Nominator's project description
| Professor Gill is internationally renowned for a series of fundamental investigations on the origin and evolution of volcanism at destructive plate boundaries (subduction zones), constructive plate margins (mid-ocean ridges) and within plates (e.g. ocean island volcanic areas such as the Canary and Azores Islands). His 1981 book on "Orogenic Andesites" served as a roadmap for subduction zone research into the 21st century and he has led the application of U-series disequilibria in solving problems in igneous geochemistry, including rates of melt generation, differentiation and magma degassing. During his stay in Germany, Professor Gill will integrate the results from a variety of international projects to benefit our understanding of the forcing functions controlling the composition of magmas at active plate margins.
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