Sedimentology and Surface Processes
The department conducts a wide range of research in this area, often applying exciting new analytical and modelling techniques to traditional problems in Earth Science. If you are interested in one of the projects listed below please feel free to contact the associated staff.
Projects
Linking drainage development and hanging wall stratigraphy in extensional terrains; a coupled geomorphic-subsurface study. [details]
Chris Jackson, Alex Whittaker and Mikael Attal (University of Edinburgh)
Firing the sediment gun: quantifying the controls on sediment release and deposition in normal fault bounded catchments in Italy and Greece. [details]
Alex Whittaker, Philip Allen and Mikael Attal (University of Edinburgh)
Is the sedimentary record a good archive of past climate change? [details]
Philip Allen, Alex Whittaker, Sebastien Castelltort (Geneva) and John Armitage (IPGP)
A statistical analysis of sand-waves, offshore East Anglia. [details]
Jenny Collier
Investigating sedimentologic heterogeneities in carbonate reservoirs and mudstone/shale cap-rocks. [details]
Cédric John
Extent and formation of diagenetic dolomite bodies. [details]
Veerle Vandeginste and Cédric John
Sedimentologic heterogeneities and diagenesis of anhydrite cap-rocks. [details]
Cédric John, Veerle Vandeginste and Al Fraser
Determining seabed properties from acoustic backscatter. [details]
Jenny Collier and Chris McGonigle (University of Ulster)
Development of tide-influenced depositional systems, from tide-dominance to fluvial deposits: Paleogene, Western Desert, Egypt. [details]
Howard Johnson, Berit Legler (University of Manchester) and Gary Hampson
Controls on fluvial stratigraphic architecture in a large-scale outcrop dataset: Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, USA. [details]
Gary Hampson and Royhan Gani (University of New Orleans)
A palaeomagnetic approach to dating cataclysmic events.[details]
Adrian Muxworthy and Sanjeev Gupta
The role of tidal currents on reservoir distribution and quality in the Lower Jurassic Tilje Formation, Offshore Mid-Norway. [details]
Peter Allison, Chris Jackson, Howard Johnson, Matthew Piggot
High-resolution stratigraphic and paleogeographic controls on palaeo-oceanographic circulation and mudrock sedimentology. [details]
Gary Hampson, Peter Allison, Matthew Piggott, Christopher Pain
Stratigraphy & 2D/3D seismic facies analysis of the Messinian in the deepwater western Nile Delta. [details]
Al Fraser and Chris Jackson
Geodynamic significance of mesozoic canyons along the norwegian margin. [details]
Chris Jackson and Tor Sømme (University of Bergen)
The development of clastic injections in shallo w marine sedimentary sequences. [details]
Chris Jackson
Geometry, scale, distribution and evolution of slope-confined gullies.[details]
Chris Jackson and David Hodgson (University of Liverpool)
Sediment-laden density currents.[details]
Peter Allison and Matthew Piggott
