Research Interests:

· Sedimentary geology - from source to sink; facies analysis and depositional environments; ichnology; basic building-blocks of clastic sedimentary systems and paleogeomorphic evolution; hydrocarbon reservoir analog; integrating well logs, 2D/3D seismic, and cores; subsurface imaging using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR); basin analysis; sequence & seismic stratigraphy; integration of field and remote sensing studies of modern depositional environments like Mississippi Delta; evolution of channels and ‘river deltas’ on Mars; paleoclimatology.

· Tectonic sedimentology - sedimentary record of rifting and mantle plume; dynamics of continental rifting; subduction zone sedimentation; neotectonics; geodynamic controls on landscape evolution .

· Human evolution – Tectonics, paleoclimate, and hominin evolution of East Africa.

Research

Research Projects (click below to learn more):

· Book Cliff, outcrop characterization (funded by Chevron)

· Uinta Basin, Green River Formation (funded by DOE)

· Gondwana rifting, east coast of India (funded by Reliance)

· Ethiopian Plateau: tectonic geomorphology, paleoclimate and hominin evolution

· Oil sand of Utah (funded by DOE)

· North Slope Alaska, deepwater Torok Formation (funded by Repsol-YPF)

Announcement: Currently I’m accepting enthusiastic students, both at PhD and MS levels. Contact me for assistantship and topic: mgani(at)uno.edu

StrataMax: dynamic stratigraphy lab