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Kenneth A. Eriksson

Kenneth A. Eriksson

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Earth Science

D-Index
50
Citations
9418
World Ranking
3404
National Ranking
1360

Overview

Kenneth A. Eriksson is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Within these broader fields, their work engages in subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Geology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range related to geological and geophysical phenomena, including:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Recent publications highlight their involvement in investigations on sedimentary basins, reservoir characterization, and geological events. Notable papers include:

  • "Evolution of a plume-influenced source-to-sink system: An example from the coupled central Emeishan large igneous province and adjacent western Yangtze cratonic basin in the Late Permian, SW China" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Role of CO2-water-rock interactions and implications for CO2 sequestration in Eocene deeply buried sandstones in the Bonan Sag, eastern Bohai Bay Basin, China" (2020), published in Chemical Geology
  • "Terrestrial records of the early Albian Ocean Anoxic Event: Evidence from the Fuxin lacustrine basin, NE China" (2021), published in Geoscience Frontiers
  • "Qualitative and quantitative characterization of multiple factors that influence movable fluid saturation in lacustrine deep-water gravity-flow tight sandstones from the Yanchang Formation, southern Ordos Basin, China" (2020), published in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Widespread wildfires linked to early Albian Ocean Anoxic Event 1b: Evidence from the Fuxin lacustrine basin, NE China" (2022), published in Global and Planetary Change

Collaborations have frequently involved co-authors such as Longyi Shao, Benben Ma, Changsong Lin, Wurong Wang, and Dali Yue.

Eriksson's work has appeared in a variety of scientific journals, with regular contributions to Sedimentology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, AAPG Bulletin, Earth-Science Reviews, and Chemical Geology.

Best Publications

  • Crustal Evolution of Southern Africa: 3.8 Billion Years of Earth History

    A. J. Tankard;M. P A Jackson;K. A. Eriksson;D. K. Hobday

  • Crustal Evolution of Southern Africa

    A. J. Tankard;M. P. A. Jackson;K. A. Eriksson;D. K. Hobday

  • Geochemistry of shales from the Archean (~3.0 Ga) Buhwa Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: Implications for provenance and source-area weathering

    Christopher M. Fedo;Kenneth A. Eriksson;Eirik J. Krogstad

  • Early Proterozoic crustal evolution: Geochemical and NdPb isotopic evidence from metasedimentary rocks, southwestern North America

    S.M. McLennan;S.R. Hemming;S.R. Taylor;K.A. Eriksson

  • Geochemistry of Archean shales from the Pilbara Supergroup, Western Australia

    Scott M. McLennan;S.R. Taylor;K.A. Eriksson

  • Quantifying the Timing and Rate of Crustal Evolution: Global Compilation of Radiometrically Dated Detrital Zircon Grains

    Peter J. Voice;Michal Kowalewski;Kenneth A. Eriksson

  • A new window into Early Archean life: Microbial mats in Earth's oldest siliciclastic tidal deposits (3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa)

    Nora Noffke;Kenneth A. Eriksson;Robert M. Hazen;Edward L. Simpson

  • Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Duitschland Formation, South Africa: Implications for Coupled Climate Change and Carbon Cycling

    A. Bekker

  • Rare earth element patterns in Archean high-grade metasediments and their tectonic significance

    Stuart Ross Taylor;Roberta L. Rudnick;Scott M. McLennan;Kenneth A. Eriksson

  • Sequence architecture, depositional systems, and controls on development of lacustrine basin fills in part of the Erlian basin, northeast China

    Lin Changsong;Kenneth Eriksson;Li Sitian;Wan Yongxian

  • Evidence for Paleoproterozoic cap carbonates in North America

    A. Bekker;A. Bekker;A.J. Kaufman;J.A. Karhu;K.A. Eriksson

  • Sedimentology of archean greenstone belts: Signatures of tectonic evolution

    K.A. Eriksson;B. Krapez;P.W. Fralick

  • Evidence for Multiple Recycling in Neoproterozoic through Pennsylvanian Sedimentary Rocks of the Central Appalachian Basin

    Kenneth A. Eriksson;Ian H. Campbell;J. Michael Palin;Charlotte M. Allen

  • Transitional sedimentation styles in the Moodies and Fig Tree Groups, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa: Evidence favouring an Archean continental margin☆

    K.A. Eriksson

  • Muddy Roll-up Structures in Siliciclastic Interdune Beds of the c. 1.8 Ga Waterberg Group, South Africa

    Patrick G. Eriksson;Edward L. Simpson;Kenneth A. Eriksson;Adam J. Bumby

  • Marginal marine depositional processes from the Archaean Moodies Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa: Evidence and significance

    K.A. Eriksson

  • Quantifying the oldest tidal record: The 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

    Kenneth A. Eriksson;Edward L. Simpson

  • Secular changes in sedimentation systems and sequence stratigraphy

    Patrick G. Eriksson;Santanu Banerjee;Octavian Catuneanu;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • Internal-tide deposits in an Ordovician submarine channel: Previously unrecognized facies?

    Gao Zhenzhong;Kenneth A. Eriksson

  • Early Archean foredeep sedimentation related to crustal shortening: a reinterpretation of the Barberton Sequence, Southern Africa

    Martin P Jackson;K. A. Eriksson;C. W. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. A. Jackson
Martin P. A. Jackson The University of Texas at Austin
Christopher M. Fedo
Christopher M. Fedo University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yingchang Cao
Yingchang Cao China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Thomas G. Blenkinsop
Thomas G. Blenkinsop Cardiff University
Stuart Ross Taylor
Stuart Ross Taylor Australian National University
Richard D. Law
Richard D. Law Virginia Tech
Longyi Shao
Longyi Shao China University of Mining and Technology
Scott M. McLennan
Scott M. McLennan Stony Brook University
Ian H. Campbell
Ian H. Campbell Australian National University
Octavian Catuneanu
Octavian Catuneanu University of Alberta

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