EPrf Peter McCabe
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
College of Sciences
Research interests include: unconventional resources, architecture of sandstone reservoirs for oil and gas, sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine strata, depositional environments of coal and coal-bearing strata, and assessment of fossil fuel resources.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
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| 2014 - 2020 | South Australian State Chair of Petroleum Geology | University of Adelaide |
| 2012 - 2014 | Professor of Applied Sedimentology | Queensland University of Technology |
| 2007 - 2012 | Theme Leader | CSIRO |
| 1987 - 2007 | Research Geologist | US Geological Survey |
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
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| 1999 | Award | Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award | American Association of Petroleum Geologists, | - | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
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| 1971 - 1975 | University of Keele | U.K. | Ph.D. |
| 1968 - 1971 | University of Hull | United Kingdom | B.Sc. |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2025 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2025). Anatomy of the late Pennsylvanian to early Triassic failed rift system of the Cooper Basin, eastern Australia. Gondwana Research, 138, 47-69. |
| 2024 | Guo, F., McCabe, P., Feng, Z., Zhang, Z., & Peng, W. (2024). Depositional environments of complex lake systems – palaeogeographical evolution and main controls: A case study of the Lower to Middle Permian Roseneath–Epsilon–Murteree strata, Cooper Basin, Australia. Sedimentology, 71(7), 2470-2502. |
| 2022 | Wainman, C. C., McCabe, P. J., & Crowley, J. L. (2022). New insights on the age and stratigraphy of the Cisuralian succession in the Cooper Basin, Australia, based on U–Pb CA-TIMS dating of volcanic air-fall tuffs. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 69(4), 497-508. Scopus5 WoS4 |
| 2021 | Guo, F., McCabe, P., Feng, Z., Wu, C., Lyu, X., Peng, W., & Guo, J. (2021). Core-based sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic analysis of shale-dominated gas plays: An example of the early to middle permian Roseneath-Epsilon-Murteree strata in the Cooper basin, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 129, 21 pages. Scopus5 WoS4 |
| 2021 | Salmachi, A., Rajabi, M., Wainman, C., Mackie, S., McCabe, P., Camac, B., & Clarkson, C. (2021). History, geology, in situ stress pattern, gas content and permeability of coal seam gas basins in Australia: a review. Energies, 14(9), 2651-1-2651-37. Scopus69 WoS57 |
| 2020 | Dunlop, E. C., Salmachi, A., & McCabe, P. J. (2020). Investigation of increasing hydraulic fracture conductivity within producing ultra-deep coal seams using time-lapse rate transient analysis: A long-term pilot experiment in the Cooper Basin, Australia. International Journal of Coal Geology, 220, 11 pages. Scopus19 WoS18 |
| 2020 | Wainman, C. C., Tagliaro, G., Jones, M. M., Charles, A. J., Hall, T., White, L. T., . . . Holford, S. P. (2020). The sedimentological evolution and petroleum potential of a very thick Upper Cretaceous marine mudstone succession from the southern high latitudes—a case study from the Bight Basin, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 118, 104441-1-104441-19. Scopus14 WoS10 |
| 2020 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2020). Correlation of fluvial strata in the subsurface–a review. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 122, 18 pages. Scopus7 WoS6 |
| 2019 | Wainman, C., Mantle, D., Hannaford, C., & McCabe, P. (2019). Possible freshwater dinoflagellate cysts and colonial algae from the Upper Jurassic strata of the Surat Basin, Australia. Palynology, 43(3), 1-12. Scopus13 WoS13 |
