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Ben Kneller is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and is active in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions span various subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

The scientist's body of work primarily covers topics related to geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological and geophysical studies, geological and geochemical analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Ben Kneller has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Timing of the Late Palaeozoic glaciation in western Gondwana: New ages and correlations from Paganzo and Paraná basins" (2020) in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Architecture, process, and environmental diversity in a late Cretaceous slope channel system" (2020) in Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • "Sedimentary environment and organic matter enrichment of black mudstones from the upper Triassic Chang-7 member in the Ordos Basin, Northern China" (2021) in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • "Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons" (2023) in Geology
  • "Characterisation of submarine depression trails driven by upslope migrating cyclic steps: Insights from the Ceará Basin (Brazil)" (2020) in Marine and Petroleum Geology

The venues where Ben Kneller frequently publishes include Marine and Petroleum Geology, The Depositional Record, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Geology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Collaborations feature prominently in their work. Frequent co-authors of Ben Kneller include Victoria Valdez Buso, Pan Li, Adam D. McArthur, Amanda Santa Catharina, and Tian Yang.

Best Publications

  • Sustained high‐density turbidity currents and the deposition of thick massive sands

    Benjamin C. Kneller;Michael J. Branney

  • The structure and fluid mechanics of turbidity currents: a review of some recent studies and their geological implications

    Ben Kneller;Clare Buckee

  • Turbidity Currents and Their Deposits

    Eckart Meiburg;Ben Kneller

  • A Process Model for the Evolution, Morphology, and Architecture of Sinuous Submarine Channels

    Jeff Peakall;Bill McCaffrey;Ben Kneller

  • Beyond the turbidite paradigm: physical models for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction

    Ben Kneller

  • Depositional effects of flow nonuniformity and stratification within turbidity currents approaching a bounding slope; deflection, reflection, and facies variation

    Ben Kneller;William McCaffrey

  • Velocity structure, turbulence and fluid stresses in experimental gravity currents

    Benjamin C. Kneller;Sean J. Bennett;William D. McCaffrey

  • Prolific deep-marine slope channels of the Nile Delta, Egypt

    Andy Samuel;Ben Kneller;Samir Raslan;Andy Sharp

  • The influence of flow parameters on turbidite slope channel architecture

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  • The Interpretation of Vertical Sequences in Turbidite Beds: The Influence of Longitudinal Flow Structure

    Benjamin C. Kneller;William D. McCaffrey

  • Oblique reflection of turbidity currents

    Ben Kneller;Deborah Edwards;William McCaffrey;Richard Moore

  • Anatomy of a submarine channel-levee : An example from Upper Cretaceous slope sediments, Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico

    Ian A. Kane;Benjamin C. Kneller;Mason Dykstra;Ahmed Kassem

  • Process controls on the development of stratigraphic trap potential on the margins of confined turbidite systems and aids to reservoir evaluation

    W. D. McCaffrey;Benjamin Charles Kneller

  • Architecture and Processes in the Late Pleistocene Brazos-Trinity Turbidite System, Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope

    Gianluca Badalini;Ben Kneller;Charles D. Winker

  • Mass-transport and slope accommodation: Implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs

    Ben Kneller;Mason Dykstra;Luke Fairweather;Juan Pablo Milana

  • Architecture and controlling factors of canyon fills on the shelf margin in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea

    Yunlong He;Yunlong He;Xinong Xie;Benjamin C. Kneller;Zhenfeng Wang

  • Genesis and character of thin-bedded turbidites associated with submarine channels

    Larissa A.S. Hansen;Richard H.T. Callow;Ian A. Kane;Fabiano Gamberi

  • Velocity and turbulence structure of density currents and internal solitary waves: potential sediment transport and the formation of wave ripples in deep water

    B.C. Kneller;S.J. Bennett;W.D. McCaffrey

  • High-resolution numerical simulations of resuspending gravity currents: Conditions for self-sustainment

    F. Blanchette;F. Blanchette;M. Strauss;E. Meiburg;Benjamin Charles Kneller;Benjamin Charles Kneller

  • Turbulence Structure in Steady, Solute‐Driven Gravity Currents

    C. M. Buckee;Benjamin Charles Kneller;J. Peakall

  • Submarine channel levee shape and sediment waves from physical experiments

    Ian A. Kane;William D. McCaffrey;Jeffrey Peakall;Benjamin Charles Kneller

  • The initiation and evolution of the River Nile

    Laura Fielding;Yanina Manya Rachel Najman;Ian Millar;Peter Butterworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Eckart Meiburg
Eckart Meiburg University of California, Santa Barbara
Ian L. Millar
Ian L. Millar British Geological Survey
Eduardo Garzanti
Eduardo Garzanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Ole J. Martinsen
Ole J. Martinsen Equinor (Norway)
William D. McCaffrey
William D. McCaffrey University of Leeds
Duncan McIlroy
Duncan McIlroy Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jeff Peakall
Jeff Peakall University of Leeds
Sergio Andò
Sergio Andò University of Milano-Bicocca
Alison L. Marsden
Alison L. Marsden Stanford University
Xiumian Hu
Xiumian Hu Nanjing University

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