Staff profile

3/00- present     01/06-12/09 05/11-09/14	Earth Sciences, University of Durham, Professor, Earth Sciences from October 2013 Reader, from October 2008, Senior Lecturer, from October 2004, Lecturer, from 2000. Royal Society Industrial Fellow (50% FTE) Director – Centre for Research in Earth Energy System (CeREES)
7/95 - 2/00	Dept of Geological Sciences Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK Lecturer, Senior Lecturer from 1997)
10/91 – 6/95	Geology Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, Temporary Lecturer from 1993.
Education (10/86-12/89)	University of Durham - Ph.D. Awarded 1990. Thesis: ‘The emplacement and deformation of granitic rocks in a transpressional shear zone: The Ox Mountains Igneous Complex'
Higher Education (9/82-7/86)	Queen’s University Belfast Geology B.Sc. (Honours)

Committee and Society Service

2013 – present — Member of Petroleum Group Committee, Geological Society of London

2000 – 2002 — Member of Science Committee, Geological Society of London

2000 – 2002 — Secretary, Tectonic Studies Group

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Conferences and Workshops

2016 -- Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics Geological Society london Co-convenor

2011  — New constratints on active fault zones. AGU

2011  — Shale and Coal Basins of North East England: Opportunities for Research and Industry Collaboration - NPESMD, India School of Mines

2009  — Lead Convener, Virtual Fieldtrips session, 7th Petroleum Geology Conference

2009  — Tectonic reactivation and Fault Zone weakening. AGU

2006  — Unlocking 3D Earth Systems – Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models. GSA Penrose Meeting – University of Durham

2004  — Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting – University of Durham

2002  — Transport and Flow processes within Shear Zones - Geological Society, London

2001  — Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks - Geological Society, London

2001  — Deformation at Convergent Margins – European Union Geosciences XI Strasbourg

2001  — Vertical and horizontal coupling and decoupling processes in Orogenic Belts – American Geophysical Union, San Francisco

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Editorial Roles

2006 – 2012 '— Specials' editor for the Geological Society of London

Editor Visual Geosciences

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Invited Keynotes

Invited International Lectures

2012 — Natural Fractures in Shale gas basins of NE England, Geoshale Conference, Warsaw.

2011 — ‘Shale basins of NE England: Opportunities for research and Industry collaboration’, Industry/Academia collaboration session, Indian Geological Congress, Indian School of Mines Dhanbad.

2011 — ‘Virtual fieldwork using terrestrial laser scanning and Google Earth’– Google Earth: Visualizing the Possibilities for Geoscience Education and Research, GSA Penrose at Google HQ, San Francisco

2010 — From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, Norwegian Petroleum systems, Stavanger

2010 — Digital Geospatial methods in Earth Sciences’ Italian National Geophysical & Volcanology – Pisa, Italy

2007 — Capturing Detailed Outcrop Geology using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (Lidar) and other digital technologies: Current status and Future directions’(Jones R.R. & McCaffrey, K.J.W) AGU San Francisco

2006 — Magma Chamber Processes and Geometries 'What is a magma chamber? The role of sheet in the assembly of intrusions' session GSA Salt Lake City.

2002 — ‘Dimensional Data and Growth Models for Tabular Intrusions’ Laccolith and sill intrusion meeting, Freiberg, Germany

1998 — ‘Magmatic versus tectonic influences on granite emplacement’ AGU Annual Spring meeting – Boston

1997 — ‘Tabular plutonic sheets: Geometry and emplacement’ GAC/MAC annual meeting – Ottawa

1996 — ‘Scale invariant geometry of tabular sheet intrusions?’ Syntectonic crystallisation of igneous rocks – Vaxenburg, Austria

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Prizes & Awards

2005 — Murchsion Fund - Geological Society

2001 — Durham University Excellence in teaching Award

1993 — Ramsay medal

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• Geoinformatics methods and applications
• high resolution 3D/4D modelling of continental margins
• magmatic and mineralised systems
• reservoir models of fractured reservoir analogues including shale basins
• structural characterisation of fault and shear zones
• tectonic and magmatic interactions
• tectonic and mechanical processes of active normal faults and earthquake activity
• the geometrical and kinematic evolution of deformation zones
• visualisation and analysis of geological architecture

• 2021: Dewey Medal 2021: Awarded by the Geological Society of London for fieldwork and mentoring contributions

