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Dale A. Leckie

Dale A. Leckie

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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
5390
World Ranking
8228
National Ranking
420

Overview

Dale A. Leckie is a researcher affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their primary area of expertise lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing a wide range of topics related to geological formations, paleoclimatology, and hydrocarbon exploration.

Their research spans several specialized subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geophysics

Leckie's work addresses topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • "Ancestral trans-North American Bell River system recorded in late Oligocene to early Miocene sediments in the Labrador Sea and Canadian Great Plains" (2021) published in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • "Low-accommodation foreland basin response to long-term transgression: A record of change from continental-fluvial and marginal-marine to open-marine sequences over 60,000 km2 in the western Canada foreland basin" (2022) in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Early Cretaceous evolution of the McMurray Formation: A review toward a better understanding of the paleo-depositional system" (2024) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "CORDILLERAN SEDIMENTS IN THE LABRADOR SEA: DETRITAL EVIDENCE FROM THE SAGLEK BASIN FOR THE OLIGOCENE-PLIOCENE TRANSCONTINENTAL BELL RIVER" (2020) in Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Leckie has worked collaboratively with several frequent coauthors, indicating ongoing partnerships in their research. Notable collaborators include:

  • Julia I. Corradino
  • Andrew Leier
  • David L. Barbeau
  • Howie D. Scher
  • Lisel Currie

Their research has appeared repeatedly in journals related to geological sciences, including:

  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Storm- and Tide-Dominated Shorelines in Cretaceous Moosebar-Lower Gates Interval--Outcrop Equivalents of Deep Basin Gas Trap in Western Canada

    Dale A. Leckie;Roger G. Walker

  • Hummocky Cross‐Stratification

    Richard J. Cheel;Dale A. Leckie

  • Seismic geomorphology and sedimentology of a tidally influenced river deposit, Lower Cretaceous Athabasca oil sands, Alberta, Canada

    Stephen M. Hubbard;Derald G. Smith;Haley Nielsen;Dale A. Leckie

  • On balanced and unbalanced accommodation/peat accumulation ratios in the Cretaceous coals from Gates Formation, Western Canada, and their sequence-stratigraphic significance

    C Diessel;R Boyd;J Wadsworth;D Leckie

  • Counter point bar deposits: lithofacies and reservoir significance in the meandering modern Peace River and ancient McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

    Derald G. Smith;Stephen M. Hubbard;Dale A. Leckie;Milovan Fustic

  • Is there evidence for geostrophic currents preserved in the sedimentary record of inner to middle-shelf deposits

    Dale A. Leckie;Lee F. Krystinik

  • Wave-Formed, Coarse-Grained Ripples and their Relationship to Hummocky Cross-Stratification

    Dale Leckie

  • Hummocky stratification: Significance of its variable bedding sequences: Discussion and reply

    Roger G. Walker;William L. Duke;Dale A. Leckie

  • Regional Setting, Evolution, and Depositional Cycles of the Western Canada Foreland Basin

    Dale A. Leckie;David G. Smith

  • Foreland Basins and Fold Belts

    Unknown

  • Sequences, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology: Surface and Subsurface

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  • Revised Stratigraphy of the Lower Colorado Group (Albian To Turonian), Western Canada

    J. Bloch;C. Schroeder-Adams;D. A. Leckie;D. J. McIntyre

  • Canterbury Plains, New Zealand--Implications for Sequence Stratigraphic Models

    Dale A. Leckie

  • Recognition of down-valley translation in tidally influenced meandering fluvial deposits, Athabasca Oil Sands (Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada

    Milovan Fustic;Milovan Fustic;Stephen M. Hubbard;Ron Spencer;Derald G. Smith

  • Organic-Rich, Radioactive Marine Shale: A Case Study of A Shallow-Water Condensed Section, Cretaceous Shaftesbury Formation, Alberta, Canada

    Dale A. Leckie;Chaitanya Singh;Fariborz Goodarzi;John H. Wall

  • Estuarine Deposits of the Albian Paddy Member (Peace River Formation) and Lowermost Shaftesbury Formation, Alberta, Canada

    Dale A. Leckie;Chaitanya Singh

  • Use of micromorphology for palaeoenvironmental interpretation of complex alluvial palaeosols: an example from the Mill Creek Formation (Albian), southwestern Alberta, Canada

    Paul J McCarthy;I.Peter Martini;Dale A Leckie

  • Sedimentological and petrographical characteristics of Cretaceous strandplain coals: a model for coal accumulation from the North American Western Interior Seaway

    Wolfgang Kalkreuth;Dale A. Leckie

  • Paleoenvironmental changes in the Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) Colorado Group of western Canada: microfossil, sedimentological and geochemical evidence

    C.J. Schröder-Adams;D.A. Leckie;J. Bloch;J. Craig

  • Multiple paleosols of the late Albian Boulder Creek Formation, British Columbia, Canada

    Dale Leckie;Catherine Fox;Charles Tarnocai

  • Stratigraphic Expression of Intra-Point-Bar Erosion and Rotation

    Paul R. Durkin;Stephen M. Hubbard;Ron L. Boyd;Dale A. Leckie

  • Incised Valleys in Time and Space

    Robert W. Dalrymple;Dale A. Leckie;Roderick W. Tillman

  • Provenance of the Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada: Implications for Continental-Scale Sediment Transport

    Christine Benyon;Andrew Leier;Dale A. Leckie;Andrew Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Hubbard
Stephen M. Hubbard University of Calgary
Steve Larter
Steve Larter University of Calgary
Ron Boyd
Ron Boyd University of Newcastle Australia
Derald G. Smith
Derald G. Smith University of Calgary
Mark V. H. Wilson
Mark V. H. Wilson Colorado College
Wolfgang Kalkreuth
Wolfgang Kalkreuth Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Bruce A. Kjarsgaard
Bruce A. Kjarsgaard Geological Survey of Canada
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Fabien Kenig
Fabien Kenig University of Illinois at Chicago
Charles Tarnocai
Charles Tarnocai Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

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