Staff profile

3/00- present     01/06-12/09 05/11-09/14	Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Professor, Earth Sciences from October 2013 Reader, from October 2008, Senior Lecturer, from October 2004, Lecturer, from 2000. Royal Society Industrial Fellow (50% FTE) Director – Centre for Research in Earth Energy System (CeREES)
7/95 - 2/00	Dept of Geological Sciences Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK Lecturer, Senior Lecturer from 1997)
10/91 – 6/95	Geology Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, Temporary Lecturer from 1993.
Education (10/86-12/89)	University of Durham - Ph.D. Awarded 1990. Thesis: ‘The emplacement and deformation of granitic rocks in a transpressional shear zone: The Ox Mountains Igneous Complex'
Higher Education (9/82-7/86)	Queen’s University Belfast Geology B.Sc. (Honours)

Committee and Society Service

2013 – present — Member of Petroleum Group Committee, Geological Society of London

2000 – 2002 — Member of Science Committee, Geological Society of London

2000 – 2002 — Secretary, Tectonic Studies Group

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Conferences and Workshops

2016 -- Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics Geological Society london Co-convenor

2011  — New constratints on active fault zones. AGU

2011  — Shale and Coal Basins of North East England: Opportunities for Research and Industry Collaboration - NPESMD, India School of Mines

2009  — Lead Convener, Virtual Fieldtrips session, 7th Petroleum Geology Conference

2009  — Tectonic reactivation and Fault Zone weakening. AGU

2006  — Unlocking 3D Earth Systems – Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models. GSA Penrose Meeting – University of Durham

2004  — Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting – University of Durham

2002  — Transport and Flow processes within Shear Zones - Geological Society, London

2001  — Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks - Geological Society, London

2001  — Deformation at Convergent Margins – European Union Geosciences XI Strasbourg

2001  — Vertical and horizontal coupling and decoupling processes in Orogenic Belts – American Geophysical Union, San Francisco

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Editorial Roles

2006 – 2012 '— Specials' editor for the Geological Society of London

Editor Visual Geosciences

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Invited Keynotes

Invited International Lectures

2012 — Natural Fractures in Shale gas basins of NE England, Geoshale Conference, Warsaw.

2011 — ‘Shale basins of NE England: Opportunities for research and Industry collaboration’, Industry/Academia collaboration session, Indian Geological Congress, Indian School of Mines Dhanbad.

2011 — ‘Virtual fieldwork using terrestrial laser scanning and Google Earth’– Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research, GSA Penrose at Google HQ, San Francisco

2010 — From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Norwegian Petroleum systems, Stavanger

2010 — Digital Geospatial methods in Earth Sciences’ Italian National Geophysical & Volcanology – Pisa, Italy

2007 — Capturing Detailed Outcrop Geology using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Lidar) and other digital technologies: Current status and Future directions’(Jones R.R. & McCaffrey, K.J.W) AGU San Francisco

2006 — Magma Chamber Processes and Geometries 'What is a magma chamber? The role of sheet in the assembly of intrusions' session GSA Salt Lake City.

2002 — ‘Dimensional Data and Growth Models for Tabular Intrusions’ Laccolith and sill intrusion meeting, Freiberg, Germany

1998 — ‘Magmatic versus tectonic influences on granite emplacement’ AGU Annual Spring meeting – Boston

1997 — ‘Tabular plutonic sheets: Geometry and emplacement’ GAC/MAC annual meeting – Ottawa

1996 — ‘Scale invariant geometry of tabular sheet intrusions?’ Syntectonic crystallisation of igneous rocks – Vaxenburg, Austria

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Prizes & Awards

2005 — Murchsion Fund - Geological Society

2001 — Durham University Excellence in teaching Award

1993 — Ramsay medal

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• tectonic and mechanical processes of active normal faults and earthquake activity
• high resolution 3D/4D modelling of continental margins
• reservoir models of fractured reservoir analogues including shale basins
• Geoinformatics methods and applications
• the geometrical and kinematic evolution of deformation zones
• magmatic and mineralised systems
• visualisation and analysis of geological architecture
• tectonic and magmatic interactions
• structural characterisation of fault and shear zones

• Geoenergy, Resources and Waste
• Geohazards
• Structural Research Group

• 2016: Inspire: Identifying North Sea Palaezozoic Prospectivity(£239948.00 from Oil and Gas Authority)
• 2016: Rapid Investigation of Co- and Post-Seismic Deformation Resulting From the 24th August 2016 Amatrice Earthquake (M 6.2)(£4902.63 from Natural Environmental Research Council)
• 2012: Clair Sponsored Studentship(£140000.00 from BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd)
• 2012: Earthquake hazard from 36-CI exposure dating time and Coulomb stress transfer(£45707.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2012: Geoenergy Research Visit from Jammu University(£567.20 from Epsrc)
• 2012: Petroleum Habitats in Magma-rich Margins(£120000.00 from Shell)
• 2011: Characterising fracture systems in mixed volcanic and sedimentary sequences: Implications for petroleum potential in the West of Shetland Province(£94609.50 from OMV (UK) Ltd)
• 2011: Laser Scan: Namibia(£13200.00 from Royal Holloway University of London)
• 2010: NERC CASE Studentship(£12000.00 from Epsrc)
• 2009: A LiDAR and field study of surface rupture and post-seismic slip for the 6th April 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake (M6.3)(£27350.74 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2008: Evolution of Fluvial Systems, Central Iberian Basin Spain - Studentship(£75000.00 from BG International Limited)

