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Ian L. Millar is a researcher affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work encompasses multiple subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, and Geology. Millar's research focuses primarily on Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, High-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the geosciences, with numerous publications in key venues such as Precambrian Research, Journal of the Geological Society, Journal of African Earth Sciences, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. These venues highlight the diverse reach of Millar's work across sedimentary geology, tectonics, and geochronology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian L. Millar include:

  • A Triassic to Jurassic arc in north Borneo: Geochronology, geochemistry, and genesis of the Segama Valley Felsic Intrusions and the Sabah ophiolite, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Simultaneous and extensive removal of the East Asian lithospheric root, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Early onset and late acceleration of rapid exhumation in the Namche Barwa syntaxis, eastern Himalaya, 2020, Geology
  • Detrital zircon U-Pb and Hf constraints on provenance and timing of deposition of the Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian sedimentary cover of the East European Craton, part II: Ukraine, 2021, Precambrian Research
  • The provenance of Danubian loess, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in Millar's work include Martin J. Whitehouse, Michael J. Flowerdew, Yani Najman, Teal R. Riley, and Andrew Carter. These co-authors have appeared multiple times across various joint studies, indicating ongoing professional partnerships and shared research interests.

The research topics tackled by Ian L. Millar cover:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Publication venues that are commonly associated with Millar's work are:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Best Publications

  • The Tethyan Himalayan detrital record shows that India–Asia terminal collision occurred by 54 Ma in the Western Himalaya

    Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Daniel Jenks;Laurent Godin;Marcelle BouDagher‐Fadel

  • On the Antarctic Peninsula batholith

    P. T. Leat;J. H. Scarrow;I. L. Millar

  • The source of granitic gneisses and migmatites in the Antarctic Peninsula: a combined U-Pb SHRIMP and laser ablation Hf isotope study of complex zircons

    M. J Flowerdew;Ian L Millar;A.P.M. Vaughan;M.S.A. Horstwood

  • Early–Middle Jurassic dolerite dykes from western Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica): identifying mantle sources in the Karoo Large Igneous Province

    Teal R. Riley;Philip T. Leat;Michael L. Curtis;Ian. L. Millar

  • Magma genesis and mantle flow at a subducting slab edge: the South Sandwich arc-basin system

    P. T. Leat;Julian A. Pearce;P. F. Barker;I. L. Millar

  • Magma Supply in Back-arc Spreading Centre Segment E2, East Scotia Ridge

    P. T. Leat;R. A. Livermore;I. L. Millar;J. A. Pearce

  • Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth's great oxidation.

    Clara Blättler;Mark Claire;Anthony Robert Prave;K. Kirsimäe

  • The Brahmaputra tale of tectonics and erosion: Early Miocene river capture in the Eastern Himalaya

    Laura Bracciali;Laura Bracciali;Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Randall R. Parrish;Randall R. Parrish;Syed H. Akhter

  • Geochemistry of rare high-Nb basalt lavas: Are they derived from a mantle wedge metasomatised by slab melts?

    Alan R. Hastie;Simon F. Mitchell;Andrew Craig Kerr;Matthew J. Minifie

  • Basement chronology of the Antarctic Peninsula: recurrent magmatism and anatexis in the Palaeozoic Gondwana margin

    Ian L Millar;Robert J Pankhurst;Christopher Fanning

  • The generation of sodic granite magmas, western Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula

    Christopher D. Wareham;Ian L. Millar;Alan P. M. Vaughan

  • Geodynamic evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula during Mesozoic times and its bearing on Weddell Sea history

    Bryan C. Storey;Alan P. M. Vaughan;Ian L. Millar

  • Magmatism in the South Sandwich arc

    P. T. Leat;J. L. Smellie;I. L. Millar;R. D. Larter

  • Combined U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of detrital zircons from early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains block, Antarctica

    M. J Flowerdew;Ian L Millar;Michael L Curtis;A.P.M. Vaughan

  • Shifting sediment sources in the world's longest river: a strontium isotope record for the Holocene Nile

    Jamie Woodward;Mark Macklin;Mark Macklin;Laura Fielding;Ian Millar

  • Rb‐Sr Geochronology of the Region Between The Antarctic Peninsula and The Transantarctic Mountains: Haag Nunataks and Mesozoic Granitoids

    I. L. Millar;R. J. Pankhurst

  • Geochemical tracing of Pacific-to-Atlantic upper-mantle flow through the Drake passage.

    J. A. Pearce;P. T. Leat;P. F. Barker;I. L. Millar

  • The Pre‐Cenozoic magmatic history of the Thurston Island Crustal Block, west Antarctica

    R. J. Pankhurst;I. L. Millar;A. M. Grunow;B. C. Storey

  • The initiation and evolution of the River Nile

    Laura Fielding;Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Ian Millar;Peter Butterworth

  • Overlap of Karoo and Ferrar Magma Types in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    T. R. Riley;M. L. Curtis;P. T. Leat;M. K. Watkeys

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip T. Leat
Philip T. Leat British Antarctic Survey
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Yani Najman
Yani Najman Lancaster University
Teal R. Riley
Teal R. Riley British Antarctic Survey
Bryan C. Storey
Bryan C. Storey University of Canterbury
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Andrew Craig Kerr
Andrew Craig Kerr Cardiff University
Alan P. M. Vaughan
Alan P. M. Vaughan Macquarie University
Robert J. Pankhurst
Robert J. Pankhurst British Geological Survey
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History

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