My principal active research interests are in various aspects of Earth surface processes/marine sedimentology. In particular, I work mainly on many aspects of deep-marine clastic sedimentology – process, sediments and environments. My research history can be summarised as follows: • Late Precambrian passive margin deep-water systems, Finnmark, Arctic Norway, and Arctic Russia. • Late Jurassic (Kimmeridge-Volgian) sedimentation, sedimentary geochemistry, and tectonics in NE Scotland and the northern North Sea. • Pleistocene sedimentation and sedimentary geochemistry, Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico (DSDP Leg 96, Shipboard scientist, 1983). • Lower Palaeozoic sedimentation and tectonics of the circum-Atlantic region, particularly the Ordovician-Silurian of central Newfoundland and the Quebec Appalachians. • Tertiary continental molasse sedimentation and tectonics, Ladakh Himalaya, India. • Neogene sedimentation, sedimentary geochemistry and tectonics of the Nankai accretionary prism (Shipboard scientist, ODP Leg 131, 1990), offshore Japan. • Lower-Middle Jurassic shallow-marine Bridport Sands, southern England. • Neogene sedimentation and tectonics of southeast Japan. • Lower Palaeozoic geology, Alai Range, southern Tien Shan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, SE Central Asia. • Geochemistry (majors, traces and REE) and clay mineralogy of mudrocks. • Sediment flux. Nature, magnitude and frequency of sediment delivery to deep sea. Dissembling the sedimentary signals in marine sediments.