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Peer-Reviewed Publications - 2023

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BEG Peer-reviewed Papers

Afroogh, A., Rahimi, B., Moussavi-Harami, R., Seraj, M., Wang, Q., and Hooker, J. N., 2023, Open fracture clustering: integrating subsurface and outcrop analogues, Asmari Formation, SW Iran: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 176, no. 104962, 26 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104962.

Andrzejewski, K., Ludvigson, G., Suarez, M., McCarthy, P., and Flaig, P., 2023, Exploring the deuterium excess of Cretaceous Arctic paleoprecipitation using stable isotope composition of clay minerals from the Prince Creek Formation (Maastrichtian) in northern Alaska: Geosciences, Special Issue: Reconstructing past Arctic environments: climate, ecosystems, and depositional systems, v. 13, no. 9, article no. 273, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13090273.

Atsbha, T. A., Yoon, T., Cherif, A., Esmaeili, A., Atwair, M., Park, K., Kim, C., Lee, U., Yoon, S., and Lee, C.-J., 2023, Integrated kinetics-computational fluid dynamic-optimization for catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to formic acid: Journal of CO2 Utilization, v. 78, no. 102635, 11 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2023.102635.

Bakhshian, S., Bump, A. P., Pandey, S., Ni, H., and Hovorka, S. D., 2023, Assessing the potential of composite confining systems for secure and long-term CO2 retention in geosequestration: Scientific Reports, v. 13, no. 21022, 14 p., http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47481-2.

Bakulin, A., and Silvestrov, I., 2023, Quantitative evaluation of 3D land acquisition geometries with arrays and single sensors: closing the loop between acquisition and processing: The Leading Edge, v. 42, no. 5, p. 310–320, http://doi.org/10.1190/tle42050310.1.

Bakulin, A., Neklyudov, D., and Silvestrov, I., 2023, Seismic time-frequency masking for suppression of seismic speckle noise: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 5, p. V371–V385, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0779.1.

Befus, K. S., Ruefer, A. C., Allison, C. M., and Thompson, J. O., 2023, Quartz-hosted inclusions and embayments reveal storage, fluxing, and ascent of the Mesa Falls Tuff, Yellowstone: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 601, no. 117909, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117909.

Bolton, D. C., Affinito, R., Smye, K., Marone, C., and Hennings, P., 2023, Frictional and poromechanical properties of the Delaware Mountain Group: insights into induced seismicity in the Delaware Basin: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 623, no. 118436, 14 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118436.

Bump, A. P., and Hovorka, S. D., 2023, Fetch-trap pairs: exploring definition of carbon storage prospects to increase capacity and flexibility in areas with competing uses: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 122, no. 103817, 10 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103817.

Bump, A. P., and Hovorka, S. D., 2023, Minimizing exposure to legacy wells and avoiding conflict between storage projects: exploring area of review as a screening tool: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 129, no. 103967, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103967.

Bump, A. P., Bakhshian, S., Ni, H., Hovorka, S. D., Olariu, M. I., Dunlap, D., Hosseini, S. A., and Meckel, T. A., 2023, Composite confining systems: Rethinking geologic seals for permanent CO2 sequestration: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 126, no. 103908, 12 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103908.

Callahan, O. A., Eichhubl, P., and Kyle, J. R., 2023, Factors influencing rock strength and fluid flow at the basement-sediment interface from field and core-based observations, Llano Uplift, Texas, in Callahan, O. A., and Eichhubl, P., eds., The geologic basement of Texas: a volume in honor of Peter T. Flawn: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, v. 286, 28 p., http://doi.org/10.23867/RI0286C8.

Calle, A. Z., Horton, B. K., García, R., Anderson, R. B., Stockli, D. F., Flaig, P. P., and Long, S. P., 2023, Sediment dispersal and basin evolution during contrasting tectonic regimes along the western Gondwanan margin in the central Andes: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 125, no. 104286, 19 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104286.

