Peer-Reviewed Publications - 2019

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BEG Peer-reviewed Papers

Abolt, C. J., Young, M. H., Atchley, A. L., and Wilson, C. J., 2019, Rapid machine-learning-based extraction and measurement of ice wedge polygons in high-resolution digital elevation models: The Cryosphere, v. 13, p. 237–245, http://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-237-2019.

Alfi, M., Hosseini, S. A., Enriquez, D., and Zhang, T., 2019, A new technique for permeability calculation of core samples from unconventional gas reservoirs: Fuel, v. 235, p. 301–305, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.07.114.

Alfi, M., Vasco, D. W., Hosseini, S. A., Meckel, T., and Hovorka, S. D., 2019, Validating compositional fluid flow simulations using 4D seismic interpretation and vice versa in the SECARB Early Test—a critical review: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 82, p. 162–174, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.01.003.

Alnahwi, A., and Loucks, R. G., 2019, Mineralogical composition and total organic carbon quantification using X-ray fluorescence data from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in southern Texas: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 12, p. 2891–2907, http://doi.org/10.1306/04151918090, [Supervised graduate student paper].

Ambrose, W. A., and Loucks, R. G., 2019, Transition from paleosols in the Cenomanian Woodbine Group to carbonates in the Coniacian lower Austin Chalk in East Texas Field: an example of compressed transgressive succession from subaerial processes to deepwater deposition: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 1–21.

Anderson, J. S., Romanak, K. D., Alfi, M., and Hovorka, S. D., 2019, Light hydrocarbon and noble gas migration as an analogue for potential CO2 leakage: numerical simulations and field data from three hydrocarbon systems: Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, v. 9, no. 2, p. 226–244, http://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1841.

Bader, S., Wu, X., and Fomel, S. B., 2019, Missing log data interpolation and semiautomatic seismic well ties using data matching techniques: Interpretation, v. 7, no. 2, p. T347–T361, http://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2018-0044.1.

Bakhshian, S., and Hosseini, S. A., 2019, Pore–scale analysis of supercritical CO2–brine immiscible displacement under fractional–wettability conditions: Advances in Water Resources, v. 126, p. 96–107, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.02.008.

Bakhshian, S., and Hosseini, S. A., 2019, Prediction of CO2 adsorption-induced deformation in shale nanopores: Fuel, v. 241, p. 767–776, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.12.095.

Bakhshian, S., Hosseini, S. A., and Shokri, N., 2019, Pore-scale characteristics of multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media using the lattice Boltzmann method: Scientific Reports, v. 9, no. 3377, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39741-x.

Beskardes, G. D., McAliley, W. A., Ahmadian, M., Chapman, D. T., Weiss, C. J., and Heath, J. E., 2019, Power density distribution in subsurface fractures due to an energized steel well-casing source: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, v. 24, no. 2, p. 285–297, http://doi.org/10.2113/JEEG24.2.285.

Bhanja, S. N., Mukherjee, A., Rangarajan, R., Scanlon, B. R., Malakar, P., and Verma, S., 2019, Long-term groundwater recharge rates across India by in situ measurements: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, v. 23, no. 2, p. 711–722, http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-711-2019.

Caldwell, T. G., Bongiovanni, T., Cosh, M. H., Jackson, T. J., Colliander, A., Abolt, C. J., Casteel, R., Larson, T., Scanlon, B. R., and Young, M. H., 2019, The Texas Soil Observation Network: a comprehensive soil moisture dataset for remote sensing and land surface model validation: Vadose Zone Journal, v. 18, no. 1, 20 p., http://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2019.04.0034.

Callahan, O., Eichhubl, P., Olson, J. E., and Davatzes, N. C., 2019, Fracture mechanical properties of damaged and hydrothermally altered rocks, Dixie Valley-Stillwater Fault Zone, Nevada, USA: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 124, p. 4069–4090, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016708.

Caudle, T., Paine, J. G., Andrews, J. R., and Saylam, K., 2019, Beach, dune, and nearshore analysis of southern Texas Gulf Coast using Chiroptera LIDAR and imaging system: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 35, no. 2, p. 251–268, http://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-18-00069.1.

Chen, X., Eichhubl, P., Olson, J. E., and Dewers, T. A., 2019, Effect of water on fracture mechanical properties of shales: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 124, p. 2428–2444, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016479.

Coleman, A. J., Duffy, O. B., and Jackson, C. A.-L., 2019, Growth folds above propagating normal faults: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 196, 31 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102885.

