Max Webb

Research Assistant

SE Asia Research Group,   
Royal Holloway University of London

Tectonics, Geochronology, Geochemistry

I am a field geologist with expertise in geochronology, geochemisty, structural geology, and the regional tectonics of New Guinea.

I did my PhD at the University of Wollongong where I studied the Cenozoic geological evolution of western New Guinea. During this time I used detailed and extensive field campaigns, U-Pb zircon geochronology, and Sr-Nd isotope geochemistry to understand the timing of magmatism and arc-continent collision. This has allowed the development of a new  model for the tectonic evolution of western New Guinea.

I am currently a Research Assistant at Royal Holloway University, working on sedimentary provenance. In the future I hope to conduct fieldwork in central New Guinea to provide new data to this understudied region and connect tectonic models between western and eastern New Guinea.

Publications:

Webb, M., White, L. T., Jost, B. M., & Tiranda, H. (2019). The Tamrau Block of NW New Guinea records late Miocene–Pliocene collision at the northern tip of the Australian Plate. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 179, 238-260.

Jost, B. M., Webb, M., & White, L. T. (2018). The Mesozoic and Palaeozoic granitoids of north-western New Guinea. Lithos, 312, 223-243.

Webb, M., & White, L. T. (2016). Age and nature of Triassic magmatism in the Netoni Intrusive Complex, West Papua, Indonesia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 132, 58-74.