.::IAN PARSONS FRSE: Professor of Mineralogy:.

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Ian Parsons FRSE: Professor of Mineralogy

Research interests: The feldspar group of minerals. Magma chamber processes. Mechanisms of formation of feldspar microtextures produced by cooling of igneous rocks. Role of microtextures in mineral reactions at low temperatures.

Ian Parsons

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Resume	Previous posts
Professor of Mineralogy since 1988 Head of Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1993-1996 PhD 1963, Durham University BSc Geology, Durham University, 1960	1963-1964 DSIR Research Fellow, University of Manchester 1964-1983 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen 1983-1988 Personal Professorship, University of Aberdeen 1987-1988 Head of Department of Geology and Mineralogy
Honours	Editorial work
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1984 Schlumberger Medallist, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1993 Hallimond Lecturer, Mineralogical Society, 1977 President of the Mineralogical Society, 1994-1996 Vice-President of the Mineralogical Society, 1980 President, International Mineralogical Association, 2002-2006 Vice-President, International Mineralogical Assocation, 1998-2002 Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, 1995 First International Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Mineralogical Society of America, 2000-2001	British Editor of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, from 1982 Sub-Editor of Mineralogical Abstracts, 1970-84 Editorial Board of Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 1985-87 and 1998-2002 Assistant Editorial Board of Journal of Petrology, from 1994
National Committees	Major meetings organised
Natural Environment Research Council Member of Geological Sciences Training Awards Committee 1983-1987 Member of Geological Sciences Research Grants Committee 1984-1987 Member of Geological Sciences Research Grants and Training Awards Committee 1992-1996 Chairman, Review Panel on MSc courses in Mining Geology and Geochemistry 1984 Chairman, Visiting Group for Research in Experimental Mineralogy and Petrology 1985 Chairman of Review Panel on Ion Microprobes 1986 Chairman of Ion Microprobe Facility Steering Committee 1987 Nature Conservancy Council Member of Advisory Committee for Scotland, 1985-1991 Member of Geological Conservation Review Publication Mangement Committe, 1987-91	Director of NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Origins of igneous layering' held in Narsarsuaq, Greenland, 1986 Director of NATO Advanced Study Institute 'Feldspars and their reactions' held in Edinburgh, 1993 General Chairman, 18th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, 'Mineralogy for the New Millennium', Edinburgh, 2002
PhDs supervised (year of completion)
Aberdeen 1974 P Smith Subsolidus crystallization in the system NaAlSi₃O₈(Ab)-CaAl₂Si₂O₈(An)-KAlSi₃O₈(Or) at P_H2O 1 kilobar 1974 JG Anderson The geology of Alangorssuaq, Northern Nunarssuit Complex, South Greenland 1974 EB Walsworth-Bell (also supervised by M Munro) Some studies of various Aberdeenshire granitic rocks 1978 RA Mason Al,Si ordering of albite in aqueous solutions 1980 AW Butterfield Geology of the western part of the Nunarssuit alkaline complex, South Greenland 1983 SF Rennie (with PE Brown) The mineralogy and geochemistry of the Lochnagar complex 1984 SM Becker Petrology of the giant dykes of Isortoq and feldspar variation in the Klokken complex, South Greenland 1989 BN Young The petrology and petrogenesis of a suite of minor alkaline intrusions in the Assynt district, Sutherland 1990 JC Rushton (with NH Trewin) The diagenetic formation of feldspars Edinburgh 1990 AA Finch The chemical and isotopic character of fluids associated with alkaline magmatism, South Greenland 1991 FDL Walker Micropores in alkali feldspar (with CM Graham) 1994 M Hodson Genesis of igneous layering in granites, syenites and nepheline syenites of the Gardar alkaline province, South Greenland (with BGJ Upton) 1995 P Thompson The behaviour of potassium feldspar at high water pressures (with CM Graham and SC Elphick) 1997 K Goodenough Small degree partial melts in the Gardar mantle: the Ivigtut complex, South Greenland (with BGJ Upton) 2000 JA Hollis Natural and experimental constraints on ultra-high-T metamorphism (with SL Harley) 2002 N Cayzer Feldspar microtextures and the thermal histories of high-grade terranes (with SL Harley) Current, from 1.1.03 Zainuddin Yussoff Alkali feldspar dissolution during the weathering of granite under tropical conditions (with B Ngwenya)

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