Luke Faggetter

Postgraduate Researcher

Email address: ee08lef@leeds.ac.uk

Affiliation: Earth Surface Science Institute

Biography

Project title:

The First Mass Extinction: Investigating biotic turnover and global environmental change during the Cambrian Series 2 and 3.

Utilising geochemical proxies, carbonate sedimentology, petrography, facies analysis and geological fieldwork to create a palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of mass extinction, environmental change and massive volcanism in the Cambrian Series 2 and 3

Supervisors:

• Prof Paul Wignall
• Dr Rob Newton

Start date:

1st September 2013

Memberships/Fellowships

Member of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

Member of the Palaeontological Association

Member EAGE

Supervisors

Mike Widdowson (External, the Open University, UK)

Funding

NERC Scholarship

Academic CV (pdf file)

Publications

• Faggetter LE; Wignall PB; Pruss SB; Sun Y; Raine RJ; Newton RJ; Widdowson M; Joachimski MM; Smith PM (2018) Sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and facies analysis of Cambrian Series 2 - Series 3 boundary strata in northwestern Scotland, Geological Magazine, 155, pp.865-877. doi: 10.1017/S0016756816000947
• Faggetter LE; Wignall PB; Pruss SB; Newton RJ; Sun Y; Crowley SF (2017) Trilobite extinctions, facies changes and the ROECE carbon isotope excursion at the Cambrian Series 2-3 boundary, Great Basin, western USA, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 478, pp.53-66. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.04.009