GoogleScholar page for Brian Romans
[underline = student/post-doc of VT Sedimentary Systems Research; * = student/post-doc of Chile Slope Systems at another institution]
submitted:
Jobe, Z.R., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., submitted, How many turbidity currents pass through a submarine channel during its lifespan: Journal of Sedimentary Research
Daniels, B.G., Hubbard, S.M., Stright, L., and Romans, B.W., revision submitted, Downslope variability in deep-water slope channel fill facies and stacking patterns: Marine & Petroleum Geology
Kaempfe-Droguett, S.A., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G., and Stright, L., accepted, Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levee development: Sedimentology
2024:
Parent, A.M., Chilton, K.D., van Peer, T.E., Bohaty, S.M., Spray, J.F., Scher, H.D., Wilson, P.A., and Romans, B.W., 2024, Eocene-Oligocene intensification of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the North Atlantic: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2023PA004731 [link]
2023:
Englert, R.*, Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Kaempfe, S., Bell, D.*, Nesbit, P., and Stright, L., 2023, Flow dynamics as Froude-supercritical turbidity currents encounter meter-scale minibasin topography: The Depositional Record, 10.1002/dep2.262 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Koehn, L.W., Romans, B.W., and Pollyea, R.M., 2023, Assessing reservoir performance for geologic sequestration in offshore saline reservoirs: Energy Advances, 10.1039/D3YA00317E [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Stevens Goddard, A.L., Fosdick, J.C., Calderon, M., Ghiglione, M.C., VanderLeest, R.A., and Romans, B.W., 2023, Thermochronological evidence for Eocene deformation in the southern Patagonian Andes: Linking orogenesis along the Patagonian orocline: Tectonics, 10.1029/2022TC007677 [link]
2022:
Mason, C.C., Romans, B.W., Patterson, M., Stockli, D.F., and Fildani, A., 2022, Cycles of Andean mountain building archived in the Amazon Fan: Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-022-34561-6 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Hage, S.*, Romans, B.W., Peploe, T.G.E.*, Poyatos-More, M., Ardakani, O.H., Bell, D.*, Englert, R.G.*, Kaempfe, S.A., Nesbit, P.R.*, Sherstan, G., Synnott, D.P., and Hubbard, S.M., 2022, High rates of organic carbon burial in submarine deltas maintained on geological timescales: Nature Geoscience, 10.1038/s41561-022-01048-4 [link]
VanderLeest, R.A., Fosdick, J.C., Malkowski, M.A., Romans, B.W., Ghiglione, M.C., Schwartz, T.M., and Sickmann, Z.T., 2022, Tectonic subsidence modeling of diachronous transition form backarc to retroarc basin development and uplift during Cordilleran orogenesis, Patagonian-Fuegian Andes: Tectonics, 10.1029/2021TC006891 [link]
2021:
Romans, B.W., 2021, Scientific ocean drilling and sedimentary geoscience: Decades of discovery and a vision for the future: The Sedimentary Record, doi: 10.2110/sedred.2021.3.1 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Culp, J., Parent, A.M., Abolfazli, E., Strom, K., and Romans, B.W., 2021, Advective sorting of silt by currents: A laboratory study: Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/sed.12889 [link] [EarthArXiv preprint]
Tofelde, S., Bernhardt, A., Guerit, L., and Romans, B.W., 2021, Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience: Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.628315 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
2020:
Romans, B.W., Fosdick, J.C., Poyatos-Moré, M., and Helland-Hansen, W., 2020, Editorial: Sedimentary system response to External Forcings: A Process-Based Perspective: Frontiers in Earth Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.591420 [link] — brief introduction to a special volume of 14 open access articles on Sedimentary System Response to External Forcings
*Meirovitz, C.D., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., 2020, The influence of inter- and intra-channel architecture on deep-water reservoir performance: Petroleum Geoscience, doi: 10.1144/petgeo2020-005 [link]
Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., and Fildani, A., 2020, The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: Linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products: The Journal of Sedimentary Research, 90, 673-676, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2020.36 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., Daniels, B.G.*, Scher, H.D., and Buckley, W., 2020, Intrabasinal sediment recycling from detrital strontium isotope stratigraphy: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G47594.1 [link] **OPEN ACCESS** [blog post]
*Bauer, D.B., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., and, Romans, B.W., 2020, Inherited depositional topography control on shelf-margin oversteepening, readjustment, and coarse-grained sediment delivery to deep water: Frontiers in Earth Science — Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis, doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00358 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
2019:
*Jackson, A., Stright, L., Hubbard, S.M., and Romans, B.W., 2019, Static connectivity of stacked deep-water channel elements constrained by high-resolution digital outcrop models: AAPG Bulletin, 103, 2943-2973, doi: 10.1306/03061917346 [link]
Spray, J.F., Bohaty, S.M., Davies, A.D., Bailey, I., Romans, B.W., Cooper, M.J., Milton, J.A., and Wilson, P.A., 2019, North Atlantic evidence for a unipolar icehouse climate state at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 1124-1138 , doi: 10.1029/2019PA003563 [link]
