Associate Professor Margaret (Marnie) Forster
BSc, MSc I, PhD Monash University
Academic Manager Argon Laboratory
ANU College of Science
Areas of expertise
- Geochronology 040303
- Mineralogy And Crystallography 040306
- Structural Geology 040312
- Tectonics 040313
Research interests
Argon Geochronology @ argon.anu.edu.au
Determining when and how movement in the ductile zone of the Earth occur. Dating deformation and metamorphic events that occur at major zones of collision or extension during Earth's history. Dating deformation and movement zones using Ar/Ar geochronology within the framework of structural geology and microstructure.
Thermal histories and evolution of metamorphic and igneous terranes using structural geology inconjuction with temperature/time histories of specific zones.
Temperature+time histories of alteration zones and fault zones.
Present arenas: Australian lithosphere, SE Asia (Palawan, Sulawesi, Borneo, Java); NW Himalaya (Tso Morari, Ladakh, Rhotang); Greece (Aegean: Evia, Sifnos, Ios, Syros); European Alps, north America continent.
Biography
Associate Professor
ANU Argon Facility @ argon.anu.edu.au
Research School of Earth Sciences,
The Australian National University
Email: Marnie.Forster@anu.edu.au
Telephone: +61 2 6125 3412
Qualifications
Ph.D. Earth Sciences, Monash University, May 2003
M.Sc. Level I (Hons. HI Equivalent) Monash University, 1996
B.Sc. Earth Sciences, Monash University, 1994
Relevant Employment History
2019-present MinEx CRC researcher
@The Australian National University node
2018-present. Project Director of The National Argon Map
AuScope and ANU
2013-present Argon Laboratory Academic in charge,
The Australian National University
2008-2013 ARC Australian Research Fellow,
The Australian National University
2004-2008 ARC Australian Post-Doctoral Fellow
Structure & Tectonics/Argon Geochronology
The Australian National University
2003-2004 Research Fellow, Structure and Tectonics
The Australian National University
2002-2003 Research Fellow, Argon Geoochronology,
University of Melbourne
Current student projects
Yoli Wu, MPhil Candidate (Principal Supervisor)
Started 2022
Sonia Yeung, PhD Candidate (Chair-supervisor)
Started 2021
Nipaporn Nakrong, PhD Candidate (Chair-supervisor)
Started 2020
Past student projects
Recent past students:
Jack Muston, Master of Philosophy (co-supersvisor)
2D + time reconstruction of Sumatra
Completed 2019
Ruoran Nie, Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced) Candidate
The exhumation of Eclogite-Blueschist belot on Ios, Greece.
Completed 2019
Ho Sonia Yeung, Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced) Candidate
Timing of Central Aegean tectonic events during Tethys Ocian Closure.
Completed 2019
Qianhui Zhou, Master of Earth Sciences (Advanced) Candidate, Co-supervisor
40Ar/39Ar geochronological used to Time Fabric and Miscrostructure Development. Tectonic Evolution of the Greenschist Facies Slice on Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece.
Completed 2019
Sareh Rajabi, PhD Candidate
Structural and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological study of in the NW Himalaya.
Completed 2018
Lin Shi, Master Earth Sciences (Advanced) Candidate
The timing and character of the structures and lateration at Mt Elliott, in the Eastern Mt Isa Inlier: 40Ar/39Ar geochronological and T-t path modeling
Completed 2017
Oleg Koudashev, PhD Candidate
Structural and 40Ar/39Ar geochronological study of copper and gold porphyry and epithermal system of the Yandera Exploration region, P.N.G.
Completed 2016
Musri Mawelda, PhD candidate (ITB, Indonesia, Prof Suparka chair supervisor)
Structure and tectonics of the Rumbala Complex, SE Sulawesi
Completed 2016
Jia-Urnn Lee, PhD candidate
Structure and timing of the Phojal Fold in NW Himalaya
Completed Dec 2013
Publications
- White, L, Forster, M, Tanner, D et al. 2022, 'Age of magmatism and alteration of basaltic rocks cored at the base of IODP Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau, southwestern Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 383ââ¬â405.