Chapter in book

• Ryan, P. D., Chew, D. M., Cliff, R. A., Costanzo, A., Daly, J. S., Dewey, J. F., Feely, M., Fitzgerald, R., Flowerdew, M. J., Graham, J. R., Leake, B. E., Long, B., McAteer, C. A., McCaffrey, K., McCarthy, W., Menuge, J. F., Sanders, I. S., Scanlon, R., & Yardley, B. W. (2022). The Geology of Western Ireland: A Record of the ‘Birth’ and ‘Death’ of the Iapetus Ocean. In P. D. Ryan (Ed.), A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland (405-421). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97479-4_11
• Ryan, P. D., McCaffrey, K., Chew, D. M., Graham, J. R., & Long, B. (2022). The Central Ox Mountains. In P. D. Ryan (Ed.), A Field Guide to the Geology of Western Ireland (107-130). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97479-4_4
• Cruden, A., McCaffrey, K., & Bunger, A. (2018). Geometric scaling of tabular igneous intrusions: implications for emplacement and growth. In C. Breitkreuz, & S. Rocchi (Eds.), Physical geology of shallow magmatic systems : dykes, sills and laccoliths (11-38). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14084-1_1000
• Schiffer, C., Peace, A., Phethean, J., Gernigon, L., McCaffrey, K., Petersen, K., & Foulger, G. (2018). The Jan Mayen microplate complex and the Wilson cycle. In R. Wilson, G. Houseman, K. McCaffrey, A. Dore, & S. Buiter (Eds.), Fifty years of the Wilson cycle concept in plate tectonics (393-414). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp470.2
• Lăpădat, A., Imber, J., Yielding, G., Iacopini, D., McCaffrey, K. J., Long, J. J., & Jones, R. R. (2016). Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK. In C. Childs, R. E. Holdsworth, C. A.-L. Jackson, T. Manzocchi, J. J. Walsh, & G. Yielding (Eds.), The geometry and growth of normal faults (373-394). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp439.18
• Pless, J., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Conway, A., & Krabbendam, M. (2015). 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland. In F. Richards, N. Richardson, S. Rippington, R. Wilson, & C. Bond (Eds.), Industrial structural geology : principles, techniques and integration (125-141). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp421.14
• Winterleitner, G., Le Heron, D., Mapani, B., Vining, B., & McCaffrey, K. (2015). Styles, origins, and implications of syndepositional deformation structures in Ediacaran microbial carbonates (Nama Basin, Namibia). In D. Bosence, K. Gibbons, D. Le Heron, W. Morgan, T. Pritchard, & B. Vining (Eds.), Microbial Carbonates in Space and Time. Implications for Global Exploration and Production. The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp418.12
• McCaffrey, K., Hodgetts, D., Howell, J., Hunt, D., Imber, J., Jones, R., Tomasso, M., Thurmond, J., & Viseur, S. (2010). Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists. In B. Vining, & S. Pickering (Eds.), Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers—Proceedings of the 7th Petroleum Geology Conference (19-26). Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/0070019
• Jones, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., & Holdsworth, R. (2005). Digital field data acquisition: towards increased quantification of uncertainty during geological mapping. In A. Curtis, & R. Wood (Eds.), Geological prior information : informing science and engineering (43-56). The Geological Society
• McCaffrey, K., Grocott, J., Garde, A., & Hamilton, M. (2004). Attachment formation during partitioning of oblique convergence in the Ketilidian orogen, South Greenland. In J. Grocott, K. McCaffrey, G. Taylor, & B. Tikoff (Eds.), Vertical coupling & decoupling in the lithosphere (231-248). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2004.227.01.12
• Grocott, J., McCaffrey, K., Taylor, G., & Tikoff, B. (2004). Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere. In J. M. Grocott, T. K.j.w., G. K., & B. Tikoff (Eds.), ‘Vertical coupling and decoupling in the lithosphere’ (1-7). Geological Society of London Special Publication
• McCaffrey, K., Sleight, J., Pugliese, S., & Holdsworth, R. (2003). Fracture formation and evolution in crystalline rocks: Insights from attribute analysis. In N. Petford, & K. McCaffrey (Eds.), Hydrocarbons in Crystalline rocks (109-124). Geological Society of London Special Publication. https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2003.214
• Beacom, L., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., & Anderson, T. (2001). A quantitative study of the influence of pre-existing heterogeneities upon fracture-zone development during basement reactivation. In R. Holdsworth, R. Strachan, J. Magloughlin, & R. Knipe (Eds.), The Nature and Tectonic Significance of Fault Zone Weakening (195-211). Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc
• Gillespie, P., Loriga, L., Johnston, J., McCaffrey, K., Walsh, J., & Watterson, J. (1999). Influence of layering on vein systematics in line samples. In K. McCaffrey, L. Lonergan, & J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Fractures, Fluids Flow and Mineralisation (35-56). Geological Society Special Publication
• Lonergan, L., Wilkinson, J., & McCaffrey, K. (1999). Fractures, fluid flow and Mineralisation: an Introduction. In K. McCaffrey, L. Lonergan, & J. E. Wilkinson (Eds.), Fractures, Fluids Flow and Mineralisation (35-56). Geological Society Special Publication
• Howard, K., McCaffrey, K., Wooden, J., Foster, D., & Shaw, S. (1995). Jurassic thrusting of basement in the Clipper Mountains, southeastern California. In D. Miller, & C. Busby (Eds.), Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera (375-392). Geological Society of America

