Ganapathy Shanmugam
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Ganapathy Shanmugam's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of Melbourne
- Masters Geology University of Melbourne
- Bachelors Geology University of Melbourne
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- Significance of Coniferous Rain Forests and Related Organic Matter in Generating Commercial Quantities of Oil, Gippsland Basin, Australia (1985) (487)
- 50 years of the turbidite paradigm (1950s—1990s): deep-water processes and facies models—a critical perspective (2000) (429)
- Sequence of structures in fine-grained turbidites: Comparison of recent deep-sea and ancient flysch sediments (1980) (393)
- Fan-deltas and braid deltas: Varieties of coarse-grained deltas (1987) (391)
- High-Density Turbidity Currents: Are They Sandy Debris Flows?: PERSPECTIVES (1996) (334)
- Submarine fans: Characteristics, models, classification, and reservoir potential (1988) (264)
- The Bouma Sequence and the turbidite mind set (1997) (239)
- Deep-Water Processes and Facies Models: Implications for Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs (2006) (209)
- Experiments on subaqueous sandy gravity flows: The role of clay and water content in flow dynamics and depositional structures (2001) (206)
- Ten turbidite myths (2002) (176)
- Eustatic control of turbidites and winnowed turbidites (1982) (159)
- Deep-marine tidal bottom currents and their reworked sands in modern and ancient submarine canyons (2003) (154)
- Process Sedimentology and Reservoir Quality of Deep-Marine Bottom-Current Reworked Sands (Sandy Contourites): An Example from the Gulf of Mexico (1993) (153)
- Basin-Floor Fans in the North Sea: Sequence Stratigraphic Models vs. Sedimentary Facies (1995) (147)
- Slump and Debris-Flow Dominated Upper Slope Facies in the Cretaceous of the Norwegian and Northern North Seas (61-67°N): Implications for Sand Distribution (1994) (141)
- Reinterpretation of Depositional Processes in a Classic Flysch Sequence (Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group), Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma: Discussion (1997) (127)
- Process-sedimentological challenges in distinguishing paleo-tsunami deposits (2012) (121)
- Tide-Dominated Estuarine Facies in the Hollin and Napo ("T" and "U") Formations (Cretaceous), Sacha Field, Oriente Basin, Ecuador (2002) (120)
- Types of submarine fan lobes; models and implications (1991) (111)
- Submarine fans: A critical retrospective (1950-2015) (2016) (109)
- The landslide problem (2015) (108)
- Sandy Debrites and Tidalites of Pliocene Reservoir Sands in Upper-Slope Canyon Environments, Offshore Krishna–Godavari Basin (India): Implications (2009) (101)
- Analogous tectonic evolution of the Ordovician foredeeps, southern and central Appalachians (1982) (99)
- New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones: Origin, Recognition, Initiation, and Reservoir Quality (2012) (98)
- The Tsunamite Problem (2006) (98)
- Fan deltas and braid deltas: conceptual problems (1986) (98)
- Modern internal waves and internal tides along oceanic pycnoclines: Challenges and implications for ancient deep-marine baroclinic sands (2013) (89)
- Chapter 5 Deep-water Bottom Currents and their Deposits (2008) (84)
- New perspectives on deep-water sandstones: Implications (2013) (83)
- Ophiolitic source rocks for Taconic-age flysch: Trace-element evidence: Discussion and reply (1985) (80)
- Global case studies of soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS): Definitions, classifications, advances, origins, and problems (2017) (71)
- The seismite problem (2016) (70)
- Eustatic Control of Submarine Fan Development (1985) (68)
- A model for carbonate to terrigenous clastic sequences (1983) (68)
- Traction structures in deep-marine, bottom-current-reworked sands in the Pliocene and Pleistocene, Gulf of Mexico (1993) (66)
- The constructive functions of tropical cyclones and tsunamis on deep-water sand deposition during sea level highstand: Implications for petroleum exploration (2008) (66)
- Origin, Recognition, and Importance of Erosional Unconformities in Sedimentary Basins (1988) (63)
- Sedimentation, subsidence, and evolution of a foredeep basin in the Middle Ordovician, southern Appalachians (1980) (60)
