Ongoing projects:

- Fault Facies Project, Center of Integrated Petroleum Research (CIPR). A major cooperative project exploring the nature of fault cores and damage zones in various settings and lithologies and studying their effect on fluid flow in a reservoir setting. Field work in Sinai and Utah is part of my committment to this project.

- Deformation bands and faulting in porous sandstones. This project involves detailed study of deformation bands, their different types, formation and evolution into slip surfaces and faults. Again, field work in Sinai and Utah together with North Sea corematerial is essential in this work.

-Structure of the North Sea crust, based on deep seismic data.

- Book co-editor, Geology of Norway (Caledonian orogen + Devonian, in Norwegian), Norwegian Society 100 year aniversary book. Estimated publishing date: 2006

- "Strukturgeologi/Structural Geology", Structural geology textbook in Norwegian (published) and English (in progress). Estimated publishing date: early 2007

- "Mineraler", book on minerals (in Norwegian). Estimated publishing date: 2005

- "Bergarter", book on minerals (in Norwegian). Estimated publishing date: 2006

- e-learning modules, popular modules on general geology and specialized ones on structural geology (see www.learninggeoscience.net)

Sinai Deformation Bands (cataclastic and dilational).
Mailing address: Department of Earth Science, Allégaten 41, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Phone: +47 55 58 34 95
e-mail: Haakon.Fossen@geo.uib.no
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