ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid SystemsAssociate Professor Nathan Daczko
BSc (computer science) Univ. of Syd
PhD (geology) Univ. of Syd.
Associate ProfessorStructural and metamorphic geology, tectonics, geodynamics
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 Nathan Daczko and Daniel Meischer
Field work, Breaksea Orthogneiss Fiordland, New Zealand
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Profile
Nathan Daczko is an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Fields of research
Fields of research interest include: (i) structural geology and tectonics, (ii) metamorphic petrology and thermobarometry, (iii) evolution of plate boundary zones, (iv) integration of geological and geophysical data, (v) geochronology, and (vi) field mapping.
Awards and positions
Member of the Geological Society of Australia (1997-current), Geological Society of America and American Geophysical Union (2002-current).
2011-current – Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
2010-2012 – Committee member, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG)
2010 – E.S. Hills Medal (The Geological Society of Australia, for outstanding contributions to any branch of the geological sciences)
2007-2010 – Chair, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG)
2006-2011 – Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
2006 – Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
2006 – Australian Institute of Political Science NSW/ACT Young Tall Poppy Award
2006 – Macquarie University Innovation Awards (Highly commended)
2003-2005 – Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University
2003 – Powell Medal (The Geological Society of Australia, Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology, for the most outstanding research paper)
2001-2003 – Palisades Geophysical Institute Fellow at the Institute for Geophysics and William Stamps Farish Fellow at the Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Postdoctoral research: examining the structural evolution of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary near Macquarie Island.
1998-2001 - PhD: The University of Sydney, examining the Cretaceous high-P granulites of Fiordland, New Zealand.
Publications in refereed journals/books
Clarke, G.L., Daczko, N.R. and Miescher, D., 2013. Igneous and metamorphic garnet-clinopyroxene assemblages in eclogite and granulite, Breaksea Orthogneiss, New Zealand: major and rare earth element characteristics. Journal of Petrology, accepted and in revision.
Halpin, J.A., Daczko, N.R., Clarke, G.L. and Murray, K.R., 2013. Basin analysis in polymetamorphic terranes: an example from east Antarctica, Precambrian Research, revision accepted March 21, 2013.
Mortimer, N., Gans, P.B., Foley, F.V., Turner, M.B., Daczko, N.R., Robertson, M. and Turnbull, I.M., 2013. Solander Volcano, Fiordland, New Zealand: Geology, Age and Hydrothermal Alteration. Journal of Geology, revision accepted March 18, 2013.
Daczko, N.R., Emami, S., Allibone, A.H. and Turnbull, I.M., 2012. Petrogenesis and geochemical characterisation of ultramafic cumulate rocks from Hawes Head, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 55, 361-374.
De Paoli, M.C., Clarke, G.L. and Daczko, N.R., 2012. Mineral equilibria modelling of the granulite—eclogite transition: effects of whole-rock composition on metamorphic facies type-assemblages. Journal of Petrology, 53, 949-970.
Halpin, J.A., Daczko, N.R., Milan, L.A. and Clarke, G.L., 2012. Decoding near-concordant U-Pb zircon ages spanning several hundred million years: recrystallisation, metamictisation, or diffusion? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 163, 67-85.
Craven, S.J., Daczko, N.R., and Halpin, J.A., 2012. Thermal gradient and timing of high-T—low-P metamorphism in the Wongwibinda Metamorphic Complex, southern New England Orogen, Australia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 30, 3-20.
Portner, R.A., Daczko, N.R., Murphy, M.J. and Pearson, N.J. 2011. Enriching mantle melts within a dying mid-ocean spreading ridge: Insights from Hf-isotope and trace element patterns in detrital oceanic zircon. Lithos, 126, 355-368.
Daczko, N.R., Caffi, P. and Mann, P., 2011. Structural evolution of the Dayman Dome metamorphic core complex, eastern Papua New Guinea. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 2335-2351. Paper Online
Portner, R.A., Dickinson, J.A., and Daczko, N.R., 2011. Interaction of gravity flows with a rugged mid-ocean ridge seafloor: an outcrop example from Macquarie Island. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 81, 355-375.
Portner, R.A., Murphy, M.J. and Daczko, N.R., 2011. A detrital record of lower oceanic crust exhumation within a Miocene slow-spreading ridge: Macquarie Island, Southern Ocean. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 255-273. PDF
Danis, C.R., Daczko, N.R., Lackie, M.A. and Craven, S.J., 2010. Retrograde metamorphism of the Wongwibinda Complex, New England Fold Belt and the implications of 2.5D subsurface geophysical structure for the metamorphic history. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, 357-375.
Portner, R.A., Daczko, N.R. and Dickinson, J.A., 2010. Vitriclastic lithofacies from Macquarie Island (Southern Ocean): compositional influence on abyssal eruption explosivity in a dying Miocene spreading ridge. Bulletin of Volcanology, 72, 165-183.
Clarke, G.L., Fitzherbert, J.A., Milan, L.A. Daczko, N.R. and Degeling, H.S., 2010. Anti-clockwise P-T paths in the lower crust: an example from a kyanite-bearing regional aureole, George Sound, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 28, 77-96.
Allibone, A.H., Jongens, R., Turnbull, I.M., Milan, L.A., Daczko, N.R., De Paoli, M.C. and Tulloch, A.J., 2009. Plutonic rocks of western Fiordland, New Zealand: field relations, geochemistry, correlation and nomenclature. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 52, 379-415.
