Publications - Allen W. Archer

• For 1996
• For 1995
• For 1994
• For 1993
• For 1992
• For 1991
• For 1990
• For 1989
• For 1988 and earlier

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Publications for 1996:

• Archer, Allen W., 1996. Reliability of lunar orbital periods extracted from ancient cyclic tidal rhythmites: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 141: 1-10.

• Archer, Allen W., 1996. Panthalassa: paleotidal resonance and a global paleocean seiche: Paleoceanography, in press.

• Archer, Allen W., 1996. Some controls on ancient occurrences of cyclical tidal rhythmites: Tidalites '96, International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, Savannah, Georgia, May 12, 1996, Abstracts Volume, p. 6-7.

• Archer, Allen W., Howard R. Feldman, Christopher G. Maples, Hans-Peter Schultze, and Ronald R. West, 1996. Sequence stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lagerstatten (Carboniferous: U.S. Mid-Continent): Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. A-184.

• Calder, John H., Andrew C. Scott, Allen W. Archer, Graham Dolby, and Deborah M. Skilliter, 1996. The fossil record at Joggins: a second look: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. A-106.

• Ehlers, Todd A., Marjorie A. Chan, Allen W. Archer, and Erik P. Kvale, 1996. Tidal cyclicities and estuarine deposition of the Proterozoic Big Cottonwood Formation, north-central Utah: Tidalites '96, International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, Savannah, Georgia, May 12, 1996, Abstracts Volume, p. 27.

• Greb, Stephen F., and Allen W. Archer, 1996. Controls on shallow-water cyclic rhythmite preservation: examples from the Carboniferous, USA: Tidalites '96, International Conference on Tidal Sedimentology, Savannah, Georgia, May 12, 1996, Abstracts Volume, p. 41.

• Johnson, Troy W. (1), Jeffery D. Gill (1), and Allen W. Archer, 1996. Modern analog of cyclical tidal rhythmites, Bay of Fundy, Canada: Kansas Academy of Science, Abstracts, v. 15, p. 27.

• Lambert, Michael W., and Allen W. Archer, 1996. Microfabric characteristics of cyclic tidal rhythmites: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 28, no. 7, p. A-406.

  
  

Publications for 1995:

• Archer, Allen W., 1995. Modeling of tidal rhythmites based on a range of diurnal to semidiurnal tidal-station data: Marine Geology 123: 1-10.

• Archer, Allen W., John H. Calder, Martin R. Gibling, Robert D. Naylor, Donald R. Reid, and Winton G. Wightman, 1995. Invertebrate trace fossils and agglutinated foraminifera as indicators of marine influence within the classic Carboniferous section at Joggins, Nova Scotia: Canadian Journal of Earth Science 32: 2027-2039.

• Archer, Allen W., Marjorie A. Chan, and Erik P. Kvale, 1995. Image analysis of Precambrian cyclic rhythmites, Big Cottonwood Formation, Central Utah: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 3, p. 35.

• Archer, Allen W., and Howard R. Feldman, 1995. Incised valleys and estuarine facies of the Douglas Group (Virgilian): implications for similar Pennsylvanian sequences in the U.S. Mid-Continent, in N. Hyne, ed., Sequence Stratigraphy of the Mid-Continent: Tulsa Geol. Soc., p. 119-140.

• Archer, Allen W., and Stephen F. Greb, 1995. An Amazon-scale drainage system in the early Pennsylvanian of Central North America: Journal of Geology, 103, p. 611-628.

• Archer, Allen W., and Howard R. Feldman, 1995. Relationships of carbonate and siliciclastic phases in the Douglas Group (Pennsylvanian: Virgilian) of Kansas: Geological Society of America, National Meeting, New Orleans (published abstract, Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 6).

• Archer, Allen W., Howard R. Feldman, Stephen F. Greb, Gerald J. Kuecher, Erik P. Kvale, and Robert D. Naylor, 1995. Laminated shales in Carboniferous coal measures: limnic or paralic? Geological Society of America, National Meeting, New Orleans (published abstract, Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 6).

• Archer, Allen W., Gerald Kuecher, and Erik P. Kvale, 1995. The role of tidal-velocity asymmetries in the deposition of silty tidal rhythmites (Carboniferous, Eastern Interior Coal Basin): Journal of Sedimentary Research, A65: 408-416.

• Feldman, Howard R., Gibling, Martin R., Archer, Allen W., Wightman, Winton G., and Lanier, William, P., 1995. Stratigraphic architecture of the Tonganoxie Paleovalley Fill (Lower Virgilian) in Northeastern Kansas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 79, p. 1019-1043.

• Greb, Stephen F., and Allen W. Archer, 1995. Rhythmic sedimentation in a mixed tide and wave deposit, Hazel Patch Sandstone (Pennsylvanian), Eastern Kentucky Coal Field: Journal of Sedimentary Research, B65: 93-106.

