Timothy Holland

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Tim Holland

Timothy Holland in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born Timothy John Barrington Holland
Fields Petrology
Institutions University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis Structural and Metamorphic Studies of Eclogites and Associated Rocks in the Central Tauern Region of the Eastern Alps (1977)
Doctoral advisor Stephen W. Richardson[1][2]
Notable awards
Website
www.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[1] for research on eclogites in the tauern region of the Alps supervised by Stephen W. Richardson.[2]

Research

Holland's research investigates the computation of Petrological Phase Equilibria.[6][7][8][9][10][11][2][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.[3] ”

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. 1 2 "Dr Timothy Holland FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
  4. ↑ Timothy Holland's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  5. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  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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