Professor Gordon Walkden
Research Interests
- Impact deposits in the Triassic of the UK
- Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis
- Carbonates and petroleum potential on the Arabian Platform
- Late Triassic reptiles and palaeoecology
Selected References
Hollis, C & Walkden, G M (1996) The use of burial diagenetic calcite cements to determine the controls on hydrocarbon emplacement and mineralisation. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 107, 35-50
Russell, S D, Hulstrand, R F, Mueller, H W, North, C P, & Walkden, G M (1996) Sedimentology, biostratigraphy and diagenetic history of the Shuaiba Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Wadis Muaydin, Bani Kharus and Kamah, Oman Mountains. In: Al-Husseini, M. I. (Ed). Geo96: Proceedings of the 2nd Middle East Geosciences Conference, 15 - 17
Walkden, G M & Williams, A (1998) Carbonate Ramps and the Pleistocene - recent depositional systems of the Arabian Gulf. In: Wright, V. P. & Burchette, T. P. (eds) Carbonate Ramps. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 149, 45-53
Walkden, G M & De Matos, J (2000) "Tuning" high-frequency cyclic carbonate platform successions using omission surfaces: Lower Jurassic of the UAE and Oman. In: Middle East Models of Jurassic/Cretaceous Carbonate Systems. SEPM Special Publication No. 69, 33-48.
De Matos, J & Walkden, G M (2000) Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the Middle Jurassic, UAE. In: Middle East Models of Jurassic/Cretaceous Carbonate Systems. SEPM Special Publication No. 69, 17-31.
Walkden, G.M., Parker,J., & Kelley, S. (2002) A late Triassic impact ejecta layer in Southwestern Britain Science 298, 2185-2188
Walkden,G.M., (2003) The late Triassic bolide impact deposit – what can it tell us? The Observatory (Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society) for 14/2/03, August 2003
Walkden, G.M., Cossey, P.J., Gutteridge, P., Purnell, MA. & Adams, A.E. 2004. Derbyshire Platform, North StaffordshireBasin, and Hathern Shelf, Ch 7 in British Lower Carboniferous Startigraphy (617pp.) a Geological Conservation Review publication, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Walkden, G.M. 2004 Deep Impact, Planet Earth (NERC, Autumn 2004), pp. 16-18
Walkden, G.M., Thackrey, S.N.D. & Dunn, G. 2006. Geological aspects of terrestrial impact cratering rates. Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, European Space Agency Special Publication No. 612.
Walkden,G.M., & Parker, J. 2006 Large bolide impacts: is it only size that counts? Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, European Space Agency Special Publication No. 612.
Walkden,G.M., & Parker, J. 2008. The biotic effects of large bolide impacts: size versus time and place. Inernational Journal of Astrobiology, Volume 7 (3&4) pp.209-215.