Dr Colin North

Dr Colin North
Dr Colin North
Dr Colin North

B.Sc. (Hons) PhD CSci CGeol FGS

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
c.p.north@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273459
Office Address

School of Geoscience,
Meston Building Room 109,
Kings College, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE

School/Department
School of Geosciences

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Disabilities and Special Needs Advisor for School of Geosciences

Elected member of Senate: 2014-present

AAPG Student Chapter Faculty Advisor

Accreditation Officer

External Memberships

Geological Society of London Council: Secretary (Publications) 2014-2019

AAPG Bulletin: Senior Associate Editor 2012-present; Associate Editor 1999-2012

Chief Editor for AAPG Special Publications, and Chair AAPG publications committee 2011-2015

AAPG: Officer Candidate for post of Elected Editor (2013-16)

GeoscienceWorld Board of Directors: Vice-chair: 2019-present; Chair 2010-2014; Treasurer 2009-10; member 2008-9

Journal of Sedimentary Research:
Co-Chief Editor 2004-8, Associate Editor 2000-4

SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology: Member of Council 2004-8

Research

Research Overview

Rivers and their sedimentary record, and their coastal and shallow marine interactions, with special emphasis on dryland environments (AUDRI project)

Continental sedimentary environments in general; early terrestrial diagenesis

Subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir description, prediction, and quantitative modelling

Analogue outcrop studies

PhD supervision: 14 completed. External PhD examiner: 11, at institutions world-wide

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Petroleum Data Management MSc (full-time and online part-time programmes)  - Programme Director

GL5033 / GL5534 Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience (Course Coordinator)

GL5054 / GL5554 Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience - online (Course Coordinator & tutor)

GL5911 / GL5912 Final Independent Data Management Project  - (Course Coordinator and tutor)

GL3521 Sedimentology (Course Coordinator & tutor)

GL2510 Field and Laboratory Techniques & Arran Field Trip (Course Coordinator, tutor, field trip leader)

GL2015 Petrology (Sedimentary processes and petrology components tutor and Course co-Coordinator)

Publications

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  • Le Tourneau, P.M. and Olsen, P.E. (eds), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003): Volume One: Tectonics, Structure, and Volcanism, Volume Two: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology

    North, C. P.
    Geological Magazine, vol. 141, no. 3, pp. 392-393
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Gluyas, J & Swarbrick, R., 2004 Petroleum Geoscience, Blackwell Science Ltd

    North, C. P.
    Teaching in Earth Sciences, vol. 28, pp. 41-42
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Surface and subsurface sedimentary structures produced by salt crusts

    Goodall, T. M., North, C. P., Glennie, K. W.
    Sedimentology, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 99-118
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Spectral gamma-ray logging for facies discrimination in mixed fluvial-eolian successions: A cautionary tale

    North, C. P., Boering, M.
    AAPG Bulletin, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 155-169
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Ziegler,K., Turner,P. & Daines,S.R. (eds). Petroleum Geology of the Southern North Sea: Future Potential. Geological Society Special Publication No. 123

    North, C. P.
    Journal of Petroleum Geology, vol. 21, pp. 366-368
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • The prediction and modelling of subsurface fluvial stratigraphy

    North, C. P.
    Advances in fluvial dynamics and stratigraphy. Carling, P., Dawson, M. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons, pp. 395-508, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Fractals and their applicability in geological wireline log analysis

    Pang, J., North, C. P.
    Journal of Petroleum Geology, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 339-350
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Ephemeral-fluvial deposits: Integrated outcrop and simulation studies reveal complexity

    North, C. P., Taylor, K. S.
    AAPG Bulletin, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 811-830
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Reservoir characterisation of a low resistivity gas field: Otway Basin, South Australia

    Scholefield, T., North, C. P., Parvar, H.
    APPEA Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 62-81
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Bias in estimating fractal dimension with the rescaled-range (R/S) technique

    North, C. P., Halliwell, D. I.
    Mathematical Geology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 531-555
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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