Professor Adrian Hartley

Professor of Sedimentology

Chair in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

About

Email Address: a.hartley@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 273712
Office Address: Meston Building Room 110, Department of Geology & Geophysics, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
School/Department: School of Geosciences

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Research

Research Overview

All aspects of clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. A particular interest is the application of geomorphology to the rock record in continental environments.
Evolution of the Central Andes: using stratigraphic, sedimentological and structural data to reconstruct the timing and cause of climate change and uplift in the Central Andes.
Stratigraphic development of clastic sedimentary successions in Large Igneous Provinces.
Application of all aspects of clastic sedimentology applied to subsurface resources.

Current Research

Triassic JIP Phase 2 & 3. A joint indstry project funded by BP, JX Nippon, Total, CNOOC & Neptune Energy looking at the provenance, sedimentology and biostratigraphy of the Triaasic succession in the Central North Sea. The aim is to better predict reservoir distribution and quality in these improtant reservoir units.

Fluvial System Research Group. A Joint Industry Project currently funded by BG, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Total. The project links with Albuquerque and Royal Holloway and aims to develop a predictive model of distributive fluvial systems (DFS) and associated environments based on remote sensing imagery and outcrop studies. Research is focussed on outcrop based studies in various parts of the world and involves building 3D models of different aspects of distributive fluvial systems, "ground-truthed" using datasets derived from remotely sensed imagery and modern day systems.

Collaborations

Gary Weissmann & Louis Scuderi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Amanda Owen, University of Glasgow

Anne Mather, University of Plymouth

Laura Evenstar, University of Brighton

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Level 3 GL3525 Torridon/Gairloch Fieldtrip Course Coordinator

Level 4 GL4023 Mapping Project

Level 5 Integrated Petroleum Geoscience MSc sedimentology, Utah Fieldtrip, Pyrenees fieldtrip.

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Andean uplift and climate change

Ichnofossils of the Psilonichnus Ichnofacies and their paleoecological and paleoenvironmental significance in the Scottish Middle Jurassic.

The central Andean west-slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper-aridity in the Atacama Desert

A late Pilocene age for the Atacama Desert: Implications for the desertification of Western South America

The provenance of Triassic continental sandstones from the Beryl Fields, northern North Sea: mineralogical, geochemical and sedimentological constraints.

A Plio-Pleistocene Tsunami Deposit, Hornitos, northern Chile

A possible Plio-Pleistocene tsunami deposit, Hornitos, northern Chile

High resolution geochemical and petrographical correlation of deep marine Paleocene sandstones from the Foinaven Field, West of Shetland

Sediment provenance and dispersal in a deep marine foreland basin: the Lower Carboniferous Culm Basin, Czech Republic

Development of a continental forearc: A Cenozoic example from the Central Andes, northern Chile

Equilibrium profile development in graded deep-water slopes: Eocene, Eastern Turkey

Reservoir modelling sand-rich deep-water clastics: the necessity of down-scaling

High resolution zonation within a tide-dominated deltaic reservoir: The Middle Jurassic Beryl Formation, Beryl Field, UKCS

Unusual coarse, clastic, wave-dominated shoreface deposits, pliocene to middle pleistocene, northern Chile: Implications for coastal facies analysis

Sand-rich fairways in deep-water clastic reservoirs: Genetic units, capturing uncertainty, and, a new approach to reservoir modeling

Tectonic signatures in arid continental basins: an example from the Upper Miocene-Pleistocene, Calama Basin, Andean forearc, northern Chile

Slumps, debris flows and sandy deep-water channel systems: implications for the application of sequence stratigraphy to deep water clastic sediments

Miocene gypcretes from the Calama Basin, northern Chile

Integrated whole-rock trace element geochemistry and heavy mineral chemistry studies: Aids to the correlation of continental red-bed reservoirs in the Beryl Field, UK North Sea

Characterization of deep marine clastic systems

Sedimentology of the Cretaceous Greensand, Quadrants 48 and 49, North Celtic Sea Basin: a progradational shoreface deposit

Tectonic implications of late Cenozoic sedimentation from the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile (22-24°S)

The sedimentological record of a late Jurassic transgression: Rona Member (Kimmeridge Clay Formation equivalent), West Shetland Basin, UKCS

Reservoir characteristics of a braid-plain depositional system: The Upper Carboniferous Pennant Sandstone of South Wales

1. Reservoir Characterisation of Deep‐Marine Clastic Systems: Aberdeen, UK.

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