Nicholas Christie-Blick

Sedimentary Geology and Tectonics

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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES)
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

 

Publications

1981-1985

1. Blick, N., 1981. Late Precambrian glaciation in Utah, in Hambrey, M.J., and Harland, W.B., eds., Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record: International Geological Correlation Programme, Project 38: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 740-744.

2. Knoll, A.H., Blick, N., and Awramik, S.M., 1981. Stratigraphic and ecologic implications of late Precambrian microfossils from Utah: American Journal of Science, v. 281, p. 247-263.

3. Christie-Blick, N., 1982. Upper Precambrian (Eocambrian) Mineral Fork Tillite of Utah: A continental glacial and glaciomarine sequence: Discussion: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 184-186.

4. Christie-Blick, N., 1982. Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian rocks of the Sheeprock Mountains, Utah: Regional correlation and significance: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 93, p. 735-750.

5. Christie-Blick, N., 1982. Pre-Pleistocene glaciation on Earth: Implications for climatic history of Mars: Icarus, v. 50, p. 423-443.

6. Christie-Blick, N., 1983. Structural geology of the southern Sheeprock Mountains, Utah: Regional significance, in Miller, D.M., Todd, V.R., and Howard, K.A., eds., Tectonic and Stratigraphic Studies in the Eastern Great Basin: Geological Society of America Memoir 157, p. 101-124.

7. Christie-Blick, N., 1983. Glacial-marine and subglacial sedimentation, Upper Proterozoic Mineral Fork Formation, Utah, in Molnia, B.F., ed., Glacial-Marine Sedimentation: New York, Plenum Press, p. 703-776.

8. Crittenden, M.D., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1983. Evidence for two pulses of glaciation during the late Proterozoic in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, p. 437-450.

9. Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Upper Proterozoic glacial-marine and subglacial deposits at Little Mountain, Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 32, Part 1, p. 9-18.

10. Christie-Blick, N., and Biddle, K.T., 1985. Deformation and basin formation along strike-slip faults, in Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 37, p. 1-34.

11. Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Glossary — Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation, in Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 37, p. 375-386.

12. Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Basin formation, structural traps, and controls on hydrocarbon occurrence along wrench-fault systems: Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, OTC 4872, p. 291-295.

13. Bond, G.C., Christie-Blick, N., Kominz, M.A., and Devlin, W.J., 1985. An early Cambrian rift to post-rift transition in the Cordillera of western North America: Nature, v. 316, p. 742-745.

14. Harding, T.P., Vierbuchen, R.C., and Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Structural styles, plate-tectonic settings and hydrocarbon traps of divergent (transtensional) wrench faults, in Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication No. 37, p. 51-77.

1986-1990

15. Christie-Blick, N., 1986. Sea-level fluctuations. Coastal onlap and sea-level change, in 1987 Yearbook of Science and Technology, supplement to Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: New York, McGraw-Hill, p. 413-416.

16. Christie-Blick, N., Grotzinger, J.P., and von der Borch, C.C., 1988. Sequence stratigraphy in Proterozoic successions: Geology, v. 16, p. 100-104.

17. Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1988. Glacial-marine sedimentation, Mineral Fork Formation (Late Proterozoic), Utah, in Holden, G.S., ed., Geological Society of America Field Trip Guidebook, Centennial Meeting — Denver, Colorado: Colorado School of Mines Professional Contributions, No. 12, p. 259-274.

18. Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., and Miller, K.G., 1988. Sea level history (Technical Comment): Science, v. 241, p. 596.

19. von der Borch, C.C., Christie-Blick, N., and Grady, A.E., 1988. Depositional sequence analysis applied to Late Proterozoic Wilpena Group, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 35, p. 59-71.

20. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1989. Stratigraphic and tectonic framework of Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the western United States, in Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., eds., Late Proterozoic and Cambrian Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Record of Metazoan Radiation in the Western United States: 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T331, American Geophysical Union, p. 7-22.

21. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1989. Concepts of sequence stratigraphy, with examples from strata of Late Proterozoic and Cambrian age in the western United States, in Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., eds., Late Proterozoic and Cambrian Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Record of Metazoan Radiation in the Western United States: 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T331, American Geophysical Union, p. 23-38.

22. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Pre-Mesozoic palinspastic reconstruction of the eastern Great Basin (western United States): Science, v. 245, p. 1454-1462.

23. von der Borch, C.C., Grady, A.E., Eickhoff, K.H., DiBona, P., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Late Proterozoic Patsy Springs Canyon, Adelaide Geosyncline: submarine or subaerial origin?: Sedimentology, v. 36, p. 777-792.

24. Christie-Blick, N., 1990. Sequence stratigraphy and sea-level changes in Cretaceous time, in Ginsburg, R.N., and Beaudoin, B., eds., Cretaceous Resources, Events and Rhythms: NATO ASI Series C, v. 304, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 1-21.

25. Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., and Miller, K.G., 1990. Seismic stratigraphic record of sea-level change, in Sea-Level Change: Studies in Geophysics, Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, p. 116-140.

26. Christie-Blick, N., von der Borch, C.C., DiBona, P.A., 1990. Working hypotheses for the origin of the Wonoka canyons (Neoproterozoic), South Australia: American Journal of Science, v. 290-A (Cloud volume), p. 295-332.

27. DiBona, P.A., von der Borch, C.C., and Christie-Blick, N., 1990. Sequence stratigraphy and evolution of a basin-slope succession: The Late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 37, p. 135-145.

1991-1995

28. Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Onlap, offlap, and the origin of unconformity-bounded depositional sequences: Marine Geology, v. 97, p. 35-56.

29. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Tectonic subsidence of the early Paleozoic passive continental margin in eastern California and southern Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 1590-1606.

30. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Late Proterozoic paleogeography of the eastern Great Basin, in Cooper, J.D., and Stevens, C.H., eds., Paleozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States - II: Pacific Section, SEPM, Book 67, v. 1, p. 371-386.

31. Christie-Blick, N., 1992. Stratigraphy, in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: New York, McGraw-Hill, 7th edition, p. 483-485.

32. O'Brien, P.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1992. Glacially grooved surfaces in the Grant Group, Grant Range, Canning Basin and the extent of Late Palaeozoic Pilbara ice sheets: BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, v. 13, p. 87-92.