- McCurry, M, Cantrill, D, Smith, P et al. 2022, 'A Lagerstatte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems', Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-11.
- Reid, A, Forster, M, Preiss, W et al. 2022, 'Complex 40Ar/39Ar age spectra from low-grade metamorphic rocks: resolving the input of detrital and metamorphic components in a case study from the Delamerian Orogen', Geochronology, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 471-500.
- Caruso, S, Van Kranendonk, M, Baumgartner, R et al. 2021, 'The role of magmatic fluids in the ~3.48 Ga Dresser Caldera, Pilbara Craton: New insights from the geochemical investigation of hydrothermal alteration', Precambrian Research, vol. 362, pp. 1-19.
- Gomez-Alvarez, F, Garduno-Monroy, V, Sosa-Ceballos, G et al. 2021, 'New constraints on tectonism and magmatism from the eastern sector of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Chignahuapan Horst, Puebla, México)', Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 112, pp. 1-21.
- Forster, M & Reid, A 2021, 'Mesoproterozoic thermal evolution of the northern Gawler Craton from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology', Precambrian Research, vol. 358.
- Yeung, H, Forster, M, Skourtsos, E et al. 2021, 'Evidence for and significance of the Late Cretaceous Asteroussia event in the Gondwanan Ios basement terranes', Solid Earth, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 2255-2275.
- Lister, G, Forster, M, Koudashev, O et al. 2020, '40Ar/39Ar thermochronology in the ios basement terrane resolves the tectonic significance of the south cyclades shear zone', Geological Society of London Special Publication, no. 0305-8719.
- Breitfeld, H, Davies, L, Hall, R et al. 2020, 'Mesozoic Paleo-Pacific Subduction Beneath SW Borneo: U-Pb Geochronology of the Schwaner Granitoids and the Pinoh Metamorphic Group', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 8, pp. 1-37.
- Meeuws, F, Foden, J, Holford, S et al 2019, 'Geochemical constraints on Cenozoic intraplate magmatism and their relation to Jurassic dolerites in Tasmania, using Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes', Chemical Geology, vol. 506, pp. 225-273.
- Lister, G, Forster, M, Muston, J et al. 2018, 'Structural Geology and the Seismotectonics of the 2004 Great Sumatran Earthquake', Tectonics, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 4101-4119.
- Mawaleda, M, Husain, J, Forster, M et al 2018, 'Miocene tectonic of the Southeast Arm of Sulawesi, Indonesia: Based on petrology data, geochemistry, and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of metamorphic rocks from Rumbia Complex', International Conference on Earth Science, Mineral, and Energy 2018, ICEMINE 2018, IOP Publishing, TBC, pp. 8pp.
- Lister, G, Tkalčić, H, Hejrani, B et al 2018, 'Lineaments and earthquake ruptures on the East Japan megathrust', Lithosphere, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 512-522pp.
- Pownall, J, Forster, M, Hall, R et al 2017, 'Tectonometamorphic evolution of Seram and Ambon, eastern Indonesia: Insights from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology', Gondwana Research, vol. 44, pp. 35-53pp.
- Hennig, J, Hall, R, Forster, M et al 2017, 'Rapid cooling and exhumation as a consequence of extension and crustal thinning: Inferences from the Late Miocene to Pliocene Palu Metamorphic Complex, Sulawesi, Indonesia', Tectonophysics, vol. 712, pp. 600-622 pp.
- Breitfeld, H, Hall, R, Galin, T et al 2017, 'A Triassic to Cretaceous Sundaland-Pacific subduction margin in West Sarawak, Borneo', Tectonophysics, vol. 694, pp. 35-56.
- Mawaleda, M, Suparka, E, Abdullah, C et al 2017, 'Hydrothermal alteration and timing of gold mineralisation in the Rumbia Complex, Southeast Arm of Sulawesi, Indonesia', 2nd Transdisciplinary Research on Environmental Problems in Southeast Asia, TREPSEA 2016, IOP Publishing, Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 012030 (15pp).
