GEMOC ARC National Key Centre

The focus of GEMOC's research programs is the driving role of the mantle in Earth processes and its control of element and commodity distribution in the accessible crust. This bottom-up approach involves

Understanding the location of different types of metallogenic provinces by understanding the links between:

* mantle processes

* crustal generation

* large-scale tectonics

* heat and fluid transport

An interdisciplinary and integrated approach, linking:

* petrology and geochemistry (including fluid/vapour studies)

* geophysics (mantle and global scales)

* tectonics (mantle-crust links)

* time

to interpret the lithosphere as a 4-dimensional system.

The research program comprises four strands:

*Lithosphere Mapping

*Geotectonics

*Crustal Generation Processes

*Metallogenic Provinces

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