Scholars@Duke
Lincoln F. Pratson

Lincoln F. Pratson

Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment
Earth and Climate Sciences
lincoln.pratson@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328
9 Circuit Drive, 3119 Grainger Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Repurposing horizontally drilled oil & gas wells for geothermal systems using a coaxial borehole heat exchanger

Journal Article Energy Conversion and Management · January 15, 2026 Former oil/gas wells can be converted into geothermal wells by retrofitting them with a coaxial borehole heat exchanger (CBHE). While previous research has largely focused on direct heating applications for retrofitted vertical oil/gas wells, most onshore ... Full text Cite

Influence of Flash Droughts and High Fuel Prices on Recent Spikes in Grain Barge Rates on the Mississippi River

Journal Article Water Resources Research · July 1, 2025 In 2022, 2023 and 2024, flash droughts in the U.S. Midwest caused the lower Mississippi River to drop to record low levels during corn and soybean harvest season. Grain barges that move the crops downriver to New Orleans for export were forced to reduce th ... Full text Cite

Techno-economic assessment of repurposing oil & gas wells for Enhanced Geothermal Systems: A New Mexico, USA feasibility study

Journal Article Energy Conversion and Management X · October 1, 2024 Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) produce renewable power that can complement variable renewable sources such as wind and solar, but EGS is expensive to deploy due to high cost of drilling geothermal wells. Repurposing abandoned or declining oil and gas we ... Full text Cite

Sanctions Effects on Russia: A Possible Sanction Transmission Mechanism?

Journal Article European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research · June 1, 2024 This study examines the effects of sanctions implemented by the European Union and the United States of America against the Russian Federation following the latter’s annexation of the Crimea Peninsula and invasion of Eastern Ukraine. The analysis focuses o ... Full text Cite

Impacts of EU Sanctions Levied in 2014 on Individual European Countries' Exports to Russia: Winners and Losers

Journal Article Eastern Economic Journal · April 1, 2024 We analyse the effects of sanctions implemented by the European Union against Russia following the latter’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Indirect effects of sanctions on its non-prohibited exports to Russia are examined using a gravity model of trade that ... Full text Cite

Assessing impacts to maritime shipping from marine chokepoint closures

Journal Article Communications in Transportation Research · December 1, 2023 Global supply chain disruptions caused by the six-day blockage of the Suez Canal in March 2021 and the reduction in shipping through the Bosporus Strait since the onset of the Ukraine War in February 2022 are recent demonstrations of the critical importanc ... Full text Cite

Corrigendum to “Assessing impacts to maritime shipping from marine chokepoint closures” [Commun. Transport. Res. 3 (2023) 100083](S2772424722000336)(10.1016/j.commtr.2022.100083)

Journal Article Communications in Transportation Research · December 1, 2023 The authors regret that the header of Table 4 was missed. Table 4 should be as follows:[Formula presented] ... Full text Cite

Market prospects for biogas-to-energy projects in the U.S.A. based on a techno-economic assessment of major biogas sources in North Carolina

Journal Article Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments · December 1, 2023 Current market potential for biogas-to-energy projects in the United States is analyzed based on levelized cost of energy (LCOE) estimates for producing renewable electricity, compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) and renewable natural gas at 2,837 landfills, w ... Full text Open Access Cite

The myth of US energy independence

Journal Article Nature Energy · June 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Low Back Pain

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Low back pain is a common clinical condition with most people experiencing low back pain during at least one point in their life and represents the fifth most common reason for visits to physicians. In a global study, low back pain was the highest cause of ... Full text Cite

Predicting seismic velocity and other rock properties from clay content only

Journal Article Geophysics · January 1, 2021 It has been shown that accurate predictions of compressional and shear-wave velocities can be derived from measurements of clay content, porosity, and bulk density. In this paper, we test the efficacy of using a sequence of established petrophysical formul ... Full text Cite

Hybrid input-output analysis of embodied energy security.