- Musri, M, Abdullah, C, Basuki, N et al 2016, '40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of Rumbia Schist Complex: New Implications For Timing and Hydrothermal Activity in The Southeast Sulawesi Gold Prospect, Indonesia', International Journal of Engineering and Science Applications (ISEA), vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 145-152pp.
- Lister, G & Forster, M 2016, 'White mica 40Ar/39Ar age spectra and the timing of multiple episodes of high-P metamorphic mineral growth in the Cycladic eclogite-blueschist belt, Syros, Aegean Sea, Greece', Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 401-421.
- Forster, M, Armstrong, R, Kohn, B et al 2015, 'Highly retentive core domains in K-feldspar and their implications for Ar-40/Ar-39 thermochronology illustrated by determining the cooling curve for the Capoas Granite, Palawan, The Philippines', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 883-902.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2014, '40Ar/39Ar geochronology and the diffusion of 39Ar in phengite-muscovite intergrowths during step-heating experiments in vacuo', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 378, pp. 117-135.
- Suggate, S, Cottam, M, Hall, R et al 2014, 'South China continental margin signature for sandstones and granites from Palawan, Philippines', Gondwana Research, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 699-718.
- Stenhouse, I, Forster, M & Lister, G 2014, 'The timing of sedimentation and Buchan metamorphism in the Grampian Terrane in Scotland from Ar-40/Ar-39 apparent age spectra', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 171, no. 3, pp. 343-352.
- Forster, M, Lister, G & Lennox, P 2014, 'Dating deformation using crushed alkali feldspar: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of shear zones in the Wyangala Batholith, NSW, Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 619-629.
- Lennox, P, Forster, M & Williams, I 2014, 'Emplacement and deformation ages of the Wyangala Granite, Cowra, NSW', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 607-618.
- Pownall, J, Hall, R, Armstrong, R et al 2014, 'Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia', Geology, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 279-282.
- Lister, G, Tkalčić, H, McClusky, S et al 2014, 'Skewed orientation groups in scatter plots of earthquake fault plane solutions: Implications for extensional geometry at oceanic spreading centers', Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 119, no. 3, pp. 2055-2067.
- White, L, Lister, G, Ahmad, T et al 2013, 'Comment on "Dextral transpression and late-Eocene magmatism in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh Batholith (North India): Implications for tectono-magmatic evolution of the Indo-Eurasian collisional arc"', International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 969-972.
- Viete, D, Oliver, G, Fraser, G et al 2013, 'Timing and heat sources for the Barrovian metamorphism, Scotland', Lithos, vol. 177, pp. 148-163.
- Cottam, M, Hall, R, Sperber, C et al 2013, 'Neogene rock uplift and erosion in northern Borneo: Evidence from the Kinabalu granite, Mount Kinabalu', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 170, no. 5, pp. 805-816.
- Cottam, M.A., Hall, R. Sperber, C. Kohn, B, Forster, M., and Batt, G.E. 2013. Neogene rock uplift and erosion in northern Borneo: evidence from the Kinabalu granite, Mount Kinabalu. Journal Geological Society, 170, 805-816.
- Forster, M. and Lister, G. 2013. 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and the diffusion of 39Ar in phengite-muscovite intergrowths during step-heating experiments in vacuo. In: Advances in 40Ar/39Ar Dating: from Archaeology to Planetary Sciences, Eds. Jourdan, F., Mark, D.F. and Verati, C. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, SP378, doi:10.1144/SP378.
- Suggate, S., Cottam, M., Sevastjanova, I., Forster. M., Hall, R., White, L., Armstrong, R., Carter, A. and Mojarese, E. 2013. South China continental margin signature for sandstones and granites from Palawan, Philippines. Gondwana Research
- Viete DR, Oliver GJH, Fraser GL, Forster MA, Lister GS 2013. Timing and heat sources for the Barrovian metamorphism, Scotland. Lithos. In Press (2013/6/25)
- White, L.T., Lister, G.S., Ahmad, T. and Forster, M.A. 2013. Dextral transpression and late Eocene magmatism in the trans-Himalayan Ladakh Batholith (North India): implications for tectono-magmatic evolution of the Indo-Eurasian collisional arc. Comment. International Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s00531-013-0862-z.