Covault, J. A., and Sharman, G. R., 2019, Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the inner California Borderland: template for fill-and-spill sedimentation, in Miall, A. D., The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada (2d ed.): Cambridge, Mass., Elsevier, p. 511–528, http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63895-3.00012-7.

Currier, R. P., Peery, T. B., Herman, M. F., Williams, R. F., Michalczyk, R., Larson, T. E., Labotka, D. M., Fessenden, J. E., and Clegg, S. M., 2019, Azeotropic isotopologues: Fluid Phase Equilibria, v. 493, p. 188–195, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2019.04.006.

Cuthbert, M. O., Taylor, R. G., Favreau, G., Todd, M. C., Shamsudduha, M., Villholth, K. G., MacDonald, A. M., Scanlon, B. R., and 24 others, 2019, Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa: Nature, v. 572, p. 230–234, http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1441-7.

Dashtian, H., Bakhshian, S., Hajirezaie, S., Nicot, J.-P., and Hosseini, S. A., 2019, Convection-diffusion-reaction of CO2-enriched brine in porous media: a pore-scale study: Computers and Geosciences, v. 125, p. 19–29, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2019.01.009.

DeAngelo, M. V., Fifariz, R., Meckel, T., and Treviño, R. H., 2019, A seismic-based CO2-sequestration regional assessment of the Miocene section, northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 81, p. 29–37, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.12.009.

Dillon, P., Stuyfzand, P., Grischek, T., Lluria, M., Pyne, R. D. G., Jain, R. C., Bear, J., Schwarz, J., Wang, W., Fernandez, E., Stefan, C., Pettenati, M., van der Gun, J., Sprenger, C., Massman, G., Scanlon, B. R., and 15 other co-authors, 2019, Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 27, no. 1, p. 1–30, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-018-1841-z.

Ellis, G. S., Zhang, T., Kralert, P. G., and Tang, Y., 2019, Kinetics of elemental sulfur reduction by petroleum hydrocarbons and the implications for hydrocarbon thermal chemical alteration: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 251, p. 192–216, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.023.

Englert, R. G., Hubbard, S. M., Matthews, W. A., Coutts, D. S., and Covault, J. A., 2019, The evolution of submarine slope-channel systems: timing of incision, bypass, and aggradation in the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group channel-system strata, British Columbia, Canada: Geosphere, v. 16, p. 1–16, http://doi.org/10.1130/GES02091.1.

Fan, Z., Eichhubl, P., and Newell, P., 2019, Basement fault reactivation by fluid injection into sedimentary reservoirs: poroelastic effects: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 124, p. 7354–7369, http://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB017062.

Feitz, A., Hovorka, S., and Lehane, K., 2019, Capturing the magic of carbon dioxide: engaging hands-on demonstrations to explain geological storage: Journal of Science and Popular Culture, v. 2, no. 2, p. 125–142, http://doi.org/10.1386/jspc_00003_1.

Ferraro, F., Agosta, F., Ukar, E., Grieco, D. S., Cavalcante, F., Belviso, C., and Prosser, G., 2019, Structural diagenesis of carbonate fault rocks exhumed from shallow crustal depths: an example from the central-southern Apennines, Italy: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 122, p. 58–80, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2019.02.008.

Flaig, P. P., Hasiotis, S. T., Prather, T. J., and Burton, D., 2019, Characteristics of a Campanian delta deposit controlled by alternating river floods and tides: the Loyd Sandstone, Rangely Anticline, Colorado, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 89, no. 12, p. 1181–1206, http://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2019.63.

Fu, Q., 2019, Characterization and discrimination of paleokarst breccias and pseudobreccias in carbonate rocks: insight from Ordovician strata in the northern Tarim Basin, China: Sedimentary Geology, v. 382, p. 61–74, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.007.

Gherabati, S. A., Hamlin, H. S., Smye, K. M., Eastwood, R. L., Male, F. R., and McDaid, G., 2019, Evaluating hydrocarbon-in-place and recovery factor in a hybrid petroleum system: case of Bakken and Three Forks in North Dakota: Interpretation, v. 7, no. 3, p. T607–T624, http://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2018-0213.1.

Gholoubi, A., Emami, H., and Caldwell, T., 2019, Deforestation effects on soil aggregate stability quantified by the high energy moisture characteristic method: Geoderma, v. 355, no. 113919, 8 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.113919.

Goudarzi, A., Meckel, T., Hosseini, S. A., and Treviño, R. H., 2019, Statistical analysis of historic hydrocarbon production data from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and application to dynamic capacity assessment in CO2 storage: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 80, p. 96–102, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.11.014.