Journal Article Applied energy · December 2020 National energy security depends on a stable network of international trade in not only primary energy (e.g., crude oil and natural gas) and secondary energy (electricity), but also embodied energy. The latter consists of both direct energy used to directl ... Full text Cite

Correction for Worman et al., Abiotic hydrogen (H2) sources and sinks near the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR) with implications for the subseafloor biosphere.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2020 Full text Cite

Abiotic hydrogen (H2) sources and sinks near the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR) with implications for the subseafloor biosphere.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · June 2020 Free hydrogen (H2) is a basal energy source underlying chemosynthetic activity within igneous ocean crust. In an attempt to systematically account for all H2 within young oceanic lithosphere (<10 Ma) near the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR), we ... Full text Cite

Maritime piracy in the Strait of Hormuz and implications of energy export security

Journal Article Energy Policy · May 1, 2020 Persian Gulf Countries (PGC) are collectively the world's largest exporter of fuels. The vast majority of these fuels are shipped via maritime routes and require transit through the Strait of Hormuz. As such, the Strait of Hormuz is considered the most imp ... Full text Cite

Differentiating the Effects of Climate Change-Induced Temperature and Streamflow Changes on the Vulnerability of Once-Through Thermoelectric Power Plants.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · April 2019 Thermoelectric power plants with once-through cooling systems generated 30% (∼300 GW) of U.S. electricity in 2016. Factors that reduce once-through cooling capacity and thus power output are environmental regulations, warming surface waters, and drought. T ... Full text Cite

Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · September 2016 Modeling studies predict that droughts and hotter water and air temperatures caused by climate warming will reduce the efficiency (η) of thermoelectric plants by 0.12-0.45% for each 1 °C of warming. We evaluate these predictions using historical performanc ... Full text Cite

Residential Solar PV Systems in the Carolinas: Opportunities and Outcomes.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · February 2016 This paper presents a first-order analysis of the feasibility and technical, environmental, and economic effects of large levels of solar photovoltaic (PV) penetration within the services areas of the Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (D ... Full text Cite

Global rate and distribution of H2 gas produced by serpentinization within oceanic lithosphere

Journal Article Geophysical Research Letters · January 1, 2016 It has recently been estimated that serpentinization within continental lithosphere produces H2 at rates comparable to oceanic lithosphere (both are ~1011 mol H2/yr). Here we present a simple model that suggests that H ... Full text Cite

Employment trends in the U.S. Electricity Sector, 2008-2012

Journal Article Energy Policy · January 1, 2015 Between 2008-2012, electricity generated (GWh) from coal, the longtime dominant fuel for electric power in the US, declined 24%, while electricity generated from natural gas, wind and solar grew by 39%, 154%, and 400%, respectively. These shifts had major ... Full text Cite

A "carbonshed" assessment of small- vs. large-scale CCS deployment in the continental US

Journal Article Applied Energy · January 1, 2014 We present a model for rapidly costing and mapping out the cheapest option for organizing infrastructure to transport and store the CO2 emissions that might be captured in United States if carbon capture and storage (CCS) is deployed. We present the organi ... Full text Cite

Economic viability of energy storage systems based on price arbitrage potential in real-time U.S. electricity markets

Journal Article Applied Energy · January 1, 2014 Energy storage systems (ESSs) can increase power system stability and efficiency, and facilitate integration of intermittent renewable energy, but deployment of ESSs will remain limited until they achieve an attractive internal rate of return (IRR). Linear ... Full text Cite

Fuel prices, emission standards, and generation costs for coal vs natural gas power plants.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · May 2013 Low natural gas prices and stricter, federal emission regulations are promoting a shift away from coal power plants and toward natural gas plants as the lowest-cost means of generating electricity in the United States. By estimating the cost of electricity ... Full text Cite

Global CO2 storage potential of self-sealing marine sedimentary strata

Journal Article Geophysical Research Letters · October 16, 2012 One potential way to geologically sequester captured CO2 emissions is to inject them below the seafloor into marine sedimentary strata where pressures and temperatures would trap the CO2 through "self-sealing" gravitational and hydrat ... Full text Cite

The impact of geologic variability on capacity and cost estimates for storing CO 2 in deep-saline aquifers

Journal Article Energy Economics · September 1, 2012 While numerous studies find that deep-saline sandstone aquifers in the United States could store many decades worth of the nation's current annual CO 2 emissions, the likely cost of this storage (i.e. the cost of storage only and not capture and ... Full text Open Access Cite

Survival of a submarine canyon during long-term outbuilding of a continental margin

Journal Article Geology · June 1, 2012 Net-depositional submarine canyons are common in continental slope strata, but how they survive and prograde on constructional margins is poorly understood. In this study we present field evidence for the coevolution of a submarine canyon and the adjacent ... Full text Cite