Daczko, N.R., Harb, N., Portner, R.A. and Dickinson, J.A., 2009. Geochemical fingerprint of hyaloclasts in glassy fragmental rocks of Macquarie Island (Southern Ocean): implications for volcanogenic sedimentary processes at a waning mid-ocean ridge. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56, 951-963.
Daczko, N.R., Caffi, P., Halpin, J.A. and Mann, P., 2009. Metamorphic evolution of the Dayman Dome metamorphic core complex, eastern Papua New Guinea. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 405-422.
Allibone, A.H., Milan, L.A., Daczko, N.R. and Turnbull, I.M., 2009. Granulite facies thermal aureoles and metastable amphibolite facies assemblages adjacent to the Western Fiordland Orthogneiss in southwest Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geolog, 27, 349-369.
Dickinson, J.A., Harb, N., Portner, R.A. and Daczko, N.R., 2009. Glassy fragmental rocks of Macquarie Island (Southern Ocean): mechanism of formation and deposition. Sedimentary Geology, 216, 91-103.
Daczko, N.R., Milan, L.A. and Halpin, J.A., 2009. Metastable persistence of pelitic metamorphic assemblages at the root of a Cretaceous magmatic arc – Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 233-247.
Daczko, N.R. and Halpin, J.A., 2009. Evidence for melt migration enhancing recrystallization of metastable assemblages in mafic lower crust, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27, 167-185.
Clarke, G.L., Daczko, N.R., Klepeis, K.A. and Rushmer, T., 2005. Roles for fluid and/or melt advection in forming high-P mafic migmatites, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 557-567. Abstract PDF
Stevenson, J.A., Daczko, N.R., Clarke, G.L., Pearson, N. and Klepeis, K.A. 2005. Direct observation of adakite melts generated in the lower continental crust, Fiordland, New Zealand. Terra Nova, 17(1), 73, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00586.x Abstract PDF
Daczko, N.R., Mosher, S., Coffin, M.F. and Meckel, T.A., 2005. Tectonic implications of fault-scarp-derived volcaniclastic deposits on Macquarie Island: Sedimentation at a fossil ridge-transform intersection? Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117, 18-31.
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Hollis, J.A., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, N.R. and Ireland, T.R., 2004. The regional significance of Cretaceous magmatism and metamorphism in Fiordland, New Zealand, from U Pb zircon geochronology. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 607-627.
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Schröter, F.C., Stevenson, J.A., Daczko, N.R., Clarke, G.L., Pearson, N.J. and Klepeis, K.A., 2004. Trace element partitioning during high-P partial melting and melt-rock interaction; an example from northern Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 22, 443-457.
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Daczko, N.R., Wertz, K.L., Mosher, S., Coffin, M.F., and Meckel, T.A., 2003. Extension along the Australian-Pacific transpressional transform plate boundary near Macquarie Island. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), 4(9), 1080, doi: 10.1029/ 2003GC000523.
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Wertz, K.L., Mosher, S., Daczko, N.R. and Coffin, M.F. 2003. Macquarie Island's Finch-Langdon fault: a ridge-transform inside corner structure. Geology, 31, 661-664.
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Hollis, J.A., Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, N.R. and Ireland, T.R. 2003. Geochronology and Geochemistry of high-pressure granulites of the Arthur River Complex, Fiordland, New Zealand: Cretaceous Magmatism and Metamorphism on the Palaeo-Pacific Margin. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 21, 299-313.
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Daczko, N.R., Clarke, G.L. and Klepeis, K.A. 2002. Kyanite-paragonite-bearing assemblages, northern Fiordland, New Zealand: rapid cooling of the lower crustal root to a Cretaceous magmatic arc. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 887-902.
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Daczko, N.R., Stevenson, J.A., Clarke, G.L. and Klepeis, K.A. 2002. Successive hydration and dehydration of a high-P mafic granofels involving clinopyroxene-kyanite symplectites, Mt Daniel, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 669-682.
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Daczko, N.R., Klepeis, K.A. and Clarke, G.L. 2002. Thermo-mechanical evolution of the crust during convergence and deep crustal pluton emplacement in the western province of Fiordland, New Zealand. Tectonics, 21(4), 1022, doi: 10.1029/ 2001TC001282.
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Clarke, G.L., Daczko, N.R. and Nockolds, C. 2001. A method for applying matrix corrections to X-ray intensity maps using the Bence-Albee algorithm and Matlab. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 635-644.
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Daczko, N.R., Clarke, G.L. and Klepeis, K.A. 2001. Transformation of two-pyroxene hornblende granulite to garnet granulite involving simultaneous melting and fracturing of the lower crust, Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 547-560.
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Daczko, N.R., Klepeis, K.A. and Clarke, G.L. 2001. Evidence of Early Cretaceous collisional-style orogenesis in northern Fiordland, New Zealand and its effects on the evolution of the lower crust. Journal of Structural Geology, 23, 693-713.
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Clarke, G.L., Klepeis, K.A. and Daczko, N.R. 2000. Cretaceous granulites at Milford Sound, New Zealand; their metamorphic history and emplacement in a convergent margin setting. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 359-374.
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Klepeis, K.A., Daczko, N.R. and Clarke, G.L. 1999. Kinematic vorticity and tectonic significance of superposed mylonites in a major lower crustal shear zone, northern Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Structural Geology, 21, 1385-1405.
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