Amy Gough

Biography

I am a lecturer in Southeast Asian geology and a member of the Southeast Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London

My key research themes are: terrestrial sedimentology; palaeoenvironment reconstruction; sediment provenance

Professional Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in clastic sedimentology 2017-2018: Southeast Asia Research Group, Royal Holloway, University of London

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in clastic sedimentology 2015-2017: Southeast Asia Research Group, Royal Holloway, University of London

Teaching Assistant: 2014-2015: Keele University

Demonstrator: 2011-2014: Keele University

Educational Background

PhD Researcher – 2011 – 2014 – Climatic Cyclicity and environmental interactions in proximal continental basins: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity – Keele University

MGeoscience in Geology – 2007 – 2011 – Keele University

Past Fieldwork Experience

October 2018 – Central Myanmar Basin – Research trip and MRes student training

March 2017 – Central Myanmar Basin – Research trip

May – June 2016 – Central Sumatra Basin – Research trip

October – November 2015 – Vietnam- PhD student training

July – August 2015 – South Sumatra Basin – PhD student support and research

March 2015-2018 – Almeria – teaching

6 months accumulated field season on the Colorado Plateau (2011-2014) PhD research

Field courses taught:-

– Advanced sedimentology – Northumberland Trough

– Reconstructing past environments – Mam Tor

– Mapping Training – North Wales

– Geoscience – Western U.S.A

– Geology of Almeria + mapping training

– Geological Training – Pembrokeshire

Current Areas of Research

Myanmar – Cenozoic fill of the Salin sub-basin, Central Myanmar using provenance, depositional environment reconstruction, and extensive fieldwork

Vietnam – onshore-offshore correlations using provenance studies and heavy minerals

Sumatra – Looking to further the understanding of the Lahat and Lemat Formations in the South Sumatra Basin using both U-Pb zircon dating, and applying well-exposed analogue studies, and linking these deposits to the Central Sumatra Basin

Java – Assessing the optical properties of zircons from the recent eruptions of Bromo and Merapi

Relevant Presentations (recent top five)

Gough, A. Hall, R. McNeil, J. Cenozoic sedimentation in the Salin sub-basin, Central Myanmar. 2018. FOSI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Oral Presentation

Gough, A. Hall, R. McNeil, J. Sediment provenance and routing pathways in the Salin sub-baisn Myanmar. 2018. 20th International Sedimentological Congress, Quebec, Canada. Oral Presentation

Gough, A. Liebermann, C. Sumatra – depositional environments, provenance and environmental reconstructions. 2018. Southeast Asia day at the BGS Edinburgh, Scotland. Invited Speaker

Gough, A. McNeil, J., Hall, R. Provenance and sediment routing pathways of the Salin sub-basin, Myanmar, 2018. SEAPEX London Meeting. Poster Presentation

Gough, A, Hall, R. Fluvio-deltaic depositional environments of the Oligocene formations of the Salin sub-basin, Central Myanmar. 2017. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Poster Presentation

Student Supervision

Conor McMillan: MRes Student. Royal Holloway. 2018/19. Sedimentary provenance and depositional environments from the Oligocene formations in the north of the Salin sub-basin, onshore Myanmar. SEARG funded. First Supervisor

Kimberley Johnson: MRes Student. Royal Holloway. 2018/19. Miocene sediment provenance of the Pyawbwe, Kyaukkok, and Obogon Formations of the Salin sub-basin, onshore Myanmar. SEARG funded. First Supervisor

Zoe Matthews: PhD Student. Royal Holloway. 2018/22. Chambers, crystals, and charges: quantifying crystallisation dynamics in crustal magma stores. DTP funded. Advisor

Joseph McNeil. MRes Student. Royal Holloway. 2017/18. Oligocene sediment routing pathways in the Salin basin, Myanmar. SEARG funded. First Supervisor

Rafika Ismail. PhD Student. Royal Holloway. 2015/19. Tectono-sedimentary evolution and provenance of the Neogene seidments of the greater Sabah Margin. SEARG Funded. Advisor

Christof Liebermann. PhD Student. Royal Holloway. 2014/18. Sedimentary provenance of Sumatra. SEARG Funded. Second Supervisor

Ginny Marie-Bradley. MGeoscience Student. Keele University. 2013/14. Understanding the St Bees Sandstone, Cumbria. BGS (BIGRAD) funded. First Supervisor

Recent Papers –

Max Webb et al., 2020. Isotopic mapping reveals the location of crustal fragments along a long-lived convergent plate boundary. Lithos.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105687

Max Webb et al., 2020. The history of Cenozoic magmatism and collision in NW New Guinea – New insights into the tectonic evolution of the northernmost margin of the Australian Plate. Gondwana Research.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.12.010

Amy Gough et al., 2020. Mid-Cenozoic fluvio-deltaic to marine environments of the Salin Sub-basin, Central Myanmar. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104143

Recent News –

Amy Gough and Max Webb attended the Restech 2.0 Virtual Reservoir Conference. Amy Gough presented new SEARG research on the pitfalls of light mineral studies for sedimentary provenance in tropical climates.

Amy Gough was awarded an honorary research fellowship of the British Geological Survey and continues to foster collaborative relationships between SEARG and the BGS.