Frank Rarity

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Frank Rarity is an adjunct lecturer and postdoctoral consultant geologist at the Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide. Frank has ten years of experience working in industry linked research with strong expertise in sedimentology and stratigraphy, coastal geomorphology, syn-rift tectono-stratigraphy, reservoir modelling and the use of digital survey tools for studying modern and ancient depositional systems. Frank holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Geodetic Surveying from the University of Nottingham and a BSc in Geological Sciences from the University of Plymouth.

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Education

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2005 - 2012	University of Manchester, Manchester	United Kingdom	Phd
2003 - 2004	University of Nottingham, Nottingham	United Kingdom	MSc
1997 - 2000	The University of Plymouth	United Kingdom	BSc (Hons)

Journals

Year	Citation
2018	Muravchik, M., Gawthorpe, R., Sharp, I., Rarity, F., & Hodgetts, D. (2018). Sedimentary environment evolution in a marine hangingwall dipslope setting. El Qaa Fault Block, Suez Rift, Egypt. Basin Research, 30(S1), 452-478. DOI Scopus9 WoS9
2017	Ainsworth, R., Vakarelov, B., Maceachern, J., Rarity, F., Lane, T., & Nanson, R. (2017). Anatomy of a shoreline regression: implications for the high-resolution stratigraphic architecture of deltas. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87(5), 425-459. DOI Scopus45 WoS39
2016	Counts, J. W., Rarity, F., Ainsworth, R. B., Amos, K. J., Lane, T., Moron Polanco, S., . . . Nanson, R. (2016). Sedimentological interpretation of an Ediacaran delta: Bonney Sandstone, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63(3), 257-273. DOI Scopus14 WoS14
2016	Ainsworth, R., Vakarelov, B., MacEachern, J., Nanson, R., Lane, T., Rarity, F., & Dashtgard, S. (2016). Process-driven architectural variability in mouth-bar deposits: A case study from a mixed-process mouth-bar complex, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86(5), 512-541. DOI Scopus31 WoS26
2014	Rarity, G., Van Lanen, X., Hodgetts, D., Gawthorpe, R., Wilson, P., Fabuel-Perez, I., & Redfern, J. (2014). LiDAR-based digital outcrops for sedimentological analysis: workflows and techniques. Geological Society Special Publication, 387(1), 153-183. DOI Scopus43
2013	Strachan, L., Rarity, G., Gawthorpe, R., Wilson, P., Sharp, I., & Hodgetts, D. (2013). Submarine slope processes in rift-margin basins, Miocene Suez Rift, Egypt. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125(1-2), 109-127. DOI
2010	Bates, K. T., Falkingham, P. L., Rarity, F., Hodgetts, D., Purslow, A., & Manning, P. L. (2010). Application of high-resolution laser scanning and photogrammetric techniques to data acquisition, analysis and interpretation in palaeontology. International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 38(5), 68-73.
2009	Wilson, P., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, F., Gawthorpe, R., & Sharp, I. (2009). Structural geology and 4D evolution of a half-graben: new digital outcrop modelling techniques applied to the Nukhul half-graben, Suez rift, Egypt. Journal of Structural Geology, 31(3), 328-345. DOI
2009	Wilson, P., Gawthorpe, R., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, G., & Sharp, I. (2009). Geometry and architecture of faults in a syn-rift normal fault array: the Nukhul half-graben, Suez rift, Egypt. Journal of Structural Geology, 31(8), 759-775. DOI
2008	McCormack, D. C., Irving, D. H., Brocklehurst, S. H., & Rarity, F. (2008). Glacial geomorphological mapping of Coire Mhic Fhearchair, NW Scotland: The contribution of a high-resolution ground based LiDAR survey. Journal of Maps, 4(1), 315-331. DOI
2008	Bates, K., Rarity, F., Manning, P., Hodgetts, D., Vila, B., Oms, O., . . . Gawthorpe, R. (2008). High-resolution LiDAR and photogrammetric survey of the Fumanya dinosaur tracksites (Catalonia): implications for the conservation and interpretation of geological heritage sites. Journal of the Geological Society, 165(1), 115-127. DOI

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2011	Wilson, P., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, G., Gawthorpe, R., & Sharp, I. (2011). Half-graben-scale geocellular outcrop modelling of rift initiation strata from lidar-based digital outcrop data: the Nukhul syncline, Suez Rift, Egypt. In O. Martinsen, A. Pulham, P. Haughton, & M. Sullivan (Eds.), Outcrops revitalised - tools, techniques and applications (pp. 51-68). Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

