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DRISCOLL, NEAL

Professor of Geology & Geophysics

Degrees:

  • B.S., University of New Hampshire
  • M.S., University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography
  • Ph.D., Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Research Interests:

  • Lithospheric deformation
  • Sea-level fluctuations
  • Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

Courses Recently Taught:

  • SIO 105: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
  • SIO 160: Introduction to Tectonics
  • SIO 35: Water
  • SIO105: Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
  • SIO160: Introduction to Tectonics
  • SIO209: Special Topics
  • SIO35: Water

Honors and Awards:

  • NSF MARGINS Distinguished Lecturer, 2006
  • Nominated for SIO Graduate Teacher of the Year, 2006
  • Nominated for SIO Graduate Teacher of the Year, 2005
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award, SIO, 2003
  • Five-College Distinguished Lecturer, 2003
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Distinguished Crosby Lecturer, 1999
  • Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Award, 1997
  • Cecil and Ida Green Technology Award, 1997
  • Storke-Doherty Lectureship, cited as LDEO & Columbia’s most prestigious young scientist award, 1994
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Post-Doctoral Scholar Award, 1993
  • Bruce Heezen Award, in recognition of excellence in academics and research, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Columbia University, 1991
  • ARCO Oil and Gas Company Award, 1990
  • AGU Fellowship, 1989
  • Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, CSEG Best Paper Award, 1989
  • Wallace S. Broecker Climate Center Award, 1989
  • Columbia University Faculty Fellowship, 1987
  • Argonne National Laboratories Award, 1985

Mentoring:

  • Haas, Jennifer (Masters; 2003-2005)
  • Dingler, Jeffrey (Graduate; 2001-2007)
  • Hill, Jenna (Graduate; 2001-2007)
  • John, Walsh (Post Doc; 2001-2004)
  • Jeffrey, Donnelly (Post Doc; 1999-2000)
  • Kelley, Robyn (Graduate; 1995-2000)


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Home Department:
GRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0244

Email: ndriscoll@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ndriscoll

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1. Driscoll, N.W., G.D. Karner, J.K. Weissel, and Leg 121 Shipboard Party (1989). Stratigraphic and Tectonic Evolution of Broken Ridge from Seismic Stratigraphy and Leg 121 Drilling: In Peirce, J., J.K. Weissel, et al., Proc. Ocean Drilling Program, initial Reports, 121 Part A: 71-93, College Station, TX.

2. Rea, D.K., J. Dehn, N.W. Driscoll, J. Farrell, T. Janecek, R.M. Owen, J. Pospichal, P. Resiwati, and Leg 121 Scientific Party (1990). Paleoceanography of the Eastern Indian Ocean from ODP Leg 121 Drilling on Broken Ridge. Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 102: 679-690.

3. Driscoll, N.W., J.K. Weissel, G.D. Karner, and G. S. Mountain (1991). Stratigraphic Response of a Carbonate Platform to Relative Sea Level Changes: Application to Broken Ridge, Southeast Indian Ocean. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin v. 75/4: 808-831.

4. Pospichal, J.J, J. Dehn, N.W. Driscoll, A.J.M. van Eijden, J.W. Farrell, E. Fourtanier, P. Gamson, J. Gee, T. R. Janecek, G.G. Jenkins, C. Klootwijk, R. Nomura, R.M. Owens, D. K. Rea, P. Resiwati, J. Smit, and G. Smith (1991). Cretaceous-Paleogene Biomagnetostratigraphy of ODP Sites 752-755, Broken Ridge: A Synthesis. Weissel, J.K., Peirce, J., Taylor, E., and Alt, J., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 121: 721-742. College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).

5. Driscoll, N.W., G.D. Karner, and J.K. Weissel (1991). The Stratigraphic Response of Carbonate Platforms and Terrigenous Margins to Relative Sea Level Changes: Are They Really That Different? Weissel, J.K., Peirce, J., Taylor, E., and Alt, J., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 121: 743-762. College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).

6. Karner, G.D., N.W. Driscoll, and J. Peirce (1991). Gravity and Magnetic Signature of Broken Ridge, Southeast Indian Ocean. Weissel, J.K., Peirce, J., Taylor, E., and Alt, J., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 121: 681-686. College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).

7. Driscoll, N.W. and G.D. Karner (1991). Deconvolving Watergun Seismic Data. Weissel, J.K., Peirce, J., Taylor, E., and Alt, J., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 121: 663-680. College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program).

8. Schlager, W. and N.W. Driscoll (1992). Stratigraphic Response of a Carbonate Platform to Relative Sea Level Changes: Application to Broken Ridge, Southeast Indian Ocean. Discussion and reply. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin v. 76: 1035-1041.

