Publications

Armistead, S.E., Collins, A.S., Schmitt, R.S., Costa, R.L., De Waele, B., Razakamanana, T., Payne, J.L. and Foden, J.D., 2021. Proterozoic basin evolution and tectonic geography of Madagascar: implications for an East Africa connection during the Paleoproterozoic. Tectonics. ESSOAr Preprint doi: 10.1002/essoar.10503959.1

Merdith, A.S., Williams, S.E., Collins, A.S., Tetley, M.G., Mulder, J.A., Blades, M.L., Young, A., Armistead, S.E., Cannon, J., Zahirovic, S. and Muller, D.R., 2021. Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews.

Costa, R.L., Schmitt, R.S., Collins, A., Armistead, S.E., Gomez, I.V., Archibald, D. and Razakamanana, T., 2021. Tectonic evolution of an Early Cryogenian late-magmatic basin in central Madagascar. Journal of African Earth Sciences.

Armistead, S. E., Collins, A., Buckman, S., & Atkins, R., 2020. Age and geochemistry of the Boucaut Volcanics in the Neoproterozoic Adelaide Rift Complex, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Armistead, S.E., Collins, A.S., Redaa, A., Gilbert, S., Jepson, G., Gillespie, J., Blades, M.L., Foden, J.D. and Razakamanana, T., 2020. Structural evolution and medium-temperature thermochronology of central Madagascar: implications for Gondwana amalgamation. Journal of the Geological Society.

Armistead, S.E., Collins, A.S., Merdith, A.S., Payne, J.L., Cox, G.M., Foden, J.D., Razakamanana, T. and De Waele, B. 2019. Evolving marginal terranes during Neoproterozoic supercontinent reorganisation: constraints from the Bemarivo Belt in northern Madagascar. Tectonics.

Armistead, S.E., Betts, P.G., Ailleres, L., Armit, R.J. and Williams, H.A., 2018. Cu-Au mineralisation in the Curnamona Province, South Australia: A hybrid stratiform genetic model for Mesoproterozoic IOCG systems in Australia. Ore Geology Reviews.

Armistead, S.E., Collins, A.S., Payne, J.L., Foden, J.D., De Waele, B., Shaji, E. and Santosh, M., 2017. A re-evaluation of the Kumta Suture in western peninsular India and its extension into Madagascar. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

Merdith, A.S., Collins, A.S., Williams, S.E., Pisarevsky, S., Foden, J.F., Archibald, D., Blades, M.L., Alessio, B.L., Armistead, S., Plavsa, D., Clark, C. and Muller, D.R., 2017. A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic. Gondwana Research.

Armistead, S.E., Skirrow, R.G., Fraser, G.L., Huston, D.L., Champion, D.C. and Norman, M.D., 2017. Gold and intrusion-related Mo-W mineral systems in the southern Thomson Orogen, New South Wales. Geoscience Australia Record, Record 2017/05.

Armistead, S.E. and Fraser, G.L., 2015. New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the Cuttaburra and F1 prospects, southern Thomson Orogen, New South Wales. Geoscience Australia Record, Record 2015/20.

Waltenberg, K., Blevin, P.L., Bull, K.F., Cronin, D.E. and Armistead, S.E., 2016. New SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages from the Lachlan Orogen and the New England Orogen, New South Wales. Geoscience Australia Record, Record 2016/28.

Roach, I.C., Armistead, S.E., Brodie, R.C., Clarke, J.D.A., Doublier, M.P., Main, P.T., McPherson, A.A. and Skirrow, R.G., 2015. The Southern Thomson Orogen VTEMplus AEM Survey: Using airborne electromagnetics as an UNCOVER application. Geoscience Australia Record, Record 2015/29.

Invited/Keynote talks

2021 Pb isotope variability in the Archean and implications for early Earth geodynamics. IGCP 648 Virtual Seminar Series.
2021 Three billion years of tectonic evolution in Madagascar: implications for Earth’s supercontinent cycles. Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division Meeting, Hobart, Australia.
2019 Tectonic geography of Madagascar during the Precambrian. IGCP 648 Symposium, Toliara, Madagascar. [keynote talk]
2018 Invited pannelist ‘Challenges and Solutions’, Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences Australiasia (WOMEESA) workshop, Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia.
2018 Deciphering key events of Neoproterozoic orogenesis in Madagascar: insights from structure and thermochronology, Petrology and Geochemistry Seminar, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.
2016 Multi-dimensional scaling of detrital zircon data to constrain provenance and tectonics in Madagascar and India, EarthByte Seminars, The University of Sydney, Australia.

First-Authored Conference & Technical Meeting Presentations

2021 Using Pb isotopes to unravel the evolution of ore forming regions during the Archean. Metal Earth partner advisory meeting October 2021. [oral]
2020 Pb isotope variability in the Archean and implications for early Earth geodynamics. International Archean Symposium (accepted, but conference postponed). [oral]
2019 The cyclic nature of tectonics and metallogeny from Pb isotopes. Metal Earth partner advisory meeting October 2019. [oral]
2018 The evolution of northern Madagascar during the Neoproterozoic: implicaitons for Rodinia and Gondwana plate reconstructions. IGCP 648 Symposium, Yichang, China. [oral]
2018 Tectonic evolution of the Neoproterozoic Bemarivo Belt in northern Madagascar: from Rodinia to Gondwana, Australian Geoscience Council Convention, Adelaide, Australia. [oral]
2018 Deciphering key events of Neoproterozoic orogenesis in Madagascar: insights from structure and multiple thermochronometers, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
2018 Detrital provenance of the Itremo Group in central Madagascar using trace elements and Hf isotopes in zircon, European Geoscience Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. [poster]
2017 The structural evolution of central Madagascar: a tale of two orogenies, Puzzling out Gondwana, Bangkok, Thailand. [oral]
2017 Suturing Madagascar and India: New insights from Lu-Hf data and multi-dimensional scaling of U-Pb detrital zircon data, Rodinia Conference, Townsville, Australia. [oral]
2017 A structural transect through central Madagascar – constraining the Neoproterozoic tectonic evolution, Rodinia Conference, Townsville, Australia. [poster]
2016 A re-evaluation of the Kumta Suture in southwest India and its extension into Madagascar, The 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa. [oral]
2016 A re-evaluation of the Kumta Suture in southwest India and its extension into Madagascar, Australian Earth Sciences Convention, Adelaide, Australia. [poster]
2015 Structural evolution of the North Portia Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Curnamona Province, South Australia, South Australian Exploration and Mining Conference, Adelaide, Australia. [poster]
2015 Structural evolution of the North Portia Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Curnamona Province, South Australia, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG), Caloundra, Australia. [poster]
2015 Gold- and Tungsten-Molybdenum-bearing mineral systems of the southern Thomson Orogen, New South Wales, Australia, Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) Conference, Hobart, Australia. [poster]
2013 Structural evolution and controls on the North Portia Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Curnamona Province, South Australia, Victorian Universities Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference. [oral]
2013 Geophysical applications for IOCG exploration over the Benagerie Ridge Magnetic Complex, Curnamona Province, South Australia, Australia Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) Victoria branch student conference. [oral]