Staff profiles
Greg BrowneEmeritus Scientist
Qualifications
- BA, Geomorphology
- BSc, Geology
- MSc, Geology
- PhD, Geology
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Sequence Stratigraphy
- Geology: Sedimentology
- Geology: Reservoir Geology
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Evaluation of the relative roles of global versus local sedimentary controls on Middle to Late Pleistocene formation of continental margin strata, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand, Sedimentology 62(4): p. 1118-1148. DOI: 10.1111/sed.12181. p. 1118-1148
- Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of a deep-water slope channel-levee and overbank apron : the Upper Miocene Upper Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, Marine and Petroleum Geology 52: p. 22-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.01.006. p. 22-41
- Sequence stratigraphy and controls on reservoir sandstone distribution in an Eocene marginal marine-coastal plain fairway, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Marine and Petroleum Geology 32(1): p. 110-137. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.12.001. p. 110-137
- New Zealand geology, Episodes 35(1): p. 57-71. p. 57-71
- The geological setting of the Darfield and Christchurch earthquakes, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 55(3): p. 193-197. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2012.682654. p. 193-197
- Neogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica : chronology of events from the AND-1B drill hole, Global and Planetary Change 96/97: p. 189-203. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.05.019. p. 189-203
- Sequence stratigraphy of the ANDRILL AND-2A drillcore, Antarctica : a long-term, ice-proximal record of Early to Mid-Miocene climate, sea-level and glacial dynamism, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 305(1-4): p. 337-351. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.026. p. 337-351
- Outcrop and seismic examples of mass-transport deposits from a Late Miocene deep-water succession, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Mass-transport deposits in deepwater settings : p. 311-348. p. 311-348
- The stratigraphic signature of the Late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment, Geological Society of America Bulletin 121(11/12): p. 1537-1561. DOI: 10.1130/B26540.1. p. 1537-1561
- Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations, Nature 458(7236): p. 322-328. DOI: 10.1038/nature07867. p. 322-328
- Channelized, innermost, basin-floor-fan morphologies, Mount Messenger Formation, Waikiekie south beach and inland, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 249-256 (chapter 63). p. 249-256 (chapter 63)
- Architecture of base-of-slope fans, Mount Messenger Formation, Pukearuhe Beach, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 257-261 (chapter 64). p. 257-261 (chapter 64)
- A complete middle-to-inner basin-floor-fan cycle, Mount Messenger Formation, Tongaporutu, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 245-248 (chapter 62). p. 245-248 (chapter 62)
- An overview of the Miocene Mount Messenger-Urenui Formations, New Zealand : a 2-D, oblique-dip outcrop transect through an entire third-order, progradational, deep-water clastic succession, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 238-240 (chapter 60). p. 238-240 (chapter 60)
- Slope feeder channels, Urenui Formation, Wai-iti and Mimi Beaches, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 262-264 (chapter 65). p. 262-264 (chapter 65)
- Thick-bedded sandstone facies in a middle basin-floor fan setting, Mount Messenger Formation, Mohakatino Beach, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : p. 241-244 (chapter 61). p. 241-244 (chapter 61)
- A 2-D, oblique-dip outcrop transect through a third-order, progradational, deep-water clastic succession, Urenui-Mount Messenger Formations, New Zealand, Atlas of deep-water outcrops : Chapter 136 (42 p.). Chapter 136 (42 p.)
- Facies development and sequence architecture of a Late Quaternary fluvial-marine transition, Canterbury Plains and shelf, New Zealand : implications for forced regressive deposits, Sedimentary Geology 158(1/2): p. 57-86. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2202 p. 57-86
- A large-scale flood event in 1994 from the mid-Canterbury Plains, New Zealand, and implications for ancient fluvial deposits, Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 32: p. 99-109. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1654 p. 99-109
- Outcrop and behind-outcrop characterization of a Late Miocene slope fan system, Mt. Messenger Formation, New Zealand, AAPG Bulletin 86(5): p. 841-862. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 2201 p. 841-862
- Contrasting styles of basin-floor fan and slope fan deposition : Mount Messenger Formation, New Zealand, Fine-grained turbidite systems : p. 142-152. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 1709 p. 142-152
- Sequence architecture of exposed Late Miocene basin floor fan and channel-levee complexes (Mount Messenger Formation), Taranaki basin, New Zealand, Submarine fans and turbidite systems : sequence stratigraphy, reservoir architecture and production characteristics Gulf of Mexico and international : p. 177-192. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 548 p. 177-192
- Tectonic event-stratigraphy in a fluvio-lacustrine, strike-slip setting : the Boss Point Formation (Westphalian A), Cumberland Basin, Maritime Canada, Journal of Sedimentary Research B64(3): p. 341-364. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 228 p. 341-364
- Alternating braidplain and lacustrine deposition in a strike-slip setting : the Pennsylvanian Boss Point Formation of the Cumberland Basin, Maritime Canada, Journal of Sedimentary Research B64(1): p. 40-59. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 145 p. 40-59
- Early diagenetic spherulitic siderites from Pennsylvanian paleosols in the Boss Point Formation, Maritime Canada, Sedimentology 40: p. 467-474. [s.l.]: [s.n.]. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences contribution 203 p. 467-474
- Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary basins and geological evolution of the Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand Lower Hutt: New Zealand Geological Survey. New Zealand Geological Survey basin studies 2 94 p.