Martin Bott

Martin Harold Phillips Bott FRS (born 1926) is an English geologist and now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, England.^[1] He is a Vice-President of Christians in Science.^[2] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1976 and was the 1992 recipient of the Wollaston Medal.

Scientific career

Bott worked throughout his academic career at the University of Durham. In 1954 he started as Turner & Newall Research Fellow. In 1956 he received an appointment as Lecturer in Geophysics, was promoted to Reader in Geophysics in 1963 and in 1966 appointed Professor of Geophysics.^[1] This place he held until his retirement in 1988, interrupted only in 1970 by a year abroad at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University. In 1976, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society^[3] and in 1992 received the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of America.^[4]

Research

Bott dealt first with the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies in England, including Devon and Cornwall^[5] and in the eastern Alps.^[6] In the late 1950s he began studies on the mechanism of geological disturbances,^[7] and published work on various problems in relation to the structure of the crust.^[8]

In the 1960s Bott published papers on the use of digital computation methods for solving geophysical problems^[9] and further work on the structure of the crust, regional geophysical studies in England and Ireland. In the early 1970s he published his textbook The Interior of the Earth, in which he summarized the current knowledge about the structure of the earth.^[10] In addition to theoretical work on the interpretation of magnetic and gravimetric anomalies that appeared over the next few years, he published other geophysical papers on regions such as the Faroe Islands,^[11] South Greenland^[12] and the Lesser Antilles.^[13] Even after his retirement, he remained true to his research and until recently published numerous scientific papers.

Publications

Books

• 1971: The Interior of the Earth. London: Edward Arnold ISBN 0713122749
• 1976: Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons; based on the symposium ... Durham, 1976. Amsterdam: Elsevier ISBN 0444415491 (as editor) (also issued as: Tectonophysics; vol. 36, nos. 1-3)
• 1982: The Interior of the Earth: its structure, constitution and evolution; 2nd ed. London: Edward Arnold ISBN 0713128429
• 1983: Structure and Development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge: new methods and concepts. New York: Plenum ISBN 0306410192 (as joint editor)

Articles (selected)

• Bott, M.H.P 2003. The story of the Weardale granite. OUGS Journal 24.
• Neves, M.C., Searle, R.C. & Bott, M.H.P. 2003. Easter microplate dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth; 108(B4): 2213.
• Bott, M.H.P & Bott. J.D.J 2004. The Cenozoic uplift and earthquake belt of mainland Britain as a response to an underlying hot, low-density upper mantle. Journal of the Geological Society; 161 (1): 19-29.
• Neves, M.C., Bott, M.H.P. & Searle, R.C. 2004. Patterns of stress at midocean ridges and their offsets due to seafloor subsidence. Tectonophysics; 386 (3-4): 223-242.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Prof Martin H. P. Bott". Durham University. 2011. http://www.dur.ac.uk/earth.sciences/staff/?id=1506. Retrieved September 2011. 
2. ^ CIS Vice-Presidents
3. ^ The Royal Society (July 2007). "List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007" (pdf). http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf. Retrieved September 2011. 
4. ^ "Holders of the Wollaston medal (1831–2005)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/93211?&back=30523. Retrieved 2009-02-13. 
5. ^ M. H. P. Bott, A. A. Day and D. Masson-Smith: The Geological Interpretation of Gravity and Magnetic Surveys in Devon and Cornwall. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 4, December 1958, vol. 251 no. 992, S. 161-191. doi:10.1098/rsta.1958.0013
6. ^ Interpretation of the gravity field of the Eastern Alps. MHP Bott – Geological Magazine, 1954 - Cambridge Univ Press
7. ^ Interpretation of the gravity field of the Eastern Alps. MHP Bott – Geological Magazine, 1954 - Cambridge Univ Press
8. ^ Martin Harold Phillips Bott, M.A. Ph.D. F.G.S.: A geophysical study of the granite problem. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society; 1956; v. 112; issue.1-4; p. 45-67; DOI: 10.1144/GSL.JGS.1956.112.01-04.04
9. ^ M. H. P. Bott: The use of Rapid Digital Computing Methods for Direct Gravity Interpretation of Sedimentary Basins. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 3, Issue 1, S. 63–67, 1960 Online-Anstract
10. ^ M. H. P. Bott: The use of Rapid Digital Computing Methods for Direct Gravity Interpretation of Sedimentary Basins. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 3, Issue 1, S. 63–67, 1960 Online-Anstract
11. ^ M. H. P. Bott, J. Sunderland, P. J. Smith: Evidence for continental crust beneath the Faeroe Islands. In: Nature. 248, Issue 5445, 11 October 2011, p. 202–204 (doi:10.1038/248202a0). 
12. ^ P. S. Featherstone, M. H. P. Bott, J. H. Peacock: Structure of the continental margin of South-eastern Greenland. In: Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society,. 48, Issue 1, 11 October 2011, p. 15–27. 
13. ^ G. K. Westbrook, M. H. P. Bott & J. H. Peacock: Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone in the Vicinity of Barbados. In: Nature. 244, 11 October 2011, p. 118–120 (doi:10.1038/physci244118a0). 

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