Full Name: Mark Rattenbury Position: Geologist/Programme Leader Contact details
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Phone: +64-4-570 4697
Specialist Profile
Specialist in geological mapping, particularly of complexly deformed and metamorphosed basement terranes, including Archean rocks in Western Australia, Proterozoic rocks in Australia's Northern Territory, Paleozoic rocks in western Tasmania, Antarctica, and New Zealand's West Coast-NW Nelson, and Mesozoic rocks in central New Zealand. Applies geological knowledge to the support New Zealand mineral exploration and infrastructure industries. Led the QMAP 1:250 000 Geological Map of New Zealand programme to its conclusion in 2010 and currently lead GNS's Nationally Significant Databases and Collection research programme that includes ongoing geological mapping.
Specialist in geological map data management and dissemination using 3D geological modelling and GIS software as well as web services. Actively involved in international CGI-IUGS working groups on geoscience terminology and geological data models.
Qualifications
1981: BSc, Geology; 1983: MSc Hons, Geology; 1988: PhD, Geology Areas of expertise
Executive management: Project mangement
Geology: 3D modelling
Geology: Data management
Geology: Database Design
Geology: Exploration geology/mapping
Geology: Field mapping & compilation
Geology: GIS
Geology: GIS modelling
Geology: Geological mapping
Geology: Geoscience information
Geology: Regional Geology
Geology: Structural Geology
Professional activities
Geological Society of New Zealand: Member
Geoscience Terminology Working Group (CGI-IUGS): Chair
Geoscience Terminology Working Group (CGI-IUGS): Member
Government Geoscience Information Committee (Australia-NZ): NZ representative
EarthResourceML Working Group: Member
GeoSciML OGC Standards Working Group: Member
Major publications
Mortimer, N.; Campbell, H.J.; Tulloch, A.J.; King, P.R.; Stagpoole, V.M.; Wood, R.A.; Rattenbury, M.S.; Sutherland, R.; Adams, C.J.; Collot, J.; Seton, M. 2017 Zealandia: Earth's hidden continent. GSA today, 27(3): 27-35; doi: 10.1130/GSATG321A.1
Mortimer, N.; Rattenbury, M.S.; King, P.R.; Bland, K.J.; Barrell, D.J.A.; Bache, F.; Begg, J.G.; Campbell, H.J.; Cox, S.C.; Crampton, J.S.; Edbrooke, S.W.; Forsyth, P.J.; Johnston, M.R.; Jongens, R.; Lee, J.; Leonard, G.S.; Raine, J.I.; Skinner, D.N.B.; Timm, C.; Townsend, D.B.; Tulloch, A.J.; Turnbull, I.M.; Turnbull, R.E. 2014 High-level stratigraphic scheme for New Zealand rocks. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 57(4): 402-419; doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.946062
Rattenbury, M.S.; Jongens, R.; Cox, S.C. (comps) 2010 Geology of the Haast area : scale 1:250,000. Lower Hutt: GNS Science. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 14. 58 p. + 1 folded map
Rattenbury, M.S.; Townsend, D.B.; Johnston, M.R. (comps) 2006 Geology of the Kaikoura area : scale 1:250,000 geological map. Lower Hutt: GNS Science. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 13. 70 p. + 1 folded map
Nathan, S.; Rattenbury, M.S.; Suggate, R.P. (comps) 2002 Geology of the Greymouth area : scale 1:250,000. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 12. 58 p. + fold. map
Rattenbury, M.S.; Cooper, R.A.; Johnston, M.R. 1998 Geology of the Nelson area : scale 1:250,000. Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250,000 geological map 9. 67 p. + fold. map
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