Sediment partitioning, continental slopes and base‐of‐slope systems

Deciphering the role slope topography plays in partitioning sediment on siliciclastic continental slope and base‐of‐slope systems helps our understanding of slope depositional processes in significant…

June 1, 2017 · B. E. Prather, C. O'Byrne, C. Pirmez, Z. Sylvester

Facies architecture of submarine channel deposits on the western Niger Delta slope: Implications for grain‐size and density stratification in turbidity currents

High‐resolution bathymetry, seismic reflection, and piston core data from a submarine channel on the western Niger Delta slope demonstrate that thick, coarse‐grained, amalgamated sands in the channel …

February 1, 2017 · Z. Jobe, Z. Sylvester, M. B. Pittaluga, A. Frascati, C. Pirmez, D. Minisini, N. Howes, A. Cantelli

High-resolution, millennial-scale patterns of bed compensation on a sand-rich intraslope submarine fan, western Niger Delta slope

High‐resolution bathymetry, seismic reflection, and piston core data from a submarine channel on the western Niger Delta slope demonstrate that thick, coarse‐grained, amalgamated sands in the channel …

January 1, 2017 · Z. Jobe, Z. Sylvester, N. Howes, C. Pirmez, A. Parker, A. Cantelli, R. Smith, M. A. Wolinsky, C. O’Byrne, N. Slowey, B. Prather

Development of cutoff-related knickpoints during early evolution of submarine channels

Submarine channels are often thought of as having relatively simple geometries, with significant along-channel morphologic and stratigraphic continuity. Using high-resolution seismic reflection data f…

October 1, 2016 · Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault

Key Future Directions For Research On Turbidity Currents and Their Deposits

Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow process, yet their sediment concentratio…

February 1, 2015 · 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

Detecting baffle mudstones using microfossils: an integrated working example from the Cardamom Field, Block 427 Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico

Sedimentological observations, planktonic microfossil data, terrigenous index proxy data, benthic morphogroup analyses, pressure analyses and geochemical fingerprinting were integrated in order to ass…

November 1, 2014 · 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