- Is the turbidite facies association scheme valid for interpreting ancient submarine fan environments (1985) (52)
- Tectonic significance of distal turbidites in the Middle Ordovician Blockhouse and lower Sevier formations in East Tennessee (1978) (52)
- Submarine Fan Models: Problems and Solutions (1985) (49)
- Contourites: Physical oceanography, process sedimentology, and petroleum geology (2017) (44)
- Eustatic control of calciclastic turbidites (1984) (41)
- The Contourite Problem (2017) (38)
- Fine-grained Carbonate Debris Flow, Ordovician Basin Margin, Southern Appalachians (1978) (36)
- Leaves in turbidite sands: The main source of oil and gas in the deep-water Kutei Basin, Indonesia: Discussion (2008) (36)
- Rhythms in deep sea, fine‐grained turbidite and debris‐flow sequences, Middle Ordovician, eastern Tennessee (1980) (35)
- Slides, Slumps, Debris Flows, Turbidity Currents, and Bottom Currents (2013) (35)
- Comparison of turbidite facies associations in modern passive-margin Mississippi fan with ancient active-margin fans (1988) (35)
- Duplex-like structures in submarine fan channels, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas (1988) (33)
- Porosity Enhancement from Chert Dissolution Beneath Neocomian Unconformity: Ivishak Formation, North Slope, Alaska: Reply (1) (1990) (32)
- Significance of Secondary Porosity in Interpreting Sandstone Composition (1985) (32)
- The hyperpycnite problem (2018) (31)
- 49 years of the turbidite paradigm " 0849 sÐ 0889 s # ] deep ! water processes and facies models * a critical perspective (2000) (30)
- Comment on “Internal waves, an under-explored source of turbulence events in the sedimentary record” by L. Pomar, M. Morsilli, P. Hallock, and B. Bádenas [Earth-Science Reviews, 111 (2012), 56–81] (2013) (28)
- Manganese distribution in the carbonate fraction of shallow and deep marine lithofacies, Middle Ordovician, Eastern Tennessee (1983) (27)
- Types of Porosity in Sandstones and Their Significance in Interpreting Provenance (1985) (25)
- TRANSPORT MECHANISMS OF SAND IN DEEP-MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: INSIGHTS BASED ON LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS—DISCUSSION (2011) (25)
- Submarine Fan Sedimentation, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma: ABSTRACT (1984) (24)
- Slides, Slumps, Debris Flows, and Turbidity Currents (2008) (23)
- A global satellite survey of density plumes at river mouths and at other environments: Plume configurations, external controls, and implications for deep-water sedimentation (2018) (22)
- Modern internal waves and internal tides along oceanic pycnoclines: Challenges and implications for ancient deep-marine baroclinic sands: ReplyDiscussion and Reply (2014) (22)
- Slump and debris-flow dominated basin-floor fans in the North Sea: an evaluation of conceptual sequence-stratigraphical models based on conventional core data (1996) (21)
- Discussion on Mulder et al. (2001, Geo-Marine Letters 21: 86–93) Inversely graded turbidite sequences in the deep Mediterranean. A record of deposits from flood-generated turbidity currents? (2002) (20)
- A sequence stratigraphic study of lower cretaceous deposits in the northernmost North Sea (1995) (19)
- Deep-Marine Bottom-Current Reworked Sand (Pliocene and Pleistocene), Ewing Bank 826 Field, Gulf of Mexico (1995) (18)
- Discussion of He et al. (2011, Geo-Marine Letters) Evidence of internal-wave and internal-tide deposits in the Middle Ordovician Xujiajuan Formation of the Xiangshan Group, Ningxia, China (2012) (18)
- SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology (2009) (18)
- Review of research in internal-wave and internal-tide deposits of China: Discussion (2014) (17)
- The fallacy of interpreting SSDS with different types of breccias as seismites amid the multifarious origins of earthquakes: Implications (2017) (15)
- Sedimentary facies of the Nova Scotian upper and middle continental slope, offshore eastern Canada (1985) (15)
- Porosity Prediction in Sandstones Using Erosional Unconformities (1990) (15)
- Core-based evidence for sandy slump and sandy debris flow facies in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for submarine fan models (1996) (14)
- Anatomy of the middle ordovician sevier shale basin, eastern Tennessee (1983) (13)
- Fan-deltas and braid deltas: Varieties of coarse-grained deltas: Discussion and reply (1988) (13)
