Dr Tim Palmer
Status: Senior Lecturer
Room: C3
'Phone (direct line): +44 (0)1970 62 2643
Fax: +44 (0)1970 62 2659
Postal Address:
Institute of Earth Studies
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
SY23 3DB
Sediment / organism interactions
Early cementation
Hardgrounds
Sea-water chemistry
Diagenesis
Jurassic
Bivalvia
Bioerosion
Upper Jurassic Reef construction and destruction.
Aragonite dissolution on Ordovician sea-floors in N. America.
Jurassic cementing bivalves.
Use of shell carbonate as a carbon source by Jurassic microendoliths.
Petrography and weathering of Jurassic limestone
building stones.
Palmer conducts primary taxonomy of Mesozoic molluscs and bioeroding invertebrates. His main research crosses into sedimentological territory.
Examples include drawing information about original textures or chemistry of the sediments or about early precipitation or dissolution of carbonate minerals from palaeontological data; and processes of sediment consolidation (by binding and promoting cement precipitation) and destruction (by bioerosion) in reefs and other organic build-ups.
Further work in bioerosion (particularly Jurassic
and Ordovician) is being conducted, following the good ichnotaxonomic
clarification conducted by recent research students. Current work
(with U.S. and Russian co-workers) on effects of Ordovician sea-water
on shell dissolution and sea-floor lithification will be completed.
He is also extending his research interests into economic aspects
of limestones
publications
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This page was last updated on 19-X-1996 by Alicia Moguilevsky.
Any comments or suggestions should be directed to:
Dr Tim Palmer
tjp@aber.ac.uk
or
Dr Alicia Moguilevsky
alm@aber.ac.uk
