Personal Details:
Name: Mr. Chris Leppard
Institute / Company: University of Manchester
Department: Basin and Stratigraphic Studies Group
Position: PhD Student
Tel: 0044 (0)161 2753696
Email:
Website: www.leppard.co.uk/chris

Research Details:
Keywords: Sequence Stratigraphy, Syn-rift, Clastic Sedimentology, Fault Zone Evolution, Tectonics, Gulf of Suez, Rift Basins.

Description: Faults are important in many aspects of Earth Science and a detailed understanding of their evolution is important in areas ranging from resource assessment to earthquake prediction. The segmented nature of fault zones within fault arrays is a fundamental characteristic and is important in controlling the way faults, and fault arrays evolve. Although fault segment growth, interaction and linkage are key processes governing fault zone development, the detailed temporal evolution of fault zones is poorly understood. Crucial questions still remain concerning the controls influencing growth and linkage of fault segments and the spatial and temporal variations in displacement accumulation along fault zones. Current research addresses these problems by reconstructing the growth history of fault segments and fault zones over time-scales of 104-106 years through linking structural studies with detailed quantitative stratigraphic analysis of syn-rift sediments.