| 2019 | Wainman, C. C., Reynolds, P., Hall, T., McCabe, P. J., & Holford, S. P. (2019). Nature and origin of tuff beds in Jurassic strata of the Surat Basin, Australia: implications on the evolution of the eastern margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 377, 103-116. Scopus21 WoS19 |
| 2018 | Wainman, C., Hannaford, C., Mantle, D., & McCabe, P. (2018). Utilizing U–Pb CA-TIMS dating to calibrate the Middle to Late Jurassic spore-pollen zonation of the Surat Basin, Australia to the geological time-scale. Alcheringa, 42(3), 402-414. Scopus14 WoS15 |
| 2018 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2018). Evolution of the depositional environments of the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentology, 66(5), 1673-1699. Scopus18 WoS16 |
| 2018 | Wainman, C., McCabe, P., & Crowley, J. (2018). Solving a tuff problem: Defining a chronostratigraphic framework for Middle to Upper Jurassic nonmarine strata in eastern Australia using U-Pb CA-TIMS zircon dates. AAPG Bulletin, 102(6), 1141-1168. Scopus35 WoS34 |
| 2017 | Psaltis, S., Farrell, T., Burrage, K., Burrage, P., McCabe, P., Moroney, T., . . . Bednarz, T. (2017). Using population of models to investigate and quantify gas production in a spatially heterogeneous coal seam gas field. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 49, 338-353. Scopus2 WoS2 |
| 2015 | Psaltis, S., Farrell, T., Burrage, K., Burrage, P., McCabe, P., Moroney, T., . . . Mazumder, S. (2015). Mathematical modelling of gas production and compositional shift of a CSG (coal seam gas) field: local model development. Energy, 88, 621-635. Scopus13 WoS13 |
| 2015 | Wainman, C., McCabe, P., Crowley, J., & Nicoll, R. (2015). U-Pb zircon age of the Walloon Coal Measures in the Surat Basin, southeast Queensland: implications for paleogeography and basin subsidence. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(7), 807-816. Scopus35 WoS33 |
| 2002 | Griffith, L. A., McCabe, P. J., & Williams, C. A. (2002). Foreword - Fluvial systems through space and time: from source to sea. BULLETIN OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, 50(1), 1-2. |
| 2002 | Ahlbrandt, T. S., & McCabe, P. J. (2002). Global petroleum resources: A view to the future. Geotimes, 47(11), 14-18. Scopus14 WoS8 |
| 2001 | McCabe, P. J. (2001). Energy resources - cornucopia or empty barrel?: Reply. AAPG BULLETIN, 85(6), 1093-1097. WoS2 |
| 2001 | McCabe, P. J. (2001). Sizing things up. GEOTIMES, 46(8), 4. |
| 1998 | Qiang, J., & McCabe, P. J. (1998). Genetic features of petroleum systems in rift basins of eastern China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 15(4), 343-358. Scopus41 WoS23 |
| 1998 | McCabe, P. J. (1998). Energy resources - cornucopia or empty barrel?. AAPG Bulletin, 82(11), 2110-2134. Scopus65 WoS43 |
| 1997 | Robinson, J. W., & McCabe, P. J. (1997). Sandstone-body and shale-body dimensions in a braided fluvial system: Salt Wash Sandstone Member (Morrison formation), Garfield County, Utah. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 81(8), 1267-1291. WoS71 |
| 1994 | Shanley, K. W., & McCabe, P. J. (1994). Perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of continental strata. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 78(4), 544-568. Scopus926 WoS782 |
| 1992 | Robinson Roberts, L. N., & McCabe, P. J. (1992). Peat accumulation in coastal-plain mires: a model for coals of the Fruitland Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Colorado, USA. International Journal of Coal Geology, 21(3), 115-138. Scopus11 WoS10 |
| 1992 | SHANLEY, K. W., McCABE, P. J., & HETTINGER, R. D. (1992). Tidal influence in Cretaceous fluvial strata from Utah, USA: a key to sequence stratigraphic interpretation. Sedimentology, 39(5), 905-930. Scopus249 WoS215 |
| 1992 | McCabe, P. J., & Shanley, K. W. (1992). Organic control on shoreface stacking patterns: bogged down in the mire. Geology, 20(8), 741-744. Scopus43 WoS39 |
| 1992 | KIRSCHBAUM, M. A., & McCABE, P. J. (1992). Controls on the accumulation of coal and on the development of anastomosed fluvial systems in the Cretaceous Dakota Formation of southern Utah. Sedimentology, 39(4), 581-598. Scopus57 WoS50 |
