Name: Dr. Pat Meere
Position: Lecturer
T: 353 (0)21 4903056
F: 353 (0)21
E: p.meere@ucc.ie
Biography
Research Interests
My research interests are primarily in geofluids and structural geology. Of particular interest are fracture studies (at a micro, meso and mega scale), the role of fluids in basin evolution and the theoretical modelling of strain in sediments and sedimentary rocks. Currently active research projects include:
- The nature and timing of overprinting meso/mega fracture patterns in the Variscides of SW Ireland
- Quartz vein systems in the Irish Variscides - their evolution from pre-compressional features to late stage fractures associated with orogenic exhumation
- The role of the regional basement fabric of the southern Irish Avalonian margin in the development and inversion of the Late Palaeozoic Munster and South Munster Basins
- The development and testing of new strain analysis techniques in low grade sedimentary rocks and applying them to regional studies in the Variscan of south west Ireland and the northern Spain
- Analogue modelling of the role of basin architecture in basin inversion
Teaching
- Structural geology
- Geofluids
- Geological map interpretation
- 3rd Year Earth Science field-course
Recent Publications
Mulchrone, K. F. and Meere, P.A. 2007. Strain refraction, viscosity ratio and multi-layer deformation: A mechanical approach.
Journal of Structural Geology, 29 (3), 453-466.
Meere, P. A. and Mulchrone, K. F. 2006. Timing of deformation within old red sandstone lithologies from the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland
Journal of the Geological Society, 163: 461-469 Part 3.
Meere, P. A., Mulchrone, K. F. & Choudry, K. R. 2006. Automated grain boundary detection by CASRG.
Journal of Structural Geology, 28 (3): 363-375.
Mulchrone, K. F., Meere, P. A. & Choudhury, K. R. 2005. SAPE: a program for semi-automatic parameter extraction for strain analysis.
Journal of Structural Geology 27 (11): 2084-2098.
Quinn, D., Meere, P. A., Wartho J. A. 2005. A chronology of foreland deformation: ultra-violet laser Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of syn/late-orogenic intrusions from the Variscides of southwest Ireland. Journal of Structural Geology 27 (8): 1413-1425
Meere, P.A. and Mulchrone, K.F. 2003. The effect of sample size on geological strain estimation from passively deformed clastic sedimentary rocks. Journal of Structural Geology, 25 ( 10), 1587-1595.
Mulchrone, K.F., O'Sullivan, F. and Meere, P.A. 2002. Finite strain estimation using the vector mean of elliptical objects with confidence intervals. Journal of Structural Geology, 25 (4), 529-539.
Mulchrone, K.F. and Meere, P.A. 2001. A windows program for the analysis of tectonic strain using deformed elliptical markers. Computers & Geosciences,27 (10), 1251-1255.
Meere, P.A. and Banks, D.A. 1997. Upper crustal fluid migrations: an example from the Variscides of SW Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, London,154, 975-985.
Dubois, M., Ayt Ougoudgal, M., Meere, P.A., Royer, J.J., Boiron, M.C. and Cathelinean, M. 1996. Temperature of paleo- to modern self sealing within a continental rift basin. The fluid inclusion data (Soultz-Sous Forets, Rhine Grabben, France). European Journal of Mineralogy,5, 1065-1080.
Meere, P.A. 1995. The structural evolution of the western Irish Variscides: an example of obstacle tectonics? Tectonophysics,246 (1-3), 97-112.
Meere, P.A. 1995. Sub-greenschist facies metamorphism from the Variscides of SW Ireland: an early syn-extensional peak thermal event. Journal of the Geological Society, London,152, 511-521.
Meere, P.A. 1995. High and low density fluids in a quartz vein from the Irish Variscides. Journal of Structural Geology,17 (3), 435-446.