Publications

Selected publications by NARG members:

• Burwood R., Redfern J., and Cope M. (2003) Geochemical evaluation of East Sirte Basin (Libya) petroleum systems and oil provenance. In Petroleum Geology of Africa: New Themes and Developing Technologies, Vol. 207 (ed. T. J.
• Arthur, D. S. MacGregor, and N. R. Cameron), pp. 203-204. Geological Society of London Special Publication.
• Badalini G., Redfern J., and Carr I. D. (2002) A synthesis of current understanding of the structural evolution of North Africa. Journal of Petroleum Geology 25(3), 249-258.
• Fello, N., Lüning, S., Štorch, P., and Redfern, J. (2006), Identification of early Llandovery (Silurian) anoxic palaeo-depressions at the western margin of the Murzuq Basin (southwest Libya ), based on gamma-ray spectrometry in surface exposures. GeoArabia 11 (3): 101-118.
• Redfern, J., Hodgetts, D. & Fabuel-Perez, I. (2007). Digital analysis brings renaissance for petroleum geology outcrop studies in North Africa. In: First Break, 25, 81-87.
• Underdown, R., and Redfern, J., (2007), The importance of constraining regional exhumation in basin modelling: a hydrocarbon maturation history of the Ghadames Basin, North Africa., Petroleum Geoscience, V 13, 1-19
• Underdown, R., and Redfern J., (2007), Constraining the burial history of the Ghadames Basin, North Africa: An integrated analysis using sonic velocities, vitrinite reflectance data and apatite fission track ages. Basin Research, Volume 19, Number 4, 557-578(22).
• Underdown, R., and Redfern, J., (2008), Petroleum Generation and Migration in the Ghadames Basin, North Africa: A 2D Basin Modelling Study, AAPG Bulletin, V. 92, No. 1 , 53-76.
• Hansen, D.H., , Redfern,J., Federici, F., di Biase, D. and Bertozzi, G.,(2008), Miocene igneous activity in the northern subbasin, offshore Senegal, NW Africa, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 25, Issue 1, 1-15.
• Fabuel-Perez, I., Hodgetts, D., & Redfern, J., (2009), A new approach for outcrop characterization and geostatistical analysis of a low-sinuosity fluvial-dominated succession using digital outcrop models; Upper Triassic Oukaimeden Sandstone Formation, central High Atlas, Morocco AAPG Bulletin, 93, 6, pp. 795-827.
• Lubeseder, S., Redfern, J., Boutib, L., (2009), Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf sedimentation- Lower Devonian sequences of the SW Anti-Atlas, Morocco Source: Sedimentary Geology, 215, 1-4, pp. 13-32.
• Fabuel-Perez, I.; Redfern, J.; Hodgetts, D., (2009), Sedimentology of an intra-montane rift- controlled fluvial dominated succession: The Upper Triassic Oukaimeden Sandstone Formation, Central High Atlas, Morocco, Sedimentary Geology, v. 218, iss. 1-4, pp. 103-140.
• Baudon, C., Fabuel-Perez, I. and Redfern, J. ( 2009). "Structural style and evolution of a Late Triassic rift basin in the central High Atlas, Morocco; controls on sediment deposition." Geological Journal, 44(6): pp. 677-691.
• Van Lanen, X.M.T., Hodgetts, D., Redfern, J., Fabuel-Perez, I. (2009). "Applications of digital outcrop models; two fluvial case studies from the Triassic Wolfville Fm., Canada and Oukaimeden Sandstone Fm., Morocco." Geological Journal, 44(6): 742-760.
• Fröhlich S., J. Redfern, L. Petitpierre, J. Marshall, M. Power, P. Grech (2009), Diagenesis and reservoir quality evolution of Lower Carboniferous fluvial channels, western Libya) . Journal of Petroleum Geology.
• Bodin S., E. Mattioli, S. Frohlich, J.D. Marshall, L. Boutib, S. Lahsini, R.Redfern (2010). "Toarcian carbon isotope shifts and nutrient changes from the Northern margin of Gondwana (High Atlas, Morocco, Jurassic): Palaeoenvironmental implications."Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, pp 377-390.
• Bodin, S., Wood, J., Petitpierre, L., Redfern, J. (2010). "Timing of Early to Mid-Cretaceous tectonic phases along North Africa: New insights from the Jeffara escarpment (Libya-Tunisia)."Journal of African Earth Sciences 58, 3. pp 489-506.
• Thomas, M. F. H., Bodin, S., Redfern, J., Irving, D. H. B. (2010). "A constrained African craton source for the Cenozoic Numidian Flysch: Implications for the palaeogeography of the western Mediterranean basin." Earth Science Reviews 101, 1. pp 1-23.
• Fröhlich, S., Petitpierre, L., Redfern, J., Grech, P., Bodin, S., Lang, S. (2010). "Sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic analysis of Carboniferous deposits in western Libya: recording the sedimentary response of the northern Gondwana margin to climate and sealevel changes." Journal of African Earth Sciences 57 (4), pp. 279-296.
