Michal Nemčok

Research Professor

Phone: 801-585-9829 (US)
Phone: 421 2-5463-0337 (SVK)
Fax: 801-585-3540

Email: mnemcok@egi.utah.edu

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Professional Research Interests and Expertise:

  • Basin analysis with focus on tectonics/deposition interaction
  • Prediction of fracture locations, kinematics, and fracturing sequence in fractured reservoirs
  • Stress analysis
  • Fracturing and fluid flow analyze in shale settings

Regional and Basin Experience:

  • Thrustbelts (worldwide): structural styles, thermal regimes and petroleum systems
  • Continental break-up settings (worldwide): controls of continental break-up and their effects in syn-rift and early drift petroleum systems

Education:

  • 2009 Doctor ofr Geologic Sciences (February 4, 2009). Thesis title: "Thrustbelts: structural styles, thermal regimes and petroleum systems."
  • 2002 "Venia docendi" in Geology, University of Freiberg, Germany (May 21, 2002). Thesis title: "Paleostress methods and development of the Carpathian orogenic belt" (in German).
  • Graduate and undergraduate work, Comenius University Bratislava, Czechoslovakia: structural geology, sedimentology, paleontology, ore-analysis, geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, programming, stratigraphy, economic geology, tectonics.
  • 1991 Ph.D. dissertation, Comenius University Bratislava, Czechoslovakia Title: The Cenozoic Development of Western Half of the West Carpathian Orogenic Belt (in Slovak).

Memberships:

  • Geothermal Resources Council
  • American Geophysical Union
  • European Geosciences Union
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Publications:

  • Sheya, C., and Nemčok, M., 2010. Computerized play fairway map construction: A communication tool between geologists and economists in geological exploration (in Slovak). SLOVGAS, 24, 33-36
  • Henk, A. and Nemčok , M., 2008. Stress and fracture prediction in inverted half-graben structures. Journal of Structural Geology, 30 (1), 81-97.
  • Mohriak, W. U., Nemčok , M. and Enciso, G., 2008. South Atlantic divergent margin evolution: rift-border uplift and salt tectonics in the basins of SE Brazil. In: Pankhurst, R. J., Trouw, R. A. J., de Brito Neves, B. B. and De Witt, M. J. (Eds.), West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South Atlantic region. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 294, pp. 365-398.
  • Moore, J. N., Allis, R. G., Nemčok , M., Powell, T. S., Bruton, C., Wannamaker, P. E., Raharjo, I. B. and Norman, D. I., 2007. The evolution of volcano-hosted geothermal system based on deep wells from Karaha-Telaga Bodas, Indonesia. American Journal of Science, in press (accepted).
  • Nemčok, M., Dilov, T., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhov, L., Klecker, R. A., Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2007. Dynamics of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge: insights from paleostress analyses. In; Ries, A. C., Butler, R. W. H. and Graham, R. H. (Eds.), Deformation of the continental crust: The legacy of Mike Coward, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 272, 271-302.
  • Nemčok, M., Pospil, L., Hruneck, I. and Zsuros, T., 2006. Subduction in the remnant Carpathian Flysch Basin. In: Pacha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 767-785.
  • Clausen, S., Nemčok , M., Moore, J., Hulen, J. and Bartley, J., 2006. Mapping fractures in the Medicine Lake geothermal system. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 30, 383-386.
  • Nemčok, M. and Henk, A., 2006. Oil reservoirs in foreland basins charged by thrustbelt source rocks: insights from numerical stress modelling and geometric balancing in the West Carpathians. In: Buiter, S.J.H. and Schreus, G. (Eds.), Analogue and numerical modelling of crustal-scale processes. Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ., 253, 415-428.
  • Nemčok, M., Moore, J. N., Christensen, C., Allis, R., Powell, T., Murray, B. and Nash, G., 2006. Controls on the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal reservoir, Indonesia. Geothermics, 36, 9-46.
  • Nemčok, M., Stuart, C., Segall, M.P., Allen, R.B., Christensen, C., Hermeston, S. A., Davison, I., 2005. Structural development of South Morocco: interaction of tectonics and deposition. In: Post, P.J., Rosen, N., Olson, D.L., Palmes, S.L., Lyons, K.T. and Newton, G.B. (Eds.), Petroleum systems of divergent continental margin basins, 25th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Session I, Crustal architecture of divergent margins, GCSSEPM, Houston, ISSN: 1544-2462, pp. 151-202.
  • Pospail L., A. adam, J. Bimka, P. Bodlak, T. Bodoky, P. Davanyi, H. Granser, E. Hegedes, I. Joe, A. Kendzera, L. Lenkey, M. Nemčok , K. Posgay, B. Pylypyshyn, J. Sedlek, W. D. Stanley, G. Starodub, V. Szalaiovr, B. ally, A. autora, G. Varga and T. Zsoros, 2006. Regional geophysical data on the Carpathian-Pannonian lithosphere. In: Pacha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 651-697.
  • Nemčok, M., Pogacsrs, G and Pospail, L., 2006. Activity timing of the main tectonic systems in the Carpathian-Pannonian region in relation to the roll-back destruction of the lithosphere. In: Pacha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 743-766.
  • Nemčok, M., Krzywiec, P., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhove, L., Klecker, R. A.,Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2006. Tertiary development of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge: insights from balanced cross sections. Geologica Carpathica, 57 (5), 355-370.
  • Nemčok, M., Schamel, S and Gayer, R. A., 2005. Thrustbelts: structural architecture, thermal regimes and petroleum systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 541pp.
  • Nemčok, M., Moore, J. N., Christensen, C., Allis, R., Powell, T., Murray, B. and Nash, Greg., 2005. Reservoir controlling factors in the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal field, Indonesia. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 29, 407-412.
 
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