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[underline = student/post-doc of VT Sedimentary Systems Research; * = student/post-doc of Chile Slope Systems at another institution]; OA = open access]

submitted:

Patterson, M., Rosenberg, C., Seki, O., Romero, O.E., Nelissen, M., Sangiorgi, F., Golledge, N.R., McKay, R., Grant, G., Arnuk, W., Keisling, B., Naish, T., Levy, R., Meyers, S., Sullivan, N., Ash, J., Kulhanek, D., Romans, B.W., Varela, N., Jones, H., Beny, F., Browne, I., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I., Gales, J., Harwood, D., Ishino, S., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Shevenell, A., Singh, S., Sugisaki, S.T., van Peer, T., Xiao, W., De Santis, L., and IODP Expedition 374 scientists, submitted, Spatially variable response of Antarctica’s ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene: Nature Geoscience [preprint]

2024:

McKay, R.M., Cockrell, J., Shevenell, A., Laberg, J.S., Burns, J., Patterson, M., Kim, S., Naish, T., Harwood, D., Levy, R., Marschalek, J., van de Flierdt, T., Keisling, B., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Cortese, G., Sangiorgi, F., Leckie, M., Dodd, J., Duncan, B., Perez, L.F., Romans, B.W., Kim, S., Bombard, S., Browne, I., van Peer, T., Seki, O., Colleoni, F., Kulhanek, D., De Santis, L., and IODP Expedition 374 Science Team, 2024, Miocene ice sheet dynamics and sedimentary deposition in the Central Ross Sea, Antarctica: GSA Bulletin, 10.1130/B37613.1 OA

Jobe, Z.R., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., 2024, How many turbidity currents pass through a submarine channel during its lifespan?: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 10.2110/jsr.2024.050

Kaempfe-Droguett, S.A., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G., and Stright, L., 2024, Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levee development: Sedimentology, 10.1111/sed.13199

Daniels, B.G.*, Hubbard, S.M., Stright, L., and Romans, B.W., 2024, Downslope variability in deep-water slope channel fill facies and stacking patterns: Marine & Petroleum Geology, 10.1016.j.marpetgeo.2024.106869

Parent, A.M., Chilton, K.D., van Peer, T.E., Bohaty, S.M., Spray, J.F., Scher, H.D., Wilson, P.A., and Romans, B.W., 2024, Eocene-Oligocene intensification of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the North Atlantic: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2023PA004731

2023:

Englert, R.*, Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Kaempfe, S., Bell, D.*, Nesbit, P., and Stright, L., 2023, Flow dynamics as Froude-supercritical turbidity currents encounter meter-scale minibasin topography: The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.262 OA

Koehn, L.W., Romans, B.W., and Pollyea, R.M., 2023, Assessing reservoir performance for geologic sequestration in offshore saline reservoirs: Energy Advances, 10.1039/D3YA00317E OA

Stevens Goddard, A.L., Fosdick, J.C., Calderon, M., Ghiglione, M.C., VanderLeest, R.A., and Romans, B.W., 2023, Thermochronological evidence for Eocene deformation in the southern Patagonian Andes: Linking orogenesis along the Patagonian orocline: Tectonics, 10.1029/2022TC007677

2022:

Mason, C.C., Romans, B.W., Patterson, M., Stockli, D.F., and Fildani, A., 2022, Cycles of Andean mountain building archived in the Amazon Fan: Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-022-34561-6 OA

Hage, S.*, Romans, B.W., Peploe, T.G.E.*, Poyatos-More, M., Ardakani, O.H., Bell, D.*, Englert, R.G.*, Kaempfe, S.A., Nesbit, P.R.*, Sherstan, G., Synnott, D.P., and Hubbard, S.M., 2022, High rates of organic carbon burial in submarine deltas maintained on geological timescales: Nature Geoscience, 10.1038/s41561-022-01048-4

