Project background
This on-going project started in 2012 is conducted at Royal Holloway University of London (U.K.) and is funded by BP and Baker Hughes.
The main actors are Prof. Dan Bosence (Royal Holloway University of London), Prof. Pete Burgess (University of Liverpool), Dr. Arnaud Gallois (Independent researcher), Dr. Estanislao Kozlowski (Halliburton), Prof. Bernie Vining (Royal Holloway University of London and ex-Baker Hughes) and the late Dr. Ian Billing (ex-BP).
2 PhD projects:
- Late Jurassic lacustrine carbonates; a multi-scale analysis of the Mupe Member (Purbeck Limestone Group) of the Wessex Basin, U.K. by Arnaud Gallois (2012-2016).
- Multi-scale forward modelling of microbial lacustrine carbonates by Estanislao Kozlowski (2013-2017).
4 MSc projects:
- Reservoir implications of transition from marine to lacustrine carbonates: a seismic and field-based study, Late Jurassic, Wessex Basin, UK by Putri Cahyagempita and completed in October 2017 supervised by Dr. Arnaud Gallois and Prof. Dan Bosence.
- Sequence and layering in lacustrine carbonates; Purbeck Limestone, Wessex Basin by Victoria Dharmarajah and completed in October 2015 supervised by Dr. Arnaud Gallois and Prof. Dan Bosence.
- Seafloor bathymetry analysis of the Weymouth Anticline and circular structures of Weymouth Bay by Simon Fleckner and completed in October 2014 supervised by Dr. Arnaud Gallois and Prof. Dan Bosence.
- Syn-rift setting of Jurassic rocks within the Wessex Basin (Bournemouth Bay, Southern England) by Patrisa Shigwedha and completed in October 2014 supervised by Dr. Arnaud Gallois and Prof. Dan Bosence.
Articles produced:
- Gallois A., Bosence D., Burgess P. and McCaffrey K. (in prep.) Brackish-water microbial mounds in lacustrine settings: controls on their growth and distribution; The Purbeck Limestone Group (Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous) of Dorset (southern England).
- Gallois A., Burgess P., Bosence D. and Hollis C. (under review) Broken Beds but better science: using multiple hypotheses to interpret geological data. Terra Nova.
- Gallois A., Bosence D. and Burgess P. (2021) Influence of extensional faults and relay ramp on palaeo-topography and lacustrine carbonate facies: Purbeck Limestone Group (Upper Jurassic), Wessex Basin, UK. Basin Research. V. 33, 3159-3182. Link
- Bosence D. and Gallois A. (2021) Multiphase construction of lacustrine thrombolites; frameworks, early cements and spherulites. Purbeck Limestone Group (Late Jurassic), Dorset, U.K. Sedimentology. V. 69, 914-953. Link
- Bosence D., Burgess P., Gallois A., Kozlowski E., Billing I. and Vining B. (2018) Are Jurassic microbes predictable? Geoscientist. V.28, No. 6, 10-15. Link
- Gallois A., Bosence D. and Burgess P. (2018) Brackish to hypersaline facies in lacustrine carbonates: Purbeck Limestone Group, Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, Wessex Basin, Dorset, UK. Facies, V. 64, No. 12. Link
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Purbeck team at God Nore (Isle of Portland) with from left to right Prof. Dan Bosence, Prof. Pete Burgess, Prof. Bernie Vining, Dr. Estanislao Kozlowski, Dr. Arnaud Gallois and late Dr. Ian Billing.
Credits: Arnaud Gallois