The potential of waste-to-energy in reducing GHG emissions

Journal Article Carbon Management · April 1, 2012 Background: The combustion of municipal solid waste (MSW) to generate heat or electricity (waste-to-energy [WTE]) could reduce net GHG emissions in the USA compared with combusting methane from landfills. Moreover, negative CO 2 emissions could ... Full text Cite

Effects of well spacing on geological storage site distribution costs and surface footprint.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · April 2012 Geological storage studies thus far have not evaluated the scale and cost of the network of distribution pipelines that will be needed to move CO(2) from a central receiving point at a storage site to injection wells distributed about the site. Using possi ... Full text Cite

The potential impacts of climate-change policy on freshwater use in thermoelectric power generation

Journal Article Energy Policy · October 1, 2011 Climate change policy involving a price on carbon would change the mix of power plants and the amount of water they withdraw and consume to generate electricity. We analyze what these changes could entail for electricity generation in the United States und ... Full text Cite

Transient erosion in the Valencia Trough turbidite systems, NW Mediterranean Basin

Journal Article Geomorphology · July 15, 2011 Submarine canyons can efficiently drain sediments from continental margins just as river systems do in subaerial catchments. Like in river systems, submarine canyons are often arranged as complex drainage networks that evolve from patterns of erosion and d ... Full text Cite

Physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics of a reservoir sediment delta (Lake Powell, U.S.A.) and implications for water quality during low water level.

Journal Article Journal of environmental quality · March 2011 Lake Powell is a large reservoir in Utah and Arizona that has experienced large changes in water level during a recent drought. As a first step in assessing the connection between hydrologic and chemical changes at Lake Powell, we characterized the particl ... Full text Cite

A cooperative federalism framework for CCS regulation

Journal Article Environmental & Energy Law Journal of the University of Houston Law Center · 2011 Cite

Potential economies of scale in CO2 transport through use of a trunk pipeline

Journal Article Energy Conversion and Management · December 1, 2010 A number of existing models for the transport of CO2 in carbon capture and storage assume the CO2 will be carried through isolated pipelines that connect each source to the nearest storage site. However storage costs will vary geograp ... Full text Cite

The influence of sea level and tectonics on Late Pleistocene through Holocene sediment storage along the high-sediment supply Waipaoa continental shelf

Journal Article Marine Geology · April 15, 2010 We present geophysical and core evidence showing how subsidence caused by forearc shortening has accommodated Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments supplied to the tectonically active Waipaoa shelf (NZ), limiting off-shelf export during the early sea lev ... Full text Cite

Sustainable product indexing: Navigating the challenge of ecolabeling

Journal Article Ecology and Society · January 1, 2010 There is growing scientific evidence that improving the sustainability of consumer products can lead to significant gains in global sustainability. Historically, environmental policy has been managed by bureaucracies and institutions in a mechanistic manne ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Effectiveness of Arsenic Remediation from Groundwater in a Private Home

Journal Article GROUND WATER MONITORING AND REMEDIATION · 2010 Full text Cite

A model for the long-profile shape of submarine canyons

Journal Article Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · March 4, 2009 Submarine canyons are shaped by turbidity currents flowing down the continental slope. But canyon morphology also depends on the patterns of sediment deposition that drive long-term outbuilding of continental margins. Relating the importance of each to the ... Full text Cite

Physical and economic potential of geological CO2 storage in saline aquifers.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · March 2009 Carbon sequestration in sandstone saline reservoirs holds great potential for mitigating climate change, but its storage potential and cost per ton of avoided CO2 emissions are uncertain. We develop a general model to determine the maximum theoretical cons ... Full text Open Access Cite

Effects of subaqueous gravity flows on timing and patterns of basin infilling as documented in Lake Powell during a drought

Journal Article Geology · November 2008 http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/36/11/843 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinoform progradation by turbidity currents: Modeling and experiments

Journal Article Journal of Sedimentary Research · January 1, 2008 Clinoform morphologies and growth patterns are typically viewed as the product of a particular mode of sediment transport, but process-specific models for their generation from turbidity currents are few, despite observations of turbidity currents on moder ... Full text Cite

Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation

Journal Article Landscape Ecology · 2008 The dispersal of individuals among marine populations is of great importance to metapopulation dynamics, population persistence, and species expansion. Understanding this connectivity between distant populations is key to their effective conservation and m ... Full text Cite

Overpressure and slope stability in prograding clinoforms: Implications for marine morphodynamics

