2009

May 2009 Highlights

Michael Lamb, JSG Post Doc, UT Austin
Presented Connecting Source to Sink: Dynamics and Deposits of Plunging River Plumesduring Soft Rock Seminar at UT Austin
 

Julio Leva López from UT Austin

went in the field to study the

Twentymile Sandstone outcrops in Sand Wash for his PhD Project

April 2009 Highlights

 Andrew Petter, PhD. Candidate presented:The Castlegate Debate: Was Pinchout of the Lower Castlegate SS Stratigraphic or Structural in Origin? Insights From Integration of Physical/Numerical Models and Paleohydraulics

in ‘Technical Sessions’ of

Department of Geological Sciences

February/March 2009 Highlights


Allison Green from Colorado School of Mines and Josh Dixon from University of Texas are in the field for 6 weeks to collect data on Permian shelf deposits of Tanqua Formation, SW Karoo Basin, South Africa
 

December 2008/ January 2009 Highlights

Talk at ‘River to Rock Record’ conference in Aberdeen (Jan 14th)Cretaceous Shoreline-Attached Fluvial Systems within Source-to-Sink TransectsRon Steel and Carolina Gomez ,University of Texas, Austin

Talk at the Norwegian Geological Society Annual
Meeting in Bergen Norway (Jan 12th-14th)

RESERVOIR SYSTEMS OF THE SHELF & SHELF MARGIN FROM A SOURCE-TO-SINK PERSPECTIVE

Ron Steel and Cornel Olariu, University of Texas, Austin

Research Article in Journal of Sedimentary Research volume 79:PROCESS REGIME CHANGES ACROSS A REGRESSIVE TO TRANSGRESSIVE TURNAROUND IN A SHELF– SLOPE BASIN, EOCENE CENTRAL BASIN OF SPITSBERGENby
Anna Pontén and Piret Plink-Björklund
Andy Petter presented the talk: Estimating Sediment Flux and Load from Ancient Shelf-margin Successions,co-authored with Cristian Carvajal, David Mohrig and Ron Steel, at the Jackson School of Geosciences Soft Rock Seminar