Elizabeth Hajek

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, Geosciences

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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