Martin Litherland

Martin Litherland OBE (born 1945, Woking, England) the son of a Methodist Minister, is a geologist who has travelled and published ^[1][2] widely.

Life and career

Martin Litherland poses at the source of the Rio Verde in the upper reaches of the Lost World in 1981.

In 1970 he was awarded a PhD by Liverpool University on the stratigraphy and structure of the Dalradian rocks around Loch Creran, Scotland,^[3][4] which resolved the major stratigraphic puzzle.^[5] The rocks also contained early forms of animal life.^[6]

He joined the (present) British Geological Survey (BGS) and was seconded to the Botswana Geological Survey (1970–1975) mapping the Maitengwe-Sebina area of Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) Craton where a new uniformitarian theory was proposed;^[7][8][9] and the Mamuno-Kalkfontein area of the Ghanzi Ridge^[10]. Precambrian life forms were also found.^[11]

Litherland was Senior Exploration Geologist for the Eastern Bolivia Mineral Exploration Project (1976–1985), an ODA Technical Cooperation project covering the unexplored Bolivian part of the Brazilian Shield ^[12][13][14] where conditions were difficult.^[15] The Lost World of Fawcett/Conan Doyle was also mapped;^[16][17] Andean-trending structures were noted ^[18] and alkaline igneous rocks discovered.^[19]

From 1986 to 1992, Litherland was Team Leader of the Cordillera Real Geological Research Project in Ecuador, mapping the eastern Andean cordillera along a series of difficult traverses and discovering many ‘un-Andean’ geological features.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]}

He was awarded the OBE in 1993.^[28]

From 1993 till retirement in 2000, Litherland worked in the Keyworth office of the British Geological Survey launching a series of popular geological publications in the form of tourist and fossil guides, books and posters ^[29][30][31]

References

1. ^ World Cat Identities
2. ^ Natural Environment Research Council Keyword search for Martin Litherland
3. ^ The stratigraphy of the Dalradian rocks around Loch Creran, Argyll M, Litherland, August 1980 Scottish Journal of Geology, 16, 105-123
4. ^ The structure of the Loch Creran Dalradian and a new model for the SW Highlands M, Litherland, April 1982 Scottish Journal of Geology, 18, 205-225
5. ^ The correlation of the Ballachulish and Perthshire (Italy) Dalradian successions Geological Magazine; May 1970; v. 107; no. 3; p. 259-272
6. ^ Organic remains and traces from the Dalradian of Benderloch, Argyll M,Litherland, May 1975 Scottish Journal of Geology, 11, 47-50
7. ^ Uniformitarian Approach to Archean Basement nature physical science 242, 125-127 (23 April 1973)
8. ^ The evolution of the archaean crust of northeast Botswana Roger M. Key, 3, Martin Litherland2, John V. Hepworth, Precambrian Research, Volume 3, Issue 4, July 1976, Pages 375-413
9. ^ The geology of the area around Maitengwe, Sebina and Tshesebe, Northeast and Central Districts, Botswana. District Memoir 2, Botswana Geological Survey
10. ^ The geology of the area around Mamuno and Kalkfontein, Ghanzi District, Botswana.District Memoir 4, Botswana Geological Survey
11. ^ Manganiferous stromatolites from the Precambrian of Botswana October 1973 Journal of the Geological Society, 129, 543-544
12. ^ The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Bolivian Precambrian Shield M, Litherland, 1986, H.M.S.O
13. ^ The proterozoic history of eastern Bolivia Precambrian Research, Volume 15, Issue 2, August 1981, Pages 157-161, 165-179
14. ^ The proterozoic of Eastern Bolivia and its relationship to the Andean mobile belt Precambrian Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, May 1989, Pages 157-174
15. ^ [www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/start.cfm?id=182] Unknown Bolivia: Overseas exporation against the odds, PDF of BGS Publication
16. ^ The geologic and geomorphologic evolution of Serranía Huanchaca, eastern Bolivia: The legendary “Lost World” Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1-17
17. ^ Mapping of the Serrania Huanchaca (Conan Doyle's Lost World, after Fawcett's descriptions) in two field seasons 1980 & 1981 November 8, 2033
18. ^ Andean-trending mobile belts in the Brazilian Shield Letters to Nature Nature 314, 345 - 348 (28 March 1985)
19. ^ The geology and tectonic setting of the Velasco Alkaline Province, eastern Bolivia C.J.N, Fletcher & M, Litherland, October 1981 Journal of the Geological Society, 138, 541-548
20. ^ Metamorphic Belts of Ecuador - Overseas Geology & Mineral Resources Publisher: British Geological Survey, 1994
21. ^ Newly discovered Jurassic skarnfields in the Ecuadorian Andes Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Volume 6, Issues 1-2, July–August 1992, Pages 67-75
22. ^ Terrane-boundary reactivation: A control on the evolution of the Northern Andes Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1992, Pages 71-76
23. ^ The geology and Mesozoic collisional history of the Cordillera Real, Ecuador Tectonophysics, Volume 205, Issues 1-3, 30 April 1992, Pages 187-204
24. ^ El complejo de napas Cuyuja de la Cordillera Real,Ecuador Boletín geológico ecuatoriano, Quito, 1992, 3(1), p. 57-61
25. ^ La geología del cerro hermoso de los Llanganates Boletín geológico ecuatoriano, Quito, 1991, 2(1), p. 47-52
26. ^ Las ofiolitas de Peltetec y su significado en laevolución geológica del Ecuador Boletín geológico ecuatoriano, Quito, 1992, 3(1), p.43-46.
27. ^ The Geotectonic Evolution of Ecuador in the Phanerozoic M, Litherland', John, A, Aspen' and Arturo E, Second ISAG, Oxford (UK),21 -231911993
28. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31st December 1992 Dr. M. Litherland. For services to geological surveyingin Ecuador
29. ^ [Tourists Rock, Fossil and Mineral Map] Publication from Earthwise
30. ^ Greenwich: Holiday Geology Guide
31. ^ The Tower: Holiday Geology Guide

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