Neil.S.Davies @ Dal.Ca

Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford Street
Halifax NS, B3H 4R2
Canada

Life Sciences Centre
3rd floor, Bio/ES Wing [plan]
Rm. 3054

902 494-2355

902 494-6889 (fax)

I'm currently working on a project linking changes in Palaeozoic alluvial sedimentary systems to the evolution of terrestrial vegetation. Other research themes include the sedimentological and ichnological analyses of Lower Palaeozoic marine and terrestrial sedimentary environments.

Ph.D. University of Birmingham (2003)
B.Sc. Keele University (2000)

Davies, N.S., Gibling, M.R., 2010, Cambrian to Devonian evolution of alluvial systems: the sedimentological impact of the earliest land plants. Earth-Science Reviews, v. 98, p. 171-200.

Davies, N.S., Gibling, M.R., 2010, Paleozoic Vegetation and the Siluro-Devonian Rise of Fluvial Lateral Accretion Sets. Geology, v. 38, p. 51-54.

Davies, N.S., Sansom, I.J., 2009, Ordovician Vertebrate Habitats: A Gondwanan Perspective. Palaios, v. 24, p. 717-722.

Sansom, I.J., Miller, C.G., Heward, A., Davies, N.S., Fortey, R., Paris, F., 2009, Ordovician vertebrates from the Arabian Peninsula. Palaeontology, v. 52, p. 337-342.

Davies, N.S., Herringshaw, L.G., Raine, R.J., 2009, Controls on trace fossil diversity in an Early Cambrian epeiric sea: new perspectives from northwest Scotland. Lethaia, v. 42, p. 17-30.

Herringshaw, L.G., Davies, N.S., 2008, Bioturbation levels during the end-Ordovician extinction event: a case study of shallow marine strata from the Welsh Basin. Aquatic Biology, v. 2, p. 279-287.

Davies, N.S., Sansom, I.J., Albanesi, G.L., Cespedes, R., 2007, Ichnology, palaeoecology and taphonomy of an Ordovician vertebrate habitat: the Anzaldo Formation, central Bolivia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 249, p. 18-35.

Davies, N.S., Sambrook Smith, G.H., 2006, Signatures of Quaternary Fluvial Response, Upper River Trent, Staffordshire, UK: A Synthesis of Outcrop, Documentary, and GPR Data: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, v. 50, p. 347-374.

Davies, N.S., Sansom, I.J., Turner, P., 2006, Trace Fossils and Paleoenvironments of a Late Silurian Marginal Marine/Alluvial System: the Ringerike Group (Lower Old Red Sandstone), Oslo Region, Norway: Palaios, v. 21, p. 46-62.

Davies, N.S., Turner, P., Sansom, I.J., 2005, Caledonide Influences on the Old Red Sandstone fluvial systems of the Oslo Region, Norway: Geological Journal, v. 40, p. 83-101.

Davies, N.S., Turner, P., Sansom, I.J., 2005, Soft-sediment deformation horizons in the Late Silurian Stubdal Formation: the result of seismic triggering: Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 85, p. 233-243.

Davies, N.S., Turner, P., Sansom, I.J., 2005, A revised stratigraphy for the Ringerike Group (Upper Silurian, Oslo Region): Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 85, p. 193-201.

Davies, N.S., 2003, The Ringerike Group (Late Silurian, Oslo Region): Palaeoenvironmental Analysis of an Old Red Sandstone Sequence in the Foreland Basin of the Norwegian Caledonides: Ph.D. Thesis, University of Birmingham, 271 pp.

Davies, N.S., 2001, The Stratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of the Ringerike Group (Late Silurian), Southern Norway: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 85, p. 2048. .

Post Doctoral Fellow , Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, 2007-present
Post Doctoral Fellow , Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK 2004-2007
Post Doctoral Fellow , Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK 2003 - 2004