33. Kennard, J.M., Southgate, P.N., Jackson, M.J., O'Brien, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., Holmes, A.E., and Sarg, J.F., 1992. New sequence perspective on the Devonian reef complex and the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, Canning basin, Australia: Geology, v. 20, p. 1135-1138.

34. Holmes, A.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1993. Origin of sedimentary cycles in mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems: An example from the Canning basin, Western Australia, in Loucks, R.G., and Sarg, J.F., eds., Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy. Recent Developments and Applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 57, p. 181-212.

35. Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., Devlin, W.J., Elston, D.P., Horodyski, R.J., Levy, M., Miller, J.M.G., Pearson, R.C., Prave, A., Stewart, J.H., Winston, D., Wright, L.A., and Wrucke, C.T., 1993. Middle and Late Proterozoic stratified rocks of the western U.S. Cordillera, Colorado Plateau, and Basin and Range province, in Reed, J.C., Jr., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R. eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Volume C-2, p. 463-595.

36. Anders, M.H., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994. Is the Sevier Desert reflection of west-central Utah a normal fault?: Geology, v. 22, p. 771-774.

37. Levy, M., Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1994. Neoproterozoic incised valleys of the eastern Great Basin, Utah and Idaho: Fluvial response to changes in depositional base level, in Dalrymple, R.W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin, B.A., eds., Incised Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication No. 51, p. 369-382.

38. Link, P.K., Miller, J.M.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994. Glacial-marine facies in a continental rift environment: Neoproterozoic rocks of the western United States Cordillera, in Deynoux, M., Miller, J.M.G., Domack, E.W., Eyles, N., Fairchild, I.J., and Young, G.M., eds., Earth's Glacial Record: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 29-46.

39. Christie-Blick, N., and Driscoll, N.W., 1995. Sequence stratigraphy: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 23, p. 451-478.

40. Christie-Blick, N., Dyson, I.A., and von der Borch, C.C., 1995. Sequence stratigraphy and the interpretation of Neoproterozoic earth history, in Knoll, A.H., and Walter, M., eds., Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy and Earth History: Precambrian Research, v. 73 (special volume), p. 3-26.

41. Anders, M.H., Christie-Blick, N., and Wills, S., 1995. Is the Sevier Desert reflection of west-central Utah a normal fault?: Reply: Geology, v. 23, p. 670.

42. Driscoll, N.W., Hogg, J.R., Christie-Blick, N., and Karner, G.D., 1995. Extensional tectonics in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland: implications for the timing of break-up between Grand Banks and Iberia, in Scrutton, R.A., Stoker, M.S., Shimmield, G.B., and Tudhope, A.W., eds., The Tectonics, Sedimentation and Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region: Geological Society of London Special Publication No. 90, p. 1-28.

1996-2000

43. Christie-Blick, N., 1997. Neoproterozoic sedimentation and tectonics in west-central Utah, in Link, P.K., and Kowallis, B.J., eds., Proterozoic to Recent Stratigraphy, Tectonics and Volcanology, Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho and Central Mexico: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 42, Part I, p. 1-30.

44. Christie-Blick, N., Austin, J.A., Jr., and Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Introduction: Oligocene to Pleistocene eustatic change at the New Jersey continental margin — a test of sequence stratigraphy, in Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, p. 5-16.

45. Anders, M.H., Christie-Blick, N., and Wills, S., 1998. Extensional collapse along the Sevier Desert reflection, northern Sevier Desert basin, western United States: Comment: Geology, v. 26, p. 474.

46. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M., Mountain, G.S., and the Leg 174A Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Miocene to Pleistocene sand-rich sequences and sea-level changes at the New Jersey outer shelf: Results from Leg 174A: JOIDES Journal, v. 24, No. 1, p. 4-6 and 19.

47. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Browning, J.V., Kominz, M., Sugarman, P.J., Christie-Blick, N., Katz, M.E. and Wright, J.E., 1998. Cenozoic global sea level, sequences, and the New Jersey Transect: Results from coastal plain and continental slope drilling: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 36, p. 569-601.

48. Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Site 1071, in Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, p. 37-97.

49. Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Site 1072, in Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, p. 99-152.

50. Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Site 1073, in Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, p. 153-191.

51. Christie-Blick, N., 1999. Formation, in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: New York, McGraw-Hill, 9th edition, in press (on-line version).

52. Christie-Blick, N., Sohl, L.E., and Kennedy, M.J., 1999. Considering a Neoproterozoic snowball earth (Technical Comment): Science, v. 284, p. 1087. [Full text www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5417/1087a]

53. Sohl, L.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Kent, D.V., 1999. Paleomagnetic polarity reversals in Marinoan (ca. 600 Ma) glacial deposits of Australia: Implications for the duration of low-latitude glaciation in Neoproterozoic time: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 1120-1139.

54. Steckler, M.S., Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1999. Reconstruction of Tertiary progradation and clinoform development on the New Jersey passive margin by 2-D backstripping: Marine Geology, v. 154, p. 399-420.

55. Metzger, J.M, Flemings, P.B., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., Austin, J.A., Jr., and Hesselbo, S.P., 2000. Late Miocene to Pleistocene sequences at the New Jersey outer continental shelf (ODP Leg 174A, Sites 1071 and 1072): Sedimentary Geology, v. 134, p. 149-180.

2001

56. Christie-Blick, N., 2001. Stratigraphy, in Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: New York, McGraw-Hill, 9th edition, in press (on-line version). [A revised and extended version of the 1992 article.]

57. Christie-Blick, N., Williams, G.E., and Gostin, V.A., 2001. Discussion on mantle plume uplift in the sedimentary record: origin of kilometre-deep canyons within late Neoproterozoic successions, South Australia: Journal of Geological Society of London, v. 158, p. 573-576.

58. Anders, M.H., Christie-Blick, N., Wills, S., and Krueger, S.W., 2001. Rock deformation studies in the Mineral Mountains and Sevier Desert of west-central Utah: Implications for upper crustal low-angle normal faulting: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 895-907.

59. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2001. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals?: Geology, v. 29, p. 443-446.

60. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Prave, A.R., 2001. Carbon isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic glacial carbonates as a test of paleoceanographic models for snowball Earth phenomena: Geology, v. 29, p. 1135-1138.

61. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Kominz, M.A., and Miller, K.G., 2001. Evaluating the stratigraphic response to eustasy from Oligocene strata in New Jersey: Geology, v. 29, p. 55-58.

