ACS PRF Annual Report 2018 - Panel 8

Geology and Geophysics: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleontology, geomorphology, structural geology, and geophysics.

• 56247-DNI8: Seismicity-Enchanced Compaction in Deepwater Fine-Grained Sediments, Derek  Sawyer, Ph.D. , The Ohio State University
• 56969-DNI8: Characterizing Basin Structure with Dense Passive Seismic Arrays, Lindsay Lowe Worthington, Ph.D. , University of New Mexico
• 56988-DNI8: Determining Initiation Conditions for Glass Ramps: Case Study at the Leading Edge of the Great Permian Spiculite Belt, Kathleen  Ritterbush, Ph.D. , University of Utah
• 57123-DNI8: The Effect of a Liquid Phase in a Granular System on Force Distribution During Deformation, Jacqueline E. Reber, Ph.D. , Iowa State University
• 57423-DNI8: Signal Propagation from Space to Time: Implications to Modeling Stratigraphic Record, Arvind  Singh, Ph.D. , University of Central Florida
• 57764-DNI8: Investigating Advective and Diffusive Controls on Fine-Grained Sediment Transport and Deposition, John B. Shaw, Ph.D. , University of Arkansas
• 58015-DNI8: Conodont Thermochronology: Expanding the Utility of the (U-Th)/He Method to Marine Carbonates and Shales, Tandis S. Bidgoli, Ph.D. , University of Missouri-Columbia
• 58209-DNI8: Sensitivity of Sea Level to Sediment Erosion and Deposition in Massive Sedimentary Systems, Ken L. Ferrier, Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 54919-ND8: U/Pb-40Ar/39Ar Coupling Approach for the Reconstruction of Paleo-River Systems: A Case Study of the Siluro-Devonian Old Red Sandstone, Nicholas  Christie-Blick, Ph.D. , Columbia University
• 56057-ND8: Kinematics and Strain in an Evaporite Decollement: Insights from the Minas Viejas Basal Shear Zone, Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico, John S. Singleton, Ph.D. , Colorado State University
• 56166-ND8: Temperature-Dependent Physical Properties of Evaporites and Related Rocks: New Constraints on the Thermal Evolution of Sedimentary Basins, Alan G. Whittington, Ph.D. , University of Missouri-Columbia
• 56442-ND8: Discriminating Sediment Supply versus Accommodation Controls on Foreland Basin Stratigraphic Architecture in the Book Cliffs, Central Utah Using Detrital Double Dating, Joel E. Saylor, Ph.D. , University of Houston
• 56754-ND8: Travelling at the Speed of Light: Using Luminescence to Quantify Fluvial Sediment Transport, Gregory E. Tucker, Ph.D. , University of Colorado at Boulder
• 56755-ND8: Details of Ancient Fluvial Systems: Capturing 3-D Architecture and Testing Depositional Models with UAVs, Photogrammetry, and Fieldwork, Andrew L. Leier, Ph.D. , University of South Carolina
• 56757-ND8: What Controls Ooid Grain Size?, Woodward W. Fischer, Ph.D. , California Institute of Technology
• 56786-ND8: Controls on Carbon Burial Rates in Subtropical Environments: The Role of Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation Density and Sediment Supply, Julia C. Mullarney, Ph.D. , University of Waikato
• 56832-ND8: Linking River Channel Dynamics to the Dimensions of Channel Belts, Christopher A. Paola, Ph.D. , University of Minnesota
• 57151-ND8: Testing Carbonate Shelf Geometry as a Control on Highstand Delivery of Siliciclastics to Basin Settings, Dustin E. Sweet, Ph.D. , Texas Tech University
• 57222-ND8: Heat Flow Map of SE Asia Including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines., Kirsten Ngaire Nicholson, Ph.D. , Ball State University
• 57428-ND8: Alluvial Suspended Sediment Routing as a Filter of Source Area Tectonic and  Climatic Signals: 3-D Stratigraphic Analysis and Modeling, James E. Pizzuto, Ph.D. , University of Delaware
• 57811-ND8: Do Muds Sort? Experimental Test of a Hypothesis Key to Understanding Marine Bottom Currents, Brian W. Romans, Ph.D. , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 57824-ND8: Redox-Sensitive Chemical Elements of Upwelling Ramp Systems: A Comparative Study of Modern and Ancient Carbonates, Eugene C. Rankey, Ph.D. , University of Kansas
• 57832-ND8: Two-Phase Flow and Episodic Pore Fluid Migration through Rock Salt: Control on Sub-Salt Pressure and Seal Capacity, Marc A. Hesse, Ph.D. , The University of Texas at Austin

• 54500-UNI8: Timing of Incision of the Ethiopian Plateau, East African Rift System: Integration of Apatite (U-Th)/He and 4He/3He Thermochronometry, Nahid D.S. Gani, Ph.D. , Western Kentucky University
• 56080-UNI8: Mixed Carbonate-Siliclastic Sediment Gravity Flows: Depositional Processes in the Mississippian Fort Payne Formation, Tennessee, Jeannette M. Wolak, Ph.D. , Tennessee Technological University
• 57156-UNI8: 3-D Imaging of Experimental Stratigraphy Using Computed Tomography, Brady Z. Foreman, Ph.D. , Western Washington University
• 57363-UNI8: Linking Decadal-Scale Changes in Continental Shelf Sediment Accumulation to Variability in Ocean and Terrestrial Processes, Joseph A. Carlin, Ph.D. , California State University, Fullerton
• 57809-UNI8: Reconstructing Neogene Paleogeography and Forearc Basin Evolution of Southern Cascadia using Detrital Mineral Geochronology, Melanie J. Michalak, Ph.D. , Humboldt State University

• 55225-UR8: Do Cincinnatian (Ordovician) Phosphorites Result from Instrinsic Organic Burial Processes or Extrinsic Conditions?, Benjamin F. Dattilo, Ph.D. , Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
• 55332-UR8: Defining and Differentiating Marine Coastal Facies and Subenvironments: A Foraminiferal Approach, Stephen J. Culver, Ph.D. , East Carolina University
• 55610-UR8: Megaregional Correlation and Sequence Architecture of the Fox Hills Sandstone: Implications for Unconventional and Conventional Reservoir Prediction, Jennifer L. Aschoff, Ph.D. , University of Alaska, Anchorage
• 56079-UR8: Sulfur Isotope Chemostratigraphy as a Potential Tool for Correlation in Paleozoic Dolomite, David S. Jones, Ph.D. , Amherst College
• 56245-UR8: Testing Models for the Formation of the Great Valley Basin using Detrital Zircon U/Pb Dates: An Early Cretaceous Forearc Basin or a Mid-Jurassic Pull-Apart Basin?, Diane  Clemens-Knott, Ph.D. , California State University, Fullerton
• 56956-UR8: Post-Rift Tectonism on Circum-Atlantic Margins?, William H. Amidon, Ph.D. , Middlebury College
• 56967-UR8: Building a High Resolution Record of Organic-Walled Microfossils in Upper Devonian Shales: Paleoenvironmental and Ecological Implications, Phoebe A. Cohen, Ph.D. , Williams College
• 57720-UR8: Comparative Analyses of Piped-Zone Ichnofabrics in Cretaceous-Paleocene Shelf-Sea Chalk-Marl Sequences, U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain, Charles E. Savrda, Ph.D. , Auburn University