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  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

John R. Underhill is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science. The primary focus areas include Mechanics of Materials, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, Environmental Chemistry, and Geophysics. Their work engages with a wide spectrum of scientific topics such as Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geological formations and processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological and Geophysical Studies, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

The scientist has published research in several frequent venues, including:

  • Petroleum Geoscience
  • AAPG Bulletin
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Energy geoscience conference series.
  • Journal of Petroleum Geology

Selected recent papers by John R. Underhill include:

  • Geological controls on petroleum plays and future opportunities in the North Sea Rift Super Basin, 2022, AAPG Bulletin
  • Use of exploration methods to repurpose and extend the life of a super basin as a carbon storage hub for the energy transition, 2023, AAPG Bulletin

Other related important works appearing in the field with overlapping themes but authored by different researchers include research on sedimentary and tectonic controls on Lower Carboniferous deposition, structural constraints on shale gas exploration in NW England, and structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Mid North Sea High region of the UK Continental Shelf.

Frequent collaborators in the scientific work of John R. Underhill are:

  • Alexandra Tămaș
  • R. E. Holdsworth
  • Dan Mircea Tămaș
  • Edward D. Dempsey
  • David McCarthy

Their research contributions are recognized within the academic community, including the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Jurassic thermal doming and deflation in the North Sea: implications of the sequence stratigraphic evidence

    John R Underhill;M A Partington

  • Late Cenozoic deformation of the Hellenide foreland, western Greece

    John R. Underhill

  • Linked sequence stratigraphic and structural evolution of propagating normal faults

    Rob L Gawthorpe;Ian R Sharp;John R Underhill;Sanjeev Gupta

  • A mechanism to explain rift-basin subsidence and stratigraphic patterns through fault-array evolution

    Sanjeev Gupta;Patience A. Cowie;Nancye H. Dawers;John R. Underhill

  • Fault-propagation folding in extensional settings: Examples of structural style and synrift sedimentary response from the Suez rift, Sinai, Egypt

    Ian R. Sharp;Rob L. Gawthorpe;John R. Underhill;Sanjeev Gupta

  • Role of fault interactions in controlling synrift sediment dispersal patterns: Miocene, Abu Alaqa Group, Suez Rift, Sinai, Egypt

    Sanjeev Gupta;John R Underhill;Ian R Sharp;Rob L Gawthorpe

  • The propagation and linkage of normal faults: Insights from the Strathspey-Brent-Statfjord fault array, northern North Sea

    Aileen E. McLeod;Nancye H. Dawers;John R. Underhill

  • Spatio-temporal evolution of strain accumulation derived from multi-scale observations of Late Jurassic rifting in the northern North Sea: A critical test of models for lithospheric extension

    Patience A. Cowie;John R. Underhill;Mark D. Behn;Mark D. Behn;Jian Lin

  • Faulting mechanisms in high-porosity sandstones; New Red Sandstone, Arran, Scotland

    John R. Underhill;Nigel H. Woodcock

  • Biostratigraphic calibration of genetic stratigraphic sequences in the Jurassic–lowermost Cretaceous (Hettangian to Ryazanian) of the North Sea and adjacent areas

    M A Partington;P Copestake;B C Mitchener;John R Underhill

  • The Role of Fault Interaction and Linkage in Controlling Synrift Stratigraphic Sequences: Late Jurassic, Statfjord East Area, Northern North Sea

    Nancye H. Dawers;John R. Underhill

  • Triassic evaporites and Plio-Quaternary diapirism in western Greece

    John R Underhill

  • Genesis of tectonic inversion structures: seismic evidence for the development of key structures along the Purbeck–Isle of Wight Disturbance

    John R. Underhill;Susan Paterson

  • Displacement rates of normal faults

    A Nicol;J J Walsh;J Watterson;John R Underhill

  • IMPLICATIONS OF MESOZOIC RECENT BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE WESTERN INNER MORAY FIRTH, UK

    John R. Underhill

  • Introduction to the development, evolution and petroleum geology of the Wessex Basin

    John R. Underhill;Robert Stoneley

  • Controls on Late Jurassic seismic sequences, Inner Moray Firth, UK North Sea : a critical test of a key segment of Exxon's original global cycle chart

    John R. Underhill

  • Cenozoic exhumation of the southern British Isles

    Richard R. Hillis;Simon P. Holford;Paul F. Green;Anthony G. Doré

  • Propagation history and passive rotation of mesoscale normal faults: implications for synrift stratigraphic development

    I R Sharp;R L Gawthorpe;B Armstrong;John R Underhill

  • 3D Seismic Technology: Application to the Exploration of Sedimentary Basins

    Richard J. Davies;Joseph A. Cartwright;Simon A. Stewart;Mark Lappin

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon P. Holford
Simon P. Holford University of Adelaide
Nick Schofield
Nick Schofield University of Aberdeen
Richard R. Hillis
Richard R. Hillis University of Adelaide
Martyn S. Stoker
Martyn S. Stoker University of Adelaide
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London
David W. Jolley
David W. Jolley University of Aberdeen
Adrian J. Hartley
Adrian J. Hartley University of Aberdeen
Simon Stewart
Simon Stewart Saudi Aramco (United States)
Nigel Woodcock
Nigel Woodcock University of Cambridge
Malcolm Hole
Malcolm Hole University of Aberdeen

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