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           Current Position: Lecturer


Address 

Geology & Petroleum Geology,  School of Geosciences,  Meston Building,  King's College,  Aberdeen,  AB24 3UE,  Scotland, U.K.


Research Areas:  geological interpretation of geophysical data sets; seismic image processing; submarine thrust tectonic, structural geology, ductile deformation analysis. 


Current research activity

Actually I m involved with intepretation of 3D seismic dataset from several tectonic environments. The purpose is to understand the geometry, displacement values and the conduit properties of fracture, thrust and folds within hydrocarbon systems combining seismic and analogue field data. In addition to the classical seismic mapping methods, to obtain a better imaging of the thrust and fold structures several seimic volume image processing software are applied and tested (Kingdom software, SVI.pro, Petrel).  Post stack Time and Frequency attributes are used and extracted to pursue a better imaging of the main structures and also obtain a better reservoir characterization within deforming basin and deep water systems. I am also involved in field and quantitative kinematic analysis of  ductile shear zones using microtectonic, strain gauge and mathematical tools.



As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -
A. Einstein.

"if the terrain and the map do not agree, follow the terrain."
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