Publications - Dr Dougal A Jerram PhD, BSc (HONS), FGS

Latest papers out:

One in JVGR
Jo K. Cross, Julie Roberge, and Dougal A. Jerram 2012. Constraining the degassing processes of Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico: A vesicle size distribution and glass geochemistry study. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volumes 225–226, 1 May 2012, Pages 81–95. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.02.013

Two in GEOLOGY
  Victoria M. Martin, Jon Davidson, Dan Morgan, and Dougal A. Jerram 2010. Using the Sr isotope compositions of feldspars and glass to distinguish magma system components and dynamics. Geology 2010;38;539-542. doi: 10.1130/G30758.1

J.K. Keiding, R.B. Trumbull, I.V. Veksler, and D.A. Jerram. On the significance of ultra-magnesian olivines in basaltic rocks Geology, December 2011, v. 39, p. 1095-1098. doi:10.1130/G32214.1

One in Basin Research

K. A. Wright, R. J. Davies, D. A. Jerram, J. Morris and R. Fletcher. Application of seismic and sequence stratigraphic concepts to a lava-fed delta system in the Faroe-Shetland Basin, UK and Faroes Article first published online: 17 JUN 2011 | DOI:  10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00513.x

One in Computers & Geosciences

Clayton Grove & Dougal A. Jerram. jPOR: An ImageJ macro to quantify total optical porosity from blue-stained thin sections. Computers & Geosciences, Volume 37, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 1850-1859. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2011.03.002

One in GEOL SOC

J. Hansen, D.A. Jerram, K. McCaffrey, and S.R. Passey. Early Cenozoic saucer-shaped sills of the Faroe Islands: an example of intrusive styles in basaltic lava piles. Journal of the Geological Society; January 2011; v. 168; no. 1; p. 159-178; DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-012.

Two in GESPHERE

  Catherine E. Nelson, Dougal A. Jerram, Richard W. Hobbs, Ricky Terrington, and Holger Kessler. Reconstructing flood basalt lava flows in three dimensions using terrestrial laser scanning. Geosphere, Feb 2011; 7: 87 - 96.

A selection of some of my other publications

Dougal A. Jerram , Alex Mock , Graham R. Davis, Matthew Field, Richard J. Brown 2009. 3D crystal size distributions: A case study on quantifying olivine populations in kimberlites. Lithos 112S, 223–235.

M. Field , T.M. Gernon, A. Mock, A. Walters, R.S.J. Sparks, D.A. Jerram 2009. Variations of olivine abundance and grain size in the Snap Lake kimberlite intrusion, Northwest Territories, Canada: A possible proxy for diamonds. Lithos 112S, 23–35.

Dougal A. Jerram, Richard T. Single, Richard W. Hobbs & Catherine E. Nelson 2009.Understanding the offshore flood basalt sequence using onshore volcanic facies analogues: an example from the Faroe–Shetland basin Geol. Mag. 146 (3), pp. 353–367. doi:10.1017/S0016756809005974

Dougal A. Jerram, Kathryn M. Goodenough & Valentin R. Troll 2009. Introduction: from the British Tertiary into the future – modern perspectives on the British Palaeogene and North Atlantic Igneous provinces. Geol. Mag. 146 (3), pp. 305–308. doi:10.1017/S001675680900627X

J. Hansen, D. A. Jerram, K. Mccaffrey & S. R. Passey 2009.The onset of the North Atlantic Igneous Province in a rifting perspective. Geol. Mag. 146 (3), pp. 309–325. doi:10.1017/S0016756809006347 

Nelson, C.E., Jerram, D.A., and Hobbs, R.W., 2009, Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 15, p. 313-324.

Nelson, C.E., Jerram, D.A., Single, R.T., and Hobbs, R.W., 2009b, Understanding the facies architecture of flood basalts and volcanic rifted margins and its effect on geophysical properties., in Varming, T., and Ziska, H., eds., Faroe Islands Exploration Conference: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference, Annales Societatis Scientarium Faroensis, supplementum, Volume 48, p. 84-103.

Victoria M. Martin, Daniel J. Morgan, Dougal A. Jerram, Mark J. Cadddick, David J. Prior & Jon P. Davidson. 2008 Bang! month scale eruption triggering at Santorini volcano. SCIENCE vol 321 page 1178.

Dougal A. Jerram, & Victoria Martin 2008 Understanding crystal populations and their significance through the magma plumbing system. In: ANNEN, C. & ZELLMER, G. F. (eds) Dynamics of Crustal Magma Transfer, Storage and Differentiation. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 304, 133–148.

Dougal A. Jerram, & Jon Davidson. 2007. Frontiers in textural and microgeochemical analysis. ELEMENTS 3: 235-238.

Dougal A. Jerram, & Micheal Higgins. 2007. 3D Analysis of Rock Textures: Quantifying Igneous Microstructures. ELEMENTS 3: 239–245.

Morgan, D.J., Jerram, D.A., Chertkoff, D.G., Davidson, J.P., Pearson, D.G., Kronz, A. & Nowell, G.M. 2007. Combining CSD and isotopic microanalysis: Magma supply and mixing processes at Stromboli Volcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy.  Earth & Planetary Science Letters 260(3-4): 419-431

S. Hautot, R. T. Single, J. Watson, N. Harrop, D. A. Jerram, P. Tarits, K. Whaler and G. Dawes. (2007) 3-D magnetotelluric inversion and model validation with gravity data for the investigation of flood basalts and associated volcanic rifted margins Geophys. J. Int. (2007) 170, 1418–1430

B. O’Driscoll1, V. R. Troll1, C.H. Donaldson, D.A. Jerram, & C.H. Emeleus (2007). An Origin for Harrisitic and Granular Olivine in the Rum Layered Suite, NW Scotland: a Crystal Size Distribution Study. Journal of Petrology, 48: 253 – 270.

