Gawen Jenkin

Senior Lecturer in Applied Geology

University Teaching Fellow 2009/10

Course Director AEG

Student Recruitment and Schools Liaison

Crustal Processes Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3934  Email: grtj1@le.ac.uk

Research interests include

• Hydrothermal mineralisation, in particular gold in Scotland, Ghana, Mauritania, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the Solomon Islands.
• Stable and radiogenic isotopes in fluid-rock interaction and hydrothermal mineralisation.
• Mineral carbonation for CO2 sequestration.
• Sediments as paleoenvironmental indicators - trace element and isotope proxies, including selenium isotopes - in the Cariaco Basin and Neoproterozoic sequences in Ethiopia.

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Four recent publications

• Smith DJ, JENKIN GRT, Naden J, Boyce AJ, Petterson MG, Toba T, Darling WG, Taylor H & Millar IL (2010). Anomalous alkaline sulphate fluids produced in a magmatic hydrothermal system - Savo, Solomon Islands. Chemical Geology. 275, 35-49.
• Button M, JENKIN GRT, Harrington CF & Watts MJ (2009). Human toenails as a biomarker of exposure to elevated environmental arsenic. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 11, 610-617.
• Watts MJ, Button M, Brewer TS, JENKIN GRT & Harrington CF (2008). Quantitative Arsenic Speciation in Two Species of Earthworms from a former Mine Site. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 10, 753-759.
• Coogan LA, JENKIN GRT & Wilson RN (2007). Contrasting cooling rates in the lower oceanic crust at fast- and slow-spreading ridges revealed by geospeedometry. Journal of Petrology, 48, 2211-2231.

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Teaching

• GL1018 Geology & Society
• GL2030 Mineral Deposits A 
• GL2036 Ore Suite Report 
• GL3035 Mineral Deposits B 
• GL4025 Ore Genesis 
• Various field teaching – usually Arran GL1021 or the Alps GL4005.

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