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Researcher:Dr SR Allen
School/Unit:CODES ARC
Commenced with Institution:27/1/1998
Commenced Current Job:1/12/2014
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Top 3 Fields of Research
Volcanology
Sedimentology
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
Top 3 Research Objectives
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences
Copper Ore Exploration
Mineral Resources (excl. Energy Resources)

Research Funding

AdministeredResearch TeamInitial YearDuration (Years)Funding Body/ClientTitle of ProjectTotal Cash $Total In-Kind $
University of TasmaniaDr SR Allen20111University of Tasmania: Grant-Conference Support SchemeMay 2011: IUGG 2011 General Assembly1,202
University of TasmaniaDr SR Allen20045Australian Research Council: Grant-Discovery ProjectsSubmarine Explosive Eruptions of Silicic Magma: Constraints on Products and Processes from Modern Sea-floor Examples, Ancient Successions and Experiments460,000
University of TasmaniaDr SR Allen; Dr AC Harris20041University of Tasmania: Grant-Institutional Research SchemeFlood Lavas - How do Hundreds of Cubic Kilometres of High-Silica Magma Originate?12,000
University of TasmaniaDr SR Allen20031Australian Academy of Science: Grant-Scientific Visit to JapanA Volcanological Study on Voluminous Submarine Pumiceous Mass-flow Deposits: Characteristics and Implications1,800
University of TasmaniaDr SR Allen20013Australian Research Council: Fellowship-PostdoctoralExperimental Simulations and Textural Analysis of Submarine Volcaniclastic Mass Flow Deposits that Result from Large-scale Eruption and Failure Events179,766
University of TasmaniaProfessor AJ Crawford; Dr FN Della-Pasqua; Dr SR Allen20011University of Tasmania: Grant-Institutional Research SchemePlagioclase Ultra-phyric Basalts: Volcanic Precursors to Catastrophic Caldera Eruptions12,000

Graduate Research Supervision (Current)

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Graduate Research Supervision (Graduands)

NameDegreeCompletedSupervisionCommencedCeasedTitle
Andrea AgangiPhD25/5/2011Co-supervisor17/7/200624/5/2011Magmatic and Volcanic Evolution of a Silicic Large Igneous Province (SLIP): The Gawler Range Volcanics and Hiltaba Suite, South Australia
Qiuyue HuangPhD23/6/2016Co-supervisor20/8/2012Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of Mafic Lithologies at the Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit: Implications for tectonic settings and ore-forming processes
Martin JutzelerPhD21/8/2012Co-supervisor3/7/200720/8/2012Characteristics and Origin of Subaqueous Pumice-rich Pyroclastic Facies: Ohanapecosh Formation (USA) and Dogashima Formation (Japan)

Career Best Publications

Journal Article
Allen, SR and Simpson, C and McPhie, J and Daly, SJ*, “Stratigraphy, distribution and geochemistry of widespread felsic volcanic units in the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia”, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50 (1) pp. 97-112. doi:10.1046/j.1440-0952.2003.00980.x ISSN 0812-0099 (2003) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “The Eucarro Rhyolite, Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia: A > 675 km3, compositionally zoned lava of Mesoproterozoic age”, Bulletin of Geological Society of America, 114 (12) pp. 1592-1609. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1592:TERGRV>2.0.CO;2 ISSN 0016-7606 (2002) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “Transport of pyroclastic flows across the sea during the explosive, rhyolitic eruption of the Kos Plateau Tuff, Greece”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 62 pp. 441-456. doi:10.1007/s004450000107 ISSN 0258-8900 (2001) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “Reconstruction of a major caldera-forming eruption from pyroclastic deposit characteristics: Kos Plateau Tuff, Eastern Aegean Sea”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 105 pp. 141-162. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00222-5 ISSN 0377-0273 (2001) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Water-settling and resedimentation of submarine rhyolitic pumice at Yali, eastern Aegean, Greece”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 95 (1-4) pp. 285-307. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(99)00127-4 ISSN 0377-0273 (2000) [Refereed Article] [Detail]

* This author is not affiliated with the University of Tasmania.

