Prof Ian Parsons
Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

Title of Presentation:  Feldspars on the inside: Reading their record

Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK.
B.Sc. 1960, Ph.D. 1963, Durham University.  PDRF Manchester University 1963–64.  Lecturer and Professor, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1964–1988.  Professor of Mineralogy, Edinburgh University, 1988–2004.  Retired 2004. President of Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1994–96, Hallimond Lecturer 1977, Schlumberger Medallist 1993.  President of IMA 2002–6.  Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1984.  First International Visiting Lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of America 2000–01.  UK editor of Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1982–2007.  One of the founder editors of Elements magazine, 2003–7.  Lives in the West Highlands of Scotland and is a Director of Lochaber Geopark.

Main interests are the feldspar minerals and the geological interpretation and significance of their intracrystal microtextures, and layered igneous rocks, particularly alkaline rocks in the Gardar Province in South Greenland.  Has also worked on igneous rocks in the North-west Highlands of Scotland, the Blossville Coast of East Greenland, and the Kap Washington volcanics of Peary Land, North Greenland.