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ANDRES ASLAN'S PUBLICATIONS

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS & BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS:

Aslan, A., Autin, W.J., Blum, M.D., 2005, Late Holocene Avulsion History of the
Mississippi River, south Louisiana, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 648-662.

Aslan, A., White, W.A., Warne, A.G., and Guevara, E.H. 2003. Holocene Evolution of
the western Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
115, p. 479-498.

Aslan, A. 2003, Floodplain Sediments. In Middleton, G.V. (ed.), Encyclopedia of
Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, p. 285-287.

Aslan, A. 2003, Palaeosols. In Goudie, A.G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology.
Routledge, London.

Aslan, A. 2003, Mud volcanoes. In Goudie, A.G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology.
Routledge, London.

White, W.A., Warne, A.G., Guevara, E.H., Aslan, A., Tremblay, T.A., and Raney J.A. 2002. Geo-Environments of the Northwest Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. Interciencia, v. 27. p. 521-528.

Warne, A.G., Guevara, E.H., and Aslan, A. 2002. Late Quaternary Evolution of the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. Journal of Coastal Research, v. 18, p. 225-253.

Warne, A.G., Meade, R.H., White, W.A., Guevara, E.H., Gibeaut, J., Smyth, R.C., Aslan, A., and Tremblay, T. 2002. Regional Controls on Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Ecosystem Integrity of the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. Geomorphology, v. 44, p. 273-307.

Aslan, A., Warne, A.G., White, W.A., Guevara, E.H., Smyth, R.C., Raney, J.A., and Gibeaut, J.C. 2001. Mud Volcanoes of the Orinoco Delta, Eastern Venezuela. Geomorphology, v. 41, p. 323-336.

Autin, W.J. and Aslan, A. 2001. Alluvial Pedogenesis in Pleistocene and Holocene Mississippi River deposits: Effects of relative sea level change. Geological Society of
America Bulletin, v. 113, p. 1456-1466.

Blum, M.D., Misner, T.J., Collins, E.S., Scott, D.B., Morton, R.A., and Aslan, A.2001.Middle Holocene Sea-Level Rise and Highstand at +2 m, Central Texas Coast.
Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 581-588.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1999. Evolution of the Holocene Mississippi River Floodplain, Ferriday, Louisiana: Insights on the Origin of Fine-Grained Floodplains. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69, p. 800-815.

Aslan, A. and Blum, M.D. 1999. Contrasting styles of Holocene avulsion, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, U.S.A. In Smith, N.D. and Rogers, J., eds., Fluvial Sedimentology VI, International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication, v. 28, p. 293-308.

Kraus, M.J. and Aslan, A. 1999. Paleosol sequences in floodplain environments: a hierarchical approach. In Thiry, M., ed., Palaeoweathering, Palaeosurfaces and Related Continental Deposits, International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication, v. 27, p. 303-321.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1998. Holocene Flood-plain Soil Formation in the Southern Lower Mississippi Valley: Implications for Interpreting Alluvial Paleosols. Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 110, p. 433-449.

Thewissen, J.G.M., Hussain, S.T., Arif, M., Aslan, A., Madar, S.I., and Roe, L.J. 1998.New Localities of Eocene Vertebrates in Northern Pakistan and their Significance for the Origin of the Modern Orders of Mammals. In Ghaznavi, M.I., Raza, S.M., and Hasan, M.T. (eds.) Siwaliks of South Asia, Proceedings of the Third Geosas Workshop, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, p. 19-34.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1996. Depositional and pedogenic influences on the environmental geology of Holocene Mississippi River floodplain deposits near Ferriday, Louisiana. Engineering Geology, v. 45, p. 417-432.

Aslan, A. and Thewissen, J.G.M. 1996. Preliminary evaluation of paleosols and implications for interpreting vertebrate fossil assemblages, Kuldana Formation, northern Pakistan. Palaeovertebrata, v. 25, p. 261-277.

Aslan, A. and Behrensmeyer, A.K., 1996, Taphonomy and time resolution of bone assemblages in a contemporary fluvial system: The East Fork River, Wyoming. PALAIOS, v. 11, p. 411-421.

Kraus, M.J. and Aslan, A. 1993. Eocene hydromorphic paleosols: significance for interpreting ancient floodplain processes, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 453-463.

Hasiotis, S., Aslan, A., Bown, T.M. 1993. Origin, architecture, and paleoecology of the Early Eocene continental ichnofossil Scaphicnium hamatum - integration of ichnology and paleopedology. Ichnos, v. 3, p. 1-9.

GUIDEBOOKS AND GUIDEBOOK ARTICLES:

Aslan, A., Livaccari, R., Hood, W., Betton, C., and Garhart, A. 2005. Geological History of
the Uncompahgre Plateau and Unaweep Canyon, 2005 GSA Rocky Mt Section
Guidebook, Grand Junction, CO.

