Maarten Krabbendam’s Biography
- 2001 : Survey Geologist, British Geological Survey
- 1998 – 2001 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University, Australia
- 1994 – 1997 : PhD, University of Oxford
- 1991 – 1994 : Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Queen’s University, Belfast
- 1983 – 1994 : BA and MSc Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Research interests
- Glacial geomorphology and links to bedrock structure and ice flow mechanisms
- Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins / Reconstructing basin architecture in polydeformed terranes
- Thrust tectonics / Caledonian Orogen
Current projects and collaborations
- 2015 – ongoing : Bedrock streamlining: where & how? with Nick Eyles (Toronto), Niko Putkinene (Geological Survey Finland) and Tom Bradwell (Stirling)
- 2014 – ongoing : Glacial geomorphology Lewis/Harris collaboration with Adrian Hall (Stockholm) and Tom Bradwell (Stirling)
- 2014 – ongoing : Map Editor Scotland
- 2013 – ongoing : Crieff-Comrie / A9 Superficial Mapping
- 2013 – ongoing : Detrital mineral dating of Sleat & Torridon sandstones; implications for the Grenville Foreland Basin. With Helen Bonsor (BGS), Matt Horstwood (NIGL) and Toby Rivers (Memorial, St. Johns)
- SIGMA project: geological adviser for Digital Mapping and Geospatial Databases
Publications
- KRABBENDAM, M., Eyles, N., Putkinen, N., Bradwell, T., Arbeleaz-Moreno, 2016. Streamlined hard beds formed by palaeo-ice streams: A review. Sedimentary Geology 338, 24-50.
- KRABBENDAM, M. & BRADWELL, T. 2014. Quaternary evolution of glaciated gneiss terrains: pre-glacial weathering vs. glacial erosion. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 20-42.
- KRABBENDAM, M., LESLIE, A. G. & GOODENOUGH, K. M. 2014. Structure and stratigraphy of the Morar Group in Knoydart, NW Highlands: implications for the history of the Moine Nappe and stratigraphic links between the Moine and Torridonian successions. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50, 125-142.
- BONSOR, H., STRACHAN, R., PRAVE, A. & KRABBENDAM, M. 2012. Sedimentology of the early Neoproterozoic Morar Group in northern Scotland: implications for basin models and tectonic setting. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 169, 53-65.
- KRABBENDAM, M. & RAINBIRD, R. 2012. Discussion: A unifying model for the Torridon Group (early Neoproterozoic), NW Scotland: Product of post-Grenvillian extensional collapse. Earth-Science Reviews, 111, 82-85.
- KRABBENDAM, M. & BRADWELL, T. 2011. Lateral plucking as a mechanism for elongate erosional glacial bedforms: explaining megagrooves in Britain and Canada. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36, 1335-1349.
- KRABBENDAM, M. & GLASSER, N. 2011. Glacial erosion and bedrock properties in NW Scotland: Abrasion and plucking, hardness and joint spacing. Geomorphology, 130, 374-383.
- KRABBENDAM, M., STRACHAN, R.A., LESLIE, A.G., GOODENOUGH, K.M. & BONSOR, H.C. 2011. The internal structure of the Moine Nappe Complex and the stratigraphy of the Morar Group in the Fannichs-Beinn Dearg area, NW Highlands. Scottish Journal of Geology, 47, 1-20.
- KRABBENDAM, M. & LESLIE, A.G. 2010. Lateral variations and linkages in thrust geometry: the Traligill Transverse Zone, Assynt Culmination, Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland. In Law, R., Butler, R. W. H., Holdsworth, R. E., Krabbendam, M. & Strachan, R. A. (eds) Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society. London, Special Publication, 335, 333-356.
- BRADWELL, T., STOKER, M. S. & KRABBENDAM, M. 2008. Megagrooves and streamlined bedrock in NW Scotland: the role of ice streams in landscape evolution. Geomorphology 97, 135-156
- KRABBENDAM, M., PRAVE, A. P. & CHEER, D. 2008. A fluvial origin for the Neoproterozoic Morar Group, NW Scotland; implications for Torridon – Morar group correlation and the Grenville Orogen Foreland Basin. Journal of the Geological Society of London 165, 379-394
- KRABBENDAM, M. & DEWEY, J. F. 1998. Exhumation of UHP rocks by transtension in the Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides. In R. E. Holdsworth, R. A. Strachan, and J. F. Dewey, (Eds.) Continental transpressional and transtensional tectonics. , Geological Society Special Publication,135, 159-181
Published outputs
Skills
- Geological mapping of thrust terranes, basement terranes, glacial geology
- Glacial geomorphology
- ArcGIS and digital mapping
- Metamorphic petrology
- French & German speaker; Fluent in Dutch
Professional associations
- Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh
Boards and commitees
- 2014 – ongoing : Editor and Secretary Editorial Board, Scottish Journal of Geology