• Kvale, Erik P., Jeff Cutright, Douglas Bilodeau, Allen W. Archer, Hollis R. Johnson, and Brian Pickett, 1995. Analysis of modern tides and implications for ancient tidalites: Continental Shelf Research, v. 15, p. 1921-1943.

• Tessier, Bernadette, Allen W. Archer, William P. Lanier, and Howard R. Feldman, 1995. Comparison of ancient tidal rhythmites (Carboniferous of Kansas and Indiana, USA) with modern analogues (the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, France): Special Publications of the International Association of Sedimentologists, v. 24, p. 259-271.

Publications for 1994:

• Archer, Allen W., 1994. Extraction of sedimentological information via computer-based image analyses of gray shales in Carboniferous coal-bearing sections of Indiana and Kansas, USA: Mathematical Geology 26: 47-65.

• Archer, Allen W., and Howard R. Feldman, 1994. Tidal influence in Carboniferous fine-grained limestones [Rhythmites tidales dans les calcaires caboniferes aux Etats-Unis]: Geobios, M.S., no. 16, p. 283-291.

• Archer, Allen W., Howard R. Feldman, Erik P. Kvale, and William P. Lanier, 1994. Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) fluvio- to tidal-estuarine coal-bearing systems: delineation of facies transitions based upon physical and biogenic sedimentary structures. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 106:171-185.

• Archer, Allen W., William P. Lanier, Howard R. Feldman, 1994. Fluvio-estuarine transitions within incised paleovalley fills, Douglas Group (Stephanian; Upper Carboniferous) of Kansas, U.S.A: in R. Boyd, R. Dalrymple, and B. Zaitlin, eds., Incised Valley Fill Systems, SEPM Special Paper 51, p. 175-190.

• Chan, Marjorie A., Erik P. Kvale, Allen W. Archer, and Charles P. Sonett, 1994. Oldest direct evidence of lunar-solar tidal forcing encoded in sedimentary rhythmites, Proterozoic Big Cottonwood Formation, central Utah: Geology, 22:791-794.

• Feldman, Howard R., Richard Lund, Christopher G. Maples, and Allen W. Archer, 1994. Origin of the Bear Gulch Beds [L'origine des couches de Bear Gulch]: Geobios, M.S., no. 16, p. 283-291.

• Kvale, Erik P., Gordon S. Fraser, Allen W. Archer, Ann Zawistoski, Nathan Kemp, and Patrick McGough, 1994. Evidence of seasonal precipatation in Pennsylvanian sediments of the Illinois Basin: Geology, 22:331-334.

Publications for 1993:

• Archer, Allen W., and Erik P. Kvale, 1993. Origin of gray-shale lithofacies ("clastic wedges") in U.S. midcontinental coal measures (Pennsylvanian): an alternative explanation, in J. C. Cobb, and B. Cecil, eds., Modern and Ancient Coal-Forming Environments: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 286, p. 181-192.

• Feldman, Howard R., Allen W. Archer, Erik P. Kvale, Christopher R. Cunningham, Christopher G. Maples, and Ronald R. West, 1993. A tidal model for Carboniferous conservat Lagerstatten formation: Palaois, 8:485-498.

• Feldman, Howard R., Mark A. Brown, and Allen W. Archer, 1993. Implications for sediment stability from benthic assemblages in Carboniferous grainstones: Evidence from the Salem Limestone (Mississippian, Indiana), in B. D. Keith, and C. W. Zuppann, eds., Mississippian Oolites of North America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology no. 35, p. 115-128.

• Lanier, William P., Howard R. Feldman, and Allen W. Archer, 1993. Tidally modulated sedimentation in a fluvial to estuarine transition, Douglas Group, Missourian-Virgilian, Kansas: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 63:860-873.

Publications for 1992:

• Archer, Allen W., and George R. Clark II, 1992. Depositional environment of the Dunbarella beds: an exercise in paleoecology and sediment cyclicity, in J. Zideck, ed., Geology and Paleontology of the Kinney Brick Pit Quarry, Late Pennsylvanian, central New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:27-36.

• Feldman, Howard, R., Allen W. Archer, Christopher G. Maples, and Ronald R. West, 1992. The Kinney Brick Company Quarry: preliminary analysis using an estuarine model, in J. Zideck, ed., Geology and Paleontology of the Kinney Brick Pit Quarry, Late Pennsylvanian, central New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Bulletin 138:21-26.

Publications for 1991:

• Archer, Allen W., 1991. Modeling of tidal rhythmites using modern tidal periodicities and implications for short-term sedimentation rates, in E. K. Franseen, W. L. Watney, C. G. St. C. Kendall, and W. C. Ross, eds., Sedimentary Modeling: Computer Simulations for Improved Parameter Definition: Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 233:185-194.

