Mr David Tassone

Biography/ Background

The title of my project is ‘The uplift of the Otway Basin and implications for hydrocarbon exploration’.  My project involves quantifying uplift and erosion in the passive margin Otway Basin using compaction, thermal and seismic data. The project also investigates the cause of uplift along the margin and the implications that uplift and erosion has on the basin’s petroleum systems.

Qualifications

• University of Adelaide: 2003 – Present
  • BSc (geology/geophysics) 1^st class  hon
  • BE (civil/structural) 2^nd class hon.

     

Research Interests

• Passive margin and intra-basin uplift and erosion
• Geomechanics and pore pressure prediction
• Petrophysics
• Thermal history reconstruction
• Structural geology

Publications

·        Tassone, D.R., Holford, S.P., Hillis, R.R., & Tuitt, A: Quantifying Neogene plate-boundary controlled uplift and deformation of the southern Australian margin. In Healy, D. (ed): Faulting, Fracturing and Igneous Intrustions in the Earth's Crust. Geological Society of London, Special Publication.

·        Holford, S.P., Hillis, R.R., Duddy, I.R., Green, P.F., Tassone, D.R. & Stoker, M.S. in press: Paleothermal and seismic constraints on late Miocene–Pliocene uplift and deformation in the Torquay sub-basin, southern Australian margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58.

·        Tassone, D.R., Holford, S.P., Stoker, M.S., Underhill, J.R., Green, P.F. & Hillis, R.R: Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic exhumation of the Faroe-Shetland Basins along the NW European Atlantic margin. 73^rd EAGE Conference & Exhibition. Extended Abstracts, Vienna, May 2011 (poster presentation).

·        Tassone, D.R., Holford, S.P., Tingay, M.R.P., Tuitt, A., Stoker, M.S. & Hillis, R.R., 2011: Overpressures in the central Otway Basin: The result of rapid Pliocene-Recent sedimentation? APPEA Journal 51, 439-458.

·         Holford, S.P., Hillis, R.R., Duddy, I.R., Green, P.F., Stoker, M.S., Tuitt, A., Backé, G., Tassone, D.R. & MacDonald, J.D. 2011: Cenozoic post-breakup compressional deformation and exhumation of the southern Australian margin. APPEA Journal 51, 613-638.

·        Tuitt, A., Holford, S.P., Hillis, R.R., Underhill, J.R., Ritchie, J.D., Johnson, H., Hitchen, K., Stoker, M.S. & Tassone, D.R. 2011: Continental margin compression: A comparison between compression in the Otway Basin of the southern Australian margin and the Rockall-Faroe area in the north east Atlantic margin. APPEA Journal 51, 241-257.

·        Tassone, D.R., Holford, S.P., Hillis, R.R., & Tuitt, A: Quantifying Neogene plate-boundary controlled uplift and deformation of the southern Australian margin. Abstract. Ernest M. Anderson Conference: Stress Controls on Faulting, Fracturing and Igneous Intrustions in the Earth’s Crust, Glasgow, September 2010 (poster presentation).

·        Tassone, D.R., Holford, S.P. & Hillis, R.R: Quantification of Cretaceous-Cenozoic exhumation in the Otway Basin using sonic velocities and implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Extended Abstract, 21^st ASEG-PESA International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, August 2010 (oral presentation).

·        Tassone, D.R., Foden, J.D. & Collins, A. Crustal melting and melt extraction: The role of migmitites in the evolution of the southern Adelaide Fold-Thrust Belt. Abstract. Biennial conference of the Specialist Group for Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Geological Society of Australia, Kangaroo Island, November 2009 (poster presentation).

·        Dorsch, W., Newland, T., Tassone, D.R., Tymons, S. & Walker, D., 2008. A statistical approach to modelling the temporal patterns of ocean storms. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(6) 1430-1438.

 

Professional Associations

• PESA
• AAPG
• ASEG
• EAGE
• SPE

 

Community Engagement

• Postgraduate Student Representative - present
• University of Adelaide AAPG Student Chapter President - present
• University of Adelaide AAPG Student Chapter Vice President - 2010

 

Entry last updated: Thursday, 20 Sep 2012