Dr. G. Shanmugam

Geoscience Building 220

Shan Shanmugam was born in India in 1944, emigrated to the U.S. in 1970, and became a U.S. citizen in 1990. He received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Tennessee in 1978, and joined Mobil the same year. In January 2000, he retired from Mobil Technology Company as a Geological Scientist and joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an adjunct professor of geology.

His publications (1 book, 100 papers, and 65 abstracts) include AAPG Bulletin articles on secondary porosity (1984, 1985), oil generation from coal in the Gippsland Basin, Australia (1985), unconformity-related porosity in the Prudhoe Bay Field. Alaska (1988), submarine-fan lobes (1991), bottom-current reworked reservoir sands in the Gulf of Mexico (1993), sandy slump and debris-flow reservoirs in the Norwegian Sea (1994), reinterpretation of "classic" turbidites of the Jackfork Group in the Ouachitas (1995), basin-floor fans in the North Sea (1995), replies to six discussions on turbidite controversy (1997), and tide-dominated estuarine facies in Ecuador (2000).

His paper “High-density turbidity currents: Are they sandy debris flows?” published in the Journal of Sedimentary Research in 1996, has achieved the status of the single most cited paper in sedimentological research published in three world-renowned periodicals-Journal of Sedimentary Research, Sedimentology, and Sedimentary Geology- during the survey period of 1996-2003. Source: International Association of Sedimentologists Newsletter, August 2003.

He is listed in the Millennium Edition (2000-2001) of Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.

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