2016 Publications

Articles published during 2016

• Aschoff, J.L., C Olariu, RJ Steel, 2016, Recognition and significance of bayhead delta deposits in the rock record: A comparison of modern and ancient systems, Sedimentology
• Baumanis, C., W Kim, 2016, Reverse migration of lithofacies boundaries and shoreline in response to sea level rise, Basin Research
• Burgess, P.M., PA Allen, RJ Steel, 2016, Introduction to the future of sequence stratigraphy: evolution or revolution?, Journal of the Geological Society
• Chen, C., RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2016, Upper-Slope To Shelf-Edge Delta Architecture, Miocene Cruse Formation, Orinoco Shelf Margin, Trinidad, Journal of Sedimentary Research 86 (2), 87-106
• Chen, L., F Guo, RJ Steel, Y Li, 2016, Late Cretaceous redbeds from the Gan-Hang Belt in Southeast China: petrography and geochemistry implications for provenance, source weathering, and tectonic …, International Geology Review
• Chen, L., RJ Steel, F Guo, C Olariu, C Gong, 2017, Alluvial fan facies of the Yongchong Basin: Implications for tectonic and paleoclimatic changes during Late Cretaceous in SE China, Journal of Asian Earth
• Fernandes, A., M., TE Törnqvist, KM Straub, D Mohrig , 2016 Connecting the backwater hydraulics of coastal rivers to fluvio-deltaic sedimentology and stratigraphy, Geology, v. 44, p. 979-982.
• Gong, C., RJ Steel, Y Wang, C Lin, C Olariu, 2016, Grain size and transport regime at shelf edge as fundamental controls on delivery of shelf-edge sands to deepwater, Earth-Science Reviews 157, 32-60
• Gong, C., RJ Steel, Y Wang, C Lin, C Olariu, 2016, Shelf-margin architecture variability and its role in sediment-budget partitioning into deep-water areas, Earth-Science Reviews 154, 72-101
• Gong, C., Y Wang, RJ Steel, J Peakall, X Zhao, 2016, Flow processes and sedimentation in unidirectionally migrating deep‐water channels: From a three‐dimensional seismic perspective. Sedimentology, v. 63, p. 645-661.
• Johnson, J., Delbecq, K., Kim, W., and Mohrig, D., 2016, Experimental tsunami deposits: Linking hydrodynamics to sediment entrainment, advection lengths and downstream fining: Geomorphology, v. 253, p. 478-490, DOI:10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.11.004
• Koo, W.M., C Olariu, RJ Steel, MI Olariu, CR Carvajal, W Kim, 2016, Coupling Between Shelf-Edge Architecture and Submarine-Fan Growth Style In A Supply-Dominated Margin, Journal of Sedimentary Research 86 (6), 613-628
• Laugier, F.J., P Plink‐Björklund , 2016, Defining the shelf edge and the three‐dimensional shelf edge to slope facies variability in shelf‐edge deltas, Sedimentology
• Leva López, J., V Rossi, C Olariu, R Steel, 2016, Architecture and recognition criteria of ancient shelf ridges; an example from Campanian Almond Formation in Hanna Basin, USA, Sedimentology
• Liang, M., Kim, W., and Passalacqua, P., 2016, How much subsidence is enough to change the morphology of river deltas: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, p. 10,266–10,276, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070519-
• Longhitano, S.G., RJ Steel, 2016, Deflection of the progradational axis and asymmetry in tidal seaway and strait deltas: insights from two outcrop case studies, Geological Society, London,
• Muto, T., Furubayashi, R., Tomer, A., Sato, T., Kim, W., Naruse, H. and Parker, G. (2016), Planform evolution of deltas with graded alluvial topsets: Insights from three-dimensional tank experiments, geometric considerations and field applications. Sedimentology, 63: 2158–2189. doi:10.1111/sed.12301
• Muto, T., RJ Steel, P Burgess, 2016, Contributions to sequence stratigraphy from analogue and numerical experiments, Journal of the Geological Society,
• Rossi, V.M., Kim, W., Leva, J.L., Edmonds, D., Geleynse, N., Olariu, C., Steel, R., Hiatt, M., and Passalacqua, P., 2016, Impact of tidal currents on delta-channel deepening, stratigraphic architecture and sediment bypass beyond the shoreline: Geology, v. 44, no. 11, p. 927-930, DOI: 10.1130/G38334.1
• Rossi, V.M., RJ Steel, 2016, The role of tidal, wave and river currents in the evolution of mixed‐energy deltas: Example from the Lajas Formation (Argentina), Sedimentology
• Sanchez, C.M., CS Fulthorpe, RJ Steel, 2016, Influence of Bathymetry and the proto-Leeuwin Current on development of Plio-Pleistocene tropical carbonates platforms: Northern Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Shelf, Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Shaw, J.B., D Mohrig, RW Wagner, 2016 -, Flow patterns and morphology of a prograding river delta, Journal of Geophysical Research
• Shaw, J.B., Francois Ayoub, Cathleen E. Jones, Michael P. Lamb, Benjamin Holt, R. Wayne Wagner, Thomas S. Coffey, J. Austin Chadwick, and David Mohrig, 2016, Airborne radar imaging of subaqueous channel evolution in Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA, Geophysical Research Letters
• Steel, E., J Buttles, AR Simms, D Mohrig, E Meiburg, 2017, The role of buoyancy reversal in turbidite deposition and submarine fan geometry, Geology
• Swanson, T., D Mohrig, G Kocurek , 2016, Aeolian dune sediment flux variability over an annual cycle of wind, Sedimentology
• Swanson, T., D Mohrig, G Kocurek, M Liang , 2016, A Surface Model for Aeolian Dune Topography, Mathematical Geosciences,
• Wei, X., RJ Steel, R Ravnås, Z Jiang, C Olariu, Z Li, 2016, Variability of tidal signals in the Brent Delta Front: New observations on the Rannoch Formation, northern North Sea, Sedimentary Geology 335, 166-179
• Zhang, J., R Steel, W Ambrose, 2016, Greenhouse shoreline migration: Wilcox deltas, AAPG Bulletin

