Publications

Publications [Updated 7/22/08]

IN PRESS

Gale, Andrew S., Voigt, Silke, Sageman, Bradley B., Kennedy, William J., 2008, in press, Eustatic sea-level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous), Geology.

Gordon, G. W., Lyons, T. W., Arnold G. L., Roe, J., Sageman, B. B., and A. D. Anbar, 2008, in press, When Do Black Shales Tell Molybdenum Isotope Tales? Geology.

PUBLISHED

Locklair, R. E. and Sageman, B.B., 2008, Cyclostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Western Interior, U.S.A.,: A Coniaician-Santonian orbital timescale, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269: 540-553.

Meyers, Stephen M., Sageman, Bradley B., and Pagani, M., 2008, Resolving Milankovitch: Consideration of Signal to Noise, American Journal of Science 308: DOI 10.2475/00.0000.00.

Meyers, S.R., and Sageman, B.B., 2007, Quantification of deep time orbital forcing by average spectral misfit, American Journal of Science, v. 307, p. 773-792.

Laurin, J. and Sageman, B., 2007, Cenomanian-Turonian Coastal Record in SW Utah, U.S.A.: Orbital-Scale Transgressive-Regressive Events During Oceanic Anoxic Event II, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 731-756.

Sageman, B.B., Meyers, S.R., and Arthur, M.A., 2006, Orbital timescale for the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary stratotype and OAE II, central Colorado, USA, Geology, v. 34, p. 125-128.

Laurin, J., Meyers, S.R., Sageman, B.B., and Waltham, D., 2005, Phase lag in amplitude modulation of hemipelagic cycles: a new tool for recognition of relative sea level change, Geology, v. .33, p. 569-572.

Meyers, S.R., Sageman, B.B., and Lyons, T.W., 2005, Organic carbon burial rate and the molybdenum proxy: Theoretical framework and application to Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event 2, Paleoceanography, v. 20, 19 p.

Arthur, M.A., and Sageman, B.B., 2005, Sea Level Control on Source Rock Development: Perspectives from the Holocene Black Sea, the mid-Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America, and the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin, In: Harris, N.B. and Pradier, B. (eds.), The Deposition of Organic Carbon-rich Sediments: Models, Mechanisms and Consequences, SEPM Special Publication No. 82, p. 35-59.

Meyers, S.R. and Sageman, B.B., 2004, Detection, quantification, and significance of hiatuses in pelagic and hemipelagic strata. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, v. 224, p. 55-72.

Sageman, B.B. and Lyons, T.W., 2004, Geochemistry of fine-grained sediments and sedimentary rocks, in MacKenzie, F., ed., vol. 7, Treatise on Geochemistry, Elsvier Publ., p. 115-158.

Sageman, B.B. and Speed, R.C., 2004, Upper Eocene Limestones, Associated Sequence Boundary, and Proposed Eocene Tectonics in Eastern Venezuela; In: Claudio Bartolini, Richard T. Buffler, and Jon Blickwede, eds., The Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Region: Hydrocarbon Habitats, Basin Formation and Plate Tectonics American Association Petroleum Geologists CD Project.

Sageman, B.B., Murphy, A.E., Werne, J.P. , Ver Straeten, C.A., Hollander, D.J., and Lyons, T.W., 2003, A tale of shales: The relative roles of production, decomposition, and dilution in the accumulation of organic-rich strata, Middle-Upper Devonian, Appalachian basin, Chemical Geology, v. 195, p. 229-273.

Fisher, C., Sageman, B.B., Asure, S.E., Acker, B., and Mahar, Z., 2003, Planktic formainiferal porosity analysis as a tool for paleoceanographic reconstruction, mid-Cretaceous Western Interior Sea, Palaios, v. 18, p. 34-46.

