Scott Bryan

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Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Tectonics

Silicic and Mafic Large Igneous Provinces
Silicic Explosive Volcanism and Calderas
Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Magmatism of the New England Fold Belt, Eastern Australia
Phonolitic Explosive Volcanism and Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Epithermal Gold and Porphyry Copper Mineralisation

PhD Monash University, Australia, 1999

BSc Hons, University of Queensland, Australia, 1991

Previous Posts Held

Senior Lecturer, Kingston University 2006
Damon Wells Research Fellow, Yale University 2003
ARC Research Associate, University of Queensland 2000

Bryan SE, Ferrari L, Reiners PW, Allen CM, Campbell IH. New insights into large volume rhyolite generation at the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental Province, Mexico, revealed by U/Pb-geochronology. Journal of Petrology (accepted, pending revisions).

Bryan SE (2007) Silicic Large Igneous Provinces. Episodes, March 2007 (in press).

Ferrari L, Moreno MV, Bryan SE (2007) Magmatism and Tectonics of the Sierra Madre Occidental and their relation to the evolution of the western margin of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 422 (in press)

Bryan SE (2006) Petrology and Geochemistry of the caldera-forming, Quaternary phonolitic eruption of the Granadilla Member, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Petrology, 47: 1557-1589.

Harris AC, Bryan SE, Holcombe RJ (2006) Volcanic setting of the Bajo de la Alumbrera porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Farallón Negro Volcanics, NW Argentina. Economic Geology, 101: 71-94.

Bryan SE, Allen CM, Holcombe RJ, Fielding CR (2004) U/Pb Zircon Geochronology of Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous extension-related silicic volcanism in the northern New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 51: 645-664.

Bryan SE, Cook A, Evans J, Colls, P, Lawrence M, Wells M, Jell JS, Greig A, Leslie R (2004) Pumice rafting and faunal dispersion during 2001-2002 in the southwest Pacific: record of a dacitic submarine explosive eruption from Tonga. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 227: 135-154.

Harris AC, Allen CA, Bryan SE, Campbell IH, Holcombe RJ, Palin MJ (2004) ELA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon geochronology of regional volcanism hosting the Bajo de la Alumbrera Cu-Au deposit: implications for porphyry-related mineralization. Mineralium Deposita, 39: 46-67.

Bryan SE, Fielding CR, Holcombe RJ, Cook A, Moffitt CA (2003) Stratigraphy, facies architecture and tectonic implications of the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous Campwyn Volcanics of the northern New England Fold Belt. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50: 377-401.

Bryan SE, Martí J, Leosson M (2002) Petrology and geochemistry of the Bandas del Sur Formation, Las Cañadas edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Petrology, 43: 1815-1856.

Bryan SE, Riley TR, Jerram DA, Leat PT, Stephens CJ (2002) Silicic volcanism: an under-valued component of large igneous provinces and volcanic rifted margins. In: Menzies MA, Klemperer SL, Ebinger CJ, Baker J (eds) Magmatic Rifted Margins. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 362: 99-120.

Bryan SE, Holcombe RJ, Fielding CR (2001) The Yarrol terrane of the northern New England Fold Belt: Forearc or backarc? Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48: 293-316.

Bryan SE, Cas RAF, Martí J (2001) The 0.57 Ma plinian eruption of the Granadilla Member, Tenerife (Canary Islands): an example of complexity in eruption dynamics and evolution. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 103: 209-238.

Bryan SE, Ewart A, Stephens CJ, Parianos J, Downes PJ (2000) The Whitsunday Volcanic Province, central Queensland, Australia: Lithological and stratigraphic investigations of a silicic-dominated large igneous province. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 99: 55-78.

Bryan SE, Martí J, Cas RAF (1998) Stratigraphy of the Bandas del Sur Formation: an extracaldera record of Quaternary phonolitic explosive eruptions from the Las Cañadas edifice, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Geological Magazine, 135: 605-636.

Bryan SE, Constantine AE, Stephens CJ, Ewart A, Schön RW, Parianos J (1997) Early Cretaceous volcano-sedimentary successions along the eastern Australian continental margin: Implications for the break-up of eastern Gondwana. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 153: 85-102.

Member of the Geological Societies of Australia, New Zealand and America
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
Sesion Convenor on Silicic & Alkaline Magmatism, IAVCEI 2006 Conference, Guangzhou China, May 2006