Journal Article

• Mccaffrey, K., Walker, R., Gill, S., Greenfield, C., & Stephens, T. (online). Sensitivity of Santorini eruption model predictions to input conditions. Nature Geoscience, 16, 851–853. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01268-2
• Trinks, I., Clegg, P., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., Holdsworth, R., Holliman, N., Imber, J., Waggott, S., & Wilson, R. (online). Mapping and analyzing virtual outcrops. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10069-005-0026-9
• Grocott, J., Thrane, K., McCaffrey, K. J., Sleath, P. R., & Dziggel, A. (online). Andean-type, bivergent crustal shortening in the Rinkian orogen: New constraints on the tectonic evolution of Laurentia–West Greenland in the Paleoproterozoic. Geosphere, 19(5), 1231–1258. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges02614.1
• Abdunaser, K., & McCaffrey, K. (online). Tectonic history and structural development of the Zallah-Dur al Abd Sub-basin, western Sirt Basin, Libya. Journal of Structural Geology, 73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2015.02.006
• McCaffrey, K., Johnston, J., & Feely, M. (online). Use of fractal statistics in the analysis of Mo-Cu mineralisation at Mace Head Co. Galway
• Froemchen, M., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Allen, M. B., van Hunen, J., Phillips, T. B., & Xu, Y. (2024). Geomorphic expressions of active rifting reflect the role of structural inheritance: a new model for the evolution of the Shanxi Rift, northern China. Solid Earth, 15(10), 1203-1231. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1203-2024
• Halford, D. T., Karolytė, R., Andreason, M. W., Cathey, B., Cathey, M., Dellenbach, J. T., Cuzella, J. J., Sonnenberg, S. A., Cheng, A., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Gluyas, J. G., & Ballentine, C. J. (2024). Probabilistic Determination of the Role of Faults and Intrusions in Helium‐Rich Gas Fields Formation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(6), Article e2024GC011522. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gc011522
• Roberts, G., Sgambato, C., Mildon, Z., Iezzi, F., Beck, J., Robertson, J., Papanikolaou, I., Michetti, A., Faure Walker, J., Meschis, M., Shanks, R., Phillips, R., McCaffrey, K., Vittori, E., & Mitchell, S. (2024). Spatial migration of temporal earthquake clusters driven by the transfer of differential stress between neighbouring fault/shear-zone structures. Journal of Structural Geology, 181, Article 105096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105096
• Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., Roberts, N. M. W., Lee, J., Underhill, J. R., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K. J. W., & Selby, D. (2023). Older than you think: using U–Pb calcite geochronology to better constrain basin-bounding fault reactivation, Inner Moray Firth Basin, western North Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(5), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-166
• Utley, T. A., Holdsworth, R. E., Walker, R. J., Dempsey, E. D., McCaffrey, K. J., Dichiarante, A., & Jones, T. L. (2023). An onshore-offshore interpretation of structures in the Devonian rocks of the Pentland Firth, Scotland using high resolution bathymetry and drone-enabled field observations. Journal of Structural Geology, 174, Article 104922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104922
• Kluvanec, D., McCaffrey, K. J., Phillips, T. B., & Al Moubayed, N. (2023). Negation Invariant Representations of 3D Vectors for Deep Learning Models applied to Fault Geometry Mapping in 3D Seismic Reflection Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61, https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2023.3273329
• Utley, T. A. G., Holdsworth, R. E., Blackbourn, G. A., Dempsey, E., Strachan, R. A., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Morton, A. C., Bird, A. F., Jones, R. R., Saßnowski, A., & Walker, R. J. (2023). Strike-slip influenced stratigraphic and structural development of the Foula Sandstone Group, Shetland: implications for offshore Devonian basin development on the northern UK continental shelf. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(3), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-148
• Heron, P. J., Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Sharif, A., Yu, A., & Pysklywec, R. (2023). Stranding continental crustal fragments during continent breakup: Mantle suture reactivation in the Nain Province of Eastern Canada. Geology, 51(4), 362-365. https://doi.org/10.1130/g50734.1
• Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R., Scott, L., Dempsey, E., & McCaffrey, K. (2023). Mid-crustal reactivation processes linked to frictional melting and deep void development during seismogenic slip: examples from the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-037
• Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., Underhill, J. R., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K. J., & Selby, D. (2023). Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry Coupled with In Situ Fieldwork and U-Pb Geochronology to Decipher Multi-Phase Deformation Processes: A Case Study from Sarclet, Inner Moray Firth Basin, UK. Remote Sensing, 15(3), Article 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15030695
• Phillips, T. B., Naliboff, J. B., McCaffrey, K. J., Pan, S., van Hunen, J., & Froemchen, M. (2023). The influence of crustal strength on rift geometry and development – insights from 3D numerical modelling. Solid Earth, 14(4), 369-388. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-369-2023
• Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R., Palladino, G., Prosser, G., Killingback, Z., & McCaffrey, K. (2023). Geology and evolution of fissure systems in fractured basement rocks, Calabria, southern Italy: implications for sub-unconformity reservoirs and aquifers. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(3), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2022-085
