
Professor Malcolm Hole
BSc, MSc, PhD, SFHEA
Personal Chair
- About
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Biography
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Internal Memberships
- Head of Discipline Geology & Geophysics
- Convenor Staff-Student Liaison Committe
- Undergraduate Programme Coordiantor, Geology-Petroleum Geology
- Research
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Research Overview
- Mineralogy
- Alkaline Volcanism
- Volcanology
- Volcanic Stratigraphy
- Geology of Scotland
Current Research
Stratigraphy and volcanology of Large Igneous Provinces.
- Faeroe Islands stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments.
- Magmatism associated with Gondwana fragmentation
- 3-D architecture of basaltic lava fields
- Subsurface geophysical expressions of lava fields
Mantle Melting and peridotite-pyroxenite sources of magmas
- Phase equilibria of peridotite melting
- Phase equlibira of pyroxenite melting
- Fingerprinting pyroxenite and peridotite-sourced magmas
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator.
Course coordinator
- GL1005 Earth Through Geological Time
- GL1505 Earth's Materials
- GL3030 Volcanology
- GO4001 Geoscience Project A
- GO4002 Laboratory Data Acquisition & Analysis
- GO4501 Geoscience Project B
- GL3508 Dissertation
Course Tutor
- GL2510 Field & Mapping Techniques
- GL3520 Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology
- GL4033 Planetary Geology
- GL4023 Geological Mapping Project
- GL5561 Earth & Planetary Surface & Internal Processes
- Publications
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Slab window related magmatism as a probe for pyroxenite heterogeneities in the upper mantle
GeologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesConstraints on the formation of basaltic magmas. Comment on “Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth – a review and new perspectives” – by Niu Y.
Earth Science Reviews, vol. 226, 103942Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103942
Paleogene volcanic rocks in the northern Faroe–Shetland Basin and Møre Marginal High: understanding lava field stratigraphy
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 495, no. 1, pp. 199-235Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/SP495-2019-13
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The Rosebank Field, NE Atlantic: Volcanic characterisation of an inter-lava hydrocarbon discovery
Basin Research, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 2883-2913Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12585
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Magmatic evolution of Low-Ti lavas in the southern Paraná-Etendeka Large Igneous Province
Lithos, vol. 400-401, 106359Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106359
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Characterizing the nature and importance of lava-sediment interactions with the aid of field outcrop analogues
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 108, 103108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.103108
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Stratigraphy of volcanic rock successions of the North Atlantic Rifted Margin: the offshore record of the Faroe Shetland and Rockall Basins
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 61-88Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAntarctic Peninsula: Volcanology
Volcanism in Antarctica. Smellie, J. L., Panter, K. S., Geyer, A. (eds.). 1 edition. Geological Society of London, pp. 305-325, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsl/books/edited-volume/2349/chapter-abstract/132276383/Chapter-4-1a-Antarctic-Peninsula-volcanology?redirectedFrom=fulltext
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/M55-2018-59
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/19331/1/Smellie_Hole_GSLBooks18_059.pdf
Reply to discussion on ‘Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea’, by Quirie et al. 2020 (JGS, 177, 718–737)
Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 178, no. 3, jgs2021-011Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-011
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Chapter 4.1b Antarctic Peninsula: petrology
Geological Society Memoir, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 327-343Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/m55-2018-40