Guzmics, T., Berkesi, M., Bodnar, R. J., Fall, A., Bali, E., Milke, R., Vetlényi, E., and Szabó, C., 2019, Natrocarbonatites: a hidden product of three-phase immiscibility: Geology, v. 47, no. 6, p. 527–530, http://doi.org/10.1130/G46125.1.

Han, J., Daigle, H., Milliken, K. L., and Hayman, N. W., 2019, Porosity-deformation relationships in organic-rich shale, in Camp, W., Milliken, K., Taylor, K., Fishman, N., Hackley, P., and Macquaker, J., eds., Mudstone diagenesis: research perspectives for shale hydrocarbon reservoirs, seals, and source rocks: Tulsa, Okla., American Association of Petrolelum Geologists, AAPG Memoir, v. 120, p. 149–163, http://doi.org/10.1306/13672215M1213825.

Harrington, R. R., and Ruppel, S. C., 2019, Pattern of Montoya Group (Middle Ordovician) deposition, diagenesis, and reservoir development in the Permian Basin, in Ruppel, S. C., ed., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Memoir 118, p. 353–378.

Hattori, K. E., Kerans, C., and Martindale, R. C., 2019, Sequence stratigraphic and paleoecologic analysis of an Albian coral-rudist patch reef, Arizona, USA: PALAIOS, v. 34, no. 12, p. 600–615, http://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2019.052.

Hattori, K. E., Loucks, R. G., and Kerans, C., 2019, Stratal architecture of a halokinetically controlled patch reef complex and implications for reservoir quality: a case study from the Aptian James Limestone in the Fairway Field, East Texas Basin: Sedimentary Geology, v. 387, p. 87–103, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.04.009.

Hawie, N., Covault, J. A., and Sylvester, Z., 2019, Grain-size and discharge controls on submarine-fan depositional patterns from forward stratigraphic models: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 7, no. 334, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00334.

He, Y., Kerans, C., Zeng, H., Janson, X., and Scott, S. Z., 2019, Improving three-dimensional high-order seismic-stratigraphic interpretation for reservoir model construction: an example of geostatistical and seismic forward modeling of Permian San Andres shelf–Grayburg platform mixed clastic–carbonate strata: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 8, p. 1839–1887, http://doi.org/10.1306/11211817244, [Supervised graduate student paper].

Heidari, M., Nikolinakou, M. A., Hudec, M. R., and Flemings, P. B., 2019, Influence of a reservoir bed on diapirism and drilling hazards near a salt diapir: a geomechanical approach: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 25, p. 282–297, http://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2018-113.

Hennings, P. H., Lund Snee, J.-E., Osmond, J. L., DeShon, H. R., Dommisse, R., Horne, E., Lemons, C., and Zoback, M. D., 2019, Injection-induced seismicity and fault-slip potential in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 109, no. 5, p. 1615–1634, http://doi.org/10.1785/0120190017.

Hernández-Espriú, A., Wolaver, B. D., Arciniega-Esparza, S., Scanlon, B. R., Young, M. H., Nicot, J.-P., Macías-Medrano, S., and Breña-Naranjo, J. A., 2019, A screening approach to improve water management practices in undeveloped shale plays, with application to the transboundary Eagle Ford Formation in northeast Mexico: Journal of Environmental Management, v. 236, p. 146–162, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.11.123.

Hibbits, T. J., Ryberg, W. A., Harvey, J. A., Voelker, G., Lawing, A. M., Adams, C. S., Neuharth, D. B., Dittmer, D. E., Duran, C. M., Wolaver, B. D., Pierre, J. P., Labay, B. J., and LaDuc, T. J., 2019, Phylogenetic structure of Holbrookia lacerata (Cope 1880) (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae): one species or two?: Zootaxa, v. 4619, no. 1, p. 139–154, http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.6.

Hosseini, S. A., 2019, Fault leakage detection and characterization using pressure transient analysis: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 176, p. 880–886, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2019.01.099.

Hovorka, S. D., and Lu, J., 2019, Field observations of geochemical response to CO2 injection at the reservoir scale, in Newell, P., and Ilgen, A. G., eds., Science of carbon storage in deep saline formations: process coupling across time and spatial scales: Chennai, Elsevier, p. 33-61, http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-812752-0.00003-4.

Huang, G. D., Savvaidis, A., and Walter, J. I., 2019, Mapping the 3‐D lithospheric structure of the Greater Permian Basin in West Texas and southeast New Mexico for earthquake monitoring: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 124, no. 11, p. 11,466–11,488, http://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018351.

Hudec, M. R., and Norton, I. O., 2019, Upper Jurassic structure and evolution of the Yucatán and Campeche subbasins, southern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 5, p. 1133–1151, http://doi.org/10.1306/11151817405.