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2011

Wilson, P., Hodgetts, D., Rarity, G., Gawthorpe, R., & Sharp, I. (2011). Half-graben-scale geocellular outcrop modelling of rift initiation strata from lidar-based digital outcrop data: the Nukhul syncline, Suez Rift, Egypt. In O. Martinsen, A. Pulham, P. Haughton, & M. Sullivan (Eds.), Outcrops revitalised - tools, techniques and applications (pp. 51-68). Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
2015	Lane, T. I., Nanson, R. A., Vakarelov, B. V., Ainsworth, R. B., & Rarity, G. F. (2015). Morphology, Sedimentology and Architecture of Megafan-Shoreline Systems: A Case Study of the Mitchell River Delta, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. In AAPG International Conference and Exhibition 2015: Energy for the Next 50 Years. Melbourne, Australia.
2015	Vakarelov, B. V., Rarity, G. F., Ainsworth, R. B., Nanson, R. A., & Lane, T. I. (2015). A Practical Approach to Hierarchical Marginal Marine Classification Illustrated With Modern and Ancient Examples. In AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition 2015: Exploring the Summit of Petroleum Geosciences. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2015/90216ace/abstracts/2104078.html.
2015	Nanson, R. A., Lane, T. I., Vakarelov, B. V., Ainsworth, R. B., & RArity, G. F. (2015). Downstream Changes in Architecture and Fill of Distributary Channels on a Delta Fed by a Fluvial Megafan: A Case Study From the Mitchell River, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. In AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition 2015: Exploring the Summit of Petroleum Geosciences. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2015/90216ace/abstracts/2102896.html.
2015	Rarity, G. F., Vakarelov, B. V., Ainsworth, R. B., Nanson, R. A., & Lane, T. I. (2015). Process Variability and Morphology of Mouth Bars: Examples From the Modern and Ancient. In AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition 2015: Exploring the Summit of Petroleum Geosciences. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A..
2014	Rarity, G. F., Ainsworth, R. B., Vakarelov, B. V., & Changhwan, L. (2014). A Hierarchical Marginal Marine Architectural Classification System Enables Nested Approach to Geocellular Modeling of Mixed-Process Reservoirs: An Example from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada. In AAPG Annual Convenvention and Exhibition 2014: Ideas and Innovation - Fuel for the Energy Capital. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/abstracts/html/2014/90189ace/abstracts/1840388.html.
2013	Hodgetts, D., Burnham, B., Head, W., Jonathan, A., Rarity, G. F., Seers, T., & Spence, G. (2013). Geostatistics from Digital Outcrop Models of Outcrop Analogues for Hydrocarbon Reservoir Characterisation.. In EGU General Assembly 2013. Vienna, Austria.
2007	Rarity, G. F., Hodgetts, D., Wilson, P., & Gawthorpe, R. L. (2007). Integrating Digital Outcrop Data and Field Geology for Modelling Multi-scale Heterogeneities in Complex Tidal Facies: Nukhul Half-graben, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. In AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition 2007. Long Beach, California.

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2014	Nanson, R. A., Lane, T. I., Augustinus, P., Okafor, R., Ishak, N., Rarity, G. F., . . . Vakarelov, B. V. (2014). The Geometry and Heterolithic Fill of Tide Influenced Channels in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition: Ideas and Innovation - Fuel for the Energy Capita. Houston, Texas, USA.
2014	Nanson, R. A., Lane, T. I., Rarity, G. F., Nyberg, B. B., Amos, K., Vakarelov, B. V., . . . Ishak, N. (2014). The Geometry and Heterolithic Fill of Tide Influenced Channels in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of GeoConventio Focus 2014 - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Calgary, Canada.

Theses

Year Citation
2012 Rarity, G. F. (2012). Digital Outcrop Characterisation of Syn-rift Structure and Stratigraphy: Case Studies from the Nukhul Half-graben, Suez Rift, Egypt.

Year	Citation
2012	Rarity, G. F. (2012). Digital Outcrop Characterisation of Syn-rift Structure and Stratigraphy: Case Studies from the Nukhul Half-graben, Suez Rift, Egypt.

Oct16 to Apr17. Principal investigator for a six month consultancy project for Santos Ltd investigating the sedimentology and palaeogeography of the Elang Formation, Bonaparte Basin, NW Shelf, Australia.
Jan16 to Apr16. Principal investigator for a three month consultancy project for Santos Ltd investigating the palaeogeography and petroleum prospectivity of the Toro and Digimu sandstones, Papua New Guinea.
Oct14 to Dec14. Principal investigator for a two month research project with Woodside Ltd investigating the depositional uncertainty and petroleum prospectivity of the Brigadier Formation, NW Shelf, Australia.

Frank is currently an adjunct lecturer at the University. His primary teaching responsibilities include sedimentology, stratigraphy and reservoir modelling for undergratuate, honours and masters students studying Petroleum Engineering and Petroleum Geoscience at the Australian School of Petroleum, University of Adelaide. This includes leading and co-leading geological fieldtrips at all levels. Supervision and marking of Hons/MSc dissertation projects and developing practical assessments and exams. Course-coordinator (2015 to 2016) for Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience (Hons/MSc).

Email: frank.rarity@adelaide.edu.au