Dr William McCarthy

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3935

Email

wm37@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research focusses on understanding the architecture of igneous intrusions and the ore deposits hosted. I am an enthusiastic field geology and rock magnetic analysis (AMS, AMR and palaeomagnetism) is my area of analytical expertise. I established the University of St Andrews M²Ore Magnetics Lab (Magam, Minerals and Ore Lab) in 2017 to facilitate my research groups work. Beyond the lab my interests are largely outdoors, I enjoy kayaking, mountain biking and free diving.

PhD supervision

• Aikerim Orken
• Emily Madoff

Selected publications

• Magnetic fabrics reveal three-dimensional flow processes within elongate magma fingers at the margin of the Shonkin Sag laccolith (MT, USA)

  Köpping, J., Cruden, A. R., Magee, C., McCarthy, W., Geissman, J. & Holm, D., 1 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 169, 25 p., 104829.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Dyke architecture, mineral layering, and magmatic convection; new perspectives from the Younger Giant Dyke Complex, S Greenland

  Koopmans, L., McCarthy, W. & Magee, C., 1 Mar 2022, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 23, 3, 22 p., e2021GC010260.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Decrypting magnetic fabrics (AMS, AARM, AIRM) through the analysis of mineral shape fabrics and distribution anisotropy

  Mattsson, T., Petri, B., Almqvist, B., McCarthy, W., Burchardt, S., Palma, J. O., Hammer, Ø. & Galland, O., 9 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 126, 6, 23 p., e2021JB021895.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  New insights from field observations of the Younger giant dyke complex and mafic lamprophyres of the gardar province on Tuttutooq island, South Greenland

  Koopmans, L., Webster, R. A., Changleng, R., Mathieson, L., Murphy, A. J., Finch, A. A. & McCarthy, W., 16 Jun 2021, In: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin. 47, 7 p., 6526.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  O and H isotopic evidence for a mantle source of water in appinite magma: An example from the late Neoproterozoic Greendale Complex, Nova Scotia

  Cawood, I. P., Murphy, J. B., McCarthy, W. J. & Boyce, A. J., Apr 2021, In: Lithos. 386-387, 105997.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Structural signatures of igneous sheet intrusion propagation

  Magee, C., Muirhead, J., Schofield, N., Walker, R. J., Galland, O., Holford, S., Spacapan, J., Jackson, C. A-L. & McCarthy, W., Aug 2019, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 125, p. 148-154 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Lateral magma flow in mafic sill complexes

  Magee, C., Muirhead, J. D., Karvelas, A., Holford, S. P., Jackson, C. A. L., Bastow, I. D., Schofield, N., Stevenson, C. T. E., McLean, C., McCarthy, W. & Shtukert, O., 1 Jun 2016, In: Geosphere. 12, 3, p. 809-841 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Distinguishing diapirs from inflated plutons: an integrated rock magnetic fabric and structural study on the Roundstone Pluton, western Ireland

  McCarthy, W., Petronis, M. S., Reavy, R. J. & Stevenson, C. T., Sept 2015, In: Journal of the Geological Society. 172, 5, p. 550-565 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Late Caledonian transpression and the structural controls on pluton construction; new insights from the Omey Pluton, western Ireland

  McCarthy, W., Reavy, R. J., Stevenson, C. T. & Petronis, M. S., Dec 2015, In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh. 106, 1, p. 11-28 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Paleomagnetic, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, and geochronologic data from the Buena Vista intrusion, north-central New Mexico

  Petronis, M., Castillo, G., Lindline, J., Zebrowski, J., McCarthy, W., Lemen, D. & McIntosh, W., Dec 2015, Geology of the Las Vegas Region: Guidebook. Vol. 66. p. 193 204 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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