• 2021: Dewey Medal 2021: Awarded by the Geological Society of London for fieldwork and mentoring contributions

Available for media contact about:

• Tectonics: Faults and Fracture systems, Earthquakes, Laser scanning, digital mapping, structural geology

Chapter in book

• Ryan, Paul D., Chew, David M., Cliff, Robert A., Costanzo, Alessandra, Daly, J. Stephen, Dewey, John F., Feely, Martin, Fitzgerald, Rose, Flowerdew, Michael J., Graham, John R., Leake, Bernard E., Long, Barry, McAteer, Claire A., McCaffrey, Ken, McCarthy, William, Menuge, Julian F., Sanders, Ian S., Scanlon, Ray & Yardley, Bruce W. D. (2022). The Geology of Western Ireland: A Record of the ‘Birth’ and ‘Death’ of the Iapetus Ocean. In A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland. Ryan, Paul D. Springer. 405-421.
• Ryan, Paul D., McCaffrey, Ken, Chew, David M., Graham, John R. & Long, Barry (2022). The Central Ox Mountains. In A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland. Ryan, Paul D. Springer. 107-130.
• Schiffer, C., Peace, A., Phethean, J., Gernigon, L., McCaffrey, K., Petersen, K.D. & Foulger, G. (2018). The Jan Mayen microplate complex and the Wilson cycle. In Fifty Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics. Wilson, R.W., Houseman, G.A., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Dore, A.G. & Buiter, S.J.M. London: Geological Society of London. 470: 393-414.
• Cruden, A.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Bunger, A. (2018). Geometric scaling of tabular igneous intrusions: implications for emplacement and growth. In Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems: Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Breitkreuz, Christoph & Rocchi, Sergio Cham: Springer. 11-38.
• Lăpădat, Alexandru, Imber, Jonathan, Yielding, Graham, Iacopini, David, McCaffrey, Kenneth J.W., Long, Jonathan J. & Jones, Richard 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 The Geometry and Growth of Normal Faults. Childs, Conrad Holdsworth, Robert E., Jackson, Christopher A.-L., Manzocchi, Thomas, Walsh, John J. & Yielding, Graham London: Geological Society of London. 439: 373-394.
• Pless, J.C., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Jones, R.R., Holdsworth, R.E., Conway, A. & Krabbendam, M. (2015). 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland. In Industrial Structural Geology: Principles, Techniques & Integration. Richards, F.J., Richardson, N.J., Rippington, S.J., Wilson, R.W. & Bond, C.E. London: Geological Society of London. 421: 125-141.
• Winterleitner, G. Le Heron, D.P., Mapani, B., Vining, B. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2015). Styles, origins, and implications of syndepositional deformation structures in Ediacaran microbial carbonates (Nama Basin, Namibia). In Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time. Implications for Global Exploration and Production. Bosence, D.W.J., Gibbons, K.A., Le Heron, D.P., Morgan, W.A., Pritchard, T. & Vining, B.A. Geological Society of London. 418.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W., Hodgetts, D., Howell, J., Hunt, D., Imber, J., Jones, R.R., Tomasso, M., Thurmond, J. & Viseur, S. (2010). Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists. In Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers—Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference. Vining, B. & Pickering, S.C. Geological Society, London. 19-26.
• Jones, R.R, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Wilson, R.W & Holdsworth, R.E (2005). Digital field data acquisition: towards increased quantification of uncertainty during geological mapping. In Geological Prior Information: Informing Science and Engineering. Curtis, A. & Wood, R. London: Geological Society. Geological Society Special Publication 239: 43-56.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W, Grocott, J, Garde, A.A. & Hamilton, M.A. (2004). Attachment formation during partitioning of oblique convergence in the Ketilidian orogen, South Greenland. In Vertical Coupling and Decoupling in the Lithosphere. Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Taylor, G. & Tikoff, B. London: Geological Society. Geological Society Special Publication 227: 231-248.
• Grocott, J, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Taylor, G.K & Tikoff, B (2004). Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere. In ‘Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere’. Grocott, J. McCaffrey, K.J.W., Taylor, G.K. & Tikoff, B Geological Society of London Special Publication. 227: 1-7.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W., Sleight, J.M., Pugliese, S. & Holdsworth, R.E. (2003). Fracture formation and evolution in crystalline rocks: Insights from attribute analysis. In Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks. Petford, N. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. Geological Society of London, Special Publication. 214: 109-124.
• Beacom, L.E, Holdsworth, R.E, McCaffrey, K.J.W & Anderson, T.B (2001). A quantitative study of the influence of pre-existing heterogeneities upon fracture-zone development during basement reactivation. In The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening. Holdsworth, R.E., Strachan, R.A., Magloughlin, J.F. & Knipe, R.J. London: Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. 186: 195-211.
• Lonergan, L, Wilkinson, J.J & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1999). Fractures, fluid flow and Mineralisation: an Introduction. In Fractures, Fluids Flow and Mineralisation. McCaffrey, K.J.W, Lonergan, L. & Wilkinson, J.J. eds Geological Society Special Publication. 155: 35-56.
• Gillespie, P.A., Loriga, L., Johnston, J.D., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Walsh, J. & Watterson, J.J. (1999). Influence of layering on vein systematics in line samples. In Fractures, Fluids Flow and Mineralisation. McCaffrey, K.J.W. Lonergan, L. & Wilkinson, J.J. Geological Society Special Publication. 155: 35-56.
• Howard, K.H, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Wooden, J.L, Foster, D.F & Shaw, S (1995). Jurassic thrusting of basement in the Clipper Mountains, southeastern California. In Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera. Miller, D.M. & Busby, C. Geological Society of America. 299: 375-392.

