Dr Dan Smith

Lecturer in Applied and Environmental Geology
AccessAbility Tutor

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 5355 Email:djs40@le.ac.uk

Research interests include
Hydrothermal ore deposit formation including epithermal Au and porphyry Cu-Au-Mo; water-rock reaction; sinter and travertine formation; igneous processes in island arcs; the geology of the Solomon Islands; active volcanic and hydrothermal systems; carbon capture and storage.

Four recent publications

• Smith, D.J, Jenkin, G.R.T., Petterson, M.G, Naden, J., Fielder, S., Toba, T., Chenery, S.R. 2011. Unusual mixed silica-carbonate deposits from magmatic-hydrothermal hot springs, Savo, Solomon Islands. Journal of the Geological Society of London, in press.
• Smith, D.J., Jenkin, G.R.T., Naden, J., Boyce, A.J., Petterson, M.G., Toba, T., Darling, W.G., Taylor, H. and Millar, I.L., 2010b. Anomalous alkaline sulphate fluids produced in a magmatic hydrothermal system - Savo, Solomon Islands. Chemical Geology, 275(1-2): 35–49.
• Smith, D.J., Jenkin, G.R.T. and Naden, J., 2010a. Finding Solomon’s Gold? NERC Planet Earth, Spring Issue.
• Smith, D.J., Petterson, M.G., Saunders, A.D., Millar, I.L., Jenkin, G.R.T., Toba, T., Naden, J. and Cook, J.M., 2009b. The petrogenesis of sodic island arc magmas at Savo volcano, Solomon Islands. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 158(6): 785–801.

For a full list of publications, click here.

Teaching

• GL3043 Industrial Rocks and Minerals
• GL4009 Mineral Economics
• GL3050 Environmental and Forensic Geoscience

For a list of Funding and Awards, click here.