Pitch Allen

 

 

 

 

Research assistant professor

phone 801.581.7574
fax 801.585.3540

EMAIL
pallen@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

  • Tectonics
  • Structure
  • GIS

Regional and Basin Experience–

  • South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia)
  • Red Sea

Education –

  • 1975 B.A. in Geology, Columbia College, New York
  • 1978 M.A. M.Phil. in Geology, Columbia University, New York
  • 1983 Ph.D. in Geology, Columbia University, New York

Memberships –

  • American Geophysical Union

Honors and Awards –

  • 1974 Awarded USGS summer field assistant position through National Association of Geology Teachers/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Program
  • 1975-1981 Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University
  • 1986 Co-Recipient of the Jules Braunstein Memorial Award for the best AAPG poster presentation at the 1985 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, New Orleans

 

Publications –

Segall, M.P., Allen, R.B., Abrams, M.A., and O. Abou-Ismail, 2001. Seafloor stability of the Argentine continental margin – considerations for offshore hydrocarbon exploration and production. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, p. A182.

Murphy, R. K., McPherson, S., Segall, M. P., Nemcok, M., Abrams, M. A., Allen, R. B., 2003, Clastic sediment distribution and dispersal in the deepwater Scotian margin: Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, v. 35, no. 3, p. 24.

Segall, M. P., Murphy, R. K., McPherson, S., Neese, D. G., Nemcok, M., Allen, R. and Chidsey, T. C., Jr., 2003, Modern and antecedent topography; focussing agents for reservoir sands; central and western Scotian Basin: Annual Meeting Expanded Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 12, p. 154.

Abrams, M. A., Nemcok, M., Allen, R., Shaw, K. and Potter, R. W., II, 2005, Identification of key petroleum system risks in Grandview Hills NWT exploration play: Annual Meeting Abstracts - American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Nemcok, M., Shafer, C., Allen, R.B., Segall, M.P., Hermeston, S., Sawyer, R.K., Christensen, C., 2003. Morocco-Nova Scotia-Georges Bank Margins Basins Project. Energy & Geoscience Institute Technical Report

Nemcok, M., Segall, M. P., et al., 2004, Atlantic margins basins project - Phase I: Equatorial margins. EGI Technical Report

Allen, R. B., 2004, Atlantic margins basins project - Phase I: Equatorial margins. Conversion of GIS - ArcView 3 to ArcGIS 8. EGI Technical Report

Segall, M.P., Platon, E., Allen, R., Francu, J., Nemcok, M., Shafer, C., Jarvie, C., Ekart, D., Erickson, J., Abrams, M., 2004. North Bahamas Continental Margin Evolution. Energy & Geoscience Institute Technical Report

Allen, R. B., 2005, The hydrocarbon potential of Central Northern Montana, the foreland north of Augusta. EGI Technical Report

Abrams, M. A. and Allen, R. B., 2005, Source rock catalog for US onshore basins: Phase I and Phase II, EGI Technical Report