Staff profile

Current research

I am actively working on the interactions and feedbacks between tectonics, climate and the geomorphology that they create. My particular study areas are orogenic plateaux (specifically the Turkish-Iranian and Tibetan plateaux) as they allow study of systems (mostly fluvial) that cross the boundary between two differring tectonic and climatic settings.

• Fluvial geomorphology
• Tectonic geomorphology
• GIS
• Sedimentary petrography

Journal Article

• Mathias, J., Saville, C., & Leech, S. (2023). Engaging non-mathematics students in mathematics learning through collaborative teaching. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrad003
• Groves, K., Saville, C., Hurst, M. D., Jones, S. J., Song, S., & Allen, M. B. (2020). Geomorphic expressions of collisional tectonics in the Qilian Shan, north eastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 788, Article 228503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228503
• Allen, M., Saville, C., Blanc, E., Talebian, M., & Nissen, E. (2013). Orogenic plateau growth: expansion of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt. Tectonics, 32(2), 171-190. https://doi.org/10.1002/tect.20025
• Allen, M., Mark, D., Kheirkhah, M., Barfod, D., Emami, M., & Saville, C. (2011). 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary lavas in northwest Iran: constraints on the landscape evolution and incision rates of the Turkish-Iranian plateau. Geophysical Journal International, 185(3), 1173-1185. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2011.05022.x