Blum, M., Rittenour, T., Guccione, M.J., Holbrook, J., Autin, W.J., and Aslan, A. 2001. Lower Mississippi Valley of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and Fluvial Systems of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Guideook for 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology.

Aslan, A., Autin, W.J., and Tornqvist, T.E. 1995. Holocene and Wisconsinan sedimentation, soil formation, and evolution of the Mississippi River floodplain, southern Lower Mississippi Valley, in Autin, W.J. and John, C.J., eds., Guidebook of Geological Excursions, GSA 1995 Annual Meeting Guidebook, New Orleans, Louisiana, p. 59-93.

Autin, W.J., Aslan, A., Snead, J., and McCraw, D.J. 1993. Wisconsinan constructional alluviation of the Mississippi River: review of the Avoyelles Prairie Area, in Autin, W.J. and Pearson, C.E., eds., Quaternary Geology and Geoarchaeology of the Lower Red River Valley, Friends of the Pleistocene South Central Guidebook, p. 103-114.

ABSTRACTS:

Aslan, A., Quigley, J., Cole, T., Grubbs, D., Kellerby, D., Meunier, Y., Polson, J., Rodriguez,
T., and Stover, J. 2005. Geological mapping of Quaternary Colorado and Gunnison
River terrraces in the Grand Valley, western Colorado. GSA Abstracts with Programs.

Betton, C., Aslan, A., and Cole, R., 2005. Late Cenozoic erosional history and major drainage changes of the Colorado-Gunnison River systems, western Colorado. GSA Abstracts with Programs.

Baker, G. and Aslan, A. 2005. Integrating geology and geophysics to determine the origin of Unaweep Canyon and Late Cenozoic fluvial incision in the Colorado Plateau-Rocky Mountain region. GSA Abstracts with Programs.

Aslan, A., Nelson, M., Hayden, A., and Hodge, J. 2004. Geoarcheology and alluvial history
of Sieber Canyon, Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area, Western Colorado.
GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 212.

Aslan, A., Wilson, R., Riddle, P., and Quist, E. 2003. Eolian influences on soils of the Grand Valley, western Colorado. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, p. 170.

Garhart, A., Aslan, A., and Betton, C., 2003. Origin of late Cenozoic lacustrine deposits on the Uncompahgre Plateau of western Colorado, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 35,
p. 170.

Guevara, E.H., Aslan, A., White, W.A., Raney, J.A. and Gibeaut, J.C. 2003. Depositional processes and facies distribution in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela: Constraints for reservoir models. AAPG International Conference, Official Program, p. A37.

Aslan, A., Autin, W.J., Campbell, A., Carrier, J. McClain, R., Rudolf, D., and Thomas, A. 2002. Are Late Pleistocene braided-stream terraces in the southern Lower Mississippi Valley glacial in origin?, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 128.

Aslan, A., and Cole, R.D., 2002. Sedimentologic comparison of two new Lave Creek B ash occurrences in western Colorado, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 127.

Baker, F., Rundell, J., Hasebi, K., Cole, R., and Aslan, A. 2002. Geomorphic evolution of Grand Mesa, western Colorado, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 472.

Scott, R.B., Steven, T.A., Betton, C.W., Cole, R., Aslan, A., and Hood, W.C., 2002. Evidence for Late Cenozoic uplift on the Uncompahgre Plateau, northeastern Colorado Plateau, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, p. 472.

Aslan, A., Autin, W.J. and Blum, M.J. 2001. Responses of the Mississippi and Texas Coastal Plain Rivers to Late Quaternary Sea-Level Rise, 7th International Fluvial Sedimentology Conference, Abstract with Programs p. 49.

Aslan, A., Garhart, A., Boxberger, T., and Autin, W.J. 2001. Provenance and Stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene Alluvium in the Lower Mississippi Valley, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-72.

Evans, F.B., Autin, W.J., Tahar, M.Z., and Aslan, A. 2001. Magnetic Susceptibility as an indicator of Textural, Mineralogical, and Chemical Properties of Lower Mississippi Valley Sediments, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-72.

Warne, A.G., White, W.A., Aslan, A., and Guevara, E.H. 2001. Extensive Late Holocene Peat Deposits in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela - A Modern Analog for Coal Development in a Tropical Delta, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. A-55.

Cole, R.D. and Aslan, A. 2001. Late Cenozoic erosional evolution of Grand Mesa, western Colorado: Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts (Rocky Mountain Sectional meeting).

Aslan, A., and Autin, W. J. 2000. Chronology of Holocene Mississippi River Meander-belts: An Assessment, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-55.

Autin, W. J. and Aslan, A. 2000. Roger Saucier and Glacio-eustasy in the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV), GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-55.

