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Gregory S. Mountain is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Within these broad fields, their work focuses on several subfields, including:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Geophysics
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science

The main topics of Gregory S. Mountain's research include:

  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Several recent papers reflect the diversity of their research interests. These include:

  • Cenozoic sea-level and cryospheric evolution from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records, 2020, Science Advances
  • Ancient Sea Level as Key to the Future, 2020, Oceanography
  • The Role of Premagmatic Rifting in Shaping a Volcanic Continental Margin: An Example From the Eastern North American Margin, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Influence of Mantle Dynamic Topographical Variations on US Mid-Atlantic Continental Margin Estimates of Sea-Level Change, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Re-organization of Pacific overturning circulation across the Miocene Climate Optimum, 2024, Nature Communications

Gregory S. Mountain frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Kenneth G. Miller, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Miriam Katz, Craig S. Fulthorpe, and John E. Damuth.

Their publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • AAPG Bulletin

Best Publications

  • The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change

    Kenneth G. Miller;Michelle A. Kominz;James V. Browning;James D. Wright

  • Tertiary oxygen isotope synthesis, sea level history, and continental margin erosion

    Kenneth G. Miller;Richard G. Fairbanks;Gregory S. Mountain

  • Cenozoic sea-level and cryospheric evolution from deep-sea geochemical and continental margin records.

    Kenneth G. Miller;James V. Browning;W. John Schmelz;Robert E. Kopp

  • A 180-Million-Year Record of Sea Level and Ice Volume Variations from Continental Margin and Deep-Sea Isotopic Records

    Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain;James D. Wright;James V. Browning

  • Cenozoic global sea level, sequences, and the New Jersey Transect: Results From coastal plain and continental slope drilling

    Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain;James V. Browning;Michelle Kominz

  • Seismic Stratigraphy, Lithostratigraphy and Paleosedimentation Patterns in the North American Basin

    Brian E. Tucholke;Gregory S. Mountain

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

    Lincoln F. Pratson;William B.F. Ryan;Gregory S. Mountain;David C. Twichell

  • Reconstruction of Tertiary progradation and clinoform development on the New Jersey passive margin by 2-D backstripping

    Michael S Steckler;Gregory S Mountain;Kenneth G Miller;Kenneth G Miller;Nicholas Christie-Blick

  • Drilling and dating New Jersey oligocene-miocene sequences: Ice volume, global sea level, and Exxon records

    Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain

  • Plio–Quaternary prograding clinoform wedges of the western Gulf of Lion continental margin (NW Mediterranean) after the Messinian Salinity Crisis

    Johanna Lofi;Marina Rabineau;Christian Gorini;Serge Berne

  • Uncorking the bottle : What triggered the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum methane release?

    Miriam E. Katz;Benjamin S. Cramer;Gregory S. Mountain;Samuel Katz

  • Integrated sequence stratigraphy of Neogene deposits, New Jersey continental shelf and slope: Comparison with the Exxon model

    Stephen M. Greenlee;William J. Devlin;Kenneth G. Miller;Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain

  • A multiphase plate tectonic history of the southeast continental margin of Oman

    G. S. Mountain;W. L. Prell

  • Oligocene glacio–eustasy and erosion on the margins of the North Atlantic

    Kenneth G. Miller;Gregory S. Mountain;Brian E. Tucholke

  • Active deformation and shallow structure of the Wagner,Consag, and Delfín Basins, northern Gulf of California, Mexico

    Patricia Persaud;Joann M. Stock;Michael S. Steckler;Arturo Martín-Barajas

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic Geology of the U.S. Atlantic Continental Slope and Rise

    Gregory S. Mountain;Brian E. Tucholke

  • Cenozoic mass-transport facies and their correlation with relative sea-level change, New Jersey continental margin

    Cecilia M.G. McHugh;Cecilia M.G. McHugh;John E. Damuth;Gregory S. Mountain

  • Tertiary paleoceanography of the western North Atlantic Ocean

    Brian E. Tucholke;Gregory S. Mountain

  • Ichnofabrics of a Pleistocene slope succession, New Jersey margin: relations to climate and sea-level dynamics

    Charles E Savrda;Hannelore Krawinkel;Francine M.G McCarthy;Cecilia M.G McHugh;Cecilia M.G McHugh

  • Global sea-level change and the New Jersey margin

    K. G. Miller;G. S. Mountain

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth G. Miller
Kenneth G. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
James V. Browning
James V. Browning Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Nicholas Christie-Blick
Nicholas Christie-Blick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jean-Noël Proust
Jean-Noël Proust Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Miriam E. Katz
Miriam E. Katz Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
James A. Austin
James A. Austin The University of Texas at Austin
John E. Damuth
John E. Damuth The University of Texas at Arlington
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mladen R. Nedimović
Mladen R. Nedimović Dalhousie University

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