Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson Presents "How Do Normal Faults Grow and Why Does It Matter?"
Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson
Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson, Statoil Professor of Basin Analysis at Imperical College London, will give a lecture "How Do Normal Faults Grow and Why Does It Matter?" as part of the Geosciences Colloquium series.
His presentation will be held in Gearhart Hall 26 at 3:05 p.m. Friday, April 28 and is free and open to the public. This talk is sponsored by the 2016-17 GSA Thompson Distiguished Lecture Series and the Department of Geosciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Jackson is the deputy director of the M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering program in the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperical College London, and is head of the Basins Research Group (BRG). His activities focus on the evolution of sedimentary basins, and bringing together Earth Scientists from different expertise to better understand the evolution of of sedimentary basins.
His current research explores tectono-stratigraphic evolution of extensional basins, structural and stratigraphic development of salt basins and polyphase rifts.
Jackson's lecture at University of Arkansas is one of 11 lectures he will present across the United States between January and April 2017.
In addition to the GSA Distinguished Lecturer Award, he has also been the recipient of the Bigsby Medal awarded by the Geological Society of London in 2013, and the Roland Goldring Award given by the British Sedimentological Research Group in 2011.
Jackson is currently also a visiting scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology at University of Texas at Austin. He has also published more than 100 papers and been cited thousands of times since he recieved his Ph.D. in 2002.
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Contacts
Jo Ann Kvamme, assistant director of Environmental Dynamics
Department of Geosciences
479-575-3355,
jkvamme@uark.edu
Andra Parrish Liwag, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-4393,
liwag@uark.edu
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