LaBounty, S., Aslan, A.. and Vincent, K.R. 2000. Anthropogenic Influences on the Floodplain History of the North Fork of the Gunnison River, Colorado, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, p. A-270.

Warne, A.G., White, W.A., Guevara, E.H., and Aslan, A. 2000. Regional controls on the Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Ecosystem Integrity of the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 81, no. 48, H61B-02.

Aslan, A., Warne, A.G., White, W.A., Gibeaut, J.C., and Guevara, E. 1999. Geomorphology and Depositional systems of the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A-423.

Aslan, A. and Blum, M. D. 1999. The Significance of Avulsion During Valley Filling (Transgressive and Highstand Systems Tracts), Louisiana and Texas Coast, AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 8, p. A-7.

Aslan, A., Morton, R.A., White, W.A., Raney, J.A., and Guevara, E.H. 1999. Geologic Framework of the Holocene Orinoco Delta, Venezuela, AAPG Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 8, p. A-7.

Aslan, A., Autin, W. J., Blum, M. D., and Broussard, T.J. 1998. Late Holocene Mississippi and Red River Avulsion in Louisiana, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A-294.

Blum, M.D., Durbin, J., Morton, R., Aslan, A., Carter, A., Price, D. 1998. Incised valleys, falling stage fluvial deposits, and the forced regressive systems tract; Pleistocene
examples from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain (USA), 15th International Sedimentological Congress, Abstracts, p. 200.

Aslan, A., Riley, A., and Blum, M.D. 1997. Late Quaternary incised valley fills and alluvial paleosols of the Colorado River, Texas Coastal Plain, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, n. 6, p. 113.

Aslan, A., Autin, W. J., and Blum, M. D. 1997. Holocene Mississippi River Avulsion: Insights from the Atchafalaya River. p. 13 in Rogers, J. J. (ed.) Abstracts, 6th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology. Postgraduate Conference Division, University of Cape Town.

Aslan, A. and Blum, M. D. 1997. Contrasting Styles of Holocene Colorado River Avulsion, Texas Coastal Plain. p. 14 in Rogers, J. J. (ed.) Abstracts, 6th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology. Postgraduate Conference Division, University of Cape Town.

Kraus, M.J. and Aslan, A. 1996. Variability in floodplain paleosols: a hierarchical approach, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, p. A472.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1995. Holocene evolution of the Mississippi River floodplain, Ferriday, Louisiana, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, p. A213

Autin, W.J., Aslan, A., and Saucier, R.T. 1995. Current issues in Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) Research, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, p. A213.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1994. Depositional controls on fluid migration and composition in the Mississippi River alluvial aquifer, Ferriday, Louisiana, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. 205

Tornqvist, T.E., Aslan, A., Autin, W.J. 1994. Holocene fluvial styles of the Lower Mississippi River - A preliminary assessment. Abstracts, 14th International Sedimentological Congress.

Aslan, A., Hasiotis, S., Autin, W.J. 1993. Holocene trace fossils and biofabrics of floodplain sediments and soils, GSA Abstracts with Programs Rocky Mt. section, v. 25, no. 5.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1993. Holocene construction of the Mississippi River floodplain and the significance of crevassing, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 272.

Aslan, A., Kraus, M.J., and Autin, W.J. 1993. Holocene Floodplain Soils of the Mississippi River: Significance for the Interpretation of Alluvial Paleosols, in Follmer, L.R., Johnson, D.L., and Catt, J.A. (eds.) Revisitation of Concepts in Paleopedology; Transactions of the 2nd International Symposium on Paleopedology, Quaternary International, v. 51-52, p. 36-37.

Kraus, M.J. and Aslan, A. 1993. Using Alluvial Paleosols to Interpret Floodplain Processes, in Follmer, L.R., Johnson, D.L., and Catt, J.A. (eds.) Revisitation of Concepts in Paleopedology; Transactions of the 2nd International Symposium on Paleopedology, Quaternary International, v. 51-52, p. 37-38.

Aslan, A. and Autin, W.J. 1992. Holocene flood plain soil formation in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: implications for the interpretation of alluvial paleosols, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 7, p. 228.

Autin, W.J. and Aslan, A. 1992. Late Pleistocene paleosols in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: documentation of regional base level change, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 7, p. 228.

Aslan, A. and Kraus, M.J. 1990. Depositional control of chemical variations in alluvial paleosols, Willwood Fm., Bighorn Basin. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, no. 7, p. 317.

Aslan, A. 1989. Paleotopographic controls on mudstone sequence variations in the Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 6, p. 127.

Aslan, A. and Behrensmeyer, A.K. 1987. Vertebrate taphonomy in the East Fork River, Wyoming. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, no. 7, p. 575.


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