Dr Pieter Vermeesch
RCUK Academic Fellow
Teaching
Introduction to Geology
1st year field class in Skye
Publications
Vermeesch, P., 2010, HelioPlot, and the treatment of overdispersed (U-Th-Sm)/He data, Chemical Geology (in press) [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2009, Lies, damned lies, and statistics (in Geology), Eos, 90 (47), p.443 [html][pdf].
Vermeesch, P., Baur, H., Heber, V. S., Kober, F., Oberholzer, P., Schaefer, J. M., Schluechter, C., Strasky, S., and Wieler, R., 2009. Cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne measured in quartz targets after one year of exposure in the Swiss Alps, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 3-4, 417–425, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.007 [pdf][html].
Vermeesch, P., 2009, RadialPlotter: a Java application for fission track, luminescence and other radial plots, Radiation Measurements, 44, 409–410. [pdf][html].
Vermeesch, P., Avigad, D. and McWilliams, M., 2009. 500 Myr of thermal history elucidated by multi-method detrital thermochronology of North Gondwana Cambrian sandstone (Eilat area, Israel), Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 7/8, 1204-1216, doi: 10.1130/B26473.1 [pdf] [html].
Vermeesch, P. and Drake, N., 2008. Remotely sensed dune celerity and sand flux measurements of the world's fastest barchans (Bodélé, Chad): Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035921 [html][pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2008, Three new ways to calculate average (U-Th)/He ages, Chemical Geology, v.249, p.339-347 [html][pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2007, Quantitative geomorphology of the White Mountains (California), using detrital apatite fission track thermochronology: Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F03004, doi:10.1029/2006JF000671 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2007, CosmoCalc: an Excel add-in for cosmogenic nuclide calculations: Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, Vol. 8, Q08003, doi: 10.1029/2006GC001530 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2007, Reply to Comment by Agrawal and Verma on “Tectonic classification of basalts with classification trees”, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.71 p.3391–3392 [html][pdf][Comment].Vermeesch, P., Seward, D., Latkoczy, C., Wipf, M., Guenther, D. and Baur, H., 2007, Alpha-emitting mineral inclusions in apatite, their effect on (U-Th)/He ages, and how to reduce it: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v.71 p.1737–1746 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2006, Tectonic discrimination diagrams revisited: Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, 7, Q06017, doi:10.1029/2005GC001092 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., Miller, D. D., Graham, S. A., De Grave, J., and McWilliams, M. O., 2006, Multi-method detrital thermochronology of the Great Valley Group near New Idria (California) : Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, no. 1, pp. 210-218 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2006, Tectonic discrimination of basalts with classification trees: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 70, no. 7, pp. 1839-1848. [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2005, Statistical uncertainty associated with histograms in the Earth Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B02211 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2004, How many grains are needed for a provenance study? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.224, n.3-4, pp. 441-451 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., Poort, J., Duchkov, A. D., Klerckx, J., and De Batist, M., 2004, Lake Issyk-Kul (Tien Shan): Unusually low heat-flow in an active intermontane basin: Russian Geology and Geophysics, v.45, n.5, pp. 616-625 [html] [pdf].
Vermeesch, P., 2003, A second look at the geologic map of China: the "Sloss approach". International Geology Review, v.45, p. 119-132 [html] [pdf].