Prof. JD Clemens
Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X1, 7602 Matieland,
South Africa
phone: +27 (0)21 808 3159
fax:
+27 (0)21 808 3129
Email: jclemens at sun.ac.za
Biography
appointed as Professor Emeritus
Fellowship Diploma of Geology - RMIT University (Australia)
PhD Monash University (Australia)
Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great
Britain and Ireland
Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
Research Interests
Igneous
petrogenesis, especially of granitic rocks
High-grade
metamorphism and crustal melting
Experimental
petrology
Current Projects
The
Configurations and Origins of Chemical Structure in Felsic Magmas
Petrological, geochemical and rock magnetic techniques are being used to map
the internal compositional structure of many plutonic and volcanic masses (in
South Africa and Australia) and to investigate the mechanisms by which
granitic magmas attain their compositional heterogeneity and Earth’s
continental crust becomes compositionally differentiated. Stevens and
Buick and Kisters (Stellenbosch), Birch (Museum Victoria), Maas (Melbourne
University), Nicholls (Monash), Regmi (Namibia), Waight (Danish Geological
Survey), Phillips (Phillipsgold) and Jung (Hamburg) are the main collaborators.
There
are numerous sub-projects within this overall theme, including a major study of
the giant Donkerhuk batholith in Namibia, funded by a major grant (to Clemens,
Kisters and Buick) from the South African NRF.
Publications
download Clemens biblio 2019.pdf
Students
Honours: L.
Pepler, M. Baleta and W. Watt – jointly supervised with Kisters