Dr. Rufus Brunt

Biography

Rufus began his PhD in 1999 within the Turbidite Research Group at the University of Leeds, under the supervision of Bill McCaffrey, Ben Kneller, Rob Butler, and Sanjeev Gupta. His PhD thesis was titled ‘Vertical Transitions in Turbidite Facies Sedimentary Architecture: Insights from Grès du Champsaur, SE France, and Laboratory Experiments.’ He employed remote sensing and field-based methods to investigate turbidite channel initiation events in the highly confined Champsaur sub-basin of the Alpine foreland basin. Since joining the Stratigraphy Group in 2005, he has worked on the well-received Slope 2, 3, and 4 projects conducted in the Permian-aged Karoo Basin, South Africa. Rufus’ ongoing research focuses on the basin-scale characterization of the entire slope succession of terrestrial deposits and deep-water terminal lobes. His research interests are driven by outcrop work, with an emphasis on using traditional field investigation techniques paired with remote observation and model building to understand sediment transport and deposition processes. His study encompasses sedimentary systems, GIS tools for basin-scale field dataset compilation, mechanisms of basin formation and infilling, sedimentary sequence stratigraphy, and clastic sediment transport within fluvial and shallow marine systems, with a specialization in deep-water environments.

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