Publications

Listed are all publications arising from research conducted in the carbonate team at University of Manchester

2025

  • Dimmen, V., Rotevatn, A., Corlett, H., Lecomte, I., Hollis, C., Gravendeel, W and Gawthorpe, G., 2025. Imaging fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomite bodies in the subsurface: insights from 3D seismic modeling of the Hammam Faraun Fault system, Suez Rift, Egypt. Journal of the Geological Society of London. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-115
  • McCormick, C, Rutter, E., Corlett, H., Steele-MacInnes, M., Vagle, E., Whitaker, F and Hollis, C., 2025 Zebra textures in fault-controlled, hydrothermal dolomite bodies: coupled mechanisms of replacement, deformation, and cementation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119274

2024

  • Hao, Jingyue, Ma, Lin, Shende, Takshak, Hollis, C and Taylor, K., 2024. Time-lapse 3D imaging and modelling of acid-rock interactions within a mudstone: Implications for cap-rock behaviour during carbon storage. Fuel, 281, 133629, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.133629
  • Muñoz-López, D., Lu, C., Li, W., Corlett, H., Hollis, C., Swart, P and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2024. What is the source of magnesium in hydrothermal dolomites? New insights from coupling δ26Mg - ∆47 isotopes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 638, 118760, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118760
  • McCormick, C., Corlett, H, Roberts, N., Johnston, P., Collum, C., Stacey, J., Koeshidayatullah, A., Hollis, C., 2024. U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte, Nature Communications, Earth and Environment, 5, 318 (2024) ''https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01429-0
  • Stacey, J, Corlett, H., Hollis, C., Hills, D., 2024. Reservoir Evaluation of dolomitized Devonian strata in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Implications for carbon capture, utilization and storage. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 94(3), 334-353, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2023.082
  • Al Sinawi, N., Hollis, C., Duval-Arnould, A., Koeshidayatullah, A., Schroder, S and Redfern, J., 2024. Dolomitization of early-post rift Lower Jurassic carbonate platforms along the Moroccan Atlantic Margin: Origin and significance. Journal of African Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.105167

2023

  • McCormick, C., Corlett, H., Clog, M., Boyce, A., Tartese, R., Steele-MacInnis, M and Hollis, C., 2023. Basin scale evolution of zebra textures in fault controlled, hydrothermal dolomite bodies: Insights from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Basin Research, http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12789.
  • Hao, J., Ma, L., Hollis, C., Fauchille, A-L., Taylor, K.G., 2023. Spatial distribution of mineral development in Carboniferous Bowland Shale, UK at 3D micro- to nano-scales. Coal Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2023.104236
  • Frazer, M., Hollis, C. and Whitaker, F., 2023. Dolomitisation of carbonate platform margins by fault-controlled geothermal convection: Insights from coupling stratigraphic and reactive transport models. The Depositional Record, http://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.234
  • Breislin, C., Banks, V., Crowley, S., Marshall, J.D., Millar, I., Riding, J.D. and Hollis, C., 2023. Mechanisms controlling the localisation of fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization, Derbyshire Platform, UK. Depositional Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.214

2022

  • Gallois, A., Burgess, P., Bosence, D and Hollis, C., 2022. Broken Beds but better science: using multiple hypotheses to interpret geological data. Terra Nova, http://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12631
  • Robertson, H., Corlett, H., Hollis, C and Whitaker, F., 2022. Solubility product constants for natural dolomite (0-200oC) through a groundwater-based approach using the USGS produced water database. American Journal of Science, 322, 593-645. http://doi.org/10.2475/04.2022.03
  • Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Sinawi, N., Swart, P., Boyce, A., Redfern, J and Hollis, C., 2022. Coevolution of diagenetic fronts and fluid-fracture pathways. Nature Scientific Reports, 12.9278, https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13186
  • Hollis, C and Al Hajri, A., 2022, Post-compactional porosity in a hydrocarbon-bearing carbonate succession: potential timing and processes controlling porosity creation in the Aptian Shuaiba Formation, Oman. Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.106046
  • Bryers, O., Bulot, L., Duval-Arnould, A, Hollis, C., Redfern, J., 2022. Kilometre-scale coral carpets on mixed carbonate-siliciclastic platforms; a sedimentological study from the Lower Cretaceous of northwestern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 587, 110792, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110792
  • Noorian, Y., Moussavi-Harami, R., Hollis, C., Reijmer, J., Mahboubi, A and Omidpour, A., 2022. Control of climate, sea-level fluctuations and tectonics on the pervasive dolomitization and porosity evolution of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation (Dezful Embayment, SW Iran). Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2021.106048