Juárez-Arriaga, E., Lawton, T. F., Ocampo-Díaz, Y. Z. E., Stockli, D. F., and Solari, L., 2019, Sediment provenance, sediment-dispersal systems, and major arc-magmatic events recorded in the Mexican foreland basin, North-Central and Northeastern Mexico: International Geology Review, v. 61, no. 17, p. 2118–2142, http://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1581848.

Juárez-Arriaga, E., Lawton, T. F., Stockli, D. F., Solari, L., and Martens, U., 2019, Late Cretaceous-Paleocene stratigraphic and structural evolution of the central Mexican fold and thrust belt, from detrital zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) ages: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 95, 17 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102264.

Kerans, C., Zahm, C., Bachtel, S. L., Hearty, P., and Cheng, H., 2019, Anatomy of a late Quaternary carbonate island: constraints on timing and magnitude of sea-level fluctuations, West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 205, p. 193–223, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.010.

Krishnamurthy, P. G., Meckel, T. A., and Dicarlo, D., 2019, Mimicking geologic depositional fabrics for multiphase flow experiments: Water Resources Research, v. 55, p. 9623–9638, http://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025664.

Kyle, J. R., and Elliott, B. A., 2019, Past, present, and future of Texas industrial minerals: Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, v. 36, no. 2, p. 475–486, http://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-019-0050-1.

Lashgari, H. R., Sun, A. Y., Zhang, T., Pope, G. A., and Lake, L. W., 2019, Evaluation of carbon dioxide storage and miscible gas EOR in shale oil reservoirs: Fuel, v. 241, p. 1223–1235, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.11.076.

Laubach, S. E., Lander, R. H., Criscenti, L. J., Anovitz, L. M., Urai, J. L., Pollyea, R. M., Hooker, J. N., Narr, W., Evans, M. A., Kerisit, S. N., Olson, J. E., Dewers, T., Fisher, D., Bodnar, R., Evans, B., Dove, P., Bonnell, L. M., Marder, M. P., and Pyrak-Nolte, L., 2019, The role of chemistry in fracture pattern development and opportunities to advance interpretations of geological materials: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 57, no. 3, p. 1065–1111, http://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000671.

Lawton, T. F., 2019, Laramide sedimentary basins and sediment-dispersal systems, in Miall, A. D., ed., The sedimentary basins of the United States and Canada (2d ed.): Cambridge, Mass., Elsevier, p. 529–557, http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63895-3.00013-9.

Lei, Z., and Tsai, C.-H., 2019, Market deregulation and nuclear safety: Energy Economics, v. 82, p. 62–67, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.10.015.

Lemons, C. R., McDaid, G., Smye, K. G., Acevedo, J. P., Hennings, P. H., Banerji, D. A., and Scanlon, B. R., 2019, Spatiotemporal and stratigraphic trends in salt-water disposal practices of the Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico, United States: Environmental Geosciences, v. 26, no. 4, p. 107–124, http://doi.org/10.1306/eg.06201919002.

Lenhart, A., Jackson, C. A.-L., Bell, R. E., Duffy, O. B., Gawthorpe, R. L., and Fossen, H., 2019, Structural architecture and composition of crystalline basement offshore west Norway: Lithosphere, v. 11, no. 2, p. 273–293, http://doi.org/10.1130/L668.1.

Li, S., Zhu, H., Xu, C., Zeng, H., Liu, Q., and Yang, X., 2019, Seismic-based identification and stage analysis of overlapped compound sedimentary units in rifted lacustrine basins: an example from the Bozhong sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 10, p. 2521–2543, http://doi.org/10.1306/02151916513.

Li, Y., Zhang, T., Shao, D., and Shen, B., 2019, New U-Pb zircon age and carbon isotope records from the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation on the Yangtze Platform, South China: implications for stratigraphic correlation and environmental change: Chemical Geology, v. 509, p. 249–260, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.02.003.

Lomax, A., and Savvaidis, A., 2019, Improving absolute earthquake location in West Texas using probabilistic, proxy ground‐truth station corrections: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 124, no. 11, p. 11447–11465, http://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017727.

Loucks, R. G., 2019, Pore networks and reservoir-quality trends in Lower Cretaceous carbonates of the northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico: substantiating reservoir-quality risk factors: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 35–56.

Loucks, R. G., and Dutton, S. P., 2019, Insights into deep, onshore Gulf of Mexico Wilcox sandstone pore networks and reservoir quality through the integration of petrographic, porosity and permeability, and mercury injection capillary pressure analyses: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 3, p. 745–765, http://doi.org/10.1306/09181817366.

