Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- b.kneller@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
Meston 141
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
Biography
BSc University of Sheffield 1981
Postgraduate Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen 1981-87
Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Sheffield, 1987-88
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Leeds, 1988-90
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, 1990-91
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds, 1991-95
Lectuter, University of Leeds, 1995-2000
Senior Researcher, Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000-2004
Reader, University of Aberdeen, 2004-2006
Professor, University of Aberdeen, 2006-2018, Emeritus 2019-present.
Visiting Professor Chengdu University of Technology
Qualifications
- PhD Geology1988 - University of Sheffield
- Research
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Research Overview
My research has spanned a range of fields in geology, from tectonics and high-grade metamorphic rocks in the 1980s (Ashcroft et al., 1984, Nature, 310, 760-762) to modern seafloor processes (Zhang et al., 2018, Geology, doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1), but has mainly focussed on deepwater depositional systems.
Key publications include:
Kneller, B., Bozetti, G, Callow, R., Dykstra, M., Hansen, L. Kane, I., Li, P., McArthur, A., Santa Catharina., A., dos Santos, T. and Thompson, T., 2020. Architecture, process and environmental diversity in a late Cretaceous slope channel system. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 1-26.
Zhang. Y., Liu, Z., Zhao, Y., Colin, C., Zhang, X., Wang, M., Zhao, S. and Kneller, B., 2018. Long-term in situ observations on typhoon-triggered deep-sea turbidity currents. Geology. doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1
Kneller, B., Nasr-Azadani, M.M. & Meiburg, E. 2016. Long-range sediment transport in the world’s oceans by stably stratified turbidity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 8608–8620.
Kneller, B., Dykstra, M., Fairweather, L. and Milana, J-P., 2016, Mass-transport and slope accommodation: implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs. AAPG Bulletin,100, 213–235.
Meiburg M.E. & Kneller, B.C. 2010. Turbidity currents and their deposits. Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 42, 135-56
Kneller, B.C., Milana, J.P., Buckee, C.M, & al Ja’aidi, O.S., 2004. Depositional Record of Deglaciation in a Paleofjord (Late Carboniferous of San Juan Province, Argentina); the Role of Catastrophic Sedimentation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 116, 348-367.
Kneller, B.C., 2003. The influence of flow parameters on turbidite slope channel architecture. Marine & Petroleum Geology, 20, 901-910.
Kneller, B.C. & Buckee, C.M., 2000. The structure and fluid mechanics of turbidity currents; a review of some recent studies and their geological implications. Sedimentology,47, (Supplement 1), 62-94.
Kneller, B.C., Bennett, S.J., & McCaffrey, W.D., 1999. Velocity structure, turbulence and fluid stresses in experimental gravity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans. 104, C3, 5281-5291.
Kneller, B.C., 1995. Beyond the turbidite paradigm: physical models for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction. InHartley A.J. & Prosser D.J.Characterisation of Deep Marine Clastic SystemsGeological Society of London Special Publication No 94, 31-49.
Kneller, B.C., 1991. A foreland basin on the southern margin of Iapetus. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 207-210.
Current Research
Current and upcoming research collaborations include:
1. Far-field effects of the Chicxulub bolide impact, north-western Mexico (with Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; University of Leeds; University of Manchester)
2. Typhoon-triggered turbidity currents, and the Pleistocene Holocene record of gravity current activity in the Gaoping Canyon, offshore Taiwan (with Tongji University, Shanghai)
3. The record of initial continental collision of India and Asia int the trench basin of southern Tibet (with Nanjing Universoty, China)
4. Architecture of deepwater systems in the Cretaceous fore-arc basin of Tibet, mainly the Albian-Coniacian Ngamring Formation (with Chengdu University of Technology, China)
5. Interaction of gravity currents with topography - a laboratory study (with Zhejiang University, China)
6. Origin of carbonate megabeds within siliciclastic deepwater systems (with Universidad Nacional de San Juan; Universidad do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brasil).
Collaborations
In addition to the collaborations listed under Current Research I am a collaborator with Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Supervision
I have supervised or co-supervised 36 PhD students, 27 as first supervisor. I currently (2021) co-supervise two PhD students in China.
