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Professor David Green was a petrologist and geochemist elected to the Academy in 1974 for his significant contributions to experimental petrology and mantle geochemistry, including the origin of basalt magmas.
Professor Green was born in Tasmania in 1936 and studied at the University of Tasmania. He was admitted to Cambridge University to undertake a PhD under Professor C.E. Tilley. On completion of his PhD, he joined the Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry (later known as the Research School of Earth Sciences) at the Australian National University. It was at the ANU where he led groundbreaking research in experimental petrology with application to basalt petrogenesis, and crustal and mantle phase relations.
He was the first to combine the techniques of high-pressure experimental petrology with electron microprobe analysis, making it possible to arrive at a quantitative understanding of the generation and fractionation of complex (10 component) natural magmas, as a function of pressure and temperature. Professor Green used these techniques to obtain solutions to several of the most fundamental and long standing problems of petrology. He is also renowned for his experimental and petrological studies of metamorphic rocks of deep crustal and upper mantle origin and of high temperature peridotite intrusions.
He moved to Tasmania in 1976 to undertake a leadership role at the University of Tasmania and set up his laboratory. He then returned to the ANU as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences from 1994 to 2001.
Professor Green gave his time to the Academy over several decades, including serving on Council and as Vice-President.
He was a Distinguished Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia; a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Royal Society, the American Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of London (Honorary Fellow); and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Stillwell Award (1977), Mawson Medal (1982), Jaeger Medal (1990) and Centenary Medal (2001), and in 2006 was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to Earth sciences.
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