Journal Article

• Kluvanec, Daniel, McCaffrey, Kenneth J. W., Phillips, Thomas B. & Al Moubayed, Noura (2023). Negation Invariant Representations of 3D Vectors for Deep Learning Models applied to Fault Geometry Mapping in 3D Seismic Reflection Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R. E., Palladino, G., Prosser, G., Killingback, Z. & McCaffrey, K. J. W. (2023). Geology and evolution of fissure systems in fractured basement rocks, Calabria, southern Italy: implications for sub-unconformity reservoirs and aquifers. Journal of the Geological Society 180(3).
• Phillips, Thomas B., Naliboff, John B., McCaffrey, Ken J. W., Pan, Sophie, van Hunen, Jeroen & Froemchen, Malte (2023). The influence of crustal strength on rift geometry and development – insights from 3D numerical modelling. Solid Earth 14(4): 369-388.
• Heron, Philip J., Peace, A.L., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Sharif, A., Yu, A.J. & Pysklywec, R.N. (2023). Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada. Geology 51(4): 362–365.
• Mildon, Zoë K., Roberts, Gerald P., Faure Walker, Joanna P., Beck, Joakim, Papanikolaou, Ioannis, Michetti, Alessandro M., Toda, Shinji, Iezzi, Francesco, Campbell, Lucy, McCaffrey, Kenneth J. W., Shanks, Richard, Sgambato, Claudia, Robertson, Jennifer, Meschis, Marco & Vittori, Eutizio (2022). Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions. Nature Communications 13(1): 7126.
• Gill, S. P. A., Walker, R. J., McCaffrey, K. J. W. & Greenfield, C. (2022). No Unique Scaling Law for Igneous Dikes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 127(9): e2022JB024120.
• Tamas, Alexandra, Holdsworth, Robert E., Underhill, John R., Tamas, Dan M., Dempsey, Edward D., McCarthy, Dave J., McCaffrey, Ken J. W. & Selby, David (2022). Correlating deformation events onshore and offshore in superimposed rift basins: The Lossiemouth Fault Zone, Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Basin Research 34(4): 1314-1340.
• Tamas, Alexandra, Holdsworth, Robert E., Underhill, John R., Tamas, Dan M., Dempsey, Edward D., Hardman, Kit, Bird, Anna, McCarthy, Dave, McCaffrey, Ken J.W. & Selby, David (2022). New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 179(2): jgs2021-066.
• Phillips, Thomas B., McCaffrey, Ken & Magarinos, Luke (2022). Influence of variable decoupling between vertically separated fault populations on structural inheritance – The Laminaria High, NW Shelf of Australia. Basin Research 34(1): 440-456.
• Mulaya, Ernest, Gluyas, Jon, McCaffrey, Ken, Phillips, Thomas & Ballentine, Chris (2022). Structural geometry and evolution of the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: Implications for helium potential. Basin Research 34(2): 938-960.
• Goodall, H. J., Gregory, L. C., Wedmore, L. N. J., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Amey, R. M. J., Roberts, G. P., Shanks, R. P., Phillips, R. J. & Hooper, A. (2021). Determining Histories of Slip on Normal Faults With Bedrock Scarps Using Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Data. Tectonics 40(3).
• Farangitakis, G.P, McCaffrey, K.J.W., Willingshofer, E., Allen, M.B., Kalnins, L.M.K., van Hunen, J., Persaud, P. & Sokoutis, D. (2021). The structural evolution of pull-apart basins in response to changes in plate motion. Basin Research 33(2): 1603-1625.
• Wilson, Penelope I. R., Wilson, Robert W., Sanderson, David J., Jarvis, Ian & McCaffrey, Kenneth J. W. (2021). Analysis of deformation bands associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: implications for reservoir connectivity and fluid flow around sill intrusions. Solid Earth 12(1): 95.
• Franzel, Maximilian, Jones, Stuart J., Meadows, Neil, Allen, Mark B., McCaffrey, Ken & Morgan, Tim (2021). Basin-scale fluvial correlation and response to the Tethyan marine transgression: an example from the Triassic of central Spain. Basin Research 33(1): 1-25.
• Dichiarante, Anna M., McCaffrey, Ken J.W., Holdsworth, Robert E. Bjørnarå, Tore I. & Dempsey, Edward D. (2020). Fracture attribute scaling and connectivity in the Devonian Orcadian Basin with implications for geologically equivalent sub-surface fractured reservoirs. Solid Earth 11(6): 2221-2244.
• Gluyas, J.G., De-Paola, N., Imber, J., Jezierski, T.M., Jones, R.R., Jordan, P., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Nielsen, S., Pongthunya, P., Satterley, A., Sowter, A., Wilkinson, M. & Moors, A. (2020). The Humbly Grove, Herriard and Hester’s Copse Fields, UK onshore. Geological Society Memoirs 52: 74-81.
• Dichiarante, A.M., Holdsworth, R.E., Dempsey, E.D., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Utley, T.A.G. (2020). Outcrop-scale manifestations of reactivation during multiple superimposed rifting and basin inversion events: the Devonian Orcadian Basin, northern Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 178(1).
