Title of Page file:///Users/j954s306/Documents/Geology/public_html/programs/sedimentary/index.html[5/1/14, 9:12:30 AM] | Return to KU Geology homepage | Sedimentary Geology Links to Program Areas Sedimentary Geology Top Page Clastics Paleontology Carbonate Geology Petroleum Geology Sequence Stratigraphy Geochemisry & Diagenesis Tectonic and Sedimentary Processes Sedimentary Geology is a particular strength of the University of Kansas. The program is highly ranked and well respected. In a recent national poll by US News and World Reports, the University of Kansas Department of Geology achieved top 10 rankings in its two soft-rock research areas (Sedimentology/ Stratigraphy and Paleontology), placing it among an elite three schools nationwide to have achieved such recognition. In the last ten years, members of KU's program have received more than fourteen awards, medals, or honorable mentions to acknowledge the impact of their research accomplishments. The group at the University is diverse, covering specialties in CARBONATE GEOLOGY, CLASTICS, PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY, TECTONICS and SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES and GEOCHEMISTRY and DIAGENESIS. Well integrated with the researchers in sedimentary geology is a large group of researchers in PALEONTOLOGY, also an essential part of the program. What graduate level courses are available in Sedimentary Geology? - Basin Analysis - Carbonate Depositional Systems - Petroleum Geology - Carbonate Petrology - Seminar in Sequence Stratigraphy - Seminar on Coral reefs - Fluid Inclusion Geochemistry - Subsurface Reservoir Characterization - Well Logging - Guadalupe-Sacramentos Field trip - Florida-Bahamas Field Trip - Puerto Rico Field Trip - Book Cliffs Field Trip - Mexico Field Trip - Carbonate diagenesis - Micropaleontology - Paleoecology What are the current sources of funding? NSF DOE ACS-PRF Kerr-Mcgee Marathon State of Kansas BP Amoco USGS GSA Exxon-Mobil PhillipsPetroleum Mull Drilling
Sedimentary Geology is a particular strengthof the University of Kansas. The program ishighly ranked and well respected. In a recentnational poll by US News and World Reports,the University of Kansas Department ofGeology achieved top 10 rankings in its twosoft-rock research areas (Sedimentology/Stratigraphy and Paleontology), placing itamong an elite three schools nationwide tohave achieved such recognition. In the lastten years, members of KU's program havereceived more than fourteen awards, medals,or honorable mentions to acknowledge theimpact of their research accomplishments.
The group at the University is diverse, covering specialties in CARBONATE GEOLOGY, CLASTICS,PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY, TECTONICS and SEDIMENTARY PROCESSESand GEOCHEMISTRY and DIAGENESIS. Well integrated with the researchers in sedimentary geology is alarge group of researchers in PALEONTOLOGY, also an essential part of the program.
What graduate level courses are available in Sedimentary Geology?
- Basin Analysis- Carbonate Depositional Systems- Petroleum Geology- Carbonate Petrology- Seminar in Sequence Stratigraphy- Seminar on Coral reefs- Fluid Inclusion Geochemistry- Subsurface Reservoir Characterization- Well Logging
- Guadalupe-Sacramentos Field trip- Florida-Bahamas Field Trip- Puerto Rico Field Trip- Book Cliffs Field Trip- Mexico Field Trip- Carbonate diagenesis- Micropaleontology- Paleoecology
What are the current sources of funding?NSFDOEACS-PRF
FELLOWSHIPS - Fellowships are currently available to students. Sources of fellowships include one fromChevron Texaco, others from the Patterson Fund, Ginnell Fund, and other oil companies.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS - Yearly, there are various teaching assistantships available through theDepartment of Geology.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS - Yearly, there are various research assistantships available through theDepartment of Geology and the Kansas Geological Survey
Faculty involved in Sedimentary Geology
Bob Goldstein (Professor-Dept. of Geol., [email protected])Bob Buddemeier (Courtesy Professor-Dept. of Geog., Senior Scientist-Kansas Geol. Surv.)Dan Stockli (Assistant Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Diane Kamola (Visiting Associate Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Doug Walkerr (Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Evan Franseen (Professor-Dept. of Geol., Senior Scientist-KGS)Gwen Macpherson (Associate Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Paul Enos (Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Randy Van Schmus (Professor-Dept of Geol.)Jennifer Roberts (Assistant Professor-Dept. of Geol.)John Doveton (Courtesy Professor-Dept. of Geol., Senior Scientist-Kansas Geol. Surv.)Luis Gonzalez (Associate Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Lee Gerhard (Courtesy Professor-Dept. of Geol., Principal Geologist-Kansas Geol. Surv.)Lynn Watney (Courtesy Professor-Dept. of Geol., Senior Scientist-Kansas Geol. Surv.)Tim Carr (Courtesy Professor-Dept of Geol., Senior Scientist-Kansas Geol. Surv.)Tony Walton (Associate Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Steve Hasiotis (Assistant Professor-Dept. of Geol.)Bruce Lieberman (Associate Professor-Dept. of Geol.)
Examples of recent and current graduate students and their projects Abdulrahman M.I. Allisa - Electrofacies model and sequence stratigraphic framework of lower Morrow rocks,case study, Arroyo and Gentzler oil fields, Hugoton embayment Southwestern Kansas
Alexander Martinez - An integrated Geophysical/Geological Study of the Tonganoxie Sandstone Member ofthe Stranger Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian) in Northeast Kansas
Alycia L. Rode - Invasive Species and Mass Extinction: a Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Study of theSubclass Phyllocarida (Class Crustacea) during the Late Devonian Biodiversity Crisis
Anita E Csoma - Calcium Carbonate Cementation in the Meteoric-Marine Mixing Zone: Process and Criteriafor Recognition
Govert Buijs - Reconstruction of Fluid-Flow History and Diagenesis in the Hugoton Embayment, WesternKansas
Christopher L. Johnson - The Effects of Relative Sea-Level and Paleotopography on LithofaciesDistribution and Geometries in Heterozoan Carbonates, Southeastern Spain
Daniel I. Hembree - Paleontology and Ichnology of and Ephemeral Pond Deposit within the Middle SpeiserShale (Lower Permian) near Eskridge, Kansas
Peter Dillet - Paleotopographic and Sea-Level Controls on Sequence Stratigraphy of Heterozoan CarbonateFacies: Pliocene Carboneras Basin, Southeast Spain
Erik Hiemstra - Diagenesis and Fluid Migration in the Indian Basin Oil Field
Hembree Daniel - The Occurrence, Morphology, and Paleoecological Significance of Recent and TertiaryAmphisbaenian (Reptile: Squamata) Burrows
Jason Cansler - Paleogeomorphology of the Pre-Pennsylvanian Unconformity on the Arbuckle Group
Jason R. Mckirahan - The Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Distribution of Lithologies Suitable for Class 1Aggregate in the Farley Limestone
Troy Johnson - Stratigraphy and Coalbed Methane Potential of Pennsylvnian CoalsÑBourbon Arch Region,Eastern Kansas
Kristie Luchtel - Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Analysis of Incised Valleys from the upper KearnyFormation (Morrowan Stage, Lower Pennsylvanian System) within three Kansas fields
Jonathan Lange - Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments and Coalbed Methane Resources of CherokeeGroup Coals (Middle Pennsylvanian)- Southeastern Kansas
Andrew Madoff - Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy of Sego Sandstone Nelson Formation
Marcello Minzoni - Triassic Yangtze Platform Margin, Guizhou Province, China
Nathan Wilke - Sequence Stratigraphy of the Bethany Falls Depositional Sequence in Northeastern Kansasand Western Missouri
Niall Toomey - Controls on Sequence Stratigraphy of Upper Miocene (Messinian/Tortonian) Carbonates inthe Cerro de Ricardillo- San Pedro area of Southeastern Spain
Pei Donghong - The Geology of the Early Triassic Chongzou Isolated Platform in Nanpanjiang Basin ofSouth China
Brian Platt - A New Sauropod Tracksite From the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation: Implications forSauropod Foot Morphology, Locomotion Dynamics, and Substrate Deformation
Rebecca Scheppy - A Three Dimensional Analysis of the Internal Architecture of an Incised Valley: DesertMember, Blackhawk Formation, Books Cliffs, Utah
Matthew Ritter - Sequence Stratigraphy and Diagenesis of the Short Creek Oolite Member, KeokukLimestone. Western Missouri
Julienne Ruth Emery - Controls on TopographyÑBuilding Phases in Cyclothemic Carbonates: ArgentineLimestone, Kansas
Galo Salcedo-Mariduena - Regional Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of LowerPennsylvanian Reservoir Sandstones, Southwestern Kansas
Scott Heath - Taphofacies Analysis of Upper Pennsylvanian Microfossils (Hughes Creek Shale East CentralKansas)
Sean T. Brennan - Fluid Migration History of an Exhumed Petroleum Reservoir, the Abra Limestone(mid-Cretaceous) Sierra el Abra, NE Mexico
Stephen Franklin - Stratigraphy of the Ozawkie Limestone Member (Deer Creek Formation) from EasternKansas to Southeastern Nebraska
Edward Washburn - Controls on Facies Developments and Variation in Plattsburg Limestone ReservoirAnalog Strata Integrating Outcrop Study and Ground-Penetrating Radar
Zater Mustapha - Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Emery Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale,Utah
In clastic sedimentology, diagenesis, andstratigraphy, we have five faculty, AnthonyWalton and Diane Kamola, teach courses inpetroleum geology, basin analysis, andterrigenous depositional systems. BobGoldstein works on the sedimentology andsequence stratigraphy of mixedcarbonate/clastic/evaporite systems and alsostudies the diagenesis of clastic reservoirs.Steve Hasiotis integrates trace fossils withthe sedimentology and stratigraphy ofcontinental systems. Tim Carr is active inresearch into strata hosting coal-bedmethane resources and incised valley fillsandstones in Kansas. Currently, manystudents do research in the areas of three-dimensional analysis of clastic reservoirsystems and their outcrop analogs. Studentsare exceptionally well prepared for workingin areas of quantitative three-dimensionalvisualization of clastic reservoirs, and othershave carefully integrated clastic reservoirsand fluid flow.
