Mark Anderson

Academic profile

Professor Mark Anderson

Professor of Geology
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Mark's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 07: SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean EnergyGoal 17: SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

About Mark

Professor of Geology

 

Supervised Research Degrees

Ms Olatundun Aihie (2nd supervisor)  Excavation Disturbance Zone Evolution in UK Jurassic and Triassic Mudrocks – implications on fluid flow in a nuclear waste repository.

Ms Nathalie Dawe (Director of Studies) - Structural development and fluid flow along strike-slip faults in the Variscan belt of SW England. 

Mr. Joe Connolly (Director of Studies) - Partitioning of fluid flow along faults and fractures in the Bristol Channel Basin: implications for low carbon geoscience projects in SW England.

Dr Francesca Prando (2nd supervisor) - Brittle-viscous deformation cycles in quartz veins at the base of the seismogenic zone. PhD awarded February 2024.

Dr Grant Cole (3rd supervisor) - Combined salt and extensional tectonic controls on facies distribution in the Early Cretaceous of the Maesrat Basin, Spain. PhD awarded May 2020

Dr Giulia Delgi Alessandrini (3rd supervisor) - Strain localisation in the mafic lower crust. PhD awarded August 2018

Dr Israel Etobro (2nd supervisor) - Sequence stratigraphy and structure of Dahomey Embayment. PhD awarded December 2017

Dr Hazel Gibson (4th supervisor) - Underground Britain. PhD awarded February 2017

Dr Mohammed Chaanda (3rd supervisor) - Terrestrial climate reconstructions across Cenozoic greenhouse and icehouse climate events using new organic and inorganic climate proxies. PhD awarded June 2016

Dr Matt Meyer (2nd supervisor) - An integrated palaeomagnetic and geochemical investigation of lower oceanic crustal accretion using ophiolitic analogues. PhD awarded January 2016.

Dr Ahmed Fatih Omer (2nd supervisor) - Integrated geophysical, geochemical and structural analyses of the Mersin ophiolite, Turkey. PhD awarded September 2014

Dr Chinwendu Elenwa (2nd supervisor) - Regional versus localised controls on the nature of deep-sea petroleum reservoirs in tectonically active settings using a sequence stratigraphic approach . PhD awarded April 2014

Dr Ben Dashwood (2nd supervisor) Palaeomagnetic and structural insights into the Central Andean Rotation Pattern, Chile. PhD awarded September 2007

Dr Jenny Inwood (2nd supervisor) Palaeomagnetic and structural analyses of the tectonic evolution of the Hatay ophiolite, southern Turkey. PhD awarded March 2006

Dr Alison Warwick (Director of Studies) Mineral Growth and fluid flow in mid-crustal shear zones. PhD awarded 2000   
Dr John Rogers (Director of Studies) The interpretation and characterisation of lineaments identified from Landsat TM imagery of SW England. PhD awarded 1997

 

Teaching

Teaching in structural geology, mapwork and tectonics across the Earth Sciences, with special interest in interpretation of the sub-surface in relation to fluid flow and deformation.

Contact Mark

B527 Portland Square, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 584768