Rasoul Sorkhabi

 

 

Research Professor

phone 801.585.9070
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
rsorkhabi@egi.utah.edu

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Languages

  • Persian
  • Turkish
  • Japanese (spoken, currently learning my Chinese character #102, a long way to go)
  • Hindi (spoken)

Professional Research Interests and Expertise –

"Geology of the Earth” with special focuses on the things that I can do and am paid to do, notably (1) petroleum geology; (2) tectonics and structural geology; (3) geochronology and thermochronology; more specifically an integration of "structure, fluid flow, time, and heat."

regional and basin Experience –

  • Asia
  • North America
  • From the Himalayas in the 1980s (through the Tethys and Gondwanaland) to the Deepwater Basins in the 2000s

Education –

  • 1983 B.Sc. India
  • 1985 M.Sc. India
  • 1991 Ph.D. Japan

Memberships –

  • AAPG
  • AGU
  • Geological Society of Japan
  • Geological Society of India

Honors and Awards –

  • 1985 M.Sc. Geology Gold Medal, University of Jammu, India
  • Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship, Ph.D. Geology, Kyoto University

 

Publications –

  • AAPG Memoir 85 (2005): Faults, Fluid Flow and Petroleum Traps
  • GSA Special Paper (1999): Himalaya and Tibet: Mountain Roots to Mountain Tops