Part III - Option 5 Advanced Topics in Sedimentary Geology and Stratigraphy

This is the suggested reading list for Option 5 (2018-19), Sedimentary Geology and Stratigraphy, lectured by Neil Davies.

General Reading

Short Presentations

1. Wizevich, M.C., Ahern, J. and Meyer, C.A., 2019. The Triassic of southwestern Switzerland–Marine or non-marine, that is the question!. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 514, pp.577-592. 
2. Baker, V.R., Hamilton, C.W., Burr, D.M., Gulick, V.C., Komatsu, G., Luo, W., Rice Jr, J.W. and Rodriguez, J.A.P., 2015. Fluvial geomorphology on Earth-like planetary surfaces: a review. Geomorphology, 245, pp.149-182. 
3. Marenco, K.N. and Hagadorn, J.W., 2019. Big bedding planes: Outcrop size and spatial heterogeneity influence trace fossil analyses. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 513, pp.14-24. 
4. Kemp, D.B., Eichenseer, K. and Kiessling, W., 2015. Maximum rates of climate change are systematically underestimated in the geological record. Nature communications, 6, p.8890. AND Kemp, D.B. and Sexton, P.F., 2014. Time-scale uncertainty of abrupt events in the geologic record arising from unsteady sedimentation. Geology, 42(10), pp.891-894.
5. Perron, J.T., 2017. Climate and the pace of erosional landscape evolution. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 45, pp.561-591. 
6. Gani, M.R., 2017. Mismatch Between Time Surface and Stratal Surface in Stratigraphy. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87(11), pp.1226-1234. 
7. Retallack, G.J., 2019. Interflag sandstone laminae, a novel sedimentary structure, with implications for Ediacaran paleoenvironments. Sedimentary Geology, 379, pp.60-76.
8. Kocurek, G. and Day, M., 2018. What is preserved in the aeolian rock record? A Jurassic Entrada Sandstone case study at the Utah–Arizona border. Sedimentology, 65(4), pp.1301-1321.
9. Nyberg, B. and Howell, J.A., 2015. Is the present the key to the past? A global characterization of modern sedimentary basins. Geology, 43(7), pp.643-646.
10. Antonelli, A., Kissling, W.D., Flantua, S.G., Bermúdez, M.A., Mulch, A., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Kreft, H., Linder, H.P., Badgley, C., Fjeldså, J. and Fritz, S.A., 2018. Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity. Nature Geoscience, 11(10), p.718.
11. Tarhan, L.G., 2018. Phanerozoic shallow marine sole marks and substrate evolution. Geology, 46(9), pp.755-758. AND Herringshaw, L.G., Callow, R.H. and McIlroy, D., 2017. Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 448, 369-382.
12. Waters, C.N., Zalasiewicz, J., Summerhayes, C., Barnosky, A.D., Poirier, C., Gałuszka, A., Cearreta, A., Edgeworth, M., Ellis, E.C., Ellis, M. and Jeandel, C., 2016. The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science, 351(6269), p. 2622.

Seminars

A

• *Paola, C., Ganti, V., Mohrig, D., Runkel, A.C. and Straub, K.M., 2018. Time not our time: Physical controls on the preservation and measurement of geologic time. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 46, pp.409-438.
• Ager, D.V., 1995. The new catastrophism: the importance of the rare event in geological history. Cambridge University Press. This short book is in the library.
• *Sadler, P.M., 1981. Sediment accumulation rates and the completeness of stratigraphic sections. The Journal of Geology, 89(5), pp.569-584.
• Dott, R.H., 1983. Episodic sedimentation; how normal is average? How rare is rare? Does it matter?. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 53(1), pp.5-23.

