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Name: Maja Stanislawska
Contact Details
Tel: +353 (0)1 896 2675
Fax: : +353 (0)1 6711199
Email: stanistm@tcd.ie
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Title of Project
Developing a multi-radioisotope approach to dating sedimentation.
Project details
My PhD research involves dating of discrete horizons with high biostratigraphic resolution by relatively new isotopic methods (U-Pb dating of authigenic xenotime and Re-Os dating of shales). This study applies the two methods of dating sediments to a fossil-bearing basin where the age is precisely known (the Namurian Clare Basin in Western Ireland and Pennine Basin in England). The isotopic ages obtained are then compared with biostratigraphic ages to determine the suitability of each methods to dating older, fossil-free sedimentary units (e.g. Neoproterozoic glacial deposits).
Name of supervisor
Postgraduate personal details
I graduated from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, with a MSc in Geology in 2006. Thanks to my parents, I started my geological career in early childhood, hunting for Perisphinctes ammonits and splitting agate geods. While at the University, I worked with Dr hab. Marek Michalik on the geochemistry and petrology of the U-Th-REE-bearing phosphates. My interest in xenotime studies continues in the present PhD project at Trinity College, and has been suplemented with challenges offered by some rare elements (Re & Os) on my new isotopic voyage in time.
Project Start Date
October 2006
Publications
Stanislawska, M., Selby, D., Chew, D., 2009. Re-Os depositional age for extremely thermally mature Upper Carboniferous organic-rich shales, Western Ireland: challenges and insights. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73: A1264.
Stanislawska, M., Michalik, M., 2009. Xenotime-(Y) veins in a Neoproterozoic metamudstone (Małopolska Block, S Poland). Mineralogia, 39: 105-113.
Stanislawska, M., Klötzli U., Klötzli E., Chew D., Lustenhouwer W.J., 2009. Phosphatic overgrowths on zircon grains in Carboniferous sandstones. In: 52nd Irish Geological Research Meeting, TCD Dublin, Ireland, 92.
Stanislawska, M., Chew D., 2008. Xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones - a new insight into the geological history of the Clare and the Pennine Basins. In: 51st Irish Geological Research Meeting, UCD Dublin, Ireland, 52.
Stanislawska, M., Klötzli U., Klötzli E., Chew D., Lustenhouwer W.J., 2008. Phosphatic overgrowths on zircon grains in Carboniferous sandstones. Mineralogia - Special Papers, 32: 149.
Stanislawska, M., Selby, D., Chew, D., 2008. Re and Os isotopic systematics of black shales from the Clare Basin, Ireland - a geochronometer for the overmature shales?, EURISPET - Isotopes applied to petrological problems, Canberra, Australia.
Stanislawska, M., Chew, D., 2007. Authigenic xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones from the Clare Basin, Ireland and the Pennine Basin, Northern England, EURISPET - State-of-the-art analytical and imaging techniques in petrology, Paris, France.
Stanislawska, M., Chew, D., 2007. SEM-EDS in a preliminary petrographic study for U-Pb dating of diagenetic xenotime overgrowths on zircon grains in sandstones. Mineralogia Polonica - Special Papers, 30: 46.
Stanislawska, M., Selby, D., Chew, D., 2007. Re and Os isotopic systematics in organic-rich shales from the Clare Basin, Ireland - preliminary results. 50th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 41.
Stanislawska, M., 2006. Authigenic REE, Th and U phosphates in the Vendian metamudstones from the marginal part of the Malopolska Block, S Poland. Preliminary results. Mineralia Slovaca, 38: 38.
Stanislawska, M., 2005. Xenotime veins in a metamudstone from the marginal part of the Malopolska Block - preliminary results. The Mineralogical Society of Poland - Special Papers, 25: 221-224.
Dylska D., Stanislawska M., Michalik M., 2004. REE accessory minerals in chlorite-biotite schists from the Western Tatra Mountains. Preliminary results. The Mineralogical Society of Poland - Special Papers, 24: 149-152.
Stanislawska, M., Michalik M., 2003. Breakdown of monazite and REE, Th, U mobility in the High Tatra granitoids. The Mineralogical Society of Poland - Special Papers, 23: 160-162.
Fieldwork photos
Namurian sandstones and mudstones of the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Sand volcano in slumped Namurian sandstones of the Gull Island Formation, Fisherstreet Bay, Doolin, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Sampling Namurian mudstones in the Pennines (Haigh Gutter, near Denshaw, UK).
George's Head - Namurian Tullig Cyclothem rocks exposed in cliffs near Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland.