Clive Auton
Geology and Landscape Scotland and Sustainable Soils Teams
Field Geologist
Location: Edinburgh
Switchboard: 0131 667 1000
Direct line: 0131 650 0291
E-mail Clive Auton
Biography
- Current: Leader of Talla Earth Observatory Project
- Current: Leader of Inverness Environs and Regional Modelling Tasks (Infrastructure and Techtonics in Northern Scotland Project)
- 2003–2008: District Geologist Highlands; Project Leader: Geology or Dounreay, Co-funded and Commissioned Research Project
- 1974: BSc University of Liverpool, Geology
Research interest
- Geology of the Scottish Highlands
- Quaternary science
Skills
- Applied geology
- Geological surveying
- Quaternary sedimentology & stratigraphy
Current projects and collaboration
- Sustainable soils
- UK Geology Northern Britain
- Co supervision of a PhD student at Keele University
Professional association
- 1980–present: Member of the Quaternary Research Association; Executive committee member 1989-1992
- 1986–present: Fellow of the Edinburgh Geological Society; Council member 1989-1993
- 1991–present: Fellow of the Geological Society, London, Chartered Geologist
- 2005–present: Chartered Scientist
Published outputs
Key publication
LILLY, A.; AUTON, C; BAGGALEY, N.J.; BOWES, J.P.; FOSTER, C; HAQ, M.; REEVES, H . 2011 Soil erosion and landslides. In: DOBBIE, K.E.; BRUNEAU, P.M.C.; TOWERS, W., (eds.) The state of Scotland's soil. Natural Scotland, 86-99, 13pp.
SCHEIB, A., ARKLEY, S., AUTON, C, BOON, D, EVEREST, J., KURAS, O., PEARSON, S., RAINES, M. and WILLIAMS, J. 2010. Multidisciplinary characterisation and modelling of a small upland catchment in Scotland. Questiones Geographicae
PHILLIPS, E. R. and AUTON, C. A. 2007. Microtextural analysis of glacially deformed bedrock: Implications for inheritance of preferred clast orientations within diamictons. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23, 229-240.
EVANS, D J A, PHILLIPS, E R, HIEMSTRA, J F and AUTON, C A. 2006. Subglacial till: Formation, sedimentary characteristics and classification. Earth Science Reviews, 78, 115-176.
AUTON, C. A., GORDON, J. E., MERRITT, J. W. and WALKER, M. J. C. 2000. The glacial and interstadial sediments at the Burn of Benholm, Kincardineshire: evidence for onshore pre-Devensian ice movement in northeast Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 15, 141-156.
PHILLIPS, E. R. and AUTON, C. A. 2000. Micromorphological evidence for polyphase deformation of glaciolacustrine sediments from Strathspey, Scotland. 279-292. In: Maltman, A. J., Hambrey, M. J. and Hubbard, B. (Eds). Deformation of glacial materials. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 176.
MERRITT, J. W., AUTON, C. A. and FIRTH, C. R. 1995. Ice-proximal glaciomarine sedimentation and sea-level change in the Inverness area, Scotland: a review of the deglaciation history of a major ice stream of the British Late Devensian Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 14. 289-329.