Werne, J.P. , Sageman, B.B. , Lyons, T.W., and D.J. Hollander, 2002, An Integrated assessment of a "type euxinic" deposit: Evidence for multiple controls on black shale deposition in the Middle Devonian Oatka Creek Formation, American Journal of Science, v. 302, p. 110-143.

Laurin, J. and Sageman, B., 2001, Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau during the latest Cenomanian and early Turonian, in Erskine, M.C., Faulds, J.E., Bartley, J.M., and Rowley, P., eds., The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin; A Syposium and Field Guide (Cedar City, Sept. 2001), Utah Geological Association Publication 30, p. 57-74.

Meyers, S., Sageman, B., and Hinnov, L., 2001, Integrated Quantitative Stratigraphy Of Cenomanian-Turonian Bridge Creek Limestone Member Using Evolutive Harmonic Analysis And Stratigraphic Modeling, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 628-644.

Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Hollander, D.J., 2001, Eutrophication by decoupling of the marine biogeochemical cycles of C, N, and P: A mechanism for the Late Devonian mass extinction; Comment-Reply, Geology, v. 29/2, p. 469-470.

Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Hollander, D.J., 2000, Eutrophication by decoupling of the marine biogeochemical cycles of C, N, amd P: A mechanism for the Late Devonian mass extinction, Geology,, v. 28, p. 427-430.

Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Hollander, D.J., Lyons, T.W., and Brett, C.E., 2000, Black shale deposition and faunal overturn in the Devonian Appalachian basin: Clastic starvation, seasonal water-column mixing, and efficient biolimiting nutrient recycling, Paleoceanography, v. 15, p. 280-291.

Murphy, A.E., Sageman, B.B., Hollander, D.J., and Ver Straeten, C.A., 2000, Organic carbon burial and faunal dynamics in the Appalachian basin during the Devonian (Givetian-Famennian) greenhouse: An integrated paleoecological/ biogeochemical approach, In: B. Huber, K. MacLeod, and S. Wing, eds., Warm Climates in Earth History, Cambridge University Press,p. 351-385.

Sageman, B.B., and Hollander, D.J., 1999, Integration of paleoecological and geochemical proxies: a holistic approach to the study of past global change. In: Johnson, C.J., and Barrera, E., eds., The Evolution of Cretaceous Ocean/Climate Systems. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 332, p. 365-384.

Sageman, B.B., Gardner, M.H., Armentrout, J.M., and Murphy, A.E., 1998, Stratigraphic hierarchy of organic carbon-rich siltstones in deep-water facies, Brushy Canyon Formation (Guadalupian), Delaware basin. Geology, v. 26 (5), p. 451-454.

Sageman, B., Rich, J., Savrda, C.E., Bralower, T., Arthur, M.A., Dean, W.E., 1998, Multiple Milankovitch cycles in the Bridge Creek Limestone (Cenomanian-Turonian), Western Interior basin, In: M.A. Arthur and W.E. Dean, eds., Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous Western Interior seaway, USA, Society of Sedimentary Geology, Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology No. 6; p. 153-171.

Sageman, B.B. and Bina, C., 1997, Diversity and species abundance patterns in Late Cenomanian black shale biofacies: Western Interior, U.S. Palaios, v. 12, p. 449-466.

Sageman, B.B., Rich, J., Arthur, M.A., and Dean, W.E., and Birchfield, E.G., 1997, Evidence for Milankovitch periodicities in Cenomanian-Turonian lithologic and geochemical cycles, Western Interior U.S, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. B67 (1), p. 286-302.

Sageman, B.B, Kauffman, E.G., Harries, P.J., and Elder, W.P., 1997, Cenomanian-Turonian Bioevents in the Western Interior Basin: Contrasting Scales of Local, Regional and Global events. In: C. Brett and G. Baird (eds.), Paleontological Events: Stratigraphic, ecological, and evolutionary implications, Columbia University Press, p. 468-495.

Sageman, B.B., 1996, Lowstand Tempestites: Depositional model for Cretaceous Skeletal Limestones, Western Interior, U.S. Geology, v. 24 (10), p. 888-892.

