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Roger L. Larson was affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their academic work primarily focused on engineering, with a specialization in ocean engineering and mechanical engineering as subfields.

Their research contributions were concentrated in areas related to reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, and oil and gas production techniques.

They frequently published their work in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Some of the recent papers attributed to or associated with their research interests include:

  • ODP Leg 144, Hole 873A - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 129, Hole 801B - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ODP Leg 124E, Hole 776A - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 144, Hole 878A - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 144, Hole 878A - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Throughout their career, they collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Elisabetta Erba
  • James G. Ogg
  • Isabella Premoli Silvá
  • Janet A. Haggerty
  • Frank R. Rack

Best Publications

  • Latest pulse of Earth: Evidence for a mid-Cretaceous superplume

    R. L. Larson

  • Geological consequences of superplumes

    Roger L. Larson

  • Plate tectonic reconstructions of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic ocean basins

    Christopher R. Scotese;Lisa M. Gahagan;Roger L. Larson

  • East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments

    F. N. Spiess;Ken C. Macdonald;T. Atwater;R. Ballard

  • World-Wide Correlation of Mesozoic Magnetic Anomalies, and Its Implications

    Roger L Larson;Walter C Pitman

  • Onset of the Mid‐Cretaceous greenhouse in the Barremian‐Aptian: Igneous events and the biological, sedimentary, and geochemical responses

    Roger L. Larson;Elisabetta Erba

  • Late Mesozoic Evolution of the Western Pacific Ocean

    Roger L Larson;Clement G Chase

  • Mantle plumes control magnetic reversal frequency

    Roger L. Larson;Peter Olson

  • A revised time scale of magnetic reversals for the Early Cretaceous and Late Jurassic

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  • Gulf of California: A Result of Ocean-Floor Spreading and Transform Faulting

    Roger L. Larson;H. W. Menard;S. M. Smith

  • Integrated stratigraphy of the Cismon Apticore (southern Alps, Italy); a reference section for the Barremian-Aptian interval at low latitudes

    Elisabetta Erba;James E. T. Channell;Michele Claps;Charles Jones

  • Valanginian Weissert oceanic anoxic event

    Elisabetta Erba;Annachiara Bartolini;Roger L. Larson

  • Evidence for the Opening of the South Atlantic in the Early Cretaceous

    Roger L. Larson;John W. Ladd

  • Origin of the Louisville Ridge and its relationship to the Eltanin Fracture Zone System

    A. B. Watts;J. K. Weissel;Robert A. Duncan;R. L. Larson

  • Pacific microplate and the Pangea supercontinent in the Early to Middle Jurassic

    Annachiara Bartolini;Roger L. Larson

  • Bathymetry, Magnetic Anomalies, and Plate Tectonic History of the Mouth of the Gulf of California

    Roger L Larson

  • Magnetic lineations in the Pacific Jurassic quiet zone

    Steven C. Cande;Roger L. Larson;John L. LaBrecque

  • Sea-floor spreading in marginal basins of the Western Pacific☆

    A.B. Watts;J.K. Weissel;R.L. Larson

  • Late Jurassic Sea-Floor Spreading in the Eastern Indian Ocean

    Roger L. Larson

  • The paradox of drowned carbonate platforms and the origin of Cretaceous Pacific guyots

    Paul A. Wilson;Hugh C. Jenkyns;Henry Elderfield;Roger L. Larson

  • Palaeomagnetism of Cretaceous Pacific Seamounts

    C. G. A. Harrison;R. D. Jarrard;V. Vacquier;R. L. Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabetta Erba
Elisabetta Erba University of Milan
John C. Mutter
John C. Mutter Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher R. Scotese
Christopher R. Scotese Northwestern University
Paul A. Wilson
Paul A. Wilson University of Southampton
Thomas H. Shipley
Thomas H. Shipley The University of Texas at Austin
Bradley N. Opdyke
Bradley N. Opdyke Australian National University
Annachiara Bartolini
Annachiara Bartolini French National Museum of Natural History
Andrew T. Fisher
Andrew T. Fisher University of California, Santa Cruz
Roger C. Searle
Roger C. Searle Durham University
Gilbert Camoin
Gilbert Camoin Aix-Marseille University

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