Dr Adam Abersteiner
Lecturer
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr Adam Abersteiner is a researcher who uses petrology and geochemistry to understand the petrogenesis of ultramafic-mafic rocks and ore mineralization. One of the key methods driving Adam's research is the study of melt/fluid inclusions and in-situ micoranalytical techniques in order to reconstruct the original composition and evolution of melts and fluids leading to rock formation and/or mineralization. Adam has worked extensively in a variety of unusual rock types, including mantle-derived xenoliths, kimberlites, orangeites, carbonatites and lamproites, as well as more common basalts and mafic intrusion systems. Adam's current interests at ISER include understanding the origin and formation of magmatic Ni-Cu and platinum group element deposits (PGE) from around Australia and worldwide.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
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| 2022 - ongoing | Future Making Fellow | University of Adelaide |
| 2020 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Helsinki |
| Language | Competency |
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| English | Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review |
| Russian | Can read, write and speak |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
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| 2016 - 2020 | University of Tasmania | Australia | PhD |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Howarth, G. H., Casetta, F., & Abersteiner, A. (2025). A review of olivine as a tool for understanding kimberlite petrogenesis and diamond potential. Mineralogy and Petrology, 119(4), 883-906. Scopus4 WoS4 |
| 2025 | Löw, N., Halldórsson, S. A., Beier, C., Bali, E., Matthews, S., Guðfinnsson, G. H., . . . Caracciolo, A. (2025). Magma storage and transport beneath the near-rift Fjallgarðar Volcanic Ridge, Northeast Iceland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 180(3), 25 pages. Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2025 | Kharkongor, M., Glorie, S., Abersteiner, A., Dare, S., Kirkland, C., Chew, D., . . . Gilbert, S. (2025). Apatite in situ Lu-Hf and U-Pb geochronology in layered mafic intrusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 404, 234-256. |
| 2025 | Abersteiner, A., Rämö, O. T., Kontonikas-Charos, A., Kharkongor, M., Karampelas, N., Gilbert, S. E., . . . Glorie, S. (2025). Geochronological and geochemical insights into episyenite metasomatic overprint in the Proterozoic Suomenniemi rapakivi granite complex (Finland). Lithos, 516-517, 108269-1-108269-18. |
| 2024 | Abersteiner, A., Tarasov, A., Golovin, A., Howarth, G. H., & Kamenetsky, V. S. (2024). Kaapvaal lamproite melts (aka orangeites): A new type of alkali-carbonate liquid? insights from olivine-hosted multiphase inclusions (Silvery Home, South Africa). Geoscience Frontiers, 15(5), 15 pages. |
| 2024 | Abersteiner, A., Beier, C., Genske, F., Berndt, J., Kamenetsky, M., Goemann, K., . . . Kamenetsky, V. S. (2024). Multi-Stage Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere beneath Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean. JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY, 65(10), 20 pages. |
| 2023 | Chayka, I. F., Kamenetsky, V. S., Malitch, K. N., Vasil'ev, Y. R., Zelenski, M. E., Abersteiner, A. B., & Kuzmin, I. A. (2023). Behavior of critical metals in cumulates of alkaline ultramafic magmas in the Siberian large igneous province: Insights from melt inclusions in minerals. Ore Geology Reviews, 160, 105577. Scopus5 WoS5 |
| 2023 | Brlek, M., Richard Tapster, S., Schindlbeck-Belo, J., Gaynor, S. P., Kutterolf, S., Hauff, F., . . . Lukács, R. (2023). Tracing widespread Early Miocene ignimbrite eruptions and petrogenesis at the onset of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region silicic volcanism. Gondwana Research, 116, 40-60. Scopus23 |
| 2023 | Chayka, I. F., Baykov, N. I., Kamenetsky, V. S., Kutyrev, A. V., Pushkarev, E. V., Abersteiner, A., & Shcherbakov, V. D. (2023). Volcano–Plutonic Complex of the Tumrok Range (Eastern Kamchatka): An Example of the Ural-Alaskan Type Intrusion and Related Volcanic Series. Minerals, 13(1), 126. Scopus9 WoS7 |
