Fluvial Research Group SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT


Publications: 2015-2019

Medici, G., West, L.J., Mountney, N.P. and Welch, M., 2019. Review: permeability development in the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group (UK), insights for management of fluvio-aeolian aquifers worldwide. Hydrogeology Journal, 27, 2835-2855. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-019-02035-7

Wang, R., Colombera, L. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. Geologic controls on the geometry of incised-valley fills: Insights from a global dataset of late-Quaternary examples. Sedimentology, 66, 2134-2168. doi: 10.1111/sed.12596.

Abdullah, H.G., Collier, R.E.L. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. The palaeoshoreline of Lower Miocene formations (Euphrates and Jeribe) at the periphery of Zagros Foreland Basin, Sulaimani Governorate, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 12, 574, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-019-4716-2

Cosgrove, G., Hodgson, D.M., Mountney, N.P. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2019. High-resolution correlations of strata within a sand-rich sequence using grain fabric data, offshore New Jersey, USA. Geosphere, 15, 1291-1322. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02046.1.

Burns, C.E., Mountney, N.P., Hodgson, D.M. and Colombera, L., 2019. Stratigraphic architecture and hierarchy of fluvial overbank crevasse-splay deposits. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 176, 629-649. doi: 10.1144/jgs2019-001.

Santos, M.G.M., Hartley, A.J., Mountney, N.P., Peakall, J., Owen, A., Merino, E.R. and Assine, M.L., 2019. Meandering rivers in modern desert basins: Implications for channel planform controls and prevegetation rivers. Sedimentary Geology, 385, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.03.011.

Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Medici, G. and West, L.J., 2019. The geometry of fluvial channel bodies: empirical characterization and implications for object-based models of the subsurface. AAPG Bulletin, 103, 905-929. doi: 10.1306/10031817417.

Colombera, L. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. The lithofacies organization of fluvial channel deposits: a meta-analysis of modern rivers. Sedimentary Geology, 383, 16-40. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.011

Medici, G., West, L.J. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. Flow heterogeneities and permeability development in the Triassic UK Sherwood Sandstone Group; insights for reservoir quality. Geological Journal, 54, 1361-1378. doi: 10.1002/gj.3233

Santos, M.G.M., Hartley, A.J., Mountney, N.P., Peakall, J., Owen, A., Merino, E.R. and Assine, M.L., 2019. Meandering rivers in modern desert basins: Implications for channel planform controls and prevegetation rivers. Sedimentary Geology, 385, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.03.011.

Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Medici, G. and West, L.J., 2019. The geometry of fluvial channel bodies: empirical characterization and implications for object-based models of the subsurface. AAPG Bulletin, 103, 905-929. doi: 10.1306/10031817417.

Collinson, J.C. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. Sedimentary Structures. Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh, fourth edition, 340 pages.

Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J. (Eds.), 2019. Fluvial Meanders and their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 48, 608 pages. ISBN 9781119424468.

Colombera, L. and Mountney, N.P., 2019. The lithofacies organization of fluvial channel deposits: a meta-analysis of modern rivers. Sedimentary Geology, 383, 16-40. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.01.011

Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J., 2019. Sedimentology of meandering river deposit: advances and challenges. In: Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J. (Eds.), Fluvial Meanders and their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 48, 1-14.

Russell, C.E., Mountney, N.P., Hodgson, D.M. and Colombera, L., 2019. A novel approach for prediction of lithological heterogeneity in fluvial point-bar deposits from analysis of meander morphology and scroll-bar pattern. In Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J. (Eds.), Fluvial Meanders and their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 48, 385-418.

Yan, N., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Dorrell, D.M., 2019. Three-dimensional modelling of fluvial point-bar architecture and facies heterogeneity using analogue data and associated analysis of intra-bar static connectivity: application to humid coastal-plain and dryland fluvial systems. In: Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J. (Eds.), Fluvial Meanders and their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 48, 475-508.

Shiers, M.N., Mountney, N.P., Hodgson, D.M. and Colombera, L., 2019. Controls on the depositional architecture of fluvial point-bar elements in a coastal plain succession. In: Ghinassi, M., Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P. and Reesink, A.J. (Eds.), Fluvial Meanders and their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, 48, 15-46.

