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James A. MacEachern

James A. MacEachern

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Earth Science

D-Index
50
Citations
9357
World Ranking
3407
National Ranking
159

Overview

James A. MacEachern is a researcher affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Mechanics of Materials, and Paleontology. This broad scope integrates various subfields to address geological formations and processes as well as related environmental dynamics.

Their research spans diverse topics, including geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and geological and geophysical studies.

James A. MacEachern has contributed to the academic literature with notable papers such as:

  • The Phycosiphon Ichnofacies and the Rosselia Ichnofacies: Two new ichnofacies for marine deltaic environments (2020, Journal of Sedimentary Research)
  • Bioturbation, sedimentation rates, and preservation of flood events in deltas (2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Evolution of an aggradational wave-dominated delta: Sediment balance and animal-substrate dynamics (Upper Cretaceous La Anita Formation, Southern Patagonia) (2022, Sedimentary Geology)
  • Coeval deposition of transgressive and normal regressive stratal packages in a structurally controlled area of the Viking Formation, central Alberta, Canada (2020, Sedimentology)
  • Deep Learning Applications in Geosciences: Insights into Ichnological Analysis (2021, Applied Sciences)

Their frequent coauthors include Shahin E. Dashtgard, Murray K. Gingras, R. Bruce Ainsworth, Boyan K. Vakarelov, and Kerrie L. Bann, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts across related specialties.

James A. MacEachern has published in several recurring academic venues such as Sedimentology, Sedimentary Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Ichnos/Ichnos: an international journal for plant and animal traces, and the Journal of Sedimentary Research. Their involvement with these journals reflects a consistent engagement with sedimentological and ichnological research.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks, with publications focused on tidally influenced, marginal-marine deposits of the Late Cretaceous Bearpaw to Horseshoe Canyon Formation transition in Drumheller, Alberta.

Best Publications

  • Hyperpycnal Rivers and Prodeltaic Shelves in the Cretaceous Seaway of North America

    Janok P. Bhattacharya;James A. MacEachern

  • Ichnology of Deltas: Organism Responses to the Dynamic Interplay of Rivers, Waves, Storms, and Tides

    James A. Maceachern;Kerrie L. Bann;Janok P. Bhattacharya;Charles D. Howell

  • Colonization of Brackish-Water Systems through Time: Evidence from the Trace-Fossil Record

    Luis A. Buatois;Murray K. Gingras;James Maceachern;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • Ichnological Aspects of Cretaceous Shoreface Successions and Shoreface Variability in the Western Interior Seaway of North America

    James A. MacEachern;S. George Pemberton

  • Stratigraphic Applications of the Glossifungites Ichnofacies: Delineating Discontinuities in the Rock Record

    James A. MacEachern;Indraneel Raychaudhuri;S. George Pemberton

  • The Ichnofacies Paradigm: High-Resolution Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Rock Record

    James A. Maceachern;Kerrie L. Bann;S. George Pemberton;Murray K. Gingras

  • The Role of Ichnology in Refining Shallow Marine Facies Models

    James A. MacEachern;Kerrie L. Bann

  • Process ichnology and the elucidation of physico-chemical stress

    Murray K. Gingras;James A. MacEachern;Shahin E. Dashtgard

  • The Sequence Stratigraphic Significance of Trace Fossils: Examples from the Cretaceous Foreland Basin of Alberta, Canada

    S. George Pemberton;James A. MacEachern

  • Ichnological Aspects of Incised-Valley Fill Systems from the Viking Formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Alberta, Canada

    James A. MacEachern;S. George Pemberton

  • CHAPTER 4 – The Ichnofacies Paradigm: A Fifty-Year Retrospective

    James A. MacEachern;S. George Pemberton;Murray K. Gingras;Kerrie L. Bann

  • Stratigraphic Applications of the Glossifungites Ichnofacies: Delineating Discontinuities in the Rock Record

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  • The Ichnofacies Paradigm

    James A. MacEachern;Kerrie L. Bann;Murray K. Gingras;John-Paul. Zonneveld

  • Recognition of Brackish-Water Trace-Fossil Suites in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of Alberta, Canada

    James A. MacEachern;Murray K. Gingras

  • A Sharp-Based Sandstone of the Viking Formation, Joffre Field, Alberta, Canada: Criteria for Recognition of Transgressively Incised Shoreface Complexes

    James A. MacEachern;Brian A. Zaitlin;S. George Pemberton

  • Differentiation of estuarine and offshore marine deposits using integrated ichnology and sedimentology: Permian Pebbley Beach Formation, Sydney Basin, Australia

    Kerrie L. Bann;Christopher R. Fielding;James A. MacEachern;Stuart C. Tye

  • Vertebrate Burrow Complexes from the Early Triassic Cynognathus Zone (Driekoppen Formation, Beaufort Group) of the Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Gideon H. Groenewald;Johann Welman;James A. Maceachern

  • The Conceptual Framework of Ichnology

    S. George Pemberton;Robert W. Frey;Michael J. Ranger;James MacEachern

  • A Comparative Analysis of the Ichnology of Wave- and River-dominated Allomembers of the Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation

    Murray K. Gingras;James A. MacEachern;S. George Pemberton

  • Departures From the Archetypal Ichnofacies: Effective Recognition of Physico-chemical Stresses in the Rock Record

    James A. Maceachern;S. George Pemberton;Kerrie L. Bann;Murray K. Gingras

  • A Conceptual Framework for the Application of Trace Fossils

    Murray K. Gingras;Kerrie L. Bann;James A. Maceachern;S. George Pemberton

Frequent Co-Authors

S. George Pemberton
S. George Pemberton University of Alberta
Shahin E. Dashtgard
Shahin E. Dashtgard Simon Fraser University
Murray K. Gingras
Murray K. Gingras University of Alberta
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Janok P. Bhattacharya McMaster University
John-Paul Zonneveld
John-Paul Zonneveld University of Alberta
Christopher R. Fielding
Christopher R. Fielding University of Connecticut
Diana M. Allen
Diana M. Allen Simon Fraser University
Brian G. Jones
Brian G. Jones University of Wollongong
Octavian Catuneanu
Octavian Catuneanu University of Alberta
Luis A. Buatois
Luis A. Buatois University of Saskatchewan

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