Bernard Besly

1.3k total citations
21 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bernard Besly is a scholar working on Geology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Besly has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Geology, 9 papers in Geophysics and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Bernard Besly's work include Geological formations and processes (9 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (8 papers). Bernard Besly is often cited by papers focused on Geological formations and processes (9 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (8 papers). Bernard Besly collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Bernard Besly's co-authors include Gilbert Kellıng, Peter Turner, Christopher R. Fielding, Robert L. Gawthorpe, Alastair J. Fraser, Maxwell Gage, J. D. Collinson, Tim J. Pearce, David Wray and David Wright and has published in prestigious journals such as Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Geological Society London Special Publications and Sedimentary Geology.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Besly

21 papers receiving 963 citations

Peers

Bernard Besly
R. Anderton United Kingdom
Szczepan J. Porębski Poland
Juan R. Franzese Argentina
Geraint W. Hughes Saudi Arabia
Mario Coniglio Canada
T. Elliott United Kingdom
H. J. Welsink South Africa
Shifa Zhu China
Karin Goldberg Brazil
Olivier Parize France
R. Anderton United Kingdom
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All Works

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Besly, Bernard, et al.. (2020). The Pelican Field, Block 211/26a, UK North Sea. Geological Society London Memoirs. 52(1). 906–915. 1 indexed citations
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Gluyas, Jon, et al.. (2020). The Alma (formerly Argyll/Ardmore) Field, Blocks 30/24 and 30/25a, UK North Sea. Geological Society London Memoirs. 52(1). 360–370. 3 indexed citations
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Clarke, Huw, Peter Turner, R.M. Bustin, N. J. Riley, & Bernard Besly. (2018). Shale gas resources of the Bowland Basin, NW England: a holistic study. Petroleum Geoscience. 24(3). 287–322. 45 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard, et al.. (2017). Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 91. 1–18. 15 indexed citations
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Waters, Colin N., Ian D. Somerville, N.S. Jones, et al.. (2011). A Revised Correlation of Carboniferous Rocks in the British Isles. 111 indexed citations
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Powell, J. H., et al.. (2000). Stratigraphical framework for Westphalian to Early Permian red-bed successions of the Pennine Basin. Version 1.0. 7 indexed citations
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Pearce, Tim J., Bernard Besly, David Wray, & David Wright. (1999). Chemostratigraphy: a method to improve interwell correlation in barren sequences — a case study using onshore Duckmantian/Stephanian sequences (West Midlands, U.K.). Sedimentary Geology. 124(1-4). 197–220. 91 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard, et al.. (1997). End-Carboniferous fold-thrust structures, Oxfordshire, UK: implications for the structural evolution of the late Variscan foreland of south-central England. Journal of the Geological Society. 154(2). 225–237. 22 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard & Christopher J. Cleal. (1997). Upper Carboniferous stratigraphy of the West Midlands (UK) revised in the light of borehole geophysical logs and detrital compositional suites. Geological Journal. 32(2). 85–118. 27 indexed citations
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Gawthorpe, Robert L., et al.. (1996). Inversion tectonics of the Variscan foreland of the British Isles. Journal of the Geological Society. 153(1). 17–32. 123 indexed citations
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Collinson, J. D., et al.. (1993). Carboniferous depositional systems of the Southern North Sea. Geological Society London Petroleum Geology Conference series. 4(1). 677–687. 33 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard, Stuart D. Burley, & Peter Turner. (1993). The late Carboniferous ‘Barren Red Bed’ play of the Silver Pit area, Southern North Sea. Geological Society London Petroleum Geology Conference series. 4(1). 727–740. 50 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard & Christopher R. Fielding. (1989). Palaeosols in Westphalian Coal-bearing and red-bed sequences, central and northern England. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 70(4). 303–330. 111 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard & Gilbert Kellıng. (1988). Sedimentation in a Synorogenic Basin Complex: The Upper Carboniferous of Northwest Europe. 214 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard. (1988). Palaeogeographic implications of late Westphalian to early Permian red-beds, Central England. 200–221. 55 indexed citations
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Turner, Peter, David J. Vaughan, & Bernard Besly. (1985). Remanence acquisition in red beds from the Coal Measures of Central England. Journal of the Geological Society. 142(6). 1015–1028. 11 indexed citations
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Besly, Bernard & Peter Turner. (1983). Origin of red beds in a moist tropical climate (Etruria Formation, Upper Carboniferous, UK). Geological Society London Special Publications. 11(1). 131–147. 63 indexed citations

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