Andy Morton
Research Geologist
Contact: [email protected]
Andy Morton graduated with a BA (Hons) from Oxford University in 1975. He joined the Institute of Geological Sciences (now British Geological Survey) in 1976, where he undertook research into the application of heavy minerals in provenance studies. He left BGS in 2000 to form HM Research Associates in order to continue provenance research in sedimentary basins around the world.
Andy joined CASP in 2006 and has been instrumental in advancing our provenance work ever since. He is a honorary professor at Aberdeen University and has co-authored close to 200 publications.
Latest Publications
- A metasedimentary outlier of the Laurentian continental margin preserved on the Tonian Loch Ness Supergroup, Scottish Caledonides
- Sand injection or deposition, a perspective from mineral-chemical stratigraphy
- A Sediment Provenance Study of Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous Strata in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin: Implications for the Exhumation of the Northeastern Canadian-Greenlandic Shield
- Source area reconstruction using heavy mineral, mineral chemical, geochronological and palaeocurrent data: Carboniferous sandstones of the Scottish midland valley