Dr Clare Warren  

Biography

"I'm a Senior Lecturer in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences. My research centres around the evolution of mountain belts that form when ocean basins close and continents collide. Much of my recent work has concentrated on determining how and when deeply buried rocks record the timing of their burial and exhumation, as well as on determining burial, transformation and exhumation processes and mechanisms. I work closely with the Open University Ar/Ar and Himalayan-Tibet Research Groups and the NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratories Geochronology and Tracer Facility. I am always interested in hearing from potential students and postdocs who want to come and work in metamorphic, geochronological and tectonics research at the Open University."

Research Interest

"The geochronological evolution of metamorphic rocks, specifically using Ar/Ar (mica) and U-Pb (monazite, rutile, titanite, zircon). Metamorphic pressure-temperature-time path modelling. Diffusion modelling, in particular the diffusion of species important to geochronology (e.g. Ar in muscovite, Pb in rutile) and thermobarometry (e.g. Zr in rutile). Modelling geodynamic processes, and specifically the formation and exhumation of high pressure rocks in continental collision zones. "