Richard Batchelor
Honorary Research Fellow
Geology
university of st andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
Born and educated in Manchester,He studied Chemistry at UCW Aberystwyth, before embarking on his career at St Andrews University. He began as geochemical analyst in Geology, then morphed into Computing officer and then Research Administrator for the School of Geography & Geosciences. During this time he embarked on a part-time M.Sc. degree and also carried out research part-time on the geochemistry of fossil volcanic ashes (bentonites) in northern Europe. The discovery of tuffs in Proterozoic sequences led to a Research Fellowship under Tony Prave and funded by The Leverhulme Trust, which uncovered further evidence of volcanism in the Torridonian.
Research Interest
bentonites and the occasional foray into trace fossils.
Publications
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Batchelor, RA 2014, 'Geochemistry of Upper Ordovician metabentonites and their cognate apatite microphenocrysts from Norway and Sweden' Geologisk Föreningens Förhandlungen (GFF), vol 136, pp. 387-397.
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Batchelor, RA 2014, 'Metabentonites from the Sandbian Stage, Upper Ordovician, in Scotland - a geochemical comparison with their equivalents in Baltoscandia' Scottish Journal of Geology, vol 50, no. 2, pp. 159-163. DOI: 10.1144/sjg2014-004
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Batchelor, RA 2016, 'Microbial wrinkle structures in Lower Devonian shales, Wormit, Fife.' Scottish Journal of Geology. DOI: 10.1144/sjg2015-006
