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Professor John Marshall BA, PhD

Professor of Earth Science

Professor John Marshall is Professor of Earth Science within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge (1976)
PhD Department of Botany, University of Bristol (1981)
1978-1981 Demonstrator, Department of Geology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1981-1983 Palynologist, Gearhart Geodata, Aberdeen

1983-1996 Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Southampton
1996 -2000 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Southampton
2000-2006 Reader, School of Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton
2006-present Professor, School of Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

Specialisms: Palynology, Petroleum Geology, Earth System History

Mid Palaeozoic Mass Extinction Events
The spread of the Devonian forests
Sedimentary organic matter in landfill sites
Early seed plants
Petroleum source rocks
Devonian oil and gas reservoirs, South America, North Africa and the Moray Firth

Research group

Palaeoceanography and Palaeoclimate

Research project(s)

Transitioning to a forested planet

The Mid-Palaeozoic biotic crisis: Setting the trajectory of Tetrapod evolution

2006-2010 President of the Commission Internationale de la Microflore du Paléozoïque (CIMP)
2004-present Secretary of the Sub-Commission on Devonian Stratigraphy
2005-present Subject Editor, Journal of the Geological Society, London
2009-present Subject Editor, Journal of Micropalaeontology
2010-present Editorial Boards, Palaeodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Revue de Micropaléontologie
2010-2011 Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjiang, China

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Articles

Book

Rawson, P. F., Allen, P. M., Brenchley, P. J., Cope, J. C. W., Gale, A. S., Evans, J. A., Gibbard, P. L., Gregory, F. J., Hailwood, E. A., Hesselbo, S. P., Knox, RW. OB., Marshall, J. E. A., Oates, M., Riley, N. J., Smith, A. G., Trewin, N., & Zalasiewicz, J. A. (2001). Stratigraphical Procedure. (Professional Handbook). Geological Society.

Book Chapters

Marshall, J. E. A., Astin, T. R., Brown, J. F., Mark-Kurik, E., & Lazauskiene, J. (2007). Recognising the Kacak Event in the Devonian terrestrial environment and its implications for understanding land-sea interactions. In R. T. Becker, & W. T. Kirchgasser (Eds.), Devonian Events and Correlations (pp. 133-155). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 278). Geological Society of London. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP278.6
Marshall, J. E. A. (2005). Arthur Raistrick: Britain's premier palynologist. In A. J. Bowden, C. V. Burek, & R. Wilding (Eds.), History of palaeobotany: selected essays (pp. 161-179). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 241). Geological Society of London.
Marshall, J. E. A., & Hewett, A. J. (2003). Devonian. In D. Evans, C. Graham, A. Armour, & P. Bathurst (Eds.), The Millennium Atlas: petroleum geology of the central and northern North Sea (pp. 65-81). Geological Society of London.
Marshall, J. E. A. (2000). Devonian (Givetian) miospores from the Walls Group, Shetland. In P. F. Friend, & B. J. P. Williams (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone (pp. 473-483). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 180). Geological Society of London.
Marshall, J. E. A. (2000). Palynofacies and orbital cyclicity: an example from the Silurian of Saudi Arabia. In S. Al-Hajri, & B. Owens (Eds.), Stratigraphic palynology of the Palaeozoic of Saudi Arabia (pp. 216-231). Gulf PetroLink.

Conference

Smith, A. G., Barry, T., Bown, P., Cope, J., Gale, A., Gibbard, P., Gregory, J., Hounslow, M., Kemp, D., Knox, R., Marshall, J., Oates, M., Rawson, P., Powell, J., & Waters, C. (2014). GSSPs, global stratigraphy and correlation. In D. G. Smith, R. J. Bailey, P. M. Burgess, & A. J. Fraser (Eds.), Strata and time: probing the gaps in our understanding (pp. 37-67). (Geological Society of London Special Publication; Vol. 404). Geological Society of London. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP404.8

Letter/Editorial

Andrews, S. D., Decou, A., Braham, B., Kelly, S. R. A., Robinson, P., Morton, A., Marshall, J. E. A., & Hyden, F. (2020). Exhumed hydrocarbon traps in East Greenland: Reply to Christensen et al.'s comment on Andrews et al. (2020). Basin Research, 32(5), 1249-1251. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12467

SOES6059 Basin Analysis
Year 3 Micropalaeontology and Sedimentology
Year 1 Palaeontology

Professor John Marshall
Ocean and Earth Science
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
University of Southampton Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH
UK

Room Number: NOCS/186/16

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