Department of Geology - Research Projects
The Department of Geology's primary research programme is grouped into ten themes, in which our staff have particular expertise and are able to make contributions of international significance.
- The treatise on invertebrate paleontology
- Mineralization in Wales
- Past Climates
- Peri-gondwanan terranes: age, provenance and tectonics of the Monian supergroup, Anglesey
- Peri-gondwanan terranes: Palaeogeography and faunas of central Asia and the middle east
- Ordovician bivalve faunas from Iran, Turkey, Australia and the UK
- Ordovician brachiopods of central Kazakhstan
- Ordovician trilobite faunas from eastern Kazakhstan
- Phylogeny and biogeography of Cambrian-early Ordovician brachiopods
- Silurian and Devonian trilobites of Central Asia
- The Lower Palaeozoic of the Gondwanan margin of southern Turkey
- Petrology
- Regional Metamorphic processes
- Stratigraphy and facies evolution
- Taxonomy of fossil invertebrates
- Ammonites
- Brachiopods
- Brachiopod fauna from the Lower Silurian (Telychian) Purple Shales, Devil's Dingle, Shropshire
- Brachiopods and their application to Cambrian stratigraphy
- Earliest ontogeny of Lower Palaeozoic brachiopods
- Lower Palaeozoic brachiopod faunas from Baltoscandia, the south Urals and the United Kingdom
- Taxonomic diversity of Cambrian brachiopods from the Middle East
- Corals
- Ediacaran faunas
- Trilobites
- Silicified Cambrian agnostid trilobites from Iran
- Silicified Carboniferous trilobites from Co. Fermanagh
- Taxonomy and phylogeny of Carboniferous trilobites from Britain and Ireland
- The J.W. Cowie collection of Ordovician trilobites from Greenland
- The Ordovician cheirurid trilobite Placoparina
- The Ordovician trilobite Atractopyge from Wales and northern England
- The History of Geology
- The preservation of geological collections