Slingerland, R., Kump, L., Arthur, M., Fawcett, P. Sageman, B., and Barron, E., 1996, Estuarine circulation in the Turonian Western Interior Seaway of North America. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 941-952.

Dean, W.E., Arthur, M.A., Sageman, B.B., and Lewan, M.D., 1995, Core descriptions and preliminary geochemical data for the Amoco Production Company Rebecca Bounds #1 Well, Greeley County, Kansas. US Geological Survey Open File Report 95-209, 243 pp.

Sageman, B.B. and Arthur, M.A., 1994, Early Turonian paleogeographic/ paleobathymetric Map, Western Interior, U.S. In: M. Caputo and J. Peterson, eds., Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, U.S., Rocky Mountain Section - Society Economic Paleontologists Mineralogists Special Publication, p. 457-470.

Arthur, M.A. and Sageman, B.B., 1994, Marine Black Shales: A Review of Depositional Mechanisms and Environments of Ancient Deposits. Annual Rev. Earth & Planetary Science, v. 22: 499-552.

Elder, W.P., Gustason, E.R., and Sageman, B.B., 1994, Correlation of basinal carbonate cycles to nearshore parasequences in the Late Cretaceous Greenhorn Seaway, Western Interior, U.S. Geol Soc. Amer. Bull. 106: 892-902.

Meiras, B.M., Sageman, B.B. and Kauffman, E.G., 1993, Trace fossil distribution patterns in Cretaceous facies of the Western Interior basin, North America, In: W.G.E. Caldwell and E.G. Kauffman (eds.), Cretaceous Evolution of the Western Interior basin, North America, Geol. Assn. Canada, Spec. Publ. 39: 585-620.

Kauffman, E.G., Sageman, B.B., Elder, W.P., Kirkland, J.I., and Villamil, T., 1993, Cretaceous molluscan biostratigraphy and biogeography, Western Interior Basin, North America, In:W.G.E. Caldwell and E.G. Kauffman (eds.), Cretaceous Evolution of the Western Interior Basin, North America , Geol. Assn. Canada, Spec. Publ. 39: 397-434.

Sageman, B.B., 1992, Paleoecology - A Cure for Sequence Syndrome?, Online Column, Palaios, v. 7(5): 1-2.

Sageman, B.B., Wignall, P.B., and Kauffman, E.G., 1991, Biofacies models for organic-rich facies: tool for paleoenvironmental analysis, In: G. Einsele, A. Seilacher, and W. Ricken (eds.), Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy, Springer Verlag, Berlin: 542-564.

Kauffman, E.G., Elder, W.P., and Sageman, B.B., 1991, Advances and limits of High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy (HIRES),In: G. Einsele, A. Seilacher, and W. Ricken (eds.), Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy, Springer Verlag, Berlin: 795-819.

Kauffman, E.G. and Sageman, B.B., 1990, Biological sensing of benthic environments in dark shales and related oxygen-restricted facies, In: R.N. Ginsberg and B. Beaudoin (eds.), Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms: Background and plans for research , Proc. 1st Global Sedimentary Geology Program Mtng., Digne, France, NATO ASI Series C, 304, 121-138.

Sageman, B.B., 1989, The benthic boundary biofacies model: Hartland Shale Member, Greenhorn Formation (Cenomanian), Western Interior, North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 74, p. 87-110.

Sageman, B.B., 1985, High-resolution stratigraphy and paleobiology of the Hartland Shale Member: Analysis of an oxygen-deficient epicontinental sea. In: L.M. Pratt, E.G. Kauffman, and F.B. Zelt (eds.), Fine-grained deposits and biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of cyclic sedimentary processes. Society Economic Paleontologists Mineralogists, Field Trip Guidebook No. 4, Midyear Meeting, Aug. 12-14, 1985, Golden, Colorado, p. 110-121.