Chatterjee, A., Igonin, N., and Trugman, D. T., 2023, A real-time and data-driven ground-motion prediction framework for earthquake early warning: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 113, no. 2, p. 676–689, http://doi.org/10.1785/0120220180.

Chen, W., Oboué, Y. A. S. I., and Chen, Y., 2023, Retrieving useful signals from highly corrupted erratic noise using robust residual dictionary learning: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 1, p. WA55–WA64, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0168.1.

Chen, W., Oboué, Y. A. S. I., Saad, O. M., Yang, L., Wang, H., and Chen, Y., 2023, Imaging point diffractors using a low-rank approximation method: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 5, p. N47–N58, http://doi.org/10.1190/GEO2022-0374.1.

Chen, Y., and Fomel, S., 2023, 3D true-amplitude elastic wave-vector decomposition in heterogeneous anisotropic media: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 3, p. C79–C89, http://doi.org/10.1190/GEO2022-0361.1.

Chen, Y., Fomel, S., and Abma, R., 2023, Joint deblending and source time inversion: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 1, p. WA27–WA35, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0149.1.

Chen, Y., Savvaidis, A., and Fomel, S., 2023, Dictionary learning for single-channel passive seismic denoising: Seismological Research Letters, v. 94, no. 6, p. 2840–2851, http://doi.org/10.1785/0220230169.

Chen, Yangkang, Chen, Yunfeng, Fomel, S., Savvaidis, A., Saad, O. M., and Oboué, Y. A. S. I., 2023, Pyekfmm: a Python package for 3D fast-marching-based travel-time calculation and its applications in seismology: Seismological Research Letters, v. 94, no. 4, p. 2050–2059, http://doi.org/10.1785/0220230042.

Chen, Yangkang, Huang, W., Yang, L., Oboué, Y. A. S. I., Saad, O. M., and Chen, Yunfeng, 2023, DRR: an open-source multi-platform package for the damped rank-reduction method and its applications in seismology: Computers & Geosciences, v. 180, no. 105440, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2023.105440.

Chen, Yangkang, Savvaidis, A., Chen, Yunfeng, Saad, O. M., and Fomel, S., 2023, Enhancing earthquake detection from distributed acoustic sensing data by coherency measure and moving-rank-reduction filtering: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 6, p. WC13–WC23, http://doi.org/10.1190/GEO2023-0020.1.

Chen, Yangkang, Savvaidis, A., Fomel, S., Chen, Yunfeng, and Saad, O. M., 2023, RFloc3D: a machine learning method for 3D microseismic source location using P- and S-wave arrivals: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 61, no. 5901310, 10 p., http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3236572.

Chen, Yangkang, Savvaidis, A., Fomel, S., Chen, Yunfeng, Saad, O. M., Oboué, Y. A. S. I., Zhang, Q., and Chen, W., 2023, Pyseistr: a Python package for structural denoising and interpolation of multichannel seismic data: Seismological Research Letters, v. 94, no. 3, p. 1703–1714, http://doi.org/10.1785/0220220242.

Chen, Yangkang, Savvaidis, A., Fomel, S., Chen, Yunfeng, Saad, O. M., Wang, H., Oboué, Y. A. S. I., Yang, L., and Chen, W., 2023, Denoising of distributed acoustic sensing seismic data using an integrated framework: Seismological Research Letters, v. 94, no. 1, p. 457–472, http://doi.org/10.1785/0220220117.

Cherif, A., Atwair, M., Atsbha, T. A., Zarei, M., Duncan, I. J., Nebbali, R., Sen, F., and Lee, C.-J., 2023, Enabling low-carbon membrane steam methane reforming: comparative analysis and multi-objective NSGA-II-integrated Bayesian optimization: Energy Conversion and Management, v. 297, no. 117718, 12 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117718.

Ding, X., Dávila, F. M., and Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., 2023, Mechanisms of subsidence and uplift of southern Patagonia and offshore basins during slab window formation: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, no. 5, article no. e2022GC010844, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010844.

