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Research outputs per year
Personal profile
Biography
- 2013 - Professor of Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
- 2007-2017, Head of School, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
- 2003-2013 Reader, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
- 1982-2003 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer/Reader, Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic/Oxford Brookes University.
- 1978-1982 University of Keele, Staffordshire (graduated PhD; thesis title: “Geology of the Moine rocks of the Loch Eil area, West Inverness-shire”).
- 1975-1978 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated BSc Hons in Geology, Upper Second Class).
Research Interests
- The nature of orogenic processes within the middle to lower continental crust.
- Mechanisms of granite emplacement in different structural settings.
- The application of geochronological techniques to date deformational and metamorphic events during orogeny.
- The evolution and reactivation history of major continental fault zones.
- The syn- to post-orogenic erosional history of mountain belts.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Coeval TTG and sanukitoid magmatism during the Rhyacian tectonic evolution of the Juiz de Fora Complex (São Francisco Paleocontinent, SE-Brazil)
Mauri, S., Heilbron, M., Bruno, H., Bersan, S., Almeida, R., de Abreu Marques, R., Lacerda, S., Marra de Souza, A., Paravidini, G., Neto, C., de Morisson Valeriano, C., Chapman, G., Fowler, M., Mottram, C., Strachan, R. & Storey, C., 1 Nov 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 414, 21 p., 107585.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Early Neoproterozoic (Tonian) subduction-related magmatism and tectonothermal activity in Shetland and northern mainland Scotland: implications for the tectonic evolution of northeast Laurentia, and Rodinia reconstructions
Kinny, P. D., Strachan, R. A., Fowler, M. B., Bruand, E., Millar, I. L., Hand, M., Clark, C. & Cutts, K. A., 8 Nov 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 182, 1, 21 p., jgs2024-093.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Late Tonian (c. 735 Ma) A-type granite magmatism on the passive margin of the São Francisco paleocontinent was coeval with outboard subduction
Paravidini, G., Valeriano, C. D. M., Mottram, C., Strachan, R., Bruno, H., Heilbron, M., Chapman, G., Gomes, D. G. D. C., Bersan, S. & Storey, C., 1 Oct 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 413, 18 p., 107578.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maturation from oceanic arcs to continental crust: insights from Paleozoic magmatism in West Junggar, NW China
Yin, J., Xiao, W., Wang, T., Fowler, M., Kerr, A. C., Sun, M., Strachan, R., Huang, H., Zhang, J., Chen, W. & Tao, Z., 1 Jun 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 253, 19 p., 104795.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Overprinting orogenic events, ductile extrusion and strain partitioning during Caledonian transpression, NW Mainland Shetland
Armitage, T. B., Holdsworth, R. E., Strachan, R. A., Dempsey, E. D., Walker, R. J., Alvarez-Ruiz, D. T. & Lloyd, G. E., 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 180, 29 p., 105088.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Supporting data for 'Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic extensional and compressional history of East Laurentian margin sequences: the Moine Supergroup, Scottish Caledonides'.
Strachan, R. (Creator), Cawood, P. A. (Creator), Kinny, P. D. (Creator), Loewy, S. L. (Creator), Merle, R. E. (Creator), Millar, I. (Creator), Dalziel, I. W. D. (Creator), Jourdan, F. (Creator), Nemchin, A. A. (Creator) & Connelly, J. N. (Creator), Geological Society of America, 1 Mar 2015
DOI: 10.1130/B31068.1, https://www.geosociety.org/datarepository/2014/
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Supplementary data for 'Evidence for a late Cambrian juvenile arc and a buried suture within the Laurentian Caledonides of Scotland: comparisons with hyperextended Iapetan margins in the Appalachian Mountains (North America) and Norway'.
Dunk, M. (Creator), Strachan, R. (Creator), Cutts, K. A. (Creator), Lasalle, S. (Creator), Storey, C. (Creator), Burns, I. M. (Creator), Whitehouse, M. J. (Creator), Fowler, M. (Creator), Moreira, H. S. (Creator), Dunlop, J. N. (Creator) & Pereira, I. F. G. M. (Creator), Geoscience Publications, 6 Jun 2019
DOI: 10.1130/G46180.1
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Supplementary material for 'Detrital rutile ages can deduce the tectonic setting of sedimentary basins'.
Pereira, I. (Creator), Storey, C. (Creator), Strachan, R. (Creator), Bento dos Santos, T. M. (Creator) & Darling, J. (Creator), Elsevier BV, 10 Mar 2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116193
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Supplementary data for 'A Baltic heritage in Scotland: basement terrane transfer during the Grenvillian orogeny'.
Strachan, R. (Creator), Johnson, T. E. (Creator), Kirkland, C. L. (Creator), Kinny, P. D. (Creator) & Kusky, T. (Creator), University of Portsmouth, 15 Jun 2020
DOI: 10.17029/8a78de49-93ff-4c64-9bd3-40579de8d014
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Supplementary material for 'Evidence from the U-Pb-Hf signatures of detrital zircons for a Baltican provenance for basal Old Red Sandstone successions, northern Scottish Caledonides'.
Strachan, R. (Creator), Olierook, H. K. H. (Creator) & Kirkland, C. I. (Creator), Geological Society of London, 11 Feb 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5301780, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5301780
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Projects
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Building Quality Assurance into International Post GraduateStudies: Geosciences as a case study
Storey, C. (PI), Strachan, R. (CoI) & Mottram, C. (CoI)
1/10/19 → 31/03/21
Project: Innovation
Activities
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Curtin University
Strachan, R. (Visiting researcher)
28 Jan 2023 → 2 Mar 2023Activity: Visiting an external organisation types › Visiting an external academic institution
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Geology (Journal)
Strachan, R. (Guest editor)
1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Geological Society of America (Publisher)
Strachan, R. (Guest editor)
1 Aug 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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GAC/MAC
Strachan, R. (Organiser)
14 May 2022 → 19 May 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Geology (Journal)
Strachan, R. (Guest editor)
1 Jan 2022 → 31 Dec 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Prizes
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Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Strachan, R. (Recipient), 18 May 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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