Adrian Finch and Nicky Horsburgh took part in the SEG sponsored field course to the Mojave Block, examining the geology of commercially significant rocks in the Mojave region. The trip was run by Bill Chavez and Erich Petersen as part of the field excursions associated with the Society of Economic Geology SEG2018 conference programme. In …
Continue reading "St Andrews visit Mountain Pass Rare Earth Deposit"
I am delighted that our recent NERC grant proposal "Trace element and isotope partitioning in carbonates in simulated biological environments" has been funded. The project is being led by Dr Nicola Allison along with colleagues at the Universities of York and Glasgow. We will be recruiting a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in the next few months.
Low temperature (20-300 K) thermoluminescence spectrum of Fluorite. The data are shown in a 3D format (left) and as a contour map (right). The sudden discontinuities seen horizontally in the right hand graph are thermoluminescence peaks. Such graphs allow us to probe the defect structure of minerals and understand more about how defect form and …
Another busy and successful time for members of the Research Group. Four papers, a successful PhD thesis, graduation, hosting a conference and presentations to EGU, GGRIP and SoS RARE. Also plans are afoot to open up the scientific sample collections from in Northern Nigeria and Southern Niger collected by St Andrews in the 1980s. Publications …
Adrian and Will are just back from a fieldcourse in Namibia from the 20th to the 29th of April 2018. The course was organised and hosted by Dr Pete Siegfried of GeoAfrica Consultants through the HiTech AlkCarb consortium. We looked at several alkaline igneous complexes North of Windhoek, particularly focussing on some that have commercial …
I'm pleased to say that the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) has just awarded St Andrews the status of an SEG student chapter. This reflects our teaching and research success in Economic Geology. This makes us one of a handful of SEG student chapters in the UK and part of an elite group worldwide. Well …
Continue reading "St Andrews University now has an SEG Student Chapter"
It has been a busy quarter for the research group with seven new publications, 12 conference presentations, two keynotes, outreach and an invitation to the Houses of Parliament. Our activities have included: Publications Hutchison, W, Mather, TA, Pyle, DM, Boyce, AJ, Gleeson, MLM, Yirgu, G, Blundy, JD, Ferguson, DJ, Vye-Brown, C, Millar, IL, Sims, KWW …
Adrian Finch and his group have become a part of the St Andrews and Dundee Universities Centre for Magnetic Resonance, led by fellow mineralogist Professor Sharon Ashbrook. The Centre combines the knowledge of some of the world's leading experts in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) studying a variety of materials from …
Continue reading "Adrian Finch’s Group joins the new Centre for Magnetic Resonance"
Congratulations to Dr Will Hutchison who was given the Willy Aspinall award from the UK Volcanic and Magmatic Studies group. The award is "made to the lead author of an outstanding paper on applied volcanology within three years of being awarded a PhD at a university in the UK". Will Hutchison saw off stiff competition …
The HiTech AlkCarb consortium review paper on fenites has just been published in Ore Geology Reviews. The article is on open access for the next 50 days. Please feel free to upload it. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1WFl~cTGxwVYu