2021

  • McCormick, C., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Hollis, C., Feng, J., Rivard, B. and Omma, J., 2021. Shortwave infrared hyperspectral imaging as a novel method to elucidate multi-phase dolomitization, recrystallization, and cementation in carbonate sedimentary rocks. Scientific Reports, 11:21732 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01118-4
  • Hao, J., Taylor, K and Hollis, C., 2021. Mineral diagenesis and inferred fluids in basinal mudstones: the Carboniferous Morridge Formation, Widmerpool Gulf, UK. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 134, 105373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105373
  • Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H. and Hollis, C., 2021. An overview of structurally-controlled dolostone – limestone transitions in the stratigraphic record. Earth Science Reviews, 220, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103751
  • del Strother, P., Gize, A., Hollis, C. and McLean, D., 2021. Bituminous coals on emergent surfaces in an Asbian, lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) limestone succession on the North Wales carbonate platform, UK, and implications for palaeoclimate. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. http://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2020-006
  • Manifold, L., del Strother, P., Gold, D., Burgess, P and Hollis, C., 2021. Unravelling evidence for global climate change in Mississippian carbonate strata from the Derbyshire and North Wales Platforms, UK. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 178, 2020-106, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-106
  • Stacey, J., Corlett, H., Holland, G., Koeshidayatullah, A., Cao, C., Swart, P., Crowley, S and Hollis, C., 2021. Regional fault-controlled shallow dolomitization of the Middle Cambrian Cathedral Formation by hydrothermal fluids fluxed through a basal clastic aquifer. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 133, 2355-2377, https://doi.org/10.1130/B35927
  • Masiero, M., Burgess, P., Hollis, C., 2021. Syn-rift carbonate platforms in space and time: testing and refining conceptual models using stratigraphic and seismic numerical modelling. In: Seismic Characterization of Carbonate Platforms and Reservoirs (Ed. J. Hendry, P.Burgess, X. Janson), Special Publication of the Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP509-2019-217
  • Corlett, H., Hirani, J., Rotevatn, A., Taylor, R and Hollis, C., 2021. A geocellular modelling workflow for partially dolomitized remobilized carbonates: an example from the Hammam Faraun Fault Block, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Marine and Petroleum Geology Special Issue ‘Carbonate Reservoir Modelling’ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104831

2020

  • Benjakul, R., Hollis, C., Robertson, H., Sonnenthal, E and Whitaker, F., 2020. Understanding controls on hydrothermal dolomitisation: insights from 3D reactive transport modelling. Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2020-99
  • Aratman, C., Ozkul, M., Swennen, R., Hollis, C., Marques Erthal, M., Claes, H and Mohammadi, Z., 2020, The giant Quaternary Ballik travertine system in the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey): a palaeoenvironmental analysis. Quaternaire, 31, 91-116, https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.13688
  • Özyurt, M., Kırmacı, M.Z., Al-Aasm, I., Hollis, C., Taslı, K., Kandemir, R., 2020. REE+Y characteristics of Lower Cretaceous limestone succession in Gümüşhane, NE Turkey: Implications for ocean paleoredox conditions and diagenetic alteration, Minerals, 10, 683, https://doi.org/10.3390/min10080683
  • Stacey, J., Hollis, C., Corlett, H. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2020. Burial dolomitization driven by modified seawater and basement-derived brines: insights from the Middle and Upper Devonian of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. Basin Research, 33,: 648– 680. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12489.
  • Breislin, C., Crowley, S., Banks, V., Marshall, J., Millar, I, Riding, J and Hollis, C., 2020. Controls on the localization of dolomitization within extensional basins: an example from the Derbyshire Platform, UK. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 1156-1174, http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.58
  • Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P., Boyce, A., Hollis, C., 2020, Origin and evolution of fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization fronts: A new insight. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116291
  • Manifold, L., Hollis, C and Burgess, P., 2020. The anatomy of a Mississippian (Visean) carbonate platform interior, UK: Depositional cycles, glacioeustasy and facies mosaics. Sedimentary Geology, 401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105633
  • Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P.K., Boyce, A., Robertson, H., Whitaker, F., Hollis, C., 2020. Evaluating new fault‐controlled hydrothermal dolomitisation models: Insights from the Cambrian Dolomite, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12729
  • Newport, R, Redfern, J and Hollis, C., 2020. The Interaction of Tectonics, Climate and Eustasy in Controlling Dolomitisation: A Case Study Of Cenomanian-Turonian, Shallow Marine Carbonates Of The Iberian Basin. Sedimentology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12704

