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The Humbly Grove, Herriard and Hester’s Copse Fields, UK onshore (2020)
Journal Article
Gluyas, J., De-Paola, N., Imber, J., Jezierski, T., Jones, R., Jordan, P., McCaffrey, K., Nielsen, S., Pongthunya, P., Satterley, A., Sowter, A., Wilkinson, M., & Moors, A. (2020). The Humbly Grove, Herriard and Hester’s Copse Fields, UK onshore. Memoirs, 52, 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1144/m52-2018-78

The Humbly Grove Field has, for the UK, a unique development history. It was discovered as an oilfield in May 1980 and produced as an oilfield until 2000 along with small satellite fields Herriard (developed) and Hester's Copse (not developed). Peak... Read More about The Humbly Grove, Herriard and Hester’s Copse Fields, UK onshore.

Relationship between fault activity and hydrocarbon accumulation in the Baxian Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China (2019)
Journal Article
Zhao, K., Jiang, Y., Imber, J., Hu, H., Liu, H., & Yang, D. (2019). Relationship between fault activity and hydrocarbon accumulation in the Baxian Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, 37(4), 1253-1267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0144598719830929

Based on the fluorescence microscopic features of fluid inclusions and the combined analysis of the homogenization temperature and burial history modeling, the hydrocarbon charge history was divided into two phases, among which the second phase was t... Read More about Relationship between fault activity and hydrocarbon accumulation in the Baxian Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China.

Evidence for Basement Reactivation during the Opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from Field Data and Numerical Models (2018)
Journal Article
Peace, A., Dempsey, E., Schiffer, C., Welford, J., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., & Phethean, J. (2018). Evidence for Basement Reactivation during the Opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from Field Data and Numerical Models. Geosciences, 8(8), Article 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080308

The onshore exposures adjacent to modern, offshore passive continental margins may preserve evidence of deformation from the pre-, syn-, and post-rift phases of continental breakup that allow us to investigate the processes associated with and contro... Read More about Evidence for Basement Reactivation during the Opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from Field Data and Numerical Models.

Extension parallel to the rift zone during segmented fault growth: application to the evolution of the NE Atlantic (2017)
Journal Article
Bubeck, A., Walker, R., Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., MacLeod, C., & Holwell, D. (2017). Extension parallel to the rift zone during segmented fault growth: application to the evolution of the NE Atlantic. Solid Earth, 8(6), 1161-1180. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1161-2017

The mechanical interaction of propagating normal faults is known to influence the linkage geometry of first-order faults, and the development of second-order faults and fractures, which transfer displacement within relay zones. Here we use natural ex... Read More about Extension parallel to the rift zone during segmented fault growth: application to the evolution of the NE Atlantic.

The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland (2017)
Journal Article
Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., van Hunen, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, R. (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research, 30(3), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12257

Continental breakup between Greenland and North America produced the small oceanic basins of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, which are connected via the Davis Strait, a region mostly comprised of continental crust. This study contributes to the deba... Read More about The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland.

Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs (2017)
Journal Article
Clarke, A., Imber, J., Davies, R., van Hunen, J., Daniels, S., & Yielding, G. (2017). Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 23(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2016-052

Depleted gas reservoirs are potential sites for CO2 storage; therefore, it is important to evaluate their storage capacity. Historically, there have been difficulties in identifying the reservoir drive mechanism of gas reservoirs using traditional P/... Read More about Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs.

An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry (2016)
Journal Article
Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Phethean, J., Nowell, G., Gerdes, K., & Dempsey, E. (2016). An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry. Geosphere, 12(6), 1701-1724. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01341.1

The Labrador Sea is a small (∼900 km wide) ocean basin separating southwest Greenland from Labrador, Canada. It opened following a series of rifting events that began as early as the Late Triassic or Jurassic, culminating in a brief period of seafloo... Read More about An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry.

Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK (2016)
Book Chapter
Lăpădat, A., Imber, J., Yielding, G., Iacopini, D., McCaffrey, K. J., Long, J. J., & Jones, R. R. (2016). Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK. In C. Childs, R. E. Holdsworth, C. A. Jackson, T. Manzocchi, J. J. Walsh, & G. Yielding (Eds.), The geometry and growth of normal faults (373-394). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp439.18

Folds associated with normal faults are potential hydrocarbon traps and may impact the connectivity of faulted reservoirs. Well-calibrated seismic reflection data that image a normal fault system from the Inner Moray Firth basin, offshore Scotland, s... Read More about Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK.

