Prof Lewis Ashwal
PROFESSOR
School of Geosciences
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
Biography
Prof Lewis Ashwal is currently working as Associate Professor of Geoscience at University of Witwatersrand
Research Interest
His research interests can be listed as Petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry of anorthosite and related rocks; layered mafic intrusions; origin and evolution of planetary crusts; Precambrian geologic history; origin of magmatic ore deposits; role of fluids in igneous and metamorphic processes; meteorites and their parent bodies; abundance and distribution of crustal radioactivity; thermal and petrologic aspects of granulite metamorphism; geology of Madagascar and other Indian Ocean continental fragments, environmental geochemistry, Gondwana assembly and break-up.