62. Stewart, J.H., Gehrels, G.E., Barth, A.P., Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., and Wrucke, C.T., Jr., 2001. Detrital zircon provenance of Mesoproterozoic to Cambrian arenites in the western United States and northwestern Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1343-1356.

2002

63. Christie-Blick, N., and Austin, J.A., Jr., 2002. Synopsis of Leg 174A postcruise science, in Christie-Blick, N., Austin, J.A., Jr., and Malone, M.J., eds., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 174A, p. 1-13.
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174A_SR/synopsis/synopsis.htm

64. Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., Kaufman, A.J., Banerjee, D.M., and Rai, V., 2002. Sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 525-543.

65. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2002. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals?: Reply: Geology, v. 30, p. 287-288.

66. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2002. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals?: Reply: Geology, v. 30, p. 763.

67. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Kominz, M.A., and Miller, K.G., 2002. Calibration between eustatic estimates from backstripping and oxygen isotopic records for the Oligocene: Geology, v. 30, p. 903-906.

2003

68. Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., Kaufman, A.J., Banerjee, D.M., and Rai, V., 2003. Carbonate platform growth and cyclicity at a terminal Proterozoic passive margin, Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 1-32.

69. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Miller, K.G., and Kominz, M.A., 2003. Quantitative constraints on the origin of stratigraphic architecture at passive continental margins: Oligocene sedimentation in New Jersey, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 227-243.

70. Jiang Ganqing, Kennedy, M.J., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates: Nature, v. 426, p. 822-826.

71. Jiang Ganqing, Sohl, L.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Neoproterozoic stratigraphic comparison of the Lesser Himalaya (India) and Yangtze block (South China): Paleogeographic implications: Geology, v. 31, 917-920.

2004

72. McHugh, C.M.G., Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Ryan, W.B.F., Carbotte, S., and Bell, R. Spatial variations in a condensed interval between estuarine and open-marine settings: Holocene Hudson River estuary and adjacent continental shelf: Geology, v. 32, p. 169-172.

73. Pekar, S.F., McHugh, C.M.G., Christie-Blick, N., Jones, M., Carbotte, S.M., Bell, R.E., and Lynch-Stieglitz, J., 2004. Estuarine processes and their stratigraphic record: Paleosalinity and sedimentation changes in the Hudson estuary (North America): Marine Geology, v. 209, p. 113-129.

74. Knoll, A.H., Walter, M.R., Narbonne, G.M., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Science perspective: A new period for the geologic time scale: Science, v. 305, p.621-622. [Full text]

75. Machlus, M., Hemming, S.R., Olsen, P.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Eocene calibration of geomagnetic polarity time scale reevaluated: Evidence from the Green River Formation of Wyoming: Geology, v. 32, p. 137-140.

76. Knoll, A.H., Walter, M.R., Narbonne, G.M., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Three "first places" for Ediacaran Period: Episodes, v. 27, p. 222.

2005

77. Lyon, B., Christie-Blick, N., and Gluzberg, Y., 2005. Water shortages, development, and drought in Rockland County NY: Journal of American Water Resources Association, in press.

78. Wills, S., Anders, M.H., and Christie-Blick, N., 2005. Pattern of Mesozoic thrust surfaces and Tertiary normal faults in the Sevier Desert subsurface, west-central Utah: American Journal of Science, v. 305, p. 42-100.

79. Knoll, A.H., Walter, M., Narbonne, G.M., and Christie-Blick, N., 2005. The Ediacaran Period: A new addition to the geologic time scale: Lethaia, in press.

80. Zhang Shihong, Jiang Ganqing, Zhang Junming, Song Biao, Kennedy, M.J., and Christie-Blick, N., 2005. U-Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe ages from the Doushantuo Formation in south China: Constraints on late Neoproterozoic glaciations: Geology, v. 33, p. 473-476.

 

Edited and Multi-author Volumes

1. Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., 1985. Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: SEPM Special Publication No. 37, 386 p.

2. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., eds., 1989. Late Proterozoic and Cambrian Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Record of Metazoan Radiation in the Western United States: 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T331, American Geophysical Union, 113 p.

3. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., 1998. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, 324 p.

4. Christie-Blick, N., Austin, J.A., Jr., and Malone, M.J., eds., 2002. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 174A.
http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174A_SR/174asr.htm

 

Extended Abstracts

1. Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Onlap, offlap, and the origin of unconformity-bounded depositional sequences, in Biddle, K.T., and Schlager, W., eds., The Record of Sea-Level Fluctuations: Sedimentary Geology, v. 70 (special issue), p. 105-107.

2. Christie-Blick, N., 1994. High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Wonoka canyons (terminal Proterozoic, South Australia): An unusual example of sequence development associated with overall transgression: Second High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy Conference, Tremp, Spain, Abstracts, p. 33-40.

3. Holmes, A.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994. Evaluating the applicability of sequence stratigraphic models for mixed systems: constraints from the Canning basin, Western Australia, in Johnson, S.D., ed., High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Innovations and Applications: Liverpool, University of Liverpool, UK, Abstract Volume, p. 43-47.

4. Christie-Blick, N., 1995. Forced logic: Sequence-boundary development in ramp and shelf settings: Conference on Sedimentary Responses to Forced Regression: Recognition, Interpretation and Reservoir Potential: Geological Society of London, British Sedimentological Research Group, Abstracts, p. 9-11.

5. Christie-Blick, N., 2001. A personal perspective on sequence stratigraphic nomenclature: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Hedberg Research Conference (Sequence Stratigraphic and Allostratigraphic Principles and Concepts), Dallas, Texas, Program and Abstracts Volume, p. 20-21.

6. Berggren, W.A., Christie-Blick, N., Aubry, M.-P., Carter, R.M., Hallam, A., Miller, K.G., Owen, D.E., Van Couvering, J.A., and Watkins, J.S., 2001. A proposed bipartite sequence stratigraphic nomenclature: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Hedberg Research Conference (Sequence Stratigraphic and Allostratigraphic Principles and Concepts), Dallas, Texas, Program and Abstracts Volume, p. 16-17.

7. Ghosh, A., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., McHugh, C.M.G., and Pekar, S.F., 2003. Late Pleistocene sequence geometry beneath the Long Island shelf from chirp sonar data: Geology of Long Island and Metropolitan New York, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Abstracts.