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Research Publications

Journal Article
Jutzeler, M and McPhie, J and Allen, SR, “Explosive destruction of a Pliocene hot lava dome underwater: Dogashima (Japan)”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 304 pp. 75-81. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2015.08.009 ISSN 0377-0273 (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Jutzeler, M and McPhie, J and Allen, SR and Proussevitch, AA*, “Grain-size distribution of volcaniclastic rocks 2: characterizing grain size and hydraulic sorting”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 301 pp. 191-203. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2015.05.019 ISSN 0377-0273 (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Cattell, HJ* and Cole, JW* and Oze, C* and Allen, SR, “Eruptive origins of a lacustrine pyroclastic succession: insights from the middle Huka Falls Formation, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand”, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 57 (3) pp. 331-343. doi:10.1080/00288306.2014.908930 ISSN 0028-8306 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fujibayashi, N* and Asakura, K* and Hattori, T* and Allen, S, “Pillow lava and spasmodic submarine fire fountaining in the middle Miocene marginal basin, Sado Island, Japan”, Island Arc, 23 (4) pp. 344-364. doi:10.1111/iar.12091 ISSN 1038-4871 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Jutzeler, M and McPhie, J and Allen, SR, “Facies architecture of a continental, below-wave-base volcaniclastic basin: the Ohanapecosh Formation, Ancestral Cascades arc (Washington, USA)”, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 126 (3-4) pp. 352-376. doi:10.1130/B30763.1 ISSN 0016-7606 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Jutzeler, M and McPhie, J and Allen, SR, “Submarine eruption-fed and resedimented pumice-rich facies: the Dogashima Formation (Izu Peninsula, Japan)”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 76 (10) Article 867. doi:10.1007/s00445-014-0867-x ISSN 0258-8900 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Freundt, A* and Kurokawa, K*, “Characteristics of submarine pumice-rich density current deposits sourced from turbulent mixing of subaerial pyroclastic flows at the shoreline: field and experimental assessment”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74 (3) pp. 657-675. doi:10.1007/s00445-011-0553-1 ISSN 0258-8900 (2012) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Jutzeler, M and Proussevitch, AA* and Allen, SR, “Grain-size distribution of volcaniclastic rocks 1: a new technique based on functional stereology”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 239-240 pp. 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.05.013 ISSN 0377-0273 (2012) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
McPhie, J and Kamenetsky, V and Allen, S and Ehrig, K* and Agangi, A and Bath, A, “The fluorine link between a supergiant ore deposit and a silicic large igneous province”, Geology (Boulder), 39 (11) pp. 1003-1006. doi:10.1130/G32205.1 ISSN 0091-7613 (2011) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Fiske, RS* and Tamura, Y*, “Effects of water depth on pumice formation in submarine domes at Sumisu, Izu-Bonin arc, western Pacific”, Geology, 38 (5) pp. 391-394. doi:10.1130/G30500.1 ISSN 0091-7613 (2010) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Products of neptunian eruptions”, Geology, 37 (7) pp. 639-642. doi:10.1130/G30007A.1 ISSN 0091-7613 (2009) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Vougiokalakis, GE* and Schnyder, C* and Bachmann, O* and Dalabakis, P*, “Comments on: On magma fragmentation by conduit shear stress: Evidence from the Kos Plateau Tuff, Aegean Volcanic Arc, by Palladino, Simei and Kyriakopoulos (JVGR (2008) 178, 807-817)”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research: An International Journal on The Geophysical, Geochemical, Petrological and Economic Aspects of Geothermal and Volcanological Research, 184 (3-4) pp. 487-490. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.04.014 ISSN 0377-0273 (2009) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Fiske, RS* and Cashman, KV*, “Quenching of steam-charged pumice: Implications for submarine pyroclastic volcanism”, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 274 (1-2) pp. 40-49. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.050 ISSN 0012-821X (2008) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J and Ferris, G* and Simpson, C*, “Evolution and architecture of a large felsic Igneous Province in western Laurentia: The 1.6 Ga Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172 (1-2) pp. 132-147. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.09.027 ISSN 0377-0273 (2008) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
