Dr Kathryn Goodenough

Dr Kathryn Goodenough Survey Geologist

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 272

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Biography

  •  2001 :  Geologist, British Geological Survey
  •  1998 –2001 :  Geologist, Scottish Natural Heritage
  •  1997 :  PhD University of Edinburgh,
  •  1994 :  BA (Hons), University of Oxford, Earth Sciences

Current projects and collaboration

  •  Research into the origin of critical metal deposits, in the UK and Nigeria
  •  Project leader, SIGMA, to develop and implement digital geological mapping in BGS
  •  Field mapping and associated research in the NW Highlands of Scotland
  •  Field mapping and associated research in the United Arab Emirates
  •  Field mapping and associated research in North Madagascar
  •  Member of the BGS Science Futures Team
  •  Author of several popular geology books, and member of the BGS Communications Team

Skills

  •  Igneous petrology and geochemistry
  •  Geological mapping of basement terrains
  •  ArcGIS and digital mapping
  •  Science communication
  •  French speaker

Professional association

  •  2011 :  General Secretary of the Mineralogical Society
  •  2007 –2009 :  Member of Council of the Mineralogical Society
  •  2007 :  Member of Council of the Edinburgh Geological Society
  •  2003 :  Chartered Geologist
  •  2002 –2008 :  Secretary of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group

Research interests

  •  Alkaline igneous rocks in extensional and post–collisional settings, and deposits of the critical metals
  •  Evolution of Precambrian gneiss terranes
  •  The Caledonian and Pan–African orogenic belts
  •  Ophiolite petrogenesis and emplacement
  •  Digital geological mapping
  •  Communicating science to the public

Published outputs

Key papers

GOODENOUGH, K M, MILLAR, I, STRACHAN, R A, KRABBENDAM, M, & EVANS, J A. 2011 Timing of regional deformation and development of the Moine Thrust Zone in the Scottish Caledonides: constraints from the U-Pb geochronology of alkaline intrusions. Journal of the Geological Society, Vol.168, 99-114.

GOODENOUGH, K. M., THOMAS, R.J., DE WAELE, B., KEY, R.M., SCHOFIELD, D.I., BAUER, W., TUCKER, R., RAFAHATELO, J-M., RABARIMANANA, M., RALISON, A.V., RANDRIAMANANJARA, T. 2010. Post-collisional magmatism in the central East African Orogen: the Maevarano Suite of north Madagascar. Lithos,Vol.116, 18-34.

GOODENOUGH, K M, PARK, R G, KRABBENDAM, M, MYERS, J S, WHEELER, J, LOUGHLIN, S, CROWLEY, Q, L, F C R, BEACH, A, KINNY, P D, and GRAHAM, R. 2010. The Laxford Front: an Archaean terrane boundary? Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building. LAW, R, BUTLER, R W H, STRACHAN, R, and KRABBENDAM, M (editors). Geological Society Special Publication, Vol. 335, 103-120.

GOODENOUGH, K M, STYLES, M T, SCHOFIELD, D I, THOMAS, R J, CROWLEY, Q C, LILLY, R M, MCKERVEY, J, STEPHENSON, D, and CARNEY, J N. 2010. Architecture of the Oman-UAE ophiolite: evidence for a multi-phase magmatic history. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 3, 439-458.

GOODENOUGH, K M, EVANS, J, and KRABBENDAM, M. 2006. Constraining the maximum age of movements in the Moine Thrust Belt: dating the Canisp Porphyry. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 42, 77-81.

GOODENOUGH, K M, YOUNG, B N, and PARSONS, I. 2004. The minor intrusions of Assynt, NW Scotland: early development of magmatism along the Caledonian Front. Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 68, 541-559.

GOODENOUGH, K M, UPTON, B G J, and ELLAM, R. 2002. Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithospheric mantle? Evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 159, 705-715.