ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RELATED WEBSITES
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  Room 210, Louis Ahrens Wing, Library Road Personal Photo Galleries
  Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Company Directorship
  Rondebosch, 7701, RSA  
     
  ph: #27 (0)21 650 2910  
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  email: David.Reid@uct.ac.za  
     
  Biography Staff Research Publications Teaching Students Personal  
 
 
 
 
Degrees
  • University of Cape Town, PhD Geochemistry. 1977
  • Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, MSc Geology. 1973. BSc(Hons) Geology. 1971
 
Employment
  • 1993 - present Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town
  • 1978 -1992 Research Officer, Department of Geochemistry, University of Cape Town
  • Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds,UK, 1979-80
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Geoscience, New Mexico Instituteof Mining and Technology, USA, 1984-85
  • Visiting Scientist, Department of Geology, University of Tasmania, Australia, 1990
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA, 1994-95
 
Professional Associations
  • Fellow of Society of Economic Geologists, 1998
  • Registered Natural Scientist, 1997
  • Professional Member of Geological Society of South Africa, 1973
 
 
 
Precambrian Geology, Isotope Geology, Igneous Petrology, Economic Geology, Analytical Techniques, Computer Applications
Geologic evolution of the Proterozoic mobile belts in the south-western part of Africa, namely, the Namaqua and Pan-African provinces. Granitoid suites in the Namaqua Province and their associated, particularly porphyry copper-molybdenum and quartz vein hosted tungsten-molybdenum deposits. Ancient metamorphosed volcano-sedimentary exhalative Pb-Zn-Cu sulphide deposits in the Bushmanland Group (Broken Hill, Aggeneys and Gamsberg)
Petrogenesis and metallogeny of Pan-African granitoids and alkaline rocks of southern Namibia. Tertiary carbonatites in southern Namibia
Genesis of PGE mineralisation in the Bushveld Complex, with particular focus on the Northam Platinum Mine
Application of geochemical tracer techniques to problems in Archaeology, with particular focus on glass beads from Iron Age sites in Africa and Asia

 

BEFORE 1990

1990 - 1995:

Reid DL, Cooper AF, Rex DC and Harmer RE (1990) Timing of post-Karoo alkaline volcanism in southern Namibia. Geol. Mag., 127, 427-433. [Download PDF, 1.0Mb]

Reid DL, Erlank AJ and Rex, DC (1991) Age and correlation of the False Bay dolerite dyke swarm, south-western Cape Province. S. Afr.J. Geol., 94, 155-158. [Download PDF, 407Kb]

Reid DL (1991). Alkaline rocks of the Kuboos-Bremen igneous province, southernNamibia: The Kanabeam multiple ring complex. Comms. Geol. Surv. Namibia, 7, 3-13. [Download PDF, 2.2Mb]

Reid DL, Ransome IGD, Onstott TC and Adams CJ (1991). Time of emplacement of late Precambrian mafic dykes associated with the Pan-African Gariep orogeny, southern Africa: Implications for the age of the Nama Group. J. Afr. Earth Sci., 13, 531-541. [Download PDF, 1Mb]

Cooper AF, and Reid, DL (1991). Textural evidence for calcite carbonatite magmas, Dicker Willem, south-west Namibia. Geology, 19, 1193-1196. [Download PDF, 3.9Mb]

Reid DL and Cooper AF (1992). Oxygen and carbon isotope patterns in the Dicker Willem carbonatite complex, southernNamibia. Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geoscience), 94, 293-305. [Download PDF, 1Mb]

Reid DL, Cawthorn RG, Kruger FJ and Tredoux M (1993). Isotope and trace element patterns below the Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Evidence for fluids?. Chem. Geol. (IsotopeGeoscience), 94, 171-186. [Download PDF, 1.9Mb]

Barr JM and Reid DL (1993). Hydrothermal alteration at the Haib porphyry copper deposit, Namibia: Stable isotope and fluid inclusion patterns. Comm. Geol. Surv. Namibia, 8, 23-34. [Download PDF, 1Mb]

Reid DL and Rex, DC (1994). Cretaceous dykes associated with the opening of the South Atlantic: The Mehlberg Dyke, northern Richtersveld. S. Afr. J. Geol., 97, 1-11. [Download PDF, 810Kb]

Saitowitz, S.J., Reid, D.L., Van Der Merwe, N.J. (1995) Glass bead trade from Islamic Eqypt to South Africa ca. AD 900-1250. S. Afr. J. Sc., 91, 101-104. [Download PDF, 375Kb]

1995 - 2000:

Reid, D.L., Smith, C.B., Watkeys, M.K., H.J. Welke, P.J. Betton (1997) Whole rock radiometric age patterns in the Aggeneys - Gamsberg ore district, central Bushmanland, South Africa. S. Afr. J. Geol., 100 (1), 11-22. [Download PDF, 850Kb]

Cooper, A.F., Paterson. L.A., Reid, D.L. (1995) Lithium in carbonatites: consequence of an enriched mantle source? Min. Mag., 59, 401-408. [Download PDF, 590Kb]

Reid, D.L., Rex, D.C., Brandl, G. (1997) Karoo basalts in the Ellisras sub-basin, Northern Province. S. Afr. J. Geol., 100 (2), 151-156. [Download PDF, 496Kb]

Reid, D.L. (1997) Sm-Nd ages and REE geochemistry of Proterozoic arc-related igneous rocks in the Richtersveld Subprovince, Namaqua Mobile Belt, Southern Africa. J. Afr. Earth Sci, 24 (4), 621-633. [Download PDF, 759Kb]

Reid, D.L., Smith, C.B., Welke, H.J., Moore, J.M. (1997) Lead isotope patterns in Proterozoic stratiform base metal mineralization in the Bushmanland Group, Namaqua Province, South Africa. Econ. Geol, 92 (2), 248-258. [Download PDF, 937Kb]

Cooper, D.L., Reid, D.L. (1998) Nepheline-sövites as parental magmas in carbonatite complexes: Evidence from Dicker Willem, southwest Namibia. J. Petrol., 39, 2123-2136. [Download PDF, 301Kb]

Cooper, D.L., Reid, D.L. (2000) The association of potassic trachytes and carbonatites at the Dicker Willem complex, southwest Namibia: Coexisting, immiscible, but not cogenetic magmas. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 139, 570-583. [Download PDF, 400 Kb]

2001 - 2004:

Saitowitz, S.J. and Reid, D.L. (2001) Early Indian Ocean glass bead trade between Egypt and Malaysia: A pilot study. Bulletin Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Vol 5, 119-123. Canberra, Australian National University. [Download PDF, 377Kb]

Saitowitz, S.J. and Reid, D.L. (2001) Physical and chemical analysis of glass beads and glassy slag from Iron age sites in northeast Thailand: Preliminary Findings. In: Jones, M. and Sheppard, P. (Editors) Australasian connections and new directions. Proceedings of the 7th Australasian Archaeometry Conference, University of Auckland, 307-327. [Download PDF, 2.8Mb]

Reid, D.L., Basson, I.J. (2002) Iron-rich ultramafic pegmatite replacement bodies within the Upper Critical Zone, Rustenburg Layered Suite, Northam Platinum Mine, South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine, 66, 895-914.[Download PDF, 1.6Mb]

Smith, D., Basson, I.J. and Reid, D.L. (2004) The normal reef sub-facies of the Merensky Reef at Northam platinum mine, Zwartklip facies, western Bushveld Complex. Canadian Mineralogist, 42, 243-260.[Download PDF, 2.6Mb]
                           
 
 
 
 

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