McPhie, J and Della-Pasqua, FN and Allen, SR and Lackie, MA*, “Extreme effusive eruptions: Palaeoflow data on an extensive felsic lava in the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 172 (40210) pp. 148-161. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.11.011 ISSN 0377-0273 (2008) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Hayward, BW* and Mathews, E, “A facies model for a submarine volcaniclastic apron: The Miocene Manukau Subgroup, New Zealand”, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119 (5-6) pp. 725-742. doi:10.1130/B26066.1 ISSN 0016-7606 (2007) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Freundt, A*, “Resedimentation of cold pumiceous ignimbrite into water: facies transformations simulated in flume experiments”, Sedimentology, 53 (4) pp. 717-734. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00790.x ISSN 0037-0746 (2006) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “The Parnell Grit beds revisited: are they all the products of sector collapse of western subaerial volcanoes of the Northland Volcanic Arc?”, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 47 (3) pp. 509-524. doi:10.1080/00288306.2004.9515073 ISSN 0028-8306 (2004) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “Complex spatter- and pumice-rich pyroclastic deposits from an andesitic caldera-forming eruption: The Siwi pyroclastic sequence, Tanna, Vanuatu”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 67 (1) pp. 27-41. doi:10.1007/s00445-004-0358-6 ISSN 0258-8900 (2004) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Phenocryst fragments in rhyolitic lavas and lava domes”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 126 (3-4) pp. 263-283. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00151-3 ISSN 0377-0273 (2003) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and Simpson, C and McPhie, J and Daly, SJ*, “Stratigraphy, distribution and geochemistry of widespread felsic volcanic units in the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia”, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 50 (1) pp. 97-112. doi:10.1046/j.1440-0952.2003.00980.x ISSN 0812-0099 (2003) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “The Eucarro Rhyolite, Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia: A > 675 km3, compositionally zoned lava of Mesoproterozoic age”, Bulletin of Geological Society of America, 114 (12) pp. 1592-1609. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2002)114<1592:TERGRV>2.0.CO;2 ISSN 0016-7606 (2002) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Syn-eruptive chaotic breccia on Kos, Greece, associated with an energetic pyroclastic flow”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 63 (6) pp. 421-432. doi:10.1007/s004450100162 ISSN 0258-8900 (2001) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “Transport of pyroclastic flows across the sea during the explosive, rhyolitic eruption of the Kos Plateau Tuff, Greece”, Bulletin of Volcanology, 62 pp. 441-456. doi:10.1007/s004450000107 ISSN 0258-8900 (2001) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR, “Reconstruction of a major caldera-forming eruption from pyroclastic deposit characteristics: Kos Plateau Tuff, Eastern Aegean Sea”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 105 pp. 141-162. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00222-5 ISSN 0377-0273 (2001) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Water-settling and resedimentation of submarine rhyolitic pumice at Yali, eastern Aegean, Greece”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 95 (1-4) pp. 285-307. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(99)00127-4 ISSN 0377-0273 (2000) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Roache, MW and Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Surface and subsurface facies architecture of a small hydroexplosive, rhyolitic centre in the Mesoproterozoic Gawler Range Volcanics, South Australia”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 104 (1-4) pp. 237-259. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00208-0 ISSN 0377-0273 (2000) [Refereed Article] [Detail]
Chapter in Book
Allen, SR and Stewart, AL, “Products of Explosive Subaqueous Felsic Eruptions Based on Examples From the Hellenic Island Arc, Greece”, Explosive Subaqueous Volcanism, American Geophysical Union, JDL White, JL Smellie, DA Clague (ed), Washington, USA, pp. 285-298. ISBN 0-87590-999-X (2003) [Research Book Chapter] [Detail]
Conference Publication
Allen, SR and McPhie, J, “Water settling and resedimentation of submarine rhyolitic pumice at Yali, Greece”, Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 59, July 2000, Sydney, pp. 303118. ISSN 0729-011X (2000) [Conference Extract] [Detail]
McPhie, J and Allen, SR and Simpson, C*, “Extensive felsic lavas in intraplate volcanic provinces”, Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 59, July 2000, Sydney, pp. 303. ISSN 0729-011X (2000) [Conference Extract] [Detail]

* This author is not affiliated with the University of Tasmania.