Cosgrove, G.I.E., Hodgson, D.M., Poyatos-Moré, M., Mountney, N.P. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2018. Filter or conveyor? Establishing relationships between clinoform rollover trajectory, sedimentary process-regime, and grain -character within intrashelf clinothems, offshore New Jersey, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88, 917-941.

Soares, M.V.T., Basilici, G., Dal’ Bó, P.F., Marinho, T.S., Mountney, N.P., Colombera, L., Oliveira, E.F., Silva, K.E.B., 2018. Climatic and geomorphologic cycles in a semiarid distributive fluvial system, Upper Cretaceous, Bauru Group, SE Brazil. Sedimentary Geology, 372, 75-95, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.05.001

Colombera, L., Yan, N., McCormick-Cox, T., Mountney, N.P., 2018. Seismic-driven geocellular modeling of fluvial meander-belt reservoirs using a rule-based method. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 93, 553-569. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.03.042

Medici, G., West, L.J. and Mountney, N.P., 2018. Characterization of a fluvial aquifer at a range of depths and scales: the Triassic St Bees Sandstone Formation, Cumbria, UK. Hydrogeology Journal, 26, 565-591. doi: 10.1007/s10040-017-1676-z

Besly, B., Romain, H.G. and Mountney, N.P., 2018. Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 91, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.12.021

Colombera, L., Arévalo, O.J. and Mountney, N.P., 2017. Fluvial-system response to climate change: the Paleocene-Eocene Tremp Group, Pyrenees, Spain. Global and Planetary Change, 157, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.08.011

Campos-Soto, S., Cobos, A. Caus, E., Benito, M.I., Fernández-Labrador, L., Suarez-Gonzalez, P., Quijada, I.E., Mas, R., Royo-Torres, R. and Alcalá, L., 2017. Jurassic Coastal Park: A great diversity of palaeoenvironments for the dinosaurs of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Teruel, eastern Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Published online. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.010

Basilici, G., Hechenleitner, E.M., Fiorelli, L.E., Dal Bó, P.F. and Mountney, N.P., 2017. Preservation of titanosaur egg clutches in upper Cretaceous cumulative palaeosols (Los Llanos Formation, La Rioja, Argentina). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 482, 83-102. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.034

Bállico, M.B., Scherer, C.M.S, Mountney, N.P., Souza, E.G., Chemale, F., Pisarevsky, S.A. and Reis, A.D., 2017. The wind-pattern circulation as a palaeographic indicator: the case study of the 1.5-1.6 Ga Mangabeira Formation, Săo Francisco Craton, Northeast Brazil. Precambrian Research, 298, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.05.005

Santos, M.G.M., Mountney, N.P., Peakall, J., Thomas, R.E., Wignall, P and Hodgson, D.M., 2017. Reply to Discussion on ‘Tectonic and environmental controls on Palaeozoic fluvial environments: reassessing the impacts of early land plants on sedimentation’. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 174, 950-952. doi: 10.1144/jgs2017-031

Santos, M.G.M., Mountney, N.P. and Peakall, J., 2017. Tectonic and environmental controls on Palaeozoic fluvial environments: reassessing the impacts of early land plants on sedimentation, Journal of the Geological Society, 174, 393-404. doi: 10.1144/jgs2016-063

Yan, N., Mountney, N.P., Colombera, L. and Dorrell, R.M., 2017. A 3D forward stratigraphic model of fluvial meander-bend evolution for prediction of point-bar lithofacies architecture. Computers & Geosciences, 105, 65-80. doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2017.04.012

Shiers, M.S., Hodgson, D.M. and Mountney, N.P., 2017. Response of a coal-bearing coastal plain succession to marine transgression: Campanian Neslen Formation, Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87, 168-187. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2017.7

Burns, C., Mountney, N.P., Hodgson, D.M. and Colombera, L., 2017. Anatomy and dimensions of fluvial crevasse-splay deposits: examples from the Cretacouse Mesaverde Group, Utah. Sedimentary Geology, 351, 21-35. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.02.003

Spychala, Y.T., Hodgson, D.M., Prélat, A., Kane, I.A., Flint, S.S. and Mountney, N.P., 2017. Frontal and lateral submarine lobe fringes: comparing sedimentary facies, architecture and flow processes. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 87, 75-96. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2017.2

Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Russell, C.E., Shiers, M.N. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2017. Geometry and compartmentalization of fluvial meander-belt reservoirs at the bar-form scale: quantitative insight from outcrop, modern and subsurface analogues. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 82, 35-55. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.01.024

Bállico, M.B., Scherer, C.M.S, Mountney, N.P., Souza, E.G., Reis, A.D., Raja Gabaglia, G.P. and Magalhăes, A.J.C., 2017. Drying-upward cycles in a Mesoproterozoic aeolian erg-margin succession: Mangabeira Formation, Espinhaço Supergroup, Brazil. Sedimentary Geology, 349, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.12.008

Zhao, J., Lui, C. Huang, L., Han, S., Liu, P Hu, J. and Mountney, N.P., 2016. Original sedimentary pattern of an inverted basin: a case study from the Bozhong Depression, offshore Bohai Bay Basin. Acta Geologica Sinica – English Edition, 90, 2163-2181.

Medici, G., West, L.J. and Mountney, N.P., 2016. Characterizing flow pathways in a sandstone aquifer: tectonic vs sedimentary heterogeneities. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 194, 36-58. doi: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2016.09.008

Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Howell, J.A., Rittersbacher, A. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2016. Geological modeling of outcrop successions to assess analog-based predictions of the sedimentary heterogeneity in fluvial reservoirs. AAPG Search and Discovery, 41771, 1-4.

Colombera, L., Mountney, N.P., Hodgson, D.M. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2016. The Shallow-Marine Architecture Knowledge Store: a database for the characterization of shallow-marine and paralic depositional systems. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 75, 83-99. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.03.027

Colombera, L., Shiers, M.N. and Mountney, N.P., 2016. Assessment of backwater controls on the architecture of distributary-channel fills in a tide-influenced coastal-plain succession: Campanian Neslen formation, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86, 1-22. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2016.33

Colombera, L, Mountney, N.P., Howell, J.A., Rittersbacher, A., Felletti, F. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2016. A test of analog-based tools for quantitative prediction of large-scale fluvial architecture. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 100, 237-267. doi: 10.1306/11181514227

Zhao, J., Liu, C., Mountney, N.P., Lu, J., Cao, J., Yang, Y. and Xue, R., 2016. Timing of uplift and evolution of the Lüliang Mountains, North China Craton. Science China: Earth Sciences, 59, 58-69. doi: 10.1007/s11430-015-5153-z

Soltan, R. and Mountney, N.P., 2016. Interpreting complex fluvial channel and barform architecture: Carboniferous Central Pennine Province, northern England. Sedimentology, 63, 207-252. doi: 10.1111/sed.12224

Zhao, J., Mountney, N.P., Liu, C., Qu, H. and Lin, J., 2015. Outcrop Architecture of a Fluvio-Lacustrine Succession: Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 68, 394-413. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.09.001

Medici, G., Boulesteix, K., Mountney, N.P., West, L.J. and Odling, N.E., 2015. Palaeoenvironment of braided fluvial systems in different tectonic realms of the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, UK. Sedimentary Geology, 329, 188-210. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.09.012

Spychala, Y.T., Hodgson, D.M., Flint, S.S. and Mountney, N.P., 2015. Transient but pertinent: constraining the sedimentary architecture of submarine intraslope lobes using exhumed examples from the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Sedimentary Geology, 322, 67-81. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.03.013

Ghazi, S. and Mountney, N.P. and Sharif, S., 2015. Lower Permian fluvial cyclicity and stratigraphic evolution on the northern margin of Gondwanaland: Warchha Sandstone, Salt Range, Pakistan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 105, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.03.001

Colombera, L, Mountney, N.P. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2015. A meta-study of relationships between fluvial channel-body stacking pattern and aggradation rate: implications for sequence stratigraphy. Geology, 43, 283-286. doi:10.1130/G36385.1

Almasrahy, M.A. and Mountney, N.P., 2015. A classification scheme for fluvial–aeolian system interaction in desert-margin settings. Aeolian Research, 17, 67-88. doi:10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.01.010

Venus, J.H., Mountney, N.P. and McCaffrey, W.D., 2015. Synsedimentary salt diapirism as a control on fluvial system evolution: an example from the Permian Cutler Group, SE Utah, U.S.A. Basin Research, 27, 152-182. doi: 10.1111/bre.12066