M. Bennett, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK
Matthew Bennett is a glacial and Quaternary geologists with over 20 years of field experience in a range
of environments. He has worked on a range of projects from the sedimentology of Arctic glacier to the Quaternary stratigraphy of semi-arid
lake basins in the tropics. Matthew is currently working in East Africa on Plio-Pleistocene hominin bearing deposits. Key areas of
expertise include: glacial sediments/geomorphology, Quaternary stratigraphy and palaeo-environments, stratigraphic tools and practice,
ichnology, geochronology and volcaniclastic assemblages.
B. Jones, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, T8G 2E3, Canada
My fields of interest cover all aspects of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology. Specific
areas of interest are as follows: Carbonate sedimentology with emphasis on interpretation of processes that control and govern the
development of facies in modern settings and ancient successions. Such research has involved the stratigraphic settings of the rocks
and detailed consideration of the fossils that they contain as well as the paleoecology of the biotas. In recent years, this has involved
detailed analyses of Devonian strata from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Diagenesis of carbonate sediments and rocks with
particular emphasis on microscale processes. Over the last 5 years or so, analysis (XRD, SEM, electron microprobe) of Tertiary dolostones
from the Cayman Islands has been a focus of area of research. Analysis of spring deposits from New Zealand, Chile, Iceland, and
western Canada. In particular, this research has focused on calcite/aragonite and opal-A deposits associated with hot springs with emphasis
on factors that control the type of precipitate that forms, the crystallography of aragonite/calcite precipitates (particularly dendrite
crystals), and preservation of various organisms in the spring deposits. The diagenesis of opal-A has also been examined. Recent research
has also focused on deposits associated with cold-water springs as well as springs that precipitate minerals other than silica, calcite,
or aragonite (e.g., barite, Fe-rich minerals).
G. Weltje, Fac. of Applied Earth Sciences, Technische Universiteit Delft, Mijnbouwstraat 120, 2628 RX Delft, Netherlands
My area of interest is clastic sedimentology, with specific reference to: sedimentary petrology (provenance,
diagenesis), particle-size analysis, tectonic and climatic controls on sediment supply, sequence stratigraphy, sediment transport, numerical
modelling, statistical analysis
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