Richard Selley has spent most of his career at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial Col-

lege, London University, where he is a Professor of Applied Sedimentology. Between

1969 and 1975, however, he worked for oil companies in Libya, Greenland, and the
North Sea.
He has published many papers on sedimentology and its applications to petroleum
exploration and production. His five textbooks run to several editions and have been
translated into many languages.
Richard Selley has had assignments in Australia, Bahrain, Belize, Canada, France,
Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holland, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica,
Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Libya, Norway, the North Sea, Sao Tome and Principe,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UAE, the United States, Vietnam,
and the former Yugoslavia.
He is a Chartered Geologist, active in professional affairs, having served on the coun-
cils of the European Federation of Geologists, the Council of Science and Technology
Institutes, the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, and the Geological So-
ciety of London (of which he has held the post of Foreign Secretary).
Richard Selley has been awarded the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society.
He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia
and has been awarded a Certificate of Merit and a Survivor Certificate by the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists.

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