Professor Benjamin Kneller

Professor Benjamin Kneller
Professor Benjamin Kneller
Professor Benjamin Kneller

Emeritus Professor

About
Email Address
b.kneller@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department
School of Geosciences

Biography

BSc University of Sheffield 1981

Postgraduate Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen 1981-87

Post-doctoral Research Assistant, University of Sheffield, 1987-88

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Leeds, 1988-90

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, 1990-91

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds, 1991-95

Lectuter, University of Leeds, 1995-2000

Senior Researcher, Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000-2004

Reader, University of Aberdeen, 2004-2006

Professor, University of Aberdeen, 2006-2018, Emeritus 2019-present.

Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University, China, 2012-present

Qualifications

  • PhD Geology 
    1988 - University of Aberdeen 

External Memberships

International Association of Sedimentologists

Geological Society of London

Research

Research Overview

My research has spanned a range of fields in geology, from tectonics and high-grade metamorphic rocks in the 1980s (Ashcroft et al., 1984, Nature, 310, 760-762) to modern seafloor processes (Zhang et al., 2018, Geology, doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1), but has mainly focussed on deepwater depositional systems. 

Key publications include:

Wang, X., Kneller., B. & Sun, Q., 2023. Sediment waves control origins of submarine canyons. Geology, 51, 310-314.

Santa Catharina, A., Kneller, B.C., Marques, J.C., McArthur, A.D., Cevallos-Ferriz, S.R.S., Theurer, T., Kane, I.A. and Muirhead, D., 2022. Timing and causes of forest fire at the K–Pg boundary. Scientific reports, 12(1), pp.1-11

Liu, Q., Kneller, B., An, W. and Hu, X., 2021. Sedimentological responses to initial continental collision: Triggering of sand injection and onset of mass movement in a syn-collisional trench basin, Saga, southern Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society of London. 178(6)

Kneller, B., Bozetti, G, Callow, R., Dykstra, M., Hansen, L. Kane, I., Li, P., McArthur, A., Santa Catharina., A., dos Santos, T. and Thompson, T., 2020. Architecture, process and environmental diversity in a late Cretaceous slope channel system. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 1-26.

Zhang. Y., Liu, Z., Zhao, Y., Colin, C., Zhang, X., Wang, M., Zhao, S. and Kneller, B., 2018. Long-term in situ observations on typhoon-triggered deep-sea turbidity currents. Geology. doi.org/10.1130/G45178.1

Kneller, B., Nasr-Azadani, M.M. & Meiburg, E. 2016. Long-range sediment transport in the world’s oceans by stably stratified turbidity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 8608–8620. 

Kneller, B., Dykstra, M., Fairweather, L. and Milana, J-P., 2016, Mass-transport and slope accommodation: implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs. AAPG Bulletin,100, 213–235. 

Meiburg M.E. & Kneller, B.C. 2010. Turbidity currents and their deposits. Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, 42, 135-56

Kneller, B.C., Milana, J.P., BuckeeC.M, & al Ja’aidi, O.S., 2004. Depositional Record of Deglaciation in a Paleofjord (Late Carboniferous of San Juan Province, Argentina); the Role of Catastrophic Sedimentation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 116, 348-367. 

Kneller, B.C., 2003. The influence of flow parameters on turbidite slope channel architecture. Marine & Petroleum Geology, 20, 901-910. 

Kneller, B.C. & Buckee, C.M., 2000. The structure and fluid mechanics of turbidity currents; a review of some recent studies and their geological implications. Sedimentology,47, (Supplement 1), 62-94. 

Kneller, B.C., Bennett, S.J., & McCaffrey, W.D., 1999. Velocity structure, turbulence and fluid stresses in experimental gravity currents. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans. 104, C3, 5281-5291. 

Kneller, B.C., 1995.  Beyond the turbidite paradigm: physical models for deposition of turbidites and their implications for reservoir prediction. InHartley A.J. & Prosser D.J.Characterisation of Deep Marine Clastic SystemsGeological Society of London Special Publication No 94, 31-49. 

Kneller, B.C., 1991.  A foreland basin on the southern margin of Iapetus. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 148, 207-210. 

Current Research

Current and upcoming research collaborations include:

1. Far-field effects of the Chicxulub bolide impact, north-western Mexico (with Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; University of Leeds; University of Manchester)

2. Typhoon-triggered turbidity currents, and the Pleistocene Holocene record of gravity current activity in the Gaoping Canyon, offshore Taiwan (with Tongji University, Shanghai)

3. The record of initial continental collision of India and Asia int the trench basin of southern Tibet (with Nanjing Universoty, China)

4. Architecture of deepwater systems in the Cretaceous fore-arc basin of Tibet, mainly the Albian-Coniacian Ngamring Formation (with Chengdu University of Technology, China)

5. Interaction of gravity currents with topography - a laboratory study (with Zhejiang University, China)

6. Origin of carbonate megabeds within siliciclastic deepwater systems (with Universidad Nacional de San Juan; Universidad do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brasil).

Collaborations

In addition to the collaborations listed under Current Research I am a collaborator with Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

Supervision

I have supervised or co-supervised 36 PhD students, 27 as first supervisor. I currently (2021) co-supervise two PhD students in China.

Publications

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  • Channel formation by turbidity currents: Navier-Stokes based linear stability analysis

    Hall, B., Meiburg, E., Kneller, B.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Channel formation by turbidity current: Navier-Stokes-based linear stability analysis

    Hall, B., Meiburg, E., Kneller, B.
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 615, pp. 185-210
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Anatomy of a submarine channel-levee: An example from Upper Cretaceous slope sediments, Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico

    Kane, I. A., Kneller, B. C., Dykstra, M., Kassem, A., McCaffrey, W. D.
    Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 24, no. 6-9, pp. 540-563
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A high-resolution record of deep-water processes in a confined paleofjord, Quebrada de las Lajas, Argentina

    Dykstra, M., Kneller, B. C., Milana, J. P.
    Atlas of Deep-Water Outcrops. Studlick, J., Shew, R., Nilsen, T., Steffens, G. (eds.). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, pp. 42-44, 3 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Canyon San Fernando, Mexico: A Deep-water, Channel-levee Complex Exhibiting Evolution from Submarine Canyon — Confined to Unconfined

    Dykstra, M., Kneller, B. C.
    Atlas of Deep-Water Outcrops. Studlick, J., Shew, R., Nilsen, T., Steffens, G. (eds.). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, pp. 226-230, 5 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • The Peira Cava outlier of the Annot Sandstones, SE France

    Amy, L., McCaffrey, W. D., Kneller, B. C.
    Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops. Studlick, J., Shew, R., Nilsen, T., Steffens, G. (eds.). American Association of Petroleum Geologists, pp. 185-187
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Facies architecture of the Grès de Peïra Cava, SE France: Landward stacking patterns in ponded turbiditic basins

    Amy, L. A., Kneller, B. C., McCaffrey, W. D.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 164, no. 1, pp. 143-162
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A generic model for the filling of ponded turbidite basins: interpretation of the Grès de Peïra Cava

    Amy, L., Kneller, B. C., McCaffrey, W. D.
    Journal of the Geological Society , vol. 164, pp. 143-162
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Mass-transport as a fundamental control on deglacial and postglacial sedimentation; the Carboniferous Jejenes Fm., San Juan, Argentina

    Dykstra, M., Kneller, B. C., Milana, J. P.
    Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol. 118, pp. 913-937
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • High resolution simulations of particle-driven gravity currents

    Meiburg, E., Blanchette, F., Strauss, M., Kneller, B., Glinsky, M. E., Necker, F., Härtel, C., Kleiser, L.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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