• Gill, S., Walker, R., McCaffrey, K., & Greenfield, C. (2022). No Unique Scaling Law for Igneous Dikes. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 127(9), Article e2022JB024120. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jb024120
• Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Underhill, J. R., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., McCarthy, D. J., McCaffrey, K. J., & Selby, D. (2022). Correlating deformation events onshore and offshore in superimposed rift basins: The Lossiemouth Fault Zone, Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Basin Research, 34(4), 1314-1340. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12661
• Mulaya, E., Gluyas, J., McCaffrey, K., Phillips, T., & Ballentine, C. (2022). Structural geometry and evolution of the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania: Implications for helium potential. Basin Research, 34(2), 938-960. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12646
• Tamas, A., Holdsworth, R. E., Underhill, J. R., Tamas, D. M., Dempsey, E. D., Hardman, K., Bird, A., McCarthy, D., McCaffrey, K. J., & Selby, D. (2022). New onshore insights into the role of structural inheritance during Mesozoic opening of the Inner Moray Firth Basin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(2), jgs2021-066. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-066
• Phillips, T. B., McCaffrey, K., & Magarinos, L. (2022). Influence of variable decoupling between vertically separated fault populations on structural inheritance – The Laminaria High, NW Shelf of Australia. Basin Research, 34(1), 440-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12626
• Mildon, Z. K., Roberts, G. P., Faure Walker, J. P., Beck, J., Papanikolaou, I., Michetti, A. M., Toda, S., Iezzi, F., Campbell, L., McCaffrey, K. J., Shanks, R., Sgambato, C., Robertson, J., Meschis, M., & Vittori, E. (2022). Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 7126. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34821-5
• Farangitakis, G., McCaffrey, K., Willingshofer, E., Allen, M., Kalnins, L., van Hunen, J., Persaud, P., & Sokoutis, D. (2021). The structural evolution of pull-apart basins in response to changes in plate motion. Basin Research, 33(2), 1603-1625. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12528
• Goodall, H., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., McCaffrey, K., Amey, R., Roberts, G., Shanks, R., Phillips, R., & Hooper, A. (2021). Determining Histories of Slip on Normal Faults With Bedrock Scarps Using Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Data. Tectonics, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020tc006457
• Franzel, M., Jones, S. J., Meadows, N., Allen, M. B., McCaffrey, K., & Morgan, T. (2021). Basin-scale fluvial correlation and response to the Tethyan marine transgression: an example from the Triassic of central Spain. Basin Research, 33(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12451
• Wilson, P. I., Wilson, R. W., Sanderson, D. J., Jarvis, I., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2021). Analysis of deformation bands associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: implications for reservoir connectivity and fluid flow around sill intrusions. Solid Earth, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-95-2021
• McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Pless, J., Franklin, B., & Hardman, K. (2020). Basement reservoir plumbing: Fracture aperture, length and topology analysis of the Lewisian Complex, NW Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), 1281-1293. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-143
• Holdsworth, R., Trice, R., Hardman, K., McCaffrey, K., Morton, A., Frei, D., Dempsey, E., Bird, A., & Rogers, S. (2020). The nature and age of basement host rocks and fissure fills in the Lancaster field fractured reservoir, West of Shetland. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(5), 1057-1073. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-142
• Pastoriza-Primaleon, L., McCaffrey, K. J., & Holdsworth, R. E. (2020). Fracture Attribute and Topology Characteristics of a Geothermal Reservoir: Southern Negros, Philippines. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(5), 1092-1106. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-126
• Mercuri, M., Carminati, E., Tartarello, M. C., Brandano, M., Mazzanti, P., Brunetti, A., McCaffrey, K. J., & Collettini, C. (2020). Lithological and structural control on fracture frequency distribution within a carbonate-hosted relay ramp. Journal of Structural Geology, 137, Article 104085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104085
• Foulger, G. R., Doré, T., Emeleus, C. H., Franke, D., Geoffroy, L., Gernigon, L., Hey, R., Holdsworth, R. E., Hole, M., Höskuldsson, Á., Julian, B., Kusznir, N., Martinez, F., McCaffrey, K. J., Natland, J. H., Peace, A., Petersen, K., Schiffer, C., Stephenson, R., & Stoker, M. (2020). The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge. Earth-Science Reviews, 206, Article 102926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926
• Hardman, K., Holdsworth, R. E., Dempsey, E., & McCaffrey, K. (2020). The nature and significance of rift-related, near-surface fissure fill networks in fractured carbonates below regional unconformities. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), 1168-1185. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-074
• Schiffer, C., Doré, A. G., Foulger, G. R., Franke, D., Geoffroy, L., Gernigon, L., Holdsworth, R., Kusznir, N., Lundin, E., McCaffrey, K., Peace, A., Petersen, K. D., Phillips, T., Stephenson, R., Stoker, M. S., & Welford, K. (2020). Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic. Earth-Science Reviews, 206, Article 102975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102975
