School of Geological Sciences

Effusive eruption on Etna, 2006. Image by Mr Ivan Lokmer.

School of Geological Sciences - Research Publications 2006/07

Below is the list of research publications for the School of Geological Sciences in the academic year 2006/07

Books

Book Chapters

Peer Reviewed Journals

Conference Publications

Published Reports

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Books

Professor Patrick M Shannon
Moore, S., Carr, P., Crehan, M., Crowley, J., Flynn, D., Morgan, P. and Shannon, P. (eds) (2006) Keeping Students at University - The Retention Debate at Third Level. Dublin: Intersource Group Publishing.
Professor John Walsh
Jolley, S.J., Barr, D., Walsh, J.J. & Knipe, R.J. (2007) Structurally Complex Reservoirs. London: Geological Society of London.

Professor Stephen Daly
Balagansky, V.V., Mints, M.V. and Daly, J.S. (2006) 'The Palaeoproterozoic Lapland-Kola Orogen' In: Morozov, A.F. & Pavlenkova, N.I (eds). Structure and dynamics of the lithosphere of Eastern Europe: Results of EUROPROBE programme studies. Moscow [in Russian]: GEOS Publishers, 142-155.
Balagansky, V.V. and Daly, J.S. (2006) 'Introduction: the main aims of the SVEKALAPKO project' In: Morozov, A.F. & Pavlenkova, N.I (eds). Structure and dynamics of the lithosphere of Eastern Europe: Results of EUROPROBE programme investigations. Moscow [in Russian]: GEOS Publishers, 13-16.
Daly, J.S., Balagansky, V.V., Timmerman, M.J. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2006) 'The Lapland-Kola Orogen: Palaeoproterozoic collision and accretion of the northern Fennoscandian lithosphere' In: Gee, D.G. and Stephenson, R (eds). European Lithosphere Dynamics. London: Geological Society, London, Memoir 32, 579-597.
Dr Dmitriy Grazhdankin
Terleev, A.A., Postnikov, A.A., Kochnev, B.B., Nagovitsin, K.E., Grazhdankin, D.V. and Stanevich, A.M. (2006) '[Early Proterozoic biota from the Udokan Group of the western Aldan Shield, Russia]' In: Rozhnov, S.V (eds). Evolyutsiia biosfery i bioraznoobraziia. Moscow: KMK: 271-281 [In Russian].
Professor Frank McDermott
Gleeson, D., McDermott, F. and Clipson, N. (2007) 'Understanding Microbially Active Biogeochemical Environments' In: Gadd, G (eds). Advances in Applied Microbiology. St Louis, MO: Elsevier, 81-103.
McDermott, F., Schwarcz, H. and Rowe, P.J. (2006) 'Isotopes in Speleothems' In: Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research. Netherlands: Springer, 185-225.

