Professor NICK SCHOFIELD

Professor NICK SCHOFIELD
Professor NICK SCHOFIELD
Professor NICK SCHOFIELD

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Biography

Nick Schofield is a Professor of Igneous and Petroleum Geology. He specializes in the seismic and field interpretation of intrusive and extrusive sequences in volcanic terranes and their interaction with hydrocarbon systems. 

He is at the forefront of allowing the industry to understand the challenging volcanic geology in the subsurface around the UKCS, Atlantic Margin, East Africa and Australasia 

 

 

Research

Research Overview

  • Geology and Petroleum Geology West of Shetland
  • Geology of NE Atlantic Margin
  • Seismic Interpretation of Volcanics
  • Petroleum Geology
  • Evolution of Sedimentary Basins affected by Volcanism
  • Sill Complexes
  • Intra-Lava hydrocarbon plays (e.g. Rosebank)
  • Lava field stratigraphy
  • North Atlantic Igneous Province
  • South Australian Volcanism
  • Salt-Igneous interaction

 

Current Research

Publications

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  • The magma plumbing system of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, offshore Australia: Multi-scale controls on basin wide magma emplacement, and implications for petroleum exploration. The Impacts of Igneous Systems on Sedimentary Basins and Their Energy Resources

    Curtis, M. A., Holford, S. P., Bunch, M., Schofield, N., Karvelas, A.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 547, no. 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Uncertainties in Ray-Tracing Tomography Models Used for Sub-Basalt Seismic Imaging

    Sanford, O. G., Hobbs, R. W., Brown, R. J., Schofield, N.
    Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 180, pp. 145-156
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Impact of Igneous Intrusions on Sedimentary Host Rocks: Insights from Field Outcrop and Subsurface Data

    Mark, N., Schofield, N., Watson, D., Holford, S. P., Pugliese, S., Muirhead, D.
    Petroleum Geoscience
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 3D seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe-Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin

    Layfield, L. K., Schofield, N., Watson, D., Holford, S. P., Jolley, D., Kilhams, B., Muirhead, D., Roberts, A. M., Alvey, A. D., Ellwood, A., Widdowson, M.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 180, no. 5, jgs2022-172
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Petroleum generation and migration through the Faroe-Shetland Basin - The role of Igneous Intrusions

    Mangione, A., Schofield, N., Holdford, S., Grove, C., Ellis, C., Forster, C., Schenk, O., Gardiner, D., Hedley, B., Broadley, L., Underhill, J. R.
    Petroleum Geoscience
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Nature and preservation of Late Jurassic breakup-related volcanism in the carnarvon basin, North West shelf, Australia

    Curtis, M. S., Holford, S. P., Bunch, M., Schofield, N.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 153, 106304
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • New insights on the origin of Barra Volcanic Ridge System, offshore Ireland: a long distance influence of the Iceland mantle plume

    Tomar, G., Roy, S., Bean, C. J., Singh, S. C., O'Reilly, B., Schofield, N.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 152, 106237
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Seismic wave propagation around subsurface igneous sill complexes

    Sanford, O. G., Schofield, N., Hobbs, R. W., Brown, R. J.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 152, 106232
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Challenges and opportunities for hydrocarbon exploration within the Mesozoic sub-basalt plays of the Norwegian Atlantic Margin Petroleum Geoscience

    Kilhams, B., Chedburn, L., Layfield, L. K., Schofield, N., Lunde, I. L., Kennan, L., Romain, H., Jolley, D., Eide, C. H.
    Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1-23
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • New Insights into the Structure, Geology and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity along the Central-Northern Corona Ridge, Faroe-Shetland Basin

    Layfield, L. K., Schofield, N., Jolley, D., Holford, S. P., Volintir, T., Kilhams, B., Muirhead, D., Cromie, H.
    Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 28, 2021-090
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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