| 1992 | McCabe, P. J., & Parrish, J. T. (1992). Tectonic and climatic controls on the distribution and quality of Cretaceous coals. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 267, 1-15. Scopus74 |
| 1991 | MCCABE, P. J., & SHANLEY, K. W. (1991). AN ORGANIC CONTROL ON SHOREFACE STACKING PATTERNS - FINE TUNING SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC CONTROLS. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 75(3), 632. |
| 1991 | McCabe, P. J. (1991). Tectonic controls on coal accumulation. Bulletin Societe Geologique De France, 162(2), 277-282. Scopus55 WoS53 |
| 1991 | Shanley, K. W., & McCabe, P. J. (1991). Predicting facies architecture through sequence stratigraphy - an example from the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah. Geology, 19(7), 742-745. Scopus175 WoS150 |
| 1990 | MCCABE, P. J. (1990). COAL GEOLOGY. GEOTIMES, 35(2), 20. |
| 1989 | MCCABE, P. J., & BREYER, J. A. (1989). ON THE SEDIMENTARY AND BOTANICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING PEAT ACCUMULATION IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA - DISCUSSION. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 146, 877-880. WoS7 |
| 1989 | McCabe, P. J., Breyer, J. A., Kosters, E. C., Cmura, G. L., & Bailey, A. (1989). Discussion on the sedimentary and botanical factors influencing peat accumulation in the Mississippi Delta: Journal, Vol. 144,1987, pp. 423-434. Journal of the Geological Society, 146(5), 877-880. Scopus4 |
| 1988 | SANCHEZ, J. D., & MCCABE, P. J. (1988). TIDAL CHANNEL DEPOSITS IN UPPER CRETACEOUS OF NORTHERN KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU, UTAH. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 72(2), 243. |
| 1987 | McCabe, P. J. (1987). Facies studies of coal and coal-bearing strata. Geological Society Special Publication, 32(1), 51-66. Scopus84 |
| 1987 | MACDONALD, D. E., MCCABE, P. J., & STROBL, R. S. (1987). COALS FORMED IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN UPPER CRETACEOUS OF ALBERTA BASIN. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 71(8), 1010. |
| 1986 | Breyer, J. A., & McCabe, P. J. (1986). Coals associated with tidal sediments in the Wilcox Group ( Paleogene), south Texas ( USA).. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 56(4), 510-519. Scopus28 WoS31 |
| 1985 | MCCABE, P. J. (1985). INFLUENCE OF STRIKE-SLIP MOVEMENT ON TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTATION IN UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF NOVA-SCOTIA AND NEW-BRUNSWICK. GEOPHYSICS, 50(2), 287. |
| 1984 | MCCABE, P. J. (1984). INFLUENCE OF STRIKE-SLIP MOVEMENT ON TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTATION IN UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF NOVA-SCOTIA AND NEW-BRUNSWICK. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 68(4), 505. |
| 1981 | MCCABE, P. J. (1981). TECTONIC EFFECTS ON MEANDERING RIVER DEPOSITS, CARBONIFEROUS, NOVA-SCOTIA, CANADA. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 65(5), 955. |
| 1980 | MCCABE, P. J., MCCARTY, K. L., & PLUIM, S. B. (1980). TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTATION ASSOCIATED WITH STRIKE-SLIP-FAULT MOVEMENT IN MIDDLE CARBONIFEROUS OF NOVA-SCOTIA, CANADA. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 64(5), 747-748. WoS1 |
| 1980 | Jones, C. M., & McCABE, P. J. (1980). EROSION SURFACES WITHIN GIANT FLUVIAL CROSS-BEDS OF THE CARBONIFEROUS IN NORTHERN ENGLAND. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 50(2), 613-620. Scopus28 WoS25 |
| 1978 | MCCABE, P. J. (1978). COARSE-GRAINED DEPOSITS BY EPHEMERAL STREAMS IN CARBONIFEROUS OF MARITIME PROVINCES, CANADA. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 62(3), 542. |
| 1977 | McCABE, P. J. (1977). Deep distributary channels and giant bedforms in the Upper Carboniferous of the Central Pennines, northern England. Sedimentology, 24(2), 271-290. Scopus71 WoS60 |
