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| Ph.D. Cambridge University (1969) Professor of Geology and Graduate Coordinator Email: belock@louisiana.edu Phone: 337-482-6823 Madison Hall, Room 227A Research: I am a sedimentologist/sedimentary petrologist/stratigrapher, working primarily with carbonate and evaporite rocks, although I have also been involved in a variety of projects on clastic sediments. My current studies include several in West Texas and in Utah. In West Texas we are looking at the Boquillas Formation (Cretaceous) with classic deep-water features, exposed in beautiful road cuts west of Del Rio. We are also working on remote outcrops in the Gypsum Plains area of Culberson County, Texas. Small hills (called "castiles") consist of limestone preserving sedimentary features of the surrounding Permian gypsum deposits; this is attributed to replacement related to methanophage bacterial reactions, similar to those seen in the formation of typical Gulf Coast salt dome caprock (significant petroleum reservoirs). Several of my students have worked on sabkha sediments in the Permian of southeastern Utah, and others on modern sabkhas in western Mexico (Gulf of California). Our studies are typically a mix of field work and thin section petrography, for the most part. Courses at UL Lafayette: Geology and Man, Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Petrology, Subsurface Geology, Carbonate Sediments, Advanced Clastic Sedimentology. Principal Publications Lock, B. E. and S. L. Voorhies, 1988, Sequence stratigraphy as a tool for interpretation of the Cockfield/Yegua in Southwestern Louisiana., Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 38, 123-131. Lock, B. E. and S. W. Broussard, 1989, The Norphlet reservoir in Mobile Bay: Origins of deep porosity, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 39, 187-194. Lock, B. E. and C. E. Bishop, 1991, Sedimentology of a modern point bar at Raven Camp on the Red River, central Louisiana, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 41, 432-441. This paper was selected for the Best Paper Award by the Gulf Coast Section of the SEPM. Broussard, M. J., and B. E. Lock, 1995, Modern analytical techniques for fault surface seal analysis: a Gulf Coast case history, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 45, 87-93. This paper was selected for the AAPG's A. I. Levorsen Award for "the paper that best exemplifies creative ideas in oil and gas exploration." Lock, B. E., and T. W. Duex, 1996, Xenolithic inclusions within the salt at Weeks Island, Louisiana, and their significance, Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geol. Soc. 46, 229-234. Lock, Brian E., 2002, Sabkhas, Ancient and Modern: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions, vol. 52, p. 645-657. Lock, Brian E. and Don H. Kupfer, 2003, "Salt Mines of South Louisiana: Louisiana Geological Survey, Guidebook Series, #7, 85 p., Baton Rouge. Lock, Brian E. and Ashley Walker Fife, 2004, Contourites and Related Outer Shelf/Upper Slope Sediments, Boquillas Formation, West Texas: American Association of Geological Societies, Annual Convention extended abstracts, Dallas, Texas. Lock, Brian E., Ashley Walker Fife and Elizabeth Anderson, 2004. Bacteria-Petroleum Reactions: Salt Dome Cap-Rock Genesis Compared with Similar Processes from Permian Outcrops in West Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions, vol. 54, p. 361-367. About me I was educated in England, spent two field seasons in the Arctic Islands of Spitsbergen and did my dissertation field work in Newfoundland under the direction of John F. Dewey. I then taught in South Africa (Rhodes University) from 1970 through 1977, mostly researching on the sedimentology of pyroclastics. In 1975-76 I spent a year’s sabbatical in the Mediterranean area (France, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia) comparing modern volcanoes with the ancient ones I had studied in southern Africa. I came to Lafayette in 1977 and have been here ever since, aside from a year's sabbatical working for a small oil company in New Orleans. I am active with the Lafayette Geological Society and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS) and am a Past-President of both. GCAGS honored me as an Outstanding Educator in 19xx, and with their Distinguished Service Award this year (2005). I was Geology Department Head from 1991 through 2004, and am currently the department’s Graduate Coordinator I teach short courses for the petroleum industry in basic petroleum geology, sandstone reservoirs, and carbonate reservoirs, which has taken me to exotic places including Nigeria, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Argentina, Mexico and Houston.. In 1986 I became a U.S. citizen but am told I still "talk funny". My Educational Philosophy If you want to be a geologist, you had better spend some time looking at ROCKS! |
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Document last revised Tuesday, July 19, 2005 4:45 PM
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Geology Department, P.O. Box 44530, Lafayette LA 70504
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