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Research Summary
Stratigraphic record to reconstruct past landscape conditions and predict sedimentary-system dynamics including autogenic sedimentary processes, reconstructing paleo-landscape dynamics, quantitative stratigraphy, and basin analysis.
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Recent Publications
The Fate of Bars in Braided Rivers
Alpheus, S. & Hajek, E., 2024, In: Sedimentary Record. 22, 1, p. 1-17 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Assessing the preservation of orbital signals across different sedimentary environments: Insights from stochastic sedimentation modeling
Wang, M., Li, M., Hajek, E. A., Kemp, D. B., Wu, Y., Zhu, H., Huang, C., Zhang, H., Ji, K., Zhang, R., Wei, R. & Jin, Z., Sep 15 2024, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 642, 118866.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Evidence for enhanced fluvial channel mobility and fine sediment export due to precipitation seasonality during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
Barefoot, E. A., Nittrouer, J. A., Foreman, B. Z., Hajek, E. A., Dickens, G. R., Baisden, T. & Toms, L., 2022, In: Geology. 50, 1, p. 116-120 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Rivers in reverse: Upstream-migrating dechannelization and flooding cause avulsions on fluvial fans
Edmonds, D. A., Martin, H. K., Valenza, J. M., Henson, R., Weissmann, G. S., Miltenberger, K., Mans, W., Moore, J. R., Slingerland, R. L., Gibling, M. R., Bryk, A. B. & Hajek, E. A., 2022, In: Geology. 50, 1, p. 37-41 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Field evidence for disequilibrium dynamics in preserved fluvial cross-strata: A record of discharge variability or morphodynamic hierarchy?
Lyster, S. J., Whittaker, A. C., Hajek, E. A. & Ganti, V., Feb 1 2022, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 579, 117355.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The problem of paleo-planforms
Lyster, S. J., Whittaker, A. C. & Hajek, E. A., Jul 2022, In: Geology. 50, 7, p. 822-826 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reconstructing subsurface sandbody connectivity from temporal evolution of surface networks
Steel, E., Paola, C., Chadwick, A. J., Hariharan, J., Passalacqua, P., Xu, Z., Michael, H. A., Brommecker, H. & Hajek, E. A., Aug 2022, In: Basin Research. 34, 4, p. 1486-1506 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bringing sedimentology and stratigraphy into the StraboSpot data management system
Duncan, C. J., Chan, M. A., Hajek, E., Kamola, D., Roberts, N. M., Tikoff, B. & Walker, J. D., 2021, In: Geosphere. 17, 6, p. 1914-1927 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quantifying bankfull flow width using preserved bar clinoforms from fluvial strata
Greenberg, E., Ganti, V. & Hajek, E., Sep 2021, In: Geology. 49, 9, p. 1038-1043 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reconstructing the morphologies and hydrodynamics of ancient rivers from source to sink: Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, Utah, USA
Lyster, S. J., Whittaker, A. C., Hampson, G. J., Hajek, E. A., Allison, P. A. & Lathrop, B. A., Oct 2021, In: Sedimentology. 68, 6, p. 2854-2886 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mud in sandy riverbed deposits as a proxy for ancient fine-sediment supply
Wysocki, N. & Hajek, E., 2021, In: Geology. 49, 8, p. 931-935 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Morphodynamic Hierarchy and the Fabric of the Sedimentary Record
Ganti, V., Hajek, E. A., Leary, K., Straub, K. M. & Paola, C., Jul 28 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 14, e2020GL087921.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Buffered, Incomplete, and Shredded: The Challenges of Reading an Imperfect Stratigraphic Record
Straub, K. M., Duller, R. A., Foreman, B. Z. & Hajek, E. A., Mar 1 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 125, 3, e2019JF005079.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Using bar preservation to constrain reworking in channel-dominated fluvial stratigraphy
Chamberlin, E. P. & Hajek, E. A., Jun 1 2019, In: Geology. 47, 6, p. 531-534 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation
Lyons, S. L., Baczynski, A. A., Babila, T. L., Bralower, T. J., Hajek, E. A., Kump, L. R., Polites, E. G., Self-Trail, J. M., Trampush, S. M., Vornlocher, J. R., Zachos, J. C. & Freeman, K. H., Jan 1 2019, In: Nature Geoscience. 12, 1, p. 54-60 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review