Clifford Patten

Assistent Professor

Tel.: +43 512 507-54...
E-mail:  Clifford.Patten@uibk.ac.at
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8069-7271

Clifford Patten

Publications

Contributions to Books / Journals

Journal Article (Original Paper)
  • Coltat, R; Debret, B; Tilhac, R; Andreani, M; Patten, CGC; Godard, M; Escartin, J (2025): Multiisotopic (Fe-Cu-Zn) constraints on the magmato-hydrothermal history during mantle exhumation at slow-spreading centers.
    In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 388, pp. 48 - 60. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Hector, S; Patten, CGC; Beranoaguirre, A; Lanari, P; Kilias, S; Nomikou, P; Peillod, A; Eiche, E; Kolb, J (2024): Magmatic evolution of the Kolumbo submarine volcano and its implication to seafloor massive sulfide formation.
    In: Mineralium Deposita 59, pp. 1229 - 1248. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Patten, C.G.C; Hector, S; Kilias, S; Ulrich, M; Peillod, A; Beranoaguirre, A; Nomikou, P; Eiche, E; Kolb, J (2024): Transfer of sulfur and chalcophile metals via sulfide-volatile compound drops in the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field.
    In: Nature Communications 15, No. 4968. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Patten, CGC; Junge, M; Coltat, R; Jesus, AP; Beranoaguire, A; Tropper, P; Alt, J (2024): Sulfus and metal mobilization during the life cycle of an oceanic core complex: Implications for seafloor massive sulfide deposits formation at slow and ultra-slow spreding ridges.
    In: Lithos 490-491, No. 107843. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Peillod, A; Patten, CGC; Drüppel, K; Beranoaguirre, A; Zeh, A; Gudelius, D; Kolb, J; et al (2024): Disruption of a high‐pressure unit during exhumation: Example of the Cycladic Blueschist unit (Thera, Ios and Naxos islands, Greece).
    In: Journal Of Metamorphic Geology 42/2, pp. 225 - 255. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Peng, E; Kolb, J; Walter, BF; Frenzel, M; Patten, CGC; Xu, D; Wang, Z (2024): New Insights on the formation of the Jingchong Cu-Co-Pb-Zn deposit, South China: Evidence from sphalerite mineralogy and muscovite 40Ar-39Ar dating.
    In: Ore Geology Reviews 162, No. 105667. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Coltat, R; Andreani, M; Patten, CGC; Godard, M; Debret, B; Escartin, J (2023): Origin of Fe‐Ca‐Metasomatism in Exhumed Mantle Rocks at the MARK Area (23° N, ODP Leg 153) and Implications on the Formation of Ultramafic‐Hosted Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits.
    In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24/9, No. e2023GC010894. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Hector, S.; Patten, C.G.C.; Kolb, J.; de Araujo Silva, A.; Walter, B.F.; Molnár, F (2023): Orogenic Au deposits with atypical metal association (Cu, Co, Ni): insights from the Pohjanmaa Belt, western Finland.
    In: Ore Geology Reviews 154, No. 105326. (DOI) (Web link)

  • Patten, C.G.C.; Beranoaguirre, A.; Hector, S.; Gudelius, D.; Kolb, J.; Eiche, E (2023): Improved whole rock low detection limit gold analysis by LA-ICP-MS utilizing pressed-powder-pellets.
    In: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 488, No. 117039. (DOI) (Web link)

Education and career

since 2023
Assistent Professor, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Innsbruck

2017–2023
Assistant Professor in economic geology, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

2016–2017
Post-doctoral fellow in earth sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm Sweden

2012–2016
PhD in Earth Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Research interest

  • Metal transfer from source to ore
  • VMS deposits with specific focus on ultramafic-hosted VMS deposits
  • Orogenic Au deposits
  • Gold mobility within the Earth's crust
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