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Geography, Geology and the Environment

PhD opportunities

Key Facts

Subject area: Geology/Earth Sciences
Research Institute: Environment, Physical Sciences & Applied Mathematics
Type of Programme: PhD
Duration: PhD – 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time
Starting Date: Any time of the year
Entry Requirements: See here
International entry requirements We accept a range of qualifications from other institutions. Details here.
Standard English Language requirements apply. Details here
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In Earth Sciences we believe that 'Research informs Teaching' and active research is the essential underpinning of all activities.

There are several internationally respected research groups who occupy distinctive niches in the research spectrum, pursuing excellence over superficiality.  Our particular expertise in the applied geosciences is provided by the Applied and Environmental Geophysics Research Group who focus on the application of high-resolution geophysical techniques to engineering, environmental and archaeological problems and the Basin Dynamics Research Group who study the controls and fill of sedimentary basins and their subsequent deformation and inversion at lithospheric scale using numerical analysis, and at smaller scales using seismic reflection interpretation and structural geology. Both of these groups are supported by Research Council, European and Industrial sponsors and also provide technology transfer to local and regional SMEs and major industrial organizations.  Additionally, we conduct research in the areas of volcanology, igneous and metamorphic geology and palaeontology/stratigraphy.  

The computational needs of these groups are supported by the KHAOS cluster an HEFCE SRIF funded project and there is extensive modern geophysical equipment and a full range of geochemical analytical instruments. 

 

 

Keele Petrology Group

Applied & Environmental Geophysics Group

Basin Dynamics Group

The following NERC-funded studentship is available for a UK student to start in September 2013:

Linking in situ crystallisation and magma chamber replenishment in the Rum Western Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland - EPSAM 2012-5 NERC studentship

 

Enquiries are welcome at any time, especially on the following projects.  Funding may be available:


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Keele Supervisor(s)

Cretaceous sedimentation in the Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, India. Further details here.

 Dr Stuart Clarke

Establishing forensic search protocols for detection of clandestine burials within coastal environments

Dr Jamie Pringle,
Dr Katie Szkornik

Magnetite and Cr-spinel seams as 'event horizons' in layered mafic intrusions: replenishment and infiltration histories preserved in crystal mushes

Dr Brian O’Driscoll &
Dr Ralf Gertisser

The sequence stratigraphy and geological evolution of the Dinantian & Namurian (Carboniferous) succession of the North Pennines, northern England, using a combined sedimentological and geodynamic modelling approach.

Dr Stuart Clarke & Dr Stuart Egan

Lithofacies modelling & environmental interactions within marginal arid systems using sedimentological and shallow surface geophysical techniques. Application to the Permo-Triassic succession of England.

Dr Stuart Clarke & Dr Jamie Pringle

Lead / zinc / fluorite mineralisation in the North Pennine Orefield: Structural, stratigraphical & fluid controls on spatially anomalous deposits in the Nenthead area, Cumbria.

Dr Stuart Clarke

Structural evolution of the Stublick Fault system, Northumberland & Cumbria, northern England: Implications for regional Carboniferous extensional regimes and palaeostress fields.

Dr Stuart Clarke

Testing the Vendobionta-Hypothesis: Biometrical and Biostatistical analysis of the Late Precambrian (Ediacara) macrofossils of Central and Southern Australia.

Dr Michael Montenari

Trace element and isotopic geochemistry of Precambrian and Phanerozoic antitaxial calcite veins: insights into the Deep Life habitat.

Dr Michael Montenari

How extreme is “extreme”? The Ultrastructure and Biophysics of unorthodox Bioconstructions: examples from the fossil record.

Dr Michael Montenari

Contact Details
Administrator Ann Billington
Tel : (+44) 01782 734071
E-Mail : epsam.enquiries@keele.ac.uk