Stephen Lokier has contributed images for modern sabkhas and associated evaporites and carbonates.
Email: s.lokier@bangor.ac.uk
2000 Ph.D. Royal Holloway, University of London; 1996 B.Sc. Hons (1st Class), Geological Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.
Stephen recently returned to the UK after working for the previous 16 years in the Middle East, most recently as Associate Professor of Carbonate Sedimentology at the Petroleum Institute of Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. Since his return, Stephen has held the position of Honorary Lecturer within the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University where he has been undertaking experiments focusing on the transport of carbonate sediments. Stephen has over 19 years of applied experience in the field of carbonate sedimentology, working within both industry and academia with a particular focus on carbonate sedimentology, carbonate system sequence stratigraphy and applications of carbonate sedimentology to the hydrocarbon system. He has been the author and co-author of 24 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is currently the General Secretary of the International Association of Sedimentologists. Stephen is the Subject Editor for Carbonate Sedimentology for the Journal of the Geological Society of London, and is also an Associate Editor for the journals Sedimentology and Facies.
Current research
I am currently actively collaborating with colleagues from Bangor University, UK; Bristol University, UK; Newcastle University, UK; Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Khalifa University, UAE; Queens University, Canada, Abu Dhabi Archaeology Survey and Abu Dhabi Culture Planning and Development Department. My research activity is currently focused on the following 5 major research projects:
Understanding ancient carbonate systems; carbonate precipitation in Abu Dhabi sabkhas as an analogue.
Recent benthic foraminifera from marginal marine environments in a carbonate ramp setting
Spatial variability of recent seawater properties and its relation to early marine cementation
The sedimentological evolution of the southern coastline of the Arabian Gulf
The Late Cretaceous to Paleogene transition of the Arabian Plate.
