Chair in Structural Geology. BSc, PhD, FGS, C.Geol.

Responsibilities.

Head of Geology and Petroleum Geology. Deputy Head of Geosciences. Executive member of Committee of Heads of University Geoscience Departments (CHUGD). Expert assessor for the European Geoparks Network (EGN). Editorial boards: Journal of Structural Geology, Geology Today, Scottish Journal of Geology. Subject Editor:Journal of the Geological Society. Regional Advisory Panel to BGS. Associate Researcher at the University of Barcelona. External examiner for B.Sc. Geology programme at University of Edinburgh and M.Sc's at Royal Holloway. Course co-ordinator: GL3024 GL4018 GL4522.

Courses taught

GL1005 GL3024 GL3512 GL4018 GL4522

Research Interests.

Structural geology and tectonics; Field-based structural analysis; salt tectonics; fold and fracture geometries; soft sediment tectonics.

Selected Publications

• ALSOP, G.I. & MARCO, S. A large-scale radial pattern of seismogenic slumping towards the Dead Sea Basin. Journal of the Geological society, London (accepted).
• ALSOP, G.I., & MARCO, S 2011. Soft-sediment deformation within seismogenic slumps of the Dead Sea Basin. Journal of Structural Geology 33, 433-457.
• SINHA, S., ALSOP, G.I. & BISWAL, T.K. 2010. The evolution and significance of microfracturing within feldspars in low-grade granitic mylonites: A case study from the Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt, India. Journal of Structural Geology 32, 1417-1429.
• AGARDE, P., SEARLE, M.P., ALSOP, G.I., DUBACQ, B. 2010. Crustal stacking and expulsion tectonics during continental subduction: P-T-deformation constraints from Oman. Tectonics 29, TC5018 doi: 10.1029/2010TC002669.
• LESEMANN, J-E., ALSOP, G.I. & PIOTROWSKI, J.A. 2010. Incremental subglacial meltwater sediment deposition and deformation associated with repeated ice-bed decoupling: a case study from the Island of Funen, Denmark. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3212-3229.
• AFTABI, P., ROUSTAIE, M., ALSOP, G.I. & TALBOT, C.J. 2010. InSAR mapping and modelling of an active Iranian salt extrusion. Journal of the Geological Society, London 167, 155-170.
• ALSOP, G.I., CHEER, D.A., STRACHAN, R.A., KRABBENDAM, M., KINNY, P.D., HOLDSWORTH, R.E. & LESLIE, A.G. 2010. Progressive fold and fabric evolution associated with regional strain gradients: A case study from across a Scandian ductile thrust nappe, Scottish Caledonides. In: LAW, R., BUTLER, R. W. H., STRACHAN, R. A. & KRABBENDAM, M. (Eds). Continental tectonics and mountain building: the legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society Special Publications. 335, 255-274.
• STRACHAN, R.A., HOLDSWORTH, R.E., KRABBENDAM, M. & ALSOP, G.I. 2010. The Moine Supergroup of NW Scotland: insights into the analysis of polyorogenic supracrustal sequences. In: LAW, R., BUTLER, R. W. H., STRACHAN, R. A. & KRABBENDAM, M. (Eds). Continental tectonics and mountain building: the legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society Special Publications. 335, 233-254.

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