 

Abstracts

1976-1980

1. Blick, N., 1976. Late Proterozoic glaciation: Evidence in the Sheeprock Mountains, Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 8, p. 783-784.

2. Blick, N., 1977. Diachronous upper Proterozoic glacial deposits, Idaho and Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, p. 901.

3. Knoll, A.H., Blick, N., and Awramik, S.M., 1978. Stratigraphic and ecologic implications of late Precambrian microfossils from Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 10, p. 436.

4. Christie-Blick, N., 1980. Glacial advance and retreat sequences, upper Proterozoic Mineral Fork Formation, northwestern Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 12, p. 269.

5. Christie-Blick, N., Link, P.K., Miller, J.M.G., Young, G.M., and Crowell, J.C., 1980. Regional geologic events inferred from upper Proterozoic rocks of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 12, p. 402.

6. Crittenden, M.D., Jr, and Christie-Blick, N, 1980. Proterozoic rocks of northern Utah — Summary: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.12, p. 271.

1981-1985

7. Christie-Blick, N., 1983. Low-angle thrusts and extension faults in the Sheeprock Mountains: The Sevier foreland - hinterland transition in west-central Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, p. 319.

8. Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1983. Comparison of stratigraphically controlled low-angle extension faults in the Sheeprock Mountains, Utah, and the Bannock Range, Idaho: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, p. 320.

9. Christie-Blick, N., 1984. Latest Proterozoic and Early Cambrian rifting in California, Nevada and Utah: Support for Early Cambrian continental separation: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, p. 471.

10. Christie-Blick, N., and Biddle, K.T., 1984. Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation: A summary: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 68, p. 462.

11. Christie-Blick, N., Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., and Watts, A.B., 1984. Stratigraphic record of sea-level change: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 65, No. 45, p. 947.

12. Harding, T.P., Vierbuchen, R.C., and Christie-Blick, N., 1984. Structural styles and plate-tectonic settings of divergent (transtensional) wrench faults: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 68, p. 484.

13. Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Depositional processes and environments inferred from glacial rocks: Interpretive ambiguity, observational inadequacy, inappropriate models and strategies for future research: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, p. 283.

14. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1985. A new approach to time correlation in Proterozoic rocks: Sequence boundaries in the Brigham Group, Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, p. 546.

15. Christie-Blick, N., and von der Borch, C.C., 1985. Sequence boundaries in Proterozoic successions: A comparison of the Brigham Group (Utah) and Wilpena Group (South Australia), with implications for sea-level change and global correlation: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, p. 546.

16. Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., 1985. Structural traps associated with wrench systems: Offshore Technology Conference.

1986-1990

17. Christie-Blick, N., Bond, G.C., and Kominz, M.A., 1986. Quantitative subsidence analysis and sequence stratigraphy: New approaches to the analysis of Proterozoic and Palaeozoic tectonics and sedimentation: 8th Australian Geological Convention, Abstracts, No. 15, p. 14-15.

18. Christie-Blick, N., Levy, M., and Howard, C., 1986. Sequence boundaries in Proterozoic successions: Examples from western United States: 12th International Sedimentological Congress, Canberra, Australia, International Association of Sedimentologists, Abstracts, p. 60.

19. Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., and Schneck, W., 1986. Use of stratigraphic sequence boundaries as correlation tools in Late Proterozoic-Cambrian strata of the Brigham and McCoy Creek Groups, Idaho, Nevada and Utah: 12th International Sedimentological Congress, Canberra, Australia, International Association of Sedimentologists, Abstracts, p. 185.

20. von der Borch, C.C., Christie-Blick, N., and Grady, A.E., 1986. Concepts of seismic stratigraphic analysis applied to late Proterozoic Wilpena Group, Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia: 8th Australian Geological Convention Abstracts, No. 15, p. 197.

21. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1987. Tectonic subsidence analysis of the Paleozoic passive margin in eastern California and adjacent Nevada: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, p. 745.

22. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1988. Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian paleogeographic evolution of Utah: Insights from sequence stratigraphy: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, p. 150.

23. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1988. Late Proterozoic and early Cambrian evolution of the western United States: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, No. 7, p. 298.

24. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1988. Palinspastic reconstruction of the eastern Great Basin: Crustal shortening and extension in a non-cylindrical orogen: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 20, No. 7, p. 230.

25. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., and Christie-Blick, N., 1988. Cenozoic eustatic fluctuations: Constraints from isotope and seismic stratigraphy: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 69, No. 16, p. 300.

26. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1989. In search of a Late Proterozoic eustatic curve: Geological Association of Canada Program with Abstracts, v. 14, p. A99.

27. Christie-Blick, N., and Levy, M., 1989. The origin and dispersal of siliciclastic sediments in Late Proterozoic to Early Cambrian epeiric basin of western United States: 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., Abstracts Volume 1, p. 1-292.

28. Christie-Blick, N., and Mountain, G.S., 1989. Sequence stratigraphy and the measurement of sea-level change: Chapman Conference on Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Sea Level Change, American Geophysical Union.

29. Christie-Blick, N., and Mountain, G.S., 1989. A model for development of unconformity-bounded depositional sequences, with implications for sequence-stratigraphic record of sea-level fluctuations: 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., Abstracts Volume 1, p. 1-291 to 1-292.

30. Karner, G.D., Christie-Blick, N., and Driscoll, N.W., 1989. The break-up unconformity of passive continental margins: Testing the importance of in-plane stress variations during the rift/drift transition on the Grand Banks, Canada: Chapman Conference on Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Sea Level Change, American Geophysical Union.

31. Link, P.K., Miller, J.M.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Glaciogenic facies in an extensional tectonic setting: Late Proterozoic glaciation of western North America: 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., Abstracts Volume 2, p. 2-303 to 2-304.

32. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. The U.S. Middle Atlantic margin as a monitor of sea-level changes during the ice house and doubt house worlds: Chapman Conference on Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Sea Level Change, American Geophysical Union.

33. von der Borch, C.C., DiBona, P., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Implications of kilometer-scale base-level changes, Late Proterozoic Adelaide Geosyncline, South Australia: 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., Abstracts Volume 3, p. 3-309 to 3-310.

34. Christie-Blick, N., 1990. Tectonic and eustatic controls on sedimentary successions at passive continental margins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74, p. 628.

