Lecturer

Crustal Processes Group  

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3803 Email:nah@le.ac.uk

Research interests

Include radiogenic isotope and trace element studies of lavas from Southern and East Africa, the Islands of the Indian Ocean, Iceland, Skye, Arran, The Azores, Patagonia and the Andes; also electron probe studies of lavas from East Africa, the Azores and kimberlite dykes from West Greenland.  Sedimentary geochemistry of black shales.

Four recent publications

• Gabbott S. E., Hou Xian-guang, Norry M. J. & Siveter D. J.  2004.  Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota.  Geology 32(10), 901-904.
• Gabbott, S. E., Norry, M. J., Aldridge, R. J. & Theron, J. N.  2001.  Preservation of fossils in clay minerals; a unique example from the Upper Ordovician Soom Shale, South Africa.  Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 53, 237-244.
• Under construction

Teaching

• Geochemistry
• Isotope Geology
• Aspects of Igneous
• Petrology