Conversion of tectonic and climatic forcings into records of sediment supply and provenance

Understanding how environmental forcings (e.g., tectonics, climate) are transformed by erosional landscapes into sedimentary signals is a critical component of inverting the stratigraphic record. Prev…

March 11, 2019 · G. R. Sharman, Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault

High curvatures drive river meandering

One of the long- and widely held ideas about the dynamics of meandering rivers is that migration slows down in bends with higher curvatures. High-resolution measurements of migration rates of more tha…

January 6, 2019 · Z. Sylvester, P. Durkin, J. A. Covault

detritalPy: A Python‐based Toolset for Visualizing and Analyzing Detrital Geo‐Thermochronologic Data

Detrital geochronology and thermochronology have emerged as primary methods of reconstructing the tectonic and surficial evolution of the Earth over geologic time. Technological improvements in the ac…

June 11, 2018 · G. R. Sharman, J. P. Sharman, Z. Sylvester

Slope-fan depositional architecture from high-resolution forward stratigraphic models

Submarine fans in tectonically active continental-slope basins are targets of petroleum exploration and pro- duction. These slope fans commonly comprise compensationally stacked sandy and muddy archit…

February 2, 2018 · N. Hawie, J. A. Covault, D. Dunlap, Z. Sylvester

Latitudinal Changes in the Morphology of Submarine Channels: Reevaluating the Evidence for the Influence of the Coriolis Force

Using a script that automatically calculates sinuosity and radius of curvature for multiple bends on sinuous channel centerlines, we have assembled a new data set that allows us to reevaluate the rela…

January 1, 2018 · Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez

Submarine Fans and Their Channels, Levees, and Lobes

Submarine fans are complex morphological features that develop on the continental slope, rise and abyssal plain, normally at the mouths of submarine canyons. They are constructed principally from the …

January 1, 2018 · M. E. Deptuck, Z. Sylvester