35. Driscoll, N.W., Karner, G.D., and Christie-Blick, N., 1990. Stratigraphic evidence from Jeanne d'Arc basin for the timing of break-up between Grand Banks and Iberia: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 71, p. 1563.

1991-1995

36. Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Global events in a sequence stratigraphic context: Program with Abstracts, Event Markers in Earth History, joint meeting of IGCP Projects 216, 293 and 303, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, p. 30.

37. Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Layer-parallel faulting in the Flinders Ranges, Australia: A re-interpretation of Patsy Springs Canyon (Neoproterozoic): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A60.

38. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Late Proterozoic paleogeography of the eastern Great Basin: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section Meeting, Bakersfield, California, Abstracts, p. 38-39.

39. Levy, M., Christie-Blick, N., and Link, P.K., 1991. Late Proterozoic incised valleys of the eastern Great Basin: Fluvial response to relative falls in sea level: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A242.

40. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., Wright, J.D., Peterson, L.C., and Swart, P.K., 1991. Oligocene—Recent glacioeustasy and the Mid-Atlantic Transect: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A182.

41. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Christie-Blick, N., Greenlee, S.M., and Devlin, W.J., 1991. High resolution MCS stratigraphy of Oligocene—Recent sequences, mid-Atlantic continental shelf and slope: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, p. A182.

42. O'Brien, P.E., Lindsay, J.F., Jackson, M.J., Kennard, J.M., Southgate, P.N., Christie-Blick, N., and Holmes, A.E., 1991. Late Palaeozoic glacial succession of the Fitzroy trough, Canning basin, Western Australia: Eighth International Symposium on Gondwana, Hobart, Australia, Abstracts, p. 63.

43. Southgate, P.N., Jackson, J., Kennard, J.M., O'Brien, P.E., Passmore, V.L., Lindsay, J.F., Holmes, A.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1991. Subsurface sequence stratigraphy of Devonian carbonates, Canning basin, Western Australia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 674-675.

44. Christie-Blick, N., 1992. Sequence stratigraphy: Implications for correlation in Neoproterozoic successions: 29th International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan, Abstracts Volume 1, p. 239.

45. Christie-Blick, N., 1992. IGCP Project 320: A global reference for Neoproterozoic sequence stratigraphy in Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, p. A112-113.

46. Christie-Blick, N., and Holmes, A.E., 1992. Upper Devonian sequence stratigraphy of the Canning basin, Australia: A comparison with coeval carbonates in southwestern Alberta: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. 19-20.

47. Christie-Blick, N., Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Driscoll, N.W., Reynolds, D.J., and Steckler, M.S., 1992. Sequence stratigraphy and sea-level change: Examples from the Atlantic margins of the U.S. and Canada: Geological Society of London, Marine Studies Group (The Tectonics, Sedimentation and Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region), meeting in Edinburgh, UK.

48. Driscoll, N.W., Christie-Blick, N., and Karner, G.D., 1992. Extensional tectonics in the Jeanne d'Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: Implications for the timing of break-up between Grand Banks and Iberia: Geological Association of Canada, Annual Meeting, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

49. Holmes, A.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1992. New perspectives on Ordovician sequences in the Canning basin, Western Australia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, p. 1108.

50. Driscoll, N.W., Karner, G.D., Christie-Blick, N., Hogg, J.R., 1992. Inversion of the Jeanne d'Arc basin and implications for the formation of the Hibernia and Flying Foam structures: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. 32.

51. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., Wright, J.D., Peterson, L.C., and Swart, P.K., 1992. Icehouse sea-level changes, depositional sequences, and the New Jersey margin: 4th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Kiel, Germany, p. 200-201.

52. Reynolds, D.J., Steckler, M.S., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., and Coakley, B.J., 1992. Modeling unconformity-bound sequences at passive continental margins: Implications for the measurement of Cenozoic sea-level change: 4th International Conference on Paleoceanography, Kiel, Germany, p. 238-239.

53. Christie-Blick, N., 1993. High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Wonoka canyons (Neoproterozoic), South Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, p. A67.

54. Driscoll, N.W., Hogg, J.R., Karner, G.D., Christie-Blick, N., and Jenkins, W.A.M., 1993. Stratigraphic response to extensional deformation: The Jeanne d'arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: Hydrocarbon Habitat in Rift Basins Conference, Bath, UK, organized by The Petroleum Group, Program with Abstracts, p. 15-17.

55. Christie-Blick, N., 1994. Neoproterozoic and Cambrian sequence stratigraphy in the Great Basin: A perspective on pitfalls and opportunities: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. 44.

56. Christie-Blick, N., and Driscoll, N.W., 1994. Relative sea-level change and the origin of sequence boundaries in tectonically active settings: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. 121.

57. Driscoll, N.W., Christie-Blick, N., and Hogg, J.R., 1994. Stratigraphic response to basin formation: Jeanne d'Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. 139.

58. Holmes, A.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1994. Late Devonian sequence stratigraphy of the Canning basin, Western Australia: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. 173.

59. Anders, M.H., Christie-Blick, N., Wills, S., and Gregory, K.M., 1995. Brittle deformation near upper crustal normal faults: Implications for interpreting seismic reflections from the Sevier Desert of west central Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, p. A 69.

60. Sohl, L.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 1995. Equatorial glaciation in the Neoproterozoic: New evidence from the Marinoan glacial succession of Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, p. A204.

1996

61. Christie-Blick, N., 1996. New insights from the sequence stratigraphy of the Wonoka canyons (terminal Proterozoic), South Australia: Geological Society of London, British Sedimentological Research Group, meeting in Dublin, Ireland.

62. Holmes, A.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Kominz, M.A., 1996. Subsurface constraints on the evolution of the Paleozoic Canning basin, Western Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A366.

63. Austin, J.A., Jr., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., and Miller, K.G., 1996. Deciphering the sea-level history of the icehouse: Continuation of the New Jersey Transect: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, No. 46, p. F330.

64. Kennedy, M.J., Derry, L.A., and Christie-Blick, N., 1996. Deglaciation, massive carbonate precipitation, and dramatic excursions in the carbon isotopic record: The peculiar inorganic carbon cycle of the Late Precambrian: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A219-220.

65. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Christie-Blick, N., and Austin, J.A., Jr., 1996. Ages and architecture of Neogene sequences, New Jersey shelf and slope: ODP Legs 150 and 174A: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, No. 17, p. S162.

