Dr Mark Wildman

  • Technical Services Manager - Geochemistry, Chemistry, and Materials Engineering (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

Research interests

Research interests:

Applying quantitative dating techniques to understand Earth and environmental processes over geological timescales and enhancing the methodology underpinning these techniques. I have developed expertise in undertaking low temperature thermochronology, geomorphology and structural geology investigations within an academic and industry framework in a variety of geological settings, particularly passive margins and cratonic intracontinental domains.

Technical Expertise:

Sample preparation:

Field sampling

Rock crushing

Magnetic mineral separation

Heavy liquid mineral separation

Mounting, grinding and polishing sample preparation

Isotope spiking and acid dissolution sample preparation

Acid etching of minerals

Geochemical analysis

Noble gas vacuum-extraction.

Mass Spectrometry: Quadrupole MS, isotope dilution ICP-MS, laser ablation ICP-MS).

Geochronology analysis

Fission Track analysis

(U-Th-Sm)/He analysis

U-Pb dating

Publications

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Number of items: 12.

2025

Gemmell, C. A.R., Neill, I. , Wildman, M. , MacRae, C., Currie, D. and Einsle, J. F. (2025) New integrations of U-Pb zircon data from Caledonian intrusions in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Lithos, 494-95, 107941. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107941)

2024

Khudhur, F. W.K. , Divers, M., Wildman, M. , MacDonald, J. and Einsle, J. F. (2024) Interrogation of ecotoxic elements distribution in slag and precipitated calcite through a machine learning-based approach aided by mass spectrometry. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8(7), 2300559. (doi: 10.1002/adsu.202300559)

2023

Abbey, A. L., Wildman, M. , Stevens Goddard, A. L. and Murray, K. E. (2023) Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: applications using QTQt. Geosphere, 19(2), pp. 493-530. (doi: 10.1130/ges02528.1)

Pindell, J., Villagómez, D., Molina Garza, R., Beltrán, A., Stockli, D. F. and Wildman, M. (2023) Late Cretaceous–Miocene depositional evolution of Chiapas, Mexico: a foreland controlled by collision of Greater Antilles arc and the subsequent relative migration of the Chortís Block. Gondwana Research, 113, pp. 116-143. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.10.016)

2022

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Ye, J., Chardon, D., Rouby, D., Kouamelan, A.N. and Dall'Asta, M. (2022) Contrasting thermal evolution of the West African equatorial and Central Atlantic continental margins. Gondwana Research, 111, pp. 249-264. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.010)

Murray, K. E., Stevens Goddard, A. L., Abbey, A. L. and Wildman, M. (2022) Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: applications using HeFTy. Geosphere, 18(5), pp. 1622-1642. (doi: 10.1130/GES02500.1)

2021

Wildman, M. , Gallagher, K., Chew, D. and Carter, A. (2021) From sink to source: using offshore thermochronometric data to extract onshore erosion signals in Namibia. Basin Research, 33(2), pp. 1580-1602. (doi: 10.1111/bre.12527)

2019

Wildman, M. , Webster, D., Brown, R. , Chardon, D., Rouby, D., Ye, J., Huyghe, D. and Dall'Asta, M. (2019) Long-term evolution of the West African transform margin: estimates of denudation from Benin using apatite thermochronology. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(1), pp. 97-114. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2018-078)

2018

Wildman, M. , Cogné, N. and Beucher, R. (2018) Fission-track thermochronology applied to the evolution of passive continental margins. In: Malusà, Marco G. and Fitzgerald, Paul G. (eds.) Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology. Series: Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment. Springer: Cham, pp. 351-371. ISBN 9783319894195 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89421-8_20)

2017

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Persano, C. , Beucher, R., Stuart, F. M. , Mackintosh, V., Gallagher, K., Schwanethal, J. and Carter, A. (2017) Contrasting Mesozoic evolution across the boundary between on and off craton regions of the South African plateau inferred from apatite fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(2), pp. 1517-1547. (doi: 10.1002/2016JB013478)

2016

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Beucher, R., Persano, C. , Stuart, F. , Gallagher, K., Schwanethal, J. and Carter, A. (2016) The chronology and tectonic style of landscape evolution along the elevated Atlantic continental margin of South Africa resolved by joint apatite fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Tectonics, 35(3), pp. 511-545. (doi: 10.1002/2015TC004042)

2014

Brown, R. , Summerfield, M., Gleadow, A., Gallagher, K., Carter, A., Beucher, R. and Wildman, M. (2014) Intracontinental deformation in southern Africa during the late Cretaceous. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 100, pp. 20-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.05.014)

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Number of items: 12.

