Publications

On this webpage are publications in preparation, submitted, in press and published prepared by RioMAR members and relevant to the RioMAR scientific program.

Articles published during 2022

• HJ Hassenruck-Gudipati, P Passalacqua, D Mohrig, 2022, Natural levees increase in prevalence in the backwater zone: Coastal Trinity River, Texas, USA. Geology 50 (9), 1068-1072
• R Fongngern, WC Chi, C Berndt, D Mohrig, 2022, Recognition and three‐dimensional characteristics of ancient supercritical flow bedforms on a submarine slope: An example from the South China Sea. Sedimentology 69 (6), 2564-2584
• WF Kenney, MR Shields, TS Bianchi, AS Kolker, D Mohrig, 2022, Excess 210Pb as an indicator of flood-stage sediments in prograding, Wax Lake Delta, USA. Marine Geology 453, 106914
• HJ Hassenruck-Gudipati, T Ellis, TA Goudge, D Mohrig, 2022, A multi-proxy assessment of terrace formation in the lower Trinity River valley, Texas. Earth Surface Dynamics 10 (3), 635-651
  SUPPLEMENT DATA – HJ Hassenruck-Gudipati, T Ellis, TA Goudge, D Mohrig, 2022, A multi-proxy assessment of terrace formation in the lower Trinity River valley, Texas. Earth Surface Dynamics 10 (3), 635-651
• B Rendall, K Wilson, C Kerans, M Helper, D Mohrig, 2022, Coriolis effect recorded in Late Pleistocene Marine Isotope Stage 5e Bahamian aeolianites. Geology 50 (5), 567-571
• PD Morris, Z Sylvester, JA Covault, D Mohrig, 2022, Channel trajectories control deep‐water stratigraphic architecture. The Depositional Record
• JM Swartz, BT Cardenas, D Mohrig, P Passalacqua, 2022, Tributary channel networks formed by depositio5_Rendall_et_al_2022_Coriolis_effect_bahamasnal processes. Nature Geoscience 15 (3), 216-221
• N Tull, P Passalacqua, HJ Hassenruck‐Gudipati, S Rahman, K Wright, … 2022, Bidirectional River‐Floodplain Connectivity During Combined Pluvial‐Fluvial Events. Water Resources Research 58 (3), e2021WR030492
• RJ Steel, C Olariu, VM Rossi, D Minisini, W Brinkworth, LM Loss, D Giunta, 2022-inpress, Prograding early to Middle Jurassic Margin, Neuquén Basin: Topset process stratigraphy and morphodynamic sediment partitioning. Basin Research
• X Huang, R Steel, RD Larter. 2022, Late Eocene signals of oncoming Icehouse conditions and changing ocean circulation, Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 600, 117885
• AFJ Wroblewski, RJ Steel, 2022, Paleocene (65–63 and 58.5 ma) marine flooding and 62–60 ma sediment bypass in southern Wyoming, USA: Implications for Laramide sediment flux to the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Sedimentary Research 92 (10), 859-894
• K Qi, C Gong, RJ Steel, D Shao, L Ding, H Ma, 2022, The formation and development of avulsions and splays of submarine channel systems: Insights from 3D seismic data from the northeastern Bengal Fan. Sedimentary Geology 440, 106239
• J Zhang, W Ambrose, R Steel, S Chen, 2022, Long cores through the Wilcox Group, Gulf of Mexico, show process variability across different time scales. AAPG Bulletin 106 (7), 1403-1429
• PM Burgess, J Zhang, R Steel, 2022, Narrow is normal: Exploring the extent and significance of flooded marine shelves in icehouse, transitional, and greenhouse climate settings. Geology 50 (4), 496-499
• C Lin, S Liu, C Tian, Q Zhuang, R Li, M Tan, RJ Steel, 2022, Tectonic and climatic controls on the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous stratigraphic architecture of the Xuanhua basin, North China. Basin Research 34 (1), 190-219
• A Folkestad, RJ Steel, 2022, A new interpretation for the Pliensbachian Cook Formation (northern North Sea) as north–south-prograding tidal deltas and shelf ridges in the Early Jurassic Seaway: new model …Geological Society, London, Special Publications 523 (1), SP523-2021-75
• KP Minor, RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2022, Tectonic and eustatic control of Mesaverde Group (Campanian–Maastrichtian) architecture, Wyoming-Utah-Colorado region, USA. GSA Bulletin 134 (1-2), 419-445
• KP Minor, A Wroblewski, RJ Steel, C Olariu, JP Crabaugh, 2022, Facies partitioning of fluvial, wave, and tidal influences across the shoreline-to-shelf architecture in the Western Interior Campanian Seaway, USA. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 523 (1), SP523-2022-11
• C Olariu, Z Zhang, C Zhou, X Yuan, R Steel, S Chen, J Zhang, D Cheng, 2022, Conglomerate to mudstone lacustrine cycles revealed in Junggar Basin, Northwest China: Middle Permian Lucaogou and Jingjingzigou formations. Marine and Petroleum Geology 136, 105473
• FM Rey, C Olariu, RJ Steel, 2022, Using the modern Colorado delta to reconstruct the compound clinoforms of the Pliocene Colorado delta. Journal of Sedimentary Research 92 (5), 405-432
• S Chen, RJ Steel, C Olariu, H Wang, J Zhang, A Osman, 2022, Outer-shelf conduit within growth-fault compartment Pliocene Orinoco Delta. Marine and Petroleum Geology 140, 105680
• Y Gan, FN de Almeida, VM Rossi, RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2022, Sediment transfer from shelf to deepwater slope: How does it happen? Journal of Sedimentary Research 92 (6), 570-590
• AK Roberts, WA Ambrose, PP Flaig, RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2022, Controls on facies variability and distribution during the Pennsylvanian glacial period from the lower Strawn Group, Fort Worth basin, Texas. AAPG Bulletin 106 (8), 1679-1702
• JH Gearon, C Olariu, RJ Steel, 2022, The supply-generated sequence: A unified sequence-stratigraphic model for closed lacustrine sedimentary basins with evidence from the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research 92 (9), 813-835
• RD Roban, MN Ducea, VI Mihalcea, I Munteanu, V Barbu, C. Olariu, 2022, Provenance of Oligocene lithic and quartz arenites of the East Carpathians: Understanding sediment routing systems on compressional basin margins. Basin Research
• A Hussain, MN Butt, C Olariu, MH Malik, A Koeshidayatullah, A Amao, 2022, Unravelling reservoir quality heterogeneity in mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits: An example from Miocene Red Sea rift, NW Saudi Arabia. Marine and Petroleum Geology 145, 105850
• CA Clayton, C Olariu, 2022, Tectonic preconditioning of recurrent large scale canyon incisions; example from Cretaceous and Paleogene of northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology 453, 106909
• VM Rossi, S Longhitano, C Olariu, FL Chiocci, 2023, Straits and Seaways: controls, processes and implications in modern and ancient systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 523 (1), SP523-2022-271

