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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Department of Geology

Eriksson, PG

MSc PhD(Natal) Dr rer nat habil(Ludwig-Maximilians Univ München) - Professor

NRF Rating: C1

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Telephone number: 012 420 2238
Fax number: 012 362 5219
E-mail address: pat.eriksson@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Basin analysis: Transvaal and Waterberg basins

Precambrian crustal evolution

Karoo coal deposition: Controls on swamp formation

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Catuneanu O, Wopfner H, Eriksson PG, Cairncross B, Rubidge BS, Smith RMH, Hancox PJ: 2005. The Karoo basins of south-central Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 43 (1-3), pp 211-253.

Bordy EM, Bumby AJ, Catuneanu O, Eriksson PG: 2005. Comment and reply: Advanced early Jurassic Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) nests: Evidence from the Clarens Formation in the Tuli Basin, Southern Africa. Palaios, 20 (3), pp 307-311.

Parizot M, Eriksson PG, Aifa T, Sarkar S, Banerjee S, Catuneanu O, Altermann W, Bumby AJ, Bordy EM, van Rooy JL, Boshoff AJ: 2005. Suspected microbial mat-related crack-like sedimentary structures in the Palaeoproterozoic Magaliesberg Formation sandstones, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 138, pp 274-296.

Eriksson PG, Catuneanu O, Sarkar S, Tirsgaard H: 2005. Patterns of sedimentation in the Precambrian. Sedimentary Geology, 176, pp 17-42.

Eriksson PG, Catuneanu O, Nelson DR, Popa M: 2005. Controls on Precambrian sea level change and sedimentary cyclicity. Sedimentary Geology, 176, pp 43-65.

Eriksson PG, Catuneanu O, Els BG, Bumby AJ, van Rooy JL, Popa M: 2005. Kaapvaal craton: Changing first- and second-order controls on sea level from c. 3.0 Ga to 2.0 Ga. Sedimentary Geology, 176, pp 121-148.

Catuneanu O, Martins-Neto MA, Eriksson PG: 2005. Precambrian sequence stratigraphy. Sedimentary Geology, 176, pp 67-95.

Sarkar S, Banerjee S, Eriksson PG, Catuneanu O: 2005. Microbial mat control on siliciclastic Precambrian sequence stratigraphic architecture: Examples from India. Sedimentary Geology, 176, pp 195-209.

 

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