Publications
JAMES A. MacEACHERN
Feature Publications
MacEachern, J.A., and Bann, K.L., (2020). The Phycosiphon Ichnofacies and the Rosselia Ichnofacies: Two new ichnofacies for marine deltaic environments. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 855-886.
Schultz, S.K., MacEachern, J.A., Catuneanu, O., and Dashtgard, S.E., (2020). Coeval deposition of transgressive and normal regressive stratal packages in a structurally controlled area of the Viking Formation, central Alberta, Canada. Sedimentology, DOI: 10.1111/sed.12730.
Bhattacharya, J.P., Howell, C.D., MacEachern, J.A., and Walsh, J.P., (2020). Bioturbation, sedimentation rates, and preservation of flood events in deltas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 560, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110049.
Rinke-Hardekopf, L., Dashtgard, S.E., and MacEachern, J.A. (2019). Early Cretaceous transgression of North America recorded in thick coals: McMurray Sub-Basin, Canada: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 204, p. 18鈥�33.
Morshedian, A., MacEachern, J.A., Dashtgard, S.E., Bann, K.L., and Pemberton, S.G. (2019). Systems tracts and their bounding aurfaces in the low accommodation Upper Mannville Group, Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 110, p. 35-54.
Gingras, M.K., MacEachern, J.A., Dashtgard, S.E., Ranger, M.J. and Pemberton, S.G. (2016). The significance of trace fossils in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 64, p. 233-250.
Dashtgard, S.E. and MacEachern, J.A. (2016). Unburrowed mudstones may record only slightly lowered oxygen conditions in warm, shallow basins. Geology, v. 44, p. 371-374.
Campbell, S.G., Botterill, S.E., Gingras, M.K., and MacEachern, J.A., (2016). Event sedimentation, deposition rate, and paleoenvironment using crowded Rosselia assemblages of the Bluesky Formation, Alberta, Canada, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 86, p. 380-393.
MacEachern, J.A., and Roberts, M.C., (2013). Ichnological evidence of j枚kulhlaup deposit recolonization from the Touchet Beds, Mabton, WA, USA.: Quaternary Research 79, p. 37-48.
MacEachern, J.A., Bann, K.L., Gingras, M.K., Dashtgard, S.E., Zonneveld, J.-P., and Pemberton, S.G., (2012). The Ichnofacies Paradigm, in: Knaust, D. and Bromley, R., eds., Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments, Developments in Sedimentology v. 64, Elsevier, p. 103-138.
MacEachern, J.A., Dashtgard, S.E., Knaust, D., Catuneanu, O., Bann, K.L., and Pemberton, S.G., (2012). Sequence stratigraphy, in: Knaust, D. and Bromley, R., eds., Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments, Developments in Sedimentology v. 64, Elsevier, p. 157-194.
Dashtgard, S.E., MacEachern, J.A., Frey, S.E., and Gingras, M.K., 2012, Tidal effects on the shoreface: Towards a conceptual framework. Sedimentary Geology 279, p. 42-61.
Bhattacharya, J.P., and MacEachern, J.A., (2009). Hyperpycnal rivers and prodeltaic shelves in the Cretaceous seaway of North America: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p. 184-209.
MacEachern, J.A., and Bann, K.L., (2008). The role of ichnology in refining shallow marine facies models, in Hampson, G., Steel, R., Burgess, P., and Dalrymple, R., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publication 90, p. 73-116.
In Press, In Review and Advanced Prep
Chateau, C.C., Dashtgard, S.E., and MacEachern, J.A. (in press). Changes in the rate of the Boreal Sea transgression recorded in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Canada. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology.
Schultz, S.K., MacEachern, J.A., Catuneanu, O., Dashtgard, S.E. and D铆az, N. (in review). High-resolution sequence stratigraphic framework for the late Albian Viking Formation in central Alberta. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology.