*Daniels, B.G., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Malkowski, M.A., Matthews, W.A., Bernhardt, A., Kaempfe, S.A., Jobe, Z.R., Fosdick, J.C., Schwartz, T.M., Fildani, A., and Graham, S.A., 2019, Revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Ultima Esperanza, Chile: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 94, doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.025 [link]
Mason, C.C., Romans, B.W., Stockli, D., Mapes, R., and Fildani, A., 2019, Detrital zircons reveal sea-level and hydroclimate controls on Amazon river-to-fan sediment transfer: Geology, doi: 10.1130/G45852.1 [link] [pdf] **OPEN ACCESS**
Van Grinsven, M., Marsaglia, K.M., and Romans, B.W., 2019, Sand provenance from source-to-sink in the Santa Monica Basin, California Borderlands: Significance of Calleguas Creek input: SEPM Special Publication No. 110: From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution, doi: 10.2110/sepmsp.110.06 [link]
2018:
Hodgson, D.M., Bernhardt, A., Clare, M., da Silva, A-C, Fosdick, J., Mauz, B., Midtkandel, I., Owen, A., and. Romans, B.W., 2018, Grand challenges (and great opportunities) in sedimentology, stratigraphy, and diagenesis research: Frontiers in Earth Science: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis [link] [pdf] **OPEN ACCESS**
Mason, C.C., and Romans, B.W., 2018, Climate-driven unsteady denudation and sediment flux in a high-relief unglaciated catchment-fan using 26Al and 10Be: Panamint Valley, California: Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 492, 130-143, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.056 [publisher link] [EarthArxiv preprint] [blog post]
Fildani, A., Clark, J., Covault, J.A., Power, B., Romans, B.W., and Aiello, I.W., 2018, Muddy sand and sandy mud on the distal Mississippi Fan: Implications for lobe depositional processes: Geosphere, doi: 10.1130/GES01580.1 [link] **OPEN ACCESS**
Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N., Romans, B.W., and Covault, J.A., 2018, Volume and recurrence of submarine-fan-building turbidity currents: The Depositional Record, doi: 10.1002/dep2.42 [publisher link] [EarthArxiv preprint] **OPEN ACCESS**
*Daniels, B.G., Auchter, N.C., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Matthews, W.A., and Stright, L., 2018, Timing of deep-water slope evolution constrained by large-n detrital and volcanic ash zircon geochronology, Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile: GSA Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B31757.1 [link] [pdf] [blog post] **OPEN ACCESS**
2017:
Boyle, P.R., Romans, B.W., Tucholke, B.E., Norris, R.D., Swift, S.A., and Sexton, P.F., 2017, Cenozoic North Atlantic deep circulation history recorded in contourite drifts, offshore Newfoundland, Canada: Marine Geology, 385, 185-203, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.12.014 [link] [pdf] [blog post]
Eriksson, K.A. and Romans, B.W., 2017, Denudation rates of a subequatorial orogenic belt based on estimates of sediment yields: Evidence from the Paleozoic Appalachian Basin, USA: Basin Research, 29, 2-15, doi: 10.1111/bre.12162 [available online since 2015] [link] [pdf]
2016:
*Reimchen, A., Hubbard, S.M., Stright, L., and Romans, B.W., 2016, Using seafloor morphometrics to constrain stratigraphic models of sinuous submarine channel systems: Marine & Petroleum Geology, 77, 92-115, doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.06.003 [link] [pdf]
Auchter, N.C., Romans, B.W., and Hubbard, S.M., 2016, Influence of deposit architecture on intrastratal deformation, slope deposits of Tres Pasos Formation, Chile: Sedimentary Geology, 341, 13-26, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.05.005 [link] [pdf]
*Pemberton, E.A.L., Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., and Stright, L., 2016, The stratigraphic expression of decreasing confinement along a deep-water sediment routing system: Outcrop example from southern Chile: Geosphere, 12, 114-134, doi: 10.1130/GEOS01233.1 [link] [pdf]
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, 152, 7-29, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.07.012 [link] [pdf]
2015:
Fosdick, J.C., Grove, M., Graham, S.A., Hourigan, J.K., Lovera, O., and Romans, B.W., 2015, Detrital thermochronologic record of burial heating and sediment recycling in the Magallanes foreland basin, Patagonian Andes: Basin Research, 27, 546-572, doi: 10.1111/bre.12088 [link] [pdf]
2014:
Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Fildani, A., and Romans, B.W., 2014, Sediment transfer and deposition in slope channels: Deciphering the record of enigmatic deep-sea processes from outcrop: Geological Society of American Bulletin,doi: 10.1130/B30996.1 [link] [pdf] **OPEN ACCESS**
2013:
Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M., Covault, J.A., Maier, K.L., Romans, B.W., Traer, M., and Rowland, J.C., 2013, Erosion at inception of deep-sea channels: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 41, 48-61, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.03.006 [link] [pdf]
Romans, B.W. and Graham, S.A., 2013, A deep-time perspective of land-ocean linkages in the sedimentary record: Annual Reviews of Marine Science, 5, 69-94, 10.1146/annurev-marine-121211-172426 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Craddock, W.H., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., and Gosai, M., 2013, Spatial and temporal variations in landscape evolution: Historic and longer-term sediment flux through global catchments: The Journal of Geology, 121, 35-56, 10.1086/668680 [link] [pdf]
