Professional Summary - Bureau of Economic Geology

Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson
Professional Summary
August 21, 2014
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E-mail address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
(512) 471-1836
[email protected]
Academic Background
Ph.D. Geology, Manchester University, 2002
B.S. with Honors Geology, Manchester University, 1998
Areas of Expertise
Application of 3D seismic data to understanding structural and erosional-depositional processes in
sedimentary basins
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of extensional basins
Professional Work Experience
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at
Austin (November 2012 - Present).
Statoil Senior Lecturer, Imperial College (October 2009 - November 2012).Basin Analysis.
StatoilHydro Lecturer, Imperial College (January 2007 - October 2009).Basin Analysis.
Lecturer, Imperial College (September 2004 - December 2006).Basin Analysis.
Geologist, Norsk Hydro, Research Centre, Bergen, Norway (July 2002 - September 2004).
Norsk Hydro Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester (February 2002 - July
2002).
Awards and Honorary Societies
StatoilHydro-funded Lectureship at Imperial College (2010-2013) £350,000, 2010 - 2013
EPSRC Ph.D. funding (2009-2012) £55,000, 2009 - 2012
Fully industry-funded Ph.D. (StatoilHydro ASA) (2007-2010) £75,000, 2007 - 2010
Academic-institute funding Ph.D. (King Abdul Aziz Scholarship) (2006-2010) £60,000, 2006 - 2010
Commonwealth Ph.D. Scholarship (2010-2013) £60,000, 2006 - 2010
EPSRC Ph.D. funding £55,000, 2006 - 2010
Fully industry-funded Ph.D. (Statoil ASA) £120,000, 2006 - 2009
StatoilHydro-funded Lectureship at Imperial College (2006-2009) £350,000, 2006 - 2009
Fully industry-funded PDRA (Statoil ASA) (2006-2008) £180,000, 2006 - 2008
Fully industry-funded Ph.D. (Norsk Hydro) £12,0000, 2005 - 2008
Teaching Development Grant (E-Learning in Sedimentology) £4,500, 2005 - 2006
Committee Responsibilities and Professional Activities
Guest Editor, Special Issue, Fault Zones, Journal of Structural GeologyNovember, 2010
Guest Editor, Special Issue, Subsurface Sediment Remobilisation and Fluid Flow in Sedimentary
Basins, Basin ResearchAugust, 2010
Convenor, GCSSEPM Perkins Conference on Seismic Imaging of Depositional and Geomorphic
Systems, Houston, December 7--10, 2010
Session Chair, Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rifts, 2010 American Association of Petroleum
Geologists Annual Convention, New Orleans, 2010
Session Chair, Fault Zones: Structure, Geomechanics and Fluid Flow, Geological Society of
London, 2008
Session Chair, Subsurface Sediment Remobilisation and Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins,
Geological Society of London, 2008
Publications
Articles
Peer Reviewed
Jackson, C., Jackson, M. P. A., Hudec, M. R., Rodriguez, C., 2014, Internal structure,
kinematics, and growth of a salt wall: Insights from 3-D seismic data: Geology, v. 42, no. 4, 4 p.,
p. 307-310, doi: 10.1130/G34865.1.
Burberry, C. A., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Cosgrove, J. C., 2011, Late Cretaceous to Recent
deformation related to inherited structures and subsequent compression within the Persian Gulf:
a 2D seismic case study: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 168, p. 485-498.
Cardozo, N., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Whipp, P. S., 2011, Determining the uniqueness of best-fit
trishear models: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 33, p. 1063-1078.
Jackson, C. A.-L., 2011, 3D seismic analysis of megaclast deformation within a mass-transport
deposit; implications for debris flow kinematics: Geology, v. 39, p. 203-206.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Huuse, M., and Barber, G. P., 2011, Geometry of wing-like intrusions
adjacent to a deep-water slope channel complex and implications for hydrocarbon exploration
and production: a 3D seismic case study from the Måløy Slope, offshore Norway: AAPG
Bulletin, v. 95, p. 559-584.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Larsen, E., Hanslien, S., and Tjemsland, A.-E., 2011, Structurally-controlled
syn-rift turbidite deposition on the hangingwall dipslope of the South Viking Graben, North Sea
Rift System: AAPG Bulletin, v. 95, p. 1557-1587.
