Professor of Sedimentology
Chair in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
- About
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- 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
Internal Memberships
- Research
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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
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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.
- Publications
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Global constraints on exhumation rates during porphyry copper formation and supergene enrichment: applications to exploration as illustrated from the Central Andes
Mineralium DepositaContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-024-01303-1
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The influence of salt tectonics on the distribution of the Triassic Skagerrak Formation in the Ula Field, Norwegian North Sea
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 30, no. 2, petgeo2022-025Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge of the basal ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ Stonehaven Group of Scotland: The oldest reported air-breathing land animal is Silurian (late Wenlock) in age
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 181, no. 1, jgs2023-138Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLate Permian Evaporite Facies Variation in the Forth Approaches Basin, North Sea: Implications for Hydrogen Storage
Geoenergy, vol. 1, no. 1Contributions to Journals: Articles分支河流体系研究进展及应用前景展望
Lithologic Reservoirs, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 11-25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.12108/yxyqc.20230502
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Analysis of the Sedimentary Characteristics of a Modern Distributive Fluvial System: A Case Study of the Great Halten River in the Sugan Lake Basin, Qinghai, China
Journal of earth science, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 1249-1262Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-022-1715-0
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分支河流体系分类初探
Lithologic Reservoirs, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1-15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.12108/yxyqc.20230401
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Controls on grain-size distribution in an ancient sand sea
Sedimentology, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 1281-1301Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAnalysis of the fluvial stratigraphic response to the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, USA
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 93, no. 5, pp. 293-308Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe research of river morphology transition and sediment variation: Shule River, northwest of China
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 221, 211396Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2022.211396
Orogenic-orographic feedback and the rise of the Central Andes
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 602, 117931Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEstablishing Provenance from Highly Impoverished Heavy Mineral Suites: Detrital Apatite and Zircon Geochronology of Central North Sea Triassic Sandstones
Geosciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 13010013Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSeismic characterization and depositional significance of the Nahr Menashe deposits: Implications for the terminal phases of the Messinian salinity crisis in the north-east Levant Basin, offshore Lebanon
Basin Research, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 2085-2110Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVirtual field trips utilizing virtual outcrop: construction, delivery and implications for the future
Geoscience Communication, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 227-249Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPaleohydraulic analysis of an ancient distributive fluvial system
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 445-459Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Triassic floras from the Central North Sea
Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 179, no. 3, 071Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-071
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Stratigraphic forward modelling of distributive fluvial systems based on the Huesca System, Ebro Basin, Northern Spain
Basin Research, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 3137-3158Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCoarse-grained meandering distributive fluvial system of the Basal Cedar mountain formation, U.S.A.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 91, no. 11, pp. 1188-1205Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeology and Petroleum Prospectivity of the Sea of Hebrides Basin and Minch Basin, Offshore Northwest Scotland
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 27, no. 4, petgeo2021-003Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolution of foreland basin fluvial systems in the mid-Cretaceous of Utah, USA (upper Cedar Mountain and Naturita formations)
Sedimentology, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 2097-2124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12845
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16824/1/Phillips_etal_Evolution_of_foreland_VOR.pdf
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Determining sediment provenance history in a Gondwanan erg: Botucatu formation, Northern Parana Basin, Brazil
Sedimentary Geology, vol. 417, 105883Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.105883
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Reply to discussion on ‘Palaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea’, by Quirie et al. 2020 (JGS, 177, 718–737)
Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 178, no. 3, jgs2021-011Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/jgs2021-011
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-011
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The effects of basaltic lava flows on the petrophysical properties and diagenesis of interbedded aeolian sandstones: an example from the Cretaceous Parana Basin, Brazil
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 27, no. 2, petgeo2020-036Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2020-036
Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 178, no. 3, jgs2020-177Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSedimentology and provenance of the Lower Old Red Sandstone Grampian outliers: implications for Caledonian orogenic basin development and the northward extension of the Midland Valley Basin