Diane Kamola - Diane's work in clastics includes a wide variety of depositional environments, but focusesmainly on facies analysis of shallow marine shorelines and associated marginal marine environments,including tidal and barrier island settings. Diane has also worked in eolian, lacustrine and volcaniclasticdeposits, relating the depositional record of these environments to paleogeographic reconstruction.
Tony Walton Dr. - Dr. Walton has a long-standing interest in deposition and stratigraphy of Pennsylvaniansiliciclastic rocks in Kansas. This has led to several publications and student theses describing those rocks.He has also published on such subjects as sedimentary processes related to volcanic centers. This work hasincluded studies of both fluvial and lahar-dominated systems.
Bob Goldstein - Bob is involved in the diagenesis of clastic oil and gas reservoirs. He is also involved in thesedimentology of clastics mixed stratigraphically with carbonates or with evaporites.
Steve Hasiotis - Steve is an innovator in the application of ichnology to continental deposits. His workintegrates paleoclimate, clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and trace fossils to evaluate the
Tim Carr - Tim Carr and his students have an active research program dealing with strata hosting coal-bedmethane resources and incised valley fill sandstones in Kansas.
Examples of recent publications
Benison, K. and Goldstein, R.H. 2001. Evaporites and siliciclastics of the Permian Nippewalla Group ofKansas: A case for deposition in saline lakes and saline pans: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 165-188.
Benison, K. C., and Goldstein, R. H. 1999. Permian paleoclimate data from Fluid Inclusions in Halite:Chemical Geology, v. 154, p. 113-132
Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H. 2000. Sedimentology of ancient saline pans: An example from thePermian Opeche Shale, Williston basin, North Dakota, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p.159-169.
Benison, K.C., and Goldstein, R.H. 2002. Recognizing acid lakes and groundwaters in the rock record:Sedimentary Geology, v. 151, p. 177-185.
Hasiotis, S. T. and Honey, J. 2000. Paleocene continental deposits and crayfish burrows of the LaramideBasins in the Rocky Mountains: Paleohydrologic and Stratigraphic significance. Journal of SedimentaryResearch, v. 70(1), p. 127-139.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2000. The Invertebrate Invasion and Evolution of Mesozoic Soil Ecosystems: The IchnofossilRecord of Ecological Innovations. In, R. Gastaldo and W. Dimichele (eds.), Phanerozoic TerrestrialEcosystems. Paleontological Society Short Course, 6:141-169.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2003. Complex ichnofossils of solitary to social soil organisms: understanding their evolutionand roles in terrestrial paleoecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 192, p.259-320.
Hasiotis, S. T. in press 2004. Reconnaissance of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation ichnofossils, RockyMountain region, USA: environmental, stratigraphic, and climatic significance of terrestrial and freshwaterichnocoenoses. Sedimentary Geology, 106 pages.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2002. Continental Trace Fossil Atlas. SEPM, Short Course Notes Number 51, Tulsa,Oklahoma, 132 p.
C. Rossi, R. Marfil, R.H. Goldstein, R. Salas, A. Permanyer, J.A. de la Pea, M.A. Caja, and M.I. Benito(2001) Diagenetic and oil migration history of the Kimmeridgian Ascla Formation, Maestrat Basin, Spain,Marine and Petroleum Geology v.18 (3), p. 287-306.
Ceriani, A., Di Guilio, A., Goldstein, R.H., and Rossi, C. 2002, Diagenesis associated with cooling duringburial: An example from Lower Cretaceous reservoir sandstones (Sirt basin, Libya): AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p.1573-1591.
Goldstein, R.H. and Rossi, C. 2002. Recrystallization in Quartz Overgrowths: Journal of SedimentaryResearch, v. 72, p. 432-440.
McKirahan, J.R., and Goldstein, R.H., and Franseen, E. K., (in press) Build-and-fill sequences: How subtlepaleotopography affects 3-D heterogeneity of potential reservoir facies: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-CarboniferousPlatforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication.
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., and Marfil, R. 2000. Pore fluid evolution and quartz diagenesis in the KhatatbaFormation, Western Desert, Egypt: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 91-96.
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., Ceriani, A., and Marfil, R. 2002. Fluid inclusions record thermal and fluidevolution in reservoir sandstones, Khatatba Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: A case for fluid injection:AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1773-1799.
In carbonate studies, we have among the largestand most diverse group of faculty in the nation,including Paul Enos, Robert Goldstein, LuisGonzalez, Evan Franseen, Lynn Watney, BobBuddemeier, Lee Gerhard, Jennifer Roberts andTim Carr. These researchers are involved insequence stratigraphy of carbonate platformevolution, diagenetic variables affecting carbonatereservoirs and three-dimensional characterizationof carbonate reservoir systems. Their students areworking in highly diverse areas of research, someconcentrating on field-based projects in sequencestratigraphy, others concentrating on diagenesisand fluid flow, and others focusing on subsurfacegeology and the controls on carbonate reservoircharacter.
Paul Enos studies the sedimentology and diagenesis of carbonates. Current projects involve the evolution ofTriassic carbonate platforms in south China and the development of the Triassic Lofer cyclothems in the Alps.Paul focused on Cretaceous rocks of Mexico for many years, but left a few problems unsolved. He keeps intouch with developments in modern carbonates in Florida and the Bahamas through field trips with studentand industry groups. Recent students have worked on sequence development in Ordovician andMississippian strata in the subsurface of Kansas as well as the Pennsylvanian outcrops. Paul went to seawith the Ocean Drilling Program to study drowned atolls and carbonate platforms in the northwest Pacific. Heheaded up the diagenetic study of cores recovered from that cruise.