Journal Article Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · December 24, 2007 Rapid deposition of fine-grained sediments can lead to overpressure buildup along the fronts of prograding sedimentary bodies (clinoforms) ranging from deltas to continental margins. Overpressure reduces shear strength, which can lead to failure of submari ... Full text Cite

The impact of floods and storms on the acoustic reflectivity of the inner continental shelf: A modeling assessment

Journal Article Continental Shelf Research · February 1, 2007 Flood deposition and storm reworking of sediments on the inner shelf can change the mixture of grain sizes on the seabed and thus its porosity, bulk density, bulk compressional velocity and reflectivity. Whether these changes are significant enough to be d ... Full text Cite

Stratigraphic model predictions of geoacoustic properties

Journal Article IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering · April 1, 2006 Geoacoustic properties of the seabed have a controlling role in the propagation and reverberation of sound in shallow-water environments. Several techniques are available to quantify the important properties but are usually unable to adequately sample the ... Full text Cite

Fluvial and marine controls on combined subaerial and subaqueous delta progradation: Morphodynamic modeling of compound-clinoform development

Journal Article Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · June 1, 2005 Fluviodeltaic systems commonly display a compound-clinoform geometry that consists of a subaerial/subaqueous delta couplet. The extent of subaqueous delta development varies significantly and, in modern systems, is a function of fluvial input and basin hyd ... Full text Cite

Constraints on landscape evolution from slope histograms

Journal Article Geology · June 1, 2005 We analyzed >10,000 topographic slope histograms subsampled from digital elevation models (DEMs) of 28 landscapes throughout the continental United States. These landscapes are made up of diverse lithologies and have different climatic and tectonic histori ... Full text Cite

Experiment on turbidity currents and their deposits in a model 3D subsiding minibasin

Journal Article Journal of Sedimentary Research · January 1, 2005 Minibasins on the continental slope are formed by the movement of salt or mud layers in the subsurface. The north slope of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), for example, is riddled with salt-withdrawal minibasins ranging in scale from a few kilometers to tens of k ... Full text Cite

Source of the great tsunami of 1 April 1946: A landslide in the upper Aleutian forearc

Journal Article Marine Geology · January 30, 2004 The Unimak (eastern Aleutians) earthquake of April 1, 1946 is an enigma. The earthquake (MS=7.1) produced a disproportionately large tsunami (Mt=9.3) which killed 167 people. The tsunami was highly directional, and projected its large ... Full text Cite

Internal Tides and the Continental Slope

Journal Article American Scientist · 2004 Full text Cite

The shaping of continental slopes by internal tides.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · April 2002 The angles of energy propagation of semidiurnal internal tides may determine the average gradient of continental slopes in ocean basins (approximately 2 to 4 degrees). Intensification of near-bottom water velocities and bottom shear stresses caused by refl ... Full text Cite

Seismic modeling of experimental strata

Journal Article American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin · 2002 Cite

Seismic simulations of experimental strata

Journal Article AAPG Bulletin · January 1, 2002 Experimental strata formed in the new Experimental Earthscape (XES) basin at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory of the University of Minnesota offer a realistic model for simulating the seismic response of natural strata and thus for advancing understanding ... Cite

Exponential approximations to compacted sediment porosity profiles

Journal Article Computers and Geosciences · July 1, 2001 Sediment compaction and corresponding porosity variations can modeled by a simple exponential with depth. The porosity solution is derived analytically as a complicated function of pore water pressure, but the underlying form is shown as to approximate an ... Full text Cite

BANG1D: A one-dimensional, lagrangian model of subaqueous turbid surges

Journal Article Computers and Geosciences · July 1, 2001 BANG1D simulates the mechanics of a subaqueous, turbid surge, a seafloor-failure-induced turbidity current that behaves like a snow avalanche or a pyroclastic burst. BANG1D uses the one-dimensional, layer-averaged equations for the conservation of fluid, s ... Full text Cite

BANGID: A one-dimensional Lagrangian model of turbidity current mechanics

Journal Article Computers and Geosciences · 2001 Cite

Experimental Stratigraphy

Journal Article GSA Today · January 1, 2001 Stratigraphy has been a descriptive science for most of its history. Recently, thanks to the development of the mechanistic view of Earth embodied in plate tectonics and to improvements in our understanding of sediment dynamics, the stratigraphic community ... Full text Cite

