Olivier Namur

 

Junior Research Fellow Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

 

Postdoc at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

 

Institut für Mineralogie

Leibniz Universität Hannover

Callinstrasse 3

30167 Hannover

 

obn21@cam.ac.uk

Cambridge Web page

VMSG webpage

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Education


2005 - Licence en Sciences géologiques, Université de Liège

2006 - DEA en Sciences, Université de Liège

2011 - Ph.D., Université de Liège

2011-2013 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cambridge University, UK

2013-Present - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany (von Humboldt Research Fellow)

 

 

Research profile


  • Experimental petrology - Planetology

  • Thermodynamics of silicate systems

  • Layered intrusions and magma chamber processes

  • Differentiation of basalts

  • Origin of A-type granites associated with mafic intrusions

  • Silicate liquid immiscibility

  • Anorthosites

  • Ore deposits associated with magmas

 

 

Publications


Book

Charlier B, Namur O, Latypov R, Tegner C (2013) Layered Intrusions. Book to be published by Springer.

 

In preparation

[16] Collinet M, Médard E, Devouard B, Peslier A, Namur O. Petrological constraints on the parental melts and sources of enriched shergottites.

[15] Foucart HC, Holness MB, Namur O, Vander Auwera J. Potential of textural analyses in improving eucrite classification and petrogenesis.

[14] Namur O, Humphreys M, Holness M. Solidification of interstitial melt in a gabbroic crystal mush: The Skaergaard intrusion, Greenland.

 

Under review

[13] Holness M, Namur O, Cawthorn RG. Disequilibrium dihedral angles in layered intrusions: the microstructural record of fractionation. Journal of Petrology

 

Published or in press

[12] Charlier B, Namur O, Grove TL. Compositional and kinetic control on liquid immiscibility in ferrobasalt-rhyolite volcanic and plutonic series. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 113: 79-93.

[11] Namur O, Humphreys M, Holness M (2013). Lateral reactive infiltration in a vertical gabbroic crystal mush, Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland. Journal of Petrology 54: 985-1016.

[10] Namur O, Charlier B, Holness MB (2012). Dual origin of Fe-Ti-P gabbros by immiscibility and fractional crystallization of evolved tholeiitic basalts in the Sept Iles layered intrusion. Lithos 154, 100-114.

[9] Namur O, Charlier B (2012) Efficiency of compaction and compositional convection during mafic crystal mush solidification: the Sept Iles layered intrusion, Canada. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 163: 1049-1068. [Article]

[8] Namur O, Charlier B, Toplis MJ, Vander Auwera J (2012) Prediction of plagioclase-melt equilibria in anhydrous silicate melts at 1-atm. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 163: 133-150. [Article]

Excel file for plagioclase-melt equilibria calculation

[7] Charlier B, Namur O, Toplis MJ, Schiano P, Cluzel N, Higgins MD, Vander Auwera J (2011) Large-scale silicate liquid immiscibility during differentiation of tholeiitic basalt to granite and the origin of the Daly gap. Geology 39: 907-910. [Article]

[6] Namur O, Charlier B, Toplis MJ, Higgins MD, Hounsell V, Liégeois JP, Vander Auwera J (2011) Differentiation of tholeiitic basalt to A-type granite in the Sept Iles layered intrusion, Canada. Journal of Petrology 52: 487-539. [Article]

[5] Namur O, Charlier B, Pirard C, Hermann J, Liégeois JP, Vander Auwera J (2011). Anorthosite formation by plagioclase flotation in ferrobasalt and implications for the lunar crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75: 4998-5018. [Article]

[4] Charlier B, Namur O, Malpas S, de Marneffe C, Duchesne JC, Vander Auwera J, Bolle O (2010) Origin of the giant Allard Lake ilmenite ore deposit (Canada) by fractional crystallization, multiple magma pulses and mixing. Lithos 117: 119-134. [Article]

[3] Namur O, Charlier B, Toplis MJ, Higgins MD, Liégeois JP, Vander Auwera J (2010) Crystallization sequence and magma chamber processes in the ferrobasaltic Sept Iles layered intrusion, Canada. Journal of Petrology 51: 1203-1236. [Article]

[2] Charlier B, Namur O, Duchesne J-C, Wiszniewska J, Parecki A, Vander Auwera J (2009) Cumulate origin and polybaric crystallization of Fe-Ti oxide ores in the Suwalki anorthosite, northeastern Poland. Economic Geology 104: 205-221. [Article]

[1] Namur O, Hatert F, Grandjean F, Long GJ, Krins N, Fransolet A-M, Vander Auwera J, Charlier B (2009) Ti substitution mechanisms in phlogopites from the Suwalki massif-type anorthosite, NE Poland. European Journal of Mineralogy 21: 397-406. [Article]

 

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