Karla Petry, Dougal A Jerram, Delia del Pilar M. de Almeida1 & Henrique Zerfass (2007). Volcanic-sedimentary features in the Serra Geral Fm., Paraná Basin, southern Brazil: examples of dynamic lava-sediment interactions in an arid setting. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 159, Issue 4, 313-325.

Dougal A Jerram, Adam Kent (2006) An Overview of Modern Trends in Petrography: Textural and Microanalysis of Igneous Rocks. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 154, Issues 1-2, Pages vii-ix.

 Dan Morgan & Dougal A. Jerram (2006) On estimating crystal shape for crystal size distribution analysis.  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 154, Issues 1-2 , Pages 1-7.

Dougal A. Jerram, & Mike Widdowson (2005) The anatomy of Continental Flood Basalt Provinces: Geological constraints on the processes and products of flood volcanism. Lithos 79, 385-405.

 Alex Mock & Dougal A Jerram, (2005) Crystal size distributions in three dimensions: insights from the 3D reconstruction of a highly porphyritic rock texture Journal of Petrology 46: 1525-1541.

Richard T. Single & Dougal A. Jerram, (2004) The 3-D facies architecture of flood basalt provinces and their internal heterogeneity: examples from the Palaeogene Skye Lava Field. Journal of Geological Society 161, 911-926.

 Dougal A. Jerram,  Michael, J. Cheadle & Anthony R. Philpotts (2003). Quantifying the building blocks of igneous rocks: Are clustered crystal frameworks the foundation? Journal of Petrology Vol 44(11), 2033-2051.

Mock, A., Dougal A. Jerram, & C. Breitkreuz (2003). Using Quantitative Textural Analysis to Understand the Emplacement of Shallow Level Rhyolitic Laccoliths – A Case Study from the Halle Volcanic Complex, Germany. Journal of Petrology, 44 (No 5), 833-849.

Simon Turner, Rhiannon George, Dougal A. Jerram, Chris Hawkesworth and Neil Carpenter (2003) Case studies of plagioclase growth and residence times in island arc lavas from Tonga and the Lesser Antilles and a model to reconcile discordant age information. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 214, 279-294.

Dougal A. Jerram & Harald Stollhofen. (2002) Lava/sediment interaction in desert settings; are all peperite-like textures the result of magma-water interaction? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 114, 231-249.

Dougal A. Jerram (2002) Volcanology and facies architecture of flood basalts, in Menzies, M.A., Klemperer, S.L., Ebinger, C.J. and Baker, J., eds., Volcanic Rifted Margins: Geological Society of America Special Paper 362, p. 119-132.

Dougal A. Jerram Visual comparators for degree of sorting in 2-D and 3-D. (2001) Computers and Geoscience 27, 485-492.

 Dougal A. Jerram & Olivier Robbe (2001). Building a 3-D geologic model of a Flood Basalt: an example from the Etendeka, NW Namibia. Electronic Geoscience 6:1.

Dougal A. Jerram & Michael J Cheadle (2000) On the cluster analysis of rocks American Mineralogist, 85, 47-67.

 Dougal A. Jerram, Nigel Mountney, John Howell, Harald Stollhofen, & Danny Long.  (2000) Death of a sand sea: An active aeolian erg systematically buried by the Etendeka Flood Basalts of NW NamibiaJournal of the Geological Society, 157, 513-516.

Dougal A. Jerram, Nigel Mountney, John Howell & Harald Stollhofen, (2000). The Fossilised Desert: Recent developments in our understanding of the Lower Cretaceous deposits in the Huab Basin, NW Namibia. Communications to the  Geological Survey of Namibia, 12, 269-278.

Dougal A. Jerram, Nigel Mountney & Harald Stollhofen (1999) Facies architecture of the Etjo Sandstone Formation and its interaction with the basal Etendeka flood basalts of NW Namibia: Implications for offshore analogues. In, Cameron, N., Bate, R. and Clure, V. (eds.), Oil and gas habitats of the South Atlantic. Geological Society of London Special Publication 153, 367-380. 

Nigel Mountney, John Howell, Stephen Flint and Dougal A. Jerram (1999) Relating eolian bounding-surface geometries to the bed forms that generated them: Etjo Formation, Cretaceous, Namibia. Geology 27: 159-162.

 Nigel Mountney, John Howell, Stephen Flint and Dougal A. Jerram (1999) Climate, sediment supply and tectonics as controls on the deposition and preservation of the aeolian-fluvial Etjo Sandstone Formation, Namibia. Journal of the Geological Society of London 156, 771-777.

 Dougal A. Jerram, Nigel Mountney, Frank Holzförster & Harald Stollhofen (1999) Stratigraphic relation in the Etendeka Group in the Huab Basin, NW Namibia: Understanding the onset of flood volcanism. Journal of Geodynamics 28, 393-418. 

Nigel Mountney, John Howell, Stephen Flint and Dougal A. Jerram(1998) Stratigraphic subdivision within the aeolian/fluvial Etjo Sandstone Formation, NW Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 27: No 2, 175-192. 

Michael T. Elliott, Michael J. Cheadle & Dougal A. Jerram (1997) On the Identification of Textural Equilibrium in Rocks Using Dihedral Angle Measurements. Geology 25: 355-358.

Dougal A. Jerram, Michael J. Cheadle, Robert H. Hunter & Michael T. Elliott (1996) The spatial distribution of grains and crystals in rocks. Cont. Mineral. & Petrol. 125:60-74.