Publications

Journal papers:

1. Gani, M.R., Gani, N.D.S., 2008. Tectonic hypotheses of human evolution. Geotimes, v. 53 (no. 1), p. 34-39. (pdf 0.3 MB)

2. Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., MacEachern, J.A., 2008. Using Ichnology to Determine Relative Influence of Waves, Storms, Tides, and Rivers in Deltaic Deposits in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, Wyoming-Utah, U.S.A. Short Course Notes 51, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). (pre-print in pdf 2.1 MB)

3. Gani, N.D.S., Gani, M.R., and Abdelsalam, M.G., 2007. Blue Nile incision on the Ethiopian Plateau: pulsed plateau growth, Pliocene uplift, and hominin evolution. GSA Today, v. 17, no. 9, p. 4-11. DOI: 10.1130/GSAT01709A.1. (pdf 2.9 MB)

4. Gani, M.R., and Bhattacharya, J.P., 2007. Basic building blocks and process variability of a Cretaceous delta: internal facies architecture reveals a more dynamic interaction of river, wave and tidal processes than is indicated by external shape. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 284-302. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.023. (pdf 5.7 MB)

5. Lee, K, MacMechan, G.A., Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., Zeng, X., and Howell, C.D. Jr., 2007b. 3-D architecture and sequence stratigraphic evolution of a forced regressive top-truncated mixed-influenced delta front, Cretaceous Wall Creek sandstone, Wyoming, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 303-323. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.031. (pdf 5 MB)

6. Lee, K, Gani, M.R., MacMechan, G.A., Bhattacharya, J.P., Nyman, S.L., and Zeng, X., 2007a. Three-dimensional facies architecture and three-dimensional calcite concretion distributions in a tide-influenced delta front, Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 91, p. 191-214. (pdf 9.8 MB)

7. Gani, M.R., and Bhattacharya, J.P., 2005, Lithostratigraphy versus chronostratigraphy in facies correlations of Quaternary deltas: application of bedding correlation. In: River Deltas: Concepts, Models, and Examples (Eds J.P. Bhattacharya and L. Giosan), SEPM Spec. Publ. 83, p. 31-48. (pdf 5.2 MB)

8. Gani, M.R., 2004. From Turbid to Lucid: A Straightforward Approach to Sediment Gravity Flows and Their Deposits. The Sedimentary Record, v. 2, no. 3, p. 4-8. (pdf 0.7 MB)

9. Gani, M.R., and Alam, M.M., 2004. Fluvial facies architecture in small-scale river systems in the Upper Dupi Tila Formation, northeast Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. Journal of Asian Earth Science. (pdf 0.7 MB)

10. Gani, M.R., and Alam, M.M., 2003. Sedimentation and basin-fill history of the Neogene clastic succession exposed in the south eastern fold belt of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: A high resolution sequence stratigraphic approach. Sedimentary Geology, v. 155, p. 227-270. (pdf 1.8 MB)

11. Alam, M., Alam, M.M., Curray, J.R., Chowdhury, M.L.R., and Gani, M.R., 2003. An overview of the sedimentary geology of the Bengal Basin in relation to the regional tectonic framework and basin-fill history. Sedimentary Geology, v. 155, p. 179-208. (pdf 0.8 MB)

12. Gani, M.R., and Alam, M.M., 1999. Trench-slope controlled deep-sea clastics in the exposed lower Surma Group in the southeastern fold belt of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. Sedimentary Geology, v. 127, p. 221-236. (pdf 5.1 MB)

 

Selected Abstracts (full list):  * denotes student authors

1. Hampson, G.J., Gani, M.R., Sharman, K.E., and Irfan, N., 2008. Controls on sandbody distribution and stratigraphic architecture in coastal-plain strata, Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah. Upcoming international conference on “From River to Rock Record”, 12-14 January, 2009, Aberdeen, Scotland. (abstract text)

