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Georgy Belyanin

Dr Georgy Belyanin

Lecturer
Name: Georgy Belyanin
Location: ​C1 Lab 423 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 2629

Email: gabelyanin@uj.ac.za

About Dr Georgy Belyanin

Georgy graduated from the Moscow State University (Russia) with a diploma in Geochemistry and Petrology in 2007 and continued his studies at the University of Johannesburg where he obtained his PhD in Geology in 2011. After completing his 2-year tenure as a postdoctoral researcher, he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow in 2014 at the University of Johannesburg. In 2019 Georgy switched to lectureship at the same university.

Research interests

Georgy’s research is mainly focused on the relationship between igneous and metamorphic/metasomatic processes in various metamorphic provinces of Southern Africa. For this purpose, he uses a wide range of analytical techniques: major and trace geochemistry, mineral chemistry as well as absolute radiometric dating (U-Pb and Ar-Ar age dating methods). His new developing projects are granite/alkaline magmatism and associated metasomatism in Southern India. For many years Georgy was responsible for operating the noble gas mass spectrometer at Spectrum Labs (UJ).

Georgy Belyanin co-authored 59 peer-reviewed publications in international journals to his name. He has successfully (co)supervised nine Honours projects, eleven MSc and one PhD student. Georgy has been a lecturer at the Department of Geology since September 2019.

Teaching
  • GLG20A3: Metamorphic Rocks
  • GLG8X04: Chemical thermodynamics and metamorphic rocks
Hypatia research in the media
Recent publications
  • Rajesh H.M., Safonov O.G., Belyanin G.A., Letshele K.P., Vorster C. (2024) Metasomatism of mafic-intermediate rocks in the Motloutse Complex, Botswana: Effect on ore mineralization and implication for the Paleoproterozoic Large Alkali Metasomatic Province (LAMP) in southern Africa. Precambrian Research, 406, 107402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107402
  • Rajesh H.M., Keeditse M., Mfa D.T., Vorster C., Belyanin G.A. (2024) How not to use U–Pb detrital zircon geochronology to infer regional tectonics: Comment on Basupi et al. (2023), Journal of African Earth Sciences, 104942. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 210, 105153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.105153
  • Koizumi T., Tsunogae T., van Reenen D.D., Smit C.A., Belyanin G.A. (2023) Fluid migration along deep-crustal shear zone: A case study of the Rhenosterkoppies Greenstone Belt in the northern Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Geological Journal, 58(10), 3928–3947. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4818
  • Mosokomani V.S., Rajesh H.M., Mfa D.T., Belyanin G.A., Selepeng A.T. (2023) Nature and extent of shear deformation along the eastern and southern terrane boundaries of the Motloutse Complex, eastern Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 200, 104858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.104858
  • Rajesh H.M., Safonov O.G., Mfa D.T., Belyanin G.A. (2023) Paleoproterozoic hydration of gabbronorite from the Mesoarchean Lechana layered complex, eastern Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 199, 104849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.104849
  • Rajesh H.M., Mosokomani V.S., Belyanin G.A., Vorster C., Selepeng A.T. (2022) Defining the contact zone between Archean-Proterozoic terranes with distinct geologic histories: The scenario from eastern Botswana. Precambrian Research, 378, 106769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106769
  • Mfa D.T., Belyanin G.A., Rajesh H.M. (2022) Comment on “Neoarchean arc magmatism and Paleoproterozoic high-pressure granulite-facies metamorphism in the southern Motloutse Complex, eastern Botswana: Implications for the western extension of the Limpopo Complex”. Precambrian Research, 377, 106729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106729
  • Kramers J.D., Belyanin G.A., Przybyłowicz W.J., Winkler H., Andreoli M.A.G. (2022) The chemistry of the extraterrestrial carbonaceous stone “Hypatia”: A perspective on dust heterogeneity in interstellar space. Icarus, 382, 115043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115043
  • Hossain I., Belyanin G.A., Al Rashed Azmi M., Tsunogae T. (2022) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of phlogopites and its mineralization in the Mithapukur kimberlites: New Lower Cretaceous (∼109–115 Ma) kimberlitic occurrences in Bangladesh. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, 7, 100094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2022.100094
  • Rajesh H.M., Safonov O.G., Belyanin G.A., Vorster C. (2022) Contrasting fertility of metapelite vs diorite gneiss to produce leucogranite melts: Example from the Mahalapye Complex, eastern Botswana. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 187, 104454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104454
  • Morake M.A., O’Kennedy J.N.F., Knoper M.W., M. de Kock, Kramers J.D., Grantham G.H., Belyanin G., Elburg M.A. (2022) The age and palaeomagnetism of Jurassic dykes, western Dronning Maud Land: implications for Gondwana breakup. Geological Society Special Publication, 518(1), 255–284. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP518-2021-44
  • Ashish Dongre, P.S. Dhote, P. Zamarkar, S.J. Sangode, G. Belyanin, D.C. Meshram, S.K. Patil, Aaheri Karmakar, Lokant Jain (2022) Short-lived alkaline magmatism related to the Réunion plume in the Deccan Large Igneous Province: inferences from petrology, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and palaeomagnetism of lamprophyre from the Sarnu-Dandali Alkaline Igneous Complex. Geological Society Special Publication, 513(1), 381–411. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP513-2021-34
  • Wabo, H., Beukes, N.J., Patranabis-Deb, S., Saha, D., Belyanin, G., Kramers, K. (2022) Paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the timing of deposition of deep-water carbonates of the Kurnool Group (Cuddapah basin) and correlation across Proterozoic Purana successions of Southern India. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 223, 104984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104984
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