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Postgraduate student success
Basin Studies has been enjoying an impressive run of success with our postgraduate presentations.
Christophe Serié received an AAPG Award of Excellence "Top 10 Poster Presentation" at the AAPG Annual Convention, April 2011, Houston, TX, for his poster "Salt tectonic controls on fluid flow, gas hydrate occurrence and surface heat flow, Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola".
Richard Newport won the Eric Mountjoy Best Student Poster award at the 14th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists in Bristol in July 2011 for his poster "Dolomitisation of shallow marine, mid-Cretaceous carbonates of the Jeffara escarpment, southern Tunisia". The Bathurst Meeting is the leading European meeting of carbonate sedimentologists, and the prize was newly inaugurated to honour the life of Eric Mountjoy, who published ground-breaking research into dolomitisation and reservoir characterisation throughout his academic career.
Ann Rowan won a Best Student Poster prize at the INQUA Congress in Bern, Switzerland, July 2011, for her poster "Quantifying climate-driven changes in effective drainage area between basins in South Island, New Zealand". The quadrennial INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress is the leading international meeting for Quaternary scientists, with over 2,000 delegates.
PhD completion - Dr Deborah McCormack
Congratulations to Dr Deborah McCormack, who has successfully defended and completed all of the corrections to her PhD thesis entitled "The style and timing of the last deglaciation of Wester Ross, NW Scotland".
New Arrival - Dr Berit Legler
A warm welcome to Dr Berit Legler, who has joined SEAES from Imperial College as Lecturer in Basin Studies and Petroleum Geoscience. Berit's expertise lies in clastic sedimentology.
Publications 2011
Goswami, R., Mitchell, N.C., Brocklehurst, S.H., (2011). Distribution and causes of landslides in the eastern Peloritani of NE Sicily and western Aspromonte of SW Calabria, Italy. Geomorphology 132(3-4), 111-122, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.036. abstract and pdf
Lubeseder S., J. Redfern, L. Petitpierre, S. Fröhlich, (2011). Stratigraphic trapping potential in the Carboniferous of North Africa: developing new play concepts based on integrated outcrop sedimentology and regional sequence stratigraphy (Morocco, Algeria, Libya). Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference Series 7, 725-734, doi: 10.1144/0070725. abstract and pdf
Mader, N. K. and Redfern, J. (2011). A sedimentological model for the continental Upper Triassic Tadrart Ouadou Sandstone Member: recording an interplay of climate and tectonics (Argana Valley; South-west Morocco), Sedimentology, 58(5), 1247-1282, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01204.x. abstract and pdf
McCormack, D.C., Brocklehurst, S.H., Irving, D.H.B., Fabel, D. (2011). Cosmogenic 10Be insights into the extent and chronology of the last deglaciation in Wester Ross, northwest Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science 26(1), 97-108. abstract and pdf
Redfern, J., Shannon, P.M., Williams, B.P.J., Tyrell, S., Leleu, S., Fabuel Perez, I., Baudon, C., Štolfová, K., Hodgetts, D., Speksnijder, A., Haughton, P.D.W, Daly, J.S., (2011). An integrated study of Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin: implication for future exploration. Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series, 7, 921-936, doi: 10.1144/0070921. abstract and pdf
NARG Workshop: Naturally Fractured Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of North Africa
Organisers: Guy H. Spence and Jonathan Redfern
This 2-day workshop on naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs will be held at the University of Manchester on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th January 2011.
North Africa is the primary focus of the workshop but presentations on all aspects of naturally fractured reservoirs from other regions are also welcome. We would like the workshop to include both methodologies and outcrop and subsurface studies addressing the fundamental controls on natural fracture networks and also case histories of the practical development and modelling of naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoirs. Presentations already submitted include naturally fractured reservoirs from the Cretaceous of Libya, Palaeozoic of Algeria, Miocene and Eocene of Egypt, Senonian of Tunisia, Devonian of Morocco, and examples from Malta and Jordan. Presentations on investigative methodologies and techniques have also been received. The meeting will include a mix of speakers from the petroleum industry and academia.
