Burns Cheadle
Associate Professor & Director of Corporate, Relat
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Burns Cheadle, Associate Professor & Director of Corporate, Relations and Student Development, Faculty of Science of the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Ph.D. Western University, 1986.
Research Interest
Dr. Cheadle's primary research interest involves several interconnected themes in petroleum geology, with a particular focus on the petroleum resource potential of carbonaceous mudstone deposits — “shale gas” and “tight oil” plays. The characterization of such deposits requires integration of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy with sedimentology, organic geochemistry, submicron FIB-SEM microscopy and petrophysical reservoir characterization techniques. Addressing such questions as the relative contribution of tectonic, glacioeustatic, and palaeoclimatic driving forces on organic productivity and preservation, the research seeks to define carbonaceous mudstones in the context of petroleum systems.
Publications
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Plint AG, Cheadle BA. Reply to the Discussion by Schieber on “Mud dispersal across a Cretaceous prodelta: Stormâ€generated, waveâ€enhanced sediment gravity flows inferred from mudstone microtexture and microfacies†by Plint (), Sedimentology 61, 609–647. Sedimentology. 2015 Jan 1;62(1):394-400.
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Atkinson G, Assatourians K, Cheadle B, Greig W. Ground motions from three recent earthquakes in western Alberta and northeastern British Columbia and their implications for inducedâ€seismicity hazard in eastern regions. Seismological Research Letters. 2015 Apr 1.
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Kassab MA, Teama MA, Cheadle BA, El-Din ES, Mohamed IF, Mesbah MA. Reservoir characterization of the Lower Abu Madi Formation using core analysis data: El-Wastani gas field, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 2015 Oct 31;110:116-30.
