Mark Jessell

Personal profile

Biography

I am a Professor and Western Australian Fellow at the Centre for Exploration Targeting at The University of Western Australia.

I studied up to MSc level in the UK, then moved to the USA to do a PhD, went to Melbourne to do a Postdoc and take up a teaching and research position at Monash University before moving to Toulouse, France where I had a position withe the Institute de Recherche pour le Developpement, and most recently came to Perth in 2013.

My scientific interests revolve around microstructure studies (the Elle platform), integration of geology and geophysics in 3D (the Loop/MinEx CRC project), and the tectonics and metallogenesis of the West African and Guyanese Cratons (WAXI & SAXI). My recently completed Western Australian Fellowship was focused on improving the links between geological and geophysical data analysis in 3D via analysis of the geological and topological uncertainty.

Roles and responsibilities

I lead the WAXI & SAXI Projects, and co-lead the Project 6 Automated 3D Geological Modelling Project of the MinEx CRC with Dr Mark Lindsay.

Research

Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the West African Craton

Tectonics and Metallogenesis of North-East South America

3D Geological Modelling

Microstructure Simulation

Industrial relevance

The WAXI and SAXI projects are primarilly funded by AMIRA International industry consortiums, and the MinEx CRC is a partnership between industry and the Australian Government. The recently annouced DARE ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre brings together a diverse range of industry partners to work on analysing risk in a natural science context. I am also involved in a MRIWA industry/state government collaboration on the Paterson Orogen, and a follow-up project related to numerical and analogue modelling of Basins has just received ARC and MRIWA funding, with further industry support.

Teaching overview

I am involved in teaching microstructures and thegeological interpretation of geophsyical datasets.

Engagement

I regularly teach a course to professionals on the geological interpretation of regional geophysical datasets.

Click here to watch a video on the Capacity Building activities of WAXI.

Languages

English, French

External positions

Adjunct, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

1 Oct 2016 → …

Directeur de Recherche, Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)

2005 → …

Adjunct, Monash University

1 Oct 2001 → …

Keywords

Education
Mining and Resources
West African craton
Deformation microstructures
Geomaterials simulation
3D modelling
Structural geophysics

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Research Output 1986 2019

2761 Citations
31 h-Index
116 Article
9 Conference paper
5 Chapter
4 Conference presentation/ephemera
12 More

4 Citations (Scopus)

A geodynamic model for the Paleoproterozoic (ca. 2.27–1.96 Ga) Birimian Orogen of the southern West African Craton – Insights into an evolving accretionary-collisional orogenic system

Grenholm, M., Jessell, M. & Thébaud, N., 1 May 2019, In : Earth-Science Reviews. 192, p. 138-193 56 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Birrimian

geodynamics

craton

crust

indentation

1 Citation (Scopus)

A review of numerical modelling of the dynamics of microstructural development in rocks and ice: Past, present and future

Piazolo, S., Bons, P. D., Griera, A., Llorens, M. G., Gomez-Rivas, E., Koehn, D., Wheeler, J., Gardner, R., Godinho, J. R. A., Evans, L., Lebensohn, R. A. & Jessell, M. W., Aug 2019, In : Journal of Structural Geology. 125, SI, p. 111-123

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

microstructure

geological phenomena

ice

rock

modeling

1 Citation (Scopus)

Bosumtwi impact structure, Ghana: Evidence for fluidized emplacement of the ejecta

Baratoux, D., Niang, C. A. B., Reimold, W. U., Sapah, M. S., Jessell, M. W., Boamah, D., Faye, G., Bouley, S. & Vanderheaghe, O., 13 Feb 2019, In : Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Ghana

impact structure

ejecta

craters

crater

2 Citations (Scopus)

Effect of pre-existing faults on the distribution of lower crust exhumation under extension: numerical modelling and implications for NW Ghana

Feng, X., Wang, E., Amponsah, P. O., Ganne, J., Martin, R. & Jessell, M. W., 1 Dec 2019, In : Geosciences Journal. 23, 6, p. 961-975 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

exhumation

lower crust

rock

modeling

shear zone

3 Citations (Scopus)

Episodic collisional orogenesis and lower crust exhumation during the Palaeoproterozoic Eburnean Orogeny: Evidence from the Sefwi Greenstone Belt, West African Craton

McFarlane, H. B., Ailleres, L., Betts, P., Ganne, J., Baratoux, L., Jessell, M. W. & Block, S., 1 Jun 2019, In : Precambrian Research. 325, p. 88-110 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Pan African orogeny

greenstone belt

exhumation

orogeny

lower crust