Research areas

• Architecture of deep water clastic systems
• Sediment gravity flow processes
• Climate and other external controls on deepwater depositional systems
• Petroleum geology of turbidite systems

Publications

Al ja'aidi , O.S., McCaffrey, W.D. & Kneller, B.C., 2004. Factors influencing the deposit geometry of experimental turbidity currents; implications for sand-body architecture in confined basins. In Lomas, S. & Joseph, P. (eds) Confined turbidite systems. Geological Society of London Special Publication 222, 45-58

Amy, L., McCaffrey W.D. & Kneller, B.C., 2004. The influence of a lateral basin-slope upon the depositional patterns of natural and experimental turbidity currents. In Joseph, P. & Lomas, S.A. (eds.) Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Alpine Foreland Basin of SE France: New Perspectives on the Grès d'Annot. Geological Society of London Special Publication 221, 311-330.

Brunt R., McCaffrey, W.D., & Kneller, B.C., 2004. Experimental modeling of the spatial distribution of grain-size developed in a fill and spill mini-basin setting. Journal of Sedimentary Research 74, 438-446

Kneller, B.C., Milana, J.P., Buckee, C.M, & al Ja'aidi, O.S., 2004. Depositional Record of Deglaciation in a Paleofjord (Late Carboniferous of San Juan Province, Argentina); the Role of Catastrophic Sedimentation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 116, 348-367.

McCaffrey, W.D. & Kneller, B.C., 2004. Scale effects of non-uniformity on deposition from turbidity currents with reference to the Grès d'Annot of SE France, In Joseph, P. & Lomas, S.A. (eds.) Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Alpine Foreland Basin of SE France: New Perspectives on the Grès d'Annot. Geological Society of London Special Publication. 221, 301-310.

Meiburg, E., Blanchette, F., Strauss, M., Kneller, B., Glinsky, M.E., Necker, F., Haertel, C. and Kleiser, L., 2005 High Resolution Simulations of Particle-Driven Gravity Currents. ASME paper IMECE2005-80276, Proceedings of IMECE2005 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, October 2005.

Blanchette, F. Strauss, M., Meiburg, E., Kneller, B., & Glinsky, M.E., 2005. High-resolution numerical simulations of resuspending gravity currents: conditions for self-sustainment. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C12,

Dykstra, M., Kneller, B & Milana, J.P. 2006 Mass-transport as a fundamental control on deglacial and postglacial sedimentation; the Carboniferous Jejenes Fm., San Juan, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118, 913-937

Amy, L.A., Kneller, B.C. & McCaffrey, W.D., 2007. A generic model for the filling of ponded turbidite basins; interpretation of the Grès de Peïra Cava. Journal of the Geological Society, London. 164, 143-162.

Dykstra, M., Kneller, B & Milana, J.P. 2007. A high-resolution record of deep-water processes in a confined paleofjord, Quebrada de las Lajas, Argentina. In Nilsen, T, Studlick, J. & Steffens G., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa.

Kane, I. A., Kneller, B.C., Dykstra, M., Kassem, A. & McCaffrey, W.D. 2007. Anatomy of submarine channel levees: an example from Upper Cretaceous slope sediments, Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 24, 540-563.

Amy, L. A., McCaffrey, W. D. & Kneller, B.C., (in press). The Peïra Cava outlier of the Annot Sandstones, SE France. In Nilsen, T, Studlick, J. & Steffens G., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa.

Dykstra, M.& Kneller, B 2007. Canyon San Fernando, Mexico: A Deep-water, Channel-levee Complex Exhibiting Evolution from Submarine Canyon — Confined to Unconfined.. In Nilsen, T, Studlick, J. & Steffens G., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Tulsa. 226-230

Birman, V.K., Meiburg, E. & B. Kneller, B. (in press) The shape of submarine levees: exponential or power law? Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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