2012:
Covault, J.A., Shelef, E., Traer, M., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Fildani, A., 2012, Deep-water channel run-out length: Insights from seafloor geomorphology: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 82, 25-40, 10.2110/jsr.2012.2 [link] [pdf]
2011:
Fosdick, J.C., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Bernhardt, A., Calderon, M., and Graham, S.A., 2011, Kinematic history of the Cretaceous-Neogene Patagonian fold-thrust belt and Magallanes foreland basin, Chile and Argentina (51 30’S): Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 1679-1698, 10.1130/B30242.1 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., Graham, S.A., Fildani, A., and Hilley, G.E., 2011, Terrestrial source to deep-sea sink sediment budgets at high and low sea levels: Insights from tectonically active southern California: Geology, 39, 619-622, 10.1130/G31801.1 [link] [pdf]
Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Hubbard, S.M. Covault, J.A., Fosdick, J.C., and Graham, S.A., 2011, Evolution of deep-water stratigraphic architecture, Magallanes Basin, Chile: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28, 612-628, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo/2010.05.002 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., and McHargue, T.R., 2011, The natural range of submarine canyon-and-channel longitudinal profiles: Geosphere, 7, 313-332, 10.1130/GES00610.1 [link] [pdf]
McHargue, T.R., Pyrcz, M.J., Sullivan, M.D., Clark, J., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Levy, M., Posamentier, H., and Drinkwater, N., 2011 , Architecture of turbidite channel systems on the continental slope: Patterns and predictions: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28, 728-743, 10.1016/j.marpetgeo/2010.07.008 [link] [pdf]
2010:
Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., Graham, S.A., Hubbard, S.M., and Covault, J.A., 2010, Importance of predecessor basin history on sedimentary fill of a retroarc foreland basin: Provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Magallanes basin, Chile (50S-52S): Basin Research, 22, 640-658, 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00443.x [link] [pdf]
Hubbard, S.M., Fildani, A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., and McHargue, T.R., 2010, High-relief slope clinoform development: Insights from outcrop, Magallanes Basin, Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 80, 357-375, 10.2110/jsr.2010.042 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., Fildani, A., McGann, M.M., and Graham, S.A., 2010, Rapid climatic signal propagation from source to sink in a southern California sediment routing system: The Journal of Geology, 118, 247-259, 10.1086/651539 [link] [pdf]
2009:
Romans, B.W., Normark, W.R., McGann, M.M., Covault, J.A., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Coarse-grained sediment delivery and distribution in the Holocene Santa Monica Basin, California: Implications for evaluating source-to-sink flux at millennial time scales: GSA Bulletin, 121, 1394-1408, 10.1130/B26393.1 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A. and Romans, B.W., 2009, Growth patterns of deep-sea fans revisited: Turbidite system morphology in confined basins of the Quaternary California Borderland: Marine Geology, 265, 51-66, 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.016 [link] [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Outcrop expression of a continental-margin-scale shelf-edge delta from the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, southern Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 523-539, 10.2110./jsr.2009.053 [link] [pdf]
Armitage, D.A., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., and Graham, S.A., 2009, The influence of mass transport deposit surface topography on the evolution of turbidite architecture: The Sierra Contreras, Tres Pasos Formation (Cretaceous), southern Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 287-301, 10.2110/jsr.2009.035 [link] [pdf]
Romans, B.W., Hubbard, S.M., and Graham, S.A., 2009, Stratigraphic evolution of an outcropping continental slope system, Tres Pasos Formation at Cerro Divisadero, Chile: Sedimentology, 56, 737-764, 10.1111/j/1365-3091.2008.00995.x [link] [pdf]
Normark, W.R., Piper, D.J.W., Romans, B.W., Covault J.A., and Dartnell, P., 2009, Submarine canyon and fan systems of the California Continental Borderland: in H. Lee and W.R. Normark, eds., Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, 141-168 [link] [pdf]
2008:
Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2008, Deep-water foreland basin deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes basin, Chile: Architectural elements of a sinuous basin axial channel belt: Sedimentology, 55, 1333-1359, 10.1111/j/1365-3091.2007.00948 [link] [pdf]
2007:
Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2007, An outcrop example of large-scale conglomeratic intrusions sourced from deep-water channel deposits, Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes Basin, Southern Chile: in A. Hurst and J. Cartwright, eds., Sand Injectites: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production: AAPG Memoir 87, 199-207 [pdf]
Covault, J.A., Normark, W.R., Romans, B.W., and Graham, S.A., 2007, Highstand fans of the California Borderland: The overlooked deep-water depositional system: Geology, 35, 783-786, 10.1130/G23800A.1 [link] [pdf]