Basin Studies contributions at the AGU Fall Meeting
The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 13th-17th December, features 15 presentations involving Basin Studies members. In no particular order (to view abstracts, first click on the "Search Fall Meeting Program" link on this page, then the links below should become active):
3D seismic characterization of the Norwegian Channel Ice Stream - bedrock controls on ice streaming behaviour and spatio-temporal evolution of erosion and infill of a major cross-shelf trough through multiple glaciations. J. Grant; M. Huuse. abstract
SedWorks: A 3-D visualisation software package to help students link surface processes with depositional product. M. A. Jones; A. Edwards; P. Boulton. abstract presenter
Identifying climate change signals in the late Quaternary gravel-bed, braided river stratigraphy of the Canterbury Plains, New Zealand. M. A. Jones; A. V. Rowan; S. J. Covey-Crump; S. H. Brocklehurst; H. M. Roberts; G. A. Duller. abstract presenter
Tectonic signals in glaciated landscapes: the importance of scale (Invited). S. H. Brocklehurst. abstract presenter
Linking onshore and offshore erosion and sediment transport in the Strait of Messina, Italy. R. Goswami; N. C. Mitchell; S. H. Brocklehurst; A. Argnani. abstract presenter
Numerical modelling of climatically-driven drainage capture and sediment flux, South Island, New Zealand. A. V. Rowan; M. A. Plummer; S. H. Brocklehurst; M. A. Jones. abstract presenter
The role of antecedent drainage networks and isolated normal fault propagation on basin stratigraphy. E. Finch; S. H. Brocklehurst; R. Gawthorpe. abstract presenter
The influence of interacting normal faults on drainage network evolution and basin stratigraphy. S. H. Brocklehurst; E. Finch; R. Gawthorpe. abstract presenter
Landscape Response to Active Extensional Faulting and Multiple Local Base Levels: The Perachora Peninsula, Eastern Gulf of Corinth, Greece. O. Bujanowski-Duffy; S. H. Brocklehurst; R. L. Gawthorpe; E. Finch. abstract presenter
A Spatially-Registered, Massively Parallelised Data Structure for Interacting with Large, Integrated Geodatasets. D. H. Irving; M. Rasheed; N. O'Doherty. abstract presenter
Subsurface Seismic Record of Sediment Failures in the Neogene of Deepwater West Africa: Causal Mechanisms and Characteristics. A. P. Oluboyo; D. Zhunussov; M. Huuse; R. Gawthorpe. abstract presenter
Case Studies of Massive Gravity Slides Imaged in 3D Seismic Volumes: Passive Margin and Basinal Settings (West Africa and Northwest Europe). U. K. Benjamin; A. . Le; A. P. Oluboyo; D. H. Irving; M. Huuse. abstract presenter
Subsurface plumbing and fluid expulsion from sedimentary basins: evidence from the sedimentary record offshore West Africa (Invited). M. Huuse. abstract presenter
Seismic Characterization of a Bottom Simulating Reflector (BSR) and Plumbing System of the Cameroon Margin, West Africa. A. Le; M. Huuse; J. Redfern; D. H. Irving. abstract presenter
The equatorial Pacific pelagic sedimentary system. N. C. Mitchell; M. Tominaga; N. Dubois; M. W. Lyle. abstract presenter
Earth Surface Processes at Manchester on tour 2010-2011
Simon Brocklehurst has been invited to deliver seminars in several different departments around the UK this winter:
27th October: University of Plymouth
24th November: Durham University
30th November: University of Sheffield
9th February: University of Liverpool
Publications 2010
Bodin, S., Mattioli, E., Frohlich, S., Marshall, J.D., Boutib, L., Lahsini, S., & Redfern, J. (2010). Toarcian carbon isotope shifts and nutrient changes from the Northern margin of Gondwana (High Atlas, Morocco, Jurassic): Palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297, 377-390. abstract and pdf
Bodin, S., Wood, J., Petitpierre, L., Redfern, J. (2010). Timing of Early to Mid-Cretaceous tectonic phases along North Africa: New insights from the Jeffara escarpment (Libya-Tunisia). Journal of African Earth Sciences 58(3), 489-506. abstract and pdf
Brocklehurst, S.H. (2010). Tectonics and geomorphology. Progress in Physical Geography 34(3), 357-383. abstract and pdf
Catterall, V., Redfern, J., Gawthorpe, R.L., Hansen, D.M & Thomas, M.H.F (2010), Architectural Style and Quantification of a Submarine Channel-Levee System located in a structurally complex area: Offshore Nile Delta. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80(11), 991-1017; DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2010.084. abstract and pdf
Fabuel-Perez, I., Hodgetts, D. and Redfern, J. (2010). Integration of digital outcrop models (DOMs) and high resolution sedimentology; workflow and implications for geological modelling; Oukaimeden Sandstone Formation, High Atlas (Morocco). Petroleum Geoscience 16, 133-154. abstract and pdf
Foster, D., Brocklehurst, S.H., Gawthorpe, R.L. (2010). Glacial-topographic interactions in the Teton Range, Wyoming, Journal of Geophysical Research 115, F01007, doi:10.1029/2008JF001135. abstract and pdf
Fröhlich, S., Petitpierre, L., Redfern, J., Grech, P., Bodin, S., Lang, S. (2010). Sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic analysis of Carboniferous deposits in western Libya: recording the sedimentary response of the northern Gondwana margin to climate and sealevel changes. Journal of African Earth Sciences 57(4), 279-296. abstract and pdf
Hollis, C., Vahrenkamp, V., Tull, S., Mukherji, A., Taberner, C., Huang., Y. (2010). Pore system characterisation in heterogeneous carbonates: an alternative approach to widely used rock-typing methodologies. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(4), 772-793. abstract and pdf
Huuse, M., Jackson, C.A.-L., Van Rensbergen, P., Davies, R.J., Flemings, P.B. & Dixon, R.J. (2010) Subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimentary basins: an overview. Basin Research 22(4), 342-260. abstract and pdf
Mitchell, N.C., Ligi, M., Ferrante, V., Bonatti, E. & Rutter, E. (2010). Submarine salt flows in the central Red Sea. Geological Society of America Bulletin 122(5-6), 701-713. abstract and pdf
Stevenson, J.A., Sun, X. & Mitchell, N.C. (2010). Despeckling SRTM and other topographic data with a denoising algorithm. Geomorphology 114(3), 238-252. abstract and pdf
Thomas, M.F.H., Bodin, S., Redfern, J. & Irving, D.H.B. (2010). A constrained African craton source for the Cenozoic Numidian Flysch: Implications for the palaeogeography of the western Mediterranean basin. Earth-Science Reviews 101(1-2), 1-23. abstract and pdf