Staff profile

BSc Durham 1968, PhD Reading 1971, Chartered Geologist C Geol 1987. Lectureships at University of Sierra Leone 71-72, University of Wales at Cardiff 73-74, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 75-82, and Durham University 83-87; then Senior Lecturer 87-89, Reader 89-93 and Professor 93- at Durham University, then Master University College Durham (50% Univ College, 50% Dept of Earth Sciences).

Conferences and workshops

A. Conferences: 1. 2003 - 12th Bathurst Conference; 2. Feb 2006 - GeolSoc’s Lyell Meeting. B. Sessions: 2006 Internat Sed Congress, Japan 2006 and editorial duties

Editorial Roles

1. Sedimentary Geology since 2003 2. Editorial Board Facies since 2000

Fellowships

1. 2005 - Gledden Senior Research Fellowship University of Western Australia 2005; 2. Associate Professor Institute Francais du Petrole;

Invited Keynotes

1. 2002 - Presidential address Internat Sed Congress Jo'Berg 2. 2003 - keynote Internat Ass Sed conf Croatia 3. 2003 - invited short course 3rd Latin-American Sed conf Belem Brazil

Membership of Organisations and Societies

1. Member of EPSRC College 2003-2007 2. President International Association of Sedimentologists 1998-2002

Prizes & Awards

IAS Distinguished Speaker 2005-2006

• Carbonate sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology and diagenesis. Carbonate platforms of all ages and all parts of the world - more recently Europe, Middle East, China and Western Australia.
• Carbonate petroleum reservoirs, prediction of facies and porosity.
• Permian and Carboniferous strata of NE England, facies and cycles, and analogues of North Sea reservoirs.
• Quaternary carbonate sediments of the Red Sea (Egypt) and western Australia: facies and diagenesis of highstand reefal and grainy carbonates in the context of sea-level and climate changes. Sedimentology, stratigraphy, isotope + trace element geochemistry
• Millennial-scale cycles in carbonate successions: are beds cycles?
• Slope carbonates: depositional processes and cycles. Role of hyperpycnal flows.
• Dolomites and dolomitization: the role of bacteria
• Permo-Carboniferous basins in South America: carbonate-evaporite strata and hydrocarbon potential
• Late Precambrian carbonates from the Lesser Himalaya: depositon and diagenesis of Kroll oolites and original mineralogy of ooids.

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Available for media contact about:

• Admissions & college affairs: University College
• Regional Heritage: Durham Castle
• The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: sedimentology
• The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: fossils, limestones, sandstones
• The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: geology of northeast England
• The Earth: Rocks & natural forces: sand and mud
• The Earth: Animals: dinosaur footprints

Authored book

• Tucker, M.E (2002). Sedimentary Rocks in the Field. Third Edition. Chicester: John Wiley.

Chapter in book

• Mei, M. & Tucker, M.E. (2006). Sequence stratigraphic framework and relative sea-level changes of the Upper Palaeozoic strata of the Dianqiangui Basin and its adjacent areas in Southwest China. In Proceedings of the XVth Internation Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy. Wong, Th. Utrecht: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Science. 1-14.
• Sinclair, H.D., Sayer, Z.R. & Tucker, M.E. (1998). Carbonate sedimentation during early foreland basin subsidence: the Eocene succession of the French Alps. In Carbonate Ramps. Wright, V.P. & Burchette, T.P. London: Geological Society. 149: 205-227.

