Research areas

• Stratigraphy and ecology using organic-walled microfossils.
  - Microfossil Research Group
• Environmental impact of large igneous provinces, bolide impacts and hyperthermal events. Boltysh Meteorite Impact Crater website.
• Applications of micropalaeontology to petroleum exploration and production

Publications

Jolley, D.W. & Whitham, A. 2004. A stratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental analysis of the sub-basaltic Palaeogene sediments of east Greenland. Petroleum Geoscience 10, 53-60.

Jolley, D.W., Morton, A.C. & Prince, I.P. 2005. Volcanogenic impact on phytogeography and sediment dispersal patterns in the NE Atlantic. In: Dore A.G. & Vining, B.A. (eds) Petroleum Geology: NW Europe and Global Perspectives , Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference 969-975.

Jolley, D.W. & Widowson M. 2005. North Atlantic rift eruptions drive Eocene climate cooling. Lithos 79, 355-366.

Cripps, J.A., Widdowson, M., Spicer, R.A. & Jolley, D.W. 2005. Cumulative effects of regional and local Deccan volcanism upon post K/T boundary coastal ecosystems, Mumbai (Bombay), west India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 216, 303-332.

Jolley D.W. & Morton A.C. 2007. Understanding basin sedimentary provenance: Evidence from allied phytogeographic and heavy mineral analysis of the Paleocene of the NE Atlantic. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 164, 553-563.

Jolley D.W. Bell B.R. Williamson I.T. & Prince I. 2008. Syn-eruption vegetation dynamics, paleosurfaces and structural controls on lava field vegetation: An example from the Palaeogene Staff Formation, Mull Lava Field, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, (in press).

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