B

• Tipper, J.C., 2016. Measured rates of sedimentation: What exactly are we estimating, and why? Sedimentary geology, 339, pp.151-171.
• *Miall, A.D., 2014. Updating uniformitarianism: stratigraphy as just a set of ‘frozen accidents’. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 404, pp.404-4.
• Runkel, A.C., Miller, J.F., McKay, R.M., Palmer, A.R. and Taylor, J.F., 2008, The record of time in cratonic interior strata: does exceptionally slow subsidence necessarily result in exceptionally poor stratigraphic completeness? Geological Association of Canada Special Paper, v. 48, p. 341-362. This paper is in a book in the library.
• Archer, A.W., Elrick, S., Nelson, W.J. and Dimichele, W.A., 2016, March. Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois Basin: Hypertidal sedimentation during Gondwanan glacial melt-water pulses. In Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology: Proceedings of the Tidalites 2012 Conference: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication (Vol. 47, pp. 217-231).

C

• *Dietrich, W.E. and Perron, J.T., 2006. The search for a topographic signature of life. Nature, 439(7075), p.411.
• Phillips, J.D., 2016. Landforms as extended composite phenotypes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(1), pp.16-26.
• Beerling, D.J. and Butterfield, N.J., 2012. Plants and Animals as Geobiological Agents. Fundamentals of Geobiology, 188-204.
• Jones, C.G., Lawton, J.H. and Shachak, M., 1994. Organisms as ecosystem engineers. In Ecosystem management (pp. 130-147). Springer, New York, NY.
• Trimble, S.W. and Mendel, A.C., 1995. The cow as a geomorphic agent—a critical review. Geomorphology, 13(1-4), pp.233-253. If cows can influence geomorphology, did dinosaurs leave a similar signature in Mesozoic strata? (There is a second paper on Moodle that has a couple of relevant paragraphs on this: Shillito & Davies 2019, Section 4.3).

D

• McMahon, S., Bosak, T., Grotzinger, J.P., Milliken, R.E., Summons, R.E., Daye, M., Newman, S.A., Fraeman, A., Williford, K.H. and Briggs, D.E.G., 2018. A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
• McLennan, S.M., Grotzinger, J.P., Hurowitz, J.A. and Tosca, N.J., 2019. The sedimentary cycle on Early Mars. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
• Grotzinger, J.P., Hayes, A.G., Lamb, M.P. and McLennan, S.M., 2013. Sedimentary processes on Earth,
• Mars, Titan, and Venus. Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets, 1, pp.439-472.
• Baucon, A., De Carvalho, C.N., Barbieri, R., Bernardini, F., Cavalazzi, B., Celani, A., Felletti, F., Ferretti, A., Schönlaub, H.P., Todaro, A. and Tuniz, C., 2017. Organism-substrate interactions and astrobiology: Potential, models and methods. Earth-science reviews, 171, pp.141-180.
• Davies, N.S., Liu, A.G., Gibling, M.R. and Miller, R.F., 2018. Reply to comment on the paper by Davies et al. “Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes” (Earth Science Reviews, 154 (2016), 210–246). Earth-Science Reviews, 176, 384-386.

E

• Allen, P.A., 2008. From landscapes into geological history. Nature, 451(7176), p.274.
• *Hajek, E.A. and Straub, K.M., 2017. Autogenic sedimentation in clastic stratigraphy. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 45, pp.681-709.
• 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, 153, pp.7-29.
• Jerolmack, D.J. and Paola, C., 2010. Shredding of environmental signals by sediment transport. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(19).

F

• Husson, J.M. and Peters, S.E., 2018. Nature of the sedimentary rock record and its implications for Earth system evolution. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2, 125-136.
• Cawood, P.A., Hawkesworth, C.J. and Dhuime, B., 2013. The continental record and the generation of continental crust. Bulletin, 125(1-2), pp.14-32.
• Holland, S.M., 2016. The non-uniformity of fossil preservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1699), p.20150130.
• Keller, C.B., Husson, J.M., Mitchell, R.N., Bottke, W.F., Gernon, T.M., Boehnke, P., Bell, E.A., Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Peters, S.E., 2019. Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(4), pp.1136-1145.
• Smith, A.B. and McGowan, A.J., 2007. The shape of the Phanerozoic marine palaeodiversity curve: how much can be predicted from the sedimentary rock record of Western Europe?. Palaeontology, 50.