Dr Emrys Phillips

Dr Emrys Phillips Mineralogist/Petrologist

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 342

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Biography

  •  2012 –present :  Associate Member of the Centre for Micromorphology, School of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London
  •  2012 –present :  President of the Westmorland Geological Society
  •  2011 :  Individual Merit Promotion to Band 3
  •  2002 –2006 :  geological mapping of Dibba and Hatta zones, and metamorphic rocks of the United Arab Emirates
  •  2000 –2008 :  Editor Scottish Journal of Geology
  •  2000 –2011 :  principal research scientist
  •  1999 :  Awarded Chartered Geologist status with the Geological Society of London
  •  1997 :  short sabbatical at the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey Division working on the Neoproterozoic Nain Plutonic Suite
  •  1990 :  Joined the British Geological Survey, mineralogy and petrology group
  •  1989 :  PhD, University of Wales, College Cardiff, Geology – The geology of the Monian Supergroup, Western Anglesey, North Wales
  •  1988 :  MSc, Manchester University, Mineralogy (research) – Selected studies of the mineralogy of granulite facies gneisses, Scourie Bay, Northwest, Scotland
  •  1984 –1985 :  Awarded the Prof. Sir William Boyd Dawkins Research Fund, Manchester University
  •  1984 :  BSc,  Manchester University, Geology

Boards and committees

  •  2012 –present :  Ordinary Member of the Quaternary Reseach Association Exec Committee

Research interests

  •  deformation and formation of subglacial traction tills
  •  glacitectonics
  •  macro– and microstructural analysis of polydeformed glacigenic sequences
  •  micromorphological analysis of glacigenic sediments
  •  the control of subglacial deformation on glacier/ice sheet dynamics
  •  the role of melt water in subglacial to ice marginal deformation

Skills

  •  Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary petrology
  •  Mapping of lowland glaciated terranes
  •  Mapping of polydeformed metamorphic and sedimentary terranes
  •  Micromorphology and microstructural analysis of deformed glacial sediments
  •  Structural analysis of proglacial to subglacial deformation

Professional association

  •  Chartered Geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society of London
  •  Fellow of the Edinburgh Geological Society
  •  Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG
  •  Member of the Quaternary Research Association
  •  Member of the Westmorland Geological Society
  •  Member of the Yorkshire Geological Society

Current projects and collaboration

  •  Bedrock controls on landform morphology, distribution and subglacial processes beneath the eastern margin of the Irish Sea Ice Stream
  •  Co supervision of a PhD student, Amanda Ferguson, in collaboration with Prof. Jaap van der Meer at Queen Mary University of London
  •  Co supervision of a PhD student, David Vaughan-Hirsch, at University of Southampton
  •  Deformation of glacially overridden permafrost in ancient glacial environments in collaboration with Dr Richard Waller (Keele University), Julian Murton (University of Sussex) and Dr Colin Whiteman (University of Brighton)
  •  Glacitectonic history and depositional setting of the Mid Pleistocene (Anglian) glacigenic sequences of North Norfolk
  •  Micromorphological analysis of diamictons in collaboration with Prof Jaap van der Meer (Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr Ewelina Lipka (AMU, Poznan)
  •  Supervision of PhD student, Astrid Ruiter, in collaboration with Simon Carr Queen Mary University of London
  •  The origin of stratified diamicton sequences in submarginal and subglacial ice sheet settings in collaboration with David Evans, David Roberts and Colm O‘Cofaigh, Durham University

Published outputs

Key papers

Phillips, E., Everest, J. & Reeves, H. 2013 (April): Micromorphological evidence for subglacial multiphase sedimentation and deformation during overpressurized fluid flow associated with hydrofracturing. Boreas, Vol. 42, pp. 395–427. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00261.x. ISSN 0300-9483.

PHILLIPS, E. VAN DER MEER, J.J.M., FERGUSON, A. 2011. A new 'microstructural mapping' methidology for the identification, analysis and interpretation of polyphse deformation within subglacial sediemnts. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 2570-2596

PHILLIPS, E., LEE, J.R. & EVANS, H.M. (eds) 2011. Glacitectonics - Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association

PHILLIPS, E.R., EVEREST, J. & DIAZ-DOCE, D. 2010. Bedrock controls on subglacial landform distribution and geomorphological processes: Evidence from the Late Devensian Irish Sea Ice Stream. Sedimentary Geology. 232, 98-118.

BURKE, H.F., PHILLIPS, E.R. & LEE, J.R. 2009. Imbricate thrust stack model for the formation of glaciotectonic rafts: an example from the Middle Pleistocene of north Norfolk, UK. Boreas.

PHILLIPS, E.R. & MERRITT, J. 2008. Evidence for multiphase water-escape during rafting of shelly marine sediments at Clava, Inverness-shire, NE Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 27. p 988–1011

PHILLIPS, E.R., LEE, J.R. & BURKE, H. F. 2008. Progressive proglacial to subglacial deformation and syntectonic sedimentation at the margins of the Mid-Pleistocene British ice sheet: evidence from north Norfolk, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27, 1848–1871

PHILLIPS, E.R., MERRITT, J.W., AUTON, C.A. & GOLLEDGE, N.R. 2007. Microstructures developed in subglacially and proglacially deformed sediments: faults, folds and fabrics, and the influence of water on the style of deformation. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 26(11–12). p 1499–1528

EVANS, D.J., PHILLIPS, E.R., HIEMSTRA, J.F. & AUTON, C.A. 2006. Subglacial till: formation, sedimentary characteristics and classification. Earth-Science Reviews. Vol. 78. p 115–176