Bob Goldstein's research emphasizes an integrative approach to studies in carbonate diagenesis andsequence stratigraphy. His research methods include field and petrographic techniques complemented byfluid-inclusion, stable-isotope, and trace-element data. Bob's current thrusts are in two areas: the integrationof diagenesis with sequence stratigraphy to better understand controls on depositional sequence architectureand to develop better understanding of diagenetic systems, and the development of new techniques involvingfluid inclusions in diagenetic minerals. Recently, Bob and Evan Franseen developed a new technique forquantifying relative sea level history and they are using the technique in Miocene strata to better understandthe variables that control depositional sequence architecture in carbonates. Other recent developmentsinvolve innovative work to analyze the composition and pressure of entrapment of fluid inclusions as a meansof tracing the physical and chemical evolution of diagenetic systems. Bob and his students are currentlystudying fluid inclusions, diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy in the Pennsylvanian and Permian of NewMexico and Kansas, the Cretaceous of Mexico, the Miocene of Spain, the Permian of many areas of NorthAmerica, the Eocene of Enewetak Atoll, the Pliocene of the Bahamas, and the Ordovician of Kansas.
Evan Franseen - EvanÕs research primarily involves carbonate rocks, although many of the researchprojects are in mixed carbonate and siliciclastic systems. His research approach is integrative and projects todate have utilized outcrop and subsurface data, high-resolution and conventional seismic methods, ground-penetrating radar, paleomagnetic methods, biostratigraphy, petrography, and geochemical techniques to betterdiscern global, regional, and local variables that control carbonate depositional systems. A recent initiativeinvolves hydrostratigraphic studies.
Tim Carr Tim is working on several projects on carbonate reservoir geology including using geostatisticalapproaches to estimate reservoir parameters away from the wellbore and ways to upscale the complexities ofcarbonates to a level that van be input to reservoir simulations. Working on the geomorphology of karstterranes and the effect on reservoir development and exploitation strategies (e.g., horizontal drilling, miscibleCO2 flooding).
Bob Buddemeier - Bob Buddemeier's interests in carbonates focus on issues involving corals and coralreefs, and overlap with his interests in biogeochemisttry and sediment processes. He is primarily concernedwith environmental correlates and controls of carbonate production and coral reef and communitydevelopment, and is particularly interested in relating local conditions and processes to larger scale issues.He is the author of numerous invited review and overview articles on coral reefs and global change. See alsohttp://129.237.141.105/webpub/ncri/ncripage.htm Bob's interests in sediment generation, transport anddeposition are closely linked to his overall interests in water and carbon fluxes and budgets at the earthsystems level, and his coral-reef and other interests in biogeomorphology and biogeochemistry. He iscooperating in projects to assess controls on both biogenic sediments and the dynamics of fluvial sedimentdelivery in the global coastal zone.
Lee Gerhard Lee conducts research to synthesize ruling paradigms governing carbonate formation anddiagenesis. He is also involved in studies of carbonate sedimentology of the St. Croix/Buck Island Shelf.
Lynn Watney - Watney is currently involved in characterizing Pennsylvanian oomoldic carbonate reservoirsto isolate effective porosity (permeable) in what is believed to be extensive remaining petroleum reservoirs inthe Midcontinent. He also investigates the impact of depositional cyclicity, diagenesis, and multiple episodesof structural reactivation on the regional and local distribution of Mississippian chert oil and gas reservoirs inthe Midcontinent.
Jennifer Roberts - Jennifer's research explores the role microorganisms play in global silicate weatheringand carbonate diagenesis. Microbial weathering dominates diagenesis in some environments, producing abiological weathering history in the rock record that has no relationship to traditional abiotic weatheringsequences. Recent work by Jennifer and her students has shown how microorganisms induce precipitation ofdolomite at low temperature.
Luis Gonzalez -
Examples of recent publications
Baker, R. G., Bettis III, E. A., Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Strickland, L. E., and Krieg, J. R. 2002.Holocene paleoenvironments in southeastern Minnesota chasing the prairie-forest ecotone: Palaeogeography,Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology v. 177, p. 103-122.
Baker, R. G., Bettis, E. A. III, Denniston, R. F., and Gonzalez, L. A. 2001, Plant remains, alluvialchronology, and cave speleothem isotopes indicate abrupt Holocene climatic change at 6ka in MidwesternUSA, Global and Planetary Change, v. 28, p.285-291.
Bucur, I.I. and Enos, Paul, M. 2001. Middle Triassic Dasyclad Algae from Guizhou, China:Micropaleontology, v. 47, no.4, p. 317-338.Carlson, R.C., Goldstein, R.H., and Enos, Paul, (in press) Effectsof Subaerial Exposure on Porosity Evolution in the Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Northeastern BrooksRange, Alaska: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-Carboniferous Platforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Baker, R. G., Reagan, M. K. Bettis, E. A. III. 1999.Evidence for increased cool season moisture during the middle Holocene: Geology, v. 27 (9), p. 815-818.
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Reagan, M. K., Saltzman, M. R. 2001. Ahigh- resolution speleothem record of climatic variability during the Aller¿d-Younger Dryas transition inMissouri, central United States: Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, v. 176, p. 147-155.
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Reagan, M. K., and Recelli-Snyder, H. 2000.Speleothem carbon isotopic records of early Holocene environments in the Ozark Highlands, U.S.A.Quaternary International, v. 67, p. 21-27.
Enos, Paul. 1999. Mid-Cretaceous carbonates of Mexico. In Scholle, P.A., and James, N.P. eds., Jurassic,Cretaceous, and Tertiary carbonates and associated rocks: Society of Economic Paleontologists andMineralogists, Photo CD set (with explanatory text) 94021, 120 photos
Enos, Paul. (in press), Bioclasts, in Middleton, G.V., ed. Encyclopedia of Sedimentology
Franseen, E.K, Goldstein, R.H., and Esteban, Mateu. 2001. Miocene strata of southeastern Spain,sequence development, predictability and porosity distribution, AAPG Field Seminar Guidebook, 168 pp.
Frappier, A., Sahagian, D., Gonzalez, L. A., and Carpenter, S. J. 2002. El Nino events recorded bystalagmite carbon isotopes: Science, v. 298, p. 565.
Goldstein, R. H. 2001. Fluid inclusions in sedimentary and diagenetic systems, Lithos, v. 55, 159-193
Goldstein, R.H. 2001. Perspectives: Paleoenvironment, Clues from Fluid Inclusions, Science, v. 294, p.1009-1010.
Gonzalez, L. A., Neuhoff, P. S., Larue, D. K.,Uribe, R. M., and Ruiz, H. M. (in review) Diagenesis ofhydrocarbon bearing concretions in south-central Puerto Rico: Tectonism and early hydrocarbon generation.Submitted to AAPG Bulletin, 20 ms p., 11, figs. 1 table.
Luczaj, J. A. and Goldstein, R.H. 2000. Diagenesis of the lower Permian Krider Member, southwestKansas: fluid inclusion, U-Pb, and fission-track evidence for reflux dolomitization during latest Permian time:Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 762-773
Mallarino, G., Goldstein, R.H., and Di Stefano, P. 2002. New Approach for quantifying water depth appliedto the enigma of drowning of carbonate platforms: Geology, v. 30, p. 783-786.
McKirahan, J.R., and Goldstein, R.H., and Franseen, E. K. (in press) Build-and-fill sequences: How subtlepaleotopography affects 3-D heterogeneity of potential reservoir facies: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-CarboniferousPlatforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Montgomery, P., Farr, M.R., Franseen, E.K., and Goldstein, R.H. 2001, Constraining controls on carbonatesequences with high resolution chronostratigraphy: Upper Miocene, Cabo de Gata region, SE Spain:Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 2693, p. 1-35
Newell, K. D., and Goldstein, R.H. 1999. A new technique for surface and shallow subsurfacepaleobarometry using fluid inclusions: an example form the Upper Ordovician Viola formation, Kansas, USA:Chemical Geology, v. 154, p.97-111.
Newell, K. D., Goldstein, R.H., and Burdick, C.J. (in press) Diagenesis and late-stage porosity developmentin Pennsylvanian Strawn Formation, Val Verde Basin, Texas: W. Ahr, ed., Permo-Carboniferous Platformsand Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Newell, K.D., and Goldstein, R.H. 1999. Evidence from fluid inclusions on depths, timing, and environmentsof dolomitization in Ordovician Viola Formation, Kansas, USA; in Proceedings of the Fifteenth BiennialEuropean Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions, Potsdam, Germany: Terra Nostra 99(GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam), v. 6 , p. 214-216
Rankey, E., Enos, Paul, and Steffen, Kelly. (in press), Michelle was a dud: minimal impact on tidal flats,Andros Island, Bahamas: Marine Geology
Rasbury, E. T., Meyers, W.J., Hanson, G.N., Goldstein, R.H., and Saller, A.H. 2000. Relationship ofuranium to petrography of caliche paleosols with application to precisely dating the time of sedimentation:Journal of Sedimentary Research, p. 604-618.
