Eric Roberts
- eric.roberts@jcu.edu.au
- Adjunct Professor
Projects
5
Publications
37
Awards
0
Biography
My primary research focuses on reconstructing the geologic histories of continental basins. My research involves sedimentary facies and provenance analysis (heavy mineral geochronology), coupled with taphonomy, ichnology and geochronology. I maintain close links with industry on a varitety of projects ranging from diamond exploration, to petroleum geology, to helium exploration, to critical minerals research.
My primary research themes include:
1) geological characterisation, resource exploration and dating of vertebrate records, including dinosaurs and hominins, from rift deposits of the East African Rift System.
2) Geological and palaeontological investigation of Jurassic & Cretaceous basins throughout Gondwana (esp., Australia; Africa; Antarctica).
3) Stratigraphy, palaeontology & high-precision geochronology of Upper Cretaceous strata of Western Interior Basin, North America.
4) Industry-linked research collaboration in economic geology and exploration.
****I am moving back to the USA to take on a new role at Colorado School of Mines. Please email me if you are interested in new projects, collaboration, or Msc/PhD opportunities there (eric.roberts@jcu.edu.au).****
Go to my research group website for more information. http://www.gravelmonkeys.org
Research
Projects
The Wandering Falklands: Insights from New Geologic and Fossil Discoveries (Old ID 27745)
01 Jun 2022 - 30 Mar 2023
Helium prospectivity analysis of the north Rukwa Rift Basin. (Old ID 27645)
12 May 2022 - 01 Nov 2023
Heritage Oil Rukwa (TZ) PhD Scholarship for Cassy Mtelela (Old ID 20298)
15 Jul 2012 - 14 Jan 2016
Teaching
Research Advisor Accreditation
Advisor Type
Mentor
Research Advisor Accreditation
Role
Chair; Independent Academic
Current JCU Research Students
Investigating Global REE ion adsorption deposits to understand their genesis: Investigating trace element and REE stable isotope systematics.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Refining tephrostratigraphic approaches in deep time through glass melt inclusion and isotopic fingerprinting of heavy mineral separates of volcanic ash beds.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Understanding the geologic connection between Cape York and Zealandia: Insights from the Laura Basin
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Using experiments to constrain stable isotope fractionation in banded iron formations
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Establishing a Tectonic Framework for the Cretaceous break-up of Eastern Gondwana: Insights from Papua New Guinea and Offshore Geology of the Coral and Tasman Seas.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Vertebrate Palaeontology of the Early-Late Triassic Succession in Central Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Understanding the Genesis and Patterns of Cave Fill across the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Provenance, Sedimentology and Geomorphology of Coastal Dune Fields in Queensland
Doctorate by Research - time-based
Investigation and assessment of groundwater quality and conditions for sustainable management in dry tropical coastal plain aquifer(s)
Master of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Spatial modelling of saucer scallop distributions within the southeast Queensland scallop fishery.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Tectono-sedimentary and Taphonomic investigation of the Triassic System, Northern Bowen Basin, Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Improving efficacy of Clastic Reservoir charaterisation by Quantitative Hierarchical analysis of Geochemical metrics
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)
Completed JCU Research Students
Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment reconstruction of paleosols spanning the Lower to Upper Cretaceous from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2023
Geochemistry and origin of explosive alkaline volcanism in the early Rukwa Rift, southwestern Tanzania.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2021
Shelf-edge Stratigraphy of the Central Great Barrier Reef
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2023
Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and tectonic reconstruction of the northern Great Australian Superbasin
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2022
The sedimentary evolution of Permian to Cretaceous basins in Queensland, Australia: insights from lithostratigraphy, U-Pb zircon geochronology, sedimentary facies, and provenance analysis
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2020
Mesozoic detrital zircon provenance of Central Africa: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous tectonics, paleogeography and landscape evolution.
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2019
Bentonite geochronology and tephrostratigraphy for litho- and chronostratigraphic refinement of fossiliferous Campanian strata in western North America
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2022
Cave sedimentation processes in the Homo naledi-bearing Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2021
Seismic Stratigraphy and Igneous Units of the Canning Basin, Northwest Shelf, Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (Natural and Physical Sciences)- 2022
Output
Roberts, Eric M.; O’Connor, Patrick M.; Clarke, Julia A.; Slotznick, Sarah P.; Placzek, Christa J.; ...
Forster, Catherine A.; de Klerk, William J.; Poole, Karen E.; Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya; Roberts, Eric...
Orr, Theresa J.; Roberts, Eric M.; Bird, Michael I.; Mtelela, Cassy; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Stevens, ...
Yule, C.T.G.; Daniell, J.; Edwards, D.S.; Rollet, N.; Roberts, E.M. (2023) 'Reconciling the onshore/. Australian Journal of , 70 (5):691-715. [DO ...
Stevens, Nancy J.; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Mtelela, Cassy; Roberts, Eric M. (2022) 'Macroscelideans (M. Historical Biolo, 34 (4):604-610...
Orr, Theresa J.; Wurster, Christopher M.; Roberts, Eric M.; Singleton, Russell E.; Stevens, Nancy J....
Tucker, Ryan T.; Hyland, Ethan G.; Gates, Terry A.; King, M. Ryan; Roberts, Eric M.; Foley, Elliot K...