- Publications
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Transformation, partitioning and flow–deposit interactions during the run-out of megaflows
Sedimentology, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 359-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12307
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Submarine channel evolution, terrace development, and preservation of intra-channel thin-bedded turbidites: Mahin and Avon channels, offshore Nigeria
Marine Geology, vol. 383, pp. 146-167Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.11.011
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Integrated U-Pb zircon and palynological/palaeofloristic age determinations of a Bashkirian palaeofjord fill, Quebrada Grande (Western Argentina)
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol. 73, pp. 202-222Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2016.12.009
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The classical turbidite outcrop at San Clemente, California revisited: An example of sandy submarine channels with asymmetric facies architecture
Sedimentary Geology, vol. 346, pp. 1-16Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.10.001
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Long-range sediment transport in the world’s oceans by stably stratified turbidity currents
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol. 121, no. 12, pp. 8608-8620Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalynofacies classification of the depositional elements of confined turbidite systems: Examples from the Gres d'Annot, SE France
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 77, pp. 1254-1273Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInternal deformation and kinematic indicators within a tripartite Mass Transport Deposit, NW Argentina
Sedimentary Geology, vol. 344, pp. 364-381Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterization of deep-marine channel-levee complex architecture with palynofacies: an outcrop example from the Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 73, pp. 157-173Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.02.030
Mass-transport and slope accommodation: Implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs
AAPG Bulletin, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 213– 235Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1306/09011514210
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8117/1/SlopeAccomodationPaper_Final.pdf
Inclusion of substrate blocks within a mass transport deposit: A case study from Cerro Bola, Argentina
Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 7th International Symposium. Lamarche, G., Mountjoy, J., Bull, S., Hubble, T., Krastel, S., Lane, E., Micallef, A., Moscardelli, L., Mueller, C., Pecher, I., Woelz, S. (eds.). Springer International Publishing, pp. 487-496, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_49
Genesis and character of thin-bedded turbidites associated with submarine channels
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 67, pp. 852-879Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMegadeslizamientos gravitacionales de la formación guandacol en cerro bola y sierra de maz y su relación con la glaciación del paleozoico tardío, La Rioja, Argentina
Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 109-133Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMega deslizamientos gravitacionales de la Formación Guandacol en Cerro Bola y Sierra de Maz y su relación con la glaciación del Paleozoico Tardío, La Rioja, Argentina
Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 109-133Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhysical, biological, geochemical and sedimentological controls on the ichnology of continental slope channel systems
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 54, pp. 144-166Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQuantitative analysis of the geometry of submarine external levées
Sedimentology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 877-910Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2012.01366.x
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Architecture and controlling factors of canyon fills on the shelf margin in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 41, pp. 264-276Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.03.002
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Integrated ichnological and sedimentological analysis of a Late Cretaceous submarine channel-levee system: the Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 41, pp. 277-294Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.02.001
Integrating modern seafloor and outcrop data in the analysis of slope channel architecture and fill
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 41, pp. 83-103Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.04.002
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Forward modeling of a deep water slope channel system, Baja, California
Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1190/segam2013-1015.1
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Ichnology of late Cretaceous turbidites from the Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico
Ichnos, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2012.734763
Turbidity currents and powder snow avalanches
Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics: Volume One: Overview and Fundamentals. Fernando, H. J. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, pp. 557-573, 17 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b14241-46
Submarine levees: form, process and reservoir prediction
AAPG Search and Discovery , 50707Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBed-thickness and grain-size trends in a small-scale proglacial channel-levee system; the Carboniferous Jejenes Formation, Western Argentina: implications for turbidity current flow processes
Sedimentology, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 605-622Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01268.x
Deep-water sediment wave formation: linear stability analysis of coupled flow/bed interaction
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 680, pp. 435-458Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2011.171
Mass-transport deposits: combining outcrop studies and seismic forward modeling to understand lithofacies distributions, deformation, and their seismic expression
SEPM Special Publication, vol. 96, pp. 293-310Contributions to Journals: Articles