Martin P A Jackson
| Martin P A Jackson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Salisbury, Rhodesia |
| 💀Died | 2017 Austin, Texas2017 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | BSc Geology, London, UK,1968
BSc (Hons) Geology 1st class, London, UK,1969 Ph.D. Geology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1976 |
| 💼 Occupation | Engineer |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Josephine Vincent |
| 👶 Children | Britt, Kirsty |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Jackson |
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Martin Jackson was an expert on salt tectonics,[1] [2]who authored several books on the subject[3]. His research was led to discoveries of crude oil[1][4] in places previously thought to be devoid of resources[5] such as the Gulf of Mexico where the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. He noticed that certain geologic structures on a moon of a solar system planet had a perticular form that was reminiscent of an earthly formation in Iran[6], The Great Kavir desert which, is mostly salt.
He wrote in his 1984 publication, "...salt domes in the East Texas Basin can be used by the petroleum industry and the mining industry as a guide for exploration and for estimation of storage capacity..."[7]
Life History[edit]
He was born in Rhodesia as it was known then before moving to South Africa. Upon completion of his doctorate was employed by University of Texas at Austin in the Bureau of Economic Geology where he worked on salt tectonics . He studied geology at University of Rhodesia before taking up a post at University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. He worked as a consultant for Exxon, British Petroleum, Agip, Pan Canadian Petroleum, BHP, Conoco, Louisiana Land and Exploration, Amoco, Texaco, Triton Energy, Unocal Corporation, Shell oil, Phillips Petroleum Company, Marathon Oil, Woodside Energy, Repsol, Anadarko Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum, Maersk Oil, Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, Korea National Oil Corporation, Kosmos Energy, Petrobras, Nexen, over the period 1991 to 2012.
Hew as active in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and acted as keynote speaker at many conventions. The awards in recognition of his contribution to geology is substantial and in 2013 he received the William Smith Medal from the Geological Society of London for oustanding lifetime contributions to geology.
There are certain geological terms that will forever be linked to his name such as "salt canopy, salt weld, reactive diapir, squeezed diapir, extrusive salt sheet, and multidirectional extension"[2] which he developed in his Applied Geodynamics Laboratory.
Jackson died in 2016 due to untreatable cancer which he discovered in 2013 prior to collecting
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Talbot, Christopher J.; Jackson, Martin P. A. (1987). "Salt Tectonics". Scientific American. 257 (2): 70–79. Bibcode:1987SciAm.257b..70T. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0887-70. ISSN 0036-8733. JSTOR 24979445.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jackson, Martin (1 Jun 2016). "In Memoriam: Martin P. A. Jackson". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2019-11-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jackson, Martin P. A.; Hudec, Michael R. (2017-02-06). Salt Tectonics: Principles and Practice. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107013315. Search this book on
- ↑ Vendeville, B. C.; Jackson, M. P. A. (1992-08-01). "The rise of diapirs during thin-skinned extension". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 9 (4): 331–354. doi:10.1016/0264-8172(92)90047-I. ISSN 0264-8172.
- ↑ McDonnell, A.; Hudec, M. R.; Jackson, M. P. A. (2009-02-01). "Distinguishing salt welds from shale detachments on the inner Texas shelf, western Gulf of Mexico". Basin Research. 21 (1): 47–59. Bibcode:2009BasR...21...47M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00375.x. ISSN 1365-2117.
- ↑ Martin P. A. Jackson (1987). "Abstract: New Insights on Salt Diapirism from the Great Kavir, Central Iran". 30 (3): 11.
- ↑ Jackson, Martin; Seni, Steven J. (1984). Atlas of Salt Domes in the East Texas Basin. U. S. Department of Energy: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Austin, Texas. p. 1. Search this book on
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