66. Steckler, M.S., Mountain, G., Miller, K.G., and Christie-Blick, N., 1996. Reconstructing the geometry of Tertiary sequences on the New Jersey passive margin by 2-D backstripping: The interplay of sedimentation, eustasy and tectonics: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A63.

Steckler, M.S., Mountain, G., Christie-Blick, N., and Miller, K.G., 1996. Reconstructing the geometry of Tertiary sequences on the New Jersey passive margin by 2-D backstripping: The interplay of sedimentation, eustasy and tectonics: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, No. 46, p. F318. [Text identical to that of GSA abstract.]

1997

67. Christie-Blick, N., 1997. Messinian-style drawdown model supported by new results from the Wonoka canyons (terminal Proterozoic), South Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. A197.

68. Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., and Kaufman, A.J., 1997. Sequence stratigraphy and significance of the Krol Formation (terminal Proterozoic), Lesser Himalaya, India: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. A197.

69. Wills, S., Anders, M.H., and Christie-Blick, N., 1997. How to make a hole in west-central Utah: alternative working hypotheses for the Sevier Desert basin: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. A350.

70. Fang, J., Karner, G., Mutter, J., and Christie-Blick, N., 1997. Tectonic development of the western Woodlark basin, eastern Papua-New Guinea: Consequences of subduction and active rift propagation: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 78, No. 46, p. F639.

71. Dickens, G., Malone, M., Claypool, G., and ODP Leg 174A Science Party, 1997. Glacial-interglacial oscillations in activity of marine subsurface bacteria: Pore-water chemistry of rapidly accumulating sediment on the New Jersey slope: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 78, No. 46, p. F385.

72. Oda, H., and ODP Leg 174A Shipboard Scientific Party, 1997. Paleomagnetic results from ODP Leg 174A, New Jersey continental margin: Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (Japan), Abstracts, v. 102.

1998

73. Christie-Blick, N., 1998. Messinian-style drawdown model supported by new stratigraphic data from the Wonoka canyons (terminal Proterozoic), South Australia: 15th International Sedimentological Congress, Alicante, Spain, International Association of Sedimentologists, Abstracts, p. 254-255.

74. Christie-Blick, N., Austin, J.A., Jr., and ODP Leg 174A Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Unexpected facies architecture in sequences of late Miocene to Pleistocene age at the New Jersey outer continental shelf: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A266-A267.

75. Christie-Blick, N., Kennedy, M.J., and Sohl, L.E., 1998. Proposed location of a terminal Proterozoic GSSP: Nuccaleena Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia: Sprigg Symposium, Adelaide, Australia.

76. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., and ODP Leg 174A Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Continuation of the Mid-Atlantic Sea Level Transect: Results from ODP Leg 174A: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, No. 45, p. F498.

77. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M., and Leg 174A Shipboard Party, 1998. Understanding the sedimentary response to relative sea-level change: the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)'s Mid-Atlantic Transect: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, convention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

78. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M., and Leg 174A Shipboard Party, 1998. Exploring the timing, amplitudes, and causes of Neogene global sea-level fluctuations: the Ocean Drilling Program's inaugural expedition to the New Jersey continental shelf: SEPM-IAS Research Conference (Strata and Sequences on Shelves and Slopes), Catania, Sicily, Italy.

79. Kennedy, M.J., and Christie-Blick, N., 1998. Sequence stratigraphy of late Neoproterozoic glacial to post-glacial transition: Implications for the timing of d13C excursions: SEPM-IAS Research Conference (Strata and Sequences on Shelves and Slopes), Catania, Sicily, Italy.

80. Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., and Kaufman, A.J., 1998. Neoproterozoic stratigraphic comparison of the Lesser Himalaya, India, and south China: Possible tectonic implications: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A144.

81. Anders, M.H., Walsh, J.J., and Christie-Blick, N., 1998. Fluidization events in detachment zones: evidence for catastrophic emplacement of large slide blocks: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, No. 5, p. 3.

82. Kaufman, A.J., Jiang Ganqing, and Christie-Blick, N., 1998. Varanger ice ages in India revealed by integrated sequence and carbon isotope stratigraphy: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts.

83. Steckler, M.S., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., and Miller, K.G., 1998. Controls of the architecture of prograding sequences on the New Jersey continental margin: Results from numerical modeling: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, No. 45, p. F468.

84. McCarthy, F.M.G., Gostlin, K.E., and ODP Leg 174A Scientific Party, 1998. Palynomorphs as ideal tools for sequence stratigraphic studies — an example from the New Jersey margin: 6th International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates, Program and Abstracts.

85. Metzger, J.M., Flemings, P.B., and ODP Leg 174A Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Comparison of middle Miocene and late Miocene/Pliocene sequence architecture, offshore New Jersey: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A268.

86. Mountain, G.S., Flemings, P.B., Pirmez, C., and Leg 174A Scientific Shipboard Party, 1998. Pleistocene slope deposition at ODP Site 1073 based on core-log-seismic integration: SEPM-IAS Research Conference (Strata and Sequences on Shelves and Slopes), Sicily, Italy.

1999

87. Christie-Blick, N., Karner, G.D., Saurborn, M.J., and Plint, A.G., 1999. Unconformity development in tectonically active settings: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A182.

88. Stewart, J.H., Gehrels, G.E., Barth, A.P., Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., and Wrucke, C.T., 1999. U-Pb isotopic dating indicates crystalline-basement and supracrustal-volcanic sources of detrital zircons in Proterozoic and Cambrian arenites, western United States: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A373.

2000

89. Christie-Blick, N., 2000. Cenozoic sequence architecture at the New Jersey margin: Whither the "slug" model?: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, No. 1, p. A10.

90. Bender, A.A., Christie-Blick, N., and Karner, G., 2000. Mechanism of intracratonic basin formation: Insights from the Canning Basin, NW Australia: 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Abstracts, CD-ROM.

91. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2000. Destabilization of methane hydrates: Physical and geochemical evidence in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A156.

92. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Kominz, M. A., and Miller, K. G., 2000. Establishing the stratigraphic response to eustasy from Oligocene strata in New Jersey: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 81, p. F667.

93. Kaufman, A.J., Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., Banerjee, D.M., and Rai, V., 2000. A terminal Proterozoic history of sea-level change and biogeochemical anomalies, Lesser Himalaya, India: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A94.

