Professor Philip England


Professor of Geology

Email: philip@earth.ox.ac.uk
TEL: +44 (1865) 282146
FAX: +44 (1865) 272072

Research Profile

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My research is focussed on understanding the tectonics of the continents, through a combination of theoretical models with geological, seismological, and geodetic measurements of active deformation. I am also interested in the thermal and mechanical structure of subduction zones.

Teaching Profile

Introductory Earth Sciences.
Geophysics.
Greek Field Trip
Continental Tectonics.

Selected Publications

Shaw B., Ambraseys N.N., England P.C., Floyd M.A., Gorman G.J., Higham T.F.G., Jackson J.A., Nocquet J.M., Pain C.C., Piggott M.D. Eastern Mediterranean tectonics and tsunami hazard inferred from the AD 365 earthquake. Nature Geosci, 1, 268-276, 2008. PDF

England, P., Molnar, P, and Richter, F. John Perry’s neglected critique of Kelvin’s age for the Earth: A missed opportunity in geodynamics. GSA Todayv. 17, no. 1, doi: 10.1130/GSAT01701A.1

England, P. and Molnar, P.  Late Quaternary to decadal velocity fields in Asia J. Geophys. Res. 110, B12401, doi:10.1029/2004JB003541, 2005

Whitehouse, P., England, P. and Houseman, G., A Physical Model for the Motion of the Sierra Block, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2005

Wright, T. J., Parsons, B. E., England, P. C. and Fielding, E. J., InSAR Observations of Low Slip Rates on the Major Faults of Western Tibet, Science, 2004

England, P. and Wilkins, C., A Simple Analytical Approximation to the Temperature Structure in Subduction Zones, Geophys. J. Int., 159, 1138—1154,  2004

England, P., R. Engdahl and W. Thatcher Systematic variation in the depths of slabs beneath arc volcanoes, Geophys. J. Int., 156, 377-408, 2004

Hunstad, I.,  G. Selvaggi, N. D'Agostino, P. England, P. Clarke and M. Pierozzi, Geodetic strain in peninsular Italy between 1875 and 2001, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2003

Moore, M., P. England and B. Parsons Relation between surface velocity field and shear wave splitting in the South Island of New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res. , 2002

Bilham, R. and England, P. Plateau pop-up in the great 1897 Assam earthquake. Nature,  410, 806—809, 2001.

Moore, M. A. and England, P. C.  On the Inference of Exhumation Rates from Cooling Ages of Minerals Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 185, 265—284, 2001

Other Information

Head of Department