Robert Gawthorpe
professor
Institutt for geovitenskap
Petroleumsgeofag
Stilling: professor
Telefon: 55 58 34 38
E-post: Rob.Gawthorpe@geo.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Realfagbygget, Allegt. 41
Rob Gawthorpe joined the department in July 2010 as Professor of Petroleum Geoscience. He was previously Professor of Sedimentology and Tectonics and Head of Basin Studies at the University of Manchester.
Rob's research is wide-ranging, integrating geomorphology, sedimentology, stratigraphy and tectonics to study tectonically-active landscapes and sedimentary basin evolution. One of his major research areas is sedimentation and tectonics in rift basins, including the role of fault growth and linkage in controlling rift topography and syn-rift stratigraphy. His research also tackles sequence stratigraphic concepts, for example, controls on the 3D variability of basin margin sequences and the role of sea-level rise and fall in early diagenetic modification (cementation and leaching). These research areas utilize both outcrop and subsurface data and are important for reservoir characterization and the development of exploration concepts.
Three-dimensional seismic data will form an important part of Rob’s research at UiB. He has set up a new 3D seismic lab in the Department that has a suite of workstations configured for interpreting large 3D seismic surveys and imaging subtle sedimentological, structural and fluid flow-related features using techniques like spectral decomposition and RGB blending. The Lab will also host software for reservoir modelling and structural restoration. Rob will also continue with field-based project such as The Rift Analogues Project (TRAP) that integrate digital outcrop (e.g. DEM and Lidar) and traditional field techniques to address sedimentological and structural problems.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Foster, D, Brocklehurst, S.H. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (2010) Glacial-topographic interactions in the Teton Range, Wyoming. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, Article No F01007.
Zachariah, A.J., Gawthorpe, R.L., Dreyer, T. and Corfield, S. (2009) Evolution and strike variability of early post-rift deep-marine depositional systems: Lower to mid-Cretaceous, North Viking Graben, Norwegian North Sea. Sedimentary Geology, 220, 60-76.
Wilson, P., Gawthorpe, R.L., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, F. and Sharp, I.R. (2009) Geometry and architecture of faults in a syn-rift normal fault array: the Nukhul half-graben, Suez rift, Egypt. Journal of Structural Geology, 31, 459-475.
Wilson, P., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, F., Gawthorpe, R.L. and Sharp, I.R. (2009) Structural geology and 4D evolution of a half-graben: New digital outcrop modelling techniques applied to the Nukhul half-graben, Suez rift, Egypt. Journal of Structural Geology, 31, 328-345.
Zachariah, A.J., Gawthorpe, R.L., Dreyer, T. and Corfield, S. (2008) Controls on early post-rift physiography and stratigraphy, lower to mid-Cretaceous, North Viking Graben, Norwegian North Sea. Basin Research, 21, 189-208.
Foster, D., Brocklehurst, S.H. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (2008) Small valley glaciers and the effectiveness of the glacial buzzsaw in the northern Basin and Range, USA. Geomorphology, 102, 624-639.
Bates, K.T., Rarity, F., Manning, P.L., Hodgetts, D. Vila, B., Oms, O., Galobart, A. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (2008) High-resolution LiDAR and photogrammetric survey of the Fumanya dinosaur tracksites (Catalonia): implications for the conservation and interpretation of geological heritage sites. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 165, 115-127.
Fraser, S.I., Fraser, A.J., Lentini, M.R. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (2007) Return to rifts - the next wave: fresh insights into the petroleum geology of global rift basins. Petroleum Geoscience, 13, 99-104.
Macquaker, J.H.S., Taylor, K.G. and Gawthorpe, R.L. (2007) High-resolution facies analyses of mudstones: Implications for paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic interpretations of offshore ancient mud-dominated successions. Journal of Sedimentary Research 77, 324-339.
Gee, M.J.R. AND Gawthorpe, R.L. (2007) Early evolution of submarine channels offshore Angola revealed by three-dimensional seismic data in press. In: Davies, R.J., Posamentier, H.W., Wood, L.J. and Cartwright, J.A. (eds.), Seismic Geomorphology: Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production. Geological Society Special Publication, 277, 223-235.