Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology

Geology Course Director

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.  I lead the European Petrophysics Consortium for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. I am involved in a number of industry- and NERC-funded projects connected with the sedimentology and petrophysics of conventional and unconventional resources, specifically Coal Bed Methane and Shale Gas. 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.  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).

Four recent publications

• Macquaker, J.H.S., Keller, M.A. & Davies, S.J. 2010. Algal blooms and 'marine snow': Mechanisms that enhance preservation of organic carbon in ancient sediments. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80, 934-942.

• Tudge, J., Lovell, M.A., Davies, S. J., Harvey, P.K. & Saito, S. 2008. Petrophysically determined lithofacies at the Nankai Trough Accretionary Prism: NanTroSeize, IODP Expedition 314. Journal of the Geological Society, 166, 961-968.

• 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. 2009  Exhumation of a Cretaceous metamorphic core complex within a late Cenozoic restraining bend, Altan Uul, southern Mongolia. Journal of the Geological Society, 166, 321-333.

Full publications listing by subject

Teaching

• GL1017 The Sedimentary World (Module co-ordinator)

• GL2005 Depositional Processes and Environments

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

• GL3001 Research Skills (Module co-ordinator)

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

• GL4010/11/12/13 Masters Research Projects (Module co-ordinator)