Ufnar D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J. 2002. The mid-Cretaceous water bearer: isotope mass balance quantification of the Albian hydrologic cycle:Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology v. 188, p. 51-71.
Ufnar D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J. 2001. Stratigraphicimplications of meteoric sphaerosiderite _18O compositions in paleosols of the Cretaceous (Albian) BoulderCreek Formation, NE British Columbia foothills, Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, No. 6, p.119-130.
White, T. S., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., and Poulsen, C. J. 2001. Middle Cretaceous GreenhouseHydrologic Cycle of North America: Geology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 363-366.
The programs related to petroleum geology andgeophysics at the University of Kansas are on thecutting edge in research and training forstudents. KU provides diverse training in theoryand practice and concentrates on both academicand applied research. It maintains a strongpresence in the Industry. For example, at a recentAAPG annual meeting, faculty, students, and stafffrom the University of Kansas authoredapproximately 28 abstracts. The University ofKansas has maintained close connections withthe Oil Industry over the years and has trainedmany of the leaders of petroleum geology. Itcontinues to provide the same broad training toits students while working on cutting-edgeresearch related to the Industry.
A recent survey of KU graduates from 1958-1997 shows that 219 persons have entered the oil industry fromthis program. The program continues to produce a constant flow of M.S. and Ph.D. students for work in theoil industry, To evaluate the importance of University of Kansas students to the petroleum industry, it isworthwhile to evaluate the accomplishments of some of its outstanding alumni. Yearly, the Departmentawards the Erasmus Haworth Award to its most outstanding Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D., and to its mostoutstanding alumni. A survey of the accomplishments of these award winners shows that they have excelledin the geologic sciences and in the oil industry in particular. The list includes four presidents of the AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists (Pratt, Haas, Fisher, and Foster), three presidents of SEPM (the Societyfor Sedimentary Geology; Croneis, G. Dallas Hanna, and Marcus A. Hanna), five presidents of thePaleontological Society (Dunbar, Knight, Newell, Yochelson, and Lane), one of the Mineralogical Society ofAmerica (A.F. Rogers), and one of the Geological Society of America (Hedberg). There have been 7recipients of AAPG's highest award, the Sidney Powers Medal (more than any other university; Pratt,Croneis, McGee, Hedberg, Haas, Fisher, Foster)** and recipients of SEPM's Twenhofel, Pettijohn, andMoore* medals (Fisher, Dunbar, Newell, and Enos). Two were recipients of GSA's highest award, thePenrose medal (Hedberg, Newell) and one received the Meinzer Award of GSA's Hydrogeology Division(Stanley Davis). Three were recognized as honorary members of GSA (M.A. Hanna, Dunbar, Newell) and twowon the Paleontological Society Medal (Dunbar, Newell). Dan Merriam received the William Smith Medal, thehighest award presented by the Geological Society of London. Many have achieved positions as high officialsin various oil companies, especially in Exxon (Merrill Haas, Richard Meek, H.H. Hall, Ray P. Walters). Othershave included an Executive Vice President of Phillips (Rickards), a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ofUnion Pacific Resources (Adams), a President of Shell Gas (Funk) and a President of Western Geophysical(Cramer) and high officials with Sun (Tyler), Getty (Carlos), Gulf (Hedberg), and Maraven (Hans Krause).
Wallace Pratt was Vice President of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Now ExxonMobil) and a memberof the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Dean McGee (Kerr-Mcgee) was one of the 400 richestpeople in the US, as listed by Fortune magazine.
*Both W.H. Twenhofel and R.C. Moore were KU faculty members, although Twenhofel only was here for 1year.**Two KU faculty also won the Powers Medal, K.K. Landes and Moore; Landes had left KU for Michiganwhen he won the award.
Many researchers are involved with studies directly relating to petroleum geology. These researchers includePaul Enos, Evan Franseen and Bob Goldstein, who work extensively in carbonate reservoir systems, TimCarr and Lynn Watney who are experts in the subsurface of Kansas, Tony Walton and Diane Kamola, whospecialize in sandstone reservoirs, and John Doveton, who is an expert in petrophysics. Many projects withinthe Department are done in conjuction with geologists at the Kansas Geological Survey and Tertiary OilRecovery Project in the Department of Petroleum Engineering.
Paul Enos - Paul's work on the Pennsylvanian of Kansas and the Cretaceous of Mexico serve as excellentreservoir models applicable to the subsurface.
Tim Carr - Tim is working on basin-scale studies of hydrocarbon migration and trapping using extremelylarge databases (40,000 wells and 100 horizons over 20,000 sq. miles). Additional work on using oil and gasfields, and saline reservoirs for CO2 sequestration. Working on technical, economic and systems feasibility ofzero-emission power plants that convert natural gas to electricity and provide CO2 for IOR processes.Developing online integrated oil and gas databases that provide access to the 400,000 wells in Kansas andare automatically maintained updated.
Tony Walton Dr. - Walton works with the Kansas oil industry, the Kansas Geological Survey, and petroleumengineers from KU's unique Tertiary Oil Recovery Project on projects related to reservoir characterization andimproved oil production. This effort includes unique opportunities to get practical experience in petroleumgeology as well as conducting scientific research. Current projects include attempts to develop better methodsof reservoir characterization and of exploration for field extensions and new deposits using the extensive dataalready available from the subsurface of eastern Kansas.
Evan Franseen - Much of Evan’s research has application to the petroleum industry through development ofnew approaches to the study of carbonate strata that can benefit understanding of carbonate reservoirs. Hehas also been involved directly in Kansas reservoir and reservoir analog studies. Recent projects involveimportant Ordovician carbonate and Mississippian carbonate and chert reservoirs associated with majorkarstic unconformities. Other work is using Pennsylvanian outcrops for reservoir analog studies.
Bob Goldstein - Bob's work in petroleum geology typically focuses on the integration of geochemistry,diagenesis, and fluid migration. He uses petrographic and geochemical techniques to relate diagenesis andporosity evolution to tectonic and stratigraphic mechanisms of fluid flow, and especially, applies fluid inclusiontechniques to evaluate thermal history and history of petroleum migration in sedimentary basins.
Lynn Watney - Watney currently participates in two DOE-funded interdisciplinary programs: 1) the evaluationof the carbon dioxide flooding potential to recover additional petroleum from Upper Pennsylvanian oomoldiccarbonate reservoirs (http://crude2.kgs.ukans.edu/CO2/index.html); 2) building a free website called GEMINI(Geo-Engineering Modeling through Internet Informatics) to provide data, linking to current Digital PetroleumAtlas, and a suite of analytical web-application software over the next three years (2000-03) to buildquantitative, 3-D models of rock and fluid volumes. The website will facilitate team-based, distributedevaluation of resource recovery strategies and technologies (website URL) with a goal to keep Kansascompetitive and serve as a model for other mature petroleum producing provinces.
John Doveton - Application of wireline petrophysical logs to both the identification of lithologies andinterpretation of depositional and diagenetic histories. Elucidation of hydrocarbon reservoir microarchitectureof pore-throat and pore-body facies from integrated core and wireline petrophysical data. Mathematicalmethods for analyzing petrophysical data as inputs for subsurface geological models in time and space at avariety of scales.
Lee Gerhard - Lee's work in petroleum geology focuses on study of the fundamental tectonic controls ofcarbonate stratigraphy in the upper Mid-continent. In addition he is interested in policy issues in supply ofenergy resources to the United States, and environment and resource issues of the world.
Diane Kamola - Diane's work in petroleum geology is in the area of sequence stratigraphy, facies relationsand continuity and geometries of sandstone bodies. Recent work includes the application of high resolution
sequence stratigraphy to the prediction of sandstone body architecture and permeability barrier distribution influvial and shallow marine reservoirs through integrated outcrop and borehole study.
