About

Introduction

Glen is an academic in the Discipline of Earth Sciences within the School of Environmental & Life Sciences

Qualifications

2000 B.Sc (hons) (The University of Melbourne)

2006 PhD (The University of Melbourne)

Research

Research Interests

Accretion history of East Gondwana

•    Evaluation of the early Palaeozoic orogenic belts of East Antarctica, Australia and India
•    Neoproterozoic palaeogeography and its relation to the Snowball Earth hypothesis

Detrital zircon analysis

•    Provenance studies
•    Detrital zircon isotopes and REE chemistry as tracers
•    Using detrital zircon provenance to provide inferences on the ice-covered bedrock of East Antarctica
• Phanerozoic crustal growth
•    Characterisation of main crustal growth events in the New England Fold belt through a combined U-Pb, L- Hf  and O on zircon approach
•    Crustal growth mechanisms related to tectonic or mantle processes

Refereed Journal Articles

• Phillips, G., Miller, J.McL., Wilson, C.J.L., 2002, Structural and metamorphic evolution of the Moornambool Metamorphic Complex, western Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49, 891-913.
• Phillips G., Corvino A.F., Boger S.D., McLean M. and Wilson C.J.L., 2005. Crustal cross sections across the Mawson Escarpment and Mount Stinear, southern Prince Charles Mountains (East Antarctica): correlating the Ruker Complex across the Lambert Glacier. Terra Antartica 12(2), 51-53.
• Phillips G., Wilson C.J.L. and Fitzsimons I.C.W., 2005. Stratigraphy and structure of the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 12(2), 69-86.
• Phillips G., Wilson C.J.L., Campbell I. H. and Allen C.M, 2006. U-Th-Pb detrital geochronology from the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica – Defining the Archaean to Neoproterozoic Ruker Province. Precambrian Research, 148, 292-306.
• Phillips G., Wilson C.J.L. and Phillips D. Early Palaeozoic basin inversion within the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica: Implications of the construction of Gondwana. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 164, 771-784.
• Phillips, G., White, R.W. and Wilson, C.J.L. The roles of deformation and fluid during orogenesis within a polymetamorphic terrane: Inferences on the geodynamic evolution of the Ruker Province, East Antarctica. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 855-871.
• Läufer, A. and Phillips, G. Brittle deformation events in the Lambert Glacier region (East Antarctica): insights into the tectonic control on the formation and evolution of the Lambert Graben. Terra Antartica, in press.

Conference Papers

• Phillips Glen, Offler Robin, ’Source and transportation of high-pressure exotic blocks in serpentinite melange, Peel-Manning Fault System, southern New England Fold Belt’, Abstracts Geological Society of Australia, Orange, NSW (2009) [E3]
• Phillips Glen, Offler Robin, Hand M, ’The affect of bulk rock chemistry and fugacity on phase equilibria in low-temperature moderate-high-pressure metamorphic environments’, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vienna, Austria (2008) [E3]
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Structure of Cumpston Massif, southern PCM, Mac. Robertson Land. 9th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, September 8-12, 2003, Potsdam, Germany.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Fitzsimons, I.C.W., Analysing basement/cover sequences – The structure of Cumpston Massif and regional implications, Southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica. 17th Australian Geological Convention 8-13 February 2004, Hobart, Australia.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C.M., Evidence of Neoproterozoic rifting within the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica: A detrital zircon study. Victorian Universities Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference, September 2005, Melbourne Australia.
• Phillips, G., Boger, S.D., Wilson, C.J.L., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C.M., Relicts of a ca. 1100 – 1000 Ma mobile belt within Neoproterozoic passive margins attributed to the break-up of Rodinia: Evidence from the Ruker Province, East Antarctic Shield. Supercontinents and Earth Evolution Symposium, 26 – 30 September 2005. Freemantle, Australia.
• Laufer, A.L., Phillips, G. Brittle Structural Architecture of the Lambert Glacier Region (E Antarctica) and its Relation to Gondwana Break-up. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 7, 06814. European Geophysical Union, 2005.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Phillips, D., Early Palaeozoic cooling of the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica: Synchronous cooling of three stratigraphic levels. GSA 18th Australian Geological Convention & ASEG 18th International Geophysical Conference, 2-6 July 2006. Melbourne, Australia.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C.M., Crustal cross sections and detrital zircon data from the Ruker Complex, East Antarctic Shield: Evidence of three lithostratigraphic units. GSA 18th Australian Geological Convention & ASEG 18th International Geophysical Conference, 2-6 July 2006. Melbourne, Australia.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Campbell, I.H., Allen, C.M., Evidence for the Archaean juxtaposition of the Napier, Vestfold, Rauer and Ruker blocks through U-Th-Pb detrital geochronology. Science Committee of Antarctic Research Open Science Conference, 12 – 14 July 2006. Hobart, Australia.
• Phillips, G., Wilson, C.J.L., Läufer, A., The development of the Lambert Rift Zone, East Antarctica – Structural evidence of intra-continental rifting during the dispersion of East Gondwana. Specialist Group Tectonics and Structural Geology, 9-13th July 2007. Alice Springs, Australia.

Grants and Funding

$15,000 New Staff Grant

Other

Membership of Societies and Professional Bodies

• Member Geological Society of Australia
• Committee of Specialist Group Structural Geology and tectonic (GSA)