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Patrick M. Shannon

Patrick M. Shannon

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
4625
World Ranking
7279
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Patrick M. Shannon is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Mechanical Engineering. The scientist's research extends across key topics such as Geological formations and processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis.

Patrick M. Shannon has contributed to multiple publications over the years. Recent papers include:

  • High-resolution X-ray fluorescence profiling of hybrid event beds: Implications for sediment gravity flow behaviour and deposit structure, 2020, published in Sedimentology
  • Mud-forced turbulence dampening facilitates rapid burial and enhanced preservation of terrestrial organic matter in deep-sea environments, 2021, published in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • The influence of multiple salt layers on rift-basin development; The Slyne and Erris basins, offshore NW Ireland, 2021, published in Basin Research
  • From rifting to hyperextension: Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous tectono-stratigraphy of the Porcupine Basin, Irish Atlantic Margin, 2020, published in Basin Research
  • Hybrid event beds (HEBs) and the 'greywacke problem' revisited, 2022, published in Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patrick M. Shannon include:

  • Peter D. W. Haughton
  • Conrad Childs
  • Arif Hussain
  • Colm Pierce
  • Conor O'Sullivan

The scientist's work appears regularly in certain publication venues. These include:

  • Basin Research
  • Sedimentology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Solid Earth

Patrick M. Shannon was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Gas hydrate crystals may help build reefs

    J. P. Henriet;B. De Mol;S. Pillen;M. Vanneste

  • The development of Irish offshore sedimentary basins

    P. M. Shannon

  • Neogene stratigraphy and the sedimentary and oceanographic development of the NW European Atlantic margin

    Martyn S. Stoker;Daniel Praeg;Berit Oline Hjelstuen;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • Cenozoic alongslope processes and sedimentation on the NW European Atlantic margin

    Jan Sverre Laberg;Martyn S. Stoker;K.I. Torbjørn Dahlgren;Henk de Haas

  • Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European ‘passive’ continental margin

    D. Praeg;M.S. Stoker;P.M. Shannon;S. Ceramicola

  • The lithosphere below the Rockall Trough: wide-angle seismic evidence for extensive serpentinisation

    Brian M. O'Reilly;Franz Hauser;A.W.Brian Jacob;Pat M. Shannon

  • The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland's Offshore Basins

    P. M. Shannon;P. D. W. Haughton;D. V. Corcoran

  • Palaeoslides and other mass failures of Pliocene to Pleistocene age along the Atlantic continental margin of NW Europe

    D. Evans;Z. Harrison;P.M. Shannon;J.S. Laberg

  • Neogene evolution of the Atlantic continental margin of NW Europe (Lofoten Islands to SW Ireland): anything but passive

    M. S. Stoker;D. Praeg;P. M. Shannon;B. O. Hjelstuen

  • Crustal thinning, mantle exhumation and serpentinization in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: evidence from wide-angle seismic data

    B.M. O'Reilly;F. Hauser;F. Hauser;C. Ravaut;P.M. Shannon

  • Sedimentary and oceanographic responses to early Neogene compression on the NW European margin

    M.S. Stoker;R.J. Hoult;T. Nielsen;B.O. Hjelstuen

  • The crustal structure of the Rockall Trough: Differential stretching without underplating

    Franz Hauser;Brian M. O'Reilly;A. W. Brian Jacob;Pat M. Shannon

  • South-east Ireland: Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and depositional history

    P. M. Brück;P. R. R. Gardiner;T. J. Reeves;P. M. Shannon

  • Cretaceous and Tertiary basin development west of Ireland

    P. M. Shannon;J. G. Moore;A. W. B. Jacob;J. Makris

  • The Hatton Basin and continental margin: Crustal structure from wide-angle seismic and gravity data

    Ulrike Vogt;Jannis Makris;Brian M. O'Reilly;Franz Hauser

  • Variable character and diverse origin of hybrid event beds in a sandy submarine fan system, Pennsylvanian Ross Sandstone Formation, western Ireland

    Colm S. Pierce;Colm S. Pierce;Peter D. W. Haughton;Patrick M. Shannon;Andy J. Pulham

  • Tectonic control on sedimentary evolution of three North Atlantic borderland Mesozoic basins

    I. K. Sinclair;P. M. Shannon;B. P. J. Williams;S. D. Harker

  • Comparison of lithosphere structure across the Orphan Basin–Flemish Cap and Irish Atlantic conjugate continental margins from constrained 3D gravity inversions

    J. Kim Welford;Patrick M. Shannon;Brian M. O’Reilly;Jeremy Hall

  • Structural setting, geological development and basin modelling in the Rockall Trough

    P. M. Shannon;A. W. B. Jacob;B. M. O’Reilly;F. Hauserr

  • Geology of offshore Ireland and West Britain

    D. Naylor;P. Shannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. W. Haughton
Peter D. W. Haughton University College Dublin
Martyn S. Stoker
Martyn S. Stoker University of Adelaide
Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
John J. Walsh
John J. Walsh University College Dublin
Conrad Childs
Conrad Childs University College Dublin
Timothy J. Reston
Timothy J. Reston University of Birmingham
Berit Oline Hjelstuen
Berit Oline Hjelstuen University of Bergen
Jan Sverre Laberg
Jan Sverre Laberg University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jean Henriet
Jean Henriet Ghent University
Dirk Klaeschen
Dirk Klaeschen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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