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Jan Inge Faleide

Jan Inge Faleide

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Earth Science
Norway
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
72
Citations
15504
World Ranking
882
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Jan Inge Faleide is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has conducted extensive research within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their academic work spans multiple subfields including Geology, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's primary research topics focus on Geological Studies and Exploration, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Geological and Geophysical Studies. Additional areas of interest involve Geological formations and processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Frequent publication venues for Jan Inge Faleide include the Geological Society London Memoirs, Basin Research, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Tectonics, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Their recent papers feature several significant contributions to earth sciences:

  • "Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the Norwegian Barents Shelf - A review," 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Regional structure and polyphased Cretaceous-Paleocene rift and basin development of the mid-Norwegian volcanic passive margin," 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Structural analysis of the Smeaheia fault block, a potential CO2 storage site, northern Horda Platform, North Sea," 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Shallow-water hydrothermal venting linked to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "A digital compilation of structural and magmatic elements of the Mid-Norwegian continental margin (version 1.0)," 2021, Norwegian Journal of Geology

Jan Inge Faleide has collaborated frequently with other researchers including Sverre Planke, Mansour M. Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour Abdelmalak, Alexander N. Minakov, and Filippos Tsikalas, contributing significantly to joint projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • Structure and evolution of the continental margin off Norway and the Barents Sea

    Jan Inge Faleide;Filippos Tsikalas;Asbjorn Johan Breivik;Rolf Mjelde

  • Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the south-western Barents Sea in a regional rift-shear tectonic setting

    Jan I. Faleide;Erling Vågnes;Steinar T. Gudlaugsson

  • Late Cenozoic evolution of the western Barents Sea-Svalbard continental margin

    Jan Inge Faleide;Anders Solheim;Anne Fiedler;Berit O. Hjelstuen

  • Evolution of the western Barents Sea

    Jan Inge Faleide;Steinar T. Gudlaugsson;Gerard Jacquart

  • NE Atlantic continental rifting and volcanic margin formation

    Jakob Skogseid;Jakob Skogseid;Sverre Planke;Jan Inge Faleide;Tom Pedersen

  • Late Palaeozoic structural development of the South-western Barents Sea

    S.T. Gudlaugsson;J.I. Faleide;S.E. Johansen;A.J. Breivik

  • Opening of the Fram Strait gateway: A review of plate tectonic constraints

    Øyvind Engen;Jan Inge Faleide;Toril Karlberg Dyreng

  • Triassic seismic sequence stratigraphy and paleogeography of the western Barents Sea area

    Evy Glørstad-Clark;Jan Inge Faleide;Bjørn Anders Lundschien;Johan Petter Nystuen

  • New aerogeophysical study of the Eurasia Basin and Lomonosov Ridge: Implications for basin development

    J.M. Brozena;V.A. Childers;L.A. Lawver;L.M. Gahagan

  • Quartz cementation in Late Cretaceous mudstones, northern North Sea: Changes in rock properties due to dissolution of smectite and precipitation of micro-quartz crystals

    Brit Thyberg;Jens Jahren;Turid Winje;Knut Bjørlykke

  • Continent-ocean transition at the western Barents Sea/Svalbard continental margin

    Olav Eldholm;Jan Inge Faleide;Annik M. Myhre

  • Crustal breakup and continent‐ocean transition at South Atlantic conjugate margins

    Olav A. Blaich;Olav A. Blaich;Jan Inge Faleide;Filippos Tsikalas;Filippos Tsikalas

  • U–Pb geochronology of Cretaceous magmatism on Svalbard and Franz Josef Land, Barents Sea Large Igneous Province

    Fernando Corfu;Stéphane Polteau;Sverre Planke;Jan Inge Faleide

  • Cenozoic sequence stratigraphy of the central and northern North Sea Basin: tectonic development, sediment distribution and provenance areas

    Henrik Jordt;Jan Inge Faleide;Knut Bjørlykke;Maged T. Ibrahim

  • Cenozoic erosion and the preglacial uplift of the Svalbard Barents Sea region

    Panagiotis Dimakis;Bjørn Inge Braathen;Jan Inge Faleide;Anders Elverhøi

  • The Early Cretaceous Barents Sea Sill Complex: Distribution, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, and implications for carbon gas formation

    Stéphane Polteau;Bart W.H. Hendriks;Sverre Planke;Morgan Ganerød

  • Cenozoic sedimentation along the southwestern Barents Sea margin in relation to uplift and erosion of the shelf

    Anne Fiedler;Jan Inge Faleide

  • Geology of the Norwegian Continental Shelf

    Jan Inge Faleide;Knut Bjørlykke;Roy H. Gabrielsen

  • LATE CENOZOIC SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY AND GLACIAL GEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAST GREENLAND AND SVALBARD–BARENTS SEA CONTINENTAL MARGINS

    Anders Solheim;Jan Inge Faleide;Espen S. Andersen;Anders Elverhøi

  • Mjølnir structure: An impact crater in the Barents Sea

    Henning Dypvik;Steinar T. Gudlaugsson;Filippos Tsikalas;Moses Attrep

  • Basement structure and its influence on the structural configuration of the northern North Sea rift

    Hamed Fazlikhani;Haakon Fossen;Haakon Fossen;Robert L. Gawthorpe;Jan Inge Faleide

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Mjelde
Rolf Mjelde University of Bergen
Sverre Planke
Sverre Planke University of Oslo
Roy H. Gabrielsen
Roy H. Gabrielsen University of Oslo
Olav Eldholm
Olav Eldholm University of Bergen
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth RWTH Aachen University
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Ritske S. Huismans
Ritske S. Huismans University of Bergen
Jens Jahren
Jens Jahren University of Oslo
Laurent Gernigon
Laurent Gernigon Norwegian Geological Survey
Ernst R. Flueh
Ernst R. Flueh GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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