Professor NICK SCHOFIELD
Personal Chair
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- n.schofield@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272096
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences


Biography
Nick Schofield is a Professor of Igneous and Petroleum Geology. He specializes in the seismic and field interpretation of intrusive and extrusive sequences in volcanic terranes and their interaction with hydrocarbon systems.
He is a multi-award winning scientist at the forefront of aiding industry in understanding challenging volcanic geology in the subsurface globally. External roles include sitting on the UK-IODP program advisory group (PAG).
Nick is presently on 80% secondment via the 51cg to Pulsar Helium () where he is acting as Chief Geologist.
- Research
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Research Overview
- Geology and Petroleum Geology West of Shetland
- Geology of NE Atlantic Margin
- Seismic Interpretation of Volcanics
- Petroleum Geology
- Evolution of Sedimentary Basins affected by Volcanism
- Sill Complexes
- Intra-Lava hydrocarbon plays (e.g. Rosebank)
- Lava field stratigraphy
- North Atlantic Igneous Province
- South Australian Volcanism
- Salt-Igneous interaction
- Publications
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The magma plumbing system of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, offshore Australia: multiscale controls on basin-wide magma emplacement, and implications for petroleum exploration
Geological Society Special Publications , vol. 547, no. 1, pp. 131-181Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Lithological influence on sill geometry in sedimentary basins: Controls and recognition in reflection seismic data
Basin Research, vol. 36, no. 2, e12857Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Petroleum generation and migration through the Faroe-Shetland Basin - The role of Igneous Intrusions
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 30, no. 2Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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The Impact of Igneous Intrusions on Sedimentary Host Rocks: Insights from Field Outcrop and Subsurface Data
Petroleum Geoscience, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 2022-2086Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Uncertainties in Ray-Tracing Tomography Models Used for Sub-Basalt Seismic Imaging
Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 180, pp. 145-156Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
3D seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe-Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin
Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 180, no. 5, jgs2022-172Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Nature and preservation of Late Jurassic breakup-related volcanism in the carnarvon basin, North West shelf, Australia
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 153, 106304Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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New insights into the structure, geology and hydrocarbon prospectivity along the central-northern Corona Ridge, Faroe-Shetland Basin
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE]
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New insights on the origin of Barra Volcanic Ridge System, offshore Ireland: a long distance influence of the Iceland mantle plume
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 152, 106237Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Seismic wave propagation around subsurface igneous sill complexes
Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 152, 106232Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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