2019

  • Zwahlen, C*., Hollis, C., Lawson, M., Becker, S. P., Boyce, A., Zhou, Z. & Holland, G., 16 Jan 2019. Constraining the fluid history of a CO2-H2S reservoir: Insights from stable isotopes, REE and fluid inclusion microthermometry, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. PDF
  • Behbehani, S*., Hollis, C., Holland, G., Singh, P. & Edwards, K., 2019. A seismically controlled seal breach in a major hydrocarbon province: A study from the Mauddud Formation in the Bahrah field, Kuwait, Marine and Petroleum Geology. 107, 255, p. 255-277https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.04.017
  • Manifold, L*., El-Bozie, A., Hollis, C. & Schröder, S., 2019, (Accepted/In press) Characterizing facies, pore types, and diagenesis of a subtidal to peritidal carbonate platform for defining flow units. Characterization and modeling of carbonates. In: Carbonate Pore Systems: New Developments and Case Studies (Ed. D. MacNeil, P.M. Harris, J.Hseih, E. Rankey), SEPM Special Publication.
  • Zwahlen, C*., Wogelius, R., Hollis, C. & Holland, G., 2019. Reaction path modelling illustrating the fluid history of a natural CO2-H2S reservoir. Applied Geochemistry. p. 104391
  • Arantegui Gonzalez, A., Jerrett, R., Schröder, S., Bulot, L. G., Gatto, R., Monari, S. & Redfern, J., 2019. Constraining Mesozoic early post-rift depositional systems evolution along the eastern Central Atlantic Margin. Sedimentary Geology.
  • Warke, M*., Edwards, N., Wogelius, R. A., Manning, P., Bergmann, U., Egerton, V., Kimball, K., Garwood, R., Beukes, N. J. & Schroeder, S., 2019. Decimeter-scale mapping of carbonate-controlled trace element distribution in Neoarchean cuspate stromatolites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 261, p. 56-75.
  • Hollis, C. , Al Hajri, A., van Boxel, S and Lee., P., 2019, Characterisation of porosity within a microporous reservoir, Shuaiba Formation of Oman. In: Carbonate Pore Systems: New Developments and Case Studies (Ed. D. MacNeil, P.M. Harris, J.Hseih, E. Rankey), SEPM Special Publication 112.
  • Manifold, L., El-Bozie, A., Hollis, C. & Schröder, S., 2019. Characterizing facies, pore types, and diagenesis of a subtidal to peritidal carbonate platform for defining flow units. In: Carbonate Pore Systems: New Developments and Case Studies (Ed. D. MacNeil, P.M. Harris, J.Hseih, E. Rankey), SEPM Special Publication 112.