VanderLeest, R.A., Fosdick, J.C., Malkowski, M.A., Romans, B.W., Ghiglione, M.C., Schwartz, T.M., and Sickmann, Z.T., 2022, Tectonic subsidence modeling of diachronous transition form backarc to retroarc basin development and uplift during Cordilleran orogenesis, Patagonian-Fuegian Andes: Tectonics, 10.1029/2021TC006891

2021:

Romans, B.W., 2021, Scientific ocean drilling and sedimentary geoscience: Decades of discovery and a vision for the future: The Sedimentary Record, doi: 10.2110/sedred.2021.3.1 OA

Culp, J., Parent, A.M., Abolfazli, E., Strom, K., and Romans, B.W., 2021, Advective sorting of silt by currents: A laboratory study: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/sed.12889 [EarthArXiv preprint]

Tofelde, S., Bernhardt, A., Guerit, L., and Romans, B.W., 2021, Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience: Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.628315 OA

2020:

Romans, B.W., Fosdick, J.C., Poyatos-Moré, M., and Helland-Hansen, W., 2020, Editorial: Sedimentary system response to External Forcings: A Process-Based Perspective: Frontiers in Earth Science, 10.3389/feart.2020.591420 — introduction to a special volume of 14 OA articles on Sedimentary System Response to External Forcings

*Meirovitz, C.D., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., 2020, The influence of inter- and intra-channel architecture on deep-water reservoir performance: Petroleum Geoscience, 10.1144/petgeo2020-005

Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., and Fildani, A., 2020, The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: Linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products: The Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 673-676, 10.2110/jsr.2020.36 OA

Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G.*, Scher, H.D., and Buckley, W., 2020, Intrabasinal sediment recycling from detrital strontium isotope stratigraphy: Geology, 10.1130/G47594.1 OA [blog post]

*Bauer, D.B., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., and, Romans, B.W., 2020, Inherited depositional topography control on shelf-margin oversteepening, readjustment, and coarse-grained sediment delivery to deep water: Frontiers in Earth Science — Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis, 10.3389/feart.2019.00358 OA

2019:

*Jackson, A., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., 2019, Static connectivity of stacked deep-water channel elements constrained by high-resolution digital outcrop models: AAPG Bulletin, 103, 2943-2973, 10.1306/03061917346

Spray, J.F., Bohaty, S.M., Davies, A.D., Bailey, I., Romans, B.W., Cooper, M.J., Milton, J.A., and Wilson, P.A., 2019, North Atlantic evidence for a unipolar icehouse climate state at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 1124-1138, 10.1029/2019PA003563

*Daniels, B.G., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Malkowski, M.A., Matthews, W.A., Bernhardt, A., Kaempfe, S.A., Jobe, Z.R., Fosdick, J.C., Schwartz, T.M., Fildani, A., and Graham, S.A., 2019, Revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Ultima Esperanza, Chile: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 94, 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.025

Mason, C.C., Romans, B.W., Stockli, D., Mapes, R., and Fildani, A., 2019, Detrital zircons reveal sea-level and hydroclimate controls on Amazon river-to-fan sediment transfer: Geology, 10.1130/G45852.1 OA

Van Grinsven, M., Marsaglia, K.M., and Romans, B.W., 2019, Sand provenance from source-to-sink in the Santa Monica Basin, California Borderlands: Significance of Calleguas Creek input: SEPM Special Publication No. 110: From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution, 10.2110/sepmsp.110.06

2018:

Hodgson, D.M., Bernhardt, A., Clare, M., da Silva, A-C, Fosdick, J., Mauz, B., Midtkandel, I., Owen, A., and. Romans, B.W., 2018, Grand challenges (and great opportunities) in sedimentology, stratigraphy, and diagenesis research: Frontiers in Earth Science: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis, 10.3389/feart.2018.00173 OA

Mason, C.C., and Romans, B.W., 2018, Climate-driven unsteady denudation and sediment flux in a high-relief unglaciated catchment-fan using ²⁶Al and ¹⁰Be: Panamint Valley, California: Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 492, 130-143,  10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.056 [EarthArxiv preprint] [blog post]

