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Maarten Krabbendam’s Biography

• 2001 : Survey Geologist, 51����
• 1998 – 2001 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University, Australia
• 1994 – 1997 : PhD, University of Oxford
• 1991 – 1994 : Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Queen’s University, Belfast
• 1983 – 1994 : BA and MSc Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Research interests

• Glacial geomorphology and links to bedrock structure and ice flow mechanisms
• Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins / Reconstructing basin architecture in polydeformed terranes
• Thrust tectonics / Caledonian Orogen

Current projects and collaborations

• 2015 – ongoing : Bedrock streamlining: where & how? with Nick Eyles (Toronto), Niko Putkinene (Geological Survey Finland) and Tom Bradwell (Stirling)
• 2014 – ongoing : Glacial geomorphology Lewis/Harris collaboration with Adrian Hall (Stockholm) and Tom Bradwell (Stirling)
• 2014 – ongoing : Map Editor Scotland
• 2013 – ongoing : Crieff-Comrie / A9 Superficial Mapping
• 2013 – ongoing : Detrital mineral dating of Sleat & Torridon sandstones; implications for the Grenville Foreland Basin. With Helen Bonsor (BGS), Matt Horstwood (NIGL) and Toby Rivers (Memorial, St. Johns)
• SIGMA project: geological adviser for Digital Mapping and Geospatial Databases

Publications

• KRABBENDAM, M., Eyles, N., Putkinen, N., Bradwell, T., Arbeleaz-Moreno, 2016. Streamlined hard beds formed by palaeo-ice streams: A review. Sedimentary Geology 338, 24-50.
• KRABBENDAM, M. & BRADWELL, T. 2014. Quaternary evolution of glaciated gneiss terrains: pre-glacial weathering vs. glacial erosion. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 20-42.
• KRABBENDAM, M., LESLIE, A. G. & GOODENOUGH, K. M. 2014. Structure and stratigraphy of the Morar Group in Knoydart, NW Highlands: implications for the history of the Moine Nappe and stratigraphic links between the Moine and Torridonian successions. Scottish Journal of Geology, 50, 125-142.
• BONSOR, H., STRACHAN, R., PRAVE, A. & KRABBENDAM, M. 2012. Sedimentology of the early Neoproterozoic Morar Group in northern Scotland: implications for basin models and tectonic setting. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 169, 53-65.
• KRABBENDAM, M. & RAINBIRD, R. 2012. Discussion: A unifying model for the Torridon Group (early Neoproterozoic), NW Scotland: Product of post-Grenvillian extensional collapse. Earth-Science Reviews, 111, 82-85.
• KRABBENDAM, M. & BRADWELL, T. 2011. Lateral plucking as a mechanism for elongate erosional glacial bedforms: explaining megagrooves in Britain and Canada. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36, 1335-1349.
• KRABBENDAM, M. & GLASSER, N. 2011. Glacial erosion and bedrock properties in NW Scotland: Abrasion and plucking, hardness and joint spacing. Geomorphology, 130, 374-383.
• KRABBENDAM, M., STRACHAN, R.A., LESLIE, A.G., GOODENOUGH, K.M. & BONSOR, H.C. 2011. The internal structure of the Moine Nappe Complex and the stratigraphy of the Morar Group in the Fannichs-Beinn Dearg area, NW Highlands. Scottish Journal of Geology, 47, 1-20.
• KRABBENDAM, M. & LESLIE, A.G. 2010. Lateral variations and linkages in thrust geometry: the Traligill Transverse Zone, Assynt Culmination, Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland. In Law, R., Butler, R. W. H., Holdsworth, R. E., Krabbendam, M. & Strachan, R. A. (eds) Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society. London, Special Publication, 335, 333-356.
• BRADWELL, T., STOKER, M. S. & KRABBENDAM, M. 2008. Megagrooves and streamlined bedrock in NW Scotland: the role of ice streams in landscape evolution.Geomorphology97, 135-156
• KRABBENDAM, M., PRAVE, A. P. & CHEER, D. 2008. A fluvial origin for the Neoproterozoic Morar Group, NW Scotland; implications for Torridon – Morar group correlation and the Grenville Orogen Foreland Basin.Journal of the Geological Society of London165, 379-394
• KRABBENDAM, M. & DEWEY, J. F. 1998. Exhumation of UHP rocks by transtension in the Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides. In R. E. Holdsworth, R. A. Strachan, and J. F. Dewey, (Eds.) Continental transpressional and transtensional tectonics. ,Geological Society Special Publication,135, 159-181

Published outputs

Skills

• Geological mapping of thrust terranes, basement terranes, glacial geology
• Glacial geomorphology
• ArcGIS and digital mapping
• Metamorphic petrology
• French & German speaker; Fluent in Dutch

Professional associations

• Fellow of the Geological Society of Edinburgh

Boards and commitees

• 2014 – ongoing : Editor and Secretary Editorial Board, Scottish Journal of Geology