Kieft, R. L., Hampson, G. J., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Larsen, E., 2011, Stratigraphic architecture
of a net-transgressive marginal- to shallow-marine succession: Upper Almond Formation, Rock
Springs Uplift, Wyoming, USA: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81, p. 513-533.
Faulkner, D. R., Lunn, R. J., Jackson, C. A.-L., Schliese, R. W., Shipton, Z. K., and Wibberly, C.
A. J., 2010, A review of recent developments concerning the structure, mechanics and fluid flow
properties of fault zones: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 32, p. 1557-1575.
Hampson, G. J., Sixsmith, P. J., Kieft, R. L., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Johnson, H. D., 2010,
Quantitative analysis of net-transgressive shoreline trajectories and stratigraphic architectures:
mid-to-late Jurassic of the North Sea rift basin: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 528-558.
Huuse, M., Jackson, C. A.-L., Van Rensbergen, P., Davies, R. J., Flemings, P. B., and Dixon, R.
J., 2010, Subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimetnary basins: an overview:
Basin Research, v. 22, p. 342-360, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010488.x.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Grunhagen, H., Howell, J. A., Andersson, A., Larsen, A. L., Boen, F., and
Groth, A., 2010, 3D seismic imaging of lower delta-plain beach ridges: lower Brent Group,
northern North Sea: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 167, p. 1225-1236.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Kane, K. E., and Larsen, E., 2010, Structural evolution of minibasins on the
Utsira High, northern North Sea: implications for Jurassic sediment dispersal and reservoir
distribution: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 16, p. 105-120.
Kane, K. E., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Larsen, E., 2010, Normal fault growth and fault-related
folding in a salt-influenced rift basin: South Viking Graben, offshore Norway: Journal of
Structural Geology, v. 32, 490-506.
Kieft, R. L., Jackson, C. A.-L., Hampson, G. J., and Larsen, E., 2010, Sedimentology and
sequence stratigraphy of the Hugin Formation, Quadrant 15, Norwegian sector, South Viking
Graben, in Vining, B. A., and Pickering, S. C., eds., Petroleum geology: from mature basins to
new frontiers: Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference, p. 157-176.
Aas, T., Howell, J. A., Janocko, M., and Jackson, C. A.-L., 2009, Controls of Aptian
palaeobathymetry on turbidite distribution in the Buchan Graben, Outer Moray Firth, Central
North Sea: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 27, p. 412-434.
Jackson, C. A.-L., and Larsen, E., 2009, Temporal and spatial development of a gravity-driven
normal fault array: Middle-Upper Jurassic, South Viking Graben, northern North Sea: Journal of
Structural Geology, v. 31, p. 388-402.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Johnson, H. D., Zakaria, A. A., Crevello, P. D., and Tongkul, F., 2009,
Sedimentology, stratigraphic occurrence and origin of linked debrites in the West Crocker Fm
(Oligo-Miocene), Sabah, NW Borneo: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 26, p. 1957-1973.
Jackson, C. A.-L., 2008, Sedimentology and significance of an early syn-rift palaeovalley, Suez
Rift, Egypt: Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 52, p. 62-68.
Jackson, C. A.-L., and Larsen, E., 2008, Timing basin inversion using 3D seismic data: a case
study from the South Viking Graben, offshore Norway: Basin Research, v. 20, p. 397-417.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Barber, G. P., and Martinsen, O., 2008, Slope morphology as a control on the
geometry and evolution of sand-rich slope systems: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 25, p.
663-680.
