Staff profile

To develop Geospatial Research Ltd. (GRL) - a spin-out company within the University environment, with a mandate to commercialise innovative methods of acquisition, visualisation and analysis of geospatial data acquired by digital geological mapping and survey. To use GRL as a vehicle for bilateral Knowledge Transfer between academia and industry. To promote inter-disciplinary research - an implicit priority of the new e-Science Research Institute.

Chapter in book

• 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.
• 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.
• Jones, R.R & Holdsworth, R.E (1998). Oblique simple shear in transpression zones. In Continental Transpressional and Transtensional Tectonics. Holdsworth, R.E Strachan, R.A & Dewey, J.F. (eds) London: Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. 135: 35-40.

Journal Article

• Imber, J., Perry, T., Jones, R.R. & Wightman, R. (2012). Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions? Journal of Structural Geology 45: 158-172.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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 & 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Jones, R. R, Holdsworth, R.E & Bailey, W.R (1997). Lateral extrusion in transpression zones: the importance of boundary conditions. Journal of Structural Geology 19: 1201-1217.