- Glossary: A supplement to “Submarine fans: A critical retrospective (1950–2015)” in the Journal of Palaeogeography (2016, 5[2]) (2016) (12)
- Slides, Slumps, Debris Flows, Turbidity Currents, Hyperpycnal Flows, and Bottom Currents (2019) (12)
- An Unconventional Model for the Deep-Water Sandstones of the Jackfork Group (Pennsylvanian), Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and Oklahoma (1994) (10)
- Perception vs. reality in deep-water exploration (1996) (10)
- Deep-Marine Facies Models and the Interrelationship of Depositional Components in Time and Space (1990) (9)
- Climatic and tectonic controls of lacustrine hyperpycnite origination in the Late Triassic Ordos Basin, central China: Implications for unconventional petroleum development: Discussion (2019) (9)
- The turbidite-contourite-tidalite-baroclinite-hybridite problem: orthodoxy vs. empirical evidence behind the “Bouma Sequence” (2021) (8)
- SIGNIFICANCE OF FRAMEWORK DISSOLUTION IN INTERPRETING SANDSTONE PROVENANCE (1985) (8)
- Reservoir Description of a Sand-Rich Submarine Fan Complex for a Steamflood Project: Upper Miocene Potter Sandstone, North Midway Sunset Field, California: ABSTRACT (1989) (8)
- Comparison of Modern Mississippi Fan with Selected Ancient Fans (1988) (8)
- Reply to discussions by Zavala (2019) and by Van Loon, Hüeneke, and Mulder (2019) on Shanmugam, G. (2018, Journal of Palaeogeography, 7 (3): 197–238): ‘the hyperpycnite problem’ (2019) (7)
- Slope turbidite packets in a fore-arc basin fill sequence of the Plio-Pleistocene Kakegawa Group: their formation and sea-level changes — discussion (1997) (7)
- Comment on “Ichnological analysis of contourites: Past, present and future” by Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar and F. Javier Hernández-Molina [Earth-Science Reviews, 182 (2018), 28–41] (2018) (7)
- Slump Dominated Upper Slope Reservoir Facies, Intra Qua Iboe (Pliocene), Edop Field, Offshore Nigeria: ABSTRACT (1995) (7)
- Bioturbation and trace fossils in deep-water contourites, turbidites, and hyperpycnites: A cautionary note (2018) (6)
- Comments and Reply on ‘Eustatic control of turbidites and winnowed turbidites’ REPLY (1983) (6)
- Secondary Porosity in Sandstones: Basic Contributions of Chepikov and Savkevich (1984) (6)
- ABSTRACT: Deep-Marine Tidal Bottom Currents and Their Reworked Sands in Submarine Canyons: Implications for Sand Distribution (2001) (5)
- Origin and Classification of Sandy Mass-Transport Deposits (2012) (5)
- A Preliminary Experimental Study of Turbidite Fan Deposits: Discussion (2003) (5)
- Gravity flows: Types, definitions, origins, identification markers, and problems (2020) (4)
- The response of stromatolites to seismic shocks: Tomboliths from the Palaeoproterozoic Chaibasa Formation, E India: Discussion and liquefaction basics (2017) (4)
- Global significance of wind forcing on deflecting sediment plumes at river mouths: Implications for hyperpycnal flows, sediment transport, and provenance (2019) (4)
- Comment and Reply on ‘Analogous tectonic evolution of the Ordovician foredeeps, southern and central Appalachians’ (1983) (4)
- 3D palaeogeographic reconstructions of the Phanerozoic versus sea-level and Sr-ratio variations: Discussion (2015) (4)
- Sedimentation in the Chile Trench: Depositional morphologies, lithofacies, and stratigraphy: Discussion and reply (1987) (4)
- Sandy-Mass-Transport Deposits (SMTD) in Deep-Water Environments: Recognition, Geometry, and Reservoir Quality* (2010) (4)
- Recognition of Sandy Mass-Transport Deposits (2012) (3)
- Deep-Water Processes and Facies Models: A Paradigm Shift for the 21st Century (1999) (3)
- Comment and Reply on Diagenetic quartzarenite and destruction of secondary porosity: An example from the Middle Jurassic Brent sandstone of northwest Europe (1990) (3)
- Submarine Fan Lobe Models: Implications for Reservoir Properties (1990) (3)
- Discussion: “Turbidites and turbidity currents from Alpine ‘flysch’ to the exploration of continental margins” by Mutti et al. (2009), Sedimentology, 56, 267–318 (2010) (3)
- Sandy Slump and Sandy Debris Flow Facies in the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Submarine Fan Models: ABSTRACT (1996) (3)
- Secondary porosity in sandstones (1983) (3)
- Facies Analysis of Upper Jackfork Formation (Pennsylvanian), DeGray Dam, Arkansas: ABSTRACT (1984) (3)