| 2022 | Zhao, Z., Liu, Y., & Yuan, L. (2022). Review-The Variation of Anodization Conditions and the Structural Properties of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina (NAA) within Different Acidic Solutions. JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, 169(4), 12 pages. Scopus13 WoS10 |
| 2022 | Rudmin, M., Banerjee, S., Maximov, P., Novoselov, A., Trubin, Y., Smirnov, P., . . . Mazurov, A. (2022). Origin of ooids, peloids and micro-oncoids of marine ironstone deposits in Western Siberia (Russia). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 237, 16 pages. Scopus12 |
| 2022 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Golovin, A., & Kamenetsky, M. (2022). Olivine in Kimberlites: Magma Evolution from Deep Mantle to Eruption. Journal of Petrology, 63(7). Scopus25 |
| 2022 | Abersteiner, A., Golovin, A., Chayka, I., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Rodemann, T., & Ehrig, K. (2022). Carbon compounds in the West Kimberley lamproites (Australia): Insights from melt and fluid inclusions. Gondwana Research, 109, 536-557. Scopus18 |
| 2021 | Sokol, E. V., Kokh, S. N., Nekipelova, A. V., Abersteiner, A., Seryotkin, Y. V., Ershov, V. V., . . . Deviatiiarova, A. S. (2021). Ge-hg-rich sphalerite and pb, sb, as, hg, and ag sulfide assemblages in mud volcanoes of sakhalin island, russia: An insight into possible origin. Minerals, 11(11), 47 pages. Scopus9 |
| 2021 | Smirnov, S. Z., Nizametdinov, I. R., Timina, T. Y., Kotov, A. A., Sekisova, V. S., Kuzmin, D. V., . . . Abersteiner, A. (2021). High explosivity of the June 21, 2019 eruption of Raikoke volcano (Central Kuril Islands); mineralogical and petrological constraints on the pyroclastic materials. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 418, 15 pages. Scopus12 |
| 2021 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Golovin, A., Goemann, K., & Ehrig, K. (2021). Dissolution of mantle orthopyroxene in kimberlitic melts: Petrographic, geochemical and melt inclusion constraints from an orthopyroxenite xenolith from the Udachnaya-East kimberlite (Siberian Craton, Russia). Lithos, 398-399, 16 pages. Scopus9 |
| 2021 | Kutyrev, A. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., Park, J. W., Maas, R., Demonterova, E. I., Antsiferova, T. N., . . . Ozerov, A. Y. (2021). Primitive high-K intraoceanic arc magmas of Eastern Kamchatka: Implications for Paleo-Pacific tectonics and magmatism in the Cretaceous. Earth-Science Reviews, 220, 22 pages. Scopus18 |
| 2021 | Kutyrev, A. V., Sidorov, E. G., Kamenetsky, V. S., Chubarov, V. M., Chayka, I. F., & Abersteiner, A. (2021). Platinum mineralization and geochemistry of the Matysken zoned Ural-Alaskan type complex and related placer (Far East Russia). Ore Geology Reviews, 130, 17 pages. Scopus17 |
| 2021 | Sokol, E. V., Deviatiiarova, A. S., Kokh, S. N., Reutsky, V. N., Abersteiner, A., Philippova, K. A., & Artemyev, D. A. (2021). Sulfide minerals as potential tracers of isochemical processes in contact metamorphism: Case study of the Kochumdek Aureole, east Siberia. Minerals, 11(1), 1-43. Scopus11 |
| 2020 | Chayka, I. F., Kamenetsky, V. S., Zhitova, L. M., Izokh, A. E., Tolstykh, N. D., Abersteiner, A., . . . Yu. Yakich, T. (2020). Hybrid Nature of the Platinum Group Element Chromite-Rich Rocks of the Norilsk 1 Intrusion: Genetic Constraints from Cr Spinel and Spinel-Hosted Multiphase Inclusions. Economic Geology, 115(6), 1321-1342. Scopus18 |
| 2020 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Kjarsgaard, B. A., Fedortchouk, Y., Ehrig, K., & Kamenetsky, M. (2020). Evolution of kimberlite magmas in the crust: A case study of groundmass and mineral-hosted inclusions in the Mark kimberlite (Lac de Gras, Canada). Lithos, 372-373, 16 pages. Scopus17 |
| 2020 | Korneeva, A. A., Nekrylov, N., Kamenetsky, V. S., Portnyagin, M. V., Savelyev, D. P., Krasheninnikov, S. P., . . . Botcharnikov, R. E. (2020). Composition, crystallization conditions and genesis of sulfide-saturated parental melts of olivine-phyric rocks from Kamchatsky Mys (Kamchatka, Russia). Lithos, 370-371, 14 pages. Scopus8 |