Dooley, T. P., Jackson, M. P. A., and Hudec, M. R., 2023, Growth and evolution of salt canopies on a salt-detached slope: insights from physical models: AAPG Bulletin, v. 107, no. 12, p. 2053–2089, http://doi.org/10.1306/08072222013.

Doungkaew, N., and Eichhubl, P., 2023, High-temperature fracture growth by constrained sintering of jadeite and quartz aggregates: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 128, no. 4, article no. e2022JB025565, 22 p., http://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025565.

Duffy, O. B., Gawthorpe, R. L., and Docherty, M., 2023, Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of salt-influenced normal fault systems: an example from the Coffee-Soil Fault, Danish North Sea: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 180, no. 6, article no. jgs2023-016, 20 p., http://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-016.

Duffy, O. B., Hudec, M. R., Peel, F., Apps, G., Bump, A., Moscardelli, L., Dooley, T. P., Fernandez, N., Bhattacharya, S., Wisian, K., and Shuster, M. W., 2023, The role of salt tectonics in the energy transition: an overview and future challenges: Tektonika, v. 1, no. 1, p. 18–48, http://doi.org/10.55575/tektonika2023.1.1.11.

Eakin, A. L., Reece, J. S., Milliken, K. L., Locklair, R., and Rathbun, A. P., 2023, Classification of elemental chemofacies as indicators of cement diagenesis in mudrocks of the Permian Spraberry Formation and Wolfcamp formation, western Texas: AAPG Bulletin, v. 107, no. 6, p. 863–886, http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1306/10242221142.

Elsayed, H. S., Saad, O. M., Soliman, M. S., Chen, Y., and Youness, H. A., 2023, EQConvMixer: a deep learning approach for earthquake location from single-station waveforms: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, v. 20, no. 7504905, 5 p., http://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2023.3312324.

Erdi, A., Jackson, C. A.-L., and Soto, J. I., 2023, Extensional deformation of a shale-dominated delta: Tarakan Basin, offshore Indonesia: Basin Research, v. 35, no. 3, p. 1071–1101, http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12747.

Ershadnia, R., Singh, M., Mahmoodpour, S., Meyal, A., Moeini, F., Hosseini, S. A., Sturmer, D. M., Rasoulzadeh, M., Dai, Z., and Soltanian, M. R., 2023, Impact of geological and operational conditions on underground hydrogen storage: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, v. 48, no. 4, p. 1450–1471, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.09.208.

Fernandez, N., Duffy, O. B., Jackson, C. A.-L., Kaus, B. J. P., Dooley, T., and Hudec, M., 2023, How fast can minibasins translate down a slope? Observations from 2D numerical models: Tektonika, v. 1, no. 2, p. 177–197, http://doi.org/10.55575/tektonika2023.1.2.22.

Fu, Q., 2023, Facies, cycle stratigraphy, and heterogeneity of the Clear Fork carbonates in the Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin, Texas: Geoenergy Science and Engineering, v. 227, no. 211895, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211895.

Gadylshin, K., Silvestrov, I., and Bakulin, A., 2023, Deep-learning-based local wavefront attributes and their application to 3D prestack data enhancement: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 3, p. 1MJ–V289, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0226.1.

Gale, J. F. W., Elliott, S.J., Rysak, B. G., and Laubach, S. E., 2023, The critical role of core in understanding hydraulic fracturing, in Neal, A., Ashton, M., Williams, L. S., Dee, S. J., Dodd, T. J. H. and Marshall, J. D., eds., Core values: the role of core in twenty-first century reservoir characterization: Geological Society of London, Special Publication, v. 527, no. 1, 16 p., http://doi.org/10.1144/SP527-2021-198.

