Sam HughesUniversity of Exeter | UoE · Camborne School of Mines (CSM)
Sam Hughes
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I am a lecturer at Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. My primary research focus is on understanding tectonomagmatic controls on granite pluton construction and the processes leading to the magmatic-hydrothermal transition. I also have active research on the geological evolution of SW England including Devonian and Carboniferous basin development, Variscan convergence and post-orogenic evolution.
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October 2009 - June 2019
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- The tectonomagmatic evolution of the Land's End Granite
September 2009 - present
Education
September 2009 - June 2019
September 2005 - June 2008
Publications
Publications (6)
The timing and kinematics of regional deformation play a key role in granite pluton construction, and controlling the distribution of evolved melts as precursors to magmatic-hydrothermal mineralisation. The Permian Land’s End Granite pluton in the Cornubian Batholith, SW England is an excellent area to assess the role of regional tectonics on pluto...
The timing and kinematics of regional deformation play a key role in granite pluton construction, as well as controlling the distribution of evolved melts as precursors to magmatic-hydrothermal mineralisation. The Land’s End Granite pluton in the Permian Cornubian Batholith of South West England is an excellent area to assess the role of regional t...
A comparison of two contrasting altered megacrystic granites from Trevalgan Farm and Belowda Beacon
The contact zone between the late-Devonian Mylor Slate Formation and the Land's End Granite crops out along the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in West Cornwall. A structural study has demonstrated the existence of late-Palaeozoic deformation that has been correlated with the regional deformation chronology in South Cornwall away from effects...
A structural investigation of coastal exposures between Cape Cornwall and Pendeen Watch, in the NW contact metamorphic aureole of the Land’s End Granite, has confirmed a similar deformation chronology as in a reference section around Porthleven. D1 deformation is represented by an ubiquitous bedding-parallel S1 cleavage although F1 folds have not b...
