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Murray K. Gingras

Murray K. Gingras

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
11492
World Ranking
2055
National Ranking
93

Overview

Murray K. Gingras is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a substantial focus on Earth-surface processes and the mechanics of materials.

Their work covers a variety of specialized topics including geological formations and processes, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, marine biology and ecology research, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Gingras has contributed numerous publications in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Ichnos/Ichnos: an international journal for plant and animal traces
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Sedimentology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaios

Some of Gingras's recent papers illustrate their diverse research interests:

  • Sequence stratigraphy in organic-rich marine mudstone successions using chemostratigraphic datasets, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The role of gastropod shell composition and microstructure in resisting dissolution caused by ocean acidification, 2020, Marine Environmental Research
  • Estimation of Relative Transport Properties in Porous Transport Layers Using Pore-Scale and Pore-Network Simulations, 2021, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Clay minerals as a source of cadmium to estuaries, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Recent advancements in characterizing permeability and porosity distributions in bioturbated flow media, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews

Gingras collaborates frequently with several researchers, commonly co-authoring papers with:

  • Kurt O. Konhauser
  • John-Paul Zonneveld
  • Brette S. Harris
  • Daniel S. Alessi
  • Sara K. Biddle

Best Publications

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

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

  • The ichnology of Modern and Pleistocene brackish-water deposits at Willapa Bay, Washington : Variability in estuarine settings

    Murray K. Gingras;S. George Pemberton;Tom Saunders;H. Edward Clifton

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

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

  • Process ichnology and the elucidation of physico-chemical stress

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

  • Lake Pebas: a palaeoecological reconstruction of a Miocene, long-lived lake complex in western Amazonia

    F.P. Wesselingh;M.E. Räsänen;G. Irion;H.B. Vonhof

  • Classification and characterizations of biogenically enhanced permeability

    S. George Pemberton;Murray K. Gingras

  • Petrography and geochemistry of the Dales Gorge banded iron formation: Paragenetic sequence, source and implications for palaeo-ocean chemistry

    E. Pecoits;M.K. Gingras;Mark Barley;A. Kappler

  • Subsurface and outcrop characterization of large tidally influenced point bars of the Cretaceous McMurray Formation (Alberta, Canada)

    Geoffray Musial;Jean-Yves Reynaud;Murray K. Gingras;Hugues Féniès

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

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

  • 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

  • Tidal dunes versus tidal bars: The sedimentological and architectural characteristics of compound dunes in a tidal seaway, the lower Baronia Sandstone (Lower Eocene), Ager Basin, Spain

    Cornel Olariu;Ronald J. Steel;Robert W. Dalrymple;Murray K. Gingras

  • 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

  • Diverse ichnofossil assemblages following the P-T mass extinction, Lower Triassic, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada: Evidence for shallow marine refugia on the northwestern coast of Pangaea

    John-Paul Zonneveld;Murray K. Gingras;Tyler W. Beatty

  • 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

  • Ichnology and sedimentology reveal depositional characteristics of bay-margin parasequences in the Miocene Amazonian foreland basin

    Murray K. Gingras;Matti E. Räsänen;S. George Pemberton;Lidia P. Romero

  • Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

    Murray Gingras;James W. Hagadorn;Adolf Seilacher;Stefan V. Lalonde

  • Biology of shallow marine ichnology: a modern perspective

    Murray K. Gingras;Shahin E. Dashtgard;James A. MacEachern;S. George Pemberton

  • Conceptual models for burrow‐related, selective dolomitization with textural and isotopic evidence from the Tyndall Stone, Canada

    Murray K. Gingras;S. George Pemberton;Karlis Muelenbachs;Hans Machel

  • Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Petrographic Techniques to Understand the Textural Attributes and Porosity Distribution in Macaronichnus-Burrowed Sandstone

    Murray K. Gingras;Bryce MacMillan;Bruce J. Balcom;Tom Saunders

  • Trace fossil assemblages in a Middle Triassic mixed siliciclastic-carbonate marginal marine depositional system, British Columbia

    J.-P. Zonneveld;J.-P. Zonneveld;M.K. Gingras;M.K. Gingras;S.G. Pemberton

  • 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
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser University of Alberta
John-Paul Zonneveld
John-Paul Zonneveld University of Alberta
James A. MacEachern
James A. MacEachern Simon Fraser University
Shahin E. Dashtgard
Shahin E. Dashtgard Simon Fraser University
Stefan V. Lalonde
Stefan V. Lalonde European Institute
Daniel S. Alessi
Daniel S. Alessi University of Alberta
Lida Xing
Lida Xing China University of Geosciences
Carl A. Mendoza
Carl A. Mendoza University of Alberta
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University

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