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Philip T. Leat is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a specialization in geophysics, atmospheric science, artificial intelligence, paleontology, and earth-surface processes.

Their work covers a range of topics including geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geochemistry and geologic mapping, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, as well as geological formations and processes.

Philip T. Leat has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Geological Society London Memoirs
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Terra Nova
  • Global and Planetary Change

Their recent papers include:

  • Chapter 3.1a Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands: volcanology, 2021, Geological Society London Memoirs
  • Palaeozoic - Early Mesozoic geological history of the Antarctic Peninsula and correlations with Patagonia: Kinematic reconstructions of the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Cretaceous arc volcanism of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula: Zircon U-Pb geochronology, geochemistry, distribution and field relationships, 2020, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Chapter 3.1b Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands: petrology, 2021, Geological Society London Memoirs
  • Chapter 2.2a Palmer Land and Graham Land volcanic groups (Antarctic Peninsula): volcanology, 2021, Geological Society London Memoirs

Frequent collaborators of Philip T. Leat include:

  • Teal R. Riley
  • Alex Burton-Johnson
  • Kelly Hogan
  • Michael J. Flowerdew
  • Ian Millar

Best Publications

  • Geochemistry and tectonic significance of peridotites from the South Sandwich arc-basin system, South Atlantic

    Julian A. Pearce;P. F. Barker;S. J. Edwards;Ian J. Parkinson

  • The Chon Aike province of Patagonia and related rocks in West Antarctica: A silicic large igneous province

    R.J Pankhurst;P.T Leat;P Sruoga;C.W Rapela

  • Tracing the Indian Ocean Mantle Domain Through Time: Isotopic Results from Old West Indian, East Tethyan, and South Pacific Seafloor

    J. J. Mahoney;R. Frei;M. L. G. Tejada;X. X. Mo

  • Origins of Large Volume Rhyolitic Volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonia by Crustal Melting

    Teal R. Riley;Philip T. Leat;Robert J. Pankhurst;Chris Harris

  • Silicic volcanism: an undervalued component of large igneous provinces and volcanic rifted margins

    Scott E. Bryan;Teal R. Riley;Dougal A. Jerram;Christopher J. Stephens

  • Petrogenesis of the Back-arc East Scotia Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean

    S. Fretzdorff;R. A. Livermore;Colin W. Devey;P. T. Leat

  • Geochemistry of High-silica Peralkaline Rhyolites, Naivasha, Kenya Rift Valley

    R. Macdonald;G. R. Davies;C. M. Bliss;P. T. Leat

  • CONTAMINATION OF INDIAN-OCEAN ASTHENOSPHERE BY THE KERGUELEN-HEARD MANTLE PLUME

    M. Storey;Ad D. Saunders;J. Tarney;Il L. Gibson

  • Geochemistry of bimodal basalt-subalkaline/peralkaline rhyolite provinces within the Southern British Caledonides

    P. T. Leat;S. E. Jackson;R. S. Thorpe;C. J. Stillman

  • On the Antarctic Peninsula batholith

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

  • Lower Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks on Continental Margins and Their Relationship to the Kerguelen Plateau

    M. Storey;R.W. Kent;A.D. Saunders;V.J. Salters

  • Terrane processes at the margins of Gondwana

    A. P. M. Vaughan;P. T. Leat;R. J. Pankhurst

  • Strongly potassic mafic magmas from lithospheric mantle sources during continental extension and heating: evidence from Miocene minettes of northwest Colorado, U.S.A.

    R.N. Thompson;P.T. Leat;A.P. Dickin;M.A. Morrison

  • Mantle plumes and Antarctica-New Zealand rifting; evidence from Mid-Cretaceous mafic dykes

    Bryan C. Storey;Philip T. Leat;Stephen D. Weaver;Robert J. Pankhurst

  • 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

  • Intra-Oceanic Subduction Systems: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes

    R. D. Larter;P. T. Leat

  • Geochemical evidence for plume—mantle interactions beneath Kerguelen and Heard Islands, Indian Ocean

    M. Storey;Ad D. Saunders;J. Tarney;P. Leat

  • Subduction erosion of forearc mantle wedge implicated in the genesis of the South Sandwich Island (SSI) arc: Evidence from boron isotope systematics

    Sonia Tonarini;William P. Leeman;Philip T. Leat

  • Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up

    Philip Leat

Frequent Co-Authors

Teal R. Riley
Teal R. Riley British Antarctic Survey
Ian L. Millar
Ian L. Millar British Geological Survey
Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
Robert N. Thompson
Robert N. Thompson Durham University
Fausto Ferraccioli
Fausto Ferraccioli National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics
Bryan C. Storey
Bryan C. Storey University of Canterbury
Michael Storey
Michael Storey University of Copenhagen
Alan P. Dickin
Alan P. Dickin McMaster University
Tom A. Jordan
Tom A. Jordan British Antarctic Survey
Alan P. M. Vaughan
Alan P. M. Vaughan Macquarie University

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