• McCaffrey, K.J.W. Holdsworth, R.E. Pless, J. Franklin, B.S.G. & Hardman, K (2020). Basement reservoir plumbing: Fracture aperture, length and topology analysis of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 177(6): 1281-1293.
• Hardman, Kit, Holdsworth, Robert E, Dempsey, Edward & McCaffrey, Ken (2020). The nature and significance of rift-related, near-surface fissure fill networks in fractured carbonates below regional unconformities. Journal of the Geological Society 177(6): 1168-1185.
• Pastoriza-Primaleon, Loraine, McCaffrey, Kenneth J.W. & Holdsworth, Robert E. (2020). Fracture Attribute and Topology Characteristics of a Geothermal Reservoir: Southern Negros, Philippines. Journal of the Geological Society 5: 1092-1106.
• Mercuri, Marco, Carminati, Eugenio, Tartarello, Maria Chiara, Brandano, Marco, Mazzanti, Paolo, Brunetti, Alessandro, McCaffrey, Ken J.W. & Collettini, Cristiano (2020). Lithological and structural control on fracture frequency distribution within a carbonate-hosted relay ramp. Journal of Structural Geology 137: 104085.
• Andikagumi, H., Macpherson, C.G. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2020). Upper Plate Stress Controls the Distribution of Mariana Arc Volcanoes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125(2): e2019JB017391.
• Holdsworth, R.E., Trice, R., Hardman, K., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Morton, A., Frei, D., Dempsey, E., Bird, A. & Rogers, S. (2020). The nature and age of basement host rocks and fissure fills in the Lancaster field fractured reservoir, West of Shetland. Journal of the Geological Society 177(5): 1057-1073.
• Mercuri, Marco, McCaffrey, Ken J.W., Smeraglia, Luca, Mazzanti, Paolo, Collettini, Cristiano & Carminati, Eugenio (2020). Complex geometry and kinematics of subsidiary faults within a carbonate-hosted relay ramp. Journal of Structural Geology 130: 103915.
• Schiffer, Christian, Doré, Anthony G., Foulger, Gillian R., Franke, Dieter, Geoffroy, Laurent, Gernigon, Laurent, Holdsworth, Robert, Kusznir, Nick, Lundin, Erik, McCaffrey, Ken, Peace, Alex, Petersen, Kenni D., Phillips, Thomas, Stephenson, Randell, Stoker, Martyn S. & Welford, Kim (2020). Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic. Earth-Science Reviews 206: 102975.
• Foulger, Gillian R., Doré, Tony, Emeleus, C. Henry, Franke, Dieter, Geoffroy, Laurent, Gernigon, Laurent, Hey, Richard, Holdsworth, Robert E., Hole, Malcolm, Höskuldsson, Ármann, Julian, Bruce, Kusznir, Nick, Martinez, Fernando, McCaffrey, Ken J.W., Natland, James H., Peace, Alex, Petersen, Kenni, Schiffer, Christian, Stephenson, Randell & Stoker, Martyn (2020). The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge. Earth-Science Reviews 206: 102926.
• Wilson, R. W., Houseman, G. A., Buiter, S. J. H., McCaffrey, K. J. W. & Doré, A. G. (2019). Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle concept in plate tectonics: an overview. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 470(1): 1-17.
• Wilson, P.I.R, McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Holdsworth, R.E.H. (2019). Magma-driven accommodation structures formed during sill emplacement at shallow crustal depths: The Maiden Creek sill, Henry Mountains, Utah. Geosphere 15(4): 1368-1392.
• Holdsworth, R.E., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Dempsey, E., Roberts, N.M.W., Hardman, K. Morton, A. Feely, M. Hunt, J. Conway, A. & Robertson, A. (2019). Natural fracture propping and earthquake-induced oil migration in fractured basement reservoirs. Geology 47(8): 700-704.
• Wedmore, L.N.J., Gregory, L.C., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Goodall, H. & Walters, R.J. (2019). Partitioned off-fault deformation in the 2016 Norcia earthquake captured by differential terrestrial laser scanning. Geophysical Research Letters 46(6): 3199-3205.
• Farangitakis, G.P., Sokoutis, D., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Willingshofer, E., Kalnins, L.M., Phethean, J.J.J., van Hunen, J. & van Steen, V. (2019). Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections. Tectonics 38(3): 823-841.
• Faure Walker, J.P., Visini, F., Roberts, G., Galasso, C., McCaffrey, K. & Mildon, Z. (2019). Variable fault geometry suggests detailed fault slip-rate profiles and geometries are needed for fault-based probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 109(1): 110-123.
• Pastoriza, Loraine, Holdsworth, Robert E., McCaffrey, Ken & Dempsey, Edward (2018). Tectonic evolution of the Southern Negros Geothermal Field and implications for the development of fractured geothermal systems. Geofluids 2018: 6025038.
• Peace, Alexander, Dempsey, Edward, Schiffer, Christian, Welford, J., McCaffrey, Ken, Imber, Jonathan & Phethean, Jordan (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): 308.
