Biography

Rock Records is owned and led by Dr Lloyd White, a structural geologist with a long-standing passion for tectonics, magmatism, and the integration of geoscientific datasets. With a career spanning academia, government research, and industry collaboration, he brings deep technical expertise and practical experience across fieldwork, geochemical data, and geophysical interpretation.

Lloyd began his geological career mapping shear zones in the granitoids of the Lachlan Orogen during his BSc (Hons) at UNSW (2005). Following graduation, he joined Geoscience Australia (2006–2008), where he examined structural controls on gold mineralisation in the northern Yilgarn as part of the Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre (pmd*CRC). He also mapped the offshore fault networks of Australia’s southern margin basins using offshore seismic reflection data.

He earned his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2012, focusing on the tectonic evolution of the Himalaya. His research combined fieldwork in NW India, SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating, and plate tectonic reconstructions, under the supervision of Prof. Gordon Lister, Prof. Trevor Ireland, Prof. Talat Ahmad and Dr. Marnie Forster.

Postdoctoral fellowships followed at both the ANU and the South East Asia Research Group (SEARG) at Royal Holloway, University of London (2012–2016), where he collaborated directly with minerals and energy exploration companies across Southeast Asia and the SW Pacific.

In 2017, he returned to Australia to take up a tenured academic position at the University of Wollongong, where he went on to be the head of the geology program from 2019 to 2025.

Lloyd currently holds a Visiting Research Fellow position at the ANU and he continues to work at the interface of research and industry—applying structural, geochemical, and geophysical data to understand how plate tectonics influences crustal architecture and resource potential.

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