australia: Trace element geochemistry, Nd isotopes, and U-Pb ages for detrital zircons

    Roland Maas;Roland Maas;Malcolm T McCulloch

  • Climatic significance of seasonal trace element and stable isotope variations in a modern freshwater tufa

    Christian Ihlenfeld;Marc D. Norman;Michael K. Gagan;Russell N. Drysdale

  • Cretaceous felsic volcanism in New Zealand and Lord Howe Rise (Zealandia) as a precursor to final Gondwana break-up

    A. J. Tulloch;J. Ramezani;N. Mortimer;J. Mortensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Vadim S. Kamenetsky
Vadim S. Kamenetsky Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Janet M. Hergt
Janet M. Hergt University of Melbourne
David Phillips
David Phillips University of Melbourne
John Hellstrom
John Hellstrom University of Melbourne
Russell N. Drysdale
Russell N. Drysdale University of Melbourne
Maya B. Kamenetsky
Maya B. Kamenetsky University of Tasmania
Sebastien Meffre
Sebastien Meffre University of Tasmania
Marco L. Fiorentini
Marco L. Fiorentini University of Western Australia

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