9. Karner, G.D., N.W. Driscoll, and J.K. Weissel (1993). Response of the Lithosphere to In-Plane Force Variations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 114:397-416.

10. McGinnis, J.P., N.W. Driscoll, G.D. Karner, W.D. Brumbaugh, and N. Cameron (1993). Flexural response of passive margins to deep-sea erosion and slope retreat: implications for relative sea-level change. Geology, v.21: 893-896.

11. Whiting, B.M., G.D. Karner, and N.W. Driscoll (1994). Flexural and Stratigraphic Development of the West Indian Continental Margin. Journal of Geophysical Research v. 99: 13791-13811.

12. Driscoll, N.W. and G.D. Karner (1994). Flexural deformation due to Amazon Fan loading: A feedback mechanism affecting sediment delivery to margins. Geology, v. 22: 1015-1018.

13. Christie-Blick, N. and N.W. Driscoll (1995). Sequence Stratigraphy. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 23: 451-478.

14. Driscoll, N.W. and J.R. Hogg (1995). Stratigraphic Response to Basin Formation: Jeanne d’Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland. In J. J. Lambiase (ed.) Hydrocarbon Habitat in Rift Basins, Geological Society Special Publication, n. 80:145-163.

15. Karner, G.D. and N.W. Driscoll (1995). Rift flank topography and extensional basin architecture: Formation of Broken Ridge, southeast Indian Ocean. Special Publication Brazilian Academy Sciences, An. Acad. Bras. Ci., v. 65: 263-294.

16. Driscoll, N.W., J.R. Hogg, G.D. Karner, and N. Christie-Blick (1995). Extensional Tectonics in the Jeanne d’Arc basin: Implications for the timing of Break-up Between Grand Banks and Iberia. In Scrutton, R. A., M.S. Stoker, G.B. Shimmield, & A.W. Tudhope (eds.) The Tectonics, Sedimentation and Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region Geological Society Special Publication, n. 90: 1-28.

17. Driscoll, N.W. and E.P. Laine (1996). Abyssal Circulation Influence on the Southwest Bermuda Rise and Surrounding Region. Marine Geology 130: 231-263.

18. Driscoll, N.W. and G.D. Karner (1996). Tectonic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Australia. Minerals & Energy Research Institute of Western Australia Special Publication, n. 170: 153 pgs.

19. Karner, G.D. and N.W. Driscoll (1997). Three-dimensional interplay of advective and diffusive processes in the generation of sequence boundaries. Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 154: 443-449.

20. Driscoll, N.W. and E. Uchupi (1997). The importance of water motion and gas/fluid expulsion in landscape and seascape evolution: application to continental margin evolution. Thalassas – invited manuscript, v. 13: 32-46.

21. McGinnis, J.P., D.E. Hayes, and N.W. Driscoll (1997).Sedimentary Processes across the Continental Rise: Southern Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Geology, v. 141: 91-109.

22. Karner, G.D., N.W. Driscoll, J.P. McGinnis, W.D. Brumbaugh, and N.R. Cameron (1997). Tectonic significance of syn-rift sediment packages across the Congo continental margin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 14: 973-1000.

23. Driscoll, N.W. and G.D. Karner (1998). Lower crustal extension across the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia: Evidence for an eastward dipping detachment. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103: 4975-4992.

24. Driscoll, N.W. and G.H. Haug (1998). A short circuit in the ocean’s thermohaline circulation: A potential cause for northern hemisphere glaciation. Science, v. 282: 436-438.

25. Driscoll, N.W. and J.B. Diebold (1998). Deformation of the Caribbean region: one plate or two? Geology, v. 26: 1043-1046.

26. Taylor, B, M.F. Coffin, W. Dietrich, T. Dixon, N. Driscoll, G. Karner S. Klemperer, D. Kohlstedt, C. Moore, C. Nittrouer, T. Plank, D. Sawyer, R. Stern, E. Stolper, M. Underwood, and D. Wiens, (1998). Program focuses attention on continental margins. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol.79, no.11, pp.137, 142.

27. Diebold, J.B., N.W. Driscoll and the EW-9501 Science Team (1999). New insights on the formation of the Caribbean Basalt Province revealed by multichannel seismic images of volcanic structures in the Venezuelan Basin. In P. Mann (ed.), Caribbean Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 4 (Series Editor: K.J. Hsü) Elsevier Science B.V. Amsterdam, Chapter 19: 561-589.

28. Driscoll, N.W. and J.B. