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Andrew Kerr

Yr Athro Andrew Kerr

Reader in Petrology & Director of Postgraduate Research

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Email
KerrA@caerdydd.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74578
Campuses
Y Prif Adeilad, Ystafell 2.01, Plas y Parc, Caerdydd, CF10 3AT
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Interests

  • Large igneous provinces
  • oceanic plateaus
  • igneous geochemistry
  • magmatic processes
  • crustal growth

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I primarily use elemental, isotope and geochronological data from igneous rocks to assess: the petrogenesis and environmental impact of oceanic plateaus and flood basalts, particularly the Caribbean, the North Atlantic Igneous Province; continental crust formation processes through time; supercontinent reconstruction; tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean and northern Andes; petrogenesis and origin of Tethyan ophiolites in the Middle East; geochemical evolution of the mantle.

My research also impacts upon the origin of economic mineralisation associated with large igneous provinces and the formation and thermal maturation of oil source rocks around the Caribbean and in northwestern South A

Addysgu

Year 2 - Igneous geology

Year 2 - Metamorphic geology

Year 3 - Volcanic and magmatic processes

Bywgraffiad

  • Reader in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2009 – present)
  • Senior Lecturer in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2004 – 2009)
  • Lecturer in Petrology – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK (2000 – 2004)
  • Editor in Chief –Lithos (2007 – present)
  • Public Relations Officer – Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2011 – 2016)
  • NERC Post Doctoral Research Assistant –Leicester University (1993 – 1996)
  • Leverhulme Research Fellow– Leicester University(1996 – 1999)
  • PhD – Geology, University of Durham (1993)
  • BSc – Geochemistry, St. Andrews University (1990)

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1997 - Presidents Award, Geological Society of London

2000 - Clough Award, Edinburgh Geological Society

2001 - Max Hey Medal, Mineralogical Society

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Member of Cardiff UniversityAcademic Standards and Quality Committee (2020-2023)

Member of Cardiff University Senate 2013-2016

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

  • Age, structure, petrogenesis and impact on marine environments, of oceanic plateaux.
  • Processes of oceanic plateau accretion.
  • The relationship between the oceanic plateau and associated  arc volcanism.
  • Tectonomagmatic evolution of the Caribbean.
  • Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the British Tertiary Igneous Province.
  • Nature and origin of mantle plume geochemical signatures.
  • Identification of oceanic plateaus in the geological record and their role in crustal growth.
  • Marine environmental impact of large igneous provinces.
  • Melt inclusions in Large Igneous Provinces
  • Archean greenstone belts
  • Supercontinent reconstruction using petrology and geochemistry
  • Tectonomagmatic evolution of Tethyan igneous rocks from Pakistan
  • Links between LIP formation and metallogenesis, particularly gold mineralisation.