Professor Malcolm Hole

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 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 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