• Andikagumi, H., Macpherson, C., & McCaffrey, K. (2020). Upper Plate Stress Controls the Distribution of Mariana Arc Volcanoes. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(2), Article e2019JB017391. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb017391
• Gluyas, J., De-Paola, N., Imber, J., Jezierski, T., Jones, R., Jordan, P., McCaffrey, K., Nielsen, S., Pongthunya, P., Satterley, A., Sowter, A., Wilkinson, M., & Moors, A. (2020). The Humbly Grove, Herriard and Hester’s Copse Fields, UK onshore. Memoirs, 52, 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1144/m52-2018-78
• Dichiarante, A., Holdsworth, R., Dempsey, E., McCaffrey, K., & Utley, T. (2020). Outcrop-scale manifestations of reactivation during multiple superimposed rifting and basin inversion events: the Devonian Orcadian Basin, northern Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 178(1), https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-089
• Dichiarante, A. M., McCaffrey, K. J., Holdsworth, R. E., Bjørnarå, T. I., & Dempsey, E. D. (2020). Fracture attribute scaling and connectivity in the Devonian Orcadian Basin with implications for geologically equivalent sub-surface fractured reservoirs. Solid Earth, 11(6), 2221-2244. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-2221-2020
• Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Dempsey, E., Roberts, N., Hardman, K., Morton, A., Feely, M., Hunt, J., Conway, A., & Robertson, A. (2019). Natural fracture propping and earthquake-induced oil migration in fractured basement reservoirs. Geology, 47(8), 700-704. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46280.1
• Wilson, P., McCaffrey, K., & Holdsworth, R. (2019). Magma-driven accommodation structures formed during sill emplacement at shallow crustal depths: The Maiden Creek sill, Henry Mountains, Utah. Geosphere, 15(4), 1368-1392. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges02067.1
• Wilson, R., Houseman, G., Buiter, S., McCaffrey, K., & Doré, A. (2019). Fifty years of the Wilson Cycle concept in plate tectonics: an overview. Geological Society Special Publications, 470(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp470-2019-58
• Wedmore, L., Gregory, L., McCaffrey, K., Goodall, H., & Walters, R. (2019). Partitioned off-fault deformation in the 2016 Norcia earthquake captured by differential terrestrial laser scanning. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(6), 3199-3205. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080858
• Faure Walker, J., Visini, F., Roberts, G., Galasso, C., McCaffrey, K., & Mildon, Z. (2019). Variable fault geometry suggests detailed fault slip-rate profiles and geometries are needed for fault-based probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180137
• Mercuri, M., McCaffrey, K. J., Smeraglia, L., Mazzanti, P., Collettini, C., & Carminati, E. (2019). Complex geometry and kinematics of subsidiary faults within a carbonate-hosted relay ramp. Journal of Structural Geology, 130, Article 103915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2019.103915
• Farangitakis, G., Sokoutis, D., McCaffrey, K., Willingshofer, E., Kalnins, L., Phethean, J., van Hunen, J., & van Steen, V. (2019). Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections. Tectonics, 13(3), 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005261
• Civico, R., Pucci, S., Villani, F., Pizzimenti, L., De Martini, P., Nappi, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilkinson, M., & Group, T. O. E. W. (2018). Surface ruptures following the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia earthquake, central Italy. Journal of Maps, 14(2), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1441756
• Pastoriza, L., Holdsworth, R. E., McCaffrey, K., & Dempsey, E. (2018). Tectonic evolution of the Southern Negros Geothermal Field and implications for the development of fractured geothermal systems. Geofluids, 2018, Article 6025038. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/6025038
• Peace, A., Dempsey, E., Schiffer, C., Welford, J., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., & Phethean, J. (2018). Evidence for Basement Reactivation during the Opening of the Labrador Sea from the Makkovik Province, Labrador, Canada: Insights from Field Data and Numerical Models. Geosciences, 8(8), Article 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8080308
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., van Hunen, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, R. (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research, 30(3), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12257
• Scott, E., Allen, M., Macpherson, C., McCaffrey, K., Davidson, J., Saville, C., & Ducea, M. (2018). Andean surface uplift constrained by radiogenic isotopes of arc lavas. Nature Communications, 9, Article 969. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03173-4
• Stephens, T., Walker, R., Healy, D., Bubeck, A., England, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2017). Igneous sills record far-field and near-field stress interactions during volcano construction: Isle of Mull, Scotland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.003
• Corradetti, A., McCaffrey, K., De Paola, N., & Tavani, S. (2017). Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry. Tectonophysics, 717, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.023
• Peace, A. L., Foulger, G. R., Schiffer, C., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2017). Evolution of Labrador Sea–Baffin Bay: Plate or Plume Processes?. Geoscience Canada, 44(3), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2017.44.120
• Walker, R., Healy, T., Wright, K., England, R., McCaffrey, K., Bubeck, A., Stephens, T., Farrell, N., & Blenkinsop, T. (2017). Igneous sills as a record of horizontal shortening: The San Rafael subvolcanic field, Utah. GSA Bulletin, 129(9-10), 1052-1070. https://doi.org/10.1130/b31671.1
