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Dr Dickson Cunningham
- Dr Dickson Cunningham in Brecon Beacons
Senior Lecturer in Tectonics
Teaching Director
Crustal Processes Group
Direct contact:
Tel: 0116 252 3649 Email:wdc2@le.ac.uk
Research interests include
Mountain building processes, active tectonics, intracontinental deformation in Central Asia, transpressional fault systems and associated basins, restraining bend development, geology of Mongolia, neotectonics and earthquake hazards in the Julian Alps, remote sensing applications to tectonics research, structural setting of mineral deposits, evolution of the Patagonian Andes.
Four recent publications
- Cunningham, D., 2010, Tectonic Setting and Structural Evolution of the Late Cenozoic Gobi Altai Orogen, in Kusky, T.M., Zhai, M.G., and Xiao, W.J., (eds), The Evolving Continents: Understanding Processes of Continental Growth and Stabilization, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, V. 338, 361-387.
- Grebby, S., Cunningham, D., Naden, J., Tansey, K., 2010, Lithological mapping of the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, using airborne LiDAR topographic data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 713-724.
- Cunningham, D., 2007, Structural and Topographic Characteristics of Restraining Bend Mountain Ranges of the Altai, Gobi Altai and easternmost Tien Shan, in Cunningham, W. D. and Mann, P., (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends, Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 290, 219-237.
- Cunningham, Dickson, 2005, Active intracontinental transpressional mountain building in the Mongolian Altai: Defining a new class of orogen, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, 436-444
Teaching
- GL3060 Global Tectonics A (Module Coordinator)
- Dynamic Lithosphere (Structural Geology; GL2040 -Module Coordinator)
- Geological Field Methods (Spain and Anglesey Field Trips; GL2042 -Module Coordinator)
- GL4017 Hot Topics (Module Coordinator)
- Photogeology and Remote Sensing (GL4025 - Module Coordinator)
- GL1025 Tutorial