Professor Christopher Bean
Saccorotti, G., Lokmer, I., Bean, CJ., Di Grazia, G. and Patane, D. (2007) 'Analysis of sustained long-period activity at Etna Volcano, Italy'. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 160 (3-4):340-354.
Dr Conrad Childs
Bonson, C.G., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Schöpfer, M.P.J. and Carboni, V. (2007) 'Geometric and kinematic controls on the internal structure of a large normal fault in massive limestones: the Maghlaq Fault, Malta'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :336-354.
Schöpfer, M.P.J., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Manzocchi, T. and Koyi, H.A. (2007) 'Geometrical analysis of the refraction and segmentation of normal faults in periodically layered sequences'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :318-335.
Professor Stephen Daly
Flowerdew, M.J., Daly, J.S. and Riley, T.R. (2007) 'New Rb-Sr mineral ages temporally link plume events with accretion at the margin of Gondwana'. USGS Open File Report, Short Research Paper, 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 012 :1-4.
Kirkland, C.L., Daly, J.S., Eide, E.A. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2007) 'Tectonic evolution of the Arctic Norwegian Caledonides from a texturally- and structurally-constrained multi-isotopic (Ar-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb) study'. American Journal of Science, 307 (2):459-526.
Kirkland, C.L., Daly, J.S. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2007) 'Provenance and terrane evolution of the Kalak Nappe Complex, Norwegian Caledonides: Implications for Neoproterozoic paleogeography and tectonics'. Journal of Geology, 115 (1):21-41.
Kirkland, C.L., Daly, J.S., Eide, E.A. and Whitehouse, M.J. (2006) 'The structure and timing of lateral escape during the Scandian Orogeny: A combined strain and geochronological investigation in Finnmark, Arctic Norwegian Caledonides'. Tectonophysics, 425 (1-4):159-189.
Dr Dmitriy Grazhdankin
Grazhdankin, D; Gerdes, G; (2007) 'Ediacaran microbial colonies'. Lethaia, 40 :201-210.
Grazhdankin, D.V. and Krayushkin, A.V. (2007) '[Trace fossils and the Upper Vendian boundary in the southeastern White Sea region]. [in Russian; English translation published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica in Doklady Earth Sciences, 416(7): 1027–1031]'. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 416(4) :514-518.
Grazhdankin, D.V., Nagovitsin, K.E. and Maslov, A.V. (2007) '[Upper Vendian Miaohe-type ecological assemblage of the East European Platform]. [in Russian; English translation published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica in Doklady Earth Sciences, 417(8): 1183–1187]'. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 417 (1) :73-78.
Ronkin, Yu.L., Grazhdankin, D.V., Maslov, A.V., Mizens, G.A., Matukov, D.I., Krupenin, M.T., Petrov, G.A., Lepikhina, O.P. and Kornilova A.Yu. (2006) '[U-Pb (SHRIMP II) age of zircons from ash beds in the Chernokamen Formation, Vendian Sylvitsa Group (Central Urals).] [in Russian; English translation published by MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica in Doklady Earth Sciences, 411(9): 1341–1345]'. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 411(3) :354-359.
Morris, SC; Grazhdankin, D; (2006) 'A post-script to the enigmatic Protonympha (Devonian; New York): Is it an arm of the echinoderms?'. Palaeontology, 49 (NA):1335-1338.
Dr Flor De Lis Mancilla
Stich, D., Mancilla, F., Pondrelli, S. and Morales, J. (2007) 'Source analysis of the February 12th 2007, Mw 6.0 Horseshoe earthquake: Implications for the 1755 Lisbon earthquake'. Geophysical Research Letters, 34 :L12308-L12308.
Dr Tom Manzocchi
Jolley, S.J., Dijk, H., Lamens, Q. J., Fisher, Q. J., Manzocchi, T., Eikmans, H., and Huang, Y. (2007) 'Faulting and fault sealing in production simulation models: Brent Province, northern North Sea'. Petroleum Geoscience, 13 :321-340.
Schöpfer, M.P.J., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Manzocchi, T. and Koyi, H.A. (2007) 'Geometrical analysis of the refraction and segmentation of normal faults in periodically layered sequences'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :318-335.
Manzocchi, T., Walsh, J.J. and Nicol, A. (2006) 'Displacement accumulation from earthquakes on isolated normal faults'. Journal of Structural Geology, 28 :1685-1693.
Professor Frank McDermott
