Past research projects

Quantitative Geomorphology of Submarine Channel Networks on Continental Margins

Recent progress in quantitative subaerial geomorphology, coupled with the numerous, high resolution marine geophysical and geological datasets, becoming widely available along continental margins, now suggests major progress can be made at analysing and understanding the margin-scale characteristics...

High-resolution sequence stratigraphy and 3D reservoir characterization of the Mishrif Formation, southern Iraq

PhD student: Thamer Mahdi

Quantifying the effects of sediment deposition, compaction and pore fluid on rock properties and seismic signature

PhD Erling Hugo Jensen

Clinoforms: The link between deep water- and shallow water deposits

PhD student: Helge Kollsete Gjelberg

Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of Rift Basins - From subsurface to outcrop

PhD student: Jord de Boer

Structural Style and Stratigraphic Response to Fault Propagation Folding

PhD student: Matt Lewis (Imperial College)

3D Geodynamics

3D Geodynamic Modelling of Sedimentary Basin and Passive Margin Formation

3D Extension

Numerical Modelling in 3D of Rift Segmentation, Rift Propagation, and Oblique Rifting: Control of Strain Weakening and Brittle Ductile Coupling

DELAM

Lateral termination of a delaminated orogenic root: Lower crustal architecture, and exhumation history of northern Mozambique

FT Bergen

Exhumation history of the Norwegian continental margin across major structural discontinuities deduced by combined fission-track and (U-Th)/He analyses

GOWACO

GOndWAna COrrelations with special emphasis to the East African-Antarctic Orogen in Mozambique and Antarctica

MACHO

Physical and chemical processes in a large magma chamber: The Bjerkreim-Sokndal Intrusion

NOTUR Advanced User support

Advanced Solution Methods for Geophysical Simulation of Plate Tectonics

Source to sink

The source-to-sink (S2S) concept represents a new generation of basin studies that takes into account sediment erosion, transport and deposition from catchment to deep basin.

Svalbard Palaeogene

Investigation of Palaeogene sandbody geometries in Spitsbergen's Central Basin using outcrop, seismic and LIDAR data

Turbidites and turbiditic systems

Outcrop studies combined with analysis of subsurface 3D seismic data and numerical CFD simulations, aimed to improve our understanding of turbiditic systems and their deposits

Colluvium and colluvial systems

Investigation of the sedimentology, depositional processes and climatic proxy record of colluvial deposits

Source-to-Sink Analysis of Rift Basin Tectonics and Sedimentation: Towards Improved Reservoir Prediction

Research on active and ancient fault zones and numerical simulations of rift basins suggest that fault growth, interaction and linkage are primary controls on the evolution of footwall topography, stream networks, hangingwall basin geometry and depositional systems.

Exposures are scanned using a terrestrial LIDAR

The Rift Analogues Project - TRAP

Stratigraphic, sedimentary and structural evolution of extensional depocentres combining traditional field and digital outcrop techniques (LIDAR)

Salt Influenced Rift Basins (SIRB)

The Salt Influenced Rift Basins (SIRB) project, sponsored by Statoil, examines rift tectonics and sedimentation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, focusing on rift basin structural style and evolution and the rift-climax sedimentary response in areas where structure is influenced by the presence of...

Assessing the potential for deep geothermal energy

ESM - Earth System Modeling

Earth System Modeling

PYRTEC

European Science Foundation TopoEurope Project PYRTEC: Spatial and temporal coupling between tectonics and surface processes during lithosphere inversion of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian mountain belt.