• Civico, R., Pucci, S., Villani, F., Pizzimenti, L., De Martini, P. M., Nappi, R., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Wilkinson, M. & the Open EMERGEO Working Group (2018). Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy. Journal of Maps 14(2): 151-160.
• Scott, E.M., Allen, M.B., Macpherson, C.G., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Davidson, J.P., Saville, C. & Ducea, M.N. (2018). Andean surface uplift constrained by radiogenic isotopes of arc lavas. Nature Communications 9: 969.
• Peace, Alexander, McCaffrey, Ken, Imber, Jonathan, van Hunen, Jeroen, Hobbs, Richard & Wilson, Robert (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research 30(3): 373-394.
• Peace, Alexander L., Foulger, Gillian R., Schiffer, Christian & McCaffrey, Ken J.W. (2017). Evolution of Labrador Sea–Baffin Bay: Plate or Plume Processes? Geoscience Canada 44(3): 91-102.
• Stephens, T.L., Walker, R.J., Healy, D., Bubeck, A., England, R.W. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2017). Igneous sills record far-field and near-field stress interactions during volcano construction: Isle of Mull, Scotland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 478: 159-174.
• Corradetti, Amerigo, McCaffrey, Ken, De Paola, Nicola & Tavani, Stefano (2017). Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry. Tectonophysics 717: 599-606.
• Wedmore, L. N. J., Faure Walker, J. P., Roberts, G. P., Sammonds, P. R., McCaffrey, K. J. W. & Cowie, P. A. (2017). A 667-year record of co-seismic and interseismic Coulomb stress changes in central Italy reveals the role of fault interaction in controlling irregular earthquake recurrence intervals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122(7): 5691-5711.
• Wilkinson, M.W., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R.R., Roberts, G.P., Holdsworth, R.E., Gregory, L., Walters, R.J., Wedmore, L., Goodall, H. & Iezzi, F. (2017). Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS. Scientific Reports 7: 4612.
• Walker, R.J., Healy, T.M., Wright, K.A., England, R.W., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Bubeck, A.A., Stephens, T.L., Farrell, N.J.C. & Blenkinsop, T.G. (2017). Igneous sills as a record of horizontal shortening: The San Rafael subvolcanic field, Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin 129(9-10): 1052-1070.
• Cowie, P. A., Phillips, R. J., Roberts, G. P., McCaffrey, K., Zijerveld, L. J. J., Gregory, L. C., Faure Walker, J., Wedmore, L., Dunai, T. J., Binnie, S. A., Freeman, S.P. H. T., Wilcken, K., Shanks, R P., Huismans, R. S., Papanikolaou, I., Michetti, A. M. & Wilkinson, M. (2017). Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports 7(1): 44858.
• Grocott, John & McCaffrey, Ken (2017). Basin evolution and destruction in an Early Proterozoic continental margin: the Rinkian fold–thrust belt of central West Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society 174(3): 453-467.
• Phethean, Jordan J.J., Kalnins, Lara M., van Hunen, Jeroen, Biffi, Paolo G., Davies, Richard J. & McCaffrey, Ken J.W. (2016). Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3) 17(12): 5036-5055.
• Livio, F., Michetti, A.M., Vittori, E., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., Piccardi, L., Tondi, E., Roberts, G., Blumetti, A.M., Bonadeo, L., Brunamonte, F., Comerci, V., Di Manna, P., Ferrario, M.F., Faure Walker, J., Frigerio, C., Fumanti, F., Guerrieri, L., Iezzi, F., Leoni, G., McCaffrey, K., Mildon, Z., Phillips, R., Rhodes, E., Walters, R.J. & Wilkinson, M. (2016). Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results. Annals of Geophysics 59(Fast Track 5): 1-8.
• Wilkinson, M.W., Jones, R.R., Woods, C.W., Gilment, S.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Kokkalas, S. & Long, J.J. (2016). A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition. Geosphere 12(6): 1865-1880.
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K.J.W., 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.
• Mildon, Z.K., Roberts, G.P., Faure Walker, J.P., Wedmore, L.N.J. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2016). Active normal faulting during the 1997 seismic sequence in Colfiorito, Umbria: Did slip propagate to the surface? Journal of Structural Geology 91: 102-113.
• Sagi, D.A., De Paola, N., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Holdsworth, R.E. (2016). Fault and fracture patterns in low porosity chalk and their potential influence on sub-surface fluid flow—A case study from Flamborough Head, UK. Tectonophysics 690(A): 35-51.
• Wilson, P.I.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Wilson, R.W.W., Jarvis, I. & Holdsworth, R.E. (2016). Deformation structures associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: Implications for sill and laccolith emplacement mechanisms. Journal of Structural Geology 87: 30-46.