Ayranci, K., Yildirim, I., Waheed, U. bin, and MacEachern, J.A. (in review). Deep-learning applications in geosciences: Insights into ichnological analysis. Journal of Applied Sciences.
MacEachern, J.A., Gingras, M.K., and Bann, K.L., (in prep). The integration of biogenic sedimentary structures for refined facies models, in Levell, B., and Howard, J. (eds.), H.G. Reading鈥檚 Sedimentary Environments and Facies, 4th Edition.
MacEachern, J.A., and D铆az, N., (in prep). A forced regressive asymmetric delta of the Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation, Kaybob-Fox Creek Fields, Alberta, Canada, Sedimentology.
Fietz., S., Gingras, M.K., MacEachern, J.A., Rinke-Hardekopf, L., and Dashtgard, S.E., (in prep). Sedimentology and neoichnology of a translating muddy point bar in the fluvio-tidal transition, Serpentine River, BC, Canada. Sedimentary Geology.
Walters, M.M., MacEachern, J.A., Gibson, H.D., Hubbard, S.M., Matthews, W.A., and Coutts, D. (in prep). Detrital zircon geochronology of the Nanaimo Group on Saltspring Island, B.C.: New evidence for the timing of earliest basin deposition, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
D铆az, N., MacEachern, J.A., and Dashtgard, S.E. (in prep). Facies asymmetry in a symmetrical delta: Viking Formation, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research.
McNeil, D.J., and MacEachern, J.A., (in prep). Integration of foraminiferal morphogroups with trace fossil suites, Upper Albian Joli Fou, Viking and Westgate Formations of Western Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
2020-2024
Chateau, C.C., Dashtgard, S.E., and MacEachern, J.A. (in press). Changes in the rate of the Boreal Sea transgression recorded in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Canada. Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology.
MacEachern, J.A., and Bann, K.L., (2020). The Phycosiphon Ichnofacies and the Rosselia Ichnofacies: Two new ichnofacies for marine deltaic environments. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 855-886.
Schultz, S.K., MacEachern, J.A., Catuneanu, O., and Dashtgard, S.E., (2020). Coeval deposition of transgressive and normal regressive stratal packages in a structurally controlled area of the Viking Formation, central Alberta, Canada. Sedimentology, DOI: 10.1111/sed.12730.
Bhattacharya, J.P., Howell, C.D., MacEachern, J.A., and Walsh, J.P., (2020). Bioturbation, sedimentation rates, and preservation of flood events in deltas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 560, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110049.
Zhou, X., Zaixing, J., and MacEachern, J.A., (2020). Criteria for differentiating microbial-caddisfly bioherms from those of marine polychaetes in a lacustrine setting: Paleocene second member, Funing Formation, Subei Basin, East China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 560, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109974.
Chateau, C.C., Dashtgard, S.E., and MacEachern, J.A. (2020). Refinement of the stratigraphic framework for the Regional C depositional unit of the McMurray Formation and implications for the early transgression of the Alberta Foreland Basin, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 1322-1345.
La Croix, A.D., Dashtgard, S.E., MacEachern, J.A. (2020). Reply to comment by Durkin et al. on 鈥淯sing a modern analogue to interpret depositional position in ancient fluvial-tidal channels: example from the McMurray Formation, Canada鈥� by A.D. La Croix, S.E. Dashtgard, and J.A. MacEachern. Geoscience Frontiers, v. 11, p. 1087-1092.
Kent, B.A.P., Dashtgard, S.E., Huang, C., MacEachern, J.A., Gibson, H.D., and Cathyl-Huhn, G. (2020). Initiation and early evolution of a forearc basin: Georgia Basin, Canada. Basin Research, v. 32, p. 163-185. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12378
King, M.R., Botterill, S.E., Gingras, M.K., and MacEachern, J.A. (2020). Proximal expression of Cretaceous Glossifungites Ichnoface-demarcated stratigraphic surfaces, Central Utah. Ichnos. DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2020.1843456.