Coronavirus: Please be aware it may take us slightly longer to respond than usual. Find out about our coronavirus response and current contact hours.
Mr Charlie Oldman
Profile summary
- Research Student
- Research Student
- Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences
- charlie.oldman
Web links
Professional biography
I am a PhD student at the Open University, funded by NERC through CENTA DTP.
The supervisory team for my project "Finding a Pulse: Melt Formation and Timing in the Garhwal Himalaya" is Clare Warren, Tom Argles, Sam Hammond, Nigel Harris (OU), and Chris Spencer (Curtin).
I previously studied geology at the University of Southampton, earning an Integrated Master's degree.
Research interests
For my PhD project, I am studying leucogranites, migmatites and metapelites from the Garhwal Himalaya, India. I hope to constrain the source, melt reactions and timescales of melting episodes of these upper Greater Himalayan Sequence rocks to build on our knowledge of mountain belt formation and mid-crustal metamorphic processes.
My analysis involves detailed petrographic observation of samples collected during my fieldwork in the Himalaya in October 2018, coupled with EPMA and LA-ICP-MS elemental data collected at the Open University, as well as analysis of O isotopes, U-Th-Pb, and trace elements in zircon seprates.
Picture: Garnet in leucogranite, thin section.
My wider research interests include metamorphic petrology, geochronology, and orogenic processes.
