Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology

Careers and PDP Tutor

Geophysics & Borehole Research Group

Crustal Processes Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3624 Email:sjd27@le.ac.uk

Research interests

The overarching theme of my research, as a clastic sedimentologist, is unravelling the influence of tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls on the development of sedimentary systems.  Ongoing research as a co-investigator on a CONNECT B NERC research grant has documented the sedimentary evolution of Mesozoic extensional basins from the Gobi Altai in Mongolia and examined their subsequent uplift and recent transpressional deformation. I also investigate the record of climate change in deep time, and the response of palaeoequatorial sedimentary systems to the onset of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age.  My work on sedimentary and geochemical records in fine-grained sediments also has implications for hydrocarbon source rock development.  Recent research awards include the BSRG Award recognising noteworthy published research in any field of sedimentology (2007) and an Award of Excellence from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for a Top 10 Poster presentation at the 2007 Annual Convention. I am a past-chair of the British Sedimentological Research Group (2003-2006), currently lead the European Petrophysics Consortium for IODP and am an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Four recent publications

• Davies, S.J. 2008, The record of Carboniferous sea-level change in low latitude sedimentary successions from Britain and Ireland during the onset of the ate Paleozoic ice age, in, Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., eds., Resolving the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Time and Space: Geological Society of America Special Paper 441, p. 187-204.

• Cunningham, W. D., Davies, S. J. & McLean, D. (in press)  Exhumation of a Cretaceous metamorphic core complex within a late Cenozoic restraining bend, Altan Uul, southern Mongolia. Journal of the Geological Society.

•  Davies, S. J. & Gibling, M. R.  2003.  Architecture of coastal and alluvial deposits in an extensional basin: the Carboniferous Joggins Formation of eastern Canada.  Sedimentology, 50, 415-439.

• Davies, S. J., Dawers, N. H., McLeod, A. E., & Underhill, J. R.  2000.  The structural and sedimentological evolution of early synrift successions: the Middle Jurassic Tarbert Formation, North Sea.  Basin Research, 12, 343-366.

Full publications listing by subject

Teaching

• GL1017 The Sedimentary World (Module co-ordinator)

• GL1018 Geology & Society: Hydrocarbons

• GL2005 Depositional Processes and Environments

• GL2034 Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record: Devonian & Carboniferous

• GL3000 Evolution of the Global Environment: Late Palaeozoic interactions: land plants and ice ages; Mesozoic & Cenozoic climates and oceans

• GL3011 Project Preparation (Module co-ordinator)

• GL3069/4069 Controls on Depositional Systems (Module co-ordinator)

• GL4010/11/12/13 4th Year Independent projects (Module co-ordinator)