Research Focus
An overview that will blow your damn mind:
Have you ever wondered what the coolest and most interesting rock class on the Earth is? Fear not, it is the potassic and highly-alkaline mafic and ultramafic rocks. You're welcome. What makes them so flipping awesome? Great question, I am glad you asked! Strap in, this is gonna be fun! The melts that eventually crystallise to form these rock upon exhumation are among the most important, enigmatic, and potentially essential magmas for the transport of life essential elements like hydrogen, carbon, phosphorous, nitrogen, and sulfur. These melts also capture some of the first melting processes, and allow us a direct insight in to how nutrients and metals are sequentially concentrated and exchanged between the Earth's mantle, crust, and atmosphere. Bloody hell! That's sick! How do you do that? I use a range of analytical geochemical and experimental techniques to determine the mineralogy and chemistry of rocks collected in the field to piece together their genesis. Sometimes I even make my own rocks in the large hydraulic presses that can cook a rock up to 1800°C, which is a bit like the mad scientist equivalent of baking a cake by building the oven first out of lego. I choose to work with some of the most complex rocks and melts, including some we only think might exist, because the formation of these geological materials encapsulate the true diversity of processes that have made our planet a habitable and cosy home for species like us! Aside from this I have a general interest in high-pressure semi-conductor research, mineral physics, FAIR data and open science principles, and occassionally mummified cats. Want to know more? Check out my publications below, or shoot me an email. Stay funky! Ant
Doctoral AbstractThesis
The origin of ultrapotassic magmas
- Supervisor
- Prof. Stephan Klemme, PhD
- Doctoral Subject
- Mineralogie
- Targeted Doctoral Degree
- Dr. rer. nat.
- Awarded by
- Department 14 – Geosciences
Publications
- Shea, J., Foley, S., Dalton, H., Lanati, A., and Phillips, D. . “Mid-Jurassic volcanism at Bokhara River and insights into metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle of the Thomson Orogen, eastern Australia.” Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 71 (3): 325–337. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2024.2302360.
Research Article (Journal)
- Amulele, G, Manghnani, MH, Werheit, H, Lanati, AW, and Clark, SM. . “Electrical conductivity of B∼4.3C boron carbide up to 9 GPa and 1273 K.” Solid State Sciences 140: 107185–107185. doi: 10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2023.107185.
Review Article (Journal)
- Klöcking, Marthe, Wyborn, Lesley, Lehnert, Kerstin A., Ware, Bryant, Prent, Alexander M., Profeta, Lucia, Kohlmann, Fabian, Noble, Wayne, Bruno, Ian, Lambart, Sarah, Ananuer, Halimulati, Barber, Nicholas D., Becker, Harry, Brodbeck, Maurice, Deng, Hang, Deng, Kai, Elger, Kirsten, Franco, Gabriel de Souza, Gao, Yajie, Ghasera, Khalid Mohammed, Hezel, Dominik C., Huang, Jingyi, Kerswell, Buchanan, Koch, Hilde, Lanati, Anthony W., ter Maat, Geertje, Martínez-Villegas, Nadia, Nana Yobo, Lucien, Redaa, Ahmad, Schäfer, Wiebke, Swing, Megan R., Taylor, Richard J.M., Traun, Marie Katrine, Whelan, Jo, and Zhou, Tengfei. . “Community recommendations for geochemical data, services and analytical capabilities in the 21st century.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 351: 192–205. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.024.
- Amulele, GM, Lanati, AW, and Clark, SM. . “The electrical conductivity of albite feldspar: Implications for oceanic lower crustal sequences and subduction zones.” American Mineralogist 107: 614–624. doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7836.
- Shea, JJ, Ezad, IS, Foley, SF, and Lanati, AW. . “The Eastern Australian Volcanic Province, its primitive melts, constraints on melt sources and the influence of mantle metasomatism.” Earth-Science Reviews 233: 104168–104168. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104168.
- Amulele, G.M., Lanati, A.W., and Clark, S.M. . “The electrical conductivity of albite feldspar: implications for oceanic lower crustal sequences and subduction zones.” American Mineralogist -. doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7836.
- Pintér, Z., Foley, S.F., Yaxley, G.M., Rosenthal, A., Rapp, R.P., Lanati, A.W., and Rushmer, T.A. . “Experimental investigation of the composition of incipient melts in upper mantle peridotites in the presence of CO2 and H2O.” Lithos 396-397. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106224.
- Pintér, Z, Foley, S.F, Yaxley, G.M, Rosenthal, A, Rapp, R.P, Lanati, A.W, and Rushmer, T. . “Experimental investigation of the composition of incipient melts in upper mantle peridotites in the presence of CO2 and H2O.” Lithos 396–397: 1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106224.
- Amulele, GM, Lanati, AW, and Clark, SM. . “Electrical conductivity studies on silica phases and the effects of phase transformation.” American Mineralogist 104: 1800–1805. doi: 10.2138/am-2019-7120.
- Raymond, C.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tristant, Y., Power, R.K., Lanati, A.W., Davey, C.J., Magnussen, J.S., and Clark, S.M. . “Recycled Blessings: An Investigative Case Study of a Rewrapped Egyptian Votive Mummy Using Novel and Established 3D Imaging Techniques.” Archaeometry 61 (5). doi: 10.1111/arcm.12477.
- Amulele, G.M., Lanati, A.W., and Clark, S.M. . “Electrical conductivity studies on silica phases and the effects of phase transformation.” American Mineralogist 104 (12). doi: 10.2138/am-2019-7120.
- Raymond, C.A., Bevitt, J.J., Tristant, Y, Power, R.K, Lanati, A.W, Davey, C.J., Magnussen, J.S, and Clark, S.M. . “Recycled blessings: an investigative case study of a rewrapped Egyptian votive mummy using novel and established 3D imaging techniques.” Archaeometry 61: 1160–1174. doi: 10.1111/arcm.12477.
Research Article in Edited Proceeding (Conference)
- Amulele, G, Clark, S, and Lanati, A. . “THE INFLUENCE OF HYDROUS MELTING ON THE ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY IN FELDSPAR LABRADORITE.” in 113th Annual Meeting: proceedings, edited by GSACordilleran Section. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/abs/2017cd-293039.
Abstracts in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
- Lanati, A, Amulele, G.M, and Clark, S.M. . “Hydrous melting of labradorite: an electrical conductivity investigation.” in Geological Society of Australia Abstract, edited by Geological Society of Australia. Sydney: Geological Society of Australia.
- Lanati, A, Amulele, G.M, and Clark, S.M. . “Silica phases and the effects of phase transformation on electrical conductivity – just another mineral to test or a major player in the Earth's field?” in Geological Society of Australia - Earth Sciences Student Symposium 2017, Vol. 125 of Geological Society of Australia Abstracts, edited by Anita S. Andrew. Adelaide: Geological Society of Australia.
Anthony Lanati
Professur für Petrologie (Prof. Klemme)