- Lister, G, White, L, Hart, S et al 2012, 'Ripping and tearing the rolling-back New Hebrides slab', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 899-911.
- White, L, Ahmad, T, Lister, G et al 2012, 'Is the switch from I- to S-type magmatism in the Himalayan Orogen indicative of the collision of India and Eurasia?', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 321-340.
- Viete, D, Forster, M & Lister, G 2011, 'The nature and origin of the barrovian metamorphism, Scotland: 40Ar/39ar apparent age patterns and the duration of metamorphism in the biotite zone', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 133-146.
- Forster, M, White, L & Ahmad, T 2011, 'Thermal history of a pebble in the Indus Molasse at the margin of a Himalayan metamorphic core complex', Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1-21.
- Cottam, M, Hall, R, Forster, M et al 2011, 'Basement character and basin formation in Gorontalo Bay, Sulawesi, Indonesia: new observations from the Togian Islands', Geological Society of London Special Publication, vol. 355, pp. 177-202.
- Forster, M & Fitzgerald, J, eds, 2011, The Science of Microstructure Part II. Journal of the Virtual Explorer.
- White, L.T., Ahmad, T., Ireland, T.R., Lister, G.S. & Forster, M.A. 2011. Deconvolving episodic age spectra from zircons of the Ladakh Batholith, northwest Indian Himalaya. Chemical Geology, 289 (3-4), 179-196.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2010, 'Argon enters the retentive zone: reassessment of diffusion parameters for K-feldspar in the South Cyclades Shear Zone, Ios, Greece', in Spalla, M.I., Marotta, A.M. and Gosso, G. (ed.), Advances in Interpretation of Geological Processes: Refinement of Multi-scale Data and Integration in Numerical Modelling, Geological Society of London, London, pp. 17-34.
- Beltrando, M, Lister, G, Rosenbaum, G et al 2010, 'Recognizing episodic lithospheric thinning along a convergent plate margin: the example of the Early Oligocene Alps', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 103, no. 3-4, pp. 81-98.
- Forster, M & Fitzgerald, J, eds, 2010, The Science of Microstructure - Part I, Journal of the Virtual Explorer 2010.
- Groppo, C., Forster, M., Lister, G. and Compagnoni, R. 2009. Blueschists and associated rocks from Sifnos (Cyclades, Greece): new constraints on the P-T envelope from oxidized systems. Lithos vol. 109, pp. 254-273.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2009, 'Core-complex-related extension of the Aegean lithosphere initiated at the Eocene-Oligocene transition', Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 114, no. 2, p. 36.
- Lister, G & Forster, M 2009, 'Porphyroblast rotation versus non-rotation: Conflict resolution: COMMENT', Geology.
- Beltrando, M, Lister, G, Forster, M et al. 2009, 'Dating microstructures by the Ar-40/Ar-39 step-heating technique: deformation-pressure-temperature-time history of the Penninic Units of the Western Alps', Lithos, vol. 113, no. 3-4, pp. 801-819.
- Beltrando, M, Lister, G, Hermann, J et al 2008, 'Deformation mode switches in the Penninic units of the Utier Valley (Western Alps): Evidence for a dynamic orogen', Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 194-219.
- Lister, G, Kennett, B, Richards, S et al 2008, 'Boudinage of a stretching slablet implicated in earthquakes beneath the Hindu Kush', Nature Geoscience, vol. 1, pp. 196-201.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2008, 'Tectonic sequence diagrams and the structural evolution of schists and gneisses in multiply deformed terranes', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 165, pp. 923-939.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2008, 'Dating movement in shear zones: The example of the south cyclades shear zone, Ios, Aegean Sea, Greece', Donald D Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK.
