Peter Styles (born September 1950) is a British geologist. He is Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics at Keele University. After growing up in Northumberland Styles read physics at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1972. He then studied for a doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on plate tectonics in the rift valley of

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. As well as plate tectonics Styles has specialised in the detection of abandoned mine workings using microseismology and microgravity. He is a past president of the Geological Society of London. Styles served two terms on the board of the

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and has advised the UK government of underground storage of nuclear waste. In 2008 he took part in a visit to King Abdulaziz University,

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to set up accreditation of geoscience degrees by the Geological Society. Styles has also studied low frequency noise generated by windfarms.

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Evidence given to the Select Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Lords
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