Here is this month’s installment in the papers I’m reading series:

• Di Achille, G. and Hynek, B.M., 2010, Ancient ocean on Mars supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys: Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo891. [link]
• Sambrook Smith, G.H., et al., 2010, Can we distinguish flood frequency and magnitude in the sedimentological records of rivers?: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G30861.1. [link]
• Lamb, M.P., et al., 2010, Linking river-flood dynamics to hyperpycnal-plume deposits: Experiments, theory, and geological implications: Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B30125.1. [link]
• Heinrich, R., et al., in press, Climate and sea level induced turbidite activity in a canyon system offshore the hyperarid western Sahara (Mauritania): The Timiris Canyon: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.05.011. [link]
• Zahid, K.M. and Barbeau, D.L. Jr., 2010, Provenance of eastern Magallanes Basin sediments: Heavy mineral analysis reveals Paleogene tectonic unroofing of the Fuegian Andes hinterland: Sedimentary Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.06.006. [link]
• Herman, F., et al., in press, Uniform erosion rates and relief amplitude during glacial cycles in the southern Alps in New Zealand, as revealed from OSL-thermochronology: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.019. [link]

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• Willenbring, J.K. and von Blanckenburg. F, 2010, Long-term stability of global erosion rates and weathering during late-Cenozoic cooling: Nature, doi:10.1038/nature09044. [link]
• Jensen, M.A. and Pedersen, G.K., in press, Architecture of vertically stacked fluvial deposits, Atane Formation, Cretaceous, Nuussuaq, central West Greenland: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01146.x. [link]
• Bastia R., et al., in press, Pre- and post collisional depositional history in the upper and middle Bengal fan and evaluation of deepwater reservoir potential along the northeast Continental Margin of India: Marine & Petroleum Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.04.007. [link]
• Amos, K., et al., in press, The influence of bend amplitude and planform morphology on flow and sedimentation in submarine channels: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.05.004. [link]
• Kane, I.A. and Hogdson, D.M., in press, Sedimentological criteria to differentiate submarine channel levee subenvironments: exhumed examples from the Rosario Fm. (Upper Cretaceous) of Baja California, Mexico, and the Fort Brown Fm. (Permian), Karoo Basin, S. Africa: Marine & Petroleum Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.05.009. [link]
• Bourget, J., et al., in press, Turbidite system architecture and sedimentary processes along topographically complex slopes: the Makran convergent margin: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01168.x. [link]

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It’s been a busy few weeks, I’m not reading as much as I should be; here is this month’s installment in the papers I’m reading series:

• Palinkas, C.M., et al.,  in press, Observations of event-scale sedimentary dynamics with an instrumented bottom-boundary-layer tripod: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.03.012. [link] 
• Paull, C.K., et al., in press, The tail of the Storegga Slide: Insights from the geochemistry and sedimentology of the Norwegian Basin deposits: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01150.x. [link] 
• Omura, A. and Ikehara, K., in press, Deep-sea sedimentation controlled by sea-level rise during the last deglaciation, an example from the Kumano Trough, Japan: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.04.002. [link]
• Denlinger, R.P. and O’Connell, D.R.H., 2010, Simulations of cataclysmic outburst floods from Pleistocene Glacial Lake Missoula: GSA Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B26454.1. [link]

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• Henriksen, S., et al.,  in press, Relationships between shelf-edge trajectories and sediment dispersal along depositional dip and strike: a different approach to sequence stratigraphy: Basin Research, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00463.x. [link]
• Shirai, M., et al., in press, Depositional age and triggering event of turbidites in the western Kumano Trough, central Japan during the last ca. 100 years: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016.j.margeo.2010.02.015. [link] — note: their main conclusion is that the vast majority of turbidite deposits can be tied to floods or storms; only one correlated to an earthquake
• Ito, M., in press, Are coarse-grained sediment waves formed as downstream-migrating antidunes? Insight from an early Pleistocene submarine canyon on the Boso Peninsula, Japan: Sedimentary Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.02.006. [link]
• Tucker, G.E. and Bradley, D.N., 2010, Trouble with diffusion: Reassessing hillslope erosion laws with a particle-based model: JGR Earth Surface, doi: 10.1029/2009JF001264. [link]
• Migeon, S., et al., in press, Lobe Construction and sand/mud segregation by turbidity currents and debris flows on the western Nile deep-sea fan (Eastern Mediterranean): Sedimentary Geology, doi: doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.02.011. [link]

