Rob A Strachan Portrait

Professor Rob Strachan

Emeritus Professor

Emeritus Professor

rob.strachan@port.ac.uk

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Institute of the Earth and Environment

Biography

  • 2013 - Professor of Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 兔子先生.
  • 2007-2017, Head of School, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 兔子先生.
  • 2003-2013 Reader, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, 兔子先生.
  • 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: 鈥淕eology of the Moine rocks of the Loch Eil area, West Inverness-shire鈥).
  • 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.

Research outputs

2025

Daggitt, M. L., Erickson, T. M., Fischer, S., Hartnady, M. I. H., Johnson, T. E., Kirkland, C. L., Kirscher, U., Prave, T., Rankenburg, K., Reddy, S. M., Ribeiro, B. V., Strachan, R. A., Taylor, R. J. M.

28 Apr 2025, In: Geology

Becker, C., Caddick, M. J., Holdsworth, R. E., Kylander-Clark, A., Law, R. D., Leslie, A. G., Mako, C., Moore, L. R., Strachan, R. A., Thigpen, J. R.

18 Apr 2025, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 182, 4, 20p., jgs2024-264

Chen, W., Chen, Y., Fowler, M., Kerr, A. C., Pease, V., Strachan, R., Tao, Z., Wang, T., Xiao, W., Yang, F., Yang, Z., Yin, J.

1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Petrology. 66, 4, 25p., egaf026

Archibald, D. B., Kirkland, C. L., Murphy, J. B., Strachan, R. A.

25 Feb 2025, In: Geology, 6p.

2024

Bruand, E., Clark, C., Cutts, K. A., Fowler, M. B., Hand, M., Kinny, P. D., Millar, I. L., Strachan, R. A.

8 Nov 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 182, 1, 21p., jgs2024-093

Almeida, R., Bersan, S., Bruno, H., Chapman, G., Fowler, M., Heilbron, M., Lacerda, S., Marra de Souza, A., Mauri, S., Mottram, C., Neto, C., Paravidini, G., Storey, C., Strachan, R., de Abreu Marques, R., de Morisson Valeriano, C.

1 Nov 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 414, 21p., 107585

Bersan, S., Bruno, H., Chapman, G., Gomes, D. G. d. C., Heilbron, M., Mottram, C., Paravidini, G., Storey, C., Strachan, R., Valeriano, C. d. M.

1 Oct 2024, In: Precambrian Research. 413, 18p., 107578

Finlay, A. J., Holdsworth, R. E., Kirkland, C. L., Metcalfe, J. H., Strachan, R. A., Wray, D. S.

2 Sep 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 181, 5, jgs2024-003

Chen, W., Fowler, M., Huang, H., Kerr, A. C., Strachan, R., Sun, M., Tao, Z., Wang, T., Xiao, W., Yin, J., Zhang, J.

1 Jun 2024, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 253, 19p., 104795

Chapman, G., Darling, J. R., Dunlop, J., Fowler, M., Metcalfe, J. H., Strachan, R. A.

6 May 2024, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 181, 20p., jgs2023-139