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Selley, Richard Curtis was born on September 21, 1939 in Effingham, Surrey, England. Son of Harry Westcott and Dorothy Joan (Curtis) Selley.
(has done more to advance and apply sedimentology than any...)
has done more to advance and apply sedimentology than any other branch of industrial geology. Critical readers will notice that metres, feet, kilometres, and miles are used indiscriminately throughout the book. Since the oil industry refuses to go metric, the student must quickly learn to correlate the two systems. A conversion scale is included in the first figure. January, 1970 RICHARD C. SELLEY Tripoli, Libya Preface to the second edition I began to write the first edition of this book after spending nearly ten years at university studying and teaching how to diagnose the depositional environments of sedimentary rocks where they crop out at the earth's surface. The first edition was written during the first three months of my five-year sabbatical in the oil industry. From then on a very large part of my time has been spent learning how to diagnose the environments of sediments from bore holes in the sub-surface. This is a far more challenging occupation for there are fewer data, the techniques are quite different, and the economic implications may be immense. The new edition reflects this experience. The introductory chapter includes a -discussion of the techniques of sub-surface facies analysis, and subsequent chapters discuss the criteria by which each environment may be recognized in the sub-surface. Most of the chapters have been modified in one way or another; sections on modern environments have been expanded and some of the case histories have been extensively modified and, for the Captain 'reef', completely rewritten.
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Selley, Richard Curtis was born on September 21, 1939 in Effingham, Surrey, England. Son of Harry Westcott and Dorothy Joan (Curtis) Selley.
Bachelor of Science, University London, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1963. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, Imperial College, London, 1963.
Lecturer sedimentology Imperial College, London, 1966-1969. Senior sedimentologist Oasis Oil Corporation, Tripoli, Libya, 1969-1971. Senior geologist Conoco Europe, London, 1971-1974.
Reader petroleum geology Imperial College, 1971-1990, professor applied sedimentology, 1990-2000, emeritus professor sedimentology and petroleum geology, since 2000, head department geology London, 1988-1993, senior research fellow, since 2000. Managing director Research.C. Selley & Company Ltd., Dorking, England, since 1982. Director Tooting Constitutional Club Ltd., London, since 1972.
Distinguished lecturer Petroleum Exploration Society Australia, 1978.
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Justice of the Peace, Southeast Surrey Petty Sessional Division, since 1981. Deputy chairman, since 1999. Fellow Geological Society London (vice president 1992-1994, secretary foreign and external affairs since 1994, Murchison Fund 1975).
Member Petroleum Exploration Society Great Britain (director 1977), Council of Scientific and Technology Institutes, Council European Federation Geologists, American Association Petroleum Geologists (certified of merit 1977), Geologists Association (council since 2000).
Married Pauline Fletcher, May 15, 1965. Children: Helen, Andrea.