| 2020 | Chayka, I. F., Zhitova, L. M., Antsiferova, T. N., Abersteiner, A., Shevko, A. Y., Izokh, A. E., . . . Kamenetsky, V. S. (2020). In-situ crystallization and continuous modification of chromian spinel in the “sulfide-poor platinum-group metal ores” of the norilsk-1 intrusion (Northern Siberia, Russia). Minerals, 10(6), 30 pages. Scopus14 |
| 2020 | Tolstykh, N., Krivolutskaya, N., Safonova, I., Shapovalova, M., Zhitova, L., & Abersteiner, A. (2020). Unique Cu-rich sulphide ores of the Southern-2 orebody in the Talnakh Intrusion, Noril'sk area (Russia): Geochemistry, mineralogy and conditions of crystallization. Ore Geology Reviews, 122, 23 pages. Scopus19 |
| 2020 | Nosova, A. A., Kargin, A. V., Sazonova, L. V., Dubinina, E. O., Chugaev, A. V., Lebedeva, N. M., . . . Batalin, G. A. (2020). Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic systematic and geochronology of ultramafic alkaline magmatism of the southwestern margin of the Siberian Craton: Metasomatism of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle related to subduction and plume events. Lithos, 364-365, 21 pages. Scopus29 |
| 2020 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Kjarsgaard, B. A., Rodemann, T., Kamenetsky, M., & Ehrig, K. (2020). A genetic story of olivine crystallisation in the Mark kimberlite (Canada) revealed by zoning and melt inclusions. Lithos, 358-359, 16 pages. Scopus20 |
| 2020 | Kutyrev, A. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., Sidorov, E. G., Abersteiner, A., & Chubarov, V. M. (2020). Silicate inclusions in isoferroplatinum: Constraints on the origin of platinum mineralization in podiform chromitites. Ore Geology Reviews, 119, 13 pages. Scopus12 |
| 2020 | Golovin, A. V., Sharygin, I. S., Korsakov, A. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., & Abersteiner, A. (2020). Can primitive kimberlite melts be alkali-carbonate liquids: Composition of the melt snapshots preserved in deepest mantle xenoliths. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 51(9), 1849-1867. Scopus45 WoS48 |
| 2020 | Castillo-Oliver, M., Giuliani, A., Griffin, W. L., O’Reilly, S. Y., Drysdale, R. N., Abersteiner, A., . . . Li, X. H. (2020). New constraints on the source, composition, and post-emplacement modification of kimberlites from in situ C–O–Sr-isotope analyses of carbonates from the Benfontein sills (South Africa). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 175(4), 20 pages. Scopus16 |
| 2020 | Marfin, A. E., Ivanov, A. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., Abersteiner, A., Yakich, T. Y., & Dudkin, T. V. (2020). Contact Metamorphic and Metasomatic Processes at the Kharaelakh Intrusion, Oktyabrsk Deposit, Norilsk-Talnakh Ore District: Application of LA-ICP-MS Dating of Perovskite, Apatite, Garnet, and Titanite. Economic Geology, 115(6), 1213-1226. Scopus18 |
| 2019 | Savatenkov, V. M., Malyshev, S. V., Ivanov, A. V., Meffre, S., Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., & Pasenko, A. M. (2019). An advanced stepwise leaching technique for derivation of initial lead isotope ratios in ancient mafic rocks: A case study of Mesoproterozoic intrusions from the Udzha paleo-rift, Siberian Craton. Chemical Geology, 528, 16 pages. Scopus2 |
| 2019 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Golovin, A. V., Sharygin, I. S., Pearson, D. G., . . . Gornova, M. A. (2019). Polymineralic inclusions in kimberlite-hosted megacrysts: Implications for kimberlite melt evolution. Lithos, 336-337, 310-325. Scopus28 |
| 2019 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Golovin, A. V., Sharygin, I. S., Giuliani, A., . . . Kamenetsky, M. (2019). Djerfisherite in kimberlites and their xenoliths: implications for kimberlite melt evolution. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174(1), 22 pages. Scopus23 |
| 2019 | Smirnov, S. Z., Rybin, A. V., Kruk, N. N., Timina, T. Y., Sokolova, E. N., Kuzmin, D. V., . . . Abersteiner, A. (2019). Parental Melts and Magma Storage of a Large-volume Dacite Eruption at Vetrovoy Isthmus (Iturup Island, Southern Kuril Islands): Insights into the Genesis of Subduction-zone Dacites. Journal of Petrology, 60(7), 1349-1370. Scopus11 |
