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Laya Pereira, Juan Carlos

Assistant Professor

Positions:

Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics, College of Arts and Sciences

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layajc@tamu.edu

1 979 845 7279

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0000-0002-3089-301X

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My current research interests are in the broad area of carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy. The topics I am focusing on include:

1) Carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling from modern and outcrop analogues, (interested in Caribbean islands, also Pacific and Indian Ocean islands)

2) Late Paleozoic carbonate petroleum systems and opportunities for exploration

3) Diagenesis and porosity evolution, using image analysis tools as a key for petrophysics.

4) The use of stable isotope geochemistry including clumped isotopes in understanding deposition, diagenesis and basin evolution.

5) Unconventional Carbonate reservoirs and basin analysis.

education and training

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, Durham University - (Durham, United Kingdom) 2012
M.S. in Geological Sciences, Central University of Venezuela - (Caracas, Venezuela) 2010
B.E. in , Universidad de Los Andes - (Bogotá, Colombia) 2002

selected publications

Academic Articles29

Valencia, F. L., Mngano, M. G., Buatois, L. A., & Laya, J. C. (2022). Animal-substrate interactions preserved in ancient lagoonal chalk.. Sci Rep. 12(1), 14383.
Valencia, F. L., Laya, J. C., Buatois, L. A., Mangano, M. G., & Valencia, G. L. (2022). Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Cenomanian Buda Limestone in central Texas, USA: Implications on regional and global depositional controls. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH. 137, 105231-105231.
Teoh, C. P., Laya, J. C., Rose, K., & Kaczmarek, S. (2022). THE EFFECTS OF MAGNESIUM CONCENTRATION IN HIGH-MAGNESIUM CALCITE ALLOCHEMS ON DOLOMITIZATION: INSIGHTS FROM HIGH-TEMPERATURE DOLOMITE SYNTHESIS EXPERIMENTS. JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH. 92(2), 134-143.
Valencia, F. L., Buatois, L. A., Laya, J. C., Mangano, M. G., Valencia, G. L., & Pope, M. C. (2021). Depositional environments and controls on the stratigraphic architecture of the Cenomanian Buda Limestone in west Texas, USA. MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY. 133, 105275-105275.

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Laya, J. C., Albader, A., Kaczmarek, S., Pope, M., Harris, P. M., & Miller, B. (2021). Dissolution of ooids in seawater-derived fluids - an example from Lower Permian re-sedimented carbonates, West Texas, USA. SEDIMENTOLOGY. 68(6), 2671-2706.

Chapters1

Laya, J. C., & Tucker, M. E. (2015). Petroleum Potential of Permian Carbonates in Northern South America. Bartolini, C. (Eds.), Memoir 108: Petroleum Geology and Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin. 471-498.