Holmes, J., Jones, R., Haas, J.N., McDermott, F., Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. (2007) 'Multi-proxy evidence for Holocene lake-level and salinity changes at An Loch Mór, a coastal lake on the Aran Islands, Western Ireland'. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.020.
Baldini, J.U.L., McDermott, F. and Fairchild, I.J. (2006) 'Spatial variability in cave drip water hydrochemistry: Implications for stalagmite paleoclimate records'. Chemical Geology, 235 (3-4):390-404.
Dr Julian Menuge
Walshaw, R.D., Menuge, J.F. and Tyrrell, S. (2006) 'Metal sources of the Navan carbonate-hosted base metal deposit, Ireland: Nd and Sr isotope evidence for deep hydrothermal convection'. Mineralium Depositia, 41 (8):803-819.
Ms Vassiliki Mouslopoulou
Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A. and Walsh, J.J. (2007) 'Displacement transfer between intersecting strike-slip and extensional fault systems'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :100-116.
Dr Brian O'Driscoll
O’Driscoll, B., Donaldson, C.H., Troll, V. R., Jerram, D.A., and Emeleus, C.H. (2007) 'An origin for harrisitic and granular olivine from the Rum Layered Suite, NW Scotland: A crystal size distribution study'. Journal of Petrology, 2 :253-270.
O'Driscoll, B. (2007) 'The Centre 3 layered gabbro intrusion, Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland'. Geological Magazine, 144 (6) :897-908.
O'Driscoll, B. (2006) 'Magmatic layering and magnetic fabrics in the Palaeogene Carlingford Later Gabbros, Co. Louth, Ireland'. Irish Journal of Earth Science, 24 :37-50.
Dr Martin Schöpfer
Bonson, C.G., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Schöpfer, M.P.J. and Carboni, V. (2007) 'Geometric and kinematic controls on the internal structure of a large normal fault in massive limestones: the Maghlaq Fault, Malta'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :336-354.
Schöpfer, M.P.J., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Manzocchi, T. and Koyi, H.A. (2007) 'Geometrical analysis of the refraction and segmentation of normal faults'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 :318-335.
Professor Patrick M Shannon
O'Reilly, B.M., Shannon, P.M. and Readman, P.W. (2007) 'Shelf to slope sedimentation processes and the impact of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations in the northeast Atlantic, west of Ireland'. Marine Geology, 238 :21-44.
Huvenne, V.A.I., Bailey, W.R., Shannon, P.M., Naeth, J., di Primio, R., Henriet, J.P., Horsfield, B., de Haas, H., Wheeler, A. and Roy, K.O.L. (2007) 'The Magellan mound province in the Porcupine Basin'. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundsch.), 96 (1):85-101.
Shannon, P.M., McDonnell, A. and Bailey, W.R. (2007) 'The evolution of the Porcupine and Rockall basins, offshore Ireland: the geological template for carbonate mound development'. International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundsch.), 96 :21-35.
O'Reilly, B.M., Hauser, F., Ravaut, C., Shannon, P.M. and Readman, P.W. (2006) 'Crustal thinning, mantle exhumation and serpentinisation in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: Evidence from wide-angle seismics'. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 163 :775-787.
Dr Ian Somerville
Somerville, I.D. and Cózar, P. (2006) 'A new Mississippian problematicum from Ireland and Britain; comparison with the problematicum Draffania'. Lethaia, 39 :49-56.
Professor John Walsh
Schöpfer, M.P.J., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Manzocchi, T. and Koyi, H.A. (2007) 'Geometrical analysis of the refraction and segmentation of normal faults in periodically layered sequences'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 (2):318-335.
Bonson, C.G., Childs, C., Walsh, J.J., Schöpfer, M.P.J. and Carboni, V. (2007) 'Geometric and kinematic controls on the internal structure of a large normal fault in massive limestones: the Maghlaq Fault, Malta'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 (2):336-354.
Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A. and Walsh, J.J. (2007) 'Displacement transfer between intersecting regional strike-slip and extensional fault systems'. Journal of Structural Geology, 29 (1):100-116.
Manzocchi, T., Walsh, J.J. and Nicol, A. (2006) 'Displacement accumulation from earthquakes on isolated normal faults'. Journal of Structural Geology, 28 (9):1685-1693.