Fildani, A., Clark, J., Covault, J.A., Power, B., Romans, B.W., and Aiello, I.W., 2018, Muddy sand and sandy mud on the distal Mississippi Fan: Implications for lobe depositional processes: Geosphere, 10.1130/GES01580.1 OA

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N., Romans, B.W., and Covault, J.A., 2018, Volume and recurrence of submarine-fan-building turbidity currents: The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.42 [EarthArxiv preprint] OA

*Daniels, B.G., Auchter, N.C., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Matthews, W.A., and Stright, L., 2018, Timing of deep-water slope evolution constrained by large-n detrital and volcanic ash zircon geochronology, Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile: GSA Bulletin, 10.1130/B31757.1 [blog post] OA

2017:

Boyle, P.R., Romans, B.W., Tucholke, B.E., Norris, R.D., Swift, S.A., and Sexton, P.F., 2017, Cenozoic North Atlantic deep circulation history recorded in contourite drifts, offshore Newfoundland, Canada: Marine Geology, 385, 185-203, 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.12.014 [blog post]

Eriksson, K.A. and Romans, B.W., 2017, Denudation rates of a subequatorial orogenic belt based on estimates of sediment yields: Evidence from the Paleozoic Appalachian Basin, USA: Basin Research, 29, 2-15, 10.1111/bre.12162 [available online 2015] 

2016:

*Reimchen, A., Hubbard, S.M., Stright, L., and Romans, B.W., 2016, Using seafloor morphometrics to constrain stratigraphic models of sinuous submarine channel systems: Marine & Petroleum Geology, 77, 92-115, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.06.003

Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., and Hubbard, S.M., 2016, Influence of deposit architecture on intrastratal deformation, slope deposits of Tres Pasos Formation, Chile: Sedimentary Geology, 341, 13-26, 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.05.005

*Pemberton, E.A.L., Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., and Stright, L., 2016, The stratigraphic expression of decreasing confinement along a deep-water sediment routing system: Outcrop example from southern Chile: Geosphere, 12, 114-134, 10.1130/GEOS01233.1 OA

Romans, B.W., Castelltort, S., Covault, J.A., Fildani, A., and Walsh, J.P., 2016, Environmental signal propagation in sedimentary systems across timescales: Earth-Science Reviews, 152, 7-29, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.012

2015:

Fosdick, J.C., Grove, M., Graham, S.A., Hourigan, J.K., Lovera, O., and Romans, B.W., 2015, Detrital thermochronologic record of burial heating and sediment recycling in the Magallanes foreland basin, Patagonian Andes: Basin Research, 27, 546-572, 10.1111/bre.12088

2014:

Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Fildani, A., and Romans, B.W., 2014, Sediment transfer and deposition in slope channels: Deciphering the record of enigmatic deep-sea processes from outcrop: Geological Society of American Bulletin, 10.1130/B30996.1 OA

2013:

Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Maier, K.L., Romans, B.W., Traer, M., and Rowland, J.C., 2013, Erosion at inception of deep-sea channels: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 41, 48-61, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.03.006

Romans, B.W. and Graham, S.A., 2013, A deep-time perspective of land-ocean linkages in the sedimentary record: Annual Reviews of Marine Science, 5, 69-94, 10.1146/annurev-marine-121211-172426

Covault, J.A., Craddock, W.H., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., and Gosai, M., 2013, Spatial and temporal variations in landscape evolution: Historic and longer-term sediment flux through global catchments: The Journal of Geology, 121, 35-56, 10.1086/668680

2012:

Covault, J.A., Shelef, E., Traer, M., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Fildani, A., 2012, Deep-water channel run-out length: Insights from seafloor geomorphology: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 82, 25-40, 10.2110/jsr.2012.2

2011:

