Coastal Geology - The Rodriguez Lab

Mattheus, C.R.^* and Rodriguez, A.B., in press, Controls on late Quaternary incised-valley dimension along passive margins evaluated using empirical data: Sedimentology.

Timmons, E.A.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., Mattheus, C.R.^*, and DeWitt, R., 2010, Transition of a regressive to a transgressive barrier island as a function of back-barrier erosion, climate change, and low sediment supply, Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA.: Marine Geology, v.278, p.100-114.

Rodriguez, A.B., Simms, A.R., and Anderson, J.B., 2010, Bay-head deltas across the northern Gulf of Mexico back step in response to the 8.2 ka cooling event: Quaternary Science Reviews, v.29, 3983-3993.

Anderson, J., Milliken, K., Wallace, D., Rodriguez, A., and Simms, A., 2010, Coastal impact underestimated from rapid sea level rise: Eos Trans. AGU, v. 91, no. 23, p. 205-212.

Mattheus, C.R.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., McKee, B.A., and Currin, C., 2010, Impact of land-use change and hard structures on the evolution of fringing marsh shorelines: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 88, p. 365-376.

Wallace, D.J., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2009, Natural versus anthropogenic mechanisms of erosion along the upper Texas Coast, in Kelly, J.T., Pilkey, O.H., and Cooper, J.A.G., eds.: America's Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities, Geological Society of America Special Paper 460, p. 137-147.

Mattheus, C.R.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., and McKee, B.A., 2009, Direct connectivity between upstream and downstream promotes rapid response of lower coastal-plain rivers to land-use change: Geophysical Research Letters v. 36, L20401, doi:10.1029/2009GL039995.

Waters, M., Piehler, M., Rodriguez, A.B., Smoak, D., and Bianchi, T., 2009, Shallow lake trophic status linked to late Holocene climate and human impacts: Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 42, p. 51-64.

Simms, A.R., Kalchgruber, R., Rodriguez, A.B., Lambeck, K., and Anderson J.B., 2009, Revisiting marine isotope stage 3 and 5a (MIS3-5a) sea levels within the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Global and Planetary Change, v. 66, p. 100-111.

Hampson, G.J., Rodriguez, A.B., Storms, J.E.A., Johnson, H.D., and Meyer, C.T.^*, 2008, Geomorphology and high-resolution stratigraphy of wave-dominated shoreline deposits: impact on reservoir-scale facies architecture, in Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publication 90, p. 117-142.

Milliken, K., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, A new composite Holocene sea-level curve for the northern Gulf of Mexico, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 1-12.

Rodriguez, A.B., Duran, D.M.^*, Mattheus, R.^*, and Anderson, J.B., 2008, Sediment accommodation control on estuarine evolution: An example from Weeks Bay, Alabama, USA in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 31-42.

Rodriguez, A.B., Greene, D.L.^*, Anderson, J.B. and, Simms, A.R., 2008, Response of Mobile Bay and Eastern Mississippi Sound, Alabama, to changes in sediment accommodation and accumulation, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 13-30.

Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A.B., Milliken, K., and Taviani, M., 2008, The Holocene evolution of the Galveston estuary complex, Texas: Evidence for rapid change in estuarine environments, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 89-104.

Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A.B., and Taviani, M., 2008, Mechanisms controlling environmental change within an estuary: Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 121-145.

Milliken, K., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, Record of dramatic Holocene environmental changes linked to eustasy and climate change in Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 43-64.

Milliken, K., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, Tracking the Holocene evolution of Sabine Lake through the interplay of eustasy, antecedent topography, and sediment supply variations, Texas and Louisiana, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 65-88.

Maddox, J., Anderson, J.B., Milliken, K., Rodriguez, A.B., Dellapenna, T.M., and Giosan, L., 2008, The Holocene evolution of the Matagorda and Lavaca estuary complex, Texas, USA, in Anderson, J.B. and Rodriguez, A.B., eds.: Response of Upper Gulf Coast Estuaries to Holocene Climate Change and Sea-level Rise, Geological Society of America Special Paper 443, p. 105-120.

Lambert, W.J.^*, Aharon, P., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2008, Catastrophic hurricane history revealed by organic geochemical proxies in coastal lake sediments: a case study of Lake Shelby, Alabama (USA): Journal of Paleolimnology; v. 39, p. 117-131.

Simms, A.R., Lambeck, K., Purcell, A., Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2007, Sea-level history for the Gulf of Mexico since the last glacial maximum with implications for the melting history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 920-940.

Bowling, J.C.^*, Harry, D.L., Rodriguez, A.B., and Zheng, C., 2007, Integrated geophysical and geological investigation of a heterogeneous fluvial aquifer in Columbus Mississippi: Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 62, p. 58-73.

Mattheus, R.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., Greene, D.L.^*, Simms, A.R., and Anderson, J.B., 2007, Control of upstream variables on incised-valley dimension: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 213-224.

Greene, D.L.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., 2007, Seaward-branching coastal-plain and piedmont incised-valley systems through multiple sea-level cycles: late Quaternary examples from Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 139-158.