Articles

Gemmell, C. A.R., Neill, I. , Wildman, M. , MacRae, C., Currie, D. and Einsle, J. F. (2025) New integrations of U-Pb zircon data from Caledonian intrusions in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Lithos, 494-95, 107941. (doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107941)

Khudhur, F. W.K. , Divers, M., Wildman, M. , MacDonald, J. and Einsle, J. F. (2024) Interrogation of ecotoxic elements distribution in slag and precipitated calcite through a machine learning-based approach aided by mass spectrometry. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 8(7), 2300559. (doi: 10.1002/adsu.202300559)

Abbey, A. L., Wildman, M. , Stevens Goddard, A. L. and Murray, K. E. (2023) Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: applications using QTQt. Geosphere, 19(2), pp. 493-530. (doi: 10.1130/ges02528.1)

Pindell, J., Villagómez, D., Molina Garza, R., Beltrán, A., Stockli, D. F. and Wildman, M. (2023) Late Cretaceous–Miocene depositional evolution of Chiapas, Mexico: a foreland controlled by collision of Greater Antilles arc and the subsequent relative migration of the Chortís Block. Gondwana Research, 113, pp. 116-143. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.10.016)

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Ye, J., Chardon, D., Rouby, D., Kouamelan, A.N. and Dall'Asta, M. (2022) Contrasting thermal evolution of the West African equatorial and Central Atlantic continental margins. Gondwana Research, 111, pp. 249-264. (doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.010)

Murray, K. E., Stevens Goddard, A. L., Abbey, A. L. and Wildman, M. (2022) Thermal history modeling techniques and interpretation strategies: applications using HeFTy. Geosphere, 18(5), pp. 1622-1642. (doi: 10.1130/GES02500.1)

Wildman, M. , Gallagher, K., Chew, D. and Carter, A. (2021) From sink to source: using offshore thermochronometric data to extract onshore erosion signals in Namibia. Basin Research, 33(2), pp. 1580-1602. (doi: 10.1111/bre.12527)

Wildman, M. , Webster, D., Brown, R. , Chardon, D., Rouby, D., Ye, J., Huyghe, D. and Dall'Asta, M. (2019) Long-term evolution of the West African transform margin: estimates of denudation from Benin using apatite thermochronology. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(1), pp. 97-114. (doi: 10.1144/jgs2018-078)

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Persano, C. , Beucher, R., Stuart, F. M. , Mackintosh, V., Gallagher, K., Schwanethal, J. and Carter, A. (2017) Contrasting Mesozoic evolution across the boundary between on and off craton regions of the South African plateau inferred from apatite fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(2), pp. 1517-1547. (doi: 10.1002/2016JB013478)

Wildman, M. , Brown, R. , Beucher, R., Persano, C. , Stuart, F. , Gallagher, K., Schwanethal, J. and Carter, A. (2016) The chronology and tectonic style of landscape evolution along the elevated Atlantic continental margin of South Africa resolved by joint apatite fission track and (U-Th-Sm)/He thermochronology. Tectonics, 35(3), pp. 511-545. (doi: 10.1002/2015TC004042)

Brown, R. , Summerfield, M., Gleadow, A., Gallagher, K., Carter, A., Beucher, R. and Wildman, M. (2014) Intracontinental deformation in southern Africa during the late Cretaceous. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 100, pp. 20-41. (doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.05.014)

Book Sections

Wildman, M. , Cogné, N. and Beucher, R. (2018) Fission-track thermochronology applied to the evolution of passive continental margins. In: Malusà, Marco G. and Fitzgerald, Paul G. (eds.) Fission-Track Thermochronology and its Application to Geology. Series: Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment. Springer: Cham, pp. 351-371. ISBN 9783319894195 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89421-8_20)

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Grants

2016 – 2019: Marie Curie Individual European Fellowship (Université de Rennes 1)

2011 – 2015: Natural Environmental Research Council: PhD studentship (University of Glasgow).

Thesis title: “Reassessing the structural and geomorphic evolution of a ‘classic’ Atlantic type passive margin: an integrated study of the Namaqualand sector of the South African margin.”

Research datasets

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Number of items: 3.

2024

Gemmell, C., Neill, I. , Wildman, M. , Spruzeniece, L. and MacRae, C. (2024) Timing and distribution of post-subduction magmatism in the Southern Uplands of Scotland: New insights from U-Pb zircon data of Caledonian igneous bodies in the Southern Uplands Terrane – Appendices B, C, D and E. [Data Collection]

MacRae, C., Neill, I. , Gemmell, C., Spruzeniece, L. and Wildman, M. (2024) The Geochronology of Plutonism Associated with the Great Glen Fault, Northern Scottish Highlands – Appendices B and D. [Data Collection]

Khudhur, F. , MacDonald, J. , Macente, A. , Daly, L. , Spruzeniece, L. , Wildman, M. , Chung, P., Wilson, C., Monoghan, A. and University of Edinburgh XRF Facility, (2024) Understanding CO2 mineralization in ironmaking and steelmaking by-products through microstructural analysis. [Data Collection]

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