Responsibilities.

Advisory Editor, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Council Member, Geological Society of London (Awards Committee, External Relations Committee).Director – Virtual Seismic Atlas. Manager – undergraduate field projects.

Courses taught.

GL3024, GL3512, GL4020, MSc in IPG

Research Interests.

Structural interpretation of geophysical data sets. Structural processes on submarine slopes (from sediment entrainment in gravity flows, through mass wasting to deepwater fold thrust belts). Tectonic evolution of continental lithosphere – orogens and basins. Thrust systems and the structural evolution.

Selected Publications

• Butler R.W.H. 2010. The role of thrust tectonic models in understanding the structural evolution of NW Scotland. In: Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. (eds R.D. Law, R.W.H. Butler, R.E. Holdsworth, M. Krabbendam & R. Strachan), Special Publication of the Geological Society, 335, 293-330.
• Butler, R.W.H. & McCaffrey, W.D. 2010. The structural geology of sediment entrainment in submarine mass transport complexes: outcrop perspectives. Journal of the Geological Society 167, 617-631.
• Vinnels, J.S. Butler, R.W.H., Paton, D.A. & McCaffrey, W.D. 2010. Depositional processes across the Sinu Accretionary Prism, offshore Colombia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 794-809.
• Butler, R.W.H. & Paton, D.A. 2010 Evaluating lateral compaction in deepwater fold and thrust belts: how much are we missing from Nature's Sandbox? GSA Today 20, 4-10.
• Butler, R.W.H. 2009. Relationships between the Apennine thrust belt, foredeep and foreland revealed by marine seismic data, offshore Calabria. Bollettino Società Geologica Italiana, 128, 269-278.
• Lloyd, G.E., Butler, R.W.H., Casey, M. & Mainprice, D. 2009. Mica, deformation fabrics and the seismic properties of the continental crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.035

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