DYNAMIC STRATIGRAPHY WORKGROUP

Recent publications

 

Aschoff, J.L. (in revision), Preliminary regional sequence-stratigraphic framework of the Farrer and Price River Formations, Uinta Basin, USA: Utah Geological Survey Open File Report (# not yet assigned)

Aschoff, J.L. and Steel, R.J., (in review), Anatomy and development of a low-accommodation clastic wedge, Cordilleran Foreland Basin, USA: Sedimentary Geology.

Aschoff, J.L. and Steel, R.J., (in review), Anomalous clastic progradation in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin: Implications for the Sevier-Laramide Transition: GSA Bulletin.

Petter, A.L., Kim, W., Muto, T., and Steel, R.J., 2010, Comment on ‘Clinoform quantification for assessing the effects of external forcing on continental margin development’: Basin Research, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00472.x.

Olariu, C., Steel, R.J., and Petter, A.L., 2010, Delta-front hyperpycnal bed geometry and implications for reservoir modeling: Cretaceous Panther Tongue Delta, Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Carvajal, C., Steel, R., and Petter, A., 2009, Sediment supply: the main driver of shelf-margin growth: Earth-Science Reviews, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.06.008.

Carvajal, C., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Shelf-edge architecture and bypass of sand to deepwater: influence of sediment supply, sea level, and shelf-edge processes: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p. 652-672, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2009.059.

Olariu, C., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Influence of point-source sediment supply on modern shelf-slope morphology: implications for interpretation of ancient shelf margins: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 484-501.

Ryan, M.C., Helland-Hansen, W., Johannessen, E.P., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Erosional vs. accretionary shelf margins: the influence of margin type on deep-water sedimentation: an example from the Porcupine Basin, offshore western Ireland: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 676-703.

Henricksen, S., Hampson, G.J., Helland-Hansen, W., Johannessen, E.P., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Shelf edge and shoreline trajectories, a dynamic approach to stratigraphic analysis: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 445-453.

Aschoff, J.L., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Development of an anomalous clastic wedge: A “Sink-to-Source” transect through the Cordilleran Foreland Basin, Utah and Colorado, USA: SEPM Fieldtrip Guidebook, 51 p.

Uroza, C. A., and Steel, R. J., 2008, A highstand shelf-margin delta system from the Eocene of West Spitsbergen, Norway: Sedimentary Geology, v. 203, p. 229-245.

Petter, A.L., and Muto, T., 2008, Sustained alluvial aggradation and autogenic detachment of the alluvial river from the shoreline in response to steady fall of relative sea level: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 98-111, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2008.012.

Burgess, P.M., Steel, R.J., and Granjeon, D., 2008, Stratigraphic forward modeling of basin-margin clinoform systems: implications for controls on topset and shelf width and timing of formations of shelf-edge deltas in Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 90, p. 3-12.

Steel, R.J., Carvajal, C., Petter, A., and Uroza, C., 2008, Shelf and shelf-margin growth in scenarios of rising and falling sea level, in Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 90, p. 47-71.

Bullimore, S., Helland-Hansen, W., Henricksen, S., and Steel, R.J., 2008, Shoreline trajectory and its impact on coastal depositional environments: an example from the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, NW Colorado, in Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 90, p. 209-236.

Aschoff, J.L., and Schmitt, J.G., 2008, Distinguishing syntectonic unconformity types to enhance analysis of growth strata: an example from the Cretaceous, southeastern Nevada, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 608-623.

Gerber, T.P., Pratson, L.F., Wolinsky, M.A., Steel, R., Mohr, J., Swenson, J.B., and Paola, C., 2008, Clinoform progradation by deposition from turbidity currents: modeling and experiments: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p. 220-238.

Muto, T., Steel, R.J., and Swenson, J.B., 2007, Autostratigraphy: a framework norm for genetic stratigraphy: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2007.005, p. 2-12.

McLaurin, B.T., and Steel, R.J., 2007, Architecture and origin of an amalgamated fluvial sheet sand, lower Castlegate Formation, Book Cliffs, Utah: Sedimentary Geology, v. 197, p. 291-311.

Steel, R.J., Plink-Björklund, P., and Mellere, D., 2007, Type I shelf margin, Storvola, Norway, in Nilsen, T.H., Shew, R.D., Steffans, G.F., and Studlick, J.R., eds., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 56, p. 274-281.

Steel, R.J., and Plink-Björklund, P., 2007, Type II shelf margin, Hogstyna, Norway, in Nilsen, T.H., Shew, R.D., Steffans, G.F., and Studlick, J.R., eds., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology 56, p. 282-286.

Yoshida, S., Steel, R.J., and Dalrymple, R.W., 2007, Changes in depositional processes — an ingredient of a new generation of stratigraphic models: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 447-460.

Petter, A.L., and Steel, R.J., 2006, Hyperpycnal flow variability and slope organization on an Eocene shelf margin, Central Basin, Spitsbergen: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 90, p. 1451-1472.

Plink-Björklund, P., and Steel, R.J., 2006, Incised valleys: part of a linked shelf-slope system, in Dalrymple, R., ed., Incised Valleys: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 85, p. 281-307.

Porębski, S., and Steel, R.J., 2006, Deltas and sea level change: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 390-403.

Carvajal, C., and Steel, R.J., 2006, Thick turbidite successions from supply-dominated shelves during sea-level highstand: Geology, v. 34, p. 665-668.

Clark, B.E., and Steel, R.J., 2006, Eocene turbidite population statistics from shelf edge to basin floor, Spitsbergen: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 903-918.

Loseth, T.M., Steel, R.J., Crabaugh, J.P., and Schellpeper, M., 2006, Interplay between shoreline migration paths, architecture and pinchout distance for siliciclastic shoreline tongues: evidence from the rock record: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 735-767.