Dissertation and theses 2022

• Keith P. Minor, 2022, PhD dissertation: TECTONIC, EUSTATIC, AND PROCESS CONTROLS ON THE STRATIGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE MESAVERDE GROUP, WYOMING, UTAH AND COLORADO.
• Yuqian (Philomena) Gan, 2022, PhD dissertation: SHELF-SLOPE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN MEDIUM-SIZED BASIN MARGIN CLINOFORMS , WITH A FOCUS ON SLOPE CHANNEL FACIES AND ARCHITECTURE
• Chris Liu, 2022, PhD dissertation: COUPLING BETWEEN SEDIMENTATION AND SALT DEFORMATION
• Nicole Gonzalez, 2022, MS, EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE STYLES OF SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOWS CONSTRUCTING A PRODELTA-TO-SHELF DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT: COALEDO FORMATION, SOUTHWEST OREGON

Articles published during 2021

• WL Fisher, WE Galloway, RJ Steel, C Olariu, C Kerans, D Mohrig, 2021, Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record. Earth-Science Reviews, 103531
• C Gong, RJ Steel, K Qi, Y Wang, 2021, Deep-water channel morphologies, architectures, and population densities in relation to stacking trajectories and climate states. GSA Bulletin 133 (1-2), 287-306
• S Liu, A Zhang, C Lin, B Zhang, H Yuan, D Huang, RJ Steel, BK Horton, 2021, Thrust duplexing and transpression in the Yanshan Mountains: Implications for early Mesozoic orogenesis and decratonization of the North China Craton. Basin Research
• C Olariu, C Zhou, R Steel, Z Zhang, X Yuan, J Zhang, S Chen, D Cheng, 2021, Controls on the stratal architecture of lacustrine delta successions in low‐accommodation conditions. Sedimentology 68 (5), 1941-1963
• SG Longhitano, VM Rossi, D Chiarella, D Mellere, M Tropeano, RW Darlymple, RJ Steel, A Nappi and F Olita, 2021, Anatomy of a mixed bioclastic–siliciclastic regressive tidal sand ridge: Facies‐based case study from the lower Pleistocene Siderno Strait, southern Italy. Sedimentology 68 (6), 2293-2333
• PM Burgess, J Zhang, R Steel, 2021, Narrow is normal: Exploring the extent and significance of flooded marine shelves in icehouse, transitional, and greenhouse climate settings. Geology
• C Gong, D Li, RJ Steel, Y Peng, S Xu, Y Wang, 2021, Delta‐to‐fan source‐to‐sink coupling as a fundamental control on the delivery of coarse clastics to deepwater: Insights from stratigraphic forward modelling. Basin Research 33 (6), 2960-2983
• KP Minor, RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2022, Tectonic and eustatic control of Mesaverde Group (Campanian–Maastrichtian) architecture, Wyoming-Utah-Colorado region, USA. Bulletin 134 (1-2), 419-445
• C Olariu, Z Zhang, C Zhou, X Yuan, R Steel, S Chen, J Zhang, D Cheng, 2022, Conglomerate to mudstone lacustrine cycles revealed in Junggar Basin, Northwest China: Middle Permian Lucaogou and Jingjingzigou formations. Marine and Petroleum Geology 136, 105473
• K Ono, P Plink‐Björklund, JT Eggenhuisen, MJB Cartigny, 2021, Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures: new insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes. Sedimentology 68 (4), 1328-1357
• C Tan, P Plink‐Björklund, 2021, Morphodynamics of supercritical flow in a linked river and delta system, Daihai Lake, Northern China. Sedimentology 68 (4), 1606-1639
• RV Palermo, A Piliouras, TE Swanson, AD Ashton, D Mohrig, 2021, The effects of storms and a transient sandy veneer on the interannual planform evolution of a low-relief coastal cliff and shore platform at Sargent Beach, Texas, USA. Earth Surface Dynamics 9 (5), 1111-1123
• K Wilson, D Mohrig, 2021, Modern coastal tempestite deposition by a non‐local storm: Swell‐generated transport of sand and boulders on Eleuthera, The Bahamas. Sedimentology 68 (5), 2043-2068
• HJ Hassenruck-Gudipati, TS Ellis, TA Goudge, D Mohrig, 2021, A multi-proxy assessment of terrace formation in the lower Trinity River valley, Texas. Earth Surface Dynamics Discussions, 1-22
• HJ Hassenruck-Gudipati, et al. , A multi-proxy assessment…. DATA_SUPPLEMENT
• Z Sylvester, PR Durkin, SM Hubbard, D Mohrig. 2021, Autogenic translation and counter point bar deposition in meandering rivers. GSA Bulletin
• AT Hayden, MP Lamb, PM Myrow, D Mohrig, RME Williams, 2021, The Oligocene‐Miocene Guadalope‐Matarranya Fan, Spain, as an Analog for Long‐Lived, Ridge‐Bearing Megafans on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126 (12), e2021JE006993
• C Krézsek, C Olariu, 2021, Filling of sedimentary basins and the birth of large rivers: The lower Danube network in the Dacian Basin, Romania. Global and Planetary Change 197, 103391

Theses and dissertations 2021

• Gearon, MS Thesis, Sequence Stratigraphy in Strike Variable Fluvio-Lacustrine Systems: Evidence from Eocene Lake Uinta and Modern Analogs
• Rey, MS Thesis, Anatomy of Deltaic Compound Clinoforms; Colorado Delta in Baja California, Mexico, Pliocene Colorado Delta in Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, California, USA, and a Review of Modern Examples