Books recently published by KU researchers in petroleum geology include:
Doveton, J.H., 1994, Geological Log Analysis Using Computer Methods: AAPG Computer Applications in Geology, No. 2, AAPG,Tulsa, 169 pp.
Doveton, J.H., 1994, Geologic Log Interpretation : SEPM Short Course 29, 169 pp.
Examples of recent publications
Newell, K. D., Goldstein, R.H., and Burdick, C.J. (in press) Diagenesis and late-stage porosity developmentin Pennsylvanian Strawn Formation, Val Verde Basin, Texas: W. Ahr, ed., Permo-Carboniferous Platformsand Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
McKirahan, J.R., and Goldstein, R.H., and Franseen, E. K. (in press) Build-and-fill sequences: How subtlepaleotopography affects 3-D heterogeneity of potential reservoir facies: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-CarboniferousPlatforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Carlson, R.C., Goldstein, R.H., and Enos, Paul. (in press) Effects of Subaerial Exposure on PorosityEvolution in the Carboniferous Lisburne Group, Northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-Carboniferous Platforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., Ceriani, A., and Marfil, R. 2002, Fluid inclusions record thermal and fluidevolution in reservoir sandstones, Khatatba Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: A case for fluid injection:AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1773-1799.
Ceriani, A., Di Guilio, A., Goldstein, R.H., and Rossi, C. 2002, Diagenesis associated with cooling duringburial: An example from Lower Cretaceous reservoir sandstones (Sirt basin, Libya): AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p.1573-1591.
C. Rossi, R. Marfil, R.H. Goldstein, R. Salas, A. Permanyer, J.A. de la Pe–a, M.A. Caja, and M.I. Benito.2001. Diagenetic and oil migration history of the Kimmeridgian Ascla Formation, Maestrat Basin, Spain,Marine and Petroleum Geology v.18 (3), p. 287-306
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., and Marfil, R. 2000. Pore fluid evolution and quartz diagenesis in the KhatatbaFormation, Western Desert, Egypt: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 91-96
Doveton, J.H., Watney, W.L., and Guy, W.J. 2000. Integrated analysis of reservoir petrofacies in platformcarbonates of Kansas; techniques and case studies, pp. 223-225, In, Johnson, K.S., (ed.); Platformcarbonates in the southern midcontinent, 1996 symposium Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular, no. 101,359 pages
Forster, A., Merriam, D.F., and Watney, W.L. 2001. Temperature analysis in the mature hydrocarbonprovince of Kansas; utilizing a large database of well-completion histories, pp. 285-301, In, Merriam, D.F.;and Davis, J.C., (eds.); Geologic modeling and simulation; sedimentary systems Kluwer Academic/PlenumPress, New York, NY, Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences, 352 pages
Harff, J.[E.], Watney, W.L., Bohling, G.C., Doveton, J.H., Olea, R.A., and Newell, K.D. 2001. Three-dimensional regionalziation for oil field modeling, pp. 205-227, In, Merriam, D.F.; and Davis, J.C., (eds.);Geologic modeling and simulation; sedimentary systems Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York, NY,Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences, 352 pages
Watney, W.L., Guy, W.J., and Byrnes, A.P. 2001. Characterization of the Mississippian chat in south-central Kansas American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 85-113
Watney, W.L., Guy, W.J., Doveton, J.H., Bhattacharya, S., Gerlach, P.M., Bohling, G.C., and Carr, T.R.1999. Petrofacies analysis; a petrophysical tool for geologic/engineering reservoir characterization, pp. 73-90,In, Schatzinger, R.A.; and Jordan, J.F., (eds.); Reservoir characterization; recent advances AmericanAssociation of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir, no. 71, 404 pages
Researchers in sequence stratigraphy include adiverse group including Diane Kamola and SteveHasiotis who work in clastic sequencestratigraphy, Bob Goldstein, Paul Enos and EvanFranseen who work in carbonate sequencestratigraphy, and Tim Carr and Lynn Watney whospecialize in subsurface sequence stratigraphyand sedimentary modeling. The program insequence stratigraphy has been very active inrecent years, hosting several internationalconferences.
Recent major books on sequencestratigraphy written or edited by thegroup from KU include:
Bob Goldstein - Bob's work in sequence stratigraphy concentrates on the Miocene rocks of Spain andPennsylvanian-Permian rocks of North America, where he and Evan Franseen have been working onquantification of relative sea level history, sequence stratigraphy of temperate climate carbonates, and theinfluence of paleotopography on sediment dispersal. Other recent work concentrates on howpaleotopography, climate and sea level interact to control architecture of Pennsylvanian and Permiandepositional sequences.
Paul Enos - Paul's current projects in sequence stratigraphy involve the evolution of Permian and Triassiccarbonate platforms in south China and the development of the Triassic Lofer cyclothems in the Alps.
Evan Franseen - Evan’s research in sequence stratigraphy has concentrated on Miocene strata in thewestern Mediterranean, primarily in Spain, where he and Bob Goldstein have been quantifying relative sea-level history, documenting influence of paleotopography on sediment dispersal, and evaluating other local,regional, and global controls on temperate-to-tropical carbonate sequences. Previous work has involvedPermian strata and ongoing studies are evaluating paleotopographic, sea level, and climate controls onsequence architecture in Pennsylvanian and Mississippian strata.
Lynn Watney - Lynn's efforts contribute toward better understanding the relationships among structuralreactivation, sediment supply, and eustacy through shallow coring and seismic acquisition along sites ofmarked change along carbonate shelves in Kansas. New digital logging tools permit gathering the latestpetrophysical information with the core. Another activity, primarily with Ricardo Olea at the KGS, uses high-resolution, computer-assisted imaging and correlation of wireline logs to examine large-scale (hundreds ofmeters vertical and 10's to 100's of km lateral) cross sections. A team effort to quantitatively classify spatial
stratal information and correlate to basement composition and structure continues with a number ofcolleagues in Kansas, Idaho, and Germany. The common goal is to resolve consistent 3-D patterns andtrends in stratal geometries and related attributes calibrated to rock and seismic information. Efforts, ingeneral, include: 1) ascertain role of tectonics on sedimentation and , 2) assist in analysis of growing base of3-D seismic data, 3) improve parameters for basin simulation models, and 4) build and refine quantitative 3-D sequence stratigraphic models. Efforts proceed with the international simulation modeling communitythrough symposia, workshops, and publications to: 1) better integrate large digital data sets, 2) design andevaluate inversion and forward modeling methodologies, and 3) issues and opportunities in buildingcommunity-based, full process, 3-D basin simulations.
Tim Carr - Tim is currently working on Morrow sequence stratigraphy in southwest Kansas using electric log,seismic and core data.
Diane Kamola - Diane has an active research program in sequence stratigraphic interpretation of clasticsuccessions. Her work is concentrated in the classic Book Cliffs area of eastern Utah where she studiessequence and parasequence architecture, and the expression of sequence boundaries and the anatomy ofincised valleys in the rock record.
Steve Hasiotis - Steve is involved in evaluating the variables that control sequence architecture in thecontinental realm. He concentrates on integrating sedimentology, ichnology, paleopedology and sequencestratigraphy.
Recent major books on sequence stratigraphy written or edited by thegroup from KU include:
Kamola, D., and others (in revision) Methodology of sequence stratigraphic analysis: a case study from theCretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Book Cliffs, AAPG Studies in Geology Series
Harbaugh, J, Watney, L, Rankey, E., Slingerland, R., Goldstein, R, and Franseen, E. (eds.), 1999.Numerical Experiments in Stratigraphy: Recent Advances in Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic ComputerSimulations: SEPM Special Publication #62, 362 pp and CD-ROM
Franseen, E.K., Watney, W. L., Kendall, C. G. St. C., and Ross, W. (eds) 1991, Sedimentary Modeling:Computer Simulations and Methods for Improved Parameter Definition, Kansas Geological Survey PublicationBulletin #233, 524 pp.
Examples of recent publications
Hasiotis, S. T., Dubiel, R. F., and Franczyk, K. J. (in review). Lacustrine ichnofossils from the Late EoceneUinta Formation, Uinta Basin, northeastern Utah. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, 30 p.
