Microprobe Users

Staff and Academic Visitors
Recently Awarded Higher Degrees
Current Ph.D. student users

Staff and Academic Visitors
Dr. Laurence Coogan (Cardiff University)
Oceanic gabbros and mid-ocean ridge magma chamber processes.
Prof. John Hudson
Carbonates and sulphates from concretions of the Oxford Clay, Cassington.
Prof. Andrew Saunders
Titanites from Transbaikalia, Siberia.
Mr. Rob Wilson in collaboration with
Dr. D.A. (Tony) Carswell (University of Sheffield)
Dr. Zhai Mingguo / Prof. Cong Bolin (Academia Sinica, Beijing, China)
High pressure rocks of Dabie Shan, Anhui Province, central China.
Dr. Tim Brewer
Eclogites from Glenelg, NW Scotland
Dr. Martin Timmerman (University College, Dublin : University of Leeds)
Granulites and high pressure rocks, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Dr. Theodore Razakamanana (Madagascar) in collaboration with
Prof. Brian Windley, Dr. Alan Collins
Dr. Dietrich Ackermand (University of Kiel, Germany)
High-pressure metamorphism in southern Madagascar.
Dr. Giz Marriner (RHBNC, Egham, London)
Lamproite from Spain.

Recently Awarded Higher Degrees
Tiffany Barry (Ph.D. May 1999)
Origins of Cenozoic basalts in Mongolia ; a chemical and isotope study.
Roz White (Ph.D. April 1999)
The Fundamentals of Crust Generation : Major Tonalite Intrusions Associated with an Oceanic Plateau, Aruba, Dutch Caribbean.
Annette McGrath (Ph.D. March 1999)
Geochemistry of crustal development in the Cyclades and Northern Greece.
Sam Barr (Ph.D. January 1999)
Evaluation of subduction-accretion as an important crustal growth mechanism : Rhodope, Northern Greece.
Marion Weber (Ph.D. July 1998)
The Mercaderes-Rio Mayo Xenoliths, Colombia : their bearing on Mantle and Crustal Processes in the Northern Andes.
Laurence Coogan (Ph.D. June 1998)
Magma Plumbing beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Tanya Babbs (Ph.D. 1997)
Geochemical and petrological investigation of the deeper portion of an oceanic plateau : Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Duncan Anderson (Ph.D. 1997)
The relationship between magmatism and borate mineralisation in western Turkey.
Sarah Gabbott (Ph.D. 1996)
The Palaeontology and Taphonomy of the Upper Ordovician Soom Shale, South Africa.
Lucie Ringuette (M.Phil. 1996)
Thermobarometry of the garnet-bearing rocks of the Jijal Complex (western Himalayas, northern Pakistan).
Zahid Mohammad Khan (Ph.D. 1996)
Genesis of stratabound scheelite and stratiform Pb-Zn mineralisation of Chitral, Northern Pakistan, and its comparison with S-W England tin-tungsten deposits.

Current Ph.D. students
Hannah Townley
The effect of Chemical Exchange on Closure Temperature in Isotopic Systems.
Supervised by Dr. Gawen Jenkin and Prof. Randy Parrish
Craig Storey
Eclogites and their role in the development of the Grenvillian Orogen, NW Scotland.
Supervised by Dr. Steve Temperley, Dr. Tim Brewer and Prof. Brian Windley
Anne-Marie Fiddy
Authigenic Rare Earth Minerals in Welsh Slate.
Supervised by Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz, Dr. Jane Evans (NIGL) and Prof. Randy Parrish
Richard Thomas (Cardiff University)
High level gabbros from Oman.
Supervised by Dr. Chris Mcleod and Dr. Laurence Coogan (Cardiff University).