11 Facts About Peter Clift

Peter Clift is a British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific.

Peter Clift was Charles T McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University from 2012 to 2023, and a Royal Society-Wolfson Fellow at University College, London from 2023.

Peter Clift is a geologist who applies marine geophysical, geochemical and classical geological methods to understand the history of geological basins over the last 50 million years.

Peter Clift has worked on evolution the Indus River, which he dated to being older than 45 million years.

Peter Clift has proposed that the Indus captured the four major rivers of the Punjab region into its basin after around 5 million years ago.

Peter Clift showed that a river, possibly the mythical Sarasvati River used to flow from the region of Chandigarh in Punjab but ceased to flow after 4500 years ago, possibly due to weakening of the monsoon.

Peter Clift has used the sediment records of the South China Sea to propose a start to the monsoon after 24 million years ago, compared to the more popular 8 million year age.

Peter Clift is involved with efforts to have the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program collect samples in the Asian marginal seas for monsoon studies.

Peter Clift took his bachelor's degree at the University of Oxford, where he was a student at Worcester College.

Peter Clift grew up in Ware, Hertfordshire where he attended St Edmund's College.

Peter Clift has published numerous scientific papers over the course of his career.