- Lister, G & Forster, M 2008, 'The accretionary model for orogenesis and its application to the evolution of the Aegean crust', Donald D Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK, p. 5.
- Groppo, C, Forster, M, Lister, G et al 2008, 'Glaucophane schists and associated rocks from Sifnos (Cyclades, Greece): New constraints on the P-T evolution from oxidized systems', Lithos, vol. Online publication 2008, pp. CHEMGE-15519.
- Lister, G & Forster, M 2008, 'Tectonic mode switches and the nature of orogenesis', Lithos, vol. Online, p. 18.
- Smith, M, Kurtz, J, Richards, S et al. 2007, 'A re-evaluation of the breakup of South America and Africa using deformable mesh reconstruction software', Journal of the Virtual Explorer, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
- Lister, G, Forster, M & Ring, U 2007, 'Inside the Aegean Metamorphic Core Complexes', Journal of the Virtual Explorer, Electronic Edition, vol. 27.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2005, 'Several distinct tectono-metamorphic slices in the Cycladic eclogite-blueschist belt, Greece', Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, vol. 150, pp. 523-545.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2004, 'The interpretation of 40Ar/39 Ar apparent age spectra produced by mixing: application of the method of asymptotes and limits', Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 287-305.
- Forster, M, Lister, G, Compagnoni, R et al 2004, 'Mapping of oceanic crust with "HP" to "UHP" metamorphism: The Lago di Cignana Unit, (Western Alps)', in Pasquare, G. and Venturini, C. (ed.), Mapping Geology in Italy, Geological Society of London, Bath, pp. 279-288.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 2003, 'Cretaceous metamorphic core complexes in the Otago Schist, New Zealand', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 50, pp. 181-198.
- Lister, G, Forster, M & Rawling, T 2001, 'Episodicity during Orogenesis.', in Miller J A, Holdsworth R E, Buick I S and Hand M (ed.), Continental Reactivation and Reworking, Geological Society of London, London, pp. 89-113.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 1999, 'Separate episodes of eclogite and blueschist facies metamorphism in the Aegean metamorphic core complex of Ios, Cyclades, Greece', in Mac Niocaill, C and Ryan, P.D. (ed.), Continental Tectonics, Geological Society of London, London, pp. 157-177.
- Forster, M & Lister, G 1999, 'Detachment faults in the Aegean core complex of Ios, Cyclades, Greece', in Ring, U., Brandon, M.T., Lister, G.S. and Willett, S.D. (ed.), Exhumation Processes: Normal Faulting, Ductile Flow and Erosion, Geological Society of London, London, pp. 305-323.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Project OP 8.1: Barcoding Metallogenesis (Primary Investigator)
- MinEx CRC Project 7 - Finding Mineral Systems Under Cover (Primary Investigator)
- Getting the most out of your date (Primary Investigator)
- Mount Isa Tuff Marker Bed (TMB) argon dating research project (Primary Investigator)
- The age of fluid alteration in the Mount Isa copper orebodies (Primary Investigator)
- The National Argon Map (NAM) (Primary Investigator)
- MinEx CRC top-up PhD scholarship for Naina (Secondary Investigator)
- MinEx CRC Project 8 - Geological Architecture and Evolution (Primary Investigator)
- The argon footprint of orebodies in the Mount Isa region - PO Contributions (Secondary Investigator)
- An argon geochronology map ofNorthern Australia (Primary Investigator)
- Prototype for the National Argon Map (Primary Investigator)
- Calibration of OPAL for use in 40Ar/39Ar ager determination of K-rich minerals for geological research (Primary Investigator)
- Workshops on Himalayan Gneiss Domes (Secondary Investigator)
- A unified model for the closure dynamics of ancient Tethys constrained by Geodesy, Structural Geology, Argon Geochronology and Tectonic Reconstruction (Secondary Investigator)
- Calibration of OPAL for use in 40AR/39AR age determination of K-rich minerals for geological research (Primary Investigator)
