Welcome to Peter Clift's Home Page Marine and Sedimentary Geology Visiting Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics Mail Stop 22 Woods Hole, MA 02543-1047 USA   email: pclift@whoi.edu also Kilgour Professor School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE, United Kingdom Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Professor DFG-Research Centre Ocean Margins (RCOM) Universität Bremen, Germany Research Affiliate Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of the Marginal Sea Geology South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Download report for IODP and InterMARGINS Workshop for Climate-Tectonic Drilling in SE Asia

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Check out initial results and photos from  the10-14th October 2005, GSA Penrose Meeting

"Lessons in Tectonics, Climate and Eustacy from the Stratigraphic Record in Arc Collision Zones"

Marine Geology and Tectonics of South and Eastern Asia
Solid Earth-Climate Interactions in Asia -  Geology of the Asian Monsoon





Listen to the recent BBC Radio Program "Mountains that Changed the World"

Sedimentation and tectonics in active margins
Arc tectonics and ash geochemistry

Newly Published Geological Society of London, Special Publication #195 "The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region" edited by P.D. Clift, D. Kroon, C. Gaedicke and J. Craig   Table of contents Visit the Geological Society online bookshop to order, or click here to download a 50% discount form

Research in the sedimentary and tectonic evolution of active and collisional plate margins. Current fields of specific interest include land-ocean interactions in the marginal seas of Asia, especially the Arabian Sea and the South China Sea. I am also working on associated syn-orogenic sedimentation in the Himalaya and am developing single grain geochemical techniques to link clastic provenance studies with thermochronologic methods in order to reconstruct in detail orogenic erosion histories. I am interested in the links between climatic and tectonic evolution in Asia. I also have research interests in arc magmatism and tectonic evolution, especially in the western Pacific, as well as accreted arc sections in the Irish Caledonides, Indus Suture Zone of India and in the Talkeetna Arc of Alaska. I am working on the importance of mass flux through active margins to the origin of the continental crust and the tectonics of arc-continent collision.

Also catch up on details of the East Asian Marginal Basins AGU Chapman Meeting

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M.A., University of Oxford , Geology, 1993.

B.A., University of Oxford , 1987. First class honors in Geology. Awarded Worcester College prize for distinction in examination. 

Associate Editor, Geology,1998-2000, and 2003-2005

Panel member, JOIDES ISSEP panel, 2000-2003

US Representative to IOMAC (Indian Ocean Marine Affairs Cooperation)

US Representative on IGCP Project “Impact of Asian Cenozoic tectonic on monsoon evolution and global cooling.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

American Geophysical Union

European Union of Geosciences

Geological Society of America

Geological Society of London

International Association of Sedimentologists