Carlson, R.R., Goldstein, R.H., and Enos, Paul. in press, Integrating diagenesis and sequence stratigraphyin the Lisburne Group: effect of paleotopography on meteoric diagenesis: AAPG-SEPM Spec. Pub.
McKirahan, J.R., and Goldstein, R.H., and Franseen, E. K. (in press) Build-and-fill sequences: How subtlepaleotopography affects 3-D heterogeneity of potential reservoir facies: W. Ahr, ed., Permo-CarboniferousPlatforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication #
Mallarino, G., Goldstein, R.H., and Di Stefano, P. 2002. New Approach for quantifying water depth appliedto the enigma of drowning of carbonate platforms: Geology, v. 30, p. 783-786.
Montgomery, P., Farr, M.R., Franseen, E.K., and Goldstein, R.H. 2001. Constraining controls on carbonatesequences with high resolution chronostratigraphy: Upper Miocene, Cabo de Gata region, SE Spain:Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 2693, p. 1-35
Franseen, E.K, Goldstein, R.H., and Esteban, Mateu. 2001. Miocene strata of southeastern Spain,sequence development, predictability and porosity distribution, AAPG Field Seminar Guidebook, 168 pp.
Researchers doing geochemical and diageneticresearch include Tony Walton who works on thediagenesis of sandstone reservoirs and volcanicrocks, Bob Goldstein who works on fluidinclusions and integrating diagenesis withsequence stratigraphy, Paul Enos who works onvarious projects in carbonate diagenesis, LuisGonzalez who works on isotopic systems incarbonates, Jennifer Robert Rogers whospecializes in microbial mediation of weatheringreactions, and Gwen Macpherson who works ondiverse projects in hydrogeochemistry.
The program houses extensive equipment available for researchin sedimentary geochemistry including:
Fluid inclusion lab featuring a fluid inc and Linkam heating and freezing stageAutomated cathodoluminescence system with high resolution digital imagingMicrosampling equipmentRigaku Geigorflex automated X-ray diffractometerRigaku SMAX X-ray fluorescence machineRange of quality of microscopes and digital video displaysVG-PQIIXS ICPMS for trace elementsJY Ultrace-138 ICP.AES major and minorsLaser ablation microprobeIon ChromatographClean room facilitiesThermochronology lab of U-Th/He dating of thermal history in sedimentary basinsStable isotope facility for C and O isotope analyses featuring gas source isotope ratio massspectrometer with Keil device for automated reaction of carbonates (under construction)LEO field-emission scanning electron microscope, equipped with externally controllable scan generatorand computer-controlled motor driven stage and system back scattered electron dectector, EDAXelectron backscattering spectroscopy, energy dispersive system and Gatan color cathodoluminescencedetectorHeavy isotope Geochemistry Laboratory (U, Pb, Sr, Nd) featuring a fully-automated VG Sectorcomputer-controlled variable 6-collector system with a 10-sample turret Daly multiplier, for high-sensitivity counting, optical pyrometer
Tony Walton - Dr. Walton has published on the diagenesis of both normal sedimentary rocks and on thediagenesis of volcaniclastic sediments. Current projects include a study of alteration of basaltic hyaloclastitematerial from the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project hole at the Hilo Airport, as well as a continuing interest inthe diagenesis of Pennsylvanian siliciclastics in Kansas oil fields.
Bob Goldstein -One of Bob's specialties is to study the diagenesis of carbonates and siliciclastics. Heapplies a variety of geochemical techniques, but in particular focuses on development of the fluid inclusiontechnique in sedimentary geology. Currently, he is working on the importance of the mixing zones indiagenesis, relating climate to diagenesis, and relating tectonic setting to diagenetic alteration. He is carefullyworking on the integration of sequence stratigraphy and diagenesis of carbonate reservoir facies.
Luis Gonzalez - Luis concentrates on stable isotope systematics of carbonate minerals in relation topaleoclimate systematics and carbonate diagenesis.
Paul Enos - Paul has worked extensively on the diagenesis of carbonate rocks. Most recently Paul went tosea with the Ocean Drilling Program to study drowned atolls and carbonate platforms in the northwest Pacific.He headed up the diagenetic study of cores recovered from that cruise.
Jennifer Roberts - Jennifer's research explores the role microorganisms play in global silicate weathering.Microbial weathering dominates diagenesis in some environments, producing a biological weathering historyin the rock record that has no relationship to traditional abiotic weathering sequences. Therefore, examininghow and why microorganisms weather silicates may bring us to a better understanding of the link betweenbiology and geology through geologic time.
Gwen Macpherson - Gwen studies water-rock interaction in deep sedimentary basins, with past work onvolatile elements (Li and B) as indicators of closed- or open-system state of the Gulf Coast SedimentaryBasin, and feldspar-hosted trace elements (Ba) as indicators of degree of feldspar diagenesis. Work inprogress is restricted to investigation of sources of bromide (Br) and iodide (I) with implications forinterpretation of bromide-chloride ratios, traditionally thought to reflect only original seawater composition (withor without evaporation) and interaction with evaporite minerals such as halite.
Bob Buddemeier - Bob Buddemeier is particularly interested in macro- and meso-scale biogeochemicalprocesses and budgets. He leads a coastal zone typology effort that is a major component of a project toassess the coastal zone role on global fluxes of C, N and P(http://water.kgs.ukans.edu:8888/public/Typpages/index.htm). He is particularly interested in biogeochemicalfeedbacks in the global carbonate cycle. His interests in the rlationship of hydrologic and sediment fluxes tothe coastal zone and their effects on biogeomorphology overlay with the areas of carbonates and sediments.He works on carbon and salt flux issues in continental aquatic systems.
Examples of recent publications
Mallarino, G., Goldstein, R.H., and Di Stefano, P. 2002, New Approach for quantifying water depth appliedto the enigma of drowning of carbonate platforms: Geology, v. 30, p. 783-786.
Benison, K.C., and Goldstein, R.H. 2002, Recognizing acid lakes and groundwaters in the rock record:Sedimentary Geology, v. 151, p. 177-185
Cornette, J.L., Lieberman, B., S., and Goldstein, R.H. 2002, Documenting a significant relationshipbetween macroevolutionary origination rates and Phanerozoic pCO2 levels: PNAS, v. 99, p. 7832-7835
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., Ceriani, A., and Marfil, R. 2002, Fluid inclusions record thermal and fluidevolution in reservoir sandstones, Khatatba Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: A case for fluid injection:AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1773-1799.
Goldstein, R.H. and Rossi, C. 2002, Recrystallization in Quartz Overgrowths: Journal of SedimentaryResearch, v. 72, p. 432-440.
Ceriani, A., Di Guilio, A., Goldstein, R.H., and Rossi, C. 2002, Diagenesis associated with cooling duringburial: An example from Lower Cretaceous reservoir sandstones (Sirt basin, Libya): AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p.1573-1591.
Goldstein, R.H. 2001, Perspectives: Paleoenvironment, Clues from Fluid Inclusions, Science, v. 294, p.1009-1010.
Benison, K. and Goldstein, R.H. 2001, Evaporites and siliciclastics of the Permian Nippewalla Group ofKansas: A case for deposition in saline lakes and saline pans: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 165-188
C. Rossi, R. Marfil, R.H. Goldstein, R. Salas, A. Permanyer, J.A. de la Pea, M.A. Caja, and M.I. Benito(2001) Diagenetic and oil migration history of the Kimmeridgian Ascla Formation, Maestrat Basin, Spain,Marine and Petroleum Geology v.18 (3), p. 287-306
Goldstein, R. H. 2001, Fluid inclusions in sedimentary and diagenetic systems, Lithos, v. 55, 159-193
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., and Marfil, R. 2000, Pore fluid evolution and quartz diagenesis in the KhatatbaFormation, Western Desert, Egypt: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 91-96
Luczaj, J. A. and Goldstein, R.H. 2000, Diagenesis of the lower Permian Krider Member, southwestKansas: fluid inclusion, U-Pb, and fission-track evidence for reflux dolomitization during latest Permian time:Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 762-773
Rasbury, E. T., Meyers, W.J., Hanson, G.N., Goldstein, R.H., and Saller, A.H. (2000) Relationship ofuranium to petrography of caliche paleosols with application to precisely dating the time of sedimentation:Journal of Sedimentary Research, p. 604-618.
