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Presentation

7/7/2015

Dan Collins presented a talk entitled ‘Integrated palaeogeographic mapping and tidal modeling during the Oligo-Miocene, South China Sea’ and a poster entitled ‘Storm-ﬂood’ coastal systems in relation to delta front-shoreface facies models: applications to Miocene successions in the Baram Delta Province, NW Borneo’ at the AAPG GTW workshop in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia on May 26-27.

Dan was awarded best poster, complete with a unique prize (whatever it happens to be...)

Dan Collions, poster and prize

Congratulations!

7/6/2015

Huge congratulations to Rebecca Bell, who is now a FULL-TIME MEMBER OF STAFF! Becky now has the rather swanky new title of ‘Lecturer in Geology and Geophysics’… which basically means she knows everything… well done Becky!!

Food, drink, good times…

7/6/2015

Chris Jackson attended the Geological Society of London Petroleum Group dinner, which was held at the Natural History Museum on June 18th, under the gaze of Dippy…

Company visit

7/6/2015

Chris Jackson visited CORE Energy AS in Stavanger, Norway (22nd June) to look at Upper Jurassic deep-water core from Halten Terrace, offshore Norway. It. Was. Awesome. Containing lots of exotic sedimentary facies, which seemingly are indicative of large amounts of sediment bypass into deeper-water...

Visiting speaker

7/6/2015

Thanks to Dr Andras Fall from the FRAC Group at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), University of Texas at Austin, US who visited ESE (June 25th) to present a talk on the use of fluid inclusions to understand fracture growth. Despite being outside of term time, the talk was very well attended and enthusiastically received! Thanks also to Veerle Vandeginste who helped organise the visit!

Publications

7/6/2015

O’Driscoll B., Ferré E., Stevenson C.T.E., Magee C., 2015, The significance of magnetic fabrics in layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions, in Layered Intrusions (Eds., Charlier B, Namur O, Latypov R, Tegner C), Springer, 295-330

Magee C., Maharaj S.M., Wrona T., Jackson C.A-L., 2015, Controls on the seismic expression of igneous intrusions in seismic reflection data, Geosphere, 11, 1-18

Bertazzo, S., Maidment, S.C.R., Kallepitis, C., Fearn, S., Stevens, M.M., Xie, H. (2015). Fibres and cellular strucutres preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur specimens. Nature Communications 6, 7352.

Bates, K.T., Falkingham, P.L., Macaulay, S., Brassey, C., Maidment, S.C.R. (2015). Downsizing a giant: re-evaluating Dreadnoughtus body mass. Biology Letters 11, 20150215.

External positions of responsibility

7/6/2015

Chris Jackson has been elected to sit on the committee for the AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Program. He attended his first committee meeting at AAPG in Denver and, along with several other academic and industry representatives from around the world, Chris will be involved in selecting Distinguished Lecturers for the AAPG’s National and International lecture programs. Chris served as the AAPG Allan P. Bennison Distinguished Lecturer in 2013.

Research Activity

7/6/2015

Craig Magee accompanied Ian Bastow on a research visit to the University of Florence where they discussed how best to kick down the doors of science blocking advancements in the world of continental rifting and associated magmatism. Fuelled by good food, good beer, good beer, and stunning architecture work is already underway to further develop the collaboration.

Craig Magee attended the “Rockall Basin: Ireland and UK Industry Awareness Seminar” held at the Geological Society (12th June) where he was involved with discussions concerning the impact that igneous sill-complexes may have petroleum system development.

Bruce Levell (University of Oxford), Howard Johnson, Dan Collins and Marijn van Cappelle did fieldwork on the Proterozoic Jura Quartzite on the islands of Islay and Jura in SW Scotland. The main focus was on the sedimentology of these deposits (photos below).

Conference

7/6/2015

There were three contributions from the Basins group to the Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs conference at the Geological Society where Gary Hampson was one of the convenors. The other two contributions were from Gary and Dan Collins. We also visited a two-day core-workshop after the conference.

Marijn van Cappelle, Rodmar Ravnås, Gary Hampson & Howard Johnson, 2015, Spatial and temporal changes in depositional processes in a progradational mixed-influence deltaic succession: Jurassic Ile Formation, Halten Terrace, Offshore Norway. Sedimentology of Paralic Reservoirs: Recent advances and their applications, The Geological Society, London (oral presentation).

Madness...

7/6/2015

Along with Dr Dave Hodgson, University of Leeds StratGroup supremo, Chris Jackson ran the Derby Ramathon on June 7th. It was Dave’s first half-marathon, and around 4000 people and the sun came out to celebrate it with him. They crossed the line in 2:01:58. Damn that 1:58…

The Basins Research Group (BRG) at Imperial College London focuses on the geodynamic, struc-tural, and stratigraphic evolution of sedimentary basins. This range of ac-tivities is centred around a multidisciplinary group of Earth Scientists who are committed to understand-ing the fundamental geo-logical processes opera-ting in evolving sediment-ary basins, and the application of this under-standing to determining the nature, origin and occurrence of natural resources (see Themes).

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