Sotiris Kokkalas

Dr. Sotiris Kokkalas

Associate Professor
skokalas@upatras.gr

Office hours

• Monday 10:00-12:00
• Wednesday 13:00-12:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Patras), PhD (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5604-0445
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=V1dxA0oAAAAJ&hl=el

Research Interests

• Fault geometry, fault interaction and linkage
• Fracture networks analysis and stress analysis from fracture/fault data
• Fractured reservoirs and fluid flow
• Orogenic evolution of fold-and-thrust belts and foreland basins
• Strike-slip tectonics
• Relation of magmatism-volcanism with faulting
• Active faulting, seismotectonicsPetrotectonics

Teaching

• Geol_017 Basic Computer Applications in Geology
• Geol_034 Geological Mapping of Sedimentary rocks
• Geol_038 Field work IV
• Geol_044 Geological Mapping of Crystalline rocks
• Geol_046 Geodynamics
• Geol_048 Field work VI
• Geol_810E Interpretation and Analysis of Geological maps
• GEO_CAD01 Tectonics and Mechanics of Lithosphere
• GEO_CAD08 Processing and analysis of Structural geology data

Publications

• KOKKALAS, S. NIZAMUDDIN, S. VEGA, S. 2019. Multi-scale Fracture Network Characteristics in a Carbonate Reservoir Outcrop Analogue: Insights from μCT data in Core Plugs and Thin Sections. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 15th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Athens, Sp. Publ 7.
• KIM, S. KWON, S., JANG, Y., KOKKALAS, S. 2019. New Insights into the Tectonic Evolution of the UAE-Oman Ophiolite Suite. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 15th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Athens, Sp. Publ 7.
• JOUN, H., KOKKALAS, S., TOMBROS, S. 2019 Recycled oceanic crust as a source for tonalite intrusions in the mantle section of the Khor Fakkan block, Semail ophiolite (UAE). Geoscience Frontiers, 10, 1187-1210.
• JONES, R.R., KOKKALAS, S., LONG, J.J., DANIELS, S.E., GILMENT, S.R., WILKINSON, M.W., OXLADE, D.M. 2018. Calibration of fracture models using multi-scale outcrop analogues-The importance of mechanical stratigraphy, In 3rd EAGE Workshop on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, 2018-February.
• BRUNO, P.P.G., DUROSS, C.B., KOKKALAS, S. 2017. High-resolution seismic profiling reveals faulting associated with the 1934 Ms 6.6 Hansel Valley earthquake (Utah, USA). Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 129 (9-10), pp. 1227-1240.
• WILKINSON, M.W., JONES, R.R., WOODS, C.E., GILMENT, S.R., MCCAFFREY, K.J.W., KOKKALAS, S., LONG, J.J. 2016. A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition. Geosphere, 12 (6), pp. 1865-1880.
• ZYGOURI, V., KOUKOUVELAS, I., KOKKALAS, S., XYPOLIAS, P., PAPADOPOULOS, G., 2015. The Nisi fault as a key structure for understanding the active deformation of the NW-Peloponnese, Greece. Geomorphology, 237, 142-156.
• KOKKALAS, S., AYDIN, A., 2013. Is there a link between faulting and magmatism in south-central Aegean Sea? Geological Magazine 150 (2) 193-224.
• KOKKALAS, S., KAMBERIS, E., XYPOLIAS, P., SOTIROPOULOS, S., KOUKOUVELAS, I., 2013. Coexistence of thin- and thick-skinned tectonics in Zakynthos area (Western Greece): insights from seismic sections and regional seismicity. Tectonophysics, vol. 597-598, 73-84.(in press-02/09/2012).

Curriculum Vitae

• Short CV