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:
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