Barnes SJ, Fiorentini ML, Austin P, Gessner K, Hough RM, Squelch A, (in press) Three-dimensional morphology of magmatic sulfides sheds light on ore formation and sulfide melt migration. Geology
· Baker B, Gessner K, Holden EJ, Squelch A (2008) Automatic detection of anisotropic features on rock surfaces. Geosphere 4: 418–42, doi: 10.1130/GES00145.1
· Ring U, Will T, Glodny J, Kumerics C, Gessner K, Thomson S, Güngör, T, Monié P, Okrusch M, Drüppel K, (2007) Early exhumation of high-pressure rocks in extrusion wedges: The Cycladic blueschist unit in the eastern Aegean, Greece and Turkey. Tectonics 26, TC2001, doi:10.1029/2005TC001872
· Gessner K, Wijns C, Moresi L (2007) Significance of strain localization in the lower crust for structural evolution and thermal history of metamorphic core complexes, Tectonics 26:TC2012, doi:10.1029/2004TC001768
· Gessner K (2007) Causative links between thermal history, deformation mode and hydrothermal mineralization in continental lithosphere of the Australian Proterozoic. In: Andrew, C. and 48 others (eds.) ‘Digging Deeper’: Proceedings of the Ninth SGA Biennial Meeting, Dublin, 2007: 31-33
· Wilde AR, Jones PA, Gessner K, Aillères L, Gregory MJ, Duncan RJ (2006) A Geochemical Process Model For The Mt Isa Copper Orebodies. Economic Geology 101:1547–1567
· Gessner K, Jones PA, Wilde AR, Kuehn M (2006) Significance of Strain localisation and fracturing in relation to hydrothermal mineralization at Mount Isa, Australia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 89:129-132
· Kühn M, Gessner K (2006) Reactive transport model of silicification at the Mount Isa copper deposit, Australia. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 89:195-198
· Kühn M, Dobert F, Gessner K (2006) Numerical investigation of the effect of heterogeneous permeability distributions on free convection in the hydrothermal system at Mount Isa, Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244:655-671
· Kühn M, Zeeb C, Gessner K (2006) 2D or not 2D: Are two dimensions enough to accurately model convective fluid flow through faults and surrounding host rocks? CMWR XVI -Computational Methods in Water Resources, XVI International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-22, 2006
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· Wijns C, Weinberg R, Gessner K, Moresi L (2005) Mode of crustal extension determined by rheological layering. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 236:120-134
· Wilde AR, Gregory M, Duncan R, Gessner K, Kühn M, Jones Pa (2005) Geochemical process model for the Mt Isa Cu-Co-Ag deposits. In: Bierlein FP and Mao J (Editors), Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Springer, Berlin, pp.199-202.
· Gessner K, Collins AS, Ring U, Güngör T (2004) Structural and thermal history of poly-orogenic basement: SHRIMP geochronology of granitoid rocks in the southern Menderes Massif, Western Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society of London 161: 93-101
· Ring U, Buchwaldt R & Gessner K (2004) Pb/Pb dating of garnet from the Anatolide belt in western Turkey: Pan-African metamorphism related to the collision of Angara with Gondwana, Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft: 154:537-555
· Gessner K, Wijns C, Weinberg RF, Moresi L (2004) Strain partitioning during crustal extension. GeoMod2004 International Conference, Emmetten, Switzerland. Bolletino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata 45/1(suppl.): 283-287
· Kühn M, Alt-Epping P, Gessner K, Wilde AR (2004) Application of reactive transport modelling to the Mount Isa copper mineralisation. In Korsch RJ, Barnicoat AC (eds) Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre – Extended Abstracts from the June 2004 Conference. Geoscience Australia Record 2004/09: 107-110
· Wilde AR, Gessner K, Jones PA, Gregory M, Duncan R (2004) Reducing risk through research: Project I4 – Predictive discovery of Mt Isa style copper in Korsch RJ, Barnicoat AC (eds) Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre – Extended Abstracts from the June 2004 Conference. Geoscience Australia Record 2004/09: 225-228
· Régnier JL, Ring U, Passchier CW, Gessner K, Güngör T (2003) Contrasting metamorphic evolution of metasedimentary rocks from the Çine and Selimiye nappes in the Anatolide belt,
· Ring U, Johnson C, Hetzel R, Gessner K (2003) Tectonic Denudation Of A Late Cretaceous-Tertiary Collisional Belt: Regionally Symmetric Cooling Patterns And Their Relation To Extensional Faults In The Anatolide Belt Of Western Turkey. Geological Magazine 140:421-441
· Gessner K, Wijns C, Moresi L, Boschetti F, Ord A (2001) Flow partitioning in the lithosphere during core complex formation: An interactive evolutionary computation approach using particle-in-cell finite elements. AGU Chapman Conference on Exploration Geodynamics, Dunsborough, Australia
· Gessner K, Piazolo S, Güngör T, Ring U, Passchier CW (2001) Tectonic significance of deformation patterns in granitoid rocks of the Menderes Massif, southwest Turkey. International Journal of Earth Sciences 89:766-780
· Gessner K, Ring U, Johnson C, Passchier CW, Güngör T (2001) An active bivergent rolling-hinge detachment system: The Central Menderes metamorphic core complex in western Turkey. Geology 29:611-614
· Gessner K, Ring U, Passchier CW, Güngör T (2001) How to resist subduction: Evidence for large-scale out-of-sequence thrusting during Eocene collision in western Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society of London 158:769-784
· Ring U, Gessner K, Güngör T, Passchier CW (1999) The Menderes Massif of western Turkey and the Cycladic Massif in the Aegean — do they really correlate? Journal of the Geological Society of London 156:3-6
· Gessner K, Güngör T, Ring U, Passchier CW (1998) Structure and crustal thickening of the Menderes massif, southwest Turkey, and consequences for large-scale correlations between Greece and Turkey. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 32/1:145-152
Opportunities for Postgrads and Honours Students: Various opportunities in field studies and modelling of rock deformation, fluid flow and heat transfer in hydrothermal mineralisation and geothermal applications.