2018

  • Worden R., Armitage, P., Butcher, A., Csoma, A., Hollis, C., Lander, R., Omma, J., and Churchill, J., 2018. Reservoir Quality of Clastic and Carbonate Reservoirs, Geological Society Special Publication, 435, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP435.21.
  • Corlett, H., Bastesen, E., Gawthorpe, R., Hirani, J., Hodgetts, D., Hollis, C and Rotevatn, A., 2018. Origin, dimensions and distribution of remobilized carbonate deposits in a tectonically active zone, Eocene Thebes Formation, Sinai, Egypt. Sedimentary Geology, 372, 44-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.04.008.
  • Hirani, J., Bastesen, E., Boyce, A., Corlett, H., Eker, A., Gawthorpe, R., Hollis, C., Korneva, I., Rotevatn, A., 2018. Structural controls on non-fabric-selective dolomitization within rift-related basin-bounding normal fault systems: Insights from the Hammam Faraun Fault, Gulf of Suez, Egypt, Basin Research, 30, 990-1014 https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12290.
  • Hirani, J., Bastesen, E., Boyce, A., Corlett, H., Gawthorpe, R., Hollis, C., John, C., Robertson, H , Rotevatn, A. and Whitaker, F., 2018. Controls on the formation of stratabound dolostone bodies, Hammam Faraun Fault Block, Gulf of Suez. Sedimentology, 65, 1973-2002. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12454.

2017

  • Hollis, C., Lawrence, D., Deville de Periere, M and Al Darmaki, F., 2017. Controls on porosity preservation within a Jurassic oolitic reservoir complex, UAE. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 88, 888-906. :https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.09.015.
  • Lacey, M., Hollis, C., Oostrum, M. and Shokri, N., 2017. Determination of the effect of pore and grain size on oil recovery using micromodels. Energy and Fuels, 31,9026-3034. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.7b01254.
  • Korneva, I, Bastesen, E., Corlett, H., Eker, A., Hirani, J., Hollis, C., Gawthorpe, R, Rotevatn, A and Taylor, R., 2017. The effects of dolomitization on petrophysical properties and fracture distribution within rift-related carbonates (Hammam Faraun Fault Block, Suez Rift, Egypt). Journal of Structural Geology, 108, 108-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2017.06.005.
  • Newport, R., Hollis, C., Bodin, S. and Redfern, J., 2017, Examining the interplay of climate and low amplitude sea-level change on the distribution and volume of massive dolomitization: Zebbag Formation, Cretaceous, Southern Tunisia, Depositional Record, 3, 38-59 https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.25
  • Hollis, C., Bastesen, E., Boyce, A., Corlett, H., Gawthorpe, R., Hirani, J., Rotevatn, A and Whitaker, F, 2017. Fault controlled dolomitization in a rift basin. Geology, 45, 219-222 https://doi.org/10.1130/G38394.1
  • English, K., English, J., Bonnell, L., Lander, R., Hollis, C., Redfern, J., Guirdham, C., Garnham, J, Yahia Cherif, R. 2017. Controls on reservoir quality in exhumed basins- an example from the Ordovician sandstones, Illizi Basin, Algeria. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 80, 203-227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.11.011

2016

  • English, K., English, J., Redfern, J., Hollis, C., Corcoran, D., Oxtoby, N and Rachida, Y., 2016. Remobilization of deep basin brine during exhumation of the Illizi Basin, Algeria. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 78, 679-689, doi:10.1016/marpetgeo.2016.08.016
  • Schroeder, S., Beukes, N. J. & Armstrong, R. A., 2016. Detrital zircon constraints on the tectonostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Pretoria Group, South Africa. Precambrian Research. 278, p. 362-393Archilla, N., Missagia, R., Hollis, C., de Ceia, M., McDonald, S., Lima Neto, I., Eastwood, D and Lee, P., 2016. Permeability and acoustic velocity controlling factors determined from X-ray tomography images of carbonate rocks. AAPG Bulletin, 100, 1289-1309
  • Todaro, S., Hollis, C. and Di Stefano, P., 2016, Spongy-like porosity in peritidal carbonates: an interaction of cyclic sea-level oscillations, fresh water supply and sediment texture. Sedimentary Geology, 333, 70-83.
  • Schroeder, S. & Warke, M*., 2016, Termination of BIF deposition in the Paleoproterozoic: the Tongwane Formation, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology. 119, 2, p. 329-346. PDF
  • Juerges, A., Hollis, C., Marshall, J and Crowley, S., 2016, The control of basin evolution on patterns of sedimentation and diagenesis: an example from the Mississippian Great Orme, North Wales. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 173, 438-456. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2014-149

