Staff and Postgraduate Students
Dr Ken McCaffrey, BSc Belfast (1986), PhD Dunelm (1990)
Contact (email at k.j.w.mccaffrey@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
6/86. Queen’s University Belfast - Geology B.Sc. (Honours)
7/90. University of Durham Ph.D.
1/90 – 9/91, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Post Doctoral Fellow, Earth & Planetary Sciences
10/91 – 6/95, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer (from 1993), Geology
7/95 - 2/00, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (from 1997) Geological Sciences
3/00- present, University of Durham, Lecturer, Geological Sciences,
Senior Lecturer, Earth Sciences from October 2004
Career Research Highlights
Ken McCaffrey has made sigificant contributions to the fields of granite emplacement and deformation, continental tectonics and basement reactivation and digital geospatial methods
He has established Durham RRG as a leading international group in the area of geological fieldwork technologies, 3D visualisation and analysis. In 2005, this led to the setting-up of the Durham Centre for Terrestrial Laser Scanning (CeTLS). He is Director of University spin-out company Geospatial Research Ltd.
Most recently he has taken up a 4 year Royal Society Industry fellowship working part-time at BP Exporation on basement inheritance in geological systems.
Committee and Society Service
1) 2000-2002 Secretary Tectonic Studies Group
2) 2000-2002 Member of Science Committee, Geological Society of London
Conferences and workshops
1) 2001 Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks - Geological Society, London
2) 2001 Deformation at Convergent Margins – European Union Geosciences XI Strasbourg
3) 2001 Vertical and horizontal coupling and decoupling processes in Orogenic Belts – American Geophysical Union, San Francisco
4) 2002 Transport and Flow processes within Shear Zones - Geological Society, London
5) 2004 Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting – University of Durham
6) 2006 Unlocking 3D Earth Systems – Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models. GSA Penrose Meeting – University of Durham
Editorial Roles
2006 'Specials' editor for the Geological Society of London
Editor Visual Geosciences
Invited Keynotes
1) 2002 – Laccolith and sill intrusion meeting, Freiberg, Germany
2) 2005 – What is a magma chamber? The role of sheets in the assembly of intrusions GSA Salt Lake City.
Prizes & Awards
1) 2005 Murchsion Fund - Geological Society
2) 2001 Durham University Excellence in teaching Award
3) 1993 Ramsay medal
Research Groups
Research Interests
- the size distributions and population dynamics of natural geometries
- Innovative research in digital geospatial description
- Magmatic and mineralised systems
- Structural characterisation of fault and shear zones
- Tectonic and magmatic interactions
- Tectonic control on the formation of mineral deposits
- The geometrical and kinematic evolution of deformation zones
- Visualisation and analysis of geological architecture
Selected Publications
Edited works: contributions
- 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. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Essays in edited volumes
- 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. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Journal papers: academic
- 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 (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 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. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 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
- 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, 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. J. Geol Soc. London 161: 471-480.
- 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. J. Geol Soc. London 162: 471-480.
- 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. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 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. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- 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 & Petford, N 1997. Are granitic intrusions scale invariant? Journal of the Geological Society of London 154 1-4 154: 1-4.
- McCaffrey, K.J.W 1992. Igneous emplacement in a transpressive shear zone: Ox Mountains igneous complex. J. Geol Soc. London 149: 221-235.