| 1977 | MCCABE, P. J., & JONES, C. M. (1977). FORMATION OF REACTIVATION SURFACES WITHIN SUPERIMPOSED DELTAS AND BEDFORMS. JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY PETROLOGY, 47(2), 707-715. WoS74 |
| 1976 | MCCABE, P. J. (1976). KINDERSCOUTIAN DELTA (CARBONIFEROUS) OF NORTHERN ENGLAND - SLOPE INFLUENCED BY DENSITY CURRENTS. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 60(4), 695. |
| 1976 | CANT, D. J., & MCCABE, P. J. (1976). EFFECTS OF ICE ON SEDIMENTS OF SANDY BRAIDED RIVER. AAPG BULLETIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, 60(4), 655. |
| 1975 | McCabe, P. J. (1975). The structure of the viséan limestones between the craven faults, settle, Yorkshire: A discussion. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 40(4), 563-565. |
| 1973 | McCabe, P. J., & Waugh, B. (1973). Wenlock and Ludlow sedimentation in the Austwick and Horton-in-Ribblesdale Inlier, North-West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 39(4), 445-470. Scopus10 |
| 1972 | McCabe, P. J. (1972). The wenlock and lower ludlow strata of the Austwick and Horton-In-Ribblesdale inlier of North - West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 39(2), 167-174. Scopus3 |
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| 1995 | Shanley, K., & McCabe, P. (1995). Sequence stratigraphy of Turonian-Santonian strata, Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah, USA: implications for regional correlation and foreland basin evolution. Scopus52 |
| 1993 | Shanley, K. W., & McCabe, P. J. (1993). Alluvial architecture in a sequence stratigraphic framework: a case history from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah, USA. Scopus232 |
| 1981 | Gersib, G. A., & McCabe, P. J. (1981). Continental coal-bearing sediments of the Port Hood Formation ( Carboniferous), Cape Linzee, Nova Scotia, Canada.. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). DOI Scopus50 |
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| 2010 | Gautier, D., McCabe, P., Ogden, J., & Demayo, T. (2010). Resources, reserves, and consumption of energy. In T. Graedel, & E. van der Voet (Eds.), Linkages of sustainability (pp. 323-340). United Kingdom: MIT Press. |
| 2009 | Shanley, K. W., & Mccabe, P. J. (2009). Alluvial architecture in a sequence stratigraphie framework: A case history from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah, USA. In Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues (pp. 21-55). Wiley. DOI Scopus6 |
| 2009 | McCabe, P. J. (2009). Depositional Environments of Coal and Coal-Bearing Strata. In Sedimentology of Coal and Coal Bearing Sequences (pp. 13-42). Wiley. DOI Scopus275 |
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| 2019 | Wainman, C. C., Taligaro, G., & McCabe, P. (2019). New insights on the Upper Cretaceous Tiger Supersequence of the Bight Basin from International Ocean Discovery Hole U1512. In Australian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC) 2019 Conference Papers Vol. 2019 (pp. 1-2). online: ASEG. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2015 | Salmachi, A., Wainman, C., Rajabi, M., & McCabe, P. (2015). Effect of volcanic intrusions and mineral matters on desorption characteristics of coals (Case Study). In Proceedings Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition (pp. SPE-176841-MS-1-SPE-176841-MS-13). Brisbane, QLD: Society of Petroleum Engineers. DOI Scopus1 |
| - | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2022). Understanding the interplay between basin architecture, depositional environments and sediment pathways in the Cooper Basin. In Exploring Australia’s Resource Frontier. etroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA). DOI |
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| 2018 | McCabe, P., Holford, S., Huber, B., Hobbs, R., Bogus, K., & Wainman, C. C. (2018). Sedimentological and palynological investigations from Mesozoic strata of the Bight and Mentelle Basins, Australia: Preliminary results from IODP Expedition 369.. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian Geoscience Council Convention. Adelaide, Australia. |
