Robert Raine’s Biography
- 2011 –2013 : Senior Reservoir Geologist: Ichron Limited
- 2008 –2011 : Reservoir Geologist: Ichron Limited
- 2004 –2004 : Geological Conservator: Lapworth Museum of Geology
- 2003 –2008 : Assistant Curator: Lapworth Museum of Geology
- 2003 –2008 : PhD: University of Birmingham
- 1999 –2003 : MSci Geology: University of Birmingham
Research interests
- Cambrian-Lower Ordovician conodonts
- Cambro-Ordovician stratigraphy and sedimentology
- Carbonate and evaporite sedimentology
- Geothermal and hydrocarbon exploration in Northern Ireland
- Lower Jurassic lithostratigraphy, depositional environments and biostratigraphy
- Microbialites
- Permo-Triassic fluvial and lacustrine sedimentology
- Reservoir quality analysis
- Sedimentary petrography and diagenesis
- The structure and emplacement of Cenozoic basalt-filled basins.
- Volcanic hydrocarbon reservoirs
Key papers
- Ulmer Scholle, D, Scholle, P, Scieber, J & Raine, R J. 2014. A Color Guide to the Petrography of Sandstones, AAPG Memoir 109, 526pp.
- Derby, J R, Raine, R J, Runkel, A & Smith, M P. 2012. Generalized map of the Great American Carbonate Bank in Early Ordovician (early Tremadocian) time: the “Stonehenge Transgression” or Rossodus Manitouensis Zone. In: Derby, J. et al. (eds.) The Cambro-Ordovician Sauk Sequence of Laurentia – The Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Great American Carbonate Bank. 5–13. AAPG & Shell.
- Raine, R J & Smith, M P. 2012. Sequence stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian margin and the recognition of the Sauk megasequences in the Scotland–Greenland sector. In: Derby, J et al. (eds.) The Cambro-Ordovician Sauk Sequence of Laurentia – The Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Great American Carbonate Bank. 575–596. AAPG & Shell
- Raine, R J, Smith, M P, Holdsworth, B & Strachan, R. 2011. Excursion 14: Durness, Balnakeil Bay and Faraid Head In: Goodenough, K & Krabbendam, M A. Geological Excursion Guide to the North West Highlands of Scotland. 161–180. Edinburgh Geological Society.
- Butler, R, Raine, R & Smith, P. 2011. Excursion 15 – The Moine Thrust Zone at Loch Eriboll. In: Goodenough, K & Krabbendam, M. (eds) A Geological Excursion Guide to the North West Highlands of Scotland. 181–197. Edinburgh Geological Society.
- Smith, P & Raine, R. 2011. Excursion 1 – Loch Assynt and the Achmore duplex. In: Goodenough, K & Krabbendam, M. (eds) A Geological Excursion Guide to the North West Highlands of Scotland. 37–52. Edinburgh Geological Society.
- Johnson, M, Parsons, I, Smith, P, Raine, R & Goodenough, K. 2011. Geological framework of the North-West Highlands. In: Goodenough, K & Krabbendam, M. (eds) A Geological Excursion Guide to the North West Highlands of Scotland. 8–36. Edinburgh Geological Society.
- Davies, N S, Herringshaw, L G & Raine, R J. 2009. Controls on trace fossil diversity in an Early Cambrian epeiric sea: new perspectives from northwest Scotland. Lethaia 42, 17-30.
- Herringshaw, L G & Raine, R J. 2007. The earliest turrilepadid: a machaeridian from the Lower Ordovician of the Northwest Highlands. Scottish Journal of Geology 43, 97-100.
- Raine, R J. 2007. Palaeobiogeography of Cambro-Ordovician conodont faunas across Laurentia. The Palaeontology Newsletter 65, 103-106.
- Armstrong, H A, Raine, R J & Smith, M P. 2006. Iapetus from coast to coast – ICOS 2006 Post-Conference Field Trip, Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 93 pp
Skills
- Core description
- Geophysical log interpretation
- ODM, Kingdom, Adobe CS, Corel, MS Office, ArcGIS 10, Petrog
- Petrography: involving integration of SEM, XRD and thin section analysis.
- Stratigraphy
Awards
- 2008 –2008 : BSRG Farrell Fund
- 2005 –2005 : Sylvester-Bradley Award from the Palaeontological Association
Boards and committees
- 2014 –2017 : Field Secretary, Belfast Geologists’ Society
- 2009 –2011 : Publicity officer for The Micropalaeontology Society
- 2005 –2009 : Secretary of the Microvertebrate Group, The Microplaeontological Society
Professional association
- Member of AAPG
- Member of PESGB
- Member of the Geologists Association