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School of Geological Sciences

 

RON UKEN

Ph.D. University of Natal, 2000 

 

Associate Professor

School of Geological Sciences

Room-207, H1 Building,

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Westville Campus

Private Bag X54001

Durban 4000

Tel:  +27(0)31 260 2516

Fax: +27(0)31 260 2280

uken AT ukzn.ac.za

 

 

Teaching

 

 

LEVEL III

GEOL 308:  GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS

 

HONOURS

GEOL 705: ORE DEPOSITS

 

 

Research Interest

 

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Shear zone hosted ore deposits

Industrial minerals and applied mineralogy and mineral processing

Coastal and marine mineral resources

Bushveld Complex -  Intrusion processes deformation and contact metamorphism

 

MARINE GEOLOGY

Modern carbonate deposits and stromatolites

Palaeo sealevel and Palaeoclimate

 

PALAEOCLIMATE STUDIES

Coral palaeoclimate studies from the western Indian Ocean

Flood events in KwaZulu-Natal and the palaeoflood record

 

 

 

Current Projects

 

Structural geology of the Bugersfort Bulge in the Bushveld Complex

 

Sediment and mineralogy of the KwaZulu Natal continental Shelf

 

The geology and genesis of Klipwal shear zone hosted gold deposit

 

The geology of the Aliwal Shoal – A submerged Coastal Dune system

 

Modern stromatolite forming processes

 

Coral palaeoclimate from the western Indian Ocean

 

Moderen and palaeoflood history of KwaZulu-Natal

 

Recent Publications

 

Peer-reviewed publications

 

Uken, R. & Watkeys, M.K., 1997, Diapirism initiated by the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Geology, 25, 723-726.

 

Uken, R. & Watkeys, M.K., 1997, An interpretation of mafic dykes swarms and their relationship with major mafic magmatic events on the Kaapvaal craton and Limpopo Belt, South African Journal of Geology, 104, 327-331.

 

Buick, I.S., Uken, R., Gibson, R.L. & Wallmach, T., 1998, High *13C metacarbonates from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa: implications for Palaeoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions, Geology, 26, 875-878.

 

Clarke, B.M., Uken, R. & Watkeys, M.K., 2000, Intrusion mechanisms of the southwestern Rustenburg Layered Suite as deduced from the Spruitfontein inlier, South African Journal of Geology, 103, 120-127.

 

Buick, I.S., Gibson, R.L., Cartwright, I., Maas, R., Wallmach, T. & Uken, R., 2000, Fluid flow in metacarbonates associated with emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 69-70, 391-396.

 

Harris, N. Mcmillan, A., Hollness, M., Uken, R., Watkeys, M., Rogers, N., & Fallick, A., 2003, Melt Generation and Fluid Flow in the Thermal Aureole of the Bushveld Complex, Journal of Petrology, 44, 1031-1054.

 

Gerya, T.V., Uken, R., Reinhardt, J., Watkeys, M.K. Maresch, W.V. & Clarke, B, 2003, Cold fingers in a hot magma: Numerical modeling of country rock diapirs in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Geology, 31, 753-756.

 

Smith, A.M. & Uken, R., 2003, Living marine stromatolites at Kei River mouth, South African Journal of Science, 99, 200.

 

Gerya, T.V., Uken, R., Reinhardt, J., Watkeys, M.K. Maresch, W.V. & Clarke, B., 2004, Cold diapirs Triggered by intrusion of the Bushveld Complex: Insights from two-dimensional numerical modeling, In: Whitney, D.L, Teyssier, C., & Siddoway, C.S., Gneiss domes in orogeny: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 380, 117-127.

 

Clarke, B.M., Uken, R., Watkeys, M.K. & Reinhardt, J., 2005, Folding of the Rustenberg Layered Suite adjacent to the Steelpoort pericline: implications for syn-Bushveld tectonism in the eastern Bushveld Complex, South African Journal of Geology, 108, 395-410.