Manuscripts submitted in 2016

• Carlson, B., Kim, W., and Piliouras, A., submitted, Basin Depth Control on the Fluvial Autogenic Processes of Deltaic Systems
• Chatmas, E., Kim, W., and Kocurek, G., The effect of a pre-deposited mobile substrate on terminal fan evolution and channel organization: Tank experiments: Journal of Sedimentary Research (under review)
• Fongngern, R., Cornel Olariu, Ron Steel, and David Mohrig, Submitted to Basin Research, Base-Of-Slope: Definition and Significance for Shelf Margin Architecture
• Fongngern, R., Olariu, C., Steel, R., Mohrig, D., Krézsek, C.; Hess, T., Submitted to Sedimentology, Characteristics of Deep Lacustrine Clinothems; Insights from Outcrop and Subsurface Data
• Johnson, J., Delbecq, K., and Kim, W., Predicting paleohydraulics from surge and tsunami deposits: Using experiments to improve inverse model accuracy: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface (under revision)
• Koo, W.M., Cornel Olariu, Ronald J. Steel, submitted to Sedimentology, Lateral variability of transitional flow deposits in submarine-lobe fringes
• Lim, Y, Levy, J., Goudge, T., and Kim, W., Ice cover as a control on the morphodynamics of Arctic deltas: Nature Geoscience(under review)
• Olariu, C., Krezsek, C., and Jipa, D.C., submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letter, The Danube River Inception: Evidence for a 4 Ma Continental-Scale River Born from Segmented Paratethys Basins
• Peng, Y., Ronald J. Steel, and Cornel Olariu, submitted to Sedimentology, Transition from storm wave-dominated outer shelf to gullied upper slope: The mid-Pliocene Orinoco shelf margin, South Trinidad
• Peng, Y., Steel, R.J., Rossi, V., and Olariu, C., submitted, Mixed Energy Process Interactions Read From a Muddy Deltic Shoreline (Paleo-Orinoco Delta, Trinidad): Preservation of River- and Tide-Signals by Mud-Induced Wave Damping
• Rossi, V.M., Mauricio M. Perillo, Ronald J. Steel and Cornel Olariu, submitted to JSR, Quantifying process regime in ancient shallow marine mixed-energy depositional systems: what are sedimentary structures really telling us?
• Zhang, J., Ron Steel, Cornel Olariu, submitted to Geology, Highstand shelf-edge deltas and submarine fans: what is required for their formation?