Professor Christopher Bean
Abe S., and Bean C.J. (2007) DEM simulations of dynamic rupture patterns on a rough fault. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 03072.
Cociani L., and Bean C.J. (2007) Monitoring seismic velocity changes in the Gulf of Corinth using Earthquake multiplets. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 03066.
Lokmer I., Bean C.J., Saccorotti G. (2007) Long period activity at Mount Etna in 2004 - Green's function computations and moment-tensor inversion. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 09785.
Martini F., Riedel C., Viveriros F., Bean C.J., Saccorotti G., Silva R., Wallenstein N. (2007) Multiply scattered waves as a tool for better understanding seismic and chemical activity at Fogo volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 10628.
Lokmer, I., Lieto, Di B., Saccorotti, G., Bean, C.J. (2007) Temporal evolution of long-period activity at Mt Etna - No apparent link with the 2004 eruption. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 0972.
Professor Stephen Daly
Menuge, J.F., Daly, J.S. and Walshaw, R.D. (2007) Formation of Irish-type base metal deposits by multiple deep hydrothermal convection cells: Evidence from a regional fluid inclusion and Sr-Nd study . In: Andrew, C.J. et al eds. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial SGA Meeting, 291 - 294.
Gagnevin, D., Waight, T. E., Daly, J. S., Poli, G., and Conticelli, S. (2007) Complex magma differentiation history revealed by chemical and isotopic zoning in plagioclase phenocrysts from Capraia Volcano (Italy). European Union of Geosciences Annual Meeting, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 10155.
Dr Damien Gagnevin
Gagnevin, D., Daly, J. S. and Whitehouse, M. J. (2007) Zircon as a magma mixing proxy: Textural, chemical and isotopic evidence from a young plutonic system. Goldschmidt 2007, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(15, Supplement 1), A199.
Daly, J. S., Gagnevin, D. and Whitehouse, M. J. (2007) Zircon growth and resorption in an incrementally filled granite pluton: insights from in situ U-Pb, trace element and Hf isotopic analyses. Goldschmidt 2007, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(15, Supplement 1), A302.
Gagnevin, D., Waight, T. E., Daly, J. S., Poli, G., and Conticelli, S. (2007) Complex magma differentiation history revealed by chemical and isotopic zoning in plagioclase phenocrysts from Capraia Volcano (Italy). European Union of Geosciences Annual Meeting, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 10155.
Dr Dmitriy Grazhdankin
Grazhdankin, D.V. (2007) The Charnwood biota as seen from Arctic Russia - Ediacarans and their environments. Leicester's fossil celebrity: Charnia and the evolution of early life. Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society Section C (Geology) Meeting in Conjunction with Department of Geology, University of Leicester and Leicester Museums and Galleries, 16-17.
Mr Eoghan Holohan
Holohan, E., Troll, V.R., Donaldson, C.H., Errington, M. and Emeleus, C.H. (2007) Pre-Caldera uplift recorded in volcano-tectonics, breccias and ignimbrites of the Southern Mountains Zone, Isle of Rum, Scotland. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 8, 06657.
Holohan, E., Troll, V., Acocella, V. and Walter, T. (2006) A reappraisal of the Caldera Structural Continuum: Insights into super-volcano formation from field studies and analogue expeirments. Eos Transactions, AGU 87 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstracts, V33C-0685.
Wark, D.A. and Holohan, E. (2006) What makes an eruption 'super'? New methods yield new insights about very large calderas and their eruptive products. Eos Transactions, AGU 87 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstracts, V33.
Dr Francesa Martini
Martini, F., Riedel, C., Viveiros, F., Silva, R., Wallenstein, N., and Bean, C.J. (2007) Multiply scattered waves as a tool for better understanding seismic and chemical activity at Fogo volcano, Sao Miguel, Azores. European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 10628.
Professor Frank McDermott
Hutchens, E., Clipson, N. and McDermott, F. (2007) What can DNA tell us about microbial colonisation of rock surfaces? European Geosciences Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 04345.
Dr Julian Menuge
Menuge, J.F., Daly, J.S. and Walshaw, R.D. (2007) Formation of Irish-type base metal deposits by multiple deep hydrothermal convection cells: Evidence from a regional fluid inclusion and Sr-Nd isotope study. In: Andrew, C. et al eds. Digging Deeper, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial SGA Meeting, Dublin, 291 - 294.
Ms Vassiliki Mouslopoulou
Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A. and Little, T.A. (2006) Quaternary kinematics and temporal stability of a strike-slip and normal fault intersection, North Island, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 122A, ISBN0-908678-05.
Villamor, P., Berryman, K., Langridge, R., Van Dissen, R., Persaud, M., Canara, C., Nicol, A., Alloway, B., Litchfield, N., Cochran, U., Stirling, M., Mouslopoulou, V. and Wilson, K. (2006) A classification of geometric styles from paleoseismic trenches across normal faults in the North Island, New Zealand: an interplay between tectonic and erosional/depositional processes. Eos Transactions, AGU 87 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstracts, S31A-0184.
Professor Patrick M Shannon
Elliott, G.M., Shannon, P.M., Haughton, P.D.W., Praeg, D. and O'Reilly (2007) Mid to Late Cenozoic evolution of a sediment starved slope system: the Rockall Trough. European Geophysical Union, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 03013.
Chabert, A., Ravaut, C., Readman, P.W., O'Reilly, B.M. and Shannon, P.M. (2006) Structure of the Hatton Basin (North Atlantic) from wide-angle and reflection seismic data Eos Transactions, AGU 87 (52), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstracts, T53A-1581.
Dr Ian Somerville
Rodriguez, S., Arribas, M.E., Bermudez, D.D., Calvo, A., Cozar, P., Falces, S., Hernando, J.M., Mas, J.R., Moreno-Eiris, E., De La Pena, J.A., Rodriguez-Martinez, M., Sanchez-Chico, R. & Somerville, I.D. (2007) Stratigraphical and paleontological synthesis of the Sierra del Castillo succession (late Visean, Cordoba, SW Spain). In: Wong, Th.E eds. Proceedings of 16th International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy, Utrecht, Holland, 205-216.
Somerville, I.D. & Rodriguez, S. (2007) Rugose coral associations from the late Visean (Carboniferous) of Ireland, Britain and SW Spain . In: Hubmann, B. & Piller, W.E eds. Fossil Corals and Sponges -Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz, Austria, 329-351.
Rodriguez, S. & Somerville, I.D. (2007) Comparisons of Rugose corals from the Upper Visean of SW Spain and Ireland: implications for improved resolution in Late Mississippian coral bisotratigraphy. In: Hubmann, B. & Piller, W.E eds. Fossil Corals and Sponges -Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz, Austria, 275-305.
Somerville, I.D., Cozar, P., & Rodriguez, S. (2007) Late Visean rugose coral faunas from South-East Ireland: composition, depositional setting and palaeoecology of Siphonodendron biostromes. In: Hubmann, B. & Piller, W.E eds. Fossil Corals and Sponges -Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz, Austria, 307328.
Dr Shane Tyrrell
Tyrrell, S., Haughton, P.D.W. and Daly, J.S. (2007) Pb isotopic constraints on Mesozoic paleodrainage from the northwest European Margin - implications for reservoir distribution. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Longbeach, California, Search and Discover, Article No:90063.

Professor Patrick M Shannon
Styles, P., Bjorlykke, A., d Leeuw, J., Ligi, M., Montagner, J-P. and Shannon, P. (2007) ECORD Mid-Term Review: A Review of the Science, Management and Value for Money of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling. ECORD, Paris.