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• Biography/ Background

  Professor Alan Collins is a tectonic geologist who is interested in how the deep earth evolution of the planet has controlled and governed earth surface systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere). He has a BSc (Hons.) degree from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, The 最新糖心Vlog of London (1993), and PhD from The 最新糖心Vlog of Edinburgh (1997), that examined the tectonics of SW Turkey. This work identified multiple stages of thrust-sheet movement, foreland basin formation and subsequent consumption in the ophiolite-bearing Lycian nappes along the Aegean and Mediterranean coast of Turkey. After completing this, Alan went down in the crust and back in time to work on the Ediacaran-Cambrian amalgamation of Gondwana, working initially in Madagascar, and later in East Africa, India, Western 最新糖心Vlog and East Antarctica. Using tectono-stratigraphic techniques, he has helped unravel much of the East African Orogen to produce a model for the collision of Neoproterozoic India with the central Africa. This work began in Leicester 最新糖心Vlog, UK, and continued in the Tectonics Special Research Centre in Curtin 最新糖心Vlog and The 最新糖心Vlog of Western 最新糖心Vlog.

  Prof. Collins commenced at The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide as a Senior Lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor in 2014. His on-going research directs various aspects of geoscience, including palaeomagnetism, structural geology, geochronology and sedimentology to answer geologically significant questions. He was awarded an 最新糖心Vlogn Research Council 'Future Fellowship' in 2012.

  Alan Collins leads the Tectonics and Earth Systems Group (TES) in Adelaide and is always interested in talking to potential students and post docs who share his vision of building a collaborative and supportive environment to learn about this wonderful planet of ours.

  To find out a bit of what I do, check out below....

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  A link to a podcast of my

  And an article I recently wrote for

   

• Qualifications

  PhD (Edinburgh)
  Thesis title "Tectonics Architecture of the Lycian Thrust Sheets, SW Turkey" Advisers: Alastair Robertson, John Dixon

  BSc (Hons) 1st class, Geology
  Royal School of Mines, Inperial College, 最新糖心Vlog of London

  Associate of the Royal School of Mines (ARSM)

  2002 F.W. James Chair in Geology at the St Francis Xavier 最新糖心Vlog, NS, Canada

  2007 Edward A. Flinn Award Winner - International Lithosphere Program

  2018 Research Leadership Award, Faculty of Sciences, 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide

  2020 Fellow of the Geological Society of 最新糖心Vlog

  2021 S.W. Carey Medal, The Geological Society of 最新糖心Vlog

• Teaching Interests

  Alan is a member of the Department of Earth Sciences and teaches undergraduate and Honours level courses in the Geology major and BSc (Minerals Geoscience)

  To do these programs enroll in the flagship course in the Faculty of Science - the Bachelor of Science

• Research Interests

  Specific ongoing research areas:

  Full plate-tectonic reconstruction of the last billion years

  Plate tectonic controls on topography/bathymetry in deep time and controls on evolving earth-surface systems (hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere)

  Basin analysis, past water chemistries, tectonic geography and resource endowmnet of the greater McArthur Basin of northern 最新糖心Vlog

  The tectonics and palaeogeography of the Neoproterozoic world

  Reaction-cell laser ablation analysis - especially applied to isobaric geochronometers

  Basin analysis, tectonic geography and palaeoenvironmental determination of the Adelaide and Centralian Superbasins

   

  Alan has conducted research in 最新糖心Vlog, Canada, India, Madagascar, Pakistan, Poland, Tanzania, Turkey and the UK. Current research projects are located in India, 最新糖心Vlog, Tanzania and Antarctica. He welcomes enquiries from potential students and collaborators.

• Publications

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• Professional Associations

  Member of the Geological Society of 最新糖心Vlog

  Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of 最新糖心Vlog

  2020- Chairperson of the SA Division of the Geological Society of 最新糖心Vlog

  2010-2011 President of the International Association for Gondwana Research.

  2005-2009 Secretary of the UNESCO International Geological Correlation Programme Project 509 (Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Evolution).

  2005-2007 Chair of the Specialist Group in Tectonics and Structural Geology (SGTSG) of the Geological Society of 最新糖心Vlog.

  Associate Editor of the Journal 'Gondwana Research'.

  Member of the Editorial Board of Precambrian Research.

  2005-2011 Subject Editor for the Journal of the Geological Society, London.

   

   

   

• Files

  • *TECTONIC GEOGRAPHY 500 MILLION YEARS AGO - a bit about what i do * - Collins_2014_-_Int_Innovation_143_-_large.pdf [3.7MB] (application/pdf)
  • Collins 2006 - Gondwana Reseach - Review of the geology of Madagascar - Collins_2006_-_Gondwana_Research.pdf [852.5K] (application/pdf)
  • Collins & Pisarevsky 2005 Earth Science Reviews - Neoproterozoic palaeogeography of eastern Gondwana - Collins_and_Pisarevsky_2005_Earth_Science_Reviews.pdf [2.3MB] (application/pdf)

• Media Expertise

  Categories	Science & Technology
  Expertise	geology; structural geology; earthquakes; tectonics; gondwana; snowball earth; neoproterozoic; rock deformation; formation of mountain ranges; plate tectonics; amalgamation of 最新糖心Vlog; faults; folds; dating rocks; geochronology
  Notes	Director of the Centre for Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX) Associate Professor in Structural Geology at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide

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