Selin Coskun

Selin graduated from the University of Houston in 2014 with an MSc and worked as a Researcher in Marine Geoscience for Doukuz Eylul University. Following this she worked as an Exploration Geophysicist and Team leader of Mediterranean Exploration Projects with Turkish Petroleum Company before joining us at NARG in 2020. She has research interests in geophysics, carbonate and clastic sequence stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, passive margin settings and salt tectonics.

Selin's project will be funded by NARG using a dataset donated by TGS, PGS and PETROSEN.

The study will focus on refining our understanding of the structure, stratigraphic architecture, age relationships, palaeogeography, facies trends and igneous intrusions styles and ages across the margin. The work will integrate data from existing wells (cuttings data and wireline log data), limited outcrop studies and analysis of onshore / offshore seismic and gravity / magnetic data to define stratal relationships and seismic facies.

Key areas for study include: interaction between slope and shelf areas and transform faults and igneous centres through time; the syn-rift to drift transition; the base of Jurassic carbonates, the top of the carbonate platform including key structures, canyons, karst, reefs; gross architecture and internal facies of Cretaceous fans and shelfal systems; Cenozoic shelf-slope stratigraphy including canyons, mass transport deposits, gullies, sediment waves; igneous intrusions and extrusions.

 The PhD is supervised by Prof. Jonathan Redfern, Prof. Mads Huuse, Prof Giovanni Bertotti, (TuDelft), Dr Luc Bulot, Dr Stefan Schroeder