Michal Nemcok

 

 

Research Professor

phone 801.585.9829
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
mnemcok@egi.utah.edu

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Languages

  • Fluent Slovak
  • Fluent English
  • Fluent Czech
  • Fluent Russian
  • Fluent Polish
  • weak German

Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

  • stress analysis
  • prediction of fracture locations, kinematics, and fracturing sequence in fractured reservoirs
  • fracturing and fluid flow analyze in shale settings
  • basin analysis with focus on tectonics/deposition interaction

regional and basin Experience –

  • Thrustbelts (worldwide): structural styles, thermal regimes and petroleum systems
  • Continental break-up settings (worldwide, with emphasis on Atlantic passive margins): controls of continental break-up and their effects in syn-rift and early drift petroleum systems

Education –

  • 1991 Ph.D. dissertation, Comenius University Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Title: The Cenozoic Development of Western Half of the West Carpathian Orogenic Belt (in Slovak).
  • Graduate and undergraduate work, Comenius University Bratislava, Czechoslovakia: structural geology, sedimentology, paleontology, ore-analysis, geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, programming, stratigraphy, economic geology, tectonics.
  • 2002 "Venia docendi" in Geology, University of Freiberg, Germany (May 21, 2002). Thesis title: "Paleostress methods and development of the Carpathian orogenic belt" (in German).

Memberships –

  • US Civilian Research and Development Fund award (2001-2002)
  • Lise Meitner fellow (1995-1996)
  • Royal Society fellow (1993-1994)
  • European Geosciences Union
  • International Association of Structural/Tectonic Geologists
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  • Geological Association of Slovakia
  • American Geophysical Union
  • Utah Geological Association
  • Geothermal Resources Council

Honors and Awards –

  • Invited speaker, EUG 9 meeting, Strasbourg, France, 1997
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Tbilisi, Georgia, November, 2004
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Bucharest, Romania, April, 2005
  • Invited speaker, HGS/PESGB conference on African exploration and production, Houston, September, 2005
  • Invited speaker, IHS Scout meeting, Ankara, Turkey, October, 2005
  • Invited speaker, GCS/SEPM conference “Petroleum Systems of Divergent Continental Margin Basins”, Houston, December, 2005
  • GRC 2002 Annual Meeting, Reno, GRC Best Paper Award
  • GRC 2003 Annual Meeting, Morelia, GRC Best Paper Award

 

Publications –

58 Nemcok, M., Dilov, T., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhová, L., Klecker, R. A., Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2006. Dynamics of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge: insights from paleostress analyses. In; Ries, A., Butler, R. and Gillchrist, G. (Eds.), Deformation of the continental crust, Geological Society Special Publication, in press (January 2007).

Nemcok, M., Moore, J. N., Christensen, C., Allis, R., Powell, T., Murray, B.and Nash, G., 2006. Controls on the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal reservoir, Indonesia. Geothermics,in press.

Clausen, S., Nemcok, M., Moore, J., Hulen, J. and Bartley, J., 2006.Mapping fractures in the Medicine Lake geothermal system. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 30, 383-386.

Nemcok, M., Krzywiec, P., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhová, L., Klecker, R. A., Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2006. Tertiary development of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge: insights from balanced cross sections. Geologica Carpathica, 57 (5), 355-370.

Pospíil L., A. Ádám, J. Bimka, P. Bodlak, T. Bodoky, P. Dövényi, H.Granser, E. Hegedüs, I. Joó, A. Kendzera, L. Lenkey, M. Nemcok, K Posgay, B. Pylypyshyn, J. Sedlák, W. D. Stanley, G. Starodub, V.Szalaiová, B. Iály, A. , G. Várga and T. Zsíros, 2006. Regional geophysical data on the Carpathian-Pannonian lithosphere. In: Pícha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 651-697.

Nemcok, M., Pospíil, L., Hruecký, I. and Zsíros, T., 2006. Subduction in the remnant Carpathian Flysch Basin. In: Pícha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 767-785

Nemcok, M., Pogacsás, G and Pospíil, L., 2006. Activity timing of the main tectonic systems in the Carpathian-Pannonian region in relation to the roll-back destruction of the lithosphere. In: Pícha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 743-766.

Nemcok, M. and Henk, A., 2006. Oil reservoirs in foreland basins charged by thrustbelt source rocks: insights from numerical stress modelling and geometric balancing in the West Carpathians. In: Buiter, S.J.H. and Schreus, G. (Eds), Analogue and numerical modelling of crustal-scale processes. Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ., 253, 415-428.

Nemcok, M., Stuart, C., Segall, M.P., Allen, R.B., Christensen, C., Hermeston, S. A., Davison, I., 2005. Structural development of South Morocco: interaction of tectonics and deposition. In: Post, P.J., Rosen, N., Olson, D.L., Palmes, S.L., Lyons, K.T. and Newton, G.B. (Eds.), Petroleum systems of divergent continental margin basins, 25th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Session I, Crustal architecture of divergent margins, GCSSEPM, Houston, ISSN: 1544-2462, pp. 151-202.