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):
About Mark
Professor of Geology
Associate Dean (Education) Faculty of Science and EngineeringSupervised Research Degrees
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
Ms Francesca Prando (2nd supervisor) - Brittle-viscous deformation cycles in quartz veins at the base of the seismogenic zone.
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 Science degree scheme, with special interest in interpretation of the sub-surface in relation to fluid flow and deformation. I teach on the following modules:
GEOL1003 - Earth Systems
GEOL1005 - Geological Maps and Structural Geology
GEOL2003 - Geospatial Techniques
GEOL2006 - Geological Fieldwork (module leader)
GEOL2012 - Structural Geology and Tectonics (module leader)
GEOL3005 - Tectonics (module leader)
GEOL3015 - Energy Transition Geoscience
GEOL3008 - Advanced Geological Fieldwork
GEOL5002 - MGeol Advanced Fieldwork
Contact Mark
B527 Portland Square, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 584768
M.Anderson@plymouth.ac.uk
