Mr Matt Wincott
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I study diamonds and minerals trapped within them to understand how continents have cooled over billions of years. My methods include infrared spectroscopy and isotopic dating.
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Diamonds and their inclusions as thermometers and clocks. Using Re-Os dating of sulfide inclusions combined with nitrogen defect aggregation measurements to calculate long-term secular cooling or heating rates for diamond-containing lithosphere that can be used to evaluate thermal and geodynamic models for the evolution of the lithosphere.