Simms, A.R., Anderson, J.B., Taha, Z.P., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2006, Over-filled versus under-filled incised valleys: examples from the Quaternary Gulf of Mexico, in Dalrymple, R., Leckie, D., and Tillman, R. eds: Incised Valleys in Time and Space, SEPM Special Publication, v. 85, p. 117-139.

Bowling, J.C.^*, Zheng, C., Rodriguez, A.B., and Harry, D.L., 2006, Geophysical constraints on contaminant transport in a heterogeneous braided fluvial aquifer: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 85, p. 72-88.

Rodriguez A.B. and Meyer, C.T.^*, 2006, Sea-level variation during the Holocene deduced from the morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of Morgan Peninsula, Alabama, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research v. 76, p. 257-269.

Bowling, J.C.^*, Rodriguez, A.B., Harry, D.L., and Zheng, C., 2005, Delineating alluvial aquifer heterogeneity using resistivity and GPR data: Ground Water, v. 43, p. 890-903.

Harry, D.L., Koster, J., Bowling, J.C.^*, and Rodriguez, A.B., 2005, Multichannel analysis of surface waves generated during high-resolution seismic reflection profiling of a fluvial aquifer: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, v. 10, p. 123-133.

Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., and Simms, A.R., 2005, Terrace inundation as an autocyclic mechanism for parasequence formation: Galveston Estuary, Texas, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 75, p. 608-620.

Rodriguez, A.B., and Anderson, J.B., 2004, Contourite origin for shelf and upper slope sand sheet, offshore Antarctica: Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 699-711.

Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M., 2004, Holocene evolution of the east Texas coast and inner continental shelf: along strike variability in coastal retreat rates: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 406-422.

Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A., Abdulah, K.C., Banfield, L.B., McKeown, H.A., Wellner, J.S., 2004, Late Quaternary stratigraphic evolution of the northern Gulf of Mexico margin: a synthesis, in Anderson, J.B. and Fillon, R., eds: Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin, SEPM Special Publication, v. 79, p. 1-23.

Lambert, W.J.^*, Aharon, P.R., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2003, A review of the late Holocene record of severe storm impacts obtained from Lake Shelby, Alabama: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 53.

Metcalf, M.J.^* and Rodriguez, A.B., 2003, Sedimentary facies and Holocene evolution of the Mobile Bay-head Delta, Alabama: Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Sediments 2003. CD-ROM Published by World Scientific Publishing Corp. and East Meets West Productions, ISBN 981-238-422-7, 8 p.

Anderson, J.B., Rodriguez, A.B., Fletcher, C., and FitzGerald, D. 2001, Researchers focus attention on coastal response to climate change: Eos Trans. AGU, v. 82, no. 44, p. 513-520.

Rodriguez, A.B., Fassell, M.L., and Anderson, J.B., 2001, Variations in shoreface progradation and ravinement along the Texas coast, Gulf of Mexico: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 837-853.

Anderson, J.B., and Rodriguez, A.B., 2000, Differences in late Quaternary highstand, lowstand, and transgressive fluvial channels of the east Texas shelf: implications for shelf-upper slope reservoir models: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 50, p. 343-348.

Rodriguez, A.B. and Anderson, J.B., 2000, Mapping bay-head deltas within incised valleys as an aid for predicting the occurrence of barrier shoreline sands: an example from the Trinity/Sabine incised valley: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 50, p. 755-758.

Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Banfield, L.A., Taviani, M., Abdulah, K., and Snow, J.N. 2000, Identification of a  -15 m middle Wisconsin shoreline on the Texas inner continental shelf: Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, v. 159, p. 25-43.

Rodriguez, A.B., Hamilton, M.D., and Anderson, J.B., 2000, Evolution and facies architecture of the Brazos Delta, Texas: wave versus flood influence: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 283-295.

Domack, E.W., Taviani, M., and Rodriguez, A.B., 1999, Recent sediment remolding on a deep shelf, Ross Sea: implications for radiocarbon dating of Antarctic marine sediments: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 18, p. 1445-1451.

Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., Siringan, F.P., and Taviani, M., 1999, Sedimentary facies and genesis of Holocene sand banks on the East Texas inner continental shelf, in Bergman, K.M., and Snedden, J.W., eds: Isolated Shallow Marine Sand bodies: Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis and Sedimentologic Interpretation, SEPM Special Publication, v. 64, p. 165-178

Rodriguez, A.B., Anderson, J.B., and Bradford, J., 1998, Holocene tidal deltas of the Trinity incised valley: analogs for exploration and production: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 48, p. 373-380.

Banfield, L.A., Rodriguez, A.B., Snow, J.N., Anderson, J.B., Abdulah, K.C., Eckles, B.J., Sarzalejo, S., and Carney, J.L., 1997, Using high-resolution sequence stratigraphic studies of Quaternary strata to develop realistic models for predicting the stratigraphic occurrence of reservoirs: Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation 18th Annual Research Conference, p. 21-31.