Tim Minshull
General information
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 337 181
FAX: +44 (0) 1223 360 779
E-mail address:minshull@esc.cam.ac.uk
My PhD work was carried out in the Marine Geophysics group in this department
in 1986-1989 and concentrated on the application of multichannel seismic
reflection and wide-angle seismic techniques to two areas: sediment deformation
in the Makran accretionary prism, offshore Pakistan, and crustal structure at
the small-offset Blake Spur Fracture Zone in the western North Atlantic. After
18 months at the University of Birmingham, I returned to Cambridge in 1991
as a research associate, taking up my fellowship in 1994.
Research Interests
The structure of oceanic crust, at spreading centres, at fracture zones and
in the ocean basins. The influence of hotspots on oceanic crustal structure.
Mid-ocean ridge tectonics. The structure of ocean islands. Crustal structure
at rifted continental margins. Sediment deformation at convergent continental
margins. Detection and quantification of submarine gas hydrates. The
application of waveform inversion and traveltime tomographic techniques to
marine seismic data. High-resolution seismic studies of the interaction
between sedimentation and tectonics.
See here for a list of selected publications.
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