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Tim Holland
Timothy Holland in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born
Timothy John Barrington Holland
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPetrology
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisStructural and Metamorphic Studies of Eclogites and Associated Rocks in the Central Tauern Region of the Eastern Alps (1977)
Doctoral advisorStephen W. Richardson[2][3]
Websitewww.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/tim-holland

Timothy John Barrington Holland FRS is a Petrologist and Reader in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.[4][5]

Education

Holland was educated at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil in 1977[2] for research on eclogites in the tauern region of the Alps supervised by Stephen W. Richardson.[3]

Research

Holland's research investigates the computation of Petrological Phase Equilibria.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] His research has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[13]

Awards and honours

Holland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

Timothy Holland has made fundamental and enduring contributions to petrology. He was the first to show that surface rocks had been buried to over 70 km. He has worked to construct a self-consistent thermodynamic database which describes equilibria among the multi-component mineral phases important in rocks and with full propagation of errors. This work, among the most highly cited in the geosciences, now underpins most petrological research. Recent advances include the calculation of mineral assemblages and compositions as a function of composition, pressure and temperature and the thermodynamic modelling of silicate melts, critical to tectonic interpretations of deeply buried rocks.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Dr Timothy Holland FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
  2. ^ a b Holland, Timothy John Barrington (1977). Structural and metamorphic evolution of eclogites and associated rocks in the central Tauern region of the eastern Alps (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  3. ^ a b c Holland, T. J. B.; Richardson, S. W. (1979). "Amphibole zonation in metabasites as a guide to the evolution of metamorphic conditions". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 70 (2): 143. doi:10.1007/BF00374442.
  4. ^ Timothy Holland's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Timothy Holland publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  6. ^ "Dr Tim Holland, Department of Earth Sciences". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
  7. ^ Blundy, J. D.; Holland, T. J. B. (1990). "Calcic amphibole equilibria and a new amphibole-plagioclase geothermometer". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 104 (2): 208. doi:10.1007/BF00306444.
  8. ^ Holland, T. J. B.; Powell, R. (2004). "An internally consistent thermodynamic data set for phases of petrological interest". Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 16 (3): 309. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1998.00140.x.
  9. ^ Holland, T. J. B.; Powell, R. (1990). "An enlarged and updated internally consistent thermodynamic dataset with uncertainties and correlations: The system K₂–Na₂O–CaO–MgO–MnO–FeO–Fe₂O₃–Al₂O₃–TiO₂–SiO₂–C–H₂–O₂". Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 8: 89. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1990.tb00458.x.
  10. ^ Powell, R.; Holland, T. J. B. (1988). "An internally consistent dataset with uncertainties and correlations: 3. Applications to geobarometry, worked examples and a computer program". Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 6 (2): 173. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.1988.tb00415.x.
  11. ^ Holland, T.; Blundy, J. (1994). "Non-ideal interactions in calcic amphiboles and their bearing on amphibole-plagioclase thermometry". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 116 (4): 433. doi:10.1007/BF00310910.
  12. ^ Holland, T. J. B. (1990). "Activities of components in omphacitic solid solutions". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 105 (4): 446. doi:10.1007/BF00286831.
  13. ^ UK Government research grants awarded to Timothy Holland via Research Councils UK


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