Submarine landslide geomorphology, US continental slope

Journal Article Marine Geology · September 15, 2000 The morphometric analysis of submarine landslides in four distinctly different tectonic environments on the continental slopes of Oregon, central California, Texas, and New Jersey provides useful insight into submarine process, including sediment transport ... Full text Open Access Cite

Categorizing the morphologic variability of siliciclastic passive continental margins

Journal Article Geology · January 1, 2000 The basic morphology of the continental shelf, slope, and rise on passive continental margins has many variations in the modern ocean environment. Through using a satellite-derived bathymetric data set of the global ocean, we have developed a classificatio ... Full text Cite

Categorizing the morphologic variability of siliciclastic passive continental margins

Journal Article Geology · 2000 The basic morphology of the continental shelf, slope, and rise on passive continental margins has many variations in the modern ocean environment. Through using a satellite-derived bathymetric data set of the global ocean, we have developed a classificatio ... Full text Cite

Development of an elevation database for the U.S. coastal zone

Journal Article Surveying and Land Information Systems · March 1, 1999 Grids that integrate land and seafloor elevations are needed by planners using LIS/GIS software to manage the U.S. coastal zone which includes the country's 200-mile offshore limit. The National Geophysical Data Center is addressing this need by assembling ... Cite

Regional slope stability and slope-failure mechanics from the two-dimensional state of stress in an infinite slope

Journal Article Marine Geology · February 2, 1999 Rapid estimates of regional submarine slope stability can be obtained using 1-D infinite-slope analysis or empirical 2-D analyses, such as the log-spiral or φ-circle methods. In these methods, slope stability is evaluated along a pre-defined slip surface b ... Full text Cite

Exposing the U.S. coastal zone

Journal Article Eos · January 1, 1999 Full text Cite

Clinoform development by advection-diffusion of suspended sediment: Modeling and comparison to natural systems

Journal Article Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · October 10, 1998 Clinoforms are the building blocks of prograding stratigraphic sequences. These sigmoid-shaped surfaces can be found forming today on modern deltas. Sedimentation rate profiles over the clinoform surface of these deltas show low rates of sediment accumulat ... Full text Cite

Panoramas of the Seafloor

Journal Article Scientific American · June 1997 Full text Cite

Gravity gradiometry resurfaces

Journal Article Leading Edge Tulsa OK · January 1, 1997 Gravity gradiometry is a Gulf Coast exploration technique that records gravity gradients, which directly recovers sharp signals over the edges of structures. Thus, the concept of gravity gradiometry is 3-D gravity. Gravity gradiometry anomalies reflect the ... Full text Cite

New techniques for exploring the ultra-deep

Journal Article Petroleum Engineer International · October 1, 1996 Industry estimates of the hydrocarbon reserve potential for the U.S. sector of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico exceed 20 billion boe. However, the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf remain largely a geological and economic mystery. In order to successfully explore ... Cite

The kinematics and pattern of escarpment retreat across the rifted continental margin of SE Australia

Journal Article Basin Research · September 1, 1996 Rifted continental margins generally display an interior, low-relief, highly weathered upland area and a deeply incised, high-relief coastal area. The boundary between the two zones is commonly demarcated by an abrupt, seaward-facing escarpment. We investi ... Full text Cite

A model for the headward erosion of submarine canyons induced by downslope-eroding sediment flows

Journal Article Bulletin of the Geological Society of America · 1996 A simple, physically based computer model of continental slope evolution is used to investigate the sequence of submarine canyon formation. The model simulates submarine canyons as evolving under the influence of sedimentation, slope failure, sediment flow ... Full text Cite

Studies of mass-movement processes on submarine slopes

Journal Article Oceanography · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Automated drainage extraction in mapping the Monterey submarine drainage system, California margin

Journal Article Marine Geophysical Research · January 1, 1996 Drainage-extraction algorithms traditionally used for extracting river networks and watersheds from gridded land topography are applied to gridded multibeam bathymetry of the mid-California margin. The algorithms are used to automatically map two regional ... Full text Cite

Introduction to advances in seafloor mapping using sidescan sonar and multibeam bathymetry data

Journal Article Marine Geophysical Researches · January 1, 1996 This special issue is divided into three sections: data processing and enhancement; seabed classification; and seafloor feature extraction. Section I comprises three papers: shallow-water imaging multibeam sonars; improved processing of Hydrosweep DS multi ... Full text Cite

What is the slope of the U.S. continental slope?

