Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles

• Barrier A., Browne GH., Nicol A. and Bassett K. (2022) Sedimentary architecture of a Late Cretaceous under-filled rift basin, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Basin Research 34(1): 342-365. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12622.

• Barrier A., Bischoff A., Nicol A., Browne GH. and Bassett KN. (2021) Relationships between volcanism and plate tectonics: A case-study from the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Marine Geology 433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106397.

• Maitra MK. and Bassett KN. (2021) Alluvial fans and fan deltas in the Paparoa Formation, Greymouth Basin: a new rift model. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2021.1984257.

• Barrier A., Nicol A., Browne GH. and Bassett KN. (2020) Late Cretaceous coeval multi-directional extension in South Zealandia: Implications for eastern Gondwana breakup. Marine and Petroleum Geology 118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104383.

• Smithies SL., Bassett KN., Browne GH. and Nichols ARL. (2020) Provenance of the Pakawau Group and Farewell Formation (Late Cretaceous–Paleocene), Taranaki Basin, northwest Nelson, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 63(1): 1-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2019.1603164.

• Barrier A., Nicol A., Browne GH. and Bassett K. (2019) Early Oligocene marine canyon-channel systems: Implications for regional paleogeography in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. Marine Geology 418 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106037.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Hill SH., Villeneuve MC. and Bassett KN. (2019) Geomechanical characterization of reservoir rocks in the southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. In 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium.

• Nobes DC., Hammond KA. and Bassett KN. (2018) Effect of suspended sediments on ground penetrating radar imaging of riverbeds. In Proceedings GPR 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICGPR.2018.8441671.

• Barrier A., Nicol A., Bassett KN., Browne G. and Sahoo T. (2017) Late Cretaceous Rifting of the Canterbury Basin during Zealandia intra-continental extension. In.

• Bassett KN., Thompson NK. and Reid CM. (2017) Distribution of carbonate reservoirs controlled by volcanism in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. In Proccedings of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Geosciences Technology Workshop “Influence of Volcanism and Associated Magmatic Processes on Petroleum Systems".

• Bastin S., Green R., Quigley M. and Bassett KN. (2017) Paleo-liquefaction; an Alternative Tool for Seismic Hazard Assessments. In 8th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology (PATA) Focus Group Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazards.

Journal Articles

• Duffy B., Kalansky J., Bassett K., Harris R., Quigley MC., van Hinsbergen DJJ., Strachan LJ. and Rosenthal Y. (2017) Mélange versus forearc contributions to sedimentation and uplift, during rapid denudation of a young Banda forearc-continent collisional belt. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 138: 186-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.02.008.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Joyce R. and Bassett KN. (2017) Detailed facies analysis of the Late Cretaceous North Cape Formation, southern Taranaki Basin. In.

• Maitra M. and Bassett K. (2017) Detailed facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy of potential lacustrine source rocks, Greymouth Basin, New Zealand. In.

• Maitra M. and Bassett KN. (2017) Tectonic evolution of the Late Cretaceous to Early Palaeocene Greymouth Basin, West Coast. In.

• Maitra M., Bassett KN., Nicol A. and Sykes R. (2017) Sequence stratigraphy and subsidence analysis of Late Cretaceous‒Paleocene lacustrine source rocks, Greymouth Coalfield basin. In.

• Reid CM., Mellis RA., Thompson NK. and Bassett KN. (2017) The influence of volcanism on cool-water carbonate diagenesis in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand. In Proccedings of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Geosciences Technology Workshop “Influence of Volcanism and Associated Magmatic Processes on Petroleum Systems". 2017.

• Steadman R. and Bassett KN. (2017) Provenance and porosity analysis of the Late Cretaceous Greymouth Basin, New Zealand. In.

• Bassett KN., Grace K. and Bastin S. (2016) Seismicity, liquefaction and heterolithic reservoir connectivity: Examples from the recent Canterbury Earthquake Sequence. In In Proceedings.

• Bassett KN., Maitra M. and Steadman R. (2016) Enigmatic fitted clast textures, Paparoa Formation, Greymouth Basin. In.

Journal Articles

• Bastin SH., Bassett K., Quigley MC., Maurer B., Green RA., Bradley B. and Jacobson D. (2016) Late holocene liquefaction at sites of contemporary liquefaction during the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 106(3): 881-903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120150166.

• Bernet M. and Bassett K. (2016) Quartz types of the Eocene Broken River Formation, Mount Somers, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59(2): 274-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2015.1132743.

• Levy R., Harwood D., Florindo F., Sangiorgi F., Tripati R., von Eynatten H., Gasson E., Kuhn G., Tripati A. and Deconto R. (2016) Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO 2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(13): 3453-3458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Maitra M. and Bassett KN. (2016) Sedimentary facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy of the Paparoa Coal Measures, Greymouth Basin, New Zealand. In.

• Maitra MK., Bassett KN., Nicol A. and Sykes R. (2016) Sequence stratigraphy and subsidence analysis of Late Cretaceous - Paleocene lacustrine source rocks, Greymouth Coalfield basin. In Proceedings of the Advantage Petroleum Summit.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Hill S. and Villeneuve M. (2019) Geomechanical Characterisation of Reservoir Rocks in the Southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. New York, USA: US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, 23-26 Jun 2019.

• Smithies S., Bassett KN., Browne G. and Nichols ARL. (2017) Provenance of Late Cretaceous and Paleocene sediments in the southern Taranaki Basin, northwest Nelson. Auckland: Geoscience Society of New Zealand Annual Conference, 28 Nov-1 Dec 2017.

Editorial Work

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• New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics Associate Editor ( 2010 - 2022)
• New Zealand Journal of Geology, and Geophysics Editor ( 2015 - 2022)

Review and Refereeing

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• Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research ( 1997 - 2002)
• New Zealand Journal of Geology, and Geophysics ( 2006 - 2022)

Research Groups

Future Research

• Unconformities in the Oligocene – tectonic or climatic in origin?
• Tectonic setting of the Beacon Group, Antarctica
• SEM cathodoluminescence – further development of its use in provenance analysis
• Uplift of the Transantarctic Mtns. Antarctica – evidence from Ross Sea sediments
• Inception of the modern NZ plate boundary – evidence from transitional basins