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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Stephan A. Graham is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on several subfields including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, and Geology. The main topics of their work span Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, earthquake and tectonic studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

The scientist has contributed to multiple papers in notable publication venues. Frequent venues include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Earth-Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, Geological Society of America Bulletin, and Scientific Reports.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephan A. Graham are:

  • Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Tectonic Uplift Destabilizes Subsea Gas Hydrate: A Model Example From Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Peak Cenozoic warmth enabled deep-sea sand deposition (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Depositional Controls on Detrital Zircon Provenance: An Example From Upper Cretaceous Strata, Southern Patagonia (2022, Frontiers in Earth Science)
  • Global Eocene-Oligocene unconformity in clastic sedimentary basins (2024, Earth-Science Reviews)

Stephan A. Graham has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Stephen C. Dobbs, Matthew A. Malkowski, Zachary F.M. Burton, Tim McHargue, and Jared T. Gooley.

Recognition in their field includes being named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Constraints on the early uplift history of the Tibetan Plateau

    Chengshan Wang;Xixi Zhao;Zhifei Liu;Peter C. Lippert

  • Sedimentary record and climatic implications of recurrent deformation in the Tian Shan: Evidence from Mesozoic strata of the north Tarim, south Junggar, and Turpan basins, northwest China

    Marc S. Hendrix;Stephan A. Graham;Alan R. Carroll;Edward R. Sobel

  • Late Oligocene-early Miocene unroofing in the Chinese Tian Shan: An early effect of the India-Asia collision

    Marc S. Hendrix;Trevor A. Dumitru;Stephan A. Graham

  • Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review ☆

    Chengshan Wang;Jingen Dai;Xixi Zhao;Xixi Zhao;Yalin Li

  • Late Paleozoic tectonic amalgamation of northwestern China: Sedimentary record of the northern Tarim, northwestern Turpan, and southern Junggar Basins

    A. R. Carroll;S. A. Graham;M. S. Hendrix;D. Ying

  • Detrital zircon provenance of the Late Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex: Sedimentary record of collision of the North and South China blocks

    Amy L. Weislogel;Stephan A. Graham;Edmund Z. Chang;Joeseph L. Wooden

  • Himalayan-Bengal Model for Flysch Dispersal in the Appalachian-Ouachita System

    Stephan A. Graham;William R. Dickinson;Raymond V. Ingersoll

  • Junggar basin, northwest China: trapped Late Paleozoic ocean

    Alan R. Carroll;Liang Yunhai;Stephan A. Graham;Xiao Xuchang

  • Collisional successor basins of western China: Impact of tectonic inheritance on sand composition

    S. A. Graham;M. S. Hendrix;L. B. Wang;A. R. Carroll

  • Paleozoic oil-source rock correlations in the Tarim basin, NW China

    S.C Zhang;A.D Hanson;J.M Moldowan;S.A Graham

  • Sedimentary record and tectonic implications of Mesozoic rifting in southeast Mongolia

    S.A. Graham;M.S. Hendrix;C.L. Johnson;D. Badamgarav

  • Uplift, exhumation, and deformation in the Chinese Tian Shan

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Da Zhou;Edmund Z. Chang;Stephan A. Graham

  • Common Provenance for Lithic Grains in Carboniferous Sandstones from Ouachita Mountains and Black Warrior Basin

    Stephan A. Graham;Raymond V. Ingersoll;William R. Dickinson

  • Highstand fans in the California borderland: The overlooked deep-water depositional systems

    Jacob A. Covault;William R. Normark;Brian W. Romans;Stephan A. Graham

  • Detrital zircon provenance analysis of the Great Valley Group, California: Evolution of an arc-forearc system

    Kathleen DeGraaff-Surpless;Stephan A. Graham;Joseph L. Wooden;Michael O. McWilliams

  • Submarine fans at all sea-level stands: Tectono-morphologic and climatic controls on terrigenous sediment delivery to the deep sea

    Jacob A. Covault;Stephan A. Graham

  • Seismic reflection imaging of a major strike-slip fault zone in a rift system: Paleogene structure and evolution of the Tan-Lu fault system, Liaodong Bay, Bohai, offshore China

    Li-Yuan Hsiao;Stephan A. Graham;Nat Tilander

  • Characteristics of migrating submarine canyons from the middle Miocene to present: Implications for paleoceanographic circulation, northern South China Sea

    Mangzheng Zhu;Stephan Graham;Xiong Pang;Timothy McHargue

  • Detrital zircon provenance from three turbidite depocenters of the Middle-Upper Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China: Record of collisional tectonics, erosional exhumation, and sediment production

    A.L. Weislogel;S.A. Graham;E.Z. Chang;J.L. Wooden

  • Initiation and Long-Term Slip History of the Altyn Tagh Fault

    Yongjun Yue;Bradley D. Ritts;Stephan A. Graham

  • Initiation of the Magallanes foreland basin: Timing of the southernmost Patagonian Andes orogeny revised by detrital zircon provenance analysis

    Andrea Fildani;Tim D. Cope;Stephan A. Graham;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Transient fan architecture and depositional controls from near-surface 3-D seismic data, Niger Delta continental slope

    Adedayo A. Adeogba;Timothy R. McHargue;Stephan A. Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian W. Romans
Brian W. Romans Virginia Tech
Alan R. Carroll
Alan R. Carroll University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrea Fildani
Andrea Fildani Equinor (Norway)
Stephen M. Hubbard
Stephen M. Hubbard University of Calgary
C. Page Chamberlain
C. Page Chamberlain Stanford University
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Raymond V. Ingersoll University of California, Los Angeles
Bradley D. Ritts
Bradley D. Ritts University of Idaho
Jacob A. Covault
Jacob A. Covault The University of Texas at Austin
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt
Charles K. Paull
Charles K. Paull Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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