- Deep-Water Sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group, Ouachita Mountains: A Debris-Flow- and Slump-Dominated Slope System (1994) (2)
- Parameters Influencing Porosity in Sandstones: A Model for Sandstone Porosity Prediction: DISCUSSION (1988) (2)
- Facies Comparison of Modern Mississippi Fan and Ancient Fans: ABSTRACT (1986) (2)
- Gravity flows: debris flows, grain flows, liquefied/fluidized flows, turbidity currents, hyperpycnal flows, and contour currents (2021) (2)
- Comment on “A new classification system for mixed (turbidite-contourite) depositional systems: Examples, conceptual models and diagnostic criteria for modern and ancient records” by S. Rodrigues, F.J. Hernández-Molina, M. Fonnesu, E. Miramontes, M. Rebesco, D. C. Campbell [ (2022), https://doi.org/1 (2022) (1)
- Quantitative Basin Analysis and Evolution of Deep-Marine Shale Basin, Middle Ordovician, Southern Appalachians: ABSTRACT (1979) (1)
- Porosity Prediction in Sandstones Using Erosional Unconformities: ABSTRACT (1988) (1)
- Comment and Reply on “Provenance of the Middle Ordovician Blount clastic wedge, Georgia and Tennessee”COMMENT (1985) (1)
- Utility of Mechanical Facies for Rock Classification, Characterization, and Correlation: Reservoir Characterization: Petrophysical Formation Evaluation and Rock Description (1991) (1)
- Chapter 6 – Implications for Deep-water Sandstone Reservoirs (2012) (1)
- Basin-Floor Fans in the North Sea: Conceptual Sequence Stratigraphic Models vs. Conventional Core Data: ABSTRACT (1995) (1)
- Reservoir Quality—Global Examples (2012) (1)
- Eustatic Control of Deep-Sea Reservoir Facies: ABSTRACT (1982) (1)
- Secondary Porosity in Sandstones: ABSTRACT (1983) (1)
- Effect of processing of turmeric rhizomes (Curcuma longa L.) on the concentrations of bioactive constituents (2018) (1)
- 150 Years (1872-2022) of research on deep-water processes, deposits, settings, triggers, and deformation: A difficult domain of progress, dichotomy, diversion, omission, and groupthink (2022) (1)
- Geologic Model of a Small, Intraslope Basin: Garden Banks 72 Field, Offshore Louisiana: ABSTRACT (1989) (1)
- Carboniferous flysch, Ouachita Mountains, southeastern Oklahoma; Big Cedar-Kiamichi Mountain section (1988) (0)
- Abstract: 50 Years of the Turbidite Paradigm (1948-1998): Deep-Water Processes and Facies Models -- A Critical Perspective (1999) (0)
- Correction to: The turbidite-contourite-tidalite-baroclinite-hybridite problem: orthodoxy vs. empirical evidence behind the “Bouma Sequence” (2021) (0)
- Deep-Water Sedimentation and Tectonics in Middle Ordovician Sevier Shale, Eastern Tennessee: ABSTRACT (1977) (0)
- Deep-marine sediments (2014) (0)
- Comment on “Ichnological analysis: A tool to characterize deep-marine processes and sediments” by Francisco J. Rodriguez-Tovar [Earth-Science Reviews, 228 (2022), 104014] (2022) (0)
- Rhythms in Deep-Marine Turbiditic Shales and Fine-Grained Debris Flow: ABSTRACT (1979) (0)
- An extended tribute to Professor George Devries Klein (1933-2018): A sedimentologic pioneer and a petroleum geologist (2018) (0)
- Book Review on River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis by Martin Gibling (2022) (0)
- Reservoir Compartmentalization of Deep-Water Intra Qua Iboe Sand (Pliocene), Edop Field, Offshore Nigeria: ABSTRACT (1995) (0)
- Chapter 5 - Initiation of Deep-Water Sediment Failures (2012) (0)
- Deep-Water Sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group, Ouachita Mountains: A Slope-Dominated System: ABSTRACT (1994) (0)
- Abstract: Complex deep-water origin of the Annot Sandstone (Eocene-Oligocene), Peira Cava, Southeastern France (2000) (0)
- Mass transport: slides, slumps, and debris flows (2021) (0)
- SURFACE CONTOURS AND SHAPES OF SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS (0)
- Is Turbidite Facies Association Scheme Valid for Interpreting Ancient Submarine-Fan Environments?: ABSTRACT (1985) (0)
- Debris Flow/Slump Emplacement of a Classic Turbidite"Sequence, Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group, Ouachita Mountains (Arkansas and Oklahoma): ABSTRACT" (1994) (0)
- Chapter 4 - Bottom-Current Reworked Sands (2012) (0)
- A tribute to Prof. Zeng–Zhao Feng (6th July, 1926–5th January, 2023): reminiscing about an iconic sedimentologist in China (2023) (0)
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