During his PhD studies, Zhiheng Zhou investigated the impacts of climatic fluctuations, sea level changes and progressive filling on the depositional environments of the eastern North Sea Basin during the Late Eocene to the Middle Miocene. This was achieved through the investigation of the sedimentary organic matter and sediment within the Lark Formation, Danish North Sea. Zhiheng Zhou studied the composition, sources and supply routes of organic matter and sediment, further exploring their covariation with climatic and environmental conditions.

The findings of this research contribute to the understanding of Eocene-Miocene climatic changes and fill gaps in the depositional history of the eastern North Sea Basin from both sediment and sedimentary organic matter perspectives.

The PhD study was completed at Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.

This summary was prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Thursday, 2nd May 2024 at 13:00
Place: Building 1672, room 141, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Høegh-Guldbergs gade 2, 8000C, Aarhus
Title of PhD thesis: Organic Petrology and Geochemical Insights into the Lark Formation, Danish North Sea: Exploring Depositional Environments
Contact information: Zhiheng Zhou, e-mail: zhihengzhou@geo.au.dk, tel.: +45 5027 4214

Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Deolinda Flores, Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, Portugal

Senior Researcher Kasia K. Sliwinska, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark

ProfessorSøren Bom Nielsen (chair), Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Main supervisor:
Professor Hamed Sanei, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark

Co-supervisor:
Senior Researcher Henrik Ingermann Petersen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark

Senior Reservoir Petrophysicist/Geochemist Niels Hemmingsen Schovsbo, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark

Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English

The defence is public.
The PhD thesis is available for reading at the Graduate School of Natural Sciences/GSNS,

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