Raphael Wust
Lecturer, Marine Geology/Sedimentology
B.A. Vordiplom (Bern, Switzerland)
M.Sc. Bern, Switzerland
Ph.D. Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Visit: Room DB034-239, Townsville campus
Call . +61 (0)7 4781 4627
Fax: +61 (0)7 4725 1501
Email Raphael.Wust@jcu.edu.au
EA2800 – Marine Sedimentary Environments
EA3700 – Coastal Sedimentary Dynamics (Field Course)
EA9000 – Great Barrier Reef Sedimentology
Research Interests
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Sedimentology/Stratigraphy
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Peat and coal sedimentology, climate change
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Quaternary climate change recorded in terrestrial deposits
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Sedimentology of coastal marine deposits
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Stable Pb-isotopes and trace metals in sediments
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Clay mineralogy
Brief description of research impact:
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Peat and coal quality assessment – quality control.Research output in papers, presentations, and field courses that were developed because of industry demand.
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Soil classification used in Malaysia
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Expertise in tropical peatland mitigation, ecology, environment of SE-Asia with a links to global climate.
Selected Publications
Wust, Raphael A. J. and McLane, James ( 2000 ) Rock deterioration in the royal tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. Engineering geology , 58 ( 2 ). pp.163-190 .
Wust, Raphael A. J. and Hawke, Michelle I. and Bustin, R. Marc ( 2001 ) Comparing maceral ratios from tropical peatlands with assumptions from coal studies: Do classic coal petrographic interpretation methods have to be discarded? International journal of coal geology , 48 ( 1-2 ). pp.115-132 .
Wust, Raphael A. J. and Bustin, R. Marc ( 2003 ) Opaline and Al–Si phytoliths from a tropical mire system of West Malaysia: abundance, habit, elemental com position, preservation and significance. Chemical geology , 200 ( 3-4 ). pp.267-292 .
Wust, Raphael A. J. and Bustin, R. Marc ( 2004 ) Late Pleistocene and Holocene development of the interior peat-accumulating basi n of tropical Tasek Bera, Peninsular Malaysia. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology , 211 ( 3-4 ). pp.241-270 .