94. Saurborn, M.J., Karner, G.D., Christie-Blick, N., Plint, A.G., and Scholz, C.H., 2000. Accommodation changes in Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Alberta foreland basin: Implications for the role of changes in in-plane force on unconformity development: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A102.

95. Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., Sugarman, P.J., and the Scientific Parties of ODP Legs 174A and 174AX, 2000. Eustasy, sequences, and the New Jersey Sea-Level Transect: Past, present and future drilling: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, No. 1, p. A59-A60.

2001

96. Christie-Blick, N., 2001. Sequence development in tectonically active basins: Implications for the Paleozoic of eastern Laurentia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 6, p. A98.

97. Christie-Blick, N., Pekar, S.F., and Mountain, G.S., 2001. Origin of sequences and sequence boundaries: The Atlantic margin as a stratigraphic frontier: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 6, p. A98.

98. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2001. Carbon isotopic evidence that favors a methane versus atmospheric origin for Neoproterozoic cap carbonate formation: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 82, No. 20, p. S8.

99. Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Sohl, L.E., 2001. The Snowball Earth: Myth or methane?: Earth System Processes, meeting of Geological Society of America in Edinburgh, UK.

100. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., and Mountain, G.S., 2001. Quantitative constraints on the factors that control stratigraphic architecture at passive continental margins: Oligocene sedimentation in New Jersey: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 6, p. A98.

101. Steckler, M.S., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., Pekar, S.F., Monteverde, D.H, and Miller, K.G., 2001. Variability of sequence geometry and depositional morphology during late Eocene to Pleistocene progadation at the New Jersey margin: Results of serial 2-D backstripping: Chapman Conference on Formation of Sedimentary Strata on Continental Margins, American Geophysical Union.

102. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2001. High-resolution physical stratigraphy of the lacustrine and evaporitic Green River Formation, Wyoming: Implications for correlation, cyclicity and paleoenvironments: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, No. 6, p. A405.

103. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2001. Milankovitch cyclicity in the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Wyoming: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 82, No. 47, p. F3.

2002

104. Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., Ghosh, A., McHugh, C.M.G., Pekar, S.F., and Schock, S.G., 2002.New insights on late Pleistocene sedimentation at the New Jersey margin based on Chirp sonar profiles and vibracores: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 83, No. 47, Abstract OS71C-0298.

105. Jiang Ganqing, Christie-Blick, N., and Kaufman, A.J., 2002. A first order evaluation of Neoproterozoic carbon isotope data within a physical stratigraphic context: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, No. 6, p. 355.

106. Kennedy, M.J., and Christie-Blick. N., 2002. Isotopic and sequence stratigraphic constraints on the duration of Neoproterozoic cap carbonate deposition: Goldschmidt Conference, Abstracts, p. A374.

107. Machlus, M., Hemming, S.R., Olsen, P.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2002. 40 Ar/39Ar ages of selected tuffs of the Green River Formation: Implications for interbasin and intrabasin correlations: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, No. 6, p. 558.

2003

108. Christie-Blick, N., Jiang Ganqing, Sohl, L.E., and Kennedy, M.J., 2003. Stratigraphic constraints on the character and frequency of extreme climate change during the Neoproterozoic: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, p. 518.

109. Karner, G.D., Christie-Blick, N., and Bedregal, R.P., 2003. Late syn-rift regional subsidence across the West African and Brazilian continental margins: The role of lower plate ductile extension: 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, North West Europe and Global Perspectives, London, England.

110. Lyon, B., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Water demand, climate variability and increasing sensitivity to drought ­ an example in the northeast US: North American Drought Monitor Forum, Asheville, North Carolina.

111. Pekar, S.F., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Estimates of Oligocene sea-level amplitudes and ice-volume changes at Milankovitch time scales: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 84, No. 46, p. F-901.

112. Pekar, S.F., Christie-Blick, N., Miller, K.G., and Kominz, M.A., 2003. Calibrating Oligocene eustasy to oxygen isotope data: eustatic estimates from two-dimensional flexural backstripping from the New Jersey continental margin (USA): European Geophysical Society, Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 5, Abstract 13,654.

113. Jiang Ganqing, Kennedy, M.J., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Testing the methane hydrate hypothesis: Evidence from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo cap carbonate in South China: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 6, p. 508.

114. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Lacustrine facies typology in the Triassic-Jurassic rifts of eastern North America and Greenland compared to that of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, No. 3, p. 11.

115. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2003. Milankovitch cyclicity in the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Wyoming: 3rd International Limnogeology Congress.

116. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2003. Oil-shale yield in the Green River Formation as a proxy for relative lake-depth: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts.

2004

117. Christie-Blick, N., Anders, M.H., Wills, S., Walker, C.D., and Renik, B., 2004. Observations from the Basin and Range Province pertinent to the interpretation of regional detachment faults: InterMARGINS Workshop, Modeling the Extensional Deformation of the Lithosphere, Pontresina, Switzerland, abstract.

118. Owen, D.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Bipartite sequence-stratigraphic classification and correlative conformities: 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, Abstracts Volume.

119. Pekar, S.F., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. An orbital origin for large oxygen isotopic shifts and sea-level changes during the Oligocene: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 85, No. 47, p. F-1116.

120. Renik, B., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Re-evaluation of Miocene evidence for extreme crustal extension across the Death Valley region, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts.

121. Renik, B., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Reevaluation of Eagle Mountain Formation and implications for extreme extension across Death Valley region, CA: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, No. 5, p. 23.

122. Anders, M.H., Walker, C.D., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Fault deformation studies of rootless detachments: Implications for assessing regional extension: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts.

123. Anders, M.H., Walker, C.D., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Fault zone deformation: The key to what is a rooted detachment and what is not: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, No. 5, p. 548.

124. Jiang Ganqing, Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., Mrofka, D. Wu Huaichun, and Zhang Shihong, 2004. Platform to basin d13C variations of the Doushantuo Formation of South China: Isotopic gradient or diagenesis: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, No. 5, p. 477.

125. McHugh, C.M.G., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., Pekar, S., Gould, H., Gurung, D., and Hartin, C., 2004. Evidence for the latest Pleistocene-Holocene shoreline along the New York-New Jersey continental margin: 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, Abstracts Volume.

