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., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Conway, A., & Krabbendam, M. (2015). 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland. In F. Richards, N. Richardson, S. Rippington, R. Wilson, & C. Bond (Eds.), Industrial structural geology : principles, techniques and integration (125-141). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp421.14
• Jones, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., & Holdsworth, R. (2005). Digital field data acquisition: towards increased quantification of uncertainty during geological mapping. In A. Curtis, & R. Wood (Eds.), Geological prior information : informing science and engineering (43-56). The Geological Society
• Jones, R., & Holdsworth, R. (1998). Oblique simple shear in transpression zones. In R. Holdsworth, R. Strachan, & J. (. Dewey (Eds.), Continental Transpressional and Transtensional Tectonics (35-40). Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc

Journal Article

• Imber, J., Perry, T., Jones, 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2012.09.004
• Jones, R., McCaffrey, K., Clegg, P., Wilson, R., Holliman, N., Holdsworth, R., …Waggott, S. (2009). Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models. Computers and Geosciences, 35(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.09.007
• Pearce, M., Jones, R., Smith, S., McCaffrey, K., & Clegg, P. (2006). Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(9), 1640-1646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.05.010
• Wilson, R., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Jones, R., Welbon, A., & 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), https://doi.org/10.1029/2005tc001895
• Healy, D., Jones, R., & Holdsworth, R. (2006). Three-Dimensional Brittle Shear Fracturing by Tensile Crack Interaction. Nature, 439, 64-67. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04346
• McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., De Paola, N., Jones, R., …Trinks, I. (2005). Putting the geology back into Earth models. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 86(46), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005eo460001
• McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Wilson, R., Clegg, P., Imber, J., …Trinks, I. (2005). Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(6), 927-938. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764905-017
• Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & 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. https://doi.org/10.1306/02240504043
• Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.04.001
• Trinks, I., Clegg, P., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., Holdsworth, R., …Wilson, R. (2005). Mapping and analyzing virtual outcrops. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10069-005-0026-9
• Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & 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
• Wilson, R., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., & Holdsworth, R. (2005). Lofoten has its faults! Detailed fault analysis and 3D digital mapping in the Norway's Lofoten Islands. Geoscientist, 15(2), 4-9
• Clegg, P., Trinks, I., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., & Waggott, S. (2005). Towards the Virtual Outcrop. Geoscientist, 15(1), 8-9
• Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Clegg, P., McCaffrey, K., & Tavarnelli, E. (2004). Inclined transpression. Journal of Structural Geology, 26(8), 1531-1548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.01.004
• Tavernelli, E., Holdsworth, R., Clegg, P., Jones, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2004). The anatomy and evolution of a transpressional imbricate zone, Southern Uplands, Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology, 26, 1341-1360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.01.003
• Holdsworth, R., Tavarnelli, E., Clegg, P., Pinheiro, R., Jones, R., & McCaffrey, K. (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. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764901-123
• Jones, R. R., Holdsworth, R., & Bailey, W. (1997). Lateral extrusion in transpression zones: the importance of boundary conditions. Journal of Structural Geology, 19, 1201-1217