Sue Golding
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| Sue Golding |
Laboratory Director & Research Manager
Professor Suzanne D Golding
BSc (Hons I), PhD University of Queensland
FSEG, MGSA, MGS, MAusIMM
Fax: (+ 61) 7 336 51277
Professor Golding has been involved with resource exploration and stable isotope geochemistry research since 1977.
Following some 8 years mineral and coal industry experience in Australia and Africa. Building on this industry background Golding has combined field and laboratory studies to build an interdisciplinary research program with emphasis on hydrothermal systems and mineral and fossil fuel resources. This has involved the development of new techniques and methodologies for constraining thermal and fluid flow histories in sedimentary basins, which have provided significant insights into processes associated with evolving mineral and hydrocarbon systems.
Golding is Manager of the University of Queensland Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory that is equipped with four state of the art isotope ratio mass spectrometers for rapid and precise stable isotope analysis (H, C, O and S) of geological, environmental and forensic samples. She has maintained and enhanced these facilities that are among the best in Australia through a mix of competitive equipment and research grants and industry contracts. An important new research direction in the last fifteen years is in the area of energy and environmental technologies for the coal bed methane (CBM) and coal mining industries, which rely on the use of natural isotopic tracers to understand geochemical and hydrochemical processes. Golding is an international expert on CBM and CO2 geosequestration in coal measures and a senior researcher with the CO2CRC since 2006. She also has a long standing interest in the early Earth carbon and sulfur cycles and is currently using multiple sulfur isotope records in ancient sedimentary rocks and hydrothermal systems to establish the origin of different sulfur metabolisms and their role in geochemical changes in the rock record through time.
Principle Research Interests:
- Stable isotope geochemistry
- Coal bed methane (CBM)
- CO2 geosequestration
- Geomicrobiology
- Ore deposit geology and geochemistry
Selected Recent Publications:
Nuriel, P., Rosenbaum, G., Uysal, I. T., Zhao, J.X., Golding, S. D., Weinberger, R., Karabacak, V., Avni, Y., 2011. Formation of fault-related calcite precipitates and their implications for dating fault activity in the East Anatolian and Dead Sea fault zones. Geological Society of London, Special Publication in Honors of Rick Sibson, 359(1), in press.
Uysal, I.T., Golding, S.D., Bolhar, R., Zhao, J.X., Feng, Y.X., Baublys, K.A. and Greig, A., 2011. CO2 degassing and trapping during hydrothermal cycles related to Gondwana rifting in eastern Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.018.
Uysal, I.T., Feng, Y.X., Zhao, J.X., Bolhar, R., Isik, V., Baublys, K.A., Yago, A. and Golding S.D., 2011. Seismic cycles recorded in late Quaternary calcite veins: Geochronological, geochemical and microstructural evidence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 303:84-96.
Glikson, M., Hickman, A.H., Duck, L.J., Golding, S.D. and Webb, R.E., 2010. Integration of observational and analytical methodologies to characterize organic matter in early Archean rocks: Distinguishing biological from abiotically synthesized carbonaceous matter structures. In: Golding, S.D. and Glikson, M. (eds), Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection. Springer Publishing Company, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 209-237.
Golding, S.D., Duck, L.J., Young, E., Baublys, K.A., Glikson, M. and Kamber, B.S., 2010. Earliest seafloor hydrothermal systems on Earth – Comparison with modern analogues. In: Golding, S.D. and Glikson, M. (eds), Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection. Springer Publishing Company, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 15-49.
Kinnon, E.C.P., Golding, S.D., Boreham, C.J., Baublys, K.A. and Esterle, J.S., 2010. Stable isotope and water quality analysis of coal bed methane production waters and gases from the Bowen Basin, Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, 82:219-231.
Massarotto, P., Golding, S.D., Bae, J.S., Iyer, R. and Rudolph, V., 2010. Changes in reservoir properties from injection of supercritical CO2 into coal seams – a laboratory study. International Journal of Coal Geology, 82:269-279.
Wei, X.R., Massarotto, P., Wang, G., Rudolph V. and Golding, S.D., 2010. CO2 sequestration in coals and enhanced coalbed methane recovery: New numerical approach. Fuel, 89:1110-1118.
