Recently Funded Projects

Project two: Development of the Porcupine Basin

Supervisors: Dr. R. J. J. Hardy, Dr. S. Jones and Dr. N. J. White (Cambridge)

Duration: 3 years

Start Date: 2005

Status: part industry funded

Objectives:

The Porcupine basin is generally believed to have formed by lithospheric stretching although there is a significant discrepancy between the amount of extension measured across normal faults and that estimated from analysis of subsidence and crustal thinning. In this project, this issue will be addressed by reprocessing a set of key seismic transects. The student will play a leading role in reprocessing, interpreting and modelling seismic reflection and well data throughout the Porcupine basin. The results will have an important bearing upon the thermal and structural evolution of this controversial and enigmatic basin.

This project will suit a numerate geologist or physicist who is interested in how very deep sedimentary basins are formed. The student will be involved in many aspects of seismic processing and basin modelling. The project will benefit from a related project which will acquire and analyze wide-angle and deep seismic reflection data from a pair of conjugate margins in the Black Sea.