• Wedmore, L., Faure Walker, J., Roberts, G., Sammonds, P., McCaffrey, K., & Cowie, P. (2017). A 667-year record of co-seismic and interseismic Coulomb stress changes in central Italy reveals the role of fault interaction in controlling irregular earthquake recurrence intervals. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 122(7), 5691-5711. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017jb014054
• Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Roberts, G., Holdsworth, R., Gregory, L., Walters, R., Wedmore, L., Goodall, H., & Iezzi, F. (2017). Near-field fault slip of the 2016 Vettore Mw 6.6 earthquake (Central Italy) measured using low-cost GNSS. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 4612. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04917-w
• Grocott, J., & McCaffrey, K. (2017). Basin evolution and destruction in an Early Proterozoic continental margin: the Rinkian fold–thrust belt of central West Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 174(3), 453-467. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2016-109
• Cowie, P., Phillips, R., Roberts, G., McCaffrey, K., Zijerveld, L., Gregory, L., Faure Walker, J., Wedmore, L., Dunai, T., Binnie, S., Freeman, S., Wilcken, K., Shanks, R., Huismans, R., Papanikolaou, I., Michetti, A., & Wilkinson, M. (2017). Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports, 7, Article 44858. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44858
• Phethean, J. J., Kalnins, L. M., van Hunen, J., Biffi, P. G., Davies, R. J., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2016). Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(12), 5036-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006624
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Phethean, J., Nowell, G., Gerdes, K., & Dempsey, E. (2016). An evaluation of Mesozoic rift-related magmatism on the margins of the Labrador Sea: Implications for rifting and passive margin asymmetry. Geosphere, 12(6), 1701-1724. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01341.1
• Wilkinson, M., Jones, R., Woods, C., Gilment, S., McCaffrey, K., Kokkalas, S., & Long, J. (2016). A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition. Geosphere, 12(6), 1865-1880. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01342.1
• Livio, F., Michetti, A., Vittori, E., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., Piccardi, L., Tondi, E., Roberts, G., Blumetti, A., Bonadeo, L., Brunamonte, F., Comerci, V., Di Manna, P., Ferrario, M., Faure Walker, J., Frigerio, C., Fumanti, F., Guerrieri, L., Iezzi, F., Leoni, G., …Wilkinson, M. (2016). Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results. Annals of geophysics, 59(Fast Track 5), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-7197
• Mildon, Z., Roberts, G., Faure Walker, J., Wedmore, L., & McCaffrey, K. (2016). Active normal faulting during the 1997 seismic sequence in Colfiorito, Umbria: Did slip propagate to the surface?. Journal of Structural Geology, 91, 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2016.08.011
• Sagi, D., De Paola, N., McCaffrey, K., & Holdsworth, R. (2016). Fault and fracture patterns in low porosity chalk and their potential influence on sub-surface fluid flow—A case study from Flamborough Head, UK. Tectonophysics, 690(A), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.07.009
• Wilson, P., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jarvis, I., & Holdsworth, R. (2016). Deformation structures associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: Implications for sill and laccolith emplacement mechanisms. Journal of Structural Geology, 87, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2016.04.001
• Dichiarante, A., Holdsworth, R., Dempsey, E., Selby, D., McCaffrey, K., Michie, U., Morgan, G., & Bonniface, J. (2016). New structural and Re–Os geochronological evidence constraining the age of faulting and associated mineralization in the Devonian Orcadian Basin, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 173(3), 457-473. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-118
• Abdunaser, K., & McCaffrey, K. (2015). A new structural interpretation relating NW Libya to the Hun Graben, western Sirt Basin based on a new paleostress inversion. Journal of Earth System Science, 124(8), 1745-1763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-015-0631-4
• Bubeck, A., Wilkinson, M., Roberts, G., Cowie, P., McCaffrey, K., Phillips, R., & Sammonds, P. (2015). The tectonic geomorphology of bedrock scarps on active normal faults in the Italian Apennines mapped using combined ground penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scanning. Geomorphology, 237, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.011
• Wilkinson, M., Roberts, G., McCaffrey, K., Cowie, P., Faure Walker, J., Papanikolaou, I., Phillips, R., Michetti, A., Vittori, E., Gregory, L., Wedmore, L., & Watson, Z. (2015). Slip distributions on active normal faults measured from LiDAR and field mapping of geomorphic offsets: an example from L'Aquila, Italy, and implications for modelling seismic moment release. Geomorphology, 237, 130-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.026
• Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., Hobbs, R., Van Hunen, J., & Gerdes, K. (2015). Quantifying the influence of sill intrusion on the thermal evolution of organic-rich sedimentary rocks in non-volcanic passive margins: an example from ODP 210-1276, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. Basin Research, 29(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12131
• Imber, J., Armstrong, H., Clancy, S., Daniels, S., Herringshaw, L., McCaffrey, K., Rodrigues, J., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., & Warren, C. (2014). Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England. AAPG Bulletin, 98(11), 2411-2437. https://doi.org/10.1306/07141413144
