Dr Stewart Molyneux

Dr Stewart Molyneux

Principal Biostratigrapher/ Head of Biostratigraphy Laboratory

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3430

E-mail Dr Stewart Molyneux

Biography

  • 2000–current: Head of Biostratigraphy Laboratory
  • 1988–current: Principal palynologist and biostratigrapher
  • 1979–1988: Palynologist and biostratigrapher, British Geological Survey
  • 1975–1978: PhD University of Sheffield
  • 1972–1975: BSc University of Sheffield

Research interests

  • Biostratigraphy, biogeography and biodiversity of Early Palaeozoic phytoplankton
  • Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and environments; sequence biostratigraphy
  • Palynology and palynofacies of Lower Palaeozoic gas shales

Skills

  • Palynology
  • Biostratigraphy
  • Editorial

Current projects and collaboration

  • Palynology and biostratigraphy in support of geological survey, Anglesey and North Wales
  • Reappraisal of the type Llandovery Series, mid Wales
  • Biogeography of Ordovician phytoplankton
  • Palynology and palynofacies of Ordovician-Silurian gas shales, Eastern Europe
  • Revision of Cambrian correlations in Britain and Ireland

Professional association

  • Associate Editor, Stratigraphy
  • Principal Editor, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
  • Member of The Micropalaeontological Society, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Palaeontological Association, Palaeontographical Society, International Biogeography Society and Yorkshire Geological Society

Published outputs

Key Papers

RUSHTON, A W A, BRÜCK, P M, MOLYNEUX, S G, WILLIAMS, M and WOODCOCK, N H.  2011.  A revised correlation of Cambrian rocks in the British Isles.  Geological Society of London Special Report, No. 25.

MOLYNEUX, S G.  2009.  Acritarch (marine microphytoplankton) diversity in an Early Ordovician deep-water setting (the Skiddaw Group, northern England): implications for the relationship between sea-level change and phytoplankton diversity.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 275, 59-76.

MOLYNEUX, S G, RAEVSKAYA, E and SERVAIS, T.  2007.  The messaoudensis-trifidum acritarch assemblage and correlation of the base of Ordovician Stage 2 (Floian).  Geological Magazine, Vol. 144, 143-156.

MOLYNEUX, S G, OSTERLOFF, P L, PENNEY, R A and SPAAK, P.  2006.  Biostratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic Haima Supergroup, Oman: its application in sequence stratigraphy and hydrocarbon exploration.  GeoArabia, Vol. 11, 17-48.

SERVAIS, T, Li, J, MOLYNEUX, S and RAEVSKAYA, E.  2003.  Ordovician organic-walled microphytoplankton (acritarch) distribution: the global scenario.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 195, 149-172.