Gomez, K. J., Sahoo, S. K., Panteli, E., Moscardelli, L., Anthonissen, E., Larson, T. E., Howie, A., and Rush, W. D., 2023, Partial paleobathymetric restriction from the local North Sea Dome in the Viking Corridor during the Early-Middle Jurassic: Global and Planetary Change, v. 230, no. 104255, 16 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104255.

González-León, C. M., Sierra-Rojas, M. I., Scott, R. W., Solari, L. A., Lawton, T. F., Noury, M., and Vázquez-Salazar, M., 2023, Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Bisbee Group, Arizpe area, northern Sonora, Mexico: integrated biostratigraphy, age and provenance from U-Pb and Hf isotopes: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 40, no. 3, p. 254–272, http://doi.org/10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2023.3.1759.

Gutiérrez, F., Zarei, M., Hudec, M. R., and Deirnik, H., 2023, Normal faulting and landsliding in morpho-structural domes related to buried salt stocks, Zagros Mountains, Iran. Insights into salt breakout: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 155, no. 106376, 19 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106376.

Haddad, M., Ahmadian, M., Ge, J., Nicot, J.-P., and Ambrose, W., 2023, Geomechanical and hydrogeological evaluation of a shallow hydraulic fracture at the Devine Fracture Pilot Site, Medina County, Texas: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, v. 56, no. 10, p. 7049–7069, http://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-022-03115-z.

Haddad, M., and Eichhubl, P., 2023, Fault reactivation in response to saltwater disposal and hydrocarbon production for the Venus, TX, Mw 4.0 earthquake sequence: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, v. 56, no. 3, p. 2103–2135, http://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-022-03083-4.

Hattori, K. E., Loucks, R. G., and Zeng, H., 2023, Back-reef depositional environments in a Lower Cretaceous (Sligo) shelf-margin complex: insights into ultradeep reservoir preservation and controls on stacking patterns in an outer platform setting: GCAGS Journal, v. 12, p. 17–32, http://doi.org/10.62371/HGLG8668.

Hennings, P., and Young, M. H., 2023, The TexNet-CISR collaboration and steps toward understanding induced seismicity in Texas, in Buchanan, R. C., Young, M. H., and Murray, K. E., eds., Recent seismicity in the Southern Midcontinent, USA: scientific, regulatory, and industry responses: Geological Society of America, Special Paper, v. 559, p. 53-71, http://doi.org/10.1130/2023.2559(06).

Hennings, P., Staniewicz, S., Smye, K., Chen, J., Horne, E., Nicot, J.-P., Ge, J., Reedy, R., and Scanlon, B., 2023, Development of complex patterns of anthropogenic uplift and subsidence in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico, USA: Science of The Total Environment, v. 903, no. 166367, 16 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166367.

Hooker, J. N., Katz, R. F., Laubach, S. E., Cartwright, J., Eichhubl, P., Ukar, E., Bloomfield, D., and Engelder, T., 2023, Fracture-pattern growth in the deep, chemically reactive subsurface: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 173, no. 104915, 21 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104915.

Hooker, J. N., Marrett, R., and Wang, Q., 2023, Rigorizing the use of the coefficient of variation to diagnose fracture periodicity and clustering: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 168, no. 104830, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104830.

Hopmans, J. W., Green, T. R., and Young, M. H., 2023, Western U.S. multistate research project on “water movement in soils”: a retrospective: Vadose Zone Journal, v. 22, no. e20245, 7 p., http://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20245.

Hosseini, S., Larson, R., Shokouhi, P., Kumar, V., Prathipati, S., Kifer, D., Garcez, J., Ayala, L., Reidl, M., Hill, B., and and three others, 2023, Reservoir modeling using fast predictive machine learning algorithms for geological carbon storage, in Mishra, S., ed., Machine learning applications in subsurface energy resource management: Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, p. 233-250, http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003207009-17.

Hower, J. C., Warwick, P. D., Scanlon, B. R., Reedy, R. C., and Childress, T. M., 2023, Distribution of rare earth and other critical elements in lignites from the Eocene Jackson Group, Texas: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 275, no. 104302, 21 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2023.104302.

