User:Rolinator

Member of WikiProject:Soil


This user is a geologist, from Australia. He has written a thesis on the Gympie gold deposit, which is full of boring and technical arguments about isotope geochemistry, ore genesis and gold. Wonderful gold. It comes from the mantle, but that's original research so it might not make it onto Wiki for a while.

That led him to become an economic geologist. He's unable to leave things alone. Hence, he reinterpreted the Fortnum Gold Deposit geolog near Meekatharra, Western Australia, and did a bit on the Abra polymetallic Pb-Zn-C-Ag deposit.

Currently, the objecives of Rolinator are to get a bit of sense into the geology pages on Wikipedia, specifically the economic, isotope and structural side of things which were sadly neglected by some people who actually are still scentists and not glorified rockhounds. :P

To do list

• Regolith
• Calc-alkaline
• Anatexis
• Augen

Rationalise

• eugeosyncline
• geosyncline
• orthogeosyncline
• miogeosyncline

Contributions

• List of rock textures(watched)
• Crenulation(watched)
• Ore genesis(watched)
• Rock microstructure(watched)
• Geology of Australia(watched)
• Ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions(watched)
• Cumulate rocks
• Fiamme
• Petermann Orogeny
• Yilgarn craton
• Hunter-Bowen orogeny
• Surat Basin
• Coal assay
• Stygofauna
• Windimurra intrusion
• Gascoyne Complex
• Restite
• Sedimentary exhalative deposits
• Geological lineation
• Heavy mineral sands ore deposits
• Geological joint
• Normative mineralogy
• Kambalda type komatiitic nickel ore deposits
• Talc carbonate
• Mineral redox buffer
• Gaspeite, Kambaldaite, Otwayite, Heazlewoodite, Violarite, Oregonite, Polydymite
• Manto ore deposits
• Mineral exploration

Significant improvements on

• Isotope dating
• Basics: Igneous rocks, Structural geology, Fractional crystallization, Igneous differentiation, magma, lava
• Nickel minerals and nickel mining, ore deposits related pages
• Tectonic processes: Orogeny, Hydrothermal circulation
• Alteration of rocks: Skarn, Greisen, Metasomatism
• Ultrapotassic rocks (watched): Lamprophyre, Kimberlite, Lamproite
• Alkaline rocks: Essexite, Theralite
• Ore processes: Iron ore, VHMS deposits
• Foliation (geology)(watched)
• Lava (watched), Basalt
• Metamorphic facies: Amphibolite, Greenschist, Eclogite, Blueschist, Zeolite facies(watched)
• Faults and folds: Geologic fault and Thrust fault(watched)
• Rare rocks: Carbonatite, Eclogite, Komatiite, Pegmatite
• Coal, vitrinite, oil shale,
• punching bags: abiogenic petroleum origin(watched)
• Mining processes: Drilling rig, Open pit, Hard rock mining
• Deep biogenic petroleum theory