BSc, PhD, FGS, FRGS, CGeol.

Responsibilities.

Member: College Executive, University Honorary Degrees Committee. Editorial Boards: Geological Magazine, Journal of Petroleum Geology

Courses taught.

GL1004 GL2012 GL3022 GL3018 GL4018 GL4020 GL4520 MSc in IPG.

Research Interests.

Petroleum geology; structural geology and sedimentology

Selected Publications

• Macdonald D.I.M., Gomez-Perez I., Franzese J., Spalletti L. A., Lawver L. A., Gahagan L., Dalziel I.W.D., Thomas C.G.C., Trewin N., Hole M. J. & Paton D.A. 2003. Mesozoic break-up of SW Gondwana: implications for regional hydrocarbon potential of the southern South Atlantic. Marine and Petroleum Geology,  20,   287-308
• Weaver R.,  Roberts A.P.,  Flecker R.,  Macdonald D. I. M. &  Fot‘yanova,L. M. 2003. Geodynamic implications of paleomagnetic data from Tertiary sediments in Sakhalin, Russia (NW Pacific). Journal of Geophysical Research,  108, 2, 1-21
• Paton D.A.,  Macdonald D.I.M. &  Underhill J.R.  2006. Applicability of thin or thick skinned structural models in a region of multiple inversion episodes, southern South Africa. Journal of Structural Geology, 28, 1933-1947
• Miller S.,  & Macdonald D.I.M. 2004. Metamorphic and thermal history of a fore-arc basin: the Fossil Bluff Group, Alexander Island, Antartica Journal of Petrology, 45, 7, 1453-1465
• Macdonald D.  & Poynter S.E. 2004. Old man river: Deciphering the drainage history of half a continent Planet Earth, Summer issue, 25
• Davies C., Poynter S.E., Macdonald D.I.M., Flecker R., Voronova L.G., Galverson V.G., Kovtunovich P.Y., Fot'yanova L.I. & Blanc E. 2005. Facies analysis of the Neogene delta of the Amur River, Sakhalin, Russian Far East: controls on sand distribution. In L. Giosan & J.P. Bhattacharya (eds), Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 83, 207-229

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