Having worked in almost all of the volcanic margins around the world, DougalEARTH brings experience from a variety of locations including: North Atlantic, South Atlantic (Parana-Etendeka/Karoo), Antarctica, India, Ethiopia, Siberia, China, USA/Canada and Australia. Additionally Dougal has published extensively leading the way with our understanding of volcanic facies in rifted margins and flood basalt provinces.
Key to understanding these provinces is looking at the volcanic fill, and associated intrusions, along with the sedimentary fill. Using this approach the temporal and spatial influence of the igneous rocks in the sedimentary basin can be fully realised and incorporated into facies architecture, case studies and 3D models.
- North Atlantic Igneous Province
- South Atlantic Margin; Namibia, Brazil
- Siberia
- Deccan
- Others; e.g. Columbia River, SE Asia, China
Some key publications:
J. Hansen, D.A. Jerram, K. McCaffrey, and S.R. Passey. Early Cenozoic saucer-shaped sills of the Faroe Islands: an example of intrusive styles in basaltic lava piles. Journal of the Geological Society; January 2011; v. 168; no. 1; p. 159-178; DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-012.
Dougal A. Jerram, Richard T. Single, Richard W. Hobbs & Catherine E. Nelson 2009.Understanding the offshore flood basalt sequence using onshore volcanic facies analogues: an example from the Faroe–Shetland basin Geol. Mag. 146 (3), pp. 353–367. doi:10.1017/S0016756809005974
Catherine E. Nelson, Dougal A. Jerram, Richard W. Hobbs, Ricky Terrington, and Holger Kessler. Reconstructing flood basalt lava flows in three dimensions using terrestrial laser scanning. Geosphere, Feb 2011; 7: 87 – 96.
Nelson, C.E., Jerram, D.A., and Hobbs, R.W., 2009, Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 15, p. 313-324.
Dougal A. Jerram, & Mike Widdowson 2005, The anatomy of Continental Flood Basalt Provinces: Geological constraints on the processes and products of flood volcanism. Lithos 79, 385-405.