Newell, K.D., and Goldstein, R.H. 1999, Evidence from fluid inclusions on depths, timing, and environmentsof dolomitization in Ordovician Viola Formation, Kansas, USA; in Proceedings of the Fifteenth BiennialEuropean Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions, Potsdam, Germany: Terra Nostra 99(GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam), v. 6 , p. 214-216
Newell, K. D., and Goldstein, R.H. 1999, A new technique for surface and shallow subsurfacepaleobarometry using fluid inclusions: an example form the Upper Ordovician Viola formation, Kansas, USA:Chemical Geology, v. 154, p.97-111.
Benison, K. C., and Goldstein, R. H. 1999, Permian paleoclimate data from Fluid Inclusions in Halite:Chemical Geology
Frappier, A., Sahagian, D., Gonzalez, L. A., and Carpenter, S. J. 2002, El Nino events recorded bystalagmite carbon isotopes: Science, v. 298, p. 565.
Baker, R. G., Bettis III, E. A., Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Strickland, L. E., and Krieg, J. R. 2002,Holocene paleoenvironments in southeastern Minnesota Ð chasing the prairie-forest ecotone:Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology v. 177, p. 103-122.
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Reagan, M. K., Saltzman, M. R. 2001, Ahigh- resolution speleothem record of climatic variability during the Aller¿d-Younger Dryas transition inMissouri, central United States: Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, v. 176, p. 147-155.
Baker, R. G., Bettis, E. A. III, Denniston, R. F., and Gonzalez, L. A. 2001, Plant remains, alluvialchronology, and cave speleothem isotopes indicate abrupt Holocene climatic change at 6ka in MidwesternUSA, Global and Planetary Change, v. 28, p.285-291.
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Reagan, M. K., and Recelli-Snyder, H. 2000,Speleothem carbon isotopic records of early Holocene environments in the Ozark Highlands, U.S.A.Quaternary International, v. 67, p. 21-27.
Denniston, R. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Asmerom, Y., Baker, R. G., Reagan, M. K. Bettis, E. A. III 1999,Evidence for increased cool season moisture during the middle Holocene: Geology, v. 27 (9), p. 815-818.
Ufnar D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J. 2002, The mid-Cretaceous water bearer: isotope mass balance quantification of the Albian hydrologic cycle:Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology v. 188, p. 51-71.
Ufnar D. F., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Witzke, B. J. 2001, Stratigraphicimplications of meteoric sphaerosiderite _18O compositions in paleosols of the Cretaceous (Albian) BoulderCreek Formation, NE British Columbia foothills, Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, No. 6, p.119-130.
White, T. S., Gonzalez, L. A., Ludvigson, G. A., and Poulsen, C. J. 2001, Middle Cretaceous GreenhouseHydrologic Cycle of North America: Geology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 363-366.
Gonzalez, L. A., Neuhoff, P. S., Larue, D. K.,Uribe, R. M., and Ruiz, H. M. in review, Diagenesis ofhydrocarbon bearing concretions in south-central Puerto Rico: Tectonism and early hydrocarbon generation.Submitted to AAPG Bulletin, 20 ms p., 11, figs. 1 table.
Rogers, J.R., Bennett, P.C., and Choi, W.J. 2001. Enhanced weathering of silicates by subsurfacemicroorganisms: a strategy to release limiting inorganic nutrients? Proceedings of the 10th InternationalSymposium on Water-Rock Interaction, Cagliari, Sardinia.
Bennett, P.C., Rogers, J.R., Hiebert, F.K, and Choi, W.J. 2001, Mineralogy, mineral weathering, andmicrobial ecology. Geomicrobiology Journal, 18, 3-19.
Bennett, P.C., Hiebert, F.K., and Rogers, J.R. 2000, Microbial control of mineral-water equilibriamacroscale to microscale. Hydrogeology Journal, 8, 47-62.
Rogers, J.R., Bennett, P.C., and Hiebert, F.K. 1999, Patterns of microbial colonization on silicates, inMorganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999ÑVolume3 of 3--Contamination of Hydrologic Systems and Related Ecosystems: U.S. Geological Survey Water-ResourcesInvestigations Report 99-4018B, pp. 237-242.
Faculty interested in the integration of tectonicswith sedimentary processes andstructure/tectonics include Doug Walker andDiane Kamola, who are evaluating tectoniccontrols on depositional sequence distribution,Dan Stockli and Bob Goldstein, who work on thethermal and pressure history of sedimentarybasins, Randy Van Schmus who works on U/Pbdating of detrital zircons to discriminate tectonichistory.
Doug Walker -Doug's interests include the use of stratified rocks to understand structural and tectonicdevelopment of extensional orogens. He has used techniques of sedimentation and tectonics to betterunderstand the timing of deformation and the nature of crustal responses in extensional orogens. Currentresearch projects are described below. The East Sierran thrust belt is a zone of ductile thrusts and folds thatdeveloped along the eastern edge of the Sierran arc of California in Jurassic time. Work involves basic fieldmapping along with structural analysis, GIS databases, and U-Pb geochronology. Other work concentrates onthe relation of magmatism to crustal extension. This work focuses on magma sources and depth of melting inextensional systems. A new effort will attempt to created a comprehensive database for western NorthAmerica magmatism and develop tools for spatial and thematic query (all web accessible). Another researchdirection involves the transition from extension to transcurrent faulting in the southwestern Basin and Rangeof California. This work is on how deformation has progressed over the last 5 million years in the DeathValley/Owens Valley areas. During this time there was a significant change from mostly extension totranscurrent deformation. Doug's work is to try to quantify these changes using field geology, GIS, GPS,tectonic geomorphology, basin analysis, and other techniques.
Beth McLellan - Beth's research concentrates on U/Pb dating of detrital zircons and metamorphic petrology.Her current research concentrates on reconstructions of tectonic history and terrane accretion in Norway andNorth America.
Diane Kamola - Diane is working on a number of studies involving tectonics and sedimentary processes.One area of research is the relation between stratal stacking patterns and thrust sheet development inforeland basin settings, which looks at the interaction between geological processes active in the forelandbasin. A second area is the tectonostratigraphy of extensional basins in the Basin and Range, aimed atunderstanding the spatial relation and temporal variation of paleostructure and paleogeographic development.This research also provides insights on paleogeographic and structural development on the regional scale.
Bob Goldstein - Bob has been a pioneer in employing fluid inclusion technologies in sedimentary rocks.These techniques are useful for evaluating temperature and pressure of deformation, and for determiningthermal histories of sedimentary basins. In particular, Bob is now working on relating fluid flow and thermalhistory in foreland basins to tectonic history. He has also been doing more work recently on rift basins thathave been inverted during compressional events. It appears that these settings are overprinted byhydrothermal injection of hot fluids after the major inversion events, charging petroleum reservoirs with hotfluids responsible for thermal maturation, injecting hydrocarbons, and causing dissolution of carbonates andprecipitation of quartz overgrowths in sandstone petroleum reservoirs.
Randy Van Schmus - Prof. Van Schmus works primarily with Precambrian orogenic terranes and withgeochronology of igneous rocks associated with them. However, most terranes being studied also includemajor components of siliciclastic metasedimentary rocks, and Van Schmus' recent studies have includedconstraining depositional ages, provenance, and histories of basin formation using U-Pb ages of detritalzircon populations in order to understand better the tectonic evolution of terranes containing themetasedimentary rocks.
