2017 Publications

Articles published during 2017

• Piliouras, A.*, Kim, W., and Carlson, B.§, 2017, Balancing aggradation and progradation on a vegetated delta: The importance of fluctuating discharge in depositional systems: Journal of Geophysical Research (in press), DOI: 10.1002/2017JF004378
• Chatmas, E.*, Kim, W., and Kocurek, G., 2017, The effect of a pre-deposited mobile substrate on terminal fan evolution and channel organization: Tank experiments: Journal of Sedimentary Research , v. 87, p. 921-934, DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2017.51
• Johnson, J., Delbecq, K.*, and Kim, W., 2017, Predicting paleohydraulics from surge and tsunami deposits: Using experiments to improve inverse model accuracy: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 122, no. 4, p. 760-781, DOI: 10.1002/2015JF003816
• Baumanis, C.§ and Kim, W., 2017, Reverse migration of lithofacies boundary and shoreline in response to sea level rise: Basin Research (in press), DOI: 10.1111/bre.12209
• Burgess, P. and Steel, R.J. (2017) How to interpret, understand, and predict stratal geometries using stratal-control spaces and stratal-control-space trajectories.  J. of Sedimentary Research 87, 325-337.
• Chen, L., Steel, R.J., Guo, F., Olariu, C. and Gong, C. (2017). Alluvial fan facies of the Yongchong Basin: Implications for tectonic and paleoclimatic changes during Late Cretaceous in SE China. J. Asian Earth Sciences 134, 37-54.
• Zhang, J., Steel, R.J. and Ambrose, W. (2017). Paleocene Wilcox cross-shelf channel-belt history and shelf-margin growth: Key to Gulf of Mexico sediment delivery. Sedimentary Geology 362, 53-65
• Vallejo, C., Tapia, D., Gaibor, J., Steel, R.J., Cardenas, M., Winkler, W., Valdez, A., Esteban, J., Figuera, M., Leal, J., and Cuenca, D. Geology of the Campanian M1 sandstone oil reservoir of eastern Ecuador: A delta system sourced from the Amazon Craton. J. Marine and Petroleum Geology 86, 1207-1223.
• Rossi, V.M., Longhitano, S.G., Mellere, D., Dalrymple, R.W., Steel, R.J. Chiarella, D. & Olariu, C. (2017) Interplay of tidal and fluvial processes in an early Pleistocene, delta-fed, strait margin (Calabria, Southern Italy). Sedimentary Geology 87, 14-30.
• Peng, Y., Steel, R.J. & Olariu, C. (2017). Transition from storm wave-dominated outer shelf to gullied upper slope: the mid-Pliocene Orinoco shelf margin, South Trinidad. Sedimentology doi: 10.1111/sed.12362
• Gomez-Veroiza & Steel, R.J. (2017) Source to sink sandstone-mudstone proportion and facies distribution across a third-order clastic wedge, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. Interpretation 5, 1-23
• Fongngern, R., Olariu, C., Steel, R.J., Mohrig, D., Krézsek, C. And Hess, T. (2017). Subsurface and outcrop characteristics of fluvial-dominated deep lacustrine clinoforms. Sedimentology
• Rahmani, R., Steel, R.J. And Al-Duaiji, A.A. (in press) High resolution sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of a prolific Devonian gas reservoir: Jauf Formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Memoir of Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geologists
• Zhang, J. Y., R. Steel and C. Olariu (2017). “What conditions are required for deltas to reach the shelf edge during rising sea level?” Geology 45(12): 1107-1110.
• Goudge, T. A., D. Mohrig, B. T. Cardenas, C. M. Hughes and C. I. Fassett (2018). “Stratigraphy and paleohydrology of delta channel deposits, Jezero crater, Mars.” Icarus 301: 58-75.
• Shields, M. R., T. S. Bianchi, D. Mohrig, J. A. Hutchings, W. F. Kenney, A. S. Kolker and J. H. Curtis (2017). “Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering.” Nature Geoscience 10(11): 846-+.
• Smith, V. B. and D. Mohrig (2017). “Geomorphic signature of a dammed Sandy River: The lower Trinity River downstream of Livingston Dam in Texas, USA.” Geomorphology 297: 122-136.
• Steel, E., J. Buttles, A. R. Simms, D. Mohrig and E. Meiburg (2017). “The role of buoyancy reversal in turbidite deposition and submarine fan geometry.” Geology 45(1): 35-38.
• Swanson, T., D. Mohrig, G. Kocurek and M. Liang (2017). “A Surface Model for Aeolian Dune Topography.” Mathematical Geosciences 49(5): 635-655.
• Swanson, T., D. Mohrig, G. Kocurek, M. Perillo and J. Venditti (2018). “Bedform spurs: a result of a trailing helical vortex wake.” Sedimentology 65(1): 191-208.
• Wagner, W., D. Lague, D. Mohrig, P. Passalacqua, J. Shaw and K. Moffett (2017). “Elevation change and stability on a prograding delta.” Geophysical Research Letters 44(4): 1786-1794.
• DC Jipa, C Olariu, 2017, Significance of the Bucegi Conglomerate olistoliths in the Albian source-to-sink system from the Carpathian Bend basin in Romania. Interpretation 6 (1), T29-T37
• VM Rossi, MM Perillo, RJ Steel, C Olariu, 2017, Quantifying mixed-process variability in shallow-marine depositional systems: What are sedimentary structures really telling us? Journal of Sedimentary Research 87 (10), 1060-1074
• Olariu, C, Krezsek, C, and Jipa D.C., 2017, The Danube River inception: Evidence for a 4 Ma continentalscale river born from segmented ParaTethys basins. Terra Nova. DOI: 10.1111/ter.12308
• Ono, K. A., and Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2017, Froude supercritical flow bedforms in deepwater slope channels? Filed examples iin conglomerates, sandstones and fine-grained deposits. Sedimentology doi: 10.1111/sed.12396
• Eluwa, A., Mohrig, D., Ogiesoba, O.C., and Ambrose, W.A., 2017, Depositional settings and history of the Lower Miocene Fleming Group, Refugio County, Texas, as defined using seismic geomorphology: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• McElroy, B., Willenbring, J., and Mohrig, D., 2017, Addressing time-scale− dependent erosion rates from measurement methods with censorship: GSA Bulletin
• Cardenas, B.T., Mohrig, D., Goudge, T.A., 2017, Fluvial stratigraphy of valley fills at Aeolis Dorsa, Mars: Evidence for base-level fluctuations controlled by a downstream water body: GSA Bulletin
• Submitted:
• Carlson, B.§, Kim, W., and Piliouras, A., Basin depth control on the fluvial autogenic processes of deltaic systems: Journal of Sedimentary Geology (under review)
• Lim, Y., Levy, J., Goudge, T., and Kim, W., Ice cover as a control on the morphodynamics of Arctic deltas: Geology (under review)
• Piliouras, A. and Kim, W., Relevant timescales for maintaining a distributary network on a vegetated delta: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (under revision)
• Miller, K. and Kim, W., Laboratory investigation on effects of flood intermittency on river delta dynamics: Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface (under review)
• Clayton, C.A., and Olariu, C., submitted to Geology, Linking Cretaceous and Paleogene Gulf of Mexico Large Scale Canyon Incisions to Tectonics