Anouk Borst's paper on her isotope work comparing the U-Pb, Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr and Ar-Ar age estimates of the Ilímaussaq complex has just been published in Lithos. The paper is available here: Borst et al 2018 Lithos. It identifies how late-magmatic and subsolidus reactions in peralkaline rocks modify the initial isotope ratios in these rocks, providing insights …
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It has been another busy and successful time for members of our Research Group which has included two published papers, an award of a major NERC grant, two published abstracts, a visit to the Mountain Pass carbonatite mine in California, two mapping expeditions studying carbonatite complexes in Angola and Greenland, a project into the B-NMR …
The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St. Andrews has 2 vacancies: Post-doctoral research fellow (3 years) on the NERC funded project ‘Trace element and isotope partitioning in carbonates in simulated biological environments’. Post-graduate research assistant (9 months) on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘The control of coral biomineralisation’ . For further information, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
