Hugh Jenkyns

Hugh Jenkyns
Born (1945-02-16) February 16, 1945
EducationUniversity of Southampton University of Leicester
Known forStudies of Oceanic Anoxic Events
Scientific career
FieldsStratigraphy Palaeoceanography

Hugh Crawford Jenkyns (born 16 February 1945) is a British geologist and Emeritus Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, whose research has focused on major environmental change in the Mesozoic Era.

Education

Hugh Jenkyns and the Bonarelli Level, Furlo, Italy, the local lithological expression of an oceanic anoxic event

Jenkyns attended the University of Southampton as an undergraduate and completed his PhD at the University of Leicester in 1970[1]

Institutions

Academic career

Jenkyns began his academic career with a study on the sedimentology of Jurassic limestones in western Sicily[2][3] before expanding his field of interest to cover much of the Alpine-mediterranean region.[4] Following post-doctoral studies in Basel, Switzerland and Oxford, his early involvement in the Deep Sea Drilling Project[5] in the 1970s, between moving from Cambridge to Durham, led to the concept of the so-called ‘oceanic anoxic event’, an environmental phenomenon characterized by the global spread of oxygen-depleted waters in the World Ocean and the accompanying deposition of black organic-rich shale (Schlanger, S.O., and Jenkyns, H.C. 1976. Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events: causes and consequences. Geologie en Mijnbouw, 55, 179–184).[6][7] Subsequent detailed work involving novel isotope systems and organic geochemistry has helped to decipher the geochemical and biological impacts of such events (Jenkyns, H.C. 2010. Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q03004).[8] The key Mesozoic intervals investigated are the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event or T-OAE, the early Aptian or Selli Event (OAE 1a) and the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event (OAE 2).

Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ Jenkyns, Hugh C. (1969). Sedimentology of the west Sicilian Jurassic.. University of Leicester. Thesis. https://hdl.handle.net/2381/35045
  2. ↑ Jenkyns, H.C. (1970). The Jurassic of western Sicily. In: W. Alvarez and K.
  3. ↑ .A. Gohrbandt, Editors, Geology and History of Sicily, Petroleum Exploration Society of Libya, Tripoli, 245–254.
  4. ↑ Bernoulli, D. and Jenkyns, H.C. (1974). Alpine, Mediterranean and Central Atlantic Mesozoic facies in relation to the early evolution of the Tethys. In: R.H. Dott and R.H. Shaver, Editors, Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation, a Symposium, Spec. Publ. Soc. econ. Paleont. Miner., 19, 129–160.
  5. ↑ https://deepseadrilling.org/33/volume/33dsdp.pdf
  6. ↑ https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0921605b-4793-43df-889d-7b896790de62
  7. ↑ https://rock.geosociety.org/net/documents/gsa/memorials/v23/Schlanger-SO.pdf
  8. ↑ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009GC002788
  9. ↑ https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/about-us/society-awards/society-awards-2025-winners/?srsltid=AfmBOorDIX38nNy0oc0xljGNcNZXlY-Ni4GZIFhuy_bkxwtWLC56vNed
  10. ↑ https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Jenkyns_Hugh
  11. ↑ https://www.lincei.it/it/socio/jenkyns-hugh-c
  12. ↑ https://istitutolombardo.it/istituzione/accademico/386
  13. ↑ https://www.socgeol.it/388/medaglia-capellini-albo-d-oro.html
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