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'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 has worked 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 involved with 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 Bachelor's degree 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.

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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

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External links

Peter Clift's web page [1]