Earth Sciences Staff Profile: Prof Peter Cawood

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Prof Peter Cawood

Chair of Earth Sciences

Peter Cawood obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1980. In 2010 he was appointed Chair in Geology of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews.

After his PhD he had post-doctoral and teaching positions in New Zealand (1980-1982), Australia (1982-1993), Canada (1983-1994) and Australia (1994-2010). From 1997-2005 he was deputy director and then director of the Tectonics Special Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, which included nodes at Curtin, Texas, Harvard and Yale universities. In 1998 he helped establish the John de Laeter (JDL) Centre of Mass Spectrometry to oversee radiogenic and stable isotope infrastructure development at Western Australian universities and he was director of the Centre from 2002-2006.

From 2008-2010 he was President of the Geological Society of Australia. He is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Precambrian Research and is currently, or has recently served, on the editorial boards of Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Asian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Peter's research is concerned with field-based studies of mountain belts and what they tell us about the way the Earth has looked and behaved through time. His work ranges in scale from global reconstructions to microscopic examination of mineral grains. He has worked in mountain belts ranging in age from Archean to Recent, and from many disparate geographic areas around the globe.

Peter's recent work includes syntheses of: Precambrian plate tectonics; Accretionary Mountain Belts; the Proterozoic Assembly of Australia; Models of Supercontinent Reconstructions; and Paleogeography of the Pacific Margin of Gondwana. He is also noted for the application of micro-analytical techniques to provenance studies, including the ion microprobe, and he has applied this methodology to unravelling basin history and provenance of a variety of tectonic settings.

Current studies are focused on the record of continental growth and on the drivers and environmental consequences of mountain building.

Peter Anthony Cawood

Supervisor for

Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Geography and

Geosciences

Irvine Building

St Andrews

KY16 9AL

United Kingdom

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Scottish Oceans Institute

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Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Geography and

Geosciences

Irvine Building

St Andrews

KY16 9AL

United Kingdom

pac20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1334 463911
School of Geography and Geosciences
16/08/10 to 31/03/11

School of Geography and

Geosciences

Irvine Building

St Andrews

KY16 9AL

United Kingdom

pac20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1334 463911
School of Geography and Geosciences
7/02/11 to 31/03/11

School of Geography and

Geosciences

Irvine Building

St Andrews

KY16 9AL

United Kingdom

pac20@st-andrews.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1334 463911
Scottish Oceans Institute
16/08/10 to 31/03/11

http://soi.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Recent Publications

Small, DP, Parrish, RR , Austin, W , Cawood, PA & Rinterknecht, V 2013, ' Provenance of North Atlantic ice-rafted debris during the last deglaciation—A new application of U-Pb rutile and zircon geochronology ' Geology , vol 41, no. 155-158.

Zhao, GC & Cawood, PA 2012, ' Precambrian geology of China ' Precambrian Research , vol 222-223, pp. 13-54.

Zhao, G , Cawood, PA , Li, S, Wilde, SA, Sun, M, Zhang, J, He, Y & Yin, CQ 2012, ' Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion ' Precambrian Research , pp. 55-76.

Cawood, PA , Hawkesworth, C & Dhuime, BPM 2012, ' The continental record and the generation of continental crust ' Geological Society of America Bulletin , vol 125, no. 1-2, pp. 14-32.

Yang, JH , Cawood, PA , Du, YH, Huang, H & Hu, LH 2012, ' Detrital record of Indosinian mountain building in SW China: Provenance of the Middle Triassic turbidites in the Youjiang Basin ' Tectonophysics , pp. 105-117.

Cawood, PA , Hawkesworth, CJ & Dhuime, B 2012, ' Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting ' Geology , vol 40, no. 10, pp. 875-878.

Cawood, PA , Merle, RE, Strachan, RA & Tanner, PWG 2012, ' Provenance of the Highland Border Complex: constraints on Laurentian margin accretion in the Scottish Caledonides ' Journal of the Geological Society , vol 169, no. 5, pp. 575-586.

