Juan Camilo Meza Cala

Doctoral Research Fellow - Centre for planetary habitability

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Current Research

I am a PhD Research Fellow in Arctic Geology and Geophysics enrolled within DYPOLE (Dynamics of polar confined basins). The main goal of the project is to obtain an understanding of the interplay between the various tectonic, magmatic, and sedimentary processes that have shaped the northern Barents Sea/Svalbard margin, caused continental breakup and controlled the variation in spatial and temporal oceanic accretion in the Eurasia Basin. Moreover, we aim to establish links between the tectono-magmatic history of the Cenozoic northern Barents Sea/Svalbard - Arctic and oceanographic and climatic changes.

Background

2022 - present: PhD Research Fellow @UiO in geology and geophysics.
2018 - 2020: Master in Petroleum Geoscience from the Universitetet i Oslo (UiO, Norway).
2013 - 2017: Bachelor in Geosciences from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

Interests

Evolution and development of conjugate sedimentary basins.
Marine Geosciences.
Subsurface energy exploration and utilization.

Positions held

PhD Research Fellow @CEED

Faleide, Jan Inge; Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour; Minakov, Alexander; Meza Cala, Juan Camilo; Lasabuda, Amando P. E. & Gaina, Carmen [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Eurasia Basin Composite Tectono-Sedimentary Element. Geological Society of London Memoirs. ISSN 0435-4052. 57. doi: 10.1144/m57-2023-16.
Ortiz-Guerrero, Carolina; Montes, Camilo; Farris, David W.; Agudelo, Catalina; Ariza Acero, Margarita & Ayala, Juliana [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2024). Crustal structure of the Western Azuero Peninsula, Panama: Insights into the structure of accretionary complexes and forearc ophiolites. International Geology Review. ISSN 0020-6814. 66(1), p. 172–195. doi: 10.1080/00206814.2023.2191678. Full text in Research Archive
Meza Cala, Juan Camilo; Tsikalas, Filippos; Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour & Faleide, Jan Inge (2023). Structural analysis and measured extension in fault complexes along the Lofoten-Vesterålen margin, offshore Norway, in the context of crustal-scale rifting towards breakup in NE Atlantic. Basin Research. ISSN 0950-091X. 35(4), p. 1329–1361. doi: 10.1111/bre.12756. Full text in Research Archive
Tsikalas, Filippos; Meza Cala, Juan Camilo; Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour; Faleide, Jan Inge & Brekke, Harald (2022). Lofoten Composite Tectono-Sedimentary Element, Norwegian Rifted Margin, Norwegian Sea. Geological Society of London Memoirs. ISSN 0435-4052. 57. doi: 10.1144/M57-2021-43. Show summary
The Lofoten Rifted Margin is a composite tectono-sedimentary element (CTSE), located offshore northern Norway, and comprises the northernmost part of the Norwegian Sea margin at its transition to the West Barents Sea margin. We refine the late Paleozoic–early Cenozoic evolution of the margin with emphasis on the late Mesozoic–early Cenozoic rift phases, and we provide new and better-refined structural elements for the area. Distinct along-margin segmentation is evident and is imposed by transfer zones/systems that reflect the structural inheritance. These divide the study area into three main margin segments, namely the Lofoten, Vesterålen and Andøya segments, that are accounted for by observed along-margin tectonostratigraphic changes and are briefly viewed in a conjugate margin setting. Confirmed and potential plays within five main reservoir groups are also described and evaluated.
Meza Cala, Juan Camilo; Tsikalas, Filippos; Faleide, Jan Inge & Abdelmalak, Mohamed Mansour (2021). New insights into the late Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northern Lofoten-Vesterålen margin, offshore Norway. Marine and Petroleum Geology. ISSN 0264-8172. 134. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105370. Full text in Research Archive

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Serov, Pavel; Patton, Henry; Mazzini, Adriano; Mattingsdal, Rune; Shephard, Grace & Cooke, Frances Ann [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). GEO-3144/8144 Teaching Cruise: Geologically controlled hydrocarbon seepage in Hopendjupet and the wider Barents Sea. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Full text in Research Archive

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