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Ronald J. Steel is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research portfolio spans primarily across Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields that include Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications addressing geological formations and processes, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, geological and geophysical studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • Basin Research
  • Sedimentology
  • Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology

Notable recent papers by Ronald J. Steel include:

  • Clinoforms and clinothems: Fundamental elements of basin infill, 2020, Basin Research
  • Deep-water depositional systems supplied by shelf-incising submarine canyons: Recognition and significance in the geologic record, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Recognizing tide- and wave-dominated compound deltaic clinothems in the rock record, 2020, Geology
  • Anatomy of a mixed bioclastic-siliciclastic regressive tidal sand ridge: Facies-based case study from the lower Pleistocene Siderno Strait, southern Italy, 2021, Sedimentology
  • Controls on the stratal architecture of lacustrine delta successions in low-accommodation conditions, 2020, Sedimentology

Collaborative work features frequent coauthors such as:

  • Cornel Olariu
  • Chenglin Gong
  • Jinyu Zhang
  • Si Chen
  • Dongwei Li

The core topics of interest in their research include:

  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Best Publications

  • Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Reply to the comments of W. Helland-Hansen on "Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy" by Catuneanu et al. (Earth-Sciences Review 92(2009)1-33)

    Octavian Catuneanu;V. Abreu;J. P. Bhattacharya;M. D. Blum

  • Alluvial and Coastal Conglomerates: Their Significant Features and Some Comments on Gravelly Mass-Flow Deposits

    W. Nemec;R. J. Steel

  • Transgressive deposits: a review of their variability

    Antonio Cattaneo;Ronald J Steel

  • Architecture of marine rift-basin successions

    Rodmar Ravnas;Rodmar Ravnas;Ron J. Steel

  • Svalbard’s post-Caledonian strata — an atlas of sedimentational patterns and palaeogeographic evolution

    Ronald J. Steel;David Worsley

  • Shelf-margin deltas: their stratigraphic significance and relation to deepwater sands

    Szczepan J. Porębski;Ronald J. Steel

  • Structures and textures in Triassic braided stream conglomerates (‘Bunter’ Pebble Beds) in the Sherwood Sandstone Group, North Staffordshire, England

    R. J. Steel;D. B. Thompson

  • Initiation of turbidity currents: outcrop evidence for Eocene hyperpycnal flow turbidites

    Piret Plink-Björklund;Ron J Steel

  • Mesozoic sedimentary basin development and tectonic implication, northern Yangtze Block, eastern China: record of continent–continent collision

    Shaofeng Liu;Ronald Steel;Guowei Zhang

  • Principles of regression and transgression; the nature of the interplay between accommodation and sediment supply

    Tetsuji Muto;Ron J. Steel

  • Thick turbidite successions from supply-dominated shelves during sea-level highstand

    Cristian R. Carvajal;Ronald J Steel

  • Fan deltas: Sedimentology and tectonic settings

    W. Nemec;R. J. Steel

  • Deltas and Sea-Level Change

    Szczepan J. Porębski;Ronald J. Steel

  • Sequential architecture in a fluvial succession; sequence stratigraphy in the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Prince Canyon, Utah

    Torben Olsen;Ron Steel;Kent Hogseth;Tore Skar

  • Tidal depositional systems in the rock record: a review and new insights

    Sergio G. Longhitano;Donatella Mellere;Ronald J. Steel;R. Bruce Ainsworth

  • Shelf-margin clinoforms and prediction of deepwater sands

    Erik P. Johannessen;Ron J. Steel

  • Sediment supply: The main driver of shelf-margin growth

    Cristian Carvajal;Ron Steel;Andrew Petter

  • Coarsening-upward cycles in the alluvium of Hornelen Basin (Devonian) Norway: Sedimentary response to tectonic events

    R. J. Steel;S. Næhle;H. Nilsen;S. L. Røe

  • Tectonostratigraphy and sedimentary architecture of rift basins, with reference to the northern North Sea

    A. Nottvedt;R.H. Gabrielsen;R.J. Steel

  • Sedimentology of Gravels and Conglomerates

    Emlyn H. Koster;Ron J. Steel

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Dalrymple
Robert W. Dalrymple Queen's University
William Helland-Hansen
William Helland-Hansen University of Bergen
William E. Galloway
William E. Galloway The University of Texas at Austin
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Octavian Catuneanu
Octavian Catuneanu University of Alberta
Ole J. Martinsen
Ole J. Martinsen Equinor (Norway)
Henry W. Posamentier
Henry W. Posamentier Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Michael D. Blum
Michael D. Blum University of Kansas
Janok P. Bhattacharya
Janok P. Bhattacharya McMaster University
André Strasser
André Strasser University of Fribourg

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