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John B. Southard

John B. Southard

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
8654
World Ranking
5426
National Ranking
2009

Overview

John B. Southard is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research contributions are connected to this institution, reflecting an academic and scientific career based at a leading research university.

There are no recent papers or specific publication details currently recorded for this researcher. Similarly, no commonly frequent co-authors or recurring publication venues have been noted in available data.

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Best Publications

  • Depositional Environments as Interpreted from Primary Sedimentary Structures and Stratification Sequences

    J. C. Harms;J. B. Southard;D. R. Spearing;R. G. Walker

  • Mechanics of sediment movement

    Gerard V. Middleton;John B. Southard

  • Structures and Sequences in Clastic Rocks

    J. C. Harms;John B. Southard;R. G. Walker

  • Bed configuration in steady unidirectional water flows; Part 2, Synthesis of flume data

    John B. Southard;Lawrence A. Boguchwal

  • Accretion of Mudstone Beds from Migrating Floccule Ripples

    Juergen Schieber;Juergen Schieber;John Southard;John Southard;Kevin Thaisen;Kevin Thaisen

  • Experiments on Oscillatory-Flow and Combined-Flow Bed Forms: Implications for Interpreting Parts of the Shallow-Marine Sedimentary Record

    Simone Dumas;R.W.C. Arnott;John B. Southard

  • Downstream Fining by Selective Deposition in a Laboratory Flume

    Chris Paola;Gary Parker;Rebecca Seal;Sanjiv K. Sinha

  • Exploratory Flow-Duct Experiments on Combined-Flow Bed Configurations, and Some Implications for Interpreting Storm-Event Stratification

    R. William Arnott;John B. Southard

  • Bedload transport of mud by floccule ripples—Direct observation of ripple migration processes and their implications

    Juergen Schieber;John B. Southard

  • Deposition of climbing‐ripple beds: a flume simulation

    Gail M. Ashley;John B. Southard;Jon C. Boothroyd

  • Experimental study of incipient motion in mixed‐size sediment

    Peter Richard Wilcock;J. B. Southard

  • Erosion of fine-grained marine sediments: Sea-floor and laboratory experiments

    Robert N. Young;Robert N. Young;John B. Southard

  • Lenticular Shale Fabrics Resulting from Intermittent Erosion of Water-Rich Muds—Interpreting the Rock Record in the Light of Recent Flume Experiments

    Juergen Schieber;John B. Southard;Arndt Schimmelmann

  • Combined-Flow Model for Vertical Stratification Sequences in Shallow Marine Storm-Deposited Beds

    Paul M. Myrow;John B. Southard

  • Experimental Determination of Bed-Form Stability

    John B. Southard

  • Bed load transport fluctuations in a gravel bed laboratory channel

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  • Experiments on Bed Configurations in Fine Sands Under Bidirectional Purely Oscillatory Flow, and the Origin of Hummocky Cross-Stratification

    John B. Southard;John M. Lambie;Dennis C. Federico;Harold T. Pile

  • Experiments on Downstream Fining of Gravel: I. Narrow-Channel Runs

    Rebecca Seal;Chris Paola;Gary Parker;John B. Southard

  • Bed load transport of mixed size sediment: Fractional transport rates, bed forms, and the development of a coarse bed surface layer

    Peter Richard Wilcock;J. B. Southard

  • Abyssal Furrows and Hyperbolic Echo Traces on the Bahama Outer Ridge

    Charles D. Hollister;Roger D. Flood;Roger D. Flood;David A. Johnson;Peter Lonsdale

  • Sedimentation, resuspension and chemistry of particles in the northwest Atlantic

    Wilford D. Gardner;John B. Southard;Charles D. Hollister

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota
Peter Richard Wilcock
Peter Richard Wilcock Utah State University
Peter Lonsdale
Peter Lonsdale University of California, San Diego
Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Juergen Schieber
Juergen Schieber Indiana University
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology
Roger D. Flood
Roger D. Flood Stony Brook University
Wilford D. Gardner
Wilford D. Gardner Texas A&M University
Nicholas J. Tosca
Nicholas J. Tosca University of Oxford
Peter A. Jumars
Peter A. Jumars University of Maine

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