126. Walker, C.D., Anders, M.H., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Re-examination of field evidence for extreme crustal extension in the Mormon Mountains, southeastern Nevada: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts.

127. Walker, C.D., Anders, M.H., Nagel, T., and Christie-Blick, N., 2004. Using field evidence to distinguish between rooted and rootless detachment faults in the Mormon Mountains, southeastern Nevada: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, No. 5, p. 548.

128. Gould, H., McHugh, C.M.G., Mountain, G.S., Christie-Blick, N., Pekar, S., Gurung, D., and Hartin, C., 2004. Evidence for the latest Pleistocene-Holocene shoreline along the New York-New Jersey continental margin: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, No. 2, p. 70.

2005

129. Christie-Blick, N., 2005. Marinoan glacial to post-glacial transition at the Ediacaran GSSP, South Australia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37.

130. Pekar. S.F., and Christie-Blick, N., 2005. Reconstructing the early icehouse world (34-16 Ma): High-resolution constraints on ice-volume changes in Antarctica and global sea-level amplitudes: Geoitalia Conference.

131. Jiang Ganqing, Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., and Mrofka, D.D., 2005. Stable isotopic variability of the late Neoproterozoic Doushantuo cap carbonate in South China: Processes and implications: Geological Society of America, Earth System Processes, Calgary, Alberta.

132. Kennedy, M.J., Jiang Ganqing, and Christie-Blick, N., 2005. Methane destabilization, deglaciation and oceanic anoxia, and biological innovation in the late Neoproterozoic: Geological Society of America, Earth System Processes, Calgary, Alberta.

133. Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2005. New physical stratigraphy for the lower Laney Member (Green River Formation, Wyoming): Implications for ancient lake classification: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37.

134. Miller, K.G., Kominz, M.A., Browning, J.V., Wright, J.D., Mountain, G.S., Katz, M.E., Sugarman, P.J., Cramer, B.S., Christie-Blick, N., and Pekar, S.F., 2005. The Phanerozoic record of global sea-level change: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 37.

 

Book Reviews

1. Christie-Blick, N., 1984. Review of Dynamic Stratigraphy: An Introduction to Sedimentation and Stratigraphy (second edition), by Robley K. Matthews, 1984, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 489 p.: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 54, p. 1034-1035.

2. Christie-Blick, N., 1987. Review of Sedimentary Environments and Facies (2nd edition), edited by H.G. Reading, 1986, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Palo Alto, California, 615 p.: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p. 583.

3. Christie-Blick, N., 1987. Review of Extensional Tectonics of the Southwestern United States: A Perspective on Processes and Kinematics, edited by L. Mayer, 1986, Geological Society of America Special Paper 208, 122 p.: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p.1079-1080.

4. Christie-Blick, N., 1988. Review of Cenozoic Basin Development of Coastal California, Rubey Volume VI, edited by R.V. Ingersoll and W.G. Ernst, 1987, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 496 p.: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 58, p. 1052-1053.

5. Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Review of Palaeogeographic Atlas of Australia. Volume 1. Cambrian, group leader Peter J. Cook, 1988, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, Australia: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 59, p. 510-511.

6. Christie-Blick, N., 1990. Review of Sea Surface Studies. A Global View, edited by R.J.N. Devoy, 1987, Croom Helm Ltd, London: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 133, p. 563-564.

 

Miscellaneous Other Publications and Titles

1. Christie-Blick, N., and Biddle, K.T., 1989. Deformation and basin formation along strike-slip faults, in Foster, N.H., and Beaumont, E.A., eds., Structural Concepts and Techniques II: Basement-Involved Deformation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Treatise of Petroleum Geology Reprint Series (reprinted from Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: SEPM Special Publication No. 37, p. 1-34).

2. Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., 1989. Glossary — Strike-slip deformation, basin formation, and sedimentation, in Foster, N.H., and Beaumont, E.A., eds., Structural Concepts and Techniques II: Basement-Involved Deformation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Treatise of Petroleum Geology Reprint Series (reprinted from Biddle, K.T., and Christie-Blick, N., eds., Strike-Slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation: SEPM Special Publication No. 37, p. 375-386).

3. Levy, M., and Christie-Blick, N, 1993. Pre-Mesozoic palinspastic reconstruction of the eastern Great Basin, western United States, in Reed, J.C., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R. eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Volume C-2, plate in pocket (first published in Science, v. 245, p. 1454-1462).

4. Link, P.K., Christie-Blick, N., Stewart, J.H., Miller, J.M.G., Devlin, W.J., and Levy, M., 1993. Late Proterozoic strata of the United States Cordillera, in Reed, J.C., Bickford, M.E., Houston, R.S., Link, P.K., Rankin, D.W., Sims, P.K., and Van Schmus, W.R. eds., Precambrian: Conterminous U.S.: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Volume C-2, p. 536-595 (a subchapter of Link et al., 1993).

5. Shipboard Scientific Party, 1998. Explanatory notes, in Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, v. 174A, Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Sea-Level Transect: College Station, Texas, Ocean Drilling Program, p. 17-34.

6. Christie-Blick, N., and Lyon, B., 2003. Drought and Rockland’s water supply: West Nyack, New York, The Journal News, Community View, Thursday, May 22.

7. Christie-Blick, N., and Lyon, B., 2003. What Rockland must do about water: West Nyack, New York, The Journal News, Community View, Friday, May 23.

8. Christie-Blick, N., and Lyon, B., 2004. Drought dangers multiplying: Poughkeepsie, New York, Poughkeepsie Journal, Our Environment, Sunday, February 8. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/sections/environment/stories/en020804s1.shtml

 

Published Reports

1. Sedimentary and Geochemical Processes Panel, 1990. White paper: JOIDES Journal, v. 16, No. 2, p. 45-60.

2. Loutit, T.S., et al., 1992. Sea Level Working Group report: JOIDES Journal, v. 18, No. 3, p. 28-36.

3. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Status and Research Opportunities in the Solid-Earth Sciences, 1993. Solid-Earth Sciences and Society: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 346 p. (contributor as a member of the Sedimentary Basins and Basin Analysis Panel).

4. Austin, J.A., Jr., Christie-Blick, N., Malone, M.J., et al., 1997. Continuing the New Jersey Mid-Atlantic Transect: College Station, Texas, Proceedings of Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 174A Preliminary Report.