Submitted and in work manuscripts 2021

• Steel et al., Basin Research, Prograding Early to Middle Jurassic Margin, Neuquén Basin: Topset Process Stratigraphy and Morphodynamic Sediment Partitioning
• Gearon et al., JSR, The Supply-Generated Sequence: A Unified Sequence-Stratigraphic Model for Closed Lacustrine Sedimentary Basins with Evidence from the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA
• Rey et al., JSR, Deltaic compound clinoforms in Pliocene Colorado delta in Fish Creek-Vallecito basin, California, USA and modern Colorado delta in Baja California, Mexico
• Clayton and Olariu, Marine Geology, Tectonic Preconditioning of Recurrent Large Scale Canyon Incisions; Example from Cretaceous and Paleogene Gulf of Mexico
• Minor et al., GSL Special Volume, Fluvial, Wave, and Tidal Influences on the Shoreline-Shelf Architecture in the Western Interior Campanian Seaway, USA
• Chen et al., Earth Science Reviews, Estimating paleotidal constituents from well-preserved tidal rhythmites: An example from Pliocene “tidal gauges” in the paleo-Orinoco Delta, Trinidad
• Roban et al., Basin Research, The provenance of Oligocene lithic and quartz arenites of the East Carpathians: understanding sediment routing systems on compressional basin margins
• Gong et al., Sedimentology, Stratigraphic architectures and distribution pattern of submarine-fan reservoir elements: Insights from Pliocene and Pleistocene Bengal Fan
• Gan et al., J. Sedimentary Research. Sediment transfer from shelf to deepwater slope; how does it happen?
• Lin, C et al., Basin Research. Tectonic and climatic controls on the late Jurassic-early cretaceous stratigraphic architecture of the Xuanhua Basin, North China.
• Gong et al., Lake Environments chapter in: Sedimentary Environments – Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, 4^th

