Dr Malcolm Hole

Dr Malcolm Hole The University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences Dr Malcolm Hole Senior Lecturer work +44 (0)1224 273434

Senior Lecturer

Dr Malcolm Hole

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273434
Email: m.j.hole@abdn.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Mineralogy

Alkaline Volcanism

Volcanology

Volcanic Stratigraphy

Geology of Scotland


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Current Research

Stratigraphy and volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces.

Faeroe Islands stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments.

Magmatism associated with Gondwana fragmentation.


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Teaching Responsibilities

Undergraduate Programme Coordinator.

Course coordinator

GL1005 Earth Through Geological Time

GL1505 Earth Materials

GL2014 Stratigraphical Principles

GL3025 Stratigraphy

GL3522 Volcanic Hazards

GL4522 Birth, growth and death of Supercontinents

Course Tutor

GL2015 Petrology & Mineralogy

GL3520 Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology

GL3526 Tectonics, Climate change and Earth History

 


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Admin Responsibilities

Convenor Staff-Student Liaison Committe

College of Physical Sciences Teaching and Leanring Committee

Institituional Team - Developing and Supporting the Curriculum

Advisor of Studies


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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • McMahon, S., Parnell, J., Ponicka, J., Hole, MJ. & Boyce, A. (2013). 'The habitability of vesicles in martian basalt'. Astronomy & Geophysics, vol 54, no. 1, pp. 17-21.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1093/astrogeo/ats035
  • Clift, P., Wares, NM. & Hole, MJ. (2012). 'Evolving Heavy Mineral Assemblages Reveals Changing Exhumation and Trench Tectonics in the Mesozoic Chugach Accretionary Complex, South-Central Alaska The Geological Society of America Bulletin'. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol 124, no. 5/6, pp. 989-1006.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1130/B30594.1
  • Parnell, J., Hole, MJ., Boyce, AJ., Spinks, S. & Bowden, SA. (2012). 'Heavy metal, sex and granites: Crustal differentiation and bioavailability in the mid-Proterozoic'. Geology, vol 40, no. 8, pp. 751-754.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1130/G33116.1
  • Jolley, DW., Passey, SR., Hole, MJ. & Millett, J. (in press). 'Basaltic melt fractionation drives plant ecosystem dynamics'. Journal of the Geological Society.
  • Jolley, DW., Passey, SR., Hole, MJ. & Millett, JM. (2012). 'Large-scale magmatic pulses drive plant ecosystem dynamics'. Journal of the Geological Society, vol 169, no. 6, pp. 703-711.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1144/¿jgs2012-012
  • North, CP., Hole, MJ. & Jones, DG. (2005). 'Geochemical correlation in deltaic successions: a reality check'. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol 117, no. 5/6, pp. 620-632.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1130/B25436.1
  • LaMasurier, WE., Futa, K., Hole, MJ. & Kawachi, Y. (2003). 'Polybaric evolution of phonolite, trachyte and rhyolite volcanoes in eastern Marie Byrd Land, Antartica: controls on peralkalinity and silica saturation'. International Geology Review, vol 45, no. 12, pp. 1055-1099.
  • MacDonald, DIM., Gomez-Perez, I., Franzese, J., Spalletti, LA., Lawver, LA., Gahagan, L., Dalziel, I., Thomas, CGC., Trewin, NH., Hole, MJ. & Paton, DA. (2003). 'Mesozoic break-up of SW Gondwana: implications for regional hydrocarbon potential of the southern South Atlantic'. Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol 20, no. 3-4, pp. 287-308.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(03)00045-X
  • Hole, MJ., Chenery, S., Morton, AC. & Bouch, JEE. (2002). 'Authigenic apatite in a fluvial sandstone sequence: eveidence for rare-earth element mobility during diagenesis and a tool for diagnetic correlation'. Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol 72, pp. 59-67.
  • Preston, J., Meighan, I., Simpson, D. & Hole, MJ. (2002). 'Mineral chemical provenance of Neolithic pitchstone artefacts from Ballygalley, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland'. Geoarchaeology-An International Journal, vol 17, no. 3, pp. 219-236.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1002/gea.10011
  • Schaefer, BF., Parkinson, IJ., Hole, MJ., Kerr, AC., Scarrow, JH. & Rogers, NW. (2002). 'Re-Os isotope systematics of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province; Multiple mantle sources in the proto-Iceland plume'. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol 66.
  • Preston, J., Hartley, AJ., Mange-Rajetzky, M., Hole, MJ., May, G., Buck, S. & Vaughn, L. (2002). 'The provenance of Triassic continental sandstones from the Beryl Fields, northern North Sea: mineralogical, geochemical and sedimentological constraints'. Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol 72, no. 1, pp. 18-29.
  • Bouch, JE., Hole, MJ., Trewin, NH., Morton, AC. & Chenery, S. (2002). 'Authigenic apatite as an indicator of heavy mineral dissolution during sandstone diagenesis'. Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol 72, no. 1.
  • Hutchison, A., Hartley, AJ., Hole, MJ., Whear, E. & Preston, J. (2001). 'High resolution geochemical and petrographical correlation of deep marine Paleocene sandstones from the Foinaven Field, West of Shetland'. Petroleum Geoscience, vol 7, no. 2, pp. 123-129.
  • Preston, RJ., Hole, MJ., Still, J. & Patton, H. (1998). 'The mineral chemistry and petrology of Tertiary pitchstones from Scotland'. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth Sciences, vol 89, pp. 95-111.
  • Clapperton, CM., Hall, M., Mothes, P., Hole, MJ., Still, JW., Helmens, KF., Kuhry, P. & Gemmell, AMD. (1997). 'A Younger Dryas icecap in the Equatorial Andes'. Quaternary Research, vol 47, no. 1, pp. 13-28.

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