Philip A. Allen

Philip A. Allen (1953, Bath, Somerset, UK – 9 March 2021) was a British geologist, known for his research in sedimentology and stratigraphy.

Philip A. Allen graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in geology from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now named Aberystwyth University). After two years in the petroleum industry, he matriculated as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge. His dissertation was supervised by Peter F. Friend. As a postdoc, Allen held an academic position at the University of Bern, where he worked with Albert Matter. Philip Allen was a lecturer at Cardiff University and then the University of Oxford, before his appointment to the chair of geology and mineralogy at Trinity College Dublin In 2011 Allen chaired the science committee that organized a one-day conference hosted by the Geological Society of London. The conference was a multi-disciplinary gathering of over 100 scientists for understanding how tectonics and Earth's surface processes interact, especially the coupling of mantle dynamics and geological landscape evolution. At the 2013 annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Allen gave a talk on a particular model of a sediment routing system from the Eocene of the Pyrenees.

Allen held a Royal Society-Wolfson research merit award for 2006–2011. From 2009 to 2012 he served as science secretary of the Geological Society of the London.

Philip A. Allen was a Christian believer and wrote 3 books arguing for the compatibility of Christian faith and empirical science.

Selected publications Articles

(See hummocky cross-stratification.)

Technical books

1990 2nd edition

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