| 2019 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., & Golovin, A. V. (2019). A Reply to the Comment by Kostrovitsky, S. and Yakovlev, D. on 'Was Crustal Contamination Involved in the Formation of the Serpentine-free Udachnaya-East Kimberlite? New Insights into Parental Melts, Liquidus Assemblage and Effects of Alteration' by Abersteiner et al. (J. Petrology, 59, 1467-1492, 2018). Journal of Petrology, 60(9), 1841-1847. Scopus1 |
| 2019 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Goemann, K., Giuliani, A., Howarth, G. H., Castillo-Oliver, M., . . . Cherry, A. (2019). Composition and emplacement of the Benfontein kimberlite sill complex (Kimberley, South Africa): Textural, petrographic and melt inclusion constraints. Lithos, 324-325, 297-314. Scopus50 |
| 2018 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Graham Pearson, D., Kamenetsky, M., Goemann, K., Ehrig, K., & Rodemann, T. (2018). Monticellite in group-I kimberlites: Implications for evolution of parental melts and post-emplacement CO<inf>2</inf> degassing. Chemical Geology, 478, 76-88. Scopus44 |
| 2018 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Kamenetsky, M., Goemann, K., Ehrig, K., & Rodemann, T. (2018). Significance of halogens (F, Cl) in kimberlite melts: Insights from mineralogy and melt inclusions in the Roger pipe (Ekati, Canada). Chemical Geology, 478, 148-163. Scopus23 |
| 2018 | Malyshev, S. V., Pasenko, A. M., Ivanov, A. V., Gladkochub, D. P., Savatenkov, V. M., Meffre, S., . . . Shcherbakov, V. D. (2018). Geodynamic significance of the mesoproterozoic magmatism of the udzha paleo-rift (Northern siberian craton) based on u-pb geochronology and paleomagnetic data. Minerals, 8(12), 555. Scopus15 |
| 2018 | Sharygin, V. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., Zhitova, L. M., Belousov, A. B., & Abersteiner, A. (2018). Copper-containing magnesioferrite in vesicular trachyandesite in a lava tube from the 2012–2013 eruption of the tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia. Minerals, 8(11), 22 pages. Scopus7 |
| 2018 | Abersteiner, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., Golovin, A. V., Kamenetsky, M., & Goemann, K. (2018). Was crustal contamin ation involved in the formation of the serpentine-free Udachnaya-East kimberlite? New in sightsin to parental melts, liquidus assemblage and effects of alteration. Journal of Petrology, 59(8), 1467-1492. Scopus43 |
| 2018 | Nekrylov, N., Portnyagin, M. V., Kamenetsky, V. S., Mironov, N. L., Churikova, T. G., Plechov, P. Y., . . . Wörner, G. (2018). Chromium spinel in Late Quaternary volcanic rocks from Kamchatka: Implications for spatial compositional variability of subarc mantle and its oxidation state. Lithos, 322, 212-224. Scopus27 |
| 2018 | Zelenski, M., Kamenetsky, V. S., Nekrylov, N., Abersteiner, A., Ehrig, K., & Khanin, D. (2018). Textural, morphological and compositional varieties of modern arc sulfides: A case study of the Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka. Lithos, 318-319, 14-29. Scopus10 |
| 2017 | Kargin, A. V., Sazonova, L. V., Nosova, A. A., Lebedeva, N. M., Tretyachenko, V. V., & Abersteiner, A. (2017). Cr-rich clinopyroxene megacrysts from the Grib kimberlite, Arkhangelsk province, Russia: Relation to clinopyroxene–phlogopite xenoliths and evidence for mantle metasomatism by kimberlite melts. Lithos, 292-293, 34-48. Scopus39 |
| 2017 | Abersteiner, A., Giuliani, A., Kamenetsky, V. S., & Phillips, D. (2017). Petrographic and melt-inclusion constraints on the petrogenesis of a magmaclast from the Venetia kimberlite cluster, South Africa. Chemical Geology, 455, 331-341. Scopus49 |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Abersteiner, A., Rämö, O. T., Kontonikas-Charos, A., Kharkongor, M., Karampelas, N., Gilbert, S. E., . . . Glorie, S. (2025). Timing of Episyenite Formation in the Proterozoic Suomenniemi Rapakivi Granite Complex (Finland). DOI |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | The critical metal niobium: from source to commodity | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Holly Maddison Cooke |
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