Fosdick, J.C., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Bernhardt, A., Calderon, M., and Graham, S.A., 2011, Kinematic history of the Cretaceous-Neogene Patagonian fold-thrust belt and Magallanes foreland basin, Chile and Argentina (51 30’S): Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 1679-1698, 10.1130/B30242.1

Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., Graham, S.A., Fildani, A., and Hilley, G.E., 2011, Terrestrial source to deep-sea sink sediment budgets at high and low sea levels: Insights from tectonically active southern California: Geology, 39, 619-622, 10.1130/G31801.1

Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M. Covault, J.A., Fosdick, J.C., and Graham, S.A., 2011, Evolution of deep-water stratigraphic architecture, Magallanes Basin, Chile: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28, 612-628, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo/2010.05.002

Covault, J.A., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., and McHargue, T.R., 2011, The natural range of submarine canyon-and-channel longitudinal profiles: Geosphere, 7, 313-332, 10.1130/GES00610.1 OA

McHargue, T.R., Pyrcz, M.J., Sullivan, M.D., Clark, J., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Levy, M., Posamentier, H., and Drinkwater, N., 2011 , Architecture of turbidite channel systems on the continental slope: Patterns and predictions: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28, 728-743, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo/2010.07.008

2010:

Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Graham, S.A., Hubbard, S.M., and Covault, J.A., 2010, Importance of predecessor basin history on sedimentary fill of a retroarc foreland basin: Provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Magallanes basin, Chile (50S-52S): Basin Research, 22, 640-658, 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00443.x

Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., and McHargue, T.R., 2010, High-relief slope clinoform development: Insights from outcrop, Magallanes Basin, Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80, 357-375, 10.2110/jsr.2010.042

Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., McGann, M.M., and Graham, S.A., 2010, Rapid climatic signal propagation from source to sink in a southern California sediment routing system: The Journal of Geology, 118, 247-259, 10.1086/651539

2009:

Romans, B.W., Normark, W.R., McGann, M.M., Covault, J.A., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Coarse-grained sediment delivery and distribution in the Holocene Santa Monica Basin, California: Implications for evaluating source-to-sink flux at millennial time scales: GSA Bulletin, 121, 1394-1408, 10.1130/B26393.1

Covault, J.A. and Romans, B.W., 2009, Growth patterns of deep-sea fans revisited: Turbidite system morphology in confined basins of the Quaternary California Borderland: Marine Geology, 265, 51-66, 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.016

Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Outcrop expression of a continental-margin-scale shelf-edge delta from the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, southern Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 523-539, 10.2110./jsr.2009.053

Armitage, D.A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., and Graham, S.A., 2009, The influence of mass transport deposit surface topography on the evolution of turbidite architecture: The Sierra Contreras, Tres Pasos Formation (Cretaceous), southern Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 287-301, 10.2110/jsr.2009.035

Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Stratigraphic evolution of an outcropping continental slope system, Tres Pasos Formation at Cerro Divisadero, Chile: Sedimentology, 56, 737-764, 10.1111/j/1365-3091.2008.00995.x

Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., Romans, B.W., Covault J.A., and Dartnell, P., 2009, Submarine canyon and fan systems of the California Continental Borderland: in H. Lee and W.R. Normark, eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, 141-168, 10.1130/2009.2454(2.7)

2008:

Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2008, Deep-water foreland basin deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes basin, Chile: Architectural elements of a sinuous basin axial channel belt: Sedimentology, 55, 1333-1359, 10.1111/j/1365-3091.2007.00948

2007:

Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2007, An outcrop example of large-scale conglomeratic intrusions sourced from deep-water channel deposits, Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes Basin, Southern Chile: in A. Hurst and J. Cartwright, eds., Sand Injectites: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: AAPG Memoir 87, 199-207, 10.1306/1209863M873265

Covault, J.A., Normark, W.R., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2007, Highstand fans of the California Borderland: The overlooked deep-water depositional system: Geology, 35, 783-786, 10.1130/G23800A.1