Journal Article Geology · January 1, 1996 Extensive high-resolution, multibeam bathymetry of five U.S. continental margins provides new, detailed information about the angle of continental slopes in different sedimentary and tectonic settings. The steepest continental slope examined is the passive ... Full text Cite

A model for the headward erosion of submarine canyons induced by downslope-eroding sediment flows

Journal Article Bulletin of the Geological Society of America · 1996 A simple, physically based computer model of continental slope evolution is used to investigate the sequence of submarine canyon formation. The model simulates submarine canyons as evolving under the influence of sedimentation, slope failure, sediment flow ... Full text Cite

What is the slope of the US continental slope?

Journal Article Geology · 1996 Extensive high-resolution, multibeam bathymetry of five US continental margins provides new, detailed information about the angle of continental slopes in different sedimentary and tectonic settings. Frequency grids of local slope magnitude vs depth and di ... Full text Cite

Submarine canyon initiation by downslope-eroding sediment flows: evidence in late Cenozoic strata on the New Jersey continental slope.

Journal Article Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1994 Multibeam bathymetry and seismic reflection profiles of the New Jersey continental slope reveals a series of abandoned and now-buried submarine canyons that have apparently influenced the development of modern canyons. Re-use of the lower slope reach of th ... Full text Cite

The length-scaling properties of topography

Journal Article Journal of Geophysical Research · January 1, 1994 The scaling properties of synthetic topographic surfaces and digital elevation models (DEMs) of topography are examined by analyzing their "structure functions', i.e., the qth order powers of the absolute elevation differences: Δhq(l) = E {|h(x ... Full text Cite

Pliocene to Recent infilling and subsidence of intraslope basins offshore Louisiana

Journal Article American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin · January 1, 1994 Intraslope basins on the lower eastern Louisiana continental slope are modern analogs of large oil- and gas-charged basins infilled on the upper Louisiana slope and buried landward beneath the shelf. High-resolution, gridded multibeam bathymetry and single ... Cite

Submarine canyon initiation by downslope-eroding sediment flows: evidence in late Cenozoic strata on the New Jersey continental slope.

Journal Article Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1994 Multibeam bathymetry and seismic reflection profiles of the New Jersey continental slope reveals a series of abandoned and now-buried submarine canyons that have apparently influenced the development of modern canyons. Re-use of the lower slope reach of th ... Cite

Submarine canyon initiation by downslope-eroding sediment flows: evidence in late Cenozoic strata on the New Jersey continental slope.

Journal Article Geological Society of America Bulletin · 1994 Multibeam bathymetry and seismic reflection profiles of the New Jersey continental slope reveals a series of abandoned and now-buried submarine canyons that have apparently influenced the development of modern canyons. Re-use of the lower slope reach of th ... Full text Cite

Application of drainage extraction to NOAA gridded bathymetry of the US continental margin

Journal Article US Geological Survey Circular · January 1, 1992 Drainage-extraction algorithms are applied to grided bathymetry of the US continental margin. The algorithms are shown to be extremely useful in mapping submarine canyons, deep-sea channels, and the areas of the sea floor these systems drain. Subjective pa ... Cite

Intercomparison of co-registered seabeam bathymetry, hydrosweep bathymetry, SeaMARC I imagery and submersible observations on the continental slope of the eastern U.S.

Journal Article Oceans Conference Record IEEE · December 1, 1991 A 20 × 20 mile area of the continental slope between Lindenkohl and Hendrickson Canyons and between the water depths of 200 and 2300 meters has been surveyed in sequential field programs. The instruments used include the Seabeam and Hydrosweep multibeam ec ... Cite

Combining multispectral sonar imagery of Monterey Canyon with a digital terrain model for seabed characterization

Journal Article Oceans Conference Record IEEE · December 1, 1991 Multifrequency side-looking sonar backscatter data were collected with an instrument towed within the vicinity of the ocean floor through the Monterey Canyon and Fan during September, 1990. The main objective was to examine the textural property variations ... Cite

The relative importance of gravity-induced versus current-controlled sedimentation during the Quaternary along the Mideast U.S. outer continental margin revealed by 3.5 kHz echo character

Journal Article Marine Geology · January 1, 1989 A detailed echo-character map based on more than 50,000 km of 3.5 kHz echograms reveals the relative importance of contour currents, turbidity currents and mass-wasting processes for the upper 50-100 m of sea-floor sediments along the U.S. continental marg ... Full text Cite