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In the meantime, here is this month’s installment in the papers I’m reading series:

• Barnard, P.L. and Warrick, J.A., in press, Dramatic beach and nearshore morphological changes due to extreme flooding at a wave-dominated river mouth: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.01.018. [link]
• Liu, J.T., et al., in press, Quantifying tidal signatures of the benthic nepheloid layer in Gaoping submarine canyon in southern Taiwan: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016.j.margeo.2010.01.016. [link]
• Bache, F., et al., in press, Evolution of rifted continental margins: The case of the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean Basin): EPSL, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.001. [link]
• Twichell, D.C., et al., in press, Partitioning of sediment on the shelf offshore of the Columbia River littoral cell: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.001. [link]

The following two publications are part of a recent Discussion and Reply — if turbidites are your thing, these are a must-read:

• Shanmugam, G., 2010, Discussion: “Turbidites and turbidity currents from Alpine flysch to the exploration of continental margin” by Mutti et al., (2009), Sedimentology, 56, 267-318: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01132.x. [link]
• Mutti, E., et al., 2010, Reply to Discussion by G. Shanmugam on ”Turbidites and turbidity currents from Alpine flysch to the exploration of continental margin” by Mutti et al., (2009), Sedimentology, 56, 267-318: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01131.x [link]

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• Carter, L., et al., in press, Landscape and sediment responses from mountain source to deep ocean sink; Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.12.010. [link]
• Vinnels, J.S., et al., in press, Depositional processes across the Sinu Accretionary Prism, offshore Columbia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.12.008 [link]
• Xue, Z., et al., in press, Late Holocene evolution of the Mekong subaqueous delta, southern Vietnam: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016.j.margeo.2009.12.005 [link]
• Xu, J.P., et al., in press, Event-driven sediment flux in Hueneme and Mugu submarine canyons, southern California: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.12.007. [link]
• Weissmann, G.S., et al., 2009, Fluvial form in modern continental sedimentary basins: Distributive fluvial systems: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G30242.1. [link]
• Reusser, L.J. and Bierman, P.R., 2009, Using meteoric 10Be to track fluvial sand through Waipaoa River basin, New Zealand: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G30395.1. [link]
• Van De Wiel, M.J. and Coulthard, T.J., 2009, Self-organzied criticality in river basins: Challenging sedimentary records of environmental change: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G30490.1. [link]
• Gombosi, D.J., et al., 2009, New thermochronometric constraints on the rapid Paleogene exhumation of the Cordillera Darwin complex and related thrust sheets in the Fuegian Andes: Terra Nova, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00908.x. [link]
• Liu, J.P., et al., 2009, Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems: SEPM The Sedimentary Record, vol. 7, no. 4 [pdf]

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• Schlager, W., 2009, Ordered hierarchy versus scale invariance in sequence stratigraphy: Int. Journal of Earth Science, doi: 10.1007/s00531-009-0491-8. [link]
• Brackley, H.L., et al., in press, Dispersal and transformation of organic carbon across an episodic, high sediment discharge contiental margin, Waipaoa sedimentary system: Marine Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.11.001 [link]
• Mulder, T., et al., in press, High-resolution analysis of submarine lobe deposits: Seismic-scale outcrops of the Lauzanier area (SE Alps, France): Sedimentary Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.005 [link]
• Kane, I.A., et al., in press, Submarine channel levee shape and sediment waves from physcial experiments: Sedimentary Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.001. [link]
• Wittmann, H., et al., in press, From source to sink: Preservring cosmogenic 10Be-derived denudation rate signal of the Bolivian Andes in sediment of the Beni and Mamore foreland basins: EPSL, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.008. [link]