2. William G.*, Gani, M.R., Huang, C.K., and Deo, M., 2008. Resource characterization and reservoir modeling of oil shale deposits in Uinta Basin, Utah. 28th Oil Shale Symposium, Colorado School of Mines, Boulder, Colorado, October, 2008. (abstract text)

3. Hampson, G.J., Charvin, K., Sech, R., Gani, M.R., and Jackson, M.D., 2008, Controls on clinoform geometry and distribution across an ancient wave-dominated deltaic shoreline and shelf. SEPM Research Conference, Clinoform Sedimentary Deposits, August 15-18 2008, Rock Spring, Wyoming, USA. (abstract text)

4. Gani, M.R. and Gani, N.D.S., 2008. Brookian Clinoform Play within Deepwater Torok Formation, Northeast NPRA, Alaska. Upcoming AAPG Annual Convention, April 2008, San Antonio, Texas. (abstract text)

5. Hampson, G.J., Gani, M.R., Irfan, N., and Sharman, K.E., 2008. Outcrop characterization of along-strike variability in shallow- and marginal-marine strata. Upcoming AAPG Annual Convention, April 2008, San Antonio, Texas. (abstract text)

6. Huang, C.K.*, Deo, M., and Gani, M.R., 2007. Production of Oil Shale From the Green River Formation in Utah. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Annual Meeting, November 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah. (abstract text)

7. Gani, M.R., 2007. Architectural Elements Versus Geomorphological Units: Building Blocks of Ancient and Modern Depositional Systems. AAPG Annual Convention, April 2007, Abstract # 90063, Long Beach, California. (abstract text).

8. Gani, M.R., 2006. Application of BI (Bioturbation Index) Log in Interpreting Sedimentary Record. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP14A-08. (abstract text).

9. Gani, M.R., and Bhattacharya, J.P., 2005. External Morphology Versus Internal Facies Architecture of Deltas Challenge Tripartite Classification Scheme. AAPG Annual Convention, Calgary, Canada, Abstracts Volume, v. 14, p. A48. (abstract text).

10. Gani, M.R., and Bhattacharya, J.P., 2004. Intra-parasequence facies architecture of a delta front deposit: high-resolution outcrop example from the Wall Creek Member, central Wyoming, U.S.A. SEPM Research Conference, Recent Advances in Shoreline-Shelf Stratigraphy, August 2004, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA, p. 7. (abstract text).

11. Tang, H., White, C.D., Gani, M.R., 2004. Comparison of Multivariate Statistical Algorithms for Wireline Log Facies Classification. AAPG Annual Convention, Dallas, TX, Official Program with Abstracts, v. 13, p. A136. (abstract text).

12. Nyman, S.L., Gani, M.R., Bhattacharya, J.P., and Lee, K, 2004. Origin and 3d distribution of calcite concretions in a deltafront: Cretaceous Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming. Geological Society of New Zealand, Annual Conference 2004, Miscellaneous Publication 117A, p. 77. (abstract text)

13. Bhattacharya, J.P., Gani, M.R., Howell, C.D., and Olariu, C., 2004. Bedding correlation versus facies correlation in deltas: lessons for Quaternary stratigraphy, 5th International Conference on Asian Marine Geology, IGCP-475 DeltaMAP/APN Mega-deltas in Asia, 13-18th January, 2004, Bangkok, Thailand, Program and Abstracts, p.22.

14. Gani, M.R., 2003. Crisis for a general term referring to all types of sediment gravity flow deposits: gravite. 2003 GSA Annual meeting, Seattle, Washington, Official Program with Abstracts, v. 34, No. 7,  p. 171. (abstract text).

15. Gani, M.R., 2002. Tidal facies within incised valley deposits of the Neogene clastics exposed in the southeastern fold belt of the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh. SEPM Research Conference, Incised Valleys: Images and Processes, August 2002, Casper, Wyoming, USA,  p. 22. (abstract text).