 

Smith, A.L., Uken, R. & Thackeray, Z., 2005, Cape Morgan peritidal stromatolites: the origin of lamination, South African Journal of Science, 101, 107-108.

 

Bosman, C., Uken, R. & Smith. A.M., 2005, The bathymetry of the Aliwal Shoal, Scottburgh, South Africa, South African Journal of Science, 101, 255-257.

 

Clarke, B.M., Uken, R. Watkeys, M.K. & Reinhardt, J., 2005, Folding of the Rustenburg Layered Suite adjacent to the Steelpoort pericline:  implications for syn-Bushveld tectonism in the eastern Bushveld Complex, South African Journal of Geology, 108, 395-410.

 

Green, A.N. & Uken, R., 2005, First observations of sea level indicators related to glacial maxima at Sodwana Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, South African Journal of Science, 101, 236-238.

 

Green, A.N., Garland, G.G. & Uken, R., 2006, Geomorphological and managerial implications of fish trapping in the Kosi Bay Estuary, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, African Journal of Marine Sceince, 28, 617-624.

 

Uken, R. & Green, A.N., 2006, Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) resting traces in a cave floor, Chaka canyon, South Africa, South African Journal of Science, 102, 474-475.

 

Cawthorn, R,G., Eales, H.V., Walraven, F., Uken, R. & Watkeys, M.K., 2006, The Bushveld Complex. In: Johnson, M.R., Anhaeusser,C.R. & Thomas, R.J (Eds.), The Geology of South Africa. Geological Society of South Africa, Johannesburg/Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, 691pp. 

 

Bosman, C., Uken, R. & Ovechkina, M., 2007, The Aliwal Shoal revisited: New age constraints from nannofossil assemblages, South African Journal of Geology, 110, 647-653.

 

Green, A.N., Goff, J.A. & Uken, R., 2007, Geomorphological evidence for upslope canyon-forming processes on the northern KwaZulu-Natal shelf, SW Indian Ocean, South Africa, Geo-Marine Letters, 27, 399-409.

 

Bosman, C., Uken, R., Leuci, R., Smith, A.M & Sinclair, D., 2008, Shelf sediments off the Thukela River mouth: complex interaction between fluvial and oceanographic processes, South African Journal of Science, 103, 490-492.

 

Green A. N. & Uken,  R., 2008, Submarine landsliding and canyon evolution on the northern KwaZulu-Natal continental shelf, South Africa, SW Indian Ocean, Marine Geology, 254, 152–170.

 

Green A.N., Ovechkina M. & Uken, R., 2008, Nannofossil age constraints for the northern KwaZulu-Natal shelf-edge wedge: Implications for continental margin dynamics, South Africa, SW Indian Ocean, Continental Shelf Research, 28, 2442–2449.

 

Clarke, B. M., Uken, R. & Reinhardt, J.M., 2009, The geometry and emplacement mechanics of a Bushveld Complex peridotite body, South Africa, South African Journal Of Geology, 112, 141-162.

 

Clarke, B. M., Uken, R. & Reinhardt, J.M., 2009, Structural and compositional constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex, Lithos, 111, 21-36

 

Green, A.N, Uken, R., Ramsay, P., Leuci, R. & Perritt, S., 2009, Potential sites for suitable coelacanth habitat using bathymetric data from the Western Indian Ocean, South African Journal of Science, 105, 151-154

 

Clarke, B.M., Reinhardt, J. M & Uken, R., 2010, Reply to Rigby, M.J., Eriksson, P.G. and Mavimbela, P.K.Comments on “Structural and compositional constraints on the emplacement of the Bushveld Complex” by B. Clarke, R. Uken and J. Reinhardt, Lithos 115 (2010) 276–278.

 

Ovechkina, M.N., Bylinskaya, M.E & Uken, R., 2010, Planktonic foraminiferal assemblage in surface sediments from the Thukela Shelf, South Africa, African Invertebrates, 51, 1-25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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