Reader.

Responsibilities.

Geology PhD co-ordinator

Courses taught.

Research Interests.

Geodynamics; Tectonics of Phanerozoic sedimentary basins in E & SE Europe; Arctic tectonics; Tectonic basin modelling; seismic profiling and geological interpretation of potential fields

Selected Publications

• Yamasaki, T. and Stephenson, R. 2009. Change in tectonic force inferred from basin subsidence: implications for the dynamical aspects of rifting in the west Mediterranean basins, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press.
• Yamasaki, T. and Stephenson, R., 2008. Some remarks on rheology-controlled cessation of rifting: role of strain hardening in rifting dynamics, Journal of Geodynamics, in press.
• Oakey, G.N. and Stephenson, R.A., 2008. Crustal structure of the Innuitian region of Arctic Canada and Greenland from gravity modelling: implications for the Palaeogene Eurekan Orogen. Geophysical Journal International, 173: 1039-1063.
• Nielsen, S.B., Stephenson, R.A., and Thomsen, E., 2007. Dynamics of Mid-Palaeocene North Atlantic rifting linked with European intra-plate deformations. Nature, 450: 1071-1074.
• D.G. Gee and R.A. Stephenson (Eds.), European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society of London, Memoir 32: 1-9.
• Stephenson, R.A., Yegorova, T., Brunet, M-F. Stovba, S., Wilson, M., Starostenko, V., Saintot, A., and Kusznir, N., 2006. Late Palaeozoic intra- and pericratonic basins on the East European Craton and its margins, in: D.G. Gee and R.A. Stephenson (Eds.), European Lithosphere Dynamics, Geological Society of London, Memoir 32: 463-479.

Contact Details

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