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Personal profile
Biography
Ray is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Geosciences, Monash University, and a Visiting Professor at CODES, University of Tasmania.
Ray's research interests are:
- Physical Volcanology
- Clastic sedimentology
- Dynamic processes in modern and ancient volcanic and volcano-sedimentary systems
- Collaborative industry research
Ray Cas is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Geosciences at Monash University, and a Visiting Professor at CODES, University of Tasmania. He is internationally well known in the field of physical volcanology, including understanding explosive and effusive eruption processes, transportation and dispersal processes of erupted products, the hazards posed by volcanic eruptions, and the natural resources that are produced by volcanoes.
He and his research team of postdoctoral research fellows and research students undertake research in many modern volcanic provinces overseas, including Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Canary Islands (Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean), Azores Islands (Portugal, in the mid-Atlantic Ocean), the Andes (northwest Argentina), as well as the still active Newer Volcanics Province of Western Victoria and South Australia.
In addition, the Monash Volcanology Research Group (MONVOLC), undertakes collaborative research with the mining industry, helping companies to develop a better understanding of the origin and characteristics of the volcanic host rock successions to a variety of mineral deposits, including gold, nickel, base metals (Cu, Pb, Zn) and diamonds. This research has involved fieldwork all over Australia, Canada, South Africa and Botswana.
Ray presents an annual week-long industry shortcourse on volcanic processes, titled 'Volcanic Processes, Products, Successions and Resources'. This course has been presented annually in Australia since 1982, and has also been presented by invitation overseas in Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, Canada, and Brazil. Over 1,000 geoscientists and research students have taken this course.
Ray is President of the International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI), the major international learned society for volcanology, for a 4-year term from 2011 - 2015. He regularly speaks publically and gives media interviews on all aspects related to volcanology.
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The eruption, emplacement and characteristics of extremely large volume pyroclastic flow deposits (ignimbrites).
Cas, R., Cashman, K., Giordano, G., Roche, O., Viramonte, J. & de Silva, S.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University
1/03/06 → 31/12/09
Project: Research
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Infrared and Raman Microspectoscopic Equipment for Biomolecular and Nanostructural Analysis
McNaughton, D., Barrow, C., Cas, R., Chen, Y., Fox, B., Henderson, L., Vongsvivut, J. & Wood, B.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
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3D numerical simulation of Komatiite flow
Cas, R., Monaghan, J. & Moresi, L.
1/01/03 → 31/12/03
Project: Research
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The Flow Behaviour and Emplacement Origins of Archaean Komatiite-felsic Volcanic Associations and Significance for Mineralisation.
Cas, R., Lambert, D., Fowler, A. & Lesher, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/01 → 31/12/05
Project: Research
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Integrated geological and metallogenic framework for the Eastern Yilgarn Craton
30/10/01 → 31/05/02
Project: Research
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The dynamics of a very large intra-plate continental basaltic volcanic province, the Newer Volcanics Province, SE Australia, and implications for other provinces
Cas, R. A. F., van Otterloo, J., Blaikie, T. N. & van den Hove, J., 2017, Monogenetic Volcanism. Nemeth, K., Carrasco-Nunez, G., Aranda-Gomez, J. J. & Smith, I. E. M. (eds.). London UK: Geological Society of London, p. 123-172 50 p. (Geological Society Special Publication; vol. 446).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Subaqueous pyroclastic flows and ignimbrites: an assessment
Cas, R. AF. & Wright, J. V., 1 Jun 1991, In: Bulletin of Volcanology. 53, 5, p. 357-380 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Distribution and signifcance of crystalline, perlitic and vesicular textures in the Ordovician Garth Tuff (Wales)
McArthur, A. N., Cas, R. A. F. & Orton, G. J., 1998, In: Bulletin of Volcanology. p. 260 - 285 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Flow Front Behaviour of Komatiite Lavas
Cas, R. A. F. & Self, S., 1998, p. 11 - 11. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Introduction to the special issue of Bulletin of Volcanology, "The Cerro Galan Ignimbrite and Caldera: characteristics and origins of a very large volume ignimbrite and its magma system"
Cashman, K. & Cas, R., 2011, In: Bulletin of Volcanology. 73, 10, p. 1425 - 1426 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other
1 Citation (Scopus)