Peter Clift
Peter Dominic Clift | |
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Chinese Academy of Science |
Peter Clift is a British
geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific. He is currently the Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University, which he joined in 2012. Clift was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2023.[1]
Scientific Research
Clift is a geologist who applies marine geophysical, geochemical and classical geological methods to understand the history of
Punjab (India) but ceased to flow after 4500 years ago, possibly due to weakening of the monsoon
.
Clift has also used the sediment records of the
subduction zones.[7] Prior to Louisiana he was Kilgour Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen from 2004 to 2012. Clift worked for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a research scientist (1995–2004), was a staff scientist with the Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University (1993–1995) and was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh (1990–1993) sponsored by BP and the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Education
Clift took his bachelor's degree at the
Worcester College. He completed his Ph.D. on the geology of southern Greece in 1990 at University of Edinburgh. In 2014 he was awarded a Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford
.
Personal life
Peter Clift grew up in
St. Edmund's College. His father, Donald W. Clift, also a native of Ware, worked for BP, including in Beijing, China for five years. His mother Margaret T. Clift (née Feighan) is from Cullyhanna, Northern Ireland. In 1994 Clift married Chryseis Fox in Bryan, Texas. Chryseis was born in New York City but grew up in Texas, and lived for several years in Miami. She works in book design at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.
Awards
- 2023, Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London[8]
- 2009, Fellow at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- 2008, Elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
- 2005, Appointed as visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou.
- 2005, Murchison Fund, Geological Society of London, UK
- 2005–2007, Humboldt Foundation Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany
- 2004, Visiting lecturer, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2003, Visiting lecturer, National Central University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- 2001, Swiney Trust invited visiting lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK
Major recent publications
He has published numerous scientific papers over the course of his career.[9]
Among his most cited papers are:
- Clift, P.D. and Vannucchi, P., 2004. Controls on tectonic accretion versus erosion in subduction zones: Implications for the origin and recycling of the continental crust. Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2001, .
- Robertson AHF, Clift PD, Degnan PJj, et al., "Paleogeographic And Paleotectonic Evolution Of The Eastern Mediterranean Neotethys"
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 87 (1-4): 289-343 October 1991.
- Larsen HC, Saunders AD, Clift PD, Et Al., "7-Million Years Of Glaciation In Greenland" Science 264 (5161): 952-955 13 May 1994
- Clift, P.D. and Blusztajn, J., 2005. Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago. Nature, 438, 1001–1003, .
External links
Peter Clift's web page Dr. Peter Clift | LSU Department of Geology & Geophysics
References
- ^ "The Geological Society of London - Geological Society Awards 2023 Winners". www.geolsoc.org.uk.
- doi:10.1038/ngeo351.
- ^ Clift, P. D. (2002), A brief history of the Indus River, in The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region, edited by P. D. Clift, D. Kroon, C. Gaedicke and J. Craig, Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 195, Geological Society, London, pp. 237-258.
- ^ Clift, P. D., and J. S. Blusztajn (2005), Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago, Nature, 438, 1001-1003.
- ^ Clift, P. D., A. Carter, L. Giosan, J. Durcan, A. R. Tabrez, A. Alizai, S. VanLaningham, G. A. T. Duller, M. G. Macklin, D. Q. Fuller, and M. Danish (in press), U-Pb zircon dating evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and Capture of the Yamuna River, Geology.
- ^ Clift, P. D. (2006), Controls on the erosion of Cenozoic Asia and the flux of clastic sediment to the ocean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 241, 571-580.
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- ^ "The Geological Society of London - 2023 awards and funds winners". www.geolsoc.org.uk.
- ^ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DZwEtdMAAAAJ&hl=en
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