Published Papers

• (with H.R. Wanless). Comments on: “Anatomy of a late Quaternary carbonate island: Constraints on timing and magnitude of sea-level fluctuations, West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, BWI” by Kerans et al.; Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 243, 4p https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106216

• (with H.R. Wanless). Reflux Dolomitization – A Holocene Example Beneath a Coastal Salina, West Caicos Island, Turks and Caicos Islands, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 97, p. 311-322.

• (with H.R. Wanless). Impact of Strong Easterly Trade Winds on Carbonate Petroleum Exploration – Relationships Developed From Caicos Platform, Southeastern Bahamas, Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 85, p. 272-300.

(with I.D. Muir). Deep-burial dissolution and brecciation in dolostone reservoirs: striking similarities between the Devonian Keg River Formation of western Canada and the Ordovician Ellenburger group of west Texas, Interpretation, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 2014); p. T221–T241.

Influence of Stronger Easterly Paleotrade Winds on Carbonate Play Development – Applications of Caicos Platform Models to Petroleum Exploration, Corpus Christi Geological Society Bulletin, March., p. 17-54.

• (with H.R. Wanless). Caicos Platform models of Quaternary carbonate deposition controlled by stronger easterly trade winds – applications to petroleum exploration, IN: Morgan, W.A. and Harris, P.M., (Eds.), Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms – Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies, SEPM Core Workshop No. 22, p. 21-28.
• (with H.R. Wanless). Role of storms and prevailing energy in defining sediment body geometry, composition, and texture on Caicos Platform, IN: Morgan, W.A. and Harris, P.M., Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms – Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies, SEPM Core Workshop No. 22, p. 13-20.
• (with H.R. Wanless). Pleistocene reefal and oolitic core sequences from West Caicos, Caicos Platform, IN: Morgan, W.A. and Harris, P.M., Developing Models and Analogs for Isolated Carbonate Platforms – Holocene and Pleistocene Carbonates of Caicos Platform, British West Indies, SEPM Core Workshop No. 22, p. 171-177.

• (with Rick Wierzbicki, Ihsan Al Aasm, and Nancy Harland). Burial dolomitization and dissolution of upper Jurassic Abenaki platform carbonates, Deep Panuke reservoir, Nova Scotia, Canada, AAPG Bull., v. 90, p. 1843-1861.

• (with I.D. Muir). Dolostone Reservoirs Created by Burial Dolomite Dissolution: The Keg River Case Study, Comet Platform Area, Rainbow Basin, NW Alberta; IN: Packard, J. and Davies, G. (Eds.), Dolomites, The Spectrum: Mechanisms, Models, Reservoir Development, CSPG Core Conference CD Volume, 58 p., Calgary.

• (with J. Wendte, H. Qing, S. Moore, L. Stasiuk, and G. Ward). High-Temperature Saline (Thermoflux) Dolomitization of Devonian Swan Hills Platform and Bank Carbonates, Wild River Area, West-Central Alberta, Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 46. p. 210-265.

• Rapidity of Freshwater Calcite Cementation – Implications for Carbonate Diagenesis and Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Geology, v. 107, p. 1-10.
• Play Attributes of Cretaceous Rudist Reef Reservoirs – Examples From the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East, Houston Geological Society Bulletin, v. 38 (No. 7), p. 16-22.

• (with I.D. Muir). Deep-Burial Brecciation in the Devonian Upper Elk Point Group, Rainbow Basin, Alberta, Western Canada, IN: Paleokarst- Related Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, SEPM Core Workshop No. 18, p. 119-166.

• Burial Dissolution in Limestones and Dolomites – Criteria For Recognition and Discussion of Controls: A Case Study Approach (Part 1: Upper Jurassic Haynesville Limestones, East Texas; Part 2: Devonian Upper Elk Point Dolomites, Western Canada, AAPG/CSPG Short Course “Subsurface Dissolution Porosity in Carbonates, Calgary, Canada,
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• Carbonate Petrography – Update on New Techniques and Applications. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 61, p. 626-628.
• Regional Depositional Setting and Porosity Evolution of the Austin Chalk Formation, South Texas. Austin Chalk Exploration Symposium, South Texas Geological Society, p. 17-23, San Antonio, Texas.

• Deep Burial Microporosity in Upper Jurassic Haynesville Oolitic Grainstones, East Texas. Sedimentary Geology, v. 63, p. 325-341.
• (with H.R. Wanless). Carbonate Environments and Sequences of Caicos Platform. 28th International Geological Congress Guidebook T 374, 75 p.

• (with H. R. Wanless, K. M Tyrrell and L. P. Tedesco). Tidal Flat Sedimentation from Hurricane Kate, Caicos Platform, British West Indies. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58 (4), p. 724-738.

• (with D. A. Yurewicz). Enhanced Carbonate Petrography Using Fluorescence Microscopy. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 55 (6), p. 795-804.
• (with J. Yanguas). Blue Fluorescent Dye Technique for Recognition of Microporosity in Sedimentary Rocks. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 55 (4), p. 600-602.

• Hardened Subtidal Stromatolites, Bahamas. Science, v. 219, p. 385-386.

• (with H. R. Wanless and E. A. Burton). Hydrodynamics of Carbonate Fecal Pellets. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 51 (1), p. 27-36.
• Depositional Settings and Porosity Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Formation, South Central Texas. Houston Geological Society Bulletin, v. 24 (1), p. 3-5.

• Rapid and Widespread Generation of Recent Oolitic Hardgrounds on a High Energy Bahamian Platform, Eleuthera Bank, Bahamas. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 49 (1), p. 195-208.

• (with H. R. Wanless). Characterization of Carbonate Sand Fraction from MAFLA Areas I, II, and III. IN: Final Report of the baseline environmental survey of the MAFLA lease areas CY 1974. St. Petersburg: State University Systems of Florida, Institute of Oceanography, Bureau of Land Management Contract No. 088550-CT4-11, 191 p.