Hadley circulation and precipitation changes control black shale deposition in the Late Jurassic Boreal Seaway (2016)
Journal Article
Armstrong, H. A., Wagner, T., Herringshaw, L. G., Farnsworth, A. J., Lunt, D. J., Harland, M., …Atar, E. F. (2016). Hadley circulation and precipitation changes control black shale deposition in the Late Jurassic Boreal Seaway. Paleoceanography, 31(8), 1041-1053. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015pa002911

New climate simulations using the HadCM3L model with a paleogeography of the Late Jurassic [155.5 Ma], and proxy-data corroborate that warm and wet tropical-like conditions reached as far north as the UK sector of the Jurassic Boreal Seaway [~35oN].... Read More about Hadley circulation and precipitation changes control black shale deposition in the Late Jurassic Boreal Seaway.

Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England (2014)
Journal Article
Imber, J., Armstrong, H., Clancy, S., Daniels, S., Herringshaw, L., McCaffrey, K., …Warren, C. (2014). Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England. AAPG Bulletin, 98(11), 2411-2437. https://doi.org/10.1306/07141413144

Faults and fractures within the well-exposed Lower Jurassic Cleveland Ironstone and Whitby Mudstone formations may provide insights into the tectonic history of gas-prospective, Mississippian shale in northern England. Sub-vertical opening mode fract... Read More about Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England.

Structural Controls on Orogenic Au Mineralization During Transpression: Lupa Goldfield, Southwestern Tanzania (2013)
Journal Article
Lawley, C., Imber, J., & Selby, D. (2013). Structural Controls on Orogenic Au Mineralization During Transpression: Lupa Goldfield, Southwestern Tanzania. Economic geology and the bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 108(7), 1615-1640. https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.108.7.1615

Au mineralization in the western Lupa goldfield, southwestern Tanzania was associated with transpression and reverse sinistral slip along a network of steeply S dipping shear zones with non-Andersonian geometries. Slip was accommodated by: (1) fricti... Read More about Structural Controls on Orogenic Au Mineralization During Transpression: Lupa Goldfield, Southwestern Tanzania.

Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions? (2012)
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Imber, J., Perry, T., Jones, R., & Wightman, R. (2012). Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions?. Journal of Structural Geology, 45, 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2012.09.004

Conjugate cataclastic deformation bands cut unconsolidated sand and gravel at McKinleyville, California, and dip shallowly towards the north-northeast and south-southwest. The acute dihedral angle between the two sets of deformation bands is 47° and... Read More about Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions?.

Strain compatibility and fault linkage in relay zones on normal faults (2012)
Journal Article
Long, J., & Imber, J. (2012). Strain compatibility and fault linkage in relay zones on normal faults. Journal of Structural Geology, 36, 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2011.12.013

Relay zones on normal faults are unlikely to have tabular geometries as depicted in idealised models. Rotation of a relay ramp between non-parallel and non-planar relay-bounding faults will inevitably lead to strain compatibility problems causing ope... Read More about Strain compatibility and fault linkage in relay zones on normal faults.

Geological controls on fault relay zone scaling (2011)
Journal Article
Long, J., & Imber, J. (2011). Geological controls on fault relay zone scaling. Journal of Structural Geology, 33(12), 1790-1800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2011.09.011

The overlap and separation distances of relay zones follow a power-law scaling relationship over nearly 8 orders of magnitude. Approximately one order of magnitude scatter in both separation and overlap exists at all scales. The strong power-law rela... Read More about Geological controls on fault relay zone scaling.

Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists (2010)
Book Chapter
McCaffrey, K., Hodgetts, D., Howell, J., Hunt, D., Imber, J., Jones, R., …Viseur, S. (2010). Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists. In B. Vining, & S. Pickering (Eds.), Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers—Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference (19-26). Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/0070019

Geometrically coherent continuous deformation in the volume surrounding a seismically imaged normal fault-array (2010)
Journal Article
Long, J., & Imber, J. (2010). Geometrically coherent continuous deformation in the volume surrounding a seismically imaged normal fault-array. Journal of Structural Geology, 32(2), 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2009.11.009

We calculated an apparent dip attribute, which was used to ascertain the spatial distribution of fault-related continuous deformation. The vertical component of displacement calculated from the continuous deformation acts to “fill-in” missing displac... Read More about Geometrically coherent continuous deformation in the volume surrounding a seismically imaged normal fault-array.