Nick Mortimer

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Nick Mortimer (* before 1960 in England ) is a New Zealand geologist who, in addition to his numerous publications,has made a name for himself beyond the professional worldwith his work on Zealandia .

Training and work

Nick Mortimer is a native of England and lives in Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand . He studied geology and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science with distinction. He then did a PhD in geology and received his PhD four years later.

Mortimer made his first publications in 1986/1987 while he was working at the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , Canada. He later joined the New Zealand government as a geologist and has been a petrologist at the Dunedin Research Center of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences ( GNS Science ) in Dunedin since 1994 . He is one of the " Principal Scientists " in the institute . During his career he conducted research in Australia , Antarctica , Canada , the United States , the Pacific seas and many areas of New Zealand.

Mortimer became known worldwide as the main author of the article " Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent ", which he published together with ten other scientists in the March issue of GSA Today , a scientific journal of the Geological Society of America , and the publication received a wide response in the media found worldwide.

further activities

Mortimer is a member of:

and Senior Editor of the NZ Journal of Geology & Geophysics

Works

Books
  • Nick Mortimer : A Guide to the geology of the Riverton, Aparima district . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences , Lower Hutt 2009 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Hamish Campbell, Margaret Low : A Photographic Guide to Rocks & Minerals of New Zealand . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences , Lower Hutt 2011, ISBN 978-1-86966-283-7 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Hamish Campbell : Zealandia - Our Continent Revealed . Penguin Books , London 2014, ISBN 978-0-14-357156-8 (English).
Own publications in scientific magazines
  • Nick Mortimer : Late Triassic, arc-related, potassic igneous rocks in the North American Cordillera . In: Geological Society of America (Ed.): Geology . Volume 14, No 12 , 1986, pp. 1035-1038 , doi : 10.1130 / 0091-7613 (English, online [accessed March 7, 2017]).
  • Nick Mortimer : The Nicola Group: Late Triassic and Early Jurassic subduction-related volcanism in British Columbia . In: Geological Association of Canada (Ed.): Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . 24 (12) , December 1987, pp. 2521-2536 , doi : 10.1139 / e87-236 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer : Jurassic tectonic history of the Otago schist, New Zealand . In: American Geophysical Union (Ed.): Tectonics . Volume 12, Issue 1 , 1993, pp. 237-244 , doi : 10.1029 / 92TC01563 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer : Origin of the Torlesse terrane and coeval rocks, North Island, New Zealand . In: Geological Society of America (Ed.): International Geology Review . Volume 36, Issue 10 , 1994, pp. 891-910 , doi : 10.1080 / 00206819409465494 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer : Metamorphic discontinuities in orogenic belts: example of the garnet– biotite – albite zone in the Otago Schist, New Zealand . In: Springer International Publishing (Ed.): International Journal of Earth Sciences . Volume 89, Issue 2 , September 2000, pp. 295-306 , doi : 10.1007 / s005310000086 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer : A provisional structural thickness map of the Otago schist, New Zealand . In: American Journal of Science . Volume 303, No 7 , 2003, p. 603-621 , doi : 10.2475 / ajs.303.7.603 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer : New Zealand's geological foundations . In: Gondwana research . Volume 7, Issue 1 . Elsevier BV , January 2004, p. 261-272 (English).
Publications as lead author in scientific magazines
  • Nick Mortimer, BP Roser : Geochemical evidence for the position of the Caples – Torlesse boundary in the Otago Schist, New Zealand . In: Geological Society (Ed.): Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 149, No 6 . London December 1992, p. 967-977 , doi : 10.1144 / gsjgs.149.6.0967 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Dave Parkinson : Hikurangi Plateau: a Cretaceous large igneous province in the southwest Pacific Ocean . In: American Geophysical Union (Ed.): Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . Volume 101, Issue B1 , January 1996, pp. 687-696 , doi : 10.1029 / 95JB03037 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, AJ Tulloch, TR Ireland : Basement geology of Taranaki and Wanganui Basins, New Zealand . