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Atle Rotevatn is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their research primarily focuses on subfields including Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Mechanics of Materials, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass a range of geological and geophysical studies, with particular emphasis on geological formations and processes, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and broader geological and geophysical studies.

Frequent publication venues for Atle Rotevatn include:

  • Basin Research
  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Tectonics
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

The following recent papers illustrate the range of topics addressed in their work:

  • From widespread faulting to localised rifting: Evidence from K-Ar fault gouge dates from the Norwegian North Sea rift shoulder, 2021, Basin Research
  • Turbidites, topography and tectonics: Evolution of submarine channel-lobe systems in the salt-influenced Kwanza Basin, offshore Angola, 2020, Basin Research
  • Strain migration during multiphase extension, Stord Basin, northern North Sea rift, 2020, Basin Research
  • The Relationship between Fluid Flow, Structures, and Depositional Architecture in Sedimentary Rocks: An Example-Based Overview, 2020, Geofluids
  • The role of structural inheritance in the development of high-displacement crustal faults in the necking domain of rifted margins: The Klakk Fault Complex, Frøya High, offshore mid-Norway, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology

Atle Rotevatn collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Christopher Jackson
  • Rob L. Gawthorpe
  • Gijs A. Henstra
  • Thomas B. Kristensen
  • Sten-Andreas Grundvåg

Best Publications

  • Fault linkage and relay structures in extensional settings—A review

    Haakon Fossen;Haakon Fossen;Atle Rotevatn

  • Glossary of fault and other fracture networks

    D.C.P. Peacock;C.W. Nixon;A. Rotevatn;D.J. Sanderson

  • From outcrop to reservoir simulation model: Workflow and procedures

    Håvard D. Enge;Simon J. Buckley;Atle Rotevatn;John A. Howell

  • 3D seismic analysis of the structure and evolution of a salt-influenced normal fault zone: A test of competing fault growth models

    Christopher A.-L. Jackson;Atle Rotevatn

  • A broader classification of damage zones

    D.C.P. Peacock;V. Dimmen;A. Rotevatn;D.J. Sanderson

  • How do normal faults grow

    Atle Rotevatn;Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson;Anette Broch Mathisen Tvedt;Rebecca Bell

  • Relationships between fractures

    D.C.P. Peacock;David Sanderson;A. Rotevatn

  • Growth of normal faults in multilayer sequences: A 3D seismic case study from the Egersund Basin, Norwegian North Sea

    Anette B.M. Tvedt;Atle Rotevatn;Christopher A.-L. Jackson;Haakon Fossen

  • The influence of structural inheritance and multiphase extension on rift development, the northern North Sea

    Thomas Brian Phillips;Thomas Brian Phillips;Hamed Fazlikhani;Hamed Fazlikhani;Robert Gawthorpe;Haakon Fossen

  • Simulating the effect of subseismic fault tails and process zones in a siliciclastic reservoir analogue: Implications for aquifer support and trap definition

    Atle Rotevatn;Atle Rotevatn;Haakon Fossen;Haakon Fossen

  • Fault interaction in porous sandstone and implications for reservoir management; examples from southern Utah

    Haakon Fossen;Tord Erlend Skeie Johansen;Jonny Hesthammer;Atle Rotevatn

  • Fault-controlled dolomitization in a rift basin

    Catherine Hollis;Eivind Bastesen;Adrian Boyce;Hilary Corlett

  • Are relay ramps conduits for fluid flow? Structural analysis of a relay ramp in Arches National Park, Utah

    Atle Rotevatn;Haakon Fossen;Jonny Hesthammer;Tor E. Aas

  • Overlapping faults and their effect on fluid flow in different reservoir types: A LIDAR-based outcrop modeling and flow simulation study

    Atle Rotevatn;Simon J. Buckley;John A. Howell;Haakon Fossen

  • Depositional processes and stratigraphic architecture within a coarse-grained rift-margin turbidite system: The Wollaston Forland Group, east Greenland

    Gijs A. Henstra;Sten-Andreas Grundvåg;Erik P. Johannessen;Thomas B. Kristensen

  • Evolution of a major segmented normal fault during multiphase rifting: The origin of plan-view zigzag geometry

    Gijs A. Henstra;Atle Rotevatn;Robert L. Gawthorpe;Rodmar Ravnås

  • Fault zone architecture and its scaling laws: where does the damage zone start and stop?

    A. Torabi;T. S. S. Ellingsen;M. U. Johannessen;B. Alaei

  • Quantifying structural controls on fluid flow: Insights from carbonate-hosted fault damage zones on the Maltese Islands

    Vilde Dimmen;Atle Rotevatn;David C.P. Peacock;Casey W. Nixon

  • Fault linkage and damage zone architecture in tight carbonate rocks in the Suez Rift (Egypt): implications for permeability structure along segmented normal faults

    A. Rotevatn;E. Bastesen

  • Structural Inheritance and Rapid Rift-Length Establishment in a Multiphase Rift: The East Greenland Rift System and its Caledonian Orogenic Ancestry

    Atle Rotevatn;Thomas Berg Kristensen;Anna Katharina Ksienzyk;Klaus Wemmer

  • Fault linkage and graben stepovers in the Canyonlands (Utah) and the North Sea Viking Graben, with implications for hydrocarbon migration and accumulation

    Haakon Fossen;Richard A. Schultz;Egil Rundhovde;Atle Rotevatn

  • Dynamic investigation of the effect of a relay ramp on simulated fluid flow: geocellular modelling of the Delicate Arch Ramp, Utah

    A. Rotevatn;J. Tveranger;J. A. Howell;H. Fossen

  • Techniques to determine the kinematics of synsedimentary normal faults and implications for fault growth models

    Christopher A.-L. Jackson;Rebecca E. Bell;Atle Rotevatn;Anette B. M. Tvedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A.-L. Jackson
Christopher A.-L. Jackson Imperial College London
Robert L. Gawthorpe
Robert L. Gawthorpe University of Bergen
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Rebecca E. Bell
Rebecca E. Bell Imperial College London
David C.P. Peacock
David C.P. Peacock University of Göttingen
David J. Sanderson
David J. Sanderson University of Southampton
John A. Howell
John A. Howell University of Aberdeen
Adrian J. Boyce
Adrian J. Boyce Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Klaus Wemmer
Klaus Wemmer University of Göttingen
Arild Andresen
Arild Andresen University of Oslo

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