Professor Tim Reston

Professor Tim Reston

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Geology
Head of Geosystem Research Group

Contact details

Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tim Reston is a geologist and a geophysicist with interests in the use of geophysics to study geological problems, especially tectonics. He specialises in the seismic imaging and tectonics of rifted continental margins and of slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, with particular emphasis on detachment tectonics and the effects of mantle serpentinization.

Qualifications

BA Cambridge in Geology (1983)

MSc Oxford in Geophysics (1984)

PhD London in Geophysics (1988)

Other activities

Administrative Responsibilities

Natural Sciences Tutor

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Parnell-Turner, R, Sohn, RA, Peirce, C, Reston, TJ, MacLeod, CJ, Searle, RC & Simão, NM 2021, 'Seismicity trends and detachment fault structure at 13°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge', Geology, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 320-324. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48420.1

Peirce, C, Robinson, AH, Funnell, M, Searle, R, Reston, T & MacLeod, C 2020, 'Magmatism versus serpentinization – crustal structure along the 13°N segment at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 221, no. 2, pp. 981-1001. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa052

Reston, T 2020, 'On the rotation and frictional lock-up of normal faults: Explaining the dip distribution of normal fault earthquakes and resolving the low-angle normal fault paradox', Tectonophysics, vol. 790, 228550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228550

Lymer, G, Cresswell, D, Reston, T, Bull, JM, Sawyer, DS, Morgan, JK, Stevenson, C, Causer, A, Minshull, T & Shillington, DJ 2019, '3D development of detachment faulting during continental breakup', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 515, pp. 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.018

Peirce, C, Reveley, G, Robinson, AH, Funnell, M, Searle, R, Simao, N, MacLeod, C & Reston, T 2019, 'Constraints on crustal structure of adjacent OCCs and segment boundaries at 13 degrees N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 217, no. 2, pp. 988-1010. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz074

Searle, R, MacLeod, C, Peirce, C & Reston, T 2019, 'The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 13 degrees 20 ' N: high-resolution magnetic and bathymetry imaging', G3 Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 295-313. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007940

Schuba, CN, Gray, GG, Morgan, JK, Sawyer, DS, Shillington, DJ, Reston, T, Bull, JM & Jordan, BE 2018, 'A low-angle detachment fault revealed: three-dimensional images of the S-reflector fault zone along the Galicia passive margin', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 492, pp. 232-38. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1016/j.eps1.2018.04.012

Reston, T 2018, 'Flipping detachments: the kinematics of ultraslow spreading ridges', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 503, pp. 144-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.032

Chen, C, Watremez, L, Prada, M, Minshull, T, Edwards, R, O'Reilly, B, Reston, T, Wagner, G, Gaw, V, Klaeschen, D & Shannon, P 2018, 'From continental hyperextension to seafloor spreading: new insights on the Porcupine Basin from wide-angle seismic ', Journal of Geophysical Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016375

Reston, T 2018, 'Resolving the fine-scale velocity structure of continental hyperextension at the Deep Galicia Margin using full-waveform inversion: Fine-scale velocity structure at Deep Galicia Margin', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 212, no. 1, pp. 244-263. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx415

Prada, M, Watremez, L, Chen, C, O'Reilly, B, Minshull, T, Reston, T, Shannon, P, Klaeschen, D, Wagner, G & Gaw, V 2017, 'Crustal strain-dependent serpentinisation in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 474, pp. 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.040

Parnell-Turner, R, Sohn, R, Peirce, C, Reston, T, MacLeod, C, Searle, R & Simao, N 2017, 'Oceanic detachment faults generate compression in extension', Geology, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 923–926. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39232.1

Abstract

Simao, N, Peirce, C, Funnell, M, Robinson, AH, Searle, R, MacLeod, C & Reston, T 2020, '3-D P-wave velocity structure of oceanic core complexes at 13°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge', Geophysical Journal International, vol. 221, no. 3, pp. 1555-15579. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa093

Conference contribution

Watremez, L, Prada, M, Minshull, T, O'Reilly, B, Chen, C, Reston, T, Shannon, P, Wagner, G, Gaw, V, Klaeschen, D, Edwards, R & Lebedev, S 2018, Deep structure of the Porcupine Basin from wide-angle seismic data. in M Bowman & B Levell (eds), Petroleum Geology of NW Europe : 50 Years of Learning - Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference. Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings, no. 1, vol. 8, Geological Society of London, London, pp. 199-209, 8th Petroleum Geology Conference
, London, United Kingdom, 28/09/15. https://doi.org/10.1144/PGC8.26

Review article

“IMAGinING RIFTING” Workshop Participants 2019, 'Rifted Margins: State of the Art and Future Challenges', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 7, 218. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00218

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