James Howard
Biography
James Howard received his B.Sc. (Hons) from Liverpool University in 2000 and Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in 2004. His Ph.D. focussed on the structural and stratigraphic evolution of intraplate, intracontinental transpressional basins in the Altai region of western Mongolia.
He joined CASP in 2004 and has subsequently carried out fieldwork on the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic, the Kufra and Murzuq basins of southern Libya and in east Siberia. His main research interests are using structural geology and sedimentology to understand the evolution of sedimentary basins. This has involved constructing paleogeographic maps and structural transects, provenance studies, geochemical analysis of source and reservoir units and regional literature reviews. He was project leader for the Paleozoic Margin of Baltica Project and the Evolution of Siberia Project and is currently leading the Paleozoic of Arabia Project.
Latest Publications
- Meinhold, G., Whitham, A.G., Howard, J.P., Stewart, J.C., Abutarruma, Y. and Thusu, B. (2013). "Hydrocarbon source rock potential of latest Ordovician - earliest Silurian Tanezzuft Formation shales from the eastern Kufra Basin, SE Libya". Journal of Petroleum Geology 36 (2): p105-116 Abstract
- Paris, F., Thusu, B., Rasul, S., Meinhold, G., Strogen, D., Howard, J.P., Abutarruma, Y., Elgadry, M. and Whitham, A.G. (2012). "Palynological and palynofacies analysis of early Silurian shales from borehole CDEG-2a in Dor el Gussa, eastern Murzuq Basin, Libya". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 174: p1-26 Abstract
- Le Heron, D.P. and Howard, J.P. (2012). "Sandstones, glaciers, burrows and transgressions: The Lower Palaeozoic of Jabel az-Zalmah, Al Kufrah Basin, Libya.". Sedimentary Geology 245-246: p63-75 Abstract
