Clark Sherman

TL;DR: A general review of the distribution of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) in relationship to geomorphology in US waters is presented in this paper. But, the work in this paper is concerned with the depth range of 30-100 m, where more than 186,000 km2 of potential seafloor area was identified within the US Gulf of Mexico/Florida, Caribbean, and main Hawaiian Islands.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of short cores taken from a nearshore terrace were used to identify three periods of diagenesis: early shallow marine, meteoric, and post-meteoric shallow marine.

TL;DR: This paper used a suite of seven piston, gravity and box cores collected in the vicinity of the Alika 2 slide and used U-series dating techniques, including excess 230 Th and 210 Pb profiling, high-resolution paleomagnetic stratigraphy, including continuous, U-channel analysis, δ 18 O stratigraphic, visual and X-ray sediment lithology, and the petrology and geochemistry of the included turbidites and ash layers.

TL;DR: It is shown that the Hulopoe gravel was formed by multiple depositional events, separated by considerable periods of time, thus invalidating the main premise of the ‘giant wave’ hypothesis.

TL;DR: Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and geochronologic analyses of a previously undescribed carbonate section on Oahu, Hawaii, provide new evidence for two distinct sea-level highstands during the last interglacial period as discussed by the authors.