• Dichiarante, A.M., Holdsworth, R.E., Dempsey, E.D., Selby, D., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Michie, U., Morgan, G. & Bonniface, J. (2016). New structural and Re–Os geochronological evidence constraining the age of faulting and associated mineralization in the Devonian Orcadian Basin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 173(3): 457-473.
• Abdunaser, K.M. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2015). A new structural interpretation relating NW Libya to the Hun Graben, western Sirt Basin based on a new paleostress inversion. Journal of Earth System Science 124(8): 1745-1763.
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Hobbs, R., Van Hunen, J. & Gerdes, K. (2015). Quantifying the influence of sill intrusion on the thermal evolution of organic-rich sedimentary rocks in non-volcanic passive margins: an example from ODP 210-1276, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. Basin Research 29(3): 249-265.
• Abdunaser, K.M. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2015). Tectonic history and structural development of the Zallah-Dur al Abd Sub-basin, western Sirt Basin, Libya. Journal of Structural Geology 73: 33.
• Bubeck, Alodie, Wilkinson, Max, Roberts, Gerald, Cowie, Patience, McCaffrey, Ken, Phillips, Richard & Sammonds, Peter (2015). The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning. Geomorphology 237: 38-51.
• Wilkinson, Max, Roberts, Gerald, McCaffrey, Ken, Cowie, Patience, Faure Walker, Joanna, Papanikolaou, Ioannis, Phillips, Richard, Michetti, Alessandro, Vittori, Eutizio, Gregory, Laura, Wedmore, Luke & Watson, Zoe (2015). Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release. Geomorphology 237: 130-141.
• Imber, Jonathan, Armstrong, Howard, Clancy, Sarah, Daniels, Susan, Herringshaw, Liam, McCaffrey, Ken, Rodrigues, Joel, Trabucho-Alexandre, Joao & Warren, Cassandra (2014). Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England. AAPG Bulletin 98(11): 2411-2437.
• Abdunaser, K.M. & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2014). Rift architecture and evolution: the Sirt Basin, Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences 100: 203-226.
• Pacey, A, Macpherson, CG & McCaffrey, KJW (2013). Linear volcanic segments in the central Sunda Arc, Indonesia, identified using Hough Transform analysis: Implications for arc lithosphere control upon volcano distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 369-370: 24-33.
• Wilkinson, M.W., McCaffrey, K.J.W. Roberts, G.P. Cowie, P.A. Phillips, R.J., Degasperi, M. Vittori, E. & Michetti, A.M. (2012). Distribution and Magnitude of Post-seismic Deformation of the 2009 L’Aquila 1 Earthquake (M6.3) Surface Rupture Measured Using Repeat Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Geophysical Journal International 189(2): 911-922.
• Faure Walker J.P., G.P. Roberts, P.A. Cowie, I. Papanikolaou, A.M. Michetti, P. Sammonds,, M. Wilkinson, K.J.W. McCaffrey, & R.J. Phillips (2012). Relationship between topography, rates of extension and mantle dynamics in the actively-extending Italian Apennines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 325-326: 76-84.
• Peulvast,J-P, Bonow J.M., Japsen P, Wilson R.W. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2012). Morphostructural patterns and landform generations in a glaciated passive margin: the Kobberminebugt-Qaqortoq region of South Greenland. Geodinamica Acta 24(1): 1.
• Hansen, J., Jerram, D.A., McCaffrey, K. & Passey, S. (2011). Early Cenozoic saucer-shaped sills of the Faroe Islands: an example of intrusive styles in basaltic lava piles. Journal of the Geological Society 168(1): 159-178.
• Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Roberts, G.P., Cowie, P.A., Phillips, R.J., Michetti, A., Vittori, E., Guerrieri, L., Blumetti, A.M., Bubeck, A., Yates, A. & Sileo, G. (2010). Partitioned postseismic deformation associated with the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake surface rupture measured using a terrestrial laser scanner. Geophysical Research Letters 37: L10309.
• Jones, R.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Clegg, P., Wilson, R.W., Holliman, N.S., Holdsworth, R.E., Imber, J. & Waggott, S. (2009). Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models. Computers & Geosciences 35(1): 4-18
• Guo J.L, McCaffrey K, Jones R & Holdsworth, R (2009). The spatial heterogeneity of structures in high porosity sandstones: Variations and granularity effects in orientation data. Journal of Structural Geology 31(7): 628-636.
• Jones, R.R., Kokkalas S & McCaffrey KJW (2009). Quantitative analysis and visualization of nonplanar fault surfaces using terrestrial laser scanning (LIDAR)-The Arkitsa fault, central Greece, as a case study. Geosphere 5: 465-482.