Journal Article

• Perri, E. & Tucker, M.E. (2007). Bacterial fossils and microbial dolomite in Triassic stromatolites. Geology 35(3): 207-210.
• Spence G.H. & Tucker, M.E. (2007). A proposed integrated multi-signature model for peritidal cycles in carbonates. Journal of Sedimentary Research 77(10): 797-808.
• Yan, J., Tucker, M.E. & Liu, T. (2006). Reservoir description from well-logs and reservoir engineering: an example from Triassic reservoirs in northwest China. Petroleum Science and Technology 24: 1417-1430.
• Spence, G.H., Arnaud-Vanneau, A., Arnaud, H. & Tucker, M.E. (2004). Unravelling the microfacies signatures of parasequences using computer-optimized similarity matrices. Sedimentology 51(6): 1243-1271.
• Chen, D & Tucker, M.E (2004). Palaeokarst at the Frasnian-Famennian transition, Guilin, South China and its implications. Journal of the Geological Society, London 161: 895-898.
• Tucker, M.E & Marshall. J (2004). The diagenesis and geochemistry of Upper Muschelkalk (Triassic) buildups and associated facies in Catalonia: a paper dedicated to Francesc Calvet. Geologia Acta Hispanica 2(4): 257-269.
• Tucker, M.E (2003). Mixed clastic-carbonate cycles and sequences: Quaternary of Egypt and Carboniferous of England. Geologia Croatica 56: 19-37.
• Tucker, M.E, Gallagher, J, Lemon, K & Leng, M (2003). The Yoredale cycles of Northumbria: high-frequency clastic-carbonate sequences of the Mid-Carboniferous icehouse world. Open University Geological Society Journal 24: 5-10.
• Chen, D & Tucker, M.E (2003). The Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction: insights from high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 193(1): 87-111.
• Booler, J.P & Tucker, M.E (2002). Distribution and geometry of facies and early diagenesis: the key to accommodation space variation and sequence stratigraphy: Upper Cretaceous Congost Carbonate Platform, Spanish Pyrenees. Sedimentary Geology 146: 225-247.
• Chen, D, Tucker, M.E, Shen, Y, Yans, J & Preat, A (2002). Carbon isotope excursions and sea-level change: Implications for the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis. Journal of the Geological Society 159(6): 623-626.
• El-Sammak, A & Tucker, M.E (2002). Ooids from Turkey and Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean and a Love-story of Antony and Cleopatra. Facies 46: 217-228.
• Chen, D, Tucker, M.E, Zhu, J & Jiang, M (2002). Carbonate platform evolution: from a bioconstructed platform margin to a sand-shoal system (Devonian, Guilin, South China). Sedimentology 49: 737-764.
• Chen, D., Tucker, M.E., Jiang, M. & Zhu, J. (2001). Long-distance correlation between tectonic-controlled, isolated carbonate platforms by cyclostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy in the Devonian of South China. Sedimentology 48(1): 57-78.
• Chen, D, Tucker, M.E, Zhu, J & Jiang, M (2001). Carbonate sedimentation in a starved pull-apart basin, Middle to Late Devonian, southern Guilin, South China. Basin Research 13: 141-167.
• Tucker, M.E (1999). Sabkha cycles, stacking patterns and controls: Gachsaran (Lower Fars/Fatha) Formation, Miocene, Mesopotamian Basin, Iraq. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 214(1): 45-69.
• Spence, G. & Tucker, M.E. (1999). Modelling carbonate microfacies in the context of high-frequency dynamic. Journal of Sedimentary Research 69: 947-961.
• Meng, X, Ge, M & Tucker, M.E (1997). Sequence stratigraphy, sea-level changes and depositional systems in. Sedimentary Geology 114: 189-222.

Monograph

• Tucker, M.E. (2001). Sedimentary Petrology: an Introduction to the Origin of Sedimentary Rocks. Wiley-Blackwell.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Mastandrea, A., Perri, E., Russo, F., Spadafora, A & Tucker, M.E. (2006). Microbial primary dolomite from a Norian carbonat platform, Northern Calabria, Southern Italy. Sedimentology 53: 465-480.
• Tucker, M.E. & George, A. (2005). Oz's first Great Barrier Reef: the Devonian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geoscientist 15(12): 4-7.
• Tucker, M.E. & Marshall, J. (2004). Diagenesis and geochemistry of Upper Muschelkalk (Triassic) build-ups and associated facies in Catalonia (NE Spain): a paper dedicated to Francesc Calvet. Geologica Acta 2: 257-269.