| In clastic sedimentology, diagenesis, and
stratigraphy, we have five faculty, Anthony Walton and Diane Kamola,
teach courses in petroleum geology, basin analysis, and terrigenous
depositional systems. Bob Goldstein works on the sedimentology and
sequence stratigraphy of mixed carbonate/clastic/evaporite systems
and also studies the diagenesis of clastic reservoirs. Steve
Hasiotis integrates trace fossils with the sedimentology and
stratigraphy of continental systems. Tim Carr is active in research
into strata hosting coal-bed methane resources and incised valley
fill sandstones in Kansas. Currently, many students do research
in the areas of three-dimensional analysis of clastic reservoir
systems and their outcrop analogs. Students are exceptionally well
prepared for working in areas of quantitative three-dimensional
visualization of clastic reservoirs, and others have carefully
integrated clastic reservoirs and fluid flow.
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Diane Kamola - Diane's work in clastics includes a wide variety of
depositional environments, but focuses mainly on facies analysis of shallow marine shorelines
and associated marginal marine environments, including tidal and barrier island settings.
Diane has also worked in eolian, lacustrine and volcaniclastic deposits, relating the
depositional record of these environments to paleogeographic reconstruction.
Tony Walton Dr. - Dr. Walton has a long-standing interest in
deposition and stratigraphy of Pennsylvanian siliciclastic rocks in Kansas. This has
led to several publications and student theses describing those rocks. He has also
published on such subjects as sedimentary processes related to volcanic centers.
This work has included studies of both fluvial and lahar-dominated systems.
Bob Goldstein - Bob is involved in the diagenesis of clastic oil
and gas reservoirs. He is also involved in the sedimentology of clastics mixed
stratigraphically with carbonates or with evaporites.
Steve Hasiotis - Steve is an innovator in the application of
ichnology to continental deposits. His work integrates paleoclimate, clastic
sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and trace fossils to evaluate the environment
of deposition of clastic sediments.
Tim Carr - Tim Carr and his students have an active research
program dealing with strata hosting coal-bed methane resources and incised valley
fill sandstones in Kansas.
Examples of recent publications
Benison, K. and Goldstein, R.H. 2001. Evaporites and siliciclastics of the Permian Nippewalla Group of Kansas: A case for deposition in saline lakes and saline pans: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 165-188.
Benison, K. C., and Goldstein, R. H. 1999. Permian paleoclimate data from Fluid Inclusions in Halite: Chemical Geology, v. 154, p. 113-132
Benison, K.C. and Goldstein, R.H. 2000. Sedimentology of ancient saline pans: An example from the Permian Opeche Shale, Williston basin, North Dakota, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 159-169.
Benison, K.C., and Goldstein, R.H. 2002. Recognizing acid lakes and groundwaters in the rock record: Sedimentary Geology, v. 151, p. 177-185.
Hasiotis, S. T. and Honey, J. 2000. Paleocene continental deposits and crayfish burrows of the Laramide Basins in the Rocky Mountains: Paleohydrologic and Stratigraphic significance. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70(1), p. 127-139.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2000. The Invertebrate Invasion and Evolution of Mesozoic Soil Ecosystems: The Ichnofossil Record of Ecological Innovations. In, R. Gastaldo and W. Dimichele (eds.), Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Paleontological Society Short Course, 6:141-169.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2003. Complex ichnofossils of solitary to social soil organisms: understanding their evolution and roles in terrestrial paleoecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 192, p. 259-320.
Hasiotis, S. T. in press 2004. Reconnaissance of Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation ichnofossils, Rocky Mountain region, USA: environmental, stratigraphic, and climatic significance of terrestrial and freshwater ichnocoenoses. Sedimentary Geology, 106 pages.
Hasiotis, S. T. 2002. Continental Trace Fossil Atlas. SEPM, Short Course Notes Number 51, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 132 p.
C. Rossi, R. Marfil, R.H. Goldstein, R. Salas, A. Permanyer, J.A. de la Pea, M.A. Caja, and M.I. Benito (2001) Diagenetic and oil migration history of the Kimmeridgian Ascla Formation, Maestrat Basin, Spain, Marine and Petroleum Geology v.18 (3), p. 287-306.
Ceriani, A., Di Guilio, A., Goldstein, R.H., and Rossi, C. 2002, Diagenesis associated with cooling during burial: An example from Lower Cretaceous reservoir sandstones (Sirt basin, Libya): AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1573-1591.
Goldstein, R.H. and Rossi, C. 2002. Recrystallization in Quartz Overgrowths: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 432-440.
McKirahan, J.R., and Goldstein, R.H., and Franseen, E. K., (in press) Build-and-fill sequences: How subtle paleotopography affects 3-D heterogeneity of potential reservoir facies: : W. Ahr, ed., Permo-Carboniferous Platforms and Reefs, SEPM-AAPG Special Publication.
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., and Marfil, R. 2000. Pore fluid evolution and quartz diagenesis in the Khatatba Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 91-96.
Rossi, C., Goldstein, R.H., Ceriani, A., and Marfil, R. 2002. Fluid inclusions record thermal and fluid evolution in reservoir sandstones, Khatatba Formation, Western Desert, Egypt: A case for fluid injection: AAPG Bulletin, v. 86, p. 1773-1799.
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