Publications

2021

• Autogenic translation and counter point bar deposition in meandering rivers
  GSA Bulletin, v. 133
  Z. Sylvester, P. R. Durkin, S. M. Hubbard, D. Mohrig
  Abstract PDF Code Blog post
• Evaluating the relationship between meander‐bend curvature, sediment supply, and migration rates
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 126, e2020JF006058
  M. Donovan, P. Belmont, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract PDF Website

2020

• The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: Linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products
  Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 673-686
  S. M. Hubbard, Z. R. Jobe, B. W. Romans, J. A. Covault, Z. Sylvester, A. Fildani
  Abstract PDF Website
• How do basin margins record long-term tectonic and climatic changes?
  Geology, v. 48, p. 893-897
  J. Zhang, Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault
  Abstract PDF Website

2019

• Grain-Size and Discharge Controls on Submarine-Fan Depositional Patterns From Forward Stratigraphic Models
  Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 7:334
  N. Hawie, J. A. Covault, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract Website Supplementary Material
• Submarine channels ‘swept’ downstream after bend cutoff in salt basins
  The Depositional Record, v. 6, p. 259-272
  J. A. Covault, Z. Sylvester, M. R. Hudec, C. Ceyhan, D. Dunlap
  Abstract PDF Website EarthArxiv
• Conversion of tectonic and climatic forcings into records of sediment supply and provenance
  Scientific Reports, v. 9, p. 1-7
  G. R. Sharman, Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault
  Abstract PDF Website
• High curvatures drive river meandering
  Geology, v. 47, p. 263-266
  Z. Sylvester, P. Durkin, J. A. Covault
  Abstract PDF Code Dataset EarthArxiv Blogpost

2018

• detritalPy: A Python‐based Toolset for Visualizing and Analyzing Detrital Geo‐Thermochronologic Data
  The Depositional Record, v. 4, p. 202-215
  G. R. Sharman, J. P. Sharman, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract PDF Code Wiley
• Slope-fan depositional architecture from high-resolution forward stratigraphic models
  Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 91, p. 576-585
  N. Hawie, J. A. Covault, D. Dunlap, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract Elsevier
• Latitudinal Changes in the Morphology of Submarine Channels: Reevaluating the Evidence for the Influence of the Coriolis Force
  SEPM Special Publication v. 108
  Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez
  Abstract PDF Code Dataset Authorea
• Submarine Fans and Their Channels, Levees, and Lobes
  In: Micallef A., Krastel S., Savini A. (eds) Submarine Geomorphology. Springer Geology, p. 273-299
  M. E. Deptuck, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract PDF Springer

2017

• Cyclic steps and related supercritical bedforms: Building blocks of deep-water depositional systems, western North America
  Marine and Petroleum Geology v. 393, p. 4-20
  J. A. Covault, S. Kostic, C. K. Paull, Z. Sylvester, A. Fildani
  Abstract ScienceDirect
• Sediment partitioning, continental slopes and base‐of‐slope systems
  Basin Research v. 29, p. 394-416
  B. E. Prather, C. O'Byrne, C. Pirmez, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract Wiley
• Facies architecture of submarine channel deposits on the western Niger Delta slope: Implications for grain‐size and density stratification in turbidity currents
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface v. 122, p. 473-491
  Z. Jobe, Z. Sylvester, M. B. Pittaluga, A. Frascati, C. Pirmez, D. Minisini, N. Howes, A. Cantelli
  Abstract PDF AGU EarthArxiv
• High-resolution, millennial-scale patterns of bed compensation on a sand-rich intraslope submarine fan, western Niger Delta slope
  GSA Bulletin v. 129, p. 23-37
  Z. Jobe, Z. Sylvester, N. Howes, C. Pirmez, A. Parker, A. Cantelli, R. Smith, M. A. Wolinsky, C. O’Byrne, N. Slowey, B. Prather
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld EarthArxiv

2016

• Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Eustatic Control On Continental-Margin Sand Distribution
  Journal of Sedimentray Research v. 86, p. 1434-1443
  A. D. Harris, J. A. Covault, A. S. Madof, T. Sun, Z. Sylvester, D. Granjeon
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld
• Development of cutoff-related knickpoints during early evolution of submarine channels
  Geology (2016) 44 (10): 835-838
  Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault
  Abstract PDF GeoScienceWorld EarthArxiv
• The stratigraphic record of submarine-channel evolution
  The Sedimentary Record v. 14, p. 4-11
  J. A. Covault, Z. Sylvester, S. M. Hubbard, Z. R. Jobe, R. P. Sech
  Abstract SEPM [pdf]
• A new approach for conditioning process-based geologic models to well data
  Mathematical Geosciences v. 48, p. 371-397
  D. Wingate, J. Kane, M. Wolinsky, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract Springer