Hudec, M. R., Peel, F. J., Soto, J. I., and Apps, G. M., 2023, Interaction between salt and mobile shale in the East Breaks foldbelt, northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 155, no. 106391, 15 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106391.

Ikonnikova, S. A., Scanlon, B. R., and Berdysheva, S. A., 2023, A global energy system perspective on hydrogen Trade: a framework for the market color and the size analysis: Applied Energy, v. 330, part A, no. 120267, 23 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120267.

Ikonnikova, S. A., Scanlon, B. R., and Berdysheva, S. A., 2023, A global energy system perspective on hydrogen trade: a framework for the market color and the size analysis: Applied Energy, v. 330, part A, no. 120267, 23 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120267.

Jiang, P., Shuai, P., Sun, A., Mudunuru, M. K., and Chen, X., 2023, Knowledge-informed deep learning for hydrological model calibration: an application to Coal Creek Watershed in Colorado: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, v. 27, no. 14, p. 2621–2644, http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2621-2023.

Kaur, H., Fomel, S., and Pham, N., 2023, Automated hyperparameter optimization for simulating boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave propagation using deep learning: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 1, p. WA309–WA318, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0231.1.

Kaur, H., Pham, N., Fomel, S., Geng, Z., Decker, L., Gremillion, B., Jervis, M., Abma, R., and Gao, S., 2023, A deep learning framework for seismic facies classification: Interpretation, v. 11, no. 1, p. T107–T116, http://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2022-0048.1.

Kaur, H., Zhang, Q., Witte, P., Liang, L., Wu, L., and Fomel, S., 2023, Deep-learning-based 3D fault detection for carbon capture and storage: Geophysics, v. 88, no. 4, p. IM101–IM112, http://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0755.1.

Khaled, M. S., Chen, D., Ashok, P., and van Oort, E., 2023, Drilling heat maps for active temperature management in geothermal wells: Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, v. 28, no. 4, p. 1577–1593, http://doi.org/10.2118/210306-PA.

Khaled, M. S., Wang, N., Ashok, P., and van Oort, E., 2023, Downhole heat management for drilling shallow and ultra-deep high enthalpy geothermal wells: Geothermics, v. 107, no. 102604, 17 p., http://doi.org/j.geothermics.2022.102604.

Khaled, M., Wang, N., Ashok, P., Chen, D., and van Oort, E., 2023, Strategies for prevention of downhole tool failure caused by high bottomhole temperature in geothermal and high-pressure/high-temperature oil and gas wells: Society of Petroleum Engineers Drilling & Completion, v. 38, no. 2, p. 243–260, http://doi.org/10.2118/212550-PA.

Kortyna, C., Stockli, D. F., Lawton, T. F., Covault, J. A., and Sharman, G. R., 2023, Impact of Mexican Border rift structural inheritance on Laramide rivers of the Tornillo basin, west Texas (USA): insights from detrital zircon provenance: Geosphere, v. 19, no. 6, p. 1747–1787, http://doi.org/10.1130/GES02516.1.

Kyle, J. R., Quintero, T. R., Ukar, E., Miller, N. R., Elliott, S. J., and Colbert, M., 2023, Dolomite cement microstratigraphy: a record of brine evolution and ore precipitation mechanisms, upper Knox Group, Tennessee and Kentucky, USA: Geology, v. 51, no. 4, p. 392–396, http://doi.org/10.1130/G50689.1.

Kyle, J. R., Stockli, D. F., McBride, E. F., and Elliott, B. A., 2023, Covering the Great Unconformity in southern Laurentia: detrital zircon studies of provenance evolution during Cambrian marine transgression (Llano Uplift, Texas): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 135, no. 5-6, p. 1163–1177, http://doi.org/10.1130/B36389.1.