Jackson, C. A.-L., 2007, Application of three-dimensional seismic data to documenting the
scale, geometry and distribution of soft-sediment features in sedimentary basins: an example
from the Lomre Terrace, offshore Norway, in Joint SEPM/Geological Society Conference, p.
253-267.
Jackson, C. A.-L., 2007, The geometry, distribution and development of clastic injections in
slope systems: seismic examples from the Upper Cretaceous Kyrre Formation, Måløy Slope,
Norwegian Margin, in Sand injectites: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production:
AAPG Memoir, p. 37-48
Jackson, C. A.-L., Gawthorpe, R. L., Leppard, C. W., and Sharp, I. R., 2006, Rift-initiation
development of normal fault blocks: insights from the Hammam Faraun fault block, Suez rift,
Egypt: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 163, p. 165-183.
Jackson, C., Gawthorpe, R. L., and Sharp, I. R., 2006, Structural style and development of
fault-propagation folds in extensional settings: examples from the Hammam Faraun and El-Qaa
fault blocks, Suez Rift, Egypt: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 28, p. 519-535.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Gawthorpe, R. L., Carr, I. D., and Sharp, I. R., 2005, Fault growth as a control
on the stratigraphic evolution of tidally-influenced and shallow marine syn-rift sequences: the
Nukhul and Rudeis Formations, Suez Rift, Egypt: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 313-338.
Jackson, C., and Stoddart, D. P., 2005, Temporal constraints on the growth and decay of
large-scale mobilised mud masses and implications for fluid flow mapping in sedimentary
basins: Terra Nova, v. 17, p. 580-585.
Martinsen, O., Lien, T., and Jackson, C. A.-L., 2005, Cretaceous and Palaeogene Turbidites in
the North Sea and Norwegian Sea Basins: Source, Staging Area and Basin Physiography
Controls on Reservoir Development, in Doré, A. G., and Vining, B. A., eds., Petroleum geology:
North-West Europe and global perspectives: Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology
Conference, p. 1147-1164.
Gawthorpe, R. L., Jackson, C. A.-L., Young, M. J., Sharp, I. R., Moustafa, A. R., and Leppard,
C. W., 2003, Normal fault growth, displacement localisation and the evolution of normal fault
populations: the Hammam Faraun fault block, Suez rift, Egypt: Journal of Structural Geology, v.
25, p. 1347-1348.
Carr, I. D., Gawthorpe, R. L., Jackson, C. A.-L., Sharp, I. R., and Sadek, A., 2002,
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of early syn-rift tidal sediments: the Nukhul
Formation, Suez Rift, Egypt: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 407-420.
Jackson, C. A.-L., Gawthorpe, R. L., and Sharp, I. R., 2002, Growth and linkage of the East
Tanka fault zone, Suez rift: structural style and syn-rift stratigraphic response: Journal of the
Geological Society of London, v. 159, p. 175-187.
Non-Peer Reviewed
Huuse, M., Van Rensbergen, P., Jackson, C. A.-L., Flemings, P. B., Davies, R. J., and Dixon, R.
J., 2010, Subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimentary basins: preface.
Basin Research, v. 22, p. 341, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00487.x.
Research Support
Pricipal Investigator: Fully industry-funded project, VNG (2011 - 2013, £200,000).
Pricipal Investigator: Fully industry-funded project, Maersk (2010, £10000).
Pricipal Investigator: Fully industry-funded project, Shell (2009 - 2011, £300,000).
Pricipal Investigator: Fully industry-funded project, Statoil ASA (2008 - 2011, £800,000).
Principal Investigator: Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the South Viking Graben, (2005 2006, £28000).
Principal Investigator: Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the South Viking Graben, (2004 2005, £22500).
Lecturing
University Teaching
Barrel Award Exploration Project (M.Sc. Petroleum Geoscience): University of Manchester,
Manchester, U.K., 2012.
Seismic Interpretation Techniques (M.Sc. Petroleum Geoscience): University of Manchester,
Manchester, U.K., 2012.
