Dr Batzi Fischer

Technician

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463905

Email

sf67@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

I obtained a Diplom (M.Sc. equivalent) in Geology from the University of Mainz in Germany, and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. I am now managing the geochemistry facilities at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Although analytical work and quantitative data are crucial for any science, I believe that field work is indespensable and the foundation for Earth Science research. It allows us to put our petrological/geochemical measurements and findings into a geological context, and only then can we use them to understand how "Earth works". Currently, my particular interest is in early Earth geology. I use and test the tools of a petrologist to contribute to our understanding of the evolution of Earth's crust (e.g. crustal growth and reworking) and secular changes in Earth history (e.g. when did plate tectonics start?).

Selected publications

• Zircon geochronology reveals polyphase magmatism and crustal anatexis in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland: implications for the Grampian Orogeny

  Johnson, T. E., Kirkland, C. L., Viete, D. R., Fischer, S., Reddy, S. M., Evans, N. J. & McDonald, B. J., Nov 2017, In : Geoscience Frontiers. 8, 6, p. 1469-1478

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• Mechanisms of deformation-induced trace element migration in zircon resolved by atom probe and correlative microscopy

  Reddy, S. M., Riessen, A. V., Saxey, D. W., Johnson, T. E., Rickard, W. D. A., Fougerouse, D., Fischer, S., Prosa, T. J., Rice, K. P., Reinhard, D. A., Chen, Y. & Olson, D., 15 Dec 2016, In : Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 195, p. 158-170 13 p.

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• Grampian migmatites in the Buchan Block, NE Scotland

  Johnson, T. E., Kirkland, C. L., Reddy, S. M. & Fischer, S., Sep 2015, In : Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 33, 7, p. 695-709 15 p.

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• Precambrian reidite discovered in shocked zircon from the Stac Fada impactite, Scotland

  Reddy, S. M., Johnson, T. E., Fischer, S., Rickard, W. D. A. & Taylor, R. J. M., 1 Jan 2015, In : Geology. 43, 10, p. 899-902 4 p.

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• Field and petrographic evidence for partial melting of TTG gneisses from the central region of the mainland Lewisian complex, NW Scotland

  Johnson, T. E., Fischer, S. & White, R. W., 1 Mar 2013, In : Journal of the Geological Society. 170, 2, p. 319-326 8 p.

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• Archaean intracrustal differentiation from partial melting of metagabbro-field and geochemical evidence from the central region of the Lewisian complex, NW Scotland

  Johnson, T. E., Fischer, S., White, R. W., Brown, M. & Rollinson, H. R., 1 Oct 2012, In : Journal of Petrology. 53, 10, p. 2115-2138 24 p., egs046.

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