Tod Waight
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1994 …2024

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Research Interests

Igneous Petrology, high-temperature geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, geochronology, volcanism, regional tectonics, age and origin of the continental crust, mineral chemistry.

Ongoing Research Projects

Mineralogy of impact-related materials from the Hiawatha Impact Crater - Northern Greenland (see review videos of this work here and here).

Assessing the periodicity and mechanisms of continental crustal growth (DFF funded research project) (click here to see an interview about this project with Val Troll)

Granitic magmatism in New Zealand 

Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology of granitic basement on Bornholm (click here to see a short film about this work).

Teaching responsibilities

Planet Earth: First year introductory course to geology

Volcanoes: Second year geochemistry and petrology course

Geological Maps and Structures: Third year course in structural geology

Field and Methods: A field course to Utah - running intermittently

Service

Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)

Head of Electron Microprobe Laboratory

Editor for Journal of Petrology.

Editor for Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Member of Board of Governers for the Danish Geological Society.

External positions

Editor: Journal of Petrology

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Granite
  • Geochemistry
  • Volcano
  • Geology
  • Geochronology
  • New Zealand
  • Bornholm
  • Mineral chemistry
  • Magmatic petrology
  • Continental crust
  • Zircon
  • Electron Microprobe

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