• Abdunaser, K., & McCaffrey, K. (2014). Rift architecture and evolution: the Sirt Basin, Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 100, 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.06.020
• Pacey, A., Macpherson, C., & McCaffrey, K. (2013). Linear volcanic segments in the central Sunda Arc, Indonesia, identified using Hough Transform analysis: Implications for arc lithosphere control upon volcano distribution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 369-370, 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.02.040
• Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K., Roberts, G., Cowie, P., Phillips, R., Degasperi, M., Vittori, E., & Michetti, A. (2012). Distribution and Magnitude of Post-seismic Deformation of the 2009 L’Aquila 1 Earthquake (M6.3) Surface Rupture Measured Using Repeat Terrestrial Laser Scanning. Geophysical Journal International, 189(2), 911-922. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2012.05418.x
• Faure Walker, J., Roberts, G., Cowie, P., Papanikolaou, I., Michetti, A., Sammonds, P., Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K., & Phillips, R. (2012). actively-extending Italian Apennines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 325-326, 76-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.028
• Peulvast, J.-P., Bonow, J., Japsen, P., Wilson, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2012). Morphostructural patterns and landform generations in a glaciated passive margin: the Kobberminebugt-Qaqortoq region of South Greenland. Geodinamica acta, 24(1), https://doi.org/10.3166/ga.24.1-19
• Hansen, J., Jerram, D., McCaffrey, K., & Passey, S. (2011). Early Cenozoic saucer-shaped sills of the Faroe Islands: an example of intrusive styles in basaltic lava piles. Journal of the Geological Society, 168(1), 159-178. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492010-012
• Wilkinson, M., McCaffrey, K., Roberts, G., Cowie, P., Phillips, R., Michetti, A., Vittori, E., Guerrieri, L., Blumetti, A., Bubeck, A., Yates, A., & Sileo, G. (2010). Partitioned postseismic deformation associated with the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake surface rupture measured using a terrestrial laser scanner. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, Article L10309. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010gl043099
• Jones, R., Kokkalas, S., & McCaffrey, K. (2009). Quantitative analysis and visualization of nonplanar fault surfaces using terrestrial laser scanning (LIDAR)-The Arkitsa fault, central Greece, as a case study. Geosphere, 5, 465-482
• Jones, R., McCaffrey, K., Clegg, P., Wilson, R., Holliman, N., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., & Waggott, S. (2009). Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models. Computers and Geosciences, 35(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.09.007
• Guo, J., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., & Holdsworth, R. (2009). The spatial heterogeneity of structures in high porosity sandstones: Variations and granularity effects in orientation data. Journal of Structural Geology, 31(7), 628-636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2008.12.002
• Entwistle, J., McCaffrey, K., & Dodgshon, R. (2007). Geostatistical and multi-elemental analysis of soils to interpret land-use history in the Hebrides, Scotland. Geoarchaeology, 22(4), 391-415
• Pearce, M., Jones, R., Smith, S., McCaffrey, K., & Clegg, P. (2006). Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(9), 1640-1646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.05.010
• Wilson, R., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Jones, R., Welbon, A., & Roberts, D. (2006). Complex fault patterns, transtension and structural segmentation of the Lofoten Ridge, Norwegian Margin: using digital mapping to link onshore and offshore geology. Tectonics, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1029/2005tc001895
• Wilson, R., Klint, K., van Gool, J., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., & Chalmers, J. (2006). Faults and fractures in central West Greenland: onshore expression of continental break-up and sea-floor spreading in the Labrador – Baffin Bay Sea
• McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., De Paola, N., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., Holliman, N., & Trinks, I. (2005). Putting the geology back into Earth models. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 86(46), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005eo460001
• McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Wilson, R., Clegg, P., Imber, J., Holliman, N., & Trinks, I. (2005). Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(6), 927-938. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764905-017
• Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & Gjeldvik, G. (2005). Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-break up deformation in ocean margin basins. AAPG Bulletin, 89(8), 1043-1069. https://doi.org/10.1306/02240504043
• Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Clegg, P., & Tavarnelli, E. (2005). Scale dependence, strain compatibility and heterogeneity of three-dimensional deformation during mountain building: a discussion. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(7), 1190-1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.04.001
• De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2005). The influence of lithology and pre-existing structures on reservoir-scale faulting patterns in transtensional rift zones. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(3), 471-480. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764904-043
• De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., & Barchi, M. (2005). Partitioned transtension: an alternative to basin inversion models. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(4), 607-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.01.006
