Research Interests

• Applied mineralogy
• Behaviour of heavy minerals during diagenesis
• Chemostratigraphy
• Large Igneous Provinces and continental break-up

Selected Publications

NORTH, C.P., HOLE, M.J. & JONES, D.G., 2005. Geochemical correlation in deltaic successions: a reality check. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 620-632.

MACDONALD, D.I.M., GOMEZ-PEREZ, I., FRANZESE, J., SPALLETTI, L.A., LAWYER, L.A., GAHAGAN, L., DALZIEL, I., THOMAS, C.G.C., TREWIN, N.H., 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.

LEMASURIER, W.E., FUTA, K., HOLE, M.J. & KAWACHI, Y., 2003. Polybaric evolution of phonolite, trachyte and rhyolite volcanoes in eastern Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica: controls on peralkalinity and silica saturation. International Geology Reviews, 45, 1055-1099.

BOUCH, J.E., HOLE, M.J., TREWIN, N.H., CHENERY, S. & MORTON, A.C., 2002. Authigenic apatite in a fluvial sandstone sequence: evidence for rare-earth element mobility during diagenesis and a tool for diagenetic correlation. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 59-67.

PRESTON, J., HARTLEY, A., MANGE-RAJETZKY, M., NORTH, C.P., HOLE, M.J. & JONES, D.G., 2005. Geochemical correlation in deltaic successions: a reality check. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 620-632.

PRESTON, J., MEIGHAN, I., SIMPSON, D. & HOLE, M.J., 2002. Mineral chemical provenance of Neolithic pitchstone artefacts from Ballygalley, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Geoarchaeology, 17, 219-236.

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