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Overview

Graham K. Westbrook is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, focusing notably on Ocean Engineering, with additional contributions in Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Westbrook has published research in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Their recent papers include:

  • "Methane-flow system within the Nyegga pockmark field, offshore mid-Norway" (2023), published in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "ODP Leg 146, Hole 892C - Well Logging Data" (2020), published by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "ODP Leg 146, Hole 889A - Well Logging Data" (2020), published by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "ODP Leg 146, Hole 892C - Well Logging Data" (2020), published by OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "ODP Leg 146, Hole 889B - Well Logging Data" (2020), published by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors in Westbrook's work include:

  • Jean-Paul Foucher
  • Bobb Carson
  • Robert J. Musgrave
  • Juichiro Ashi
  • Boris Baranov

Best Publications

  • Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin

    Graham K. Westbrook;Kate E. Thatcher;Eelco J. Rohling;Alexander M. Piotrowski

  • Magmatism at rifted continental margins

    Robert S. White;George D. Spence;Susan R. Fowler;Dan P. McKenzie

  • Origin of bottom-simulating reflectors: Geophysical evidence from the Cascadia accretionary prism

    Mary E. MacKay;Richard D. Jarrard;Graham K. Westbrook;Roy D. Hyndman

  • Long decollements and mud volcanoes: Evidence from the Barbados Ridge Complex for the role of high pore-fluid pressure in the development of an accretionary complex

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  • Mud diapirism and subcretion in the Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex: The role of fluids in accretionary processes

    Kevin Brown;G. K. Westbrook

  • Cross section of an accretionary wedge: Barbados Ridge complex

    G. K. Westbrook;J. W. Ladd;P. Buhl;N. Bangs

  • Seismic velocity structure at a gas hydrate reflector, offshore western Colombia, from full waveform inversion

    T. A. Minshull;S. C. Singh;G. K. Westbrook

  • Gas hydrate, fluid flow and free gas: Formation of the bottom-simulating reflector

    R. Ross Haacke;R. Ross Haacke;Graham K. Westbrook;Roy D. Hyndman;Roy D. Hyndman

  • Seismic velocities from the Barbados Ridge Complex: Indicators of high pore fluid pressures in an accretionary complex

    Nathan L. B. Bangs;Graham K. Westbrook;John W. Ladd;Peter Buhl

  • Estimation of gas hydrate concentration from multi-component seismic data at sites on the continental margins of NW Svalbard and the Storegga region of Norway

    G. K. Westbrook;S. Chand;G. Rossi;C. Long

  • The Hatton Bank continental margin—II. Deep structure from two-ship expanding spread seismic profiles

    S. R. Fowler;R. S. White;G. D. Spence;G. K. Westbrook

  • Heterogeneous hydrofracture development and accretionary fault dynamics

    Kevin M. Brown;Barbara Bekins;B. Clennell;D. Dewhurst

  • The Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data

    M Gutscher;S Dominguez;G K Westbrook;P Le Roy

  • Structure and Drivers of Cold Seep Ecosystems

    Jean-Paul Foucher;Graham K. Westbrook;Antje Boetius;Silvia Ceramicola

  • Mud volcano field seaward of the Barbados Accretionary Complex: A deep‐towed side scan sonar survey

    Pierre Henry;Xavier Le Pichon;Siegfried Lallemant;Jean-Paul Foucher

  • Hatton Bank (northwest U.K.) continental margin structure

    R.S. White;G. K. Westbrook;S.R. Fowler;G.D. Spence

  • A seismic refraction investigation of crustal structure beneath the Lesser Antilles island arc

    C. H. Boynton;G. K. Westbrook;M. H. P. Bott;R. E. Long

  • The Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Region of Barbados and the Lesser Antilles

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  • The tectonic fabric of the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex

    K.M. Brown;G.K. Westbrook

  • Geophysical survey of a mud volcano seaward of the Barbados Ridge Accretionary Complex

    Marcus G. Langseth;Graham K. Westbrook;Michael A. Hobart

  • Heat flow, tectonics, and fluid circulation at the toe of the Barbados ridge accretionary prism

    J. P. Foucher;X. LePichon;S. Lallemant;M. A. Hobart

  • Methane release from warming‐induced hydrate dissociation in the West Svalbard continental margin: Timing, rates, and geological controls

    K. E. Thatcher;K. E. Thatcher;Graham Westbrook;Graham Westbrook;Graham Westbrook;S. Sarkar;T. A. Minshull

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marc-André Gutscher
Marc-André Gutscher Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kevin M. Brown
Kevin M. Brown National Institutes of Health
Jürgen Mienert
Jürgen Mienert University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Roy D. Hyndman
Roy D. Hyndman University of Victoria
Louis Géli
Louis Géli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre Henry
Pierre Henry Aix-Marseille University
David N. Dewhurst
David N. Dewhurst Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Timothy J. Reston
Timothy J. Reston University of Birmingham

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