Lawrence, L.; Spandler, C.; Hilbert-Wolf, H.L.; Mtelela, C.; Stevens, N.J.; O'connor, P.M.; Roberts,...
Foley, Elliot K.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M. (2022) 'Deciphering Late Cretaceous palaeo-riv. Basin Research, 34 (2):590-617. [DOI] ...
Beveridge, Tegan L.; Roberts, Eric M.; Ramezani, Jahandar; Titus, Alan L.; Eaton, Jeffrey G.; Irmis,...
Todd, Christopher; Roberts, Eric; Charles, Adam (2022) 'A revised Permian-Triassic stratigraphic fra. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 69 (1):113-134. [DOI] ...
Henderson, Robert A.; Foley, Elliot K.; Roberts, Eric M. (2022) 'Jurassic tectonics of northeastern . Journal of the Geological Society, 179 (6). [DOI] ...
Ramezani, Jahandar; Beveridge, Tegan L.; Rogers, Raymond R.; Eberth, David A.; Roberts, Eric M. (202...
Henderson, Robert; Spandler, C.; Foley, E.K.; Kemp, A.I.S.; Roberts, E.M.; Fisher, C. (2022) 'Early . Lith, 41...
Foley, E.K.; Roberts, E.M.; Henderson, R.A.; Todd, C.N.; Knutsen, E.M.; Spandler, C. (2022) 'Middle . Austr, 69 ...
Titus, Alan L.; Knoll, Katja; Sertich, Joseph; Yamamura, Daigo; Suarez, Celina A.; Glasspool, Ian J....
Foley, Elliot K.; Henderson, R.A.; Roberts, E.M.; Kemp, A.I.S.; Todd, C.N.; Knutsen, E.M.; Fisher, C...
Foley, Elliot K.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M.; Hannaford, Carey (2021) 'Cryptic Middle to La. Palaeogeography, P, 569 . [DOI] ...
Orr, Theresa J.; Roberts, Eric M.; Wurster, Chris M.; Mtelela, Cassy; Stevens, Nancy J.; O'connor, P...
Lawrence, L.; Spandler, C.; Roberts, E.M.; Hilbert-Wolf, H.L. (2021) 'Mineralogy and origin of the a. Lithos, 380-381 . [DOI] ...
Elliott, Marina C.; Makhubela, Tebogo V.; Brophy, Juliet K.; Churchill, Steven E.; Peixotto, Becca; ...
Claeson, Kerin M.; Ngasala, Sifa; Gottfried, Michael D.; Roberts, Eric M.; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Ste...
McCartney, Jacob A.; Bouchard, Sierra N.; Reinhardt, Josephine A.; Roberts, Eric M.; O'connor, Patri...
Robbins, Jessie L.; Dirks, Paul H.G.M.; Roberts, Eric M.; Kramers, Jan D.; Makhubela, Tebogo V.; Hil...
Miller, Case; O'Gorman, José P.; Salisbury, Steven W.; Coria, Rodolfo A.; Roberts, Eric M.; O'conno...
Wiersma, Jelle P.; Roberts, Eric M.; Dirks, Paul H. G. M. (2020) 'Formation of mud clast breccias an. Sedimentology, 67 (2):897-919. [DOI] ...
Foley, Elliot; Baty, Mason; Knutsen, Espen M.; Lignum, John S.; Roberts, Eric M. (2020) 'Jurassic - . Gondwana , 88 :126...
Tobin, Thomas S.; Roberts, Eric M.; Slotznick, Sarah P.; Biasi, Joseph A.; Clarke, Julia A.; O'conno...
Beveridge, Tegan L.; Roberts, Eric M.; Titus, Alan L. (2020) 'Volcaniclastic member of the richly fo. Cretaceous Research, 114 . [DOI] ...
O'leary, Maureen A.; Bouaré, Mohamed L.; Claeson, Kerin M.; Heilbronn, Kelly; Hill, Robert V.; McCa...
A new mammal from the Turonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania
2019
O'Connor, Patrick M.; Krause, David W.; Stevens, Nancy J.; Groenke, Joseph R.; Macphee, Ross D. E.; ...
Todd, Christopher N.; Roberts, Eric M.; Knutsen, Espen M.; Rozefelds, Andrew C.; Huang, Hui-Qing; Sp...
Blackburn, David C.; Paluh, Daniel J.; Krone, Isaac; Roberts, Eric M.; Stanley, Edward L.; Stevens, ...
Owusu Agyemang, Prince C.; Roberts, Eric M.; Downie, Bob; Sertich, Joseph J. W. (2019) 'Sedimentary . Geological, 156 (8):...
Owusu Agyemang, Prince C.; Roberts, Eric M.; Bussert, Robert; Evans, David; Müller, Johannes (2019) ...
Lamanna, Matthew; Case, Judd A.; Roberts, Eric; Arbour, Victoria M.; Ely, Ricardo C.; Salisbury, Ste...
Yule, C.T.G.; Daniell, J.; Edwards, D.S.; Rollet, N.; Roberts, E.M. (2023) 'Reply to Discussion of Y Australian Journal of E, 70 (8) :1189-1190. [ ...