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Ulrich Riller

Academic Title: Professor

Name: Ulrich Riller

 

Department: School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Department Website: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/geo/

Institution: McMaster University

 

Address: Burke Science Building Room 235
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada

 

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Expertise: Structural Geology
Kinematics of deformation in active and fossil orogens: Central Andes (Argentina), Penokean Orogen (Canada)
Relationship between deformation and melt transport: Pluton and dike emplacement, collapse caldera formation.
Impact Geology: Central uplift formation in large terrestrial impact structures, generation of impact-induced melt systems (Sudbury, Canada, and Vredefort, South Africa).

Exploration geology: Structural controls on the concentration of Cu-Ni and PGE mineralization.

Methods: Field-based structural analysis, analogue modeling, image analysis, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, microstructural analysis

 

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