Peter Clift is a marine geologist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific. He is currently Kilgour Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen, where he has been since 2004. Clift works with marine geophysical, geochemical and classical geological methods to understand the history of erosion over the last 50 million years. In particular, he works on understanding the relationships between mountain building in the Himalaya and Tibet Plateau and the intensification of the Asian monsoon. Clift is best known for his work on the Indus River, which he dated to being older than 45 million years old and for its later capture of drainage from the Ganges River after 5 million years ago. He has used the sediment records of the South China Sea to propose a start to the monsoon after 24 million years ago, compared to the more popular 8 million year age. He is a leader of efforts to have the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program collect samples in the Asian marginal seas for monsoon studies. Clift also works with the tectonics and nature of mass recycling in subduction zones. Prior to Aberdeen Clift worked for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a research scientist (1995-2004), was a staff scientist with the Ocean Drilling Program at Texas A&M University (1993-1995) and was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh (1990-1993) sponsored by BP and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Clift took his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Oxford, where he was a student at Worcester College. He completed his Ph.D. on the geology of southern Greece in 1990 at University of Edinburgh. The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... The position of the Sindhu River in Iron Age Vedic India. ... This article is about the river. ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ... Monsoon in the Vindhya mountain range, central India A monsoon is a wind pattern that reverses direction with the seasons. ... The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international research program whose goal is to explore the structure of the Earth as recorded in oceanic sediments and rocks. ... Categories: Geology stubs | Plate tectonics ... The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is devoted to scientific research and science- and engineering-education leading to MS and PhD degrees in oceanography and related fields. ... The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) was an ocean drilling effort by the National Science Foundation from 1983 to 2003. ... Texas A&M University, often Texas A&M, A&M or TAMU for short, is the flagship[3] institution of the Texas A&M University System. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... This article is about the corporation known as BP. For other uses, see BP (disambiguation). ... The Royal Society of Edinburghs Building on the corner of George St. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Worcester College has been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century, even though the current college was founded only in the eighteenth century. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

Awards

2005, Appointed as visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou. 2005, Murchison Fund, Geological Society of London, UK 2005–2007, Humboldt Foundation Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany 2004, Visiting lecturer, University of Tokyo, Japan 2003, Visiting lecturer, National Central University and Academica Sinica, Taiwan 2001, Swiney Trust invited visiting lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK 1987, Worcester College, University of Oxford, Prize for Excellence The Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese: 中国科学院; pinyin: Zhōngguó KÄ“xuéyuàn), formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with Taiwans Academia Sinica currently headquartered in Taipei which shares the same root), is the national academy for the natural sciences of the Peoples Republic of... The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in England with the aim of investigating the mineral structure of the Earth. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with over 9000 Fellows entitled to the postnominal FGS - over 2000 of... The University of Bremen (Universität Bremen) is a university of about 23,000 students and 1,500 scientists in Bremen, Germany. ... The University of Tokyo ), abbreviated as Todai ), is one of the leading research universities in Japan. ... Worcester College has been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century, even though the current college was founded only in the eighteenth century. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

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