• Catterall, V., Redfern, J., Gawthorpe, R.L., Hansen, D.M & Thomas, M.H.F (2010), Architectural Style and Quantification of a Submarine Channel-Levee Systems located in a structurally complex area: Offshore Nile Delta, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 80; no. 11; pp. 991-1017; DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2010.084.
• Fabuel-Perez, I., Hodgetts, D. and Redfern, J. (2010). "Integration of digital outcrop models (DOMs) and high resolution sedimentology; workflow and implications for geological modelling; Oukaimeden Sandstone Formation, High Atlas (Morocco)." Petroleum Geoscience, 16, 133- 154.133-154.
• Lubeseder S., J. Redfern, L. Petitpierre, S. Fröhlich. (2011). Stratigraphic trapping potential in the Carboniferous of North Africa: developing new play concepts based on integrated outcrop sedimentology and regional sequence stratigraphy (Morocco, Algeria, Libya). Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 2011, v. 7, p. 725-734, doi: 10.1144/0070725.
• Thomas, MFH. S Bodin, J Redfern Comment on European provenance of the Numidian Flysch in northern Tunisia' by Fildes et al.(2010) Terra Nova 22 (6), 501-503.
• Bodin S., Fröhlich, S., Boutib, L., S Lahsini, S., and Redfern J (2011). Early Toarcian Source-Rock Potential in the Central High Atlas Basin (Central Morocco): Regional Distribution and Depositional Model. Journal of Petroleum Geology 34 (4), 345-363.
• Redfern, J., Shannon, P.M., Williams, B.P.J., Tyrell, S., Leleu, S., Fabuel Perez, I., Baudon, C., Stolfova, K., Hodgetts, D., Speksnijder, A., Haughton, P.D.W, Daly, J.S. , ( 2011) An integrated study of Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin: implication for future exploration. Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series, v. 7, p. 921-936, doi: 10.1144/0070921.
• Mader, N. K. and Redfern, J. (2011). A sedimentological model for the continental Upper Triassic Tadrart Ouadou Sandstone Member: recording an interplay of climate and tectonics (Argana Valley; South-west Morocco), Sedimentology, 1365-3091 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365- 3091.2010.01204.x.
• Baudon, C., Redfern, J & Van Den Driessche P; J, (2012), Permo-Triassic structural evolution of the Argana Valley and implications on the kinematics and impact of the Atlantic rifting in the High Atlas, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 65, 91-104.
• Huuse M., D. P. Le Heron, R. Dixon, J. Redfern, A. Moscariello and J. Craig (2012) Glaciogenic reservoirs and hydrocarbon systems: an introduction. Geological Society, London, Special Publications v.368; p1-28. doi: 10.1144/SP368.19.
• Jiménez Berrocoso, A., Bodin, S., Wood, J., Calvert, S.E., Mutterlose, J., Petrizzo, M.R., Redfern, J., 2013. Dynamic sedimentary conditions during periods of enhanced sequestration of organic carbon in the central southern Tethys at the onset of the Cenozoic global cooling. Sedimentary Geology 290, 60-84.
• Wood, J.D., S. Bodin, J. Redfern, M.F.H. Thomas, (2014), Controls on facies evolution in low accommodation, continental-scale fluvio-paralic systems (Messak Fm, SW Libya), Sedimentology V 301 p49-69.
• Spence, G.H., Redfern, J., Aguilera R., Bevan, T., Cosgrove, J.W., Couples, G., Daniel, J-M. (eds) (2014), Advances in the Study of Fractured Reservoirs. Geological Society, London, Special Publication v. 374.
• Gouiza, M., Charton, R, Bertotto G, Andriessen P and Storms J.E.A (2015) Post-Variscan evolution of the Anti-Atlas belt of Morocco constrained from low-temperature geochronology. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)
• English, K.L., Redfern, J., Corcoran, D.V. English, J., and Yahi Cherif, R. (2016) Constraining burial history and petroleum charge in exhumed basins: New insights from the Illizi Basin, Algeria. AAPG Bulletin, v. 100, No. 4 (April), p. 623-655
• English, K.L., Redfern, J., Bertotti, G., English, J., and Yahi Cherif, R. (2016) Intraplate uplift: new constraints on the Hoggar dome from the Illizi basin (Algeria), Basin Research, p. 1-17
• Luber, T.L., Bulot, L.G., Redfern, J., Frau, C., Arantegui, A. and Masrour, M. (2017) A revised ammonoid biostratigraphy for the Aptian of NW Africa: Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Morocco. Cretaceous Research, 79, p.12-34.
• Casson, M., Cavin, L., Jeremiah, J., Bulot, L.G. and Redfern, J. (2018) Fishing in the Central Atlantic, an earliest Cenomanian ichthyodectiform from DSDP Site 367, Cape Verde Basin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p.1-5.
• Charton, R., Bertotti, G., Arantegui, A. and Bulot, L. (2018) The Sidi Ifni transect across the rifted margin of Morocco (Central Atlantic): Vertical movements constrained by low-temperature thermochronology. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 141, p.22-32.