Daniel Stockli Dan's research focuses primarily on the integrated application of thermochronology andgeochronology to tectonic problems. He combines structural geology with (U-Th)/He, fission track and 40Ar/39Ar low-temperature thermochronology to elucidate the spatial and temporal distribution of deformation incontinental rifting, orogen-parallel extension and lateral extrusion tectonics, and the timing and straindistribution of intraplate deformation and strain partitioning in extensional and contractile fault systems. Forthe past six years he has studied the spatial and temporal distribution and magnitude of extensional andstrike-slip faulting in the northern Basin and Range province, the northern Gulf of California, and Sonora. Amore recent focus is the tectonics of the Middle East, especially the continent-continent collision in northernand southern Iran, and the timing and structural configuration of initial rifting along the margins of the RedSea in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. A new project is trying to investigate the timing of east-west extension andcrustal extrusion in southern Tibet. The Neogene geodynamics of the Tibetan-Himalayan orogenic belt, andthe Tibetan Plateau in particular, is central to the understanding of how plateaus form and collapse and howcontinental crust deforms.
Examples of recent publications
Axen, G. J., Stockli, D. F., Grove, M., Lovera, O. M., Rothstein, D.A., Fletcher, J. M., Farley, K.A., andAbbott, P. L., 2000, Thermal evolution of Monte Blanco dome: Late Neogene low-angle normal faultingduring Gulf of California rifting and late Eocene denudation of the eastern Peninsular Ranges. Tectonics, v.19, no. 2, p. 197-212.
Axen, G.J., Lam, P.S., Grove, M., Stockli, D.F. , Hassanzadeh, J., 2001, Exhumation of the west-centralAlborz Mountains, Iran, Caspian subsidence, and collision-related tectonics. Geology, v. 29, no. 6, p.559-562.
Black, R.A., Walker, J.D., and Baker, G., in press, Three-dimensional gravity modeling and crustal densityvariations, Panamint Range to the eastern Sierras, southeastern California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D.,and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range:Geological Society of America Memoir.
Coleman, D.S., Walker, J.D., Bartley, J.M., and Hodges, K.V., 2001, Thermochronologic evidence forfootwall deformation during extensional core complex development, Mineral Mountains, Utah: Utah GeologicalAssociation Publication 30 - Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Publication GB78,p. 155-168.
Davidson, J., Hassanzadeh, J., Berzins, R., and Stockli, D. F., The Geology of Damavand Volcano, AlborzMountains, Northern Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin, in review.
Dumitru, T. A. and Stockli, D. F., 1999, A better way to separate apatite from zircon using constrictiontubes. In: Van den Haute, P. and De Corte, F. (eds.), Advances in Fission-Track Geochronology, p. 325-330.
Farley, K.A. and Stockli, D.F., 2002, (U-Th)/He Dating of Phosphates: Apatite, Monazite, and Xenotime.Reviews of Mineralogy, in press (invited).
Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., Bartley, J.M., and Fletcher, J.M., in press, Cenozoic evolution of the Mojaveblock, southern California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of theMojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
House, M.A, Farley, K.A., and Stockli, D.F ., 2000, Helium chronometry of apatite and titanite using Nd-YAG laser heating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, p. 365-368.
King, E.M., Valley, J.W., Stockli, D.F., and Wright, J. E., 2001, Oxygen isotope evidence of thePrecambrian continental margin in the northern Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. Geological Society ofAmerica Bulletin, in review.
Leech, M. L. and Stockli, D. F., 2000, The late exhumation history of the ultrahigh-pressure MaksyutovComplex, south Ural Mountains, from new apatite fission track data. Tectonics, v. 19, no. 1, p. 153-167.
Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., in press, Late Cenozoic crustal contraction in the Kramer Hills,west-central Mojave Desert, California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, GeologicEvolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Mancktelow, N.S., Stockli, D.F., Grollimund, B., Miller, W., Fenschuh, B., Viola, G., Seward, D., andVilla, I.M., 2001, The DAV and Periadriatic fault systems in the Eastern Alps south of the Tauern window.International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau), 90, p. 593-622.
Martin, M.W., Walker, J.D., and Fletcher, J.M., in press, Timing of middle to late Jurassic ductiledeformation and implications for paleotectonic setting, Shadow Mountains, western Mojave Desert, California,in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert andSouthwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
McLelland, J., Hamilton, M., Selleck, B., McLelland, J., Walker, J.D., and Orell, S., 2001, Geochronologicconstraints on the age of the Ottawan Orogeny, Adirondack Highlands, New York and regional implications:Precambrian Research, v. 109, p. 39-72.
Miller, J.S., and Walker, J.D., in press, Mesozoic geologic evolution of Alvord Mountain, California and itsbearing on tectonics of the Jurassic Cordilleran arc, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors,Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of AmericaMemoir.
Monastero, F.C., Walker, J.D., Katzenstein, A.M., and Sabin, A.E., in press, Neogene Evolution of theIndian Wells Valley, east-central California, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors,Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of AmericaMemoir.
Schermer, E.R, Stephens, K.A, and Walker, J.D., 2001, Paleogeographic and tectonic implications of thegeology of the Tiefort Mountains, northern Mojave Desert, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin,v. 113, p. 920-938.
Smith, E.I., Sanchez, A., Walker, J.D., and Wang, K., 1999, Geochemistry of mafic magmas in theHurricane volcanic field, Utah: Implications for small- and large-scale chemical variability of the lithosphericmantle: Journal of Geology, vol. 107, p. 433-448.
Stockli, D.F, Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D., and Dumitru, T.A., 2001, Miocene unroofing of the Canyon Rangeduring extension along the Sevier Desert detachment, west-central Utah: Tectonics, vol. 20, p. 289-307.
Stockli, D.F. , 1999, Regional timing and spatial distribution of Miocene extension in the northern Basin andRange Province. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, 239 p.
Stockli, D.F. Farley, K.A. and Dumitru, T.A., 2000, Calibration of the (U-Th)/He thermochronometer on anexhumed normal fault block in the White Mountains, eastern California and western Nevada. Geology, v. 28;no. 11, p.983-986.
Stockli, D.F. , Linn, J.K., Walker, J.D., and Dumitru, T.A., 2001, Miocene unroofing of the Canyon Rangeduring extension along the Sevier Desert Detachment, west-central Utah. Tectonics, v. 20, no. 3, p. 289-307.
Stockli, D.F. , Surpless, B.E., Dumitru, T.A., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Thermochronological constraints onthe timing and magnitude of Miocene and Pliocene extension in the central Wassuk Range, western Nevada.Tectonics, vol. 21, 4, 10.1029/2001TC001295.
Stockli, D.F., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Empirical constraints on the titanite (U-Th)/He partial retention zone
Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T.A., McWilliams, M.O., and Farley, K.A., 2002, Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of theWhite Mountains, California and Nevada. GSA Bulletin, June 2003 (in press).
Surpless, B.E., Stockli, D.F., Dumitru, T.A., and Miller, E.L., 2002, Two phase westward encroachment ofBasin and Range extension into the northern Sierra Nevada. Tectonics, vol. 21, 1, 10.1029/2000TC001257.
Tagami, T., Farley, K.A., and Stockli, D.F., 2002, (U-Th)/He geochronology of zircon using Nd-YAG laserheating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 207, p. 57-67.
Taylor, W.J., Bartley, J.M., Martin, M.W., Geissman, J.W., Walker, J.D., Armstrong, P.A., and Fryxell,J.E., 2000, Relation between hinterland and foreland shortening, Sevier orogeny, central North AmericanCordillera: Tectonics, v. 19, p. 1124-1143.
Walker, J.D., and Glazner, A.F., 1999, Tectonic development of the California Deserts: Geological Society ofAmerica Special Paper 338, p. 375-380.
Walker, J.D., and Black, R.A., 2000, Mapping the outcrop: Geotimes, vol. 45, no. 11, p. 28-31.
Walker, J.D., Berry, A.K., Davis, P.J., Andrew, J.E., and Mitsdarfer, J.M., in press, Geologic compilationmap of the northern Mojave Desert and southwestern Basin and Range Province, in Glazner, A.F., Walker,J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution of the Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range:Geological Society of America Memoir.
Walker, J.D., Martin, M.W., and Glazner, A.F., in press, Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic development of theMojave Desert and environs, in Glazner, A.F., Walker, J.D., and Bartley, J.M., editors, Geologic Evolution ofthe Mojave Desert and Southwestern Basin and Range: Geological Society of America Memoir.
Wang, K., Plank, T., Walker, J.D., and Smith, E.I., in press, A mantle melting profile across the Basin andRange, SW USA: Journal of Geophysical Research.
