Gillian Foulger
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Gillian Foulger is a professor of geophysics at Durham University.
She is one of the leading proponents of alternative models to the established deep mantle thermal plume hypothesis.[1] This work makes an important contribution to the understanding of volcanic and earthquake areas such as Hawaii, Iceland and the Yellowstone Caldera.
For her work she was awarded the 2005 Price Medal "for investigations of outstanding merit in solid-earth geophysics, oceanography, or planetary sciences" of the Royal Astronomical Society.[2] That same year she was also made a Fellow of the Icelandic National Academy of Sciences.
[edit] Bibliography
- Plates, Plumes, And Paradigms; Geological Society of America, 2005, ISBN 0813723884
[edit] References
- ^ Do plumes exist?. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
- ^ Royal Astronomical Society announces 2005 medals and awards. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
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