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (Ed.): New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics . Volume 40, Issue 2 , 1997, pp. 223-236 , doi : 10.1080 / 00288306.1997.9514754 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, RH Herzer, PB Gans, DL Parkinson, D. Seward : Basement geology from Three Kings Ridge to West Norfolk Ridge, southwest Pacific Ocean: evidence from petrology, geochemistry and isotopic dating of dredge samples . In: Elsevier (Ed.): Marine Geology . Volume 148, Issues 3-4 , July 1998, pp. 135-162 , doi : 10.1016 / S0025-3227 (98) 00007-3 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, AJ Tulloch, RN Spark, NW Walker, E. Ladley, AH Allibone, David L. Kimbrough : Overview of the Median Batholith, New Zealand: a new interpretation of the geology of the Median Tectonic Zone and adjacent rocks . In: Elsevier (Ed.): Journal of African Earth Sciences . Volume 29, Issue 1 , July 1999, pp. 257-268 , doi : 10.1016 / S0899-5362 (99) 00095-0 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Phil Gans, Andy Calvert, Nick Walker : Geology and thermochronometry of the east edge of the Median Batholith (Median Tectonic Zone): a new perspective on Permian to Cretaceous crustal growth of New Zealand . In: John Wiley & Sons Australia (Eds.): Island Arc . Volume 8, No 3 , September 1999, p. 404-425 , doi : 10.1046 / j.1440-1738.1999.00249.x (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, RH Herzer, NW Walker, AT Calvert, D. Seward, GCH Chaproniere : Cavalli Seamount, Northland Plateau, SW Pacific Ocean: a Miocene metamorphic core complex? . In: The Geological Society (Ed.): Journal of the Geological Society . 160 (6) , 2003, pp. 971-983 , doi : 10.1144 / 0016-764902-157 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Kaj Hoernle, F. Hauff, JM Palin, WJ Dunlap, R. Werner, Kevin Faure : New constraints on the age and evolution of the Wishbone Ridge, southwest Pacific Cretaceous microplates, and Zealandia-West Antarctica breakup . In: Geological Society of America (Ed.): Geology . Volume 34, No 3 , March 2006, p. 185-189 , doi : 10.1130 / G22168.1 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, RH Herzer, PB Gans, C. Laporte-Magoni, AT Calvert, D. Bosch : Oligocene-Miocene tectonic evolution of the South Fiji Basin and Northland Plateau, SW Pacific Ocean: evidence from petrology and dating of dredged rocks . In: Elsevier (Ed.): Marine Geology . Volume 237, Issues 1–2 , February 2007, pp. 1-24 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, WJ Dunlap, J. Michael Palin, RH Herzer, F. Hauff, M. Clark : Ultra-fast early Miocene exhumation of Cavalli Seamount, Northland Plateau, Southwest Pacific Ocean . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (Ed.): New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics . Volume 51, No 1 , March 2008, p. 29-42 , doi : 10.1080 / 00288300809509848 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Kohn Barry, D. Seward, T. Spell, A. Tulloch : Reconnaissance Thermochronology of Southern Zealandia . In: Geological Society (Ed.): Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 173, Issue 2 , November 2015, p. 370– , doi : 10.1144 / jgs2015-021 (English).
  • Nick Mortimer, Hamish J. Campbell, Andy J. Tulloch, Peter R. King, Vaughan M. Stagpoole, Ray A. Wood, Mark S. Rattenbury, Rupert Sutherland, Chris J. Adams, Julien Collot, Maria Seton : Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent . In: The Geological Society of America (Ed.): GSA Today . Volume 27 Issue 3 (March / April), 2017, doi : 10.1130 / GSATG321A.1 (English, online [accessed March 7, 2017]).
Publications as a co-author in scientific magazines
  • TA Little, Nick Mortimer, M. McWilliams : An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago ‐ Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on 40Ar / 39Ar white mica ages . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (Ed.): New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics . Volume 42, Issue 3 , 1999, pp. 305-325 , doi : 10.1080 / 00288306.1999.9514848 (English).
  • IM Turnbull, Nick Mortimer, D. Craw : Textural zones in the Haast Schist — a reappraisal . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (Ed.): New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics . Volume 44, Issue 1 , 2001, pp. 171-183 , doi : 10.1080 / 00288306.2001.9514933 (English).
  • Daphne E. Lee, William G. Lee, Nick Mortimer : Where and why have all the flowers gone? Depletion and turnover in the New Zealand Cenozoic angiosperm flora in relation to palaeogeography and climate . In: CSIRO Publishing (Ed.): Australian Journal of Botany . Volume 49, Issue 3 . Clayton 2001, p. 341-356 , doi : 10.1071 / BT00031 (English).
  • AJ Tulloch, J. Ramezani, Nick Mortimer, J. Mortensen, P. van den Bogaard, R. Maas : Cretaceous felsic volcanism in New Zealand and Lord Howe Rise (Zealandia) as a precursor to final Gondwana break-up . In: Geological Society (Ed.): Special Publications . Volume 321, Issue 1 . London October 2009, p. 89-118 , doi : 10.1144 / SP321.5 (English).

Web links

  • Nick Mortimer . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences,accessed March 7, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c John Gibb : Zealandia paper release goes viral . In: Otago Daily Times . Allied Press Limited , March 4, 2017, accessed March 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Nick Mortimer . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences , accessed March 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Contact Us . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences , accessed March 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ Principal Scientists . Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences , accessed March 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Nick Mortimer et al. 10 co-authors: Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent . In: The Geological Society of America (Ed.): GSA Today . Volume 27 Issue 3 (March / April), 2017, doi : 10.1130 / GSATG321A.1 (English, online [accessed March 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Mortimer, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand geologist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH England