Staff profiles
Bryan DavyEmeritus Scientist
Qualifications
- BSc, Physics
- MSc, Physics
- PhD, Geophysics
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Continental shelf delineation
- Geophysics: Marine Geophysics
- Geophysics: Crustal structure determination
- Geophysics: Exploration Geophysics
- Geophysics: Fledermaus
- Geophysics: Gravity
- Geophysics: Multi beam mapping
- Geophysics: Seismic Reflection
- Geophysics: Data management
- Geophysics: Gondwana tectonics
- Geophysics: Shallow water geophysics
Major Publications
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- Subsurface structure of the Canterbury region interpreted from gravity and aeromagnetic data, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 55(3): p. 185-191. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2012.690765. p. 185-191
- Gas escape features off New Zealand : evidence of massive release of methane from hydrates, Geophysical Research Letters 37: L21309. DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045184. L21309
- Hikurangi Plateau : crustal structure, rifted formation, and Gondwana subduction history, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 9(7): Q07004. DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001855. Q07004
- Marine seismic reflection profiles from the Waitemata-Whangaparoa region, Auckland, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 51(3): p. 161-173. DOI: 10.1080/00288300809509857. p. 161-173
- Bollons Seamount and early New Zealand-Antarctic seafloor spreading, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 7(6): Q06021. DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001191. Q06021
- Seismic reflection imaging of the Haroharo Caldera boundary beneath Lake Tarawera, Okataina Volcanic Centre, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 48(1): p. 153-166. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 3301 p. 153-166
- The Rapuhia Scarp (northern Hikurangi Plateau) : its nature and subduction effects on the Kermadec Trench, Tectonophysics 328(3/4): p. 269-295. DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00211-0. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1980 p. 269-295
- Gravity, magnetic and seismic surveys of the caldera complex, Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 81(1/2): p. 69-89. DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0273(97)00074-7. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1309 p. 69-89
- Forearc structures and tectonic regimes at the oblique subduction zone between the Hikurangi Plateau and the southern Kermadec margin, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 103(B1): p. 623-650. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1382 p. 623-650
- From oblique subduction to intra-continental transpression : structures of the southern Kermadec-Hikurangi margin from multibeam bathymetry, side-scan sonar and seismic reflection, Marine geophysical researches 18(2/4): p. 357-381. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1093 p. 357-381
- Gravity and magnetic modelling of the Hikurangi Plateau, Marine Geology 118(1-2): p. 139-151. DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(94)90117-1. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 220 p. 139-151
- The Bounty Trough : basement structure influences on sedimentary basin evolution, South Pacific sedimentary basins : p. 69-92. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 377 p. 69-92
- Seismic reflection profiling of the Taupo Caldera, New Zealand, Exploration geophysics 24(3/4): p. 443-454. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 329 p. 443-454
- Magnetic anomalies of the New Zealand basement, 1991 New Zealand Oil Exploration Conference : proceedings : p. 134-144. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 848 p. 134-144