• Pearce, M.A., Jones R.R., Smith, S.A.F., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Clegg, P. (2006). Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS. Journal of Structural Geology 28(9): 1640-1646.
• Wilson, R.W, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Holdsworth, R.E, Imber, J, Jones, R.R, Welbon, A.I & Roberts, D (2006). Complex fault patterns, transtension and structural segmentation of the Lofoten Ridge, Norwegian Margin: using digital mapping to link onshore and offshore geology. Tectonics 25(4): TC4018.
• Jones, R.R, Holdsworth, R.E, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Clegg, P & Tavarnelli, E. (2005). Scale dependence, strain compatibility and heterogeneity of three-dimensional deformation during mountain building: a discussion. Journal of Structural Geology 27(7): 1190-1204.
• Imber, J, Holdsworth, R.E, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Wilson, R.W, Jones, R.R, England, R.W & Freeman, S (2005). Recognition of strike-slip faulting from three-dimensional seismic reflection data: a study of late Cretaceous to early Teriary faulting on the Nyk High, Vøring Basin, offshore mid-Norway. AAPG Bulletin 89: 1043-1069.
• De Paola, N, Holdsworth, R.E, McCaffrey,K.J.W & Barchi, M.R. (2005). Partitioned transtension: an alternative to basin inversion models. Journal of Structural Geology 27(4): 607-625.
• Entwistle, J.A., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Dodgshon, R.A. (2005). Using geostatistics to interpret land-use history in the Hebrides, Scotland, through the multi-elemental analysis of soils. Archaeological Prospection
• McCaffrey, K.J.W, Jones, R.R, Holdsworth, R.E, Wilson, R.W, Clegg, P, Imber, J, Holliman, N & Trinks, I (2005). Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork. Journal of the Geological Society 162(6): 927-938.
• Imber, J, Holdsworth R.E, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Wilson, R.W, Jones, R.R, England, R.W & Gjeldvik, G (2005). Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-break up deformation in ocean margin basins. AAPG Bulletin 89(8): 1043-1069.
• Wilson, R.W, Klint, K.E.S, Jensen, F.S, van Gool, J.A.M, McCaffrey. K.J.W & Chalmers, J.A (2005). Faults and fractures in central West Greenland: onshore expression of continental break-up and sea-floor spreading in the Labrador-Baffin Bay Sea. Geological Survey of Greenland Bulletin
• Trinks, I, Clegg, P, McCaffrey, K, Jones, R, Hobbs, R, Holdsworth, R, Holliman, N, Imber, J, Waggott, S & Wilson, R (2005). Mapping and analyzing virtual outcrops. Visual Geosciences
• De Paola, N, Holdworth, R.E & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2005). Strain partitioning, reactivation and lithological control during complex transtensional faulting: an example from the 90-Fathom Fault, NE England. Journal of the Geological Society 161: 471-480.
• Clegg, P, Trinks, I, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Holdsworth, R.E, Jones, R.R, Hobbs, R & Waggott, S (2005). Towards the Virtual Outcrop. Geoscientist 15(1): 8-9.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W., Holdsworth, R.E., Imber, J., Clegg, P., De Paola, N., Jones, R.R., Hobbs, R., Holliman, N. & Trinks, I. (2005). Putting the geology back into Earth models. Eos 86(46): 461-466.
• De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R.E. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2005). The influence of lithology and pre-existing structures on reservoir-scale faulting patterns in transtensional rift zones. Journal of the Geological Society 162(3): 471-480.
• Wilson, R.W, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Jones, R.R, Imber, J, Clegg, P & Holdsworth, R.E (2005). Lofoten has its faults! Detailed fault analysis and 3D digital mapping in the Norway's Lofoten Islands. Geoscientist 15(2): 4-9.
• Tavernelli, E, Holdsworth, R.E, Clegg, P, Jones, R.R & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2004). The anatomy and evolution of a transpressional imbricate zone, Southern Uplands, Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 26: 1341-1360.
• Jones, R.R, Holdsworth, R.E, Clegg, P, McCaffrey, K.J.W & Tavarnelli, E (2004). Inclined transpression. Journal of Structural Geology 26(8): 1531-1548.
• Watts, L.M, Sherlock, S, Holdsworth, R.E, Sleight, J & Roberts, D (2004). Dating fault reactivation by Ar/Ar laserprobe: an alternative view of apparently cogenetic mylonite-pseudotachylyte assemblages. Journal of the Geological Society 161: 335-338.
• Garde, A.A, Chadwick, B, Grocott, J, Hamilton, M.A, McCaffrey, K.J.W & Swager, C.P (2002). Mid-crustal partitioning and attachment during oblique convergence in an arc system, the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, southern Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society 159: 247-261.
