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Overview

Dale S. Sawyer is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research spans key areas in engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on ocean engineering, environmental chemistry, and geophysics.

Their work is primarily concentrated on several specialized topics, including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

The scientist has contributed to data from several recent publications related to well logging data, including:

  • IODP Expedition 314, Hole C0003A - Well Logging Data (2020), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 141, Hole 860B - Well Logging Data (2020), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ODP Leg 141, Hole 860B - Well Logging Data (2020), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 141, Hole 863B - Well Logging Data (2020), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • IODP Expedition 314, Hole C0006B - Well Logging Data (2021), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Dale S. Sawyer frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Toshiya Kanamatsu
  • Michael B. Underwood
  • Gaku Kimura
  • Jan H. Behrmann
  • K.L. Milliken

Their publications appear often in these venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Breakup of the Newfoundland Iberia rift

    B. E. Tucholke;D. S. Sawyer;J.-C. Sibuet

  • Distribution of Crust and Early History, Gulf of Mexico Basin

    Richard T. Buffler;Dale S. Sawyer

  • Tectonosedimentary evolution of the deep Iberia‐Newfoundland margins: Evidence for a complex breakup history

    Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic;Gianreto Manatschal;Tim A. Minshull;Dale S. Sawyer

  • How preexisting weaknesses control the style of continental breakup

    John A. Dunbar;Dale S. Sawyer

  • Free gas at the base of the gas hydrate zone in the vicinity of the Chile triple junction

    Nathan L. B. Bangs;Dale S. Sawyer;Xenia Golovchenko

  • The crust under the Gulf of Mexico basin

    Dale S. Sawyer;Richard T. Buffler;Rex H. Pilger

  • Assessment of crustal velocity models using seismic refraction and reflection tomography

    Colin A. Zelt;Kalachand Sain;Julia V. Naumenko;Dale S. Sawyer

  • Mechanisms of extension at nonvolcanic margins: Evidence from the Galicia interior basin, west of Iberia

    M. Perez-Gussinye;M. Perez-Gussinye;César R. Ranero;Timothy J. Reston;D. Sawyer

  • Deep structure of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, offshore South Carolina, from coincident ocean bottom and multichannel seismic data

    W. Steven Holbrook;E. C. Reiter;G. M. Purdy;D. Sawyer

  • Continental rifting at pre-existing lithospheric weaknesses

    John A. Dunbar;Dale S. Sawyer

  • EDGE deep seismic reflection transect of the eastern Aleutian arc-trench layered lower crust reveals underplating and continental growth

    J. Casey Moore;John Diebold;M. A. Fisher;J. Sample

  • Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

    P. B. Flemings;H. Long;B. Dugan;J. Germaine

  • Crustal structure of the Southeast Georgia embayment-Carolina trough: Preliminary results of a composite seismic image of a continental suture(?) and a volcanic passive margin

    James A. Austin;Paul L. Stoffa;Joseph D. Phillips;Jinyong Oh

  • Total tectonic subsidence: A parameter for distinguishing crust type at the U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin

    Dale S. Sawyer

  • Implications of continental crust extension for plate reconstruction: An example from the Gulf of Mexico

    John A. Dunbar;Dale S. Sawyer

  • Fault-controlled hydration of the upper mantle during continental rifting

    G. Bayrakci;T. A. Minshull;D. S. Sawyer;Timothy J. Reston

  • Rapid forearc basin uplift and megasplay fault development from 3D seismic images of Nankai Margin off Kii Peninsula, Japan

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Nathan L.B. Bangs;Gregory F. Moore;Juichiro Ashi

  • Patterns of continental extension along the conjugate margins of the central and North ATLANTIC Oceans and Labrador Sea

    John A. Dunbar;Dale S. Sawyer

  • Brittle failure in the upper mantle during extension of continental lithosphere

    Dale S. Sawyer

  • Basaltic volcanism, mantle plumes, and the mechanics of rifting: The Paraná flood basalt province of South America

    Dennis L. Harry;Dale S. Sawyer

  • THE OCEAN / CONTINENT TRANSITION BENEATH THE IBERIA ABYSSAL PLAIN AND CONTINENTAL-RIFTING TO SEAFLOOR-SPREADING PROCESSES

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Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Reston
Timothy J. Reston University of Birmingham
Julia K. Morgan
Julia K. Morgan Rice University
Timothy A. Minshull
Timothy A. Minshull University of Southampton
César R. Ranero
César R. Ranero Spanish National Research Council
Dirk Klaeschen
Dirk Klaeschen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Yosio Nakamura
Yosio Nakamura The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
Nathan L. Bangs
Nathan L. Bangs The University of Texas at Austin
Brian E. Tucholke
Brian E. Tucholke Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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