| 2017 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2017). Overcoming challenges in nonmarine stratigraphy using a multidisciplinary approach: an example from Mesozoic basins of eastern Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vienna, Austria. |
| 2017 | Wainman, C., & McCabe, P. (2017). Using precise CA-TIMS ages of volcanic air-fall tuff beds in correlating the Walloon Coal Measures of the Surat Basin, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of The APPEA Journal. CSIRO Publishing. DOI |
| 2016 | Wainman, C. C., & mccabe. (2016). The Correlation of Fluvio-Lacustrine Strata Using Volcanic Tuffs in the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Australia: A New Technique in the Exploration Tool Box. Poster session presented at the meeting of Geological Society of London Janet Watson Meeting 2016: The Future of Hydrocarbon Exploration. London, United Kingdom. |
| 2016 | Wainman, C. C., & mccabe. (2016). The Correlation of Fluvio-Lacustrine Strata with Dated Volcanic Tuffs: An Example from the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Australian Earth Sciences Convention. Adelaide, Australia. |
| 2016 | Wainman, C. C., & mccabe. (2016). Climate or Subsidence? Geologic Controls on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Coal Beds in the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of AESC 2016 – Australian Earth Sciences Convention. Adelaide, Australia. |
| 2016 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. J. (2016). Correlation of Fluvio-Lacustrine Strata Using Volcanic Tuffs: New Insights From the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition. Calgary, Canada. |
| 2016 | Wainman, C., & McCabe, P. (2016). Tectonic and climatic controls on facies distribution in the Jurassic Walloon coal measures, Surat basin, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 3-6 April 2016. Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists. DOI |
| 2015 | Wainman, C. C., & McCabe, P. (2015). Mires in the dark: high latitude coals in the Jurassic Walloon Subgroup of the Surat Basin, Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of AAPG/SEG International Conference and Exhibition. Melbourne, Australia: AAPG Datapages. DOI |
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| 2013 | Ryder, R., Qiang, J., McCabe, P., Nuccio, V., & Persits, F. (2013). Shahejie-Shahejie/Guantao/Wumishan and Carboniferous/Permian Coal-Paleozoic total petroleum systems in the Bohaiwan Basin, China: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5010. United States of America: United States Geological Survey. |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Controls on the Sedimentology and Paleoenvironmental Evolution of the Permian and Triassic of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Miss Chen Yu |
| 2015 - 2018 | Co-Supervisor | A Focus on the Sedimentology of Transgressions in Interior Seaways: Utilising Modern and Outcrop Analogues to Interpret the Subsurface Cretaceous Murta Formation, Eromanga Basin, Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Sandra Jean Mann |
| 2015 - 2020 | Principal Supervisor | Controls on Gas Production from Permian Ultra-deep Coal Seams of the Cooper Basin: Expanding Reservoir Boundary Theory | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Erik Christopher Dunlop |
| 2015 - 2019 | Principal Supervisor | Sequence stratigraphy, facies architecture and petroleum potential of the Roseneath, Epsilon, and Murteree Formations in the Cooper Basin, Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Fengtao Guo |
| 2014 - 2018 | Principal Supervisor | Controls on the Geometry, Stratigraphic Distribution and Quality of Coals of Middle to Upper Jurassic Strata in Eastern Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Dr Carmine Christopher Wainman |
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