• Luber, T.L., Bulot, L.G., Redfern, J., Nahim, M., Jeremiah, J., Simmons, M., Bodin, S., Frau, C., Bidgood, M. and Masrour, M. (2019) A revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Aptian of the Essaouira-Agadir Basin, a candidate type section for the NW African Atlantic Margin. Cretaceous Research, 93, p.292-317.
• Pichel, L.M., Huuse, M., Finch, E. and Redfern, J., 2016, May. Salt Tectonics Offshore Morocco-New Insights from Numerical Modelling and 2D Seismic Interpretation. In 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2016 (Vol. 2016, No. 1, pp. 1-5). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers.
• Pichel, L.M., Huuse, M. and Finch, E., 2016, April. Salt tectonics and fluid flow on morocco offshore: Insights from seismic interpretation and discrete-element modelling. In International Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-6 April 2016 (pp. 33-33). Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
• Newport, R., Hollis, C., Bodin, S. and Redfern, J., 2017. Examining the interplay of climate and low amplitude sea‐level change on the distribution and volume of massive dolomitization: Zebbag Formation, Cretaceous, Southern Tunisia. The Depositional Record, 3(1), pp.38-59.
• Pichel, L.M., Finch, E., Huuse, M. and Redfern, J., 2017. The influence of shortening and sedimentation on rejuvenation of salt diapirs: A new Discrete-Element Modelling approach. Journal of Structural Geology, 104, pp.61-79.
• Pichel, L.M., Peel, F., Jackson, C.A. and Huuse, M., 2018. Geometry and kinematics of salt-detached ramp syncline basins. Journal of Structural Geology, 115, pp.208-230.
• Frau, C., Tendil, A.J.B., Lanteaume, C., Masse, J.P., Pictet, A., Bulot, L.G., Luber, T.L., Redfern, J., Borgomano, J.R., Léonide, P. and Fournier, F., 2018. Late Barremian–Early Aptian ammonite bioevents from the Urgonian-type series of Provence, southeast France: Regional stratigraphic correlations and implications for dating the peri-Vocontian carbonate platforms. Cretaceous Research, 90, pp.222-253.
• Roquette, E., Schröder, S., Luber, T., Tyrrell, S. and Redfern, J., 2018. Source-to-sink: tracking the provenance of Lower Cretaceous reservoirs in the Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Moroccan Atlantic margin. Conjugate Margins Conference, August 19-22, 2018.
• Arantegui, A., Jerrett, R., Schröder, S., Bulot, L.G., Gatto, R., Monari, S. and Redfern, J., 2019. Constraining Mesozoic early post-rift depositional systems evolution along the eastern Central Atlantic margin. Sedimentary geology, 386, pp.31-51.
• Gouiza, M., Bertotti, G., Charton, R., Haimoudane, K., Dunkl, I., & Anczkiewicz, A. A. (2019). New evidence of 'anomalous' vertical movements along the hinterland of the atlantic NW african margin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, https://doi. org/10.1029/2019JB017914
• Pichel, L.M., Huuse, M., Redfern, J. and Finch, E., 2019. The influence of base-salt relief, rift topography and regional events on salt tectonics offshore Morocco. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 103, pp.87-113.
• Pichel, L.M., Finch, E. and Gawthorpe, R.L., 2019. The Impact of Pre‐Salt Rift Topography on Salt Tectonics: A Discrete‐Element Modeling Approach. Tectonics, 38(4), pp.1466-1488.
• Roquette, E., Schröder, S., Luber, T., Tyrrell, S. and Redfern, J., 2019, January. New constraints on source to sink systems of NW Africa: provenance analysis of the Mesozoic post-rift clastics in the Essaouira-Agadir Basin (Morocco). In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21).
• Casson, M.A., Calves, G., Redfern, J., Huuse, M. and Sayers, B., 2019, December. Cretaceous Submarine Canyon Inception and Slope Processes, Offshore NW Africa. In AGU Fall Meeting 2019. AGU.
• Casson, M., Bulot, L.G., Jeremiah, J. and Redfern, J., 2020. Deep sea rock record exhumed on oceanic volcanic islands: the Cretaceous sediments of Maio, Cape Verde. Gondwana Research, 81, pp.252-264.
• Casson, M., Calvès, G., Redfern, J., Huuse, M. & Sayers, B. 2020. Cretaceous continental margin evolution from quantitative seismic geomorphology, offshore NW Africa. Basin Research. (in press)
• Cumberpatch, Z.A., Soutter, E.L., Kane, I.A. & Casson, M. 2020. Evolution of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate system on an unstable margin: the Cretaceous of the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Azerbaijan. The Depositional Record. (in press)
• Newport, R., Segura, M., Redfern, J. and Hollis, C., 2020 The interaction of tectonics, climate and eustasy in controlling dolomitization: A case study of Cenomanian–Turonian, shallow marine carbonates of the Iberian Basin. Sedimentology. (in press)