• Archer, Allen W., Erik P. Kvale, and Hollis R. Johnson, 1991. Analysis of modern equatorial tidal periodicities as a test of information encoded in tidal rhythmites, in D. G. Smith, G. E. Reinson, B. A. Zaitlain, and R. A. Rahmani, eds., Clastic Tidal Sedimentology: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 16:189-196.

• Kvale, Erik P., and Allen W. Archer, 1991. Characteristics of two Pennsylvanian-age semidiurnal tidal deposits in the Illinois Basin, U.S.A, in D. G. Smith, G. E. Reinson, B. A. Zaitlain, and R. A. Rahmani, eds., Clastic Tidal Sedimentology: Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 16:179-188.

Publications for 1990:

• Archer, Allen W., Erik P. Kvale, and Hollis R. Johnson, 1990. Discussion on Late Precambrian tidal rhythmites in South Australia and the history of the Earth's rotation: Journal of the Geological Society of London, 146:401-407.

• Brown, Mark A., Allen W. Archer, and Erik P. Kvale, 1990. Neap-spring tidal cyclicity in laminated carbonate channel-fill deposits and its implications: Salem Limestone (Mississippian), south-central Indiana, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 60:152-159.

• Kvale, Erik P., and Allen W. Archer, 1990. Tidal deposits associated with low-sulfur coals, Brazil Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian), Indiana: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 60:563-574.

Publications for 1989:

• Archer, Allen W., 1989. Modeling of Carboniferous tidal rhythmites based upon modern tidal data, in E. K. Franseen and W. L. Watney, eds., Sedimentary Modeling: Computer Simulation of Depositional Sequences: Kansas Geological Survey, Subsurface Geology Series 12:45-46.

• Archer, Allen W., and Christopher G. Maples, 1989. Reply [to comments by H. G. Pierce] on Monte Carlo simulation of selected binomial similarity coefficient (I): effect of number of variables: Palaios, 4:102-104.

• Archer, Allen W., and Christopher G. Maples, 1989. Response of selected binomial coefficients to varying degrees of matrix sparseness and to matrices with known data interrelationships: Mathematical Geology, 21:741- 753.

• Kvale, Erik P., Allen W. Archer, and Hollis R. Johnson, 1989. Daily, monthly, and yearly tidal cycles within laminated siltstones (Mansfield Formation: Pennsylvanian) of Indiana: Geology, 17:365-368.

• Maples, Christopher G., and Allen W. Archer, 1989. The potential of Paleozoic nonmarine trace fossils for paleoecological interpretations: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 73:185-195.

• Maples, Christopher G., and Allen W. Archer, 1989, Paleoecological and sedimentological significance of bioturbated crinoid calyces: Palaios, 4: 379-383.

Publications for 1988 and earlier:

• Maples, Christopher G., and Allen W. Archer, 1988. Monte Carlo simulation of selected binomial similarity coefficients (II): effect of sparse data: Palaios, 3:95-103.

• Archer, Allen W., and Christopher G. Maples, 1987. Analysis of binary similarity coefficients: effects of sample sizes upon distributions: Palaios, 2:609-617.

• Laferriere, Alan P., Donald E. Hattin, and Allen W. Archer, 1987. Effects of climate, tectonics, and sea-level changes on rhythmic bedding patterns in the Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous), U.S. Western Interior: Geology, 15:233-236.

• Maples, Christopher G., and Allen W. Archer, 1987. Trace-fossil holotypes from the freshwater Hindostan Whetstone Beds (Late Carboniferous) of Indiana: Journal of Paleontology, 61:890-897.

• Archer, Allen W., and Howard A. Feldman, 1986. Microbioherms of the Waldron Shale (Silurian, Indiana): implications for organic framework in Silurian reefs of the Great Lakes area: Palaios, 1:133-140.

• Maples, Christopher G., and Allen W. Archer, 1986. Trace fossils and carbonate cyclicity of Monteagle Limestone (Mississippian) of Alabama: Southeastern Geology, 27:35-43.

• Archer, Allen W., 1984. Preservational control of trace-fossil assemblages: Middle Mississippian carbonates of south-central Indiana: Journal of Paleontology, 58:285-297.

• Archer, Allen W., and Donald E. Hattin, 1984. Trace fossils in Upper Cretaceous shale of the Greenhorn and Niobrara Cyclothems, U.S. Western Interior: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 45:165-187.

• Archer, Allen W., and Christopher G. Maples, 1984. Pennsylvanian nonmarine trace-fossil assemblages: southwestern Indiana: Journal of Paleontology, 58:448-466.

• Indiana University Paleontology Seminar (A. W. Archer, D. J. Bottjer, J. B. Droste, A. S. Horowitz, S. M. Kelly, D. L. Krisher, and R. H. Shaver), 1980. Stratigraphy, structure, and zonation of large Silurian reef at Delphi, Indiana: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 64:115-131.