Lu, Y, Kerrich, R , Cawood, PA , McCuaig, TC, Hart, CJR, Li, Z, Hou, Z & Bagas, L 2012, ' Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb geochronology of potassic felsic intrusions in western Yunnan, SW China: Constraints on the relationship of magmatism to the Jinsha suture ' GONDWANA RESEARCH , vol 22, no. 2, pp. 737-747.

Xu, Y, Du, Y , Cawood, PA , Zhu, Y, Li, W & Yu, W 2012, ' Detrital zircon provenance of Upper Ordovician and Silurian strata in the northeastern Yangtze Block: Response to orogenesis in South China ' Sedimentary Geology , vol 267, pp. 63-72.

Zi, J-W , Cawood, PA , Fan, W-M, Wang, Y-J, Tohver, E, McCuaig, TC & Peng, T-P 2012, ' Triassic collision in the Paleo-Tethys Ocean constrained by volcanic activity in SW China ' Lithos , vol 144, pp. 145-160.

Yang, J , Cawood, PA , Du, Y, Huang, H, Huang, H & Tao, P 2012, ' Large Igneous Province and magmatic arc sourced Permian-Triassic volcanogenic sediments in China ' Sedimentary Geology , vol 261, pp. 120-131.

Tohver, E, Lana, C , Cawood, PA , Fletcher, IR, Jourdan, F, Sherlock, S, Rasmussen, B, Trindade, RIF, Yokoyama, E, Souza Filho, CR & Marangoni, Y 2012, ' Geochronological constraints on the age of a Permo-Triassic impact event: U-Pb and Ar-40/Ar-39 results for the 40 km Araguainha structure of central Brazil ' Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , vol 86, pp. 214-227.

Zi, J-W , Cawood, PA , Fan, W-M, Tohver, E, Wang, Y-J & McCuaig, TC 2012, ' Generation of Early Indosinian enriched mantle-derived granitoid pluton in the Sanjiang Orogen (SW China) in response to closure of the Paleo-Tethys ' Lithos , vol 140, pp. 166-182.

Zi, J-W , Cawood, PA , Fan, W-M, Wang, Y-J & Tohver, E 2012, ' Contrasting rift and subduction-related plagiogranites in the Jinshajiang ophiolitic melange, southwest China, and implications for the Paleo-Tethys ' Tectonics , vol 31, TC2012, pp. -.

Dhuime, B , Hawkesworth, CJ , Cawood, PA & Storey, CD 2012, ' A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago ' Science , vol 335, no. 6074, pp. 1334-1336.

Tohver, E , Cawood, PA , Rossello, EA & Jourdan, F 2012, ' Closure of the Clymene Ocean and formation of West Gondwana in the Cambrian: Evidence from the Sierras Australes of the southernmost Rio de la Plata craton, Argentina ' GONDWANA RESEARCH , vol 21, no. 2-3, pp. 394-405.

Yang, J, Du, Y , Cawood, PA & Xu, Y 2012, ' From Subduction to Collision in the Northern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from the Early Silurian Clastic Rocks, Northwestern China ' Journal of Geology , vol 120, no. 1, pp. 49-67.

Rainbird, R , Cawood, PA & Gehrels, G 2012, ' The Great Grenvillian Sedimentation Episode: Record of Supercontinent Rodinia's Assembly '. in C Busby & A Azor (eds), Recent Advances in the Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins. Blackwell Publishing, pp. 583-601.

Yang, J, Du, Y , Cawood, PA & Xu, Y 2012, ' MODAL AND GEOCHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS OF THE LOWER SILURIAN CLASTIC ROCKS IN NORTH QILIAN, NW CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVENANCE, CHEMICAL WEATHERING, AND TECTONIC SETTING ' Journal of Sedimentary Research , vol 82, no. 1-2, pp. 92-103.

Cawood, PA , Pisarevsky, SA & Leitch, EC 2011, ' Unraveling the New England orocline, east Gondwana accretionary margin ' Tectonics , vol 30, TC5002, pp. -.

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