• Clegg, P., Trinks, I., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., & Waggott, S. (2005). Towards the Virtual Outcrop. Geoscientist, 15(1), 8-9
• De Paola, N., Holdworth, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2005). Strain partitioning, reactivation and lithological control during complex transtensional faulting: an example from the 90-Fathom Fault, NE England. Journal of the Geological Society, 161, 471-480
• Wilson, R., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., & Holdsworth, R. (2005). Lofoten has its faults! Detailed fault analysis and 3D digital mapping in the Norway's Lofoten Islands. Geoscientist, 15(2), 4-9
• Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & Freeman, S. (2005). Recognition of strike-slip faulting from three-dimensional seismic reflection data: a study of late Cretaceous to early Teriary faulting on the Nyk High, Vøring Basin, offshore mid-Norway. AAPG Bulletin, 89, 1043-1069
• Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Clegg, P., McCaffrey, K., & Tavarnelli, E. (2004). Inclined transpression. Journal of Structural Geology, 26(8), 1531-1548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.01.004
• Tavernelli, E., Holdsworth, R., Clegg, P., Jones, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2004). The anatomy and evolution of a transpressional imbricate zone, Southern Uplands, Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology, 26, 1341-1360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.01.003
• Watts, L., Sherlock, S., Holdsworth, R., Sleight, J., & Roberts, D. (2004). Dating fault reactivation by Ar/Ar laserprobe: an alternative view of apparently cogenetic mylonite-pseudotachylyte assemblages. Journal of the Geological Society, 161, 335-338
• Garde, A., Hamilton, M., Chadwick, B., Grocott, J., & McCaffrey, K. (2002). The Ketilidian Orogen of South Greenland: Geochronology and tectonics, magmatism and forearc accretion during Palaeoproterozoic oblique convergence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 765-793. https://doi.org/10.1139/e02-026
• Holdsworth, R., Tavarnelli, E., Clegg, P., Pinheiro, R., Jones, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2002). Domainal deformation patterns and strain partitioning during transpression: an example from the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764901-123
• Garde, A., Chadwick, B., Grocott, J., Hamilton, M., McCaffrey, K., & Swager, C. (2002). Mid-crustal partitioning and attachment during oblique convergence in an arc system, the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian orogen, southern Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159, 247-261
• Cruden, A., & McCaffrey, K. (2001). Growth of plutons by floor subsidence: implications for rates of emplacement, intrusion spacing and melt-extraction mechanisms. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 26(4-5), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1464-1895%2801%2900060-6
• McCaffrey, K., Petford, N., Cruden, A., & Vignerosse, J. (2000). Granitic magma formation, transport and emplacement in the Earth's Crust. Nature, 408, 669-673. https://doi.org/10.1038/35047000
• Baird, A., & McCaffrey, K. (1999). Polyphase deformation and metamorphism in the Llyn Ogwen area of Snowdonian, North Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, 156, 11-14
• Richards, A., & McCaffrey, K. (1999). Complexity in glaciodeltaic progradation: an example from the Salpausselk� I
• McCaffrey, K., Miller, C., Karlstrom, K., & Simpson, C. (1999). Synmagmatic deformation patterns in the Old Woman Mountains, SE California. Journal of Structural Geology, 21(3), 335-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-8141%2898%2900107-2
• McCaffrey, K. (1997). Controls on reactivation of a major fault zone: The Fair Head-Clew Bay line in Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, 154, 129-133
• McCaffrey, K., & Petford, N. (1997). Are granitic intrusions scale invariant?. Journal of the Geological Society, 154, 1-4
• McCaffrey, K., & Johnston, J. (1996). Fractal analysis of a mineralised vein deposit: Curraghinalt gold deposit, County Tyrone. Mineralium Deposita, 31, 52-58
• Johnston, J., & McCaffrey, K. (1996). Fractal Geometries of vein systems and the variation of scaling relationships with mechanism. Journal of Structural Geology, 18, 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0191-8141%2896%2980055-1
• Petford, N., Patterson, B., McCaffrey, K., & Pugliese, S. (1996). Melt infiltration and advection in microdiorite enclaves
• McCaffrey, K. (1994). Magmatic and solid state deformation partitioning in the Ox Mountains Granodiorite (Western Ireland). Geological Magazine, 131, 639-652
• Hook, S., Karlstrom, K., Miller, C., & McCaffrey, K. (1994). Mapping the Piute Mountains, California with thermal infrared multispectral scanner (TIMS) images. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 15605-15622
• McCaffrey, K. (1992). Igneous emplacement in a transpressive shear zone: Ox Mountains igneous complex. Journal of the Geological Society, 149, 221-235
• De Paor, D., Simpson, C., Bailey, C., McCaffrey, K., Beam, E., Gower, R., & Aziz, G. (1991). The role of solution in the formation of boudinage and transverse veins in carbonate rocks at Rheems, Pennsylvania
• Anderson, T., & McCaffrey, K. (1986). Discussion of: The Structure of the Dalradian rocks of West Fanad, County Donegal

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• Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., & Imber, J. (2007). Outcrop Data as an Analogue to HEX Lewisian Basement Acreage: Characterisation of Lewisian Fracturing in Scotland & the Møre-Trøndelag Fault Zone in Norway. Consultancy Report commissioned by Hurricane Exploration plc. [No known commissioning body]