2015

• Rapid Adjustment of Submarine Channel Architecture To Changes In Sediment Supply
  Journal of Sedimentary Research v. 85, p. 729-753
  Z. R. Jobe, Z. Sylvester, A. O. Parker, N. Howes, N. Slowey, C. Pirmez
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld EarthArxiv
• Stratigraphic rule-based reservoir modeling
  Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology v. 63, p. 287-303
  M. J. Pyrcz, R. P. Sech, J. A. Covault, B. J. Willis, Z. Sylvester, T. Sun
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld
• Stratigraphic evolution of intraslope minibasins: Insights from surface-based model
  AAPG Bulletin v. 99, p. 1099-1129
  Z. Sylvester, A. Cantelli, C. Pirmez
  Abstract PDF GeoScienceWorld
• Key Future Directions For Research On Turbidity Currents and Their Deposits
  Journal of Sedimentary Research v. 85, p. 153-169
  P. J. Talling, J. Allin, D. A. Armitage, R. W. C. Arnott, M. J. B. Cartigny, M. A. Clare, F. Felletti, J. A. Covault, S. Girardclos, E. Hansen, P. R. Hill, R. N. Hiscott, A. J. Hogg, J. H. Clarke, Z. R. Jobe, G. Malgesini, A. Mozzato, H. Naruse, S. Parkinson, F. J. Peel, D. J. W. Piper, E. Pope, G. Postma, P. Rowley, A. Sguazzini, C. J. Stevenson, E. J. Sumner, Z. Sylvester, C. Watts, J. Xu
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld

2014

• Detecting baffle mudstones using microfossils: an integrated working example from the Cardamom Field, Block 427 Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico
  Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology v. 413, p. 133-143
  S.-J. Jackett, Z. R. Jobe, B. P. Lutz, R. O. B. P. Da Gama, Z. Sylvester, I. M. Prince, H. L. Albrecht, T. Prasad
  Abstract ScienceDirect

2013

• Global (latitudinal) variation in submarine channel sinuosity: Comment
  Geology v. 41, p. e287-e287
  Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez, A. Cantelli, Z. R. Jobe
  Abstract PDF Code GeoScienceWorld

2012

• 3-D Numerical Simulation of Turbidity Currents in Submarine Canyons off the Niger Delta
  Marine Geology v. 326–328, p. 55-66
  S. A. El-Gawad, C. Pirmez, A. Cantelli, D. Minisini, Z. Sylvester, J. Imran
  Abstract ScienceDirect
• Three-dimensional numerical simulation of turbidity currents in a submarine channel on the seafloor of the Niger Delta slope
  Journal of Geophysical Research v. 117, C05026
  S. A. El-Gawad, A. Cantelli, C. Pirmez, D. Minisini, Z. Sylvester, J. Imran
  Abstract AGU
• Pleistocene Seascape Evolution Above a “Simple” Stepped Slope—Western Niger Delta
  SEPM Special Publication 99, p. 199-222
  M. E. Deptuck, Z. Sylvester, C. O'Byrne
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld
• Seismic Stratigraphy of a Shelf-Edge Delta and Linked Submarine Channels in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
  SEPM Special Publication 99, p. 31–59
  Z. Sylvester, M. E. Deptuck, B. E. Prather, C. Pirmez, C. O'Byrne
  Abstract PDF GeoScienceWorld
• Stratigraphic Response to Evolving Geomorphology in a Submarine Apron Perched on the Upper Niger Delta Slope
  SEPM Special Publication 99, p. 145-161
  B. E. Prather, C. Pirmez, Z. Sylvester, D. S. Prather
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld

2011

• A model of submarine channel-levee evolution based on channel trajectories: Implications for stratigraphic architecture
  Marine and Petroleum Geology 28, p. 716-727
  Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez, A. Cantelli
  Abstract PDF ScienceDirect

2010

• Turbidite channel architecture: Recognizing and quantifying the distribution of channel-base drapes using core and dipmeter data
  AAPG Memoir 92, p. 195-210
  M. Barton, C. O'Byrne, C. Pirmez, B. Prather, F. Van der Vlugt, F. O. Alpak, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract AAPG Datapages

2008

• Architecture of a Deep-water Levee Avulsion, Silla Ojo Mesa, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, Chile
  Atlas of Deep-Water Outcrops, AAPG Studies in Geology v. 56, p. 406-433
  C. J. O’Byrne, B. E. Prather, Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez, B. Couzens, R. Smith, M. Barton, G. Steffens, J. Willson
  Abstract GeoScienceWorld

2007

• Turbidite bed thickness distributions: methods and pitfalls of analysis and modelling
  Sedimentology v. 54, p. 847-870
  Z. Sylvester
  Abstract PDF Wiley
• Migration–aggradation history and 3-D seismic geomorphology of submarine channels in the Pleistocene Benin-major Canyon, western Niger Delta slope
  Marine and Petroleum Geology v. 24, p. 406-433
  M. E. Deptuck, Z. Sylvester, C. Pirmez, C. O’Byrne
  Abstract ScienceDirect

2004

• Textural trends in turbidites and slurry beds from the Oligocene flysch of the East Carpathians, Romania
  Sedimentology v. 51, p. 945-972
  Z. Sylvester, D. R. Lowe
  Abstract PDF Wiley

2001

• A diverse deep‐marine Ichnofauna from the Eocene Tarcau sandstone of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania
  Ichnos v. 8, p. 23-62
  L. A. Buatois, M. G. Mángano, Z. Sylvester
  Abstract Taylor & Francis