Richard Arculus

Richard John Arculus FAusIMM (born 1948) is an Australian petrologist and volcanologist. He is Emeritus Professor of the School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University.^[1] His research interests and areas of expertise include inorganic geochemistry, igneous petrology, metamorphic petrology, volcanology, and chemical oceanography.^[2]

Richard Arculus
Giving a video lecture in 2021
Born	Richard John Arculus 1948 (age 76–77)
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Durham University (BSc, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Geology Petrology Geochemistry
Institutions	Australian National University
Thesis	The alkali fasalt, andesite association of grenada, lesser antilles (1973)
Doctoral advisor	George Malcolm Brown

Arculus graduated with a first-class degree in Geology from Durham University in 1970.^[3] He then earned a PhD from the same institution in 1973.^[4] Following his time at Durham he was a post-doctoral fellow of the Carnegie Institution for Science.^[5]

Career

Through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s he held academic positions in the United States at Rice University and the University of Michigan, before moving to Australia to work at the University of New England.^[5]

Arculus joined ANU as a full professor in 1994.^[6] He successfully campaigned for Australia to join the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and subsequently participated in a number of research voyages on board the RV Franklin and RV Southern Surveyor.^[5] He returned to Durham in October 2009, where he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study through December.^[5] In 2017 he argued that volcanic eruptions could take place in Melbourne or Auckland and suggested that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the outbreak of war in ancient Egypt.^[7]

Selected publications

Books

• Arculus, Richard J. (2008). Volcanic Arc Systems. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521877497.

Articles

• Arculus, Richard J.; Wills, Kevin J. A. (1980). "The petrology of plutonic blocks and inclusions from the Lesser Antilles island arc". Journal of Petrology. 21 (4): 743–799. doi:10.1093/petrology/21.4.743.
• Arculus, Richard J.; Powell, Roger (1986). "Source component mixing in the regions of arc magma generation" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 91 (B6): 5913–5926. doi:10.1029/JB091iB06p05913.
• Arculus, R. J. (1994). "Aspects of magma genesis in arcs" (PDF). Lithos. 33 (1–3): 189–208. doi:10.1016/0024-4937(94)90060-4.
• Parkinson, Ian J.; Arculus, Richard J. (1999). "The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites" (PDF). Chemical Geology. 160 (4): 409–423. doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00110-2.
• Arculus, Richard J. (2003). "Use and abuse of the terms calcalkaline and calcalkalic". Journal of Petrology. 44 (5): 929–935. doi:10.1093/petrology/44.5.929.
• Sun, Weidong; Arculus, Richard J.; Kamenetsky, Vadim S.; Binns, Raymond A. (2004). "Release of gold-bearing fluids in convergent margin magmas prompted by magnetite crystallization". Nature. 431: 975–978. doi:10.1038/nature03007.