Subduction Zone Boundary Processes
- Fluid flow and deformation including relationship to slow earthquakes
- Thermal structure and distribution of stress and strain
Field work in
- Sanbagawa belt SW Japan
- Franciscan belt, W USA
- Guatemala, central America etc.
Zones of continental mountain building and crustal thickening
Continental Crustal Processes
- Mid crustal flow and plateau formation
- Partial melting and exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks
- Movement and emplacement of magma including pluton growth
Field work in
- Andes, S America
- the Tibetan plateau
- European Alps
- central Japan
Techniques in structural analysis on meso- to microstructural scales
- Development of crystallographic preferred orientation of minerals
- Rock anisotropy and relationship to seismic anisotropy
- Estimates of stress, strain and volume change
Approaches and techniques
Our group uses a combination of different techniques:
- Field-based structural geology and mapping
- Quantitative microstructural analysis including electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD)
- Thermal modelling
- Mineral-based thermometry and barometry including Raman-based techniques
- Geochronology etc