Loucks, R. G., and Kerans, C., 2019, Geologic review of the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group of the Permian Basin, West Texas and southeast New Mexico, in Ruppel, S. C., Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA: Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations 285; AAPG Memoir 118, p. 295-330, http://doi.org/10.23867/RI0285-1.

Loucks, R. G., Gates, B. G., and Zahm, C. K., 2019, Depositional systems, lithofacies, nanopore to micropore matrix network, and reservoir quality of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Buda Limestone in Dimmit County, southwestern Texas: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 281–300.

Lucia, F. J., 2019, Touching-vug pore system, Lake Medina road cut, Medina County, Texas: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 57–70.

McCay, A. T., Shipton, Z. K., Lunn, R. J., and Gale, J. F. W., 2019, Mini thief zones: subcentimeter sedimentary features enhance fracture connectivity in shales: AAPG Bulletin, v. 103, no. 4, p. 951–971, http://doi.org/10.1306/0918181610617114.

Meckel, T., Feng, Y. E., Treviño, R. H., and Sava, D., 2019, High-resolution 3D marine seismic acquisition in the overburden at the Tomakomai CO2 storage project, offshore Hokkaido, Japan: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 88, p. 124–133, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.034.

Mehmani, A., Milliken, K., and Prodanović, M., 2019, Predicting flow properties in diagenetically-altered media with multi-scale process-based modeling: A Wilcox Formation case study: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 100, p. 179–194, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.09.001.

Merzlikin, D., Fomel, S., and Sen, M. K., 2019, Least-squares path-summation diffraction imaging using sparsity constraints: Geophysics, v. 84, no. 3, p. S187–S200, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2018-0609.1.

Mickler, P., Carlson, P., Banner, J. L., Breecker, D. O., Stern, L., and Guilfoyle, A., 2019, Quantifying carbon isotope disequilibrium during in-cave evolution of drip water along discreet flow paths: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 244, p. 182–196, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.027.

Milliken, K. L., 2019, Compactional and mass-balance constraints inferred from the volume of quartz cementation in mudrocks, in Camp, W., Milliken, K., Taylor, K., Fishman, N., Hackley, P., and Macquaker, J., eds., Mudstone diagenesis: research perspectives for shale hydrocarbon reservoirs, seals, and source rocks: Tulsa, Okla., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG Memoir, v. 120, p. 33–48, http://doi.org/10.1306/13672209M121252.

Milliken, K. L., Reed, R. M., McCarty, D. K., Bishop, J., Lipinski, C. J., Fischer, T. B., Crousse, L., and Reijenstein, H., 2019, Grain assemblages and diagenesis in the Vaca Muerta Formation (Jurassic-Cretaceous), Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Sedimentary Geology, v. 380, p. 45–64, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.11.007.

Nikolinakou, M. A., Heidari, M., Hudec, M. R., and Flemings, P. B., 2019, Stress and deformation in plastic mudrocks overturning in front of advancing salt sheets; implications for system kinematics and drilling: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, v. 52, no. 12, p. 5181–5194, http://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-019-01852-2.

Nuñez-López, V., and Moskal, E., 2019, Potential of CO2-EOR for near-term decarbonization: Frontiers in Climate, 14 p., http://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2019.00005.

Nuñez-López, V., Gil-Egui, R., and Hosseini, S. A., 2019, Environmental and operational performance of CO2-EOR as a CCUS technology: a Cranfield example with dynamic LCA considerations: Energies, v. 12, no. 3, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.3390/en12030448, Article 448.

Ogiesoba, O. C., Ambrose, W. A., and Loucks, R. G., 2019, Investigation of seismic attributes, depositional environments, and hydrocarbon sweet-spot distribution in the Serbin field, Taylor Formation, Southeast Texas: Interpretation, v. 7, no. 1, p. T49–T66, http://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2018-0041.1.

Ogiesoba, O. C., and Eluwa, A. K., 2019, Comparison of structural styles observed in upper Eocene (Jackson Group) and Oligocene (Vicksburg Group) strata within the Rio Grande and Houston Embayments southwest and northeast of the San Marcos Arch, Refugio and Calhoun Counties, South Texas Gulf Coast: GCAGS Journal, v. 8, p. 170–190.

Olariu, M. I., DeAngelo, M., Dunlap, D., and Treviño, R. H., 2019, High frequency (4th order) sequence stratigraphy of Early Miocene deltaic shorelines, offshore Texas and Louisiana: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 110, p. 575–586, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.07.040.

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