Michael Paul Searle
Alma materUniversity College Wales, Aberystwyth (B.Sc.) 1975
Open University (PhD) 1980
Known forGeological studies of mountain belts
AwardsMurchison Medal (2008)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Newfoundland
University of Leicester
University of Oxford
ThesisThe metamorphic sheet and underlying volcanic rocks beneath the Semail Ophiolite in the northern Oman Mountains of Arabia (1980)
Doctoral advisorIan Gass

Michael (Mike) Paul Searle is a British geologist best known for his studies of the large-scale structure of mountain belts, including the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains. Searle was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2008.[1]

Education and career

Searle studied geology at Aberystwyth University, graduating in 1975. He then undertook a Ph.D. at the Open University, working on the Samail Ophiolite in Oman, under the supervision of Ian Gass.[2] After completing his doctoral thesis in 1980, Searle undertook research at the University of Newfoundland, University of Leicester, and University of Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Worcester College, Oxford in 1996.[3]

Over the course of his career, Searle has carried out geological field studies in many parts of the world, including Scotland, parts of the Arabian peninsula, and south-east Asia. In the course of his work he has written several books and made appearances in a number of documentary film series, including "How the Earth Was Made" (2010)[4] and "World's Greatest Mountains" (2018).[5]

Climbing career

Searle is an experienced climber, and he participated in a number of expeditions in the 1970s and 1980s. He visited the Kulu Himalaya in 1978, and led the British Langtang expedition in 1980[6] and the British Hispar Karakoram expedition in 1989.[7]

Awards

Books and maps

  • Searle, Mike, Geology and Tectonics of the Karakoram Mountains, 1991
  • Searle, Mike. 2013, 2017. Colliding Continents: A geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet.[9]
  • Searle, Mike. 2019. Geology of the Oman Mountains, Eastern Arabia.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "The Geological Society of London - 2008 Awards: Citations, Replies". www.geolsoc.org.uk.
  2. ↑ https://oro.open.ac.uk/54606/8/354276_2.pdf
  3. ↑ "Academy of Europe: Searle Michael". www.ae-info.org.
  4. ↑ "Everest". January 19, 2010 – via IMDb.
  5. ↑ "World's Greatest Mountains". April 3, 2018 – via IMDb.
  6. ↑ "The HJ/38/7 BRITISH LANGTANG EXPEDITION". The HJ/38/7 BRITISH LANGTANG EXPEDITION.
  7. ↑ "The HJ/46/17 BRITISH HISPAR KARAKORAM EXPEDITION, 1989". The HJ/46/17 BRITISH HISPAR KARAKORAM EXPEDITION, 1989.
  8. ↑ "Mike Searle Elected to Academia Europaea".
  9. ↑ Searle, Mike (2013). Colliding Continents: A geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet. Oxford University Press. p. 444. ISBN 9780198798514.
  10. ↑ Searle, Mike (2019). Geology of the Oman Mountains, Eastern Arabia. Springer. p. 478. ISBN 9783030184520.
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