Emeritus Professor
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- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
Since August 2025 I am an emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen, having "retired" from my position as Professor of Tectonics. Aberdeen was my final port of call in a career that began after education at the Universities of Leeds and Wales (Swansea) back in the mists of time. I went on to positions at Durham University and the Open University before moving back to my alma mater, Leeds, in 1991. I moved to Scotland and the University of Aberdeen in 2008. Most of my research (and publications) has dealt with contractional tectonics - evolution of mountain belts, thrust systems and basin inversion - chiefly integrating diverse geological information (especially stratigraphy) with structural geology, I continue to research the geology and tectonics of mountain belts and sedimentary basins, especially to understand the distribution and geological context of their earth resources.
I share knowledge through The Shear Zone - a YouTube Channel along with an associated website. There you'll find extensive open teaching materials, films about classic (and not so classic) geo-sites and "work-along" exercises in topics on geological interpretation and analysis - from seismic profiles through geological maps and cross-section construction.
External Memberships
Fellow of Geological Society of London - and Chartered Geologist
Member: Scottish Geology Trust, Italian Geological Society and European Geosciences Union.
Prizes and Awards
President's Award, Geological Society of London.
Awarded Wollaston Fund of GSL
Inaugural recipient o the Dewey Medal, GSL.
- Publications
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Styles of basement involvement in the Moine thrust Belt, NW Scotland
Geological Society of America Special Paper, vol. 414, pp. 133-150Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStyles of continental contraction: a review and introduction
Geological Society of America Special Paper, vol. 414, pp. 1-11Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTesting thrust tectonic models at mountain fronts: where has the displacement gone?
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 163, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Mediterranean: forensics of a geo-catastrophe
Geotimes, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 20-23Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe structure and kinematics of substrate entrainment into high concentration sandy turbidites: a field example from the Gorgoglione “flysch” of southern Italy.
Sedimentology, vol. 53, pp. 655-670Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2006.00789.x
Modelling approaches to understanding fold development: implications for hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 21, pp. 933-946Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNature of thrust zones in deep water sand-shale sequences: outcrop examples from the Champsaur sandstones of SE France
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 21, pp. 911-921Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe nature of ‘roof thrusts” in the Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland: implications for the structural evolution of thrust belts.
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 161, pp. 849-859Contributions to Journals: ArticlesKinematic reworking and exhumation of the convergent Alpine Orogen.
Tectonophysics, vol. 365, pp. 77-102Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVertical stretching and crustal thickening at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Himalaya: a model for distributed continental deformation during mountain building
Tectonics, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 9 1-108Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2001TC901022