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Laya Pereira, Juan Carlos

Assistant Professor

Positions:

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

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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

Widodo, R. W., & Laya, J. C. (2017). Controls on diagenesis and dolomitization of peritidal facies, Early Cretaceous Lower Edwards Group, central Texas, USA. FACIES. 63(4), 23.

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Betzler, C. G., Eberli, G. P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C. A., Alonso-Garca, M., Bejugam, N. N., Bialik, O. M., ... Young, J. R. (2016). International ocean discovery program expedition 359 preliminary report: Maldives monsoon and sea level. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program: Preliminary Reports. (359), 1-53.
Betzler, C., Eberli, G. P., Kroon, D., Wright, J. D., Swart, P. K., Nath, B. N., ... Young, J. R. (2016). The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds.. Sci Rep. 6(1), 29838.
Shenton, B. J., Grossman, E. L., Passey, B. H., Henkes, G. A., Becker, T. P., Laya, J. C., ... Lawson, M. (2015). Clumped isotope thermometry in deeply buried sedimentary carbonates: The effects of bond reordering and recrystallization. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN. 127(7-8), 1036-1051.
Laya, J. C., Tucker, M. E., Groecke, D. R., & Perez-Huerta, A. (2013). Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopic composition of low-latitude Permian carbonates (Venezuelan Andes): climate proxies of tropical Pangea. PALAEOZOIC CLIMATE CYCLES: THEIR EVOLUTIONARY AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL IMPACT. 376(1), 367-385.

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.