M. Royhan Gani

 

 

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Research assistant professor

phone 801.585.3539
faX 801.585.3545

EMAIL
rgani@egi.utah.edu

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Professional experience –

  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence stratigraphy
  • Integrating cores, well logs, and seismic data
  • Reservoir architecture and heterogeneity
  • Reservoir analog of outcrops
  • Tectonics and sedimentation
  • Tectonic geomorphology
  • East African Rift (uplift, paleoclimate & hominin evolution)

Regional and Basin Experience –

  • Cretaceous Interior Seaway, USA
  • Delaware Basin, USA
  • North Slope, Alaska
  • Bengal Basin, Bangladesh
  • East coast of India
  • Ethiopia

Education –

  • Bachelor in Geology (hons.) University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Master in Geology University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Ph.D. in Geosciences University of Texas at Dallas

Memberships –

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
  • Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
  • International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
  • Geological Society of America (GSA)

 

Publications –

Gani, N.D.S., Gani, M.R., Abdelsalam, M.G., 2007. Blue Nile incision on the Ethiopian Plateau: pulsed plateau growth, Pliocene uplift, and hominin evolution. GSA Today, v. 17, no. 9, p. 4-11. DOI: 10.1130/GSAT01709A.1

Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., 2007. Basic building blocks and process variability of a Cretaceous delta: internal facies architecture reveals a more dynamic interaction of river, wave and tidal processes than is indicated by external shape. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 284-302. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.023.

Lee, K., MacMechan, G.A., Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., Zeng, X., Howell, C.D. Jr, 2007b. 3-D architecture and sequence stratigraphic evolution of a forced regressive top-truncated mixed-influenced delta front, Cretaceous Wall Creek sandstone, Wyoming, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 303-323. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.031.

Lee, K., Gani, M.R., MacMechan, G.A., Bhattacharya, J.P., Nyman, S.L., and Zeng, X., 2007a. Three-dimensional facies architecture and three-dimensional calcite concretion distributions in a tide-influenced delta front, Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 91, p. 191-214.

Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., 2005. Lithostratigraphy versus Chronostratigraphy in Facies Correlations of Quaternary Deltas: Application of Bedding Correlation. SEPM Special Publication, v. 83, p. 31-48.

Gani, M.R., 2004. From Turbid to Lucid: A Straightforward Approach to Sediment Gravity Flows and Their Deposits. The Sedimentary Record, v. 2, no. 3, p. 4-8.

Gani, M.R., Alam, M.M., 2003. Sedimentation and basin-fill history of the Neogene clastic succession exposed in the south eastern fold belt of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: A high resolution sequence stratigraphic approach. Sedimentary Geology, v. 155, p. 227-270.