Larson, T. E., Loucks, R. G., Sivil, J. E., Hattori, K. E., and Zahm, C. K., 2023, Machine learning classification of Austin Chalk chemofacies from high-resolution x-ray fluorescence core characterization: AAPG Bulletin, v. 107, no. 6, p. 907–927, http://doi.org/10.1306/09232220095.

Larson, T. E., Sivil, J. E., Periwal, P., and Melick, J., 2023, A machine-learning workflow to integrate high-resolution core-based facies into basin-scale stratigraphic models for the Wolfcamp and Third Bone Spring Sand, Delaware Basin: Interpretation, v. 11, no. 4, p. SC91–SC104, http://doi.org/10.1190/INT-2023-0009.1.

Laubach, S. E., Zeng, L., Hooker, J. N., Wang, Q., Zhang, R., Wang, J., and Ren, B., 2023, Deep and ultra-deep basin brittle deformation with focus on China: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 175, no. 104938, 13 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104938.

Lee, J., and Lumley, D. E., 2023, Interpreting the effects of shale rock properties on seismic anisotropy by statistical and machine learning methods: Geoenergy Science and Engineering, v. 224, no. 211631, 17 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoen.2023.211631.

Lee, J., and Lumley, D. E., 2023, Predicting shale mineralogical brittleness index from seismic and elastic property logs using interpretable deep learning: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 220, part A, no. 111231, 14 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2022.111231.

Li, H., Liu, B., Liu, X., Al-Shuhail, A. A., Mahmoud, S. M. H., and Chen, Y., 2023, Frequency-Independent Centroid Frequency Shift Method for Signal Attenuation Estimation: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 61, no. 1, p. 4504212, http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3293645.

Li, X., Xie, H., Birdwell, J. E., McGovern, G. P., and Horita, J., 2023, Intramolecular carbon isotope geochemistry of butane isomers from laboratory maturation and Monte-Carlo simulations of kerogen types I, II, and III: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 360, p. 57–67, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.09.003.

Liu, L., Xu, J., Stockli, D. F., Lawton, T. F., and Blakey, R. C., 2023, Decoding post-orogenic sediment recycling and dispersal using detrital zircon core and rim ages: Basin Research, v. 35, no. 2, p. 489–509, http://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12719.

Liu, M., Sun, A. Y., Lin, K., Luo, W., Tu, X., and Chen, X., 2023, Estimating dynamic non‐water‐limited canopy resistance over the globe: changes, contributors, and implications: Water Resources Research, v. 59, no. 9, article no. e2022WR034209, 21 p., http://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034209.

Liu, W., Liu, Y., Li, S., and Chen, Y., 2023, A review of variational mode decomposition in seismic data analysis: Surveys in Geophysics, v. 44, no. 2, p. 323–355, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-022-09742-z.

Loucks, R. G., and Dutton S. P., 2023, Northern Gulf of Mexico sandstone reservoir-quality database (GOMRQ): multiple data types for evaluating reservoir-quality risk: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, v. 289, 16 p., http://doi.org/doi.org/10.23867/RI0289D.

Loucks, R. G., and Reed, R. M., 2023, Volcanic origin and significance of glauconite grains in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Formation in the Balcones Igneous Province, South and Central Texas: GCAGS Journal, v. 12, p. 1–12, http://doi.org/10.62371/IIWU2066.

Loucks, R. G., Reed, R. M., Zeng, H., and Periwal, P., 2023, Carbonate sedimentation and reservoirs associated with a volcanic mound in an open-marine, deep-water, drowned platform setting, Elaine field area, Upper Cretaceous Anacacho Formation, South Texas U.S.A.: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 154, no. 106314, 17 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106314.

Loucks, R. G., Zahm, C. K., Hattori, K. E., and Sanchez, T., 2023, Middle platform carbonate depositional systems and lithofacies patterns in the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, Tobosa Basin in West Texas, U.S.A., and subsequent Sauk-Tppecanoe megasequence boundary meteoric karsting: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 150, no. 106176, 17 p., http://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106176.

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