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 178, no. 2, jgs2020-141Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-141
Quantifying Downstream, Vertical and Lateral Variation in Fluvial Deposits: Implications From the Huesca Distributive Fluvial System
Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 8, 564017Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStratigraphic palynology of the Middle–Late Triassic successions of the Central North Sea
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 27, no. 1, petgeo2019-128Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCaledonian foreland basin sedimentation: A new depositional model for the Upper Silurian-Lower Devonian Lower Old Red Sandstone of the Midland Valley Basin, Scotland
Basin Research, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 754-778Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12494
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15707/1/McKellar_etal_BR_Caledonian_VOR.pdf
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Stratigraphic controls on hydrocarbon recovery in clastic reservoirs of the norwegian continental shelf
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 27, no. 2, petgeo2019-133Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2019-133
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Development of inter-lava drainage systems in LIPs: The Columbia River Flood Basalt Province (U.S.A.) as a case study
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 90, no. 10, pp. 1346-1369Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.64
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Tidal estuarine deposits of the transgressive Naturita Formation (Dakota Sandstone): San Rafael Swell, Utah, U.S.A.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol. 90, no. 8, pp. 777-795Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/JSR.2020.51
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Controls on Early Cretaceous desert sediment provenance in south‐west Gondwana, Botucatu Formation (Brazil and Uruguay)
Sedimentology, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 2672-2690Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDeep-water sand-fairway mapping as a tool for tectonic restoration: decoding Miocene central Mediterranean palaeogeography using the Numidian turbidites of southern Italy
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 177, no. 4, pp. 766-783Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalaeogeographical evolution of the Rattray Volcanic Province, Central North Sea
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 177, no. 4, pp. 718-737Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe influence of stratigraphy and facies distribution on reservoir quality and production performance in the Triassic Skagerrak Formation of the UK and Norwegian Central North Sea
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 494Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIce-Rafting in Lakes in the early Neoproterozoic: dropstones in the Diabaig Formation, Torridon Group, NW Scotland
Scottish Journal of Geology, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 47-53Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Multidisciplinary Approach to Sediment Provenance Analysis of the Late Silurian-Devonian Lower Old Red Sandstone succession, Northern Midland Valley Basin, Scotland
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 177, pp. 297-314Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing spatial patterns of fluvial incision to constrain continental-scale uplift in the Andes
Global and Planetary Change, vol. 186, 103119Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMeandering rivers in modern desert basins: implications for channel planform controls and prevegetation rivers
Sedimentary Geology, vol. 385, pp. 1-14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Rattray Volcanics: Mid-Jurassic fissure volcanism in the UK Central North Sea
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 176, pp. 462-481Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBasin-scale predictive models of alluvial architecture: Constraints from the Palaeocene–Eocene, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA
Sedimentology, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 736-763Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12515
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Controls on the Distribution of Volcanism and Intra-Basaltic Sediments in the Cambo-Rosebank Region, West of Shetland
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 71-89Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2017-061
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11802/1/RosebankPaper.pdf
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The geoengineering approach to the study of rivers and reservoirs
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 488, pp. 1-13Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModern and ancient amalgamated sandy meander‐belt deposits: recognition and controls on development
Fluvial Meanders and Their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N. P., Reesink, A. J. H., Bateman, M. (eds.). International Association of Sedimentologists, pp. 349-384, 36 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119424437.ch14
Tracking sand-fairways through a deformed turbidite system: the Numidian (Miocene) of Central Sicily, Italy
Basin Research, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 480-501Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProlonged dynamic support from the Icelandic plume of the NE Atlantic margin
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 175, no. 3, pp. 396-410Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-088
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11803/1/Hardman_etal_2017b.pdf
Reply to the discussion on 'A 2.3 Million Year Lacustrine Record of Orbital Forcing from the Devonian of Northern Scotland', Journal of the Geological Society, London 173, 474-488
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 175, no. 3, pp. 563Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-132
Fluvial architecture in actively deforming salt basins: Chinle Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah
Basin Research, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 148-166Contributions to Journals: ArticlesChallenges of future exploration within the UK Rockall Basin
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMulti-scale classification of fluvial architecture: an example from the Palaeocene-Eocene Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Sedimentology, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 1572-1596Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12364
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