Uysal, I.T., Feng, Y.X., Zhao, J.X., Isik, V., Nuriel, P. and Golding, S.D., 2009. Hydrothermal CO2 degassing in seismically active zones during the late Quaternary. Chemical Geology, 265:442-454.
Glikson, M., Duck, L.J., Golding, S.D., Hofmann, A., Bolhar, R., Webb, R., Baiano, J.C.F. and Sly, L.I., 2008. Microbial remains in some earliest Earth rocks: Comparison with a potential modern analogue. Precambrian Research, 164:187-200.
Golding, S.D., Uysal, I.T., Esterle, J.S., Massarotto, P. and Rudolph, V., 2008. A comparative review of carbon geosequestration options. 2008 Asia Pacific Coalbed Methane Symposium, Proceedings CD ROM Paper IL002.
Harris, A.C., Dunlap, W.J., Reiners, P.W., Allen, C.M., Cooke, D.R., White, N.C., Campbell, I.H. and Golding, S.D., 2008. Multimillion year thermal history of a porphyry copper deposit: application of U-Pb, 40Ar-39Ar and (U-Th)/He chronometers, Bajo de la Alumbrera copper-gold deposit, Argentina. Mineralium Deposita, 43:295-314.
Partridge, M.A., Golding, S.D., Baublys, K.A. and Young, E., 2008. Pyrite paragenesis and multiple sulfur isotope distribution in late Archean and early Paleoproterozoic Hamersley Basin sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272:41-49.
Duck, L.J., Glikson, M., Golding, S.D. and Webb, R.E., 2007. Microbial remains and other carbonaceous forms from the 3.24 Ga Sulphur Springs black smoker deposit, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 154:205-220.
Uysal, I.T., Zhao, J.X., Golding, S.D., Lawrence, M.G., Glikson, M. and Collerson, K.D., 2007. Sm/Nd dating and rare earth element tracing of calcite: implications for fluid flow events in the Bowen Basin, Australia. Chemical Geology, 238:63-71.
Uysal, I.T., Feng, Y., Zhao, J.X., Altunel, E., Weatherley, D., Karabacak, V., Cengiz, O., Golding, S.D., Lawrence, M.G. and Collerson, K.D., 2007. U-series dating and geochemical tracing of late Quaternary travertine in co-seismic fissures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257:450-462.
Wei, X.R., Wang, G.X., Massarotto, P., Golding, S.D. and Rudolph, V., 2007. Numerical simulation of multicomponent gas diffusion and flow in coals for CO2 enhanced coalbed methane recovery. Chemical Engineering Science, 62:4193-4203.
Wei, X.R., Wang, G.X., Massarotto, P., Rudolph, V. and Golding, S.D., 2007. Modeling gas displacement kinetics in coal with Maxwell-Stefan diffusion theory. AIChE Journal, 53:3241-3252.
Glikson, M., Golding, S.D and Southgate, P.N., 2006. Thermal evolution of the ore-hosting Isa Superbasin: central and northern Lawn Hill Platform. Economic Geology, 101:1211-1229.
Golding, S.D., Uysal, I.T., Glikson, M., Baublys, K.A. and Southgate P.N., 2006. Timing and chemistry of fluid flow events in the Lawn Hill Platform, northern Australia. Economic Geology, 101:1231-1250.
Polito, P.A., Kyser, T. K., Golding, S.D and Southgate, P.N., 2006, The Century zinc deposit and related mineralization in the zinc-rich Burketown Mineral Field, northern Australia: fluid inclusion and stable isotopic evidence for a basin fluid source. Economic Geology, 101:1251-1273.
Southgate, P.N., Kyser, T. K., Scott, D.L., Large, R.R., Golding, S.D. and Polito, P., 2006. A basin system and fluid flow analysis of the Zn-Pb-Ag Mt Isa style deposits of northern Australia: identifying metal source, basinal brine reservoirs, times of fluid expulsion and organic matter reactions. Economic Geology, 101:1103-1325.
Uysal, I.T., Mutlu, H., Altunel, E., Karabacak, V. and Golding, S.D., 2006. Clay mineralogical and isotopic (K-Ar, δ18O, δD) constraints on the evolution of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243:181-194.
