I am a mostly-retired structural geologist with over 50 years of structural analysis experience in orogenic systems both as a teaching/research academic and as a consultant to the minerals exploration industry.  My expertise, and personal enjoyment, is in the unravelling of complex geological structures, particularly in metamorphic rocks and shear zones.

My research interests were based around the geological architecture and formation of mountain systems, both modern mountain ranges and eroded ancient mountain belts; the characterisation of strain and flow kinematics of metamorphic rocks and complex shear zones; and the structural control of mineralisation. Additionally I developed computer applications applied to mapping and structural analysis. Links to these software packages can be found on these pages.

My field experience has been divided between strongly deformed Precambrian metamorphic terranes (Mount Isa, South Australia (Mt Woods), New Mexico, Southern Appalachians, Baffin Island, Yilgarn, Finland, Brazil, Uruguay, Siberia, East and West Africa) and Phanerozoic continental margin orogens (Australian NEFB, Argentine and Peruvian Andes, Alpine Fault, New Zealand, Russian Far East, and the Tethyan system in the Balkans, sub-Caucasus, Thailand, and Laos). I have also had experience in a variety of other terranes in the US, Scandinavia, and Australia.
I am now semi-retired and my consulting is largely confined to preparing on-line workshops in structural geology and providing support to my colleagues in the consultancy.