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English reviewer for numerous Bachelor, Master and Doctoral thesis, as well as many other publications and abstracts.
 
Founder Reviewer of the "Pakistan Journal of Geology" Scientific Publication for reviews of Geological Papers (1991 - Present).
 
1993
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Di Pietro, J.A., Pogue, K.R., Lawrence. R.D., Baig, M.S., Hussain, A., Ahmad, I., 1993. Stratigraphy south of the Main Mantle Thrust, Lower Swat, Pakistan. In: Himalayan Tectonics (Eds. Treloar, P.J. and Searle, M.P.), Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, No. 74, p. 207 - 220.
 
External PhD Thesis Review (University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan): Mohammed Sabir Khan, 1993. Petrology and geochemistry of the Panjal Volcanics in Azad Kashmir and Kaghan areas in NW Himalaya, Pakistan. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (August, 1993).
 
1994
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Binno, G.G., 1994. Pre-Variscan evolution of the eclogitised mafic rocks from the Helvetic basement of the Central Alps. European Journal of Mineralogy, Special edition on Eclogites, V. 7, p. 57-70.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Le Fort, P. and France-Lanord, C., 1994. Granites from Mustang and surrounding regions (Central Nepal). Special Issue, Journal of Nepal Geological Society, V. 11, p. 53-57.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Searle, M.P., 1994. The timing of metamorphism, magmatism and cooling in the Zanskar, Garhwal and Nepal Himalaya. Special Issue, Journal of Nepal Geological Society, V. 11, p. 103-120.
 
International Scientific Paper Corrections before submission: Burg, J.-P., Vandendriessche, J., Brun, J.-P., 1994. Syn- to Post-thickening extension: Mode and consequences. Comptes Rendus de L Academie Des Sciences, Serie II 319: 9, Part 2, p. 1019-1032.
 
1995
International Scientific Paper Corrections before submission: Burg, J.-P., Luc-Emmanuel Ricou, Zivko Ivanov, Ivan Godfriaux, Dimo Dimov and Laslo Klain, 1995. Alpine nappe structure in the Rhondope Massif - Structure and Kinematics.
 
International Scientific Paper Corrections before submission: Ghildiyal, H., 1995. Nature of the base metal sulphide mineralisation in the Chamri Area, Lesser Himalaya, India.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: T. Danelian and A. Robertson, 1995. Radiolarian evidence and palaeo-oceanographic significance in the Mesozoic deep-water northern passive margin of the Indian Plate (Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh Himalaya). Marine Micropaleontology, Vol. 30, No. 1-3, p. 171-195.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: R.A. Beck, W.J. Sercombe, D.W. Burbank, A.M. Khan and R.D. Lawrence, 1995. Late Cretaceous ophiolite obduction and Paleocene India-Asia collision in the westernmost Himalaya. Tectonophysics (10th Himalaya - Karakoram - Tibet Workshop Special Volume) / Geodynamica Acta.
 
External PhD Thesis Examiner (University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan). Mohammed Sabir Khan, 1995. Petrology and Geochemistry of the Panjal Volcanics in the Azad Kashmir and Kaghan area of the NW Himalaya, Pakistan. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (September, 1995).
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Ph. Matte, P. Tapponnier, N. Arnaud, Pan Yusheng, Wang Yi, L. Bourjot, J.P. Avouac and Ph. Vidal, 1995. Geology, Tectonics and Geochronology of a section across Western Tibet, from Tarim to the Indus. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
 
1996
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Sachan, H.K. 1996. Fluid inclusion study of blueschist terrane, Indus Suture Zone, Ladakh: Implication for upliftment history. Terra Nova.
 
International Scientific Article Corrections before submission: Grujic, G., 1996. Bhutan: to go or not to go? Himalayan Notes, No. 7.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: De Sigoyer, J., Guillot, S., Lardeaux, J.M., and Mascle, G., 1996. Occurrences of glaucophane eclogites in the Tso Morari dome (East Ladakh, internal Himalayan belt. European Journal of Mineralogy.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Guillot, S., De Sigoyer, J., Lardeaux, J.M. and Mascle, G., 1996. Eclogitic metasediments from the Tso Morari area (Ladakh, Himalaya): evidence for continental subduction during India-Asia convergence. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 128, p. 197-212.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Schouppe, M., Fontan, D., Verkaeren, J. and Martinotti, G., 1996. Geology of the Neelum Valley (Azad Kashmir, NE Pakistan): a detailed investigation of the Indian Plate rocks exposed between the Hazara Kashmir and the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis. Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology).
 
1997
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Chetty,T.R.K. and Bhaskar Rao, Y.J., 1997. The Cauvery shear zone in the southern granulite terrain, south India: evidence for Neoproterozoic westward thrusting. The Journal of Geology.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Beck, R.A., Burbank, D.W., Khan, A.M. and Sercombe, W.J., 1997. Structure and stratigraphy of the westernmost Himalaya: Implications for Late Cretaceous and Paleocene plate configurations in Asia. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Himalayan Suture Zone of Pakistan.
 
1998
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Hubbard,M.S., Grew, E.S., Hodges, K.V., Yates, M.G. and Pertsev, N.N., 1998. Neogene cooling and exhumation of upper-amphibolite-facies kyanite-talc-amphibole "whiteschists" in the southwest Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan" Tectonophysics (Penrose Conference Special volume on 'Continental Interior Tectonics'). Vol. 305, No. 1-3, p. 325-337.
 
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Gao, J., Zhang, L., Wang, Z. and Xiao, X., 1998. PT path of high-pressure metamorphic rocks and its tectonic implication in Western Tianshan, northwest China. Journal of Metamorphic Geology.
 
1999
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Lustrino, M., 1999. Evolution of the European Sub-Continental Mantle: Constraints from Sr-Nd-Pd Isotopes of Volcanic Rocks from Sardinia (Italy). Geology.
 
2000
International Scientific Paper Reviewer: Wu, H. and Narr, W. Skull Creek Outcrop Study: How Well Can We Predict Subsurface Fracture System? Geological Society Special Publication on Fracture and In-situ Stress Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs.
 
2002
External PhD Thesis Review (University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan): Khizar Hayat, 2002. Geotechnical zonation and their relation to Geology of Pakistan. Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan (October, 2002).
 
2003
Book Review: Tony Fuller, 2003. Henry Raine, Brewer of Wapping and The First 200 Years of Raine's School. Old Raineian's Association Press (March, 2003).
 
2004
Book Review: Laura Purdie Salas, 2004. Seashells in the Sky: The Secret of Mt. Everest.

     

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