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Peter A. Cawood

Peter A. Cawood

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Earth Science
Australia
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
115
Citations
52143
World Ranking
51
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Peter A. Cawood is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a research profile concentrated in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Paleontology, Geology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The researcher has published extensively on topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Among the recent scholarly publications authored or coauthored by Peter A. Cawood are:

  • Deconstructing South China and consequences for reconstructing Nuna and Rodinia, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Secular Evolution of Continents and the Earth System, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Gondwana's interlinked peripheral orogens, 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Additional significant works include studies on continental crust evolution and tectonics published in various scientific venues.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Oliver Nebel, Jacob A. Mulder, Yuejun Wang, Guochun Zhao, and Xin Qian.

Peter A. Cawood has contributed to multiple publications in renowned journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Lithos
  • Geology
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

The scientist has been recognized through awards such as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2013) and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2018).

Best Publications

  • Archean blocks and their boundaries in the North China Craton: lithological, geochemical, structural and P–T path constraints and tectonic evolution

    Guochun Zhao;Simon A. Wilde;Peter A. Cawood;Min Sun

  • Review of global 2.1-1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia supercontinent

    Guochun Zhao;Guochun Zhao;Peter A Cawood;Simon A Wilde;Min Sun

  • Precambrian geology of China

    Guochun Zhao;Peter A. Cawood

  • Detrital zircon record and tectonic setting

    Peter Anthony Cawood;Peter Anthony Cawood;Chris Hawkesworth;Bruno Philippe Marcel Dhuime;Bruno Philippe Marcel Dhuime

  • Accretionary orogens through Earth history

    Peter A. Cawood;Alfred Kröner;William Joseph Collins;Timothy M. Kusky

  • Amalgamation of the North China Craton: Key issues and discussion

    Guochun Zhao;Peter A. Cawood;Sanzhong Li;Simon A. Wilde

  • A Change in the Geodynamics of Continental Growth 3 Billion Years Ago

    Bruno Dhuime;Bruno Dhuime;Chris J. Hawkesworth;Peter A. Cawood;Craig D. Storey

  • Terra Australis Orogen: Rodinia breakup and development of the Pacific and Iapetus margins of Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic

    Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood

  • Metamorphism of basement rocks in the Central Zone of the North China Craton: implications for Paleoproterozoic tectonic evolution

    Guochun Zhao;Guochun Zhao;Peter A. Cawood;Simon A. Wilde;Min Sun

  • The generation and evolution of the continental crust

    C J Hawkesworth;C J Hawkesworth;Bruno Dhuime;A. B. Pietranik;P. A. Cawood

  • Thermal evolution of Archean basement rocks from the eastern part of the North China craton and its bearing on tectonic setting

    Guochun Zhao;S. A. Wilde;P. A. Cawood;Liangzhao Lu

  • Linking accretionary orogenesis with supercontinent assembly

    Peter A. Cawood;Craig Buchan

  • The continental record and the generation of continental crust

    Peter Anthony Cawood;Peter Anthony Cawood;Chris Hawkesworth;Bruno Philippe Marcel Dhuime;Bruno Philippe Marcel Dhuime

  • Locating South China in Rodinia and Gondwana: A fragment of greater India lithosphere?

    Peter Anthony Cawood;Peter Anthony Cawood;Yuejun Wang;Yajun Xu;Guochun Zhao

  • Assembly of the Lhasa and Qiangtang terranes in central Tibet by divergent double subduction

    Di Cheng Zhu;Shi Min Li;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Qing Wang

  • Early Palaeozoic orogenesis along the Indian margin of Gondwana: Tectonic response to Gondwana assembly

    Peter A. Cawood;Michael R.W. Johnson;Alexander A. Nemchin

  • SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages of the Fuping Complex: implications for Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic accretion and assembly of the North China Craton

    Guochun Zhao;Simon A. Wilde;Peter A. Cawood;Min Sun

  • Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents

    Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Guochun Zhao;Jinlong Yao;Wei Wang

  • High-Pressure Granulites (Retrograded Eclogites) from the Hengshan Complex, North China Craton: Petrology and Tectonic Implications

    Guochun Zhao;Peter A. Cawood;Simon A. Wilde;Liangzhao Lu

  • Magmatic record of India-Asia collision

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Qing Wang;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Sun-Lin Chung

  • Opening Iapetus: Constraints from the Laurentian margin in Newfoundland

    Peter A. Cawood;Phil J.A. McCausland;Greg R. Dunning

  • Single zircon grains record two Paleoproterozoic collisional events in the North China Craton

    Guochun Zhao;Simon A. Wilde;Jinghui Guo;Peter A. Cawood

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris J. Hawkesworth
Chris J. Hawkesworth University of Bristol
Yuejun Wang
Yuejun Wang Sun Yat-sen University
Bruno Dhuime
Bruno Dhuime University of Bristol
Guochun Zhao
Guochun Zhao University of Hong Kong
Yuansheng Du
Yuansheng Du China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
Alexander A. Nemchin
Alexander A. Nemchin Curtin University
Simon A. Wilde
Simon A. Wilde Curtin University
Jian-Wei Zi
Jian-Wei Zi Curtin University
Di-Cheng Zhu
Di-Cheng Zhu China University of Geosciences
Eric Tohver
Eric Tohver Universidade de São Paulo

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