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• Schumer, R., and Jerolmack, D.J., 2009, Real and apparent changes in sediment deposition rates through time: JGR Earth Surface, v. 114, F00A06, doi: 10.1029/2009JF001266. [link] – note: this topic is related to the ‘Sadler Effect’, which I’ve written about here
• Dickinson, W.R., and Gehrels, G.E., in press, Use of U-Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. [link]
• Martin, J., Sheets, B., Paola, C., and Hoyal, D., 2009, Influence of steady base-level rise on channel mobility, shoreline migration, and scaling properties of a cohesive experimental delta: JGR Earth Surface, v. 114, F03017, doi: 10.1029/2008JF001142 [link]
• Kender, S., Peck, V.L., Jones, R.W., and Kaminski, M.A., 2009, Middle Miocene oxygen minimum zone expansion offshore west Africa: Evidence for global cooling precursor events: Geology, v. 37, p. 699-702. [link]
• Ryan, M.C., Helland-Hansen, W., Johannessen, E.P., and Steel, R.J., 2009, Erosional vs. accretionary shelf margins: the influence of margin type on deepwater sedimentation: an example from the Porcupine Basin, offshore western Ireland: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 676-703. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00424.x. [link]
• Allen, P.A., 2008, Time scales of tectonic landscapes and their sediment routing systems: Gallagher et al. (eds) Landscape Evolution: Denudation, Climate, and Tectonics Over Different Time and Space Scales, Geological Society London Spec. Pub. 296, p. 7-28, doi: 10.1144/SP296.2. [link]

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• Parker, R.B., 1985, Buffers, energy storage, and the mode and tempo of geologic events: Geology, 13, 440-442. [link]
• Carter, R.M., 1988, The nature and evolution of deep-sea channel systems: Basin Research, 1, 41-54. [link]
• Metivier & Gauderner, 1999, Stability of output fluxes of large rivers in South and East Asia during last 2 million years: implications on floodplain processes: Basin Research, 11, 293-303. [link]
• Elliott, T., 2000, Megaflute erosion surfaces and the initiation of turbidite channels: Geology, 28, 119-122. [link]
• Mohrig et al., 2000, Interpreting avulsion process from ancient alluvial sequences: Guadalope-Matarranya system (northern Spain) and Wasatch Formation (western Colorado): GSA Bulletin, 112, 1787-1803. [link]
• Jerolmack & Mohrig, 2007, Conditions for branching in depositional rivers: Geology, 35, 463-466. doi: 10.1130/G23308A.1 [link]
• DeCelles et al., 2009, Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems: Nature Geoscience, 2, 251-257. doi: 10.1038/NGEO469 [link]

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• Somme, T.O., et al., in press, Relationships between morphological and sedimentological parameters in source-to-sink systems: a basis for predicting semi-quantitative characteristics in subsurface systems: Basin Research,  10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00397.x [link].
• Catuneanu, O., et al. (27 other authors!), 2009, Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 92, p. 1-33  [link].  –    Also see The Dynamic Earth’s post about this paper here.
• Wynn, R.B., et al., 2002, Characterization and recognition of deep-water channel-lobe transition zones: AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1441-1462. [link].
• Einsele, G., et al., 1996, The Himalaya-Bengal fan denudation-accumulation system during the past 20 Ma*: The Journal of Geology, v. 104, p. 163-184  [pdf].
• Zuhlsdorff, C., et al., 2008, Persistent quasi-periodic turbidite activity off Saharan Africa and its comparability to orbital and climate cyclicities: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 28, p. 87-95. [link].

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* now that I look at that title … isn’t that supposed to “myr” in that usage?