before 2015

  • Schroeder, S., Ibekwe, A., Saunders, M., Dixon, R. & Fisher, A., 2015. Algal-microbial carbonates of the Namibe Basin (Albian, Angola): implications for microbial carbonate mound development in the South Atlantic. Petroleum Geoscience. 22, p. 71-90. PDF
  • de Azevedo Lima Neto, I., Misságia, R.M., Ceia, M.A., Archilha, N., Hollis , C., 2015. Evaluation of carbonate pore system under texture control for prediction of microporosity aspect ratio and shear wave velocity. Sedimentary Geology, 323, 43-65. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.04.011
  • Al Rajaibi, I., Hollis, C. and MacQuaker, J., 2015. Origin and variability of a terminal Proterozoic primary silica precipitate, Athel Silicilyte, South Oman Salt Basin, Sultanate of Oman. Sedimentology, 62, 793-825. SED.62.3, pp.793-825, http://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12173.
  • Sharples, A., Huuse, M., Hollis, C., Totterdell, J and Taylor, P., 2014. Giant middle Eocene bryozoan reef mounds in the Great Australian Bight. Geology, 42, 683-686.
  • Frazer, M., Whitaker, F and Hollis, C., 2014. Fluid Expulsion from Overpressured Basins: Implications for Pb-Zn Mineralisation and Dolomitization of the East Midlands Platform, Northern England. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 55, 68-86.
  • Jivkov, A., Hollis, C., Etiese, F., McDonald, S and Withers, P., 2013. A novel architecture for pore network modeling with applications to permeability of porous media. Journal of Hydrology, 486, 246-258.
  • Hollis, C. and Walkden, G., 2012. Burial diagenetic evolution of the Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) of the southern margin of the Askrigg Platform and a comparison with the Derbyshire Platform. Petroleum Geoscience, 18, 83-95.
  • Iriarte, E., A. López-Horgue, M., Schroeder, S. & Caline, B., 2012. Interplay between fracturing and hydrothermal fluid flow in the asón valley hydrothermal dolomites (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain). Geological Society Special Publication, Geological Society of London, Vol. 370. p. 207-227. PDF
  • Hollis, C and Sharp, I., 2011.Albian-Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate-siliciclastic systems of the Arabian Plate: advances in diagenesis, structure and reservoir modeling: introduction. Petroleum Geoscience Thematic Set (Ed. C.Hollis and I.Sharp), 17-3, 207-209.
  • Hollis, C., 2011. Diagenetic controls on reservoir properties of carbonate successions within the Albian-Turonian of the Arabian Plate. Petroleum Geoscience, 17-3, 223-241.
  • Al Balushi, S., MacQuaker, J., Hollis, C. and Marshall, J, 2011. Influence of oxic diagenesis on source potential and lithofacies cyclicity: insight from Cenomanian Natih-B Member intrashelf basinal carbonates, Oman. Petroleum Geoscience, 17-2, 243-261.
  • Lamarche, J., Borgomano, J., Caline, B., Gisquet, F., Rigaud, S., Schroeder, S., Viseur, S., Martinsen, M.S.O.J., Pulham, A. and Haughton, P., 2011. Characterization of fault-related dolomite bodies in carbonate reservoirs using LIDAR scanner. Outcrops revitalized: Tools, techniques and applications: SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 10, pp.175-194.
  • Hollis, C., Price, S., Dijk, H., Wei, L, Frese, D., Van Rijen, M., Al Salhi, M., 2011. Uncertainty management in a giant fractured, carbonate field, Oman. In: ‘Uncertainty Analysis in Reservoir Characterization’ (Ed. Yuan Zee Ma), AAPG Special Publication, 96, Chapter 9, 137-158.
  • Hollis, C., Vahrenkamp, V., Tull, S., Mukherji, A., Taberner, C., Huang., Y. 2010. Pore system characterisation in heterogeneous carbonates: system characterisation in heterogeneous carbonates: an alternative approach to widely used rock-typing methodologies. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27 (4), 772-793
  • Fischer, W. W., Schroeder, S., Lacassie, J. P., Beukes, N. J., Goldberg, T., Strauss, H., Horstmann, U. E., Schrag, D. P. & Knoll, A. H., 2009. Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Precambrian Research. 169, 15-27 pp

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