Utah Field Course (M.Sc. Petroleum Geoscience): University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.,
2012.
Miscellaneous Activities of a Professional Nature
Consultant, Maersk--Controls on the stratigraphic evolution of deep-water depositional systems,
offshore Norway, 2012
Consultant, Rocksource--Evaluation of enigmatic Palaeocene prospects in the Stord Basin, 2012
Consultant, Rocksource--Lead maturation in the Greater Haltenbanken area, 2012
Consultant, Statoil--Influence of normal faulting on syn-rift depositional systems, Njord Field area,
offshore Norway, 2012
Consultant, Svenska--Tectonic controls on hangingwall dipslope depositional systems in the East
Shetland Basin, 2012
Consultant, VNG--Controls on the stratigraphic evolution of deep-water depositional systems,
offshore Norway, 2012
Consultant, VNG--Tectonic controls on Upper Jurassic depositional systems in the South Viking
Graben, 2012
Graduate Student Committee Participation
External Examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Mark Thomas Ireland, 3-D seismic investigation
of the diagenesis and deformation of Cenozoic siliceous sediments on the Eastern Atlantic Margin:
Durham University, U.K., 2011
External Examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Adiotomre Eseroghene Emmanuel, Normal fault
geometry, evolution and stratigraphic response in the shallow sub-seafloor offshore Angola, west
Africa: University of Manchester, U.K., 2010
External Examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Carlos Manuel de Assis Silva, Controls on slope
channel-levee evolution in the Amazon: University of Leeds, U.K., 2010
External Examiner, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, David Moy, The architecture, growth and
tectono-stratigraphic significance of rift-oblique lineaments on the NE Atlantic margin: Durham
University, U.K., 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Abdulaziz Al-Balushi, Impact of the Messinian Salinity
Crisis (MSC) on hydrocarbon maturation and migration: University of Manchester, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Abdullah Zakaria, Sedimentology of Tertiary deep-water
sandstones in NW Sabah, Malaysia: an evaluation of the Paleogene (Oligocene-Miocene) West
Crocker Formation and the Neogene (Early Pliocene) Lingan submarine fan systems: University of
Manchester, completed, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Andrew McAndrew, Occurrence and cause of syn-rift
erosional unconformities in the northern North Sea: University of Manchester, completed, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Aruna Mannie, Tectonic controls on shallow marine
transgressive systems: University of Manchester, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Faisal Al-Qahtani, 3D seismic geomorphology of fluvial
systems: University of Manchester, completed, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Hayley Allen, 3D seismic analysis of the stratigraphic
expression of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), offshore Libya: University of Manchester, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Kehinde Olafiranye, 3D seismic analysis of the temporal
and spatial evolution of mass-transport complexes: University of Manchester, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Paul Whipp, Fault-propagation folding in extensional
settings: University of Manchester, completed, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Rachel Kieft, Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy
of shallow marine sediments in a syn-rift setting: Hugin Formation, South Viking Graben: University
of Manchester, completed, 2010
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Benoit Massart, Improved characterization and modelling
of low-permeability sandstone reservoirs: University of Manchester, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Duarte Soares, Syn- to post-rift transitions on passive
continental margins: Cardiff University, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Elisabeth Evrard, Facies distributions in the Zechstein
Supergroup and impact on Late Jurassic rift-related structural styles: University of Manchester, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Matthew Lewis, Structural and stratigraphic evolution of
extensional fault-propagation folds: University of Manchester, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Nicholas Holgate, A comparative study of controls on
shoreline trajectories in rift-margin and rift-interior shallow marine systems: University of
Manchester, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Stefano Patruno, Linkage between shelf and slope
depositional systems along the margins of an active rift basin: insights from shoreline trajectories
analysis: University of Manchester, 2009
Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Evelina Dmitrieva, Development of clastic injections in
shallow marine sedimentary sequences: University of Manchester, 2007

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