Professor of Applied and Environmental Geology

Crustal Processes Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3611 Email:mp329@le.ac.uk

Research Interests and Career History

Currently focus on economic minerals and their relationship with igneous rocks and tectonics;  ‘fertility’ of magmas at transpressional arcs in terms of Cu and Au;  evolution of island arcs and arc crust;  geochemistry and petrogenesis;  physical volcanology and natural hazards;  applications of geosciences including nuclear waste disposal, international development, economic development;  minerals and sustainable development; leadership, management and skills development in science; current projects in UK, Solomon Islands, Montserrat, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea. 

Further details of Research

Further details of Career

Four recent publications

Smith, D. J., Petterson, M.G., Saunders, A.D., Millar I.L., Jenkin G.R.T.,  Toba T.,  Naden, J. & Cook J.M.  2009  The petrogenesis of sodic island arc magmas at Savo volcano, Solomon Islands.  Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. V158, p785-801.

Petterson. M.G.  2008.  Minerals sustainability, emerging economies, the developing world, and the ‘truth’ behind the rhetoric. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences. Volume 57, No 2, pp 57-74.

Blight, J.H.S., Cunningham, D, & Petterson, M.G.  2008.  Crustal evolution of the Saykhandulaan Inlier, Mongolia: Implications for Palaeozoic arc magmatism, polyphase deformation and terrane accretion. In the SE Gobi Mineral belt.  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v 32, pp142-164.

Petterson, M.G,, Coleman, P.J., Tolia, D., Mahoa, M., and Magu, R.  2009.  Application of terrain modelling of Solomon Islands, SW Pacific, to metallogenesis and mineral exploration in composite arc - ocean floor terrain collages.  In: Petterson, M.G. (Editor) 2009.  Pacific Minerals in the new Millenium: Science, Exploration, Mining, and Community : The Jackson Lum Volume .  Suva, Fiji: SOPAC Secretariat, 2009, pp 93-115.

Full publications listing

Teaching

GL1014 Dynamic Earth
GL4014 Contaminated Land
GL4017 Hot Topics
4th year undergraduate research projects