Curtin University

Faculty Member, Applied Geology

Senior Research Fellow

About

Academic Background

Fred Jourdan is a geochronologist and geochemist. He developed his skills during his Master (University of Geneva, Switzerland), his PhD (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France) and his postdoctoral (Berkeley Geochronology Center and University of Berkeley; USA) research. During his education and training, he has used noble gas (40Ar/39Ar), thermal ionization (Sr, Pb isotopes) and MC-ICP (Nd, Hf isotopes) mass spectrometers. He has also performed experiments on microprobe and LA-ICPMS (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) and He has been strongly committed to work in clean laboratory (ionic exchange columns, acid preparations, chemical abrasion and thermal annealing). Currently, he is in charge of the Western Australia argon isotope facility since 07/2007

Interest

His work focuses on:

(1) 40Ar/39Ar dating and isotopic geochemistry of large igneous provinces (CAMP, Karoo, Umkondo)
(2) 40Ar/39Ar “speedy-step heating” dating applied to structural inheritance of giant dike swarms
(3) 40Ar/39Ar and U/Pb dating and isotopic geochemistry of subduction-related dike swarms
(4) Dating of terrestrial and lunar impact craters and meteorites
(5) 40Ar/39Ar methodological development (standard calibrations, 39Ar and 37Ar recoil, inherited 40Ar*, K decay constant and alteration)
(6) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of OIBs (Hawaii, Tore Madeira rise)
(7) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Shear zones (Argentina)
(8) Potentially anything that involves Ar isotopes….

list of publications @ :
http://sites.google.com/site/fredjourdancv/publication-list
http://www.lookuppage.com/users/fredjourdan

40Ar/39Ar laboratory: http://sites.google.com/site/fredjourdancv/the-40ar-39ar-laboratory
http://www.jdlcms.org/noble_gas_thermochronology.html

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