• Garde, A.A, Hamilton, M.A, Chadwick, B, Grocott, J & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2002). The Ketilidian Orogen of South Greenland: Geochronology and tectonics, magmatism and forearc accretion during Palaeoproterozoic oblique convergence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39: 765-793.
• Holdsworth, R.E, Tavarnelli, E Clegg, P, Pinheiro, R.V.L, Jones, R.R & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2002). Domainal deformation patterns and strain partitioning during transpression: an example from the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society 159(4): 401-415.
• Cruden, A.R & McCaffrey, K.J.W (2001). Growth of plutons by floor subsidence: implications for rates of emplacement, intrusion spacing and melt-extraction mechanisms. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part A: Solid Earth & Geodesy 26(4-5): 303-315.
• McCaffrey K.J.W, Petford, N, Cruden, A.R & Vignerosse, J.L (2000). Granitic magma formation, transport and emplacement in the Earth's Crust. Nature 408: 669-673.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W., Miller, C.F., Karlstrom, K.E. & Simpson, C. (1999). Synmagmatic deformation patterns in the Old Woman Mountains, SE California. Journal of Structural Geology 21(3): 335-349.
• Baird, A.W & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1999). Polyphase deformation and metamorphism in the Llyn Ogwen area of Snowdonian, North Wales. Journal of the Geological Society 156: 11-14.
• Richards, A.E & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1999). Complexity in glaciodeltaic progradation: an example from the Salpausselk� I. Glacial Geology and Geomorphology rp08: 8.
• McCaffrey K.J.W & Petford, N. (1997). Are granitic intrusions scale invariant? Journal of the Geological Society of London 154: 1-4.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W (1997). Controls on reactivation of a major fault zone: The Fair Head-Clew Bay line in Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society 154: 129-133.
• Johnston, J.D & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1996). Fractal Geometries of vein systems and the variation of scaling relationships with mechanism. Journal of Structural Geology 18: 349-358.
• Petford, N, Patterson, B, McCaffrey, K.J.W & Pugliese, S (1996). Melt infiltration and advection in microdiorite enclaves. European Mineralogist 8: 405-412.
• McCaffrey K.J.W & Johnston, J.D (1996). Fractal analysis of a mineralised vein deposit: Curraghinalt gold deposit, County Tyrone. Mineralium Deposita 31: 52-58.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W (1994). Magmatic and solid state deformation partitioning in the Ox Mountains Granodiorite (Western Ireland). Geological Magazine 131: 639-652.
• Hook, S.J, Karlstrom, K.E, Miller, C.F & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1994). Mapping the Piute Mountains, California with thermal infrared multispectral scanner (TIMS) images. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 15605-15622.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W, Johnston, J.D & Feely, M (1993). Use of fractal statistics in the analysis of Mo-Cu mineralisation at Mace Head Co. Galway. Irish J. of Earth Sciences 139-148.
• McCaffrey, K.J.W (1992). Igneous emplacement in a transpressive shear zone: Ox Mountains igneous complex. Journal of the Geological Society 149: 221-235.
• De Paor, D.G, Simpson, C, Bailey, C.M, McCaffrey, K.J.W, Beam, E, Gower, R.J.W & Aziz, G (1991). The role of solution in the formation of boudinage and transverse veins in carbonate rocks at Rheems, Pennsylvania. Geological Society Of America, Bulletin 103(12): 1552-1563.
• Anderson, T.B & McCaffrey, K.J.W (1986). Discussion of: The Structure of the Dalradian rocks of West Fanad, County Donegal. Irish J. of Earth Sciences 8: 95-96.

Report

• Holdsworth, R.E. & McCaffrey, K.J.W. (2016). Understanding the Clair field basement and its associated fracture systems: implications for reservoir appraisal. Confidential Final report for the Clair JVG.
• Holdsworth, R.E., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R. & Imber, J. (2007). Outcrop Data as an Analogue to HEX Lewisian Basement Acreage: Characterisation of Lewisian Fracturing in Scotland & the Møre-Trøndelag Fault Zone in Norway. Consultancy Report commissioned by Hurricane Exploration plc. Consultancy Report commissioned by Hurricane Exploration plc.
• Jones, R. Imber, J., Holdsworth, R.E. & McCaffrey, K. (2007). Outcrop Data as an Analogue to HEX Lewisian Basement Acreage: Analysis of Fracturing on Lewis & Harris, Outer Hebrides. Consultancy Report commissioned by Hurricane Exploration plc. Consultancy Report commissioned by Hurricane Exploration.