Dioni CENDON

Position: Associate Research Fellow
Email: dcendon@uow.edu.au

Research Interests

Low-temperature geochemistry	Water Quality
Evaporites & salinity	ICP-MS
Hydrogeochemical evolution of ancient and modern evaporatic basins	HPLC
Seawater compositional variations over the geological record	Stable isotopes

Research Projects

Back to the Salt Mines: Evaporites & major/element chemistry of ancient oceans
Gulf of Carpentaria rivers; hydrogeochemistry & links with past lake phases

Representative Publications

Cendón D. I., Peryt, T.M., Ayora C., Pueyo J. J., and Taberner C. (2004) The importance of recycling processes in the Middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin (Carpathian foredeep): Paleoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 212, 141-158. [Paper in PDF 1,161Kb]

Cendón D.I., Graham, I.T., Colchester, D, .Pogson, R.E., Austen, D. (2004) Smoky quartz and associated minerals from Blue Hill quarry, Oberon, New South Wales, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10(2), 47-52.

Cendón D. I., Ayora C., Pueyo J. J., and Taberner C. (2003) The geochemical evolution of the Catalan potash subbasin, South Pyrenean foreland basin (Spain). Chemical Geology 200, 339-357. [Paper in PDF 868 Kb] (Abstract HTML)

Graham I. T., Colchester D., Cendón D. I., and Austen D. (2001) Siderite and associated minerals from Bendalong, South Coast, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 7(2), 49-54.

Ayora C., Cendón D. I., Taberner C., and Pueyo J. J. (2001) Brine-mineral reactions in evaporite basins: Implications for the composition of ancient oceans. Geology 29(3), 251-254. [Paper in PDF 106Kb] (Abstract HTML)

Taberner C., Cendón D. I., Pueyo J. J., and Ayora C. (2000) The use of environmental markers to distinguish marine vs. continental deposition and to quantify the significance of recycling in evaporite basins. Sedimentary Geology 137(3-4), 213-240. [Paper in PDF 2,011 Kb]

Cendón D. I., Ayora C., and Pueyo J. J. (1998) The origin of barren bodies in the Subiza potash deposit, Navarra, Spain: Implications for sylvite formation. Journal of Sedimentary Research 68(1), 43-52.

Cendón D. I., Pueyo J. J., Ayora C., Taberner C., and Pierre C. (1998) Geochemical evolution of Suria evaporite sequence: Implications for the chemistry of the Eocene ocean. Mineralogical Magazine 62A, 294-295.

Shepherd T. J., Ayora C., Cendón D. I., Chenery S. R., and Moissette A. (1998) Quantitative solute analysis of fluid inclusions in halite by LA-ICP-MS and cryo-SEM-EDS: complementary microbeam techniques. European Journal of Mineralogy 10, 1097-1108.

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Abbreviated CV

Dioni I. Cendón obtained a BSc in Geology (Cristallography and Mineralogy) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1992. He then undertook pre-doctoral studies in Cristallography solving the structure of para-disubstituted benzene compounds of commercial interest. Doctoral studies followed at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Jaume Almera, Barcelona (IJA/CSIC) with a scholarship researching the isotopic evolution of sulfate in seawater during the Cenozoic. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1999 from University of Barcelona (UB). After a parenthood break he returned to academia at the University of Technology Sydney lecturing from 2000 to 2002. He arrived at UoW as a result of a successful ARC-Discovery fellowship application researching the Quaternary record of the Gulf of Carpentaria.