Articles published during 2020

• MR Hansford, P Plink-Björklund, 2020, River discharge variability as the link between climate and fluvial fan formation Geology 48 (10), 952-956
• P Plink‐Björklund, 2020, Shallow‐water deltaic clinoforms and process regime, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• LP Birgenheier, MDV Berg, P Plink-Björklund, RD Gall, E Rosencrans, 2020, Climate impact on fluvial-lake system evolution, Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA GSA Bulletin 132 (3-4), 562-587
• J Wang, P Plink‐Björklund, 2020, Variable‐discharge‐river macroforms in the Sunnyside Delta Interval of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, USA, Sedimentology
• P Plink-Björklund, 2020, Distributive Fluvial Systems, Fluvial and Alluvial Fans, Elsevier
• MR Hansford, P Plink-Björklund, ER Jones, 2020, Global quantitative analyses of river discharge variability and hydrograph shape with respect to climate types, Earth-Science Reviews
• JM Swartz, TA Goudge, DC Mohrig, 2020, Quantifying Coastal Fluvial Morphodynamics Over the Last 100 Years on the Lower Rio Grande, USA and Mexico, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 125 (6), e2019JF005443
• AM Fernandes, J Buttles, D Mohrig, 2020, Flow substrate interactions in aggrading and degrading submarine channels, Journal of Sedimentary Research 90 (6), 573
• BT Cardenas, D Mohrig, TA Goudge, CM Hughes, JS Levy, T Swanson, 2020, The anatomy of exhumed river‐channel belts: Bedform to belt‐scale river kinematics of the Ruby Ranch Member, Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA, Sedimentology
• MS Daniller‐Varghese, W Kim, DC Mohrig, 2020, The effect of flood intermittency on bifurcations in fluviodeltaic systems: Experiment and theory, Sedimentology
• BT Cardenas, JM Swartz, D Mohrig, EW Prokocki, 2020, Setting up the preservation of fluvial channel belts, EarthArXiv
• V Smith, J Mason, D Mohrig, 2020, Reach‐scale changes in channel geometry and dynamics due to the coastal backwater effect: the lower Trinity River, Texas, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45 (3), 565-573
• H Ma, JA Nittrouer, B Wu, MP Lamb, Y Zhang, D Mohrig, X Fu, K Naito, 2020, Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (1), 171-176
• BC Smith, KB Moffett, D Mohrig, 2020, Short-Term Ecogeomorphic Evolution of a Fluvial Delta from Hindcasting Intertidal Marsh-Top Elevations (HIME), Remote Sensing 12 (9), 151
• WM Koo, D Mohrig, J Buttles, D Sturmer, A Pontén, T Hess, 2020, Sand–mud couplets deposited by spontaneous remobilization of subaqueous transitional flows, Sedimentology 67 (1), 78-95
• FN Almeida Junior, RJ Steel, C Olariu, Y Gan, PS Gomes Paim, 2020, River‐dominated and tide‐influenced shelf‐edge delta systems: Coarse‐grained deltas straddling the Early–Middle Jurassic shelf–slope break and transforming downslope, Lajas–Los …, Sedimentology 67 (6), 2883-2916
• A Osman, RJ Steel, R Ramsook, C Olariu, S Chen, 2020, The arrival of the paleo–Orinoco Delta at Trinidad: The Cruse Formation delta lobes and delivery to deepwater Atlantic, Journal of Sedimentary Research 90 (8), 938-968
• Y Peng, C Olariu, RJ Steel, 2020, Recognizing tide-and wave-dominated compound deltaic clinothems in the rock record, Geology
• C Gong, RJ Steel, K Qi, Y Wang, 2020, Deep-water channel morphologies, architectures, and population densities in relation to stacking trajectories and climate states, GSA Bulletin
• RN Melchor, A Uchman, RJ Steel, 2020, Avian diversity and behavior in an Eocene coastal plain, Svalbard: the ichnological evidence, Ichnos, 1-10
• C Pellegrini, S Patruno, W Helland‐Hansen, RJ Steel, F Trincardi, 2020, Clinoforms and clinothems: Fundamental elements of basin infill, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• YP Gan, RJ Steel, C Olariu, F De Almeida Jr, 2020, Facies and architectural variability of sub‐seismic slope‐channel fills in prograding clinoforms, Mid‐Jurassic Neuquén Basin, Argentina, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• C Olariu, RJ Steel, NK Vann, EP Tudor, M Shin, RR Winter, YP Gan, 2020, Criteria for recognizing shelf‐slope clinoforms in outcrop; Jurassic Lajas and Los Molles formations, S. Neuquén Basin, Argentina, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• RJ Steel, C Olariu, J Zhang, S Chen, 2020, What is the topset of a shelf‐margin prism?, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• S Chen, R Steel, H Wang, R Zhao, C Olariu, 2020, Clinoform growth and sediment flux into late Cenozoic Qiongdongnan shelf margin, South China Sea, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• J Zhang, C Olariu, R Steel, W Kim, 2020, Climatically controlled lacustrine clinoforms: Theory and modelling results, Basin Research 32 (Clinoforms and Clinothems: Fundamental Elements of Basin
• R Zhao, J Zhang, C Zhou, Z Zhang, S Chen, DF Stockli, C Olariu, R Steel, 2020, Tectonic evolution of Tianshan-Bogda-Kelameili mountains, clastic wedge basin infill and chronostratigraphic divisions in the source-to-sink systems of Permian-Jurassic, Marine and Petroleum Geology 114, 104200,
• Y Peng, RJ Steel, C Olariu, S Li, 2020, Rapid subsidence and preservation of fluvial signals in an otherwise wave-reworked delta front succession: Early-mid Pliocene Orinoco continental-margin growth, SE Trinidad, Sedimentary Geology 395, 105555
• Osman, A., Steel, R.J., Moonan, X., and Ramsook, R., (in press), A Review of the Tectonic Evolution and Sedimentary Fill of the Southern Basin, Trinidad, Middle Cretaceous to Pleistocene. Memoir of Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.
• Krezsek, C. and Olariu C., 2020, Filling of sedimentary basins and the birth of large rivers: the Lower Danube network in the Dacian Basin, Romania
• Giacomone, G., Olariu, C., Steel, R.J. and Shin, M., 2020, A coarse-grained basin floor turbidite system –   the Jurassic Los Molles Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Sedimentology doi: 10.1111/sed.12771
• Olariu, C., Zhou, C., Steel, R., Zhang, Z., Yuan, X., Zhang, J., Chen, S., Cheng D. and Kim, W., 2020, Thin to missing lacustrine deltas: the controls and sedimentary architecture of lake shorelines
• Submitted:
• Minor, K.P. Steel, R.J., Olariu, C., (submitted to GSA Bulletin) Campanian-Maastrichtian Stratigraphic Sequences: Tectonic and Paleogeographic Evolution of the Mesaverde Group of the Wyoming-Utah-Colorado Region
• Fisher, W.L., Galloway, W.E., Steel, R.J., Olariu, C., Kerans, C., and Mohrig, D., (submitted to Earth Science Reviews) Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record
• Kim, W., Zhou, C., Zhang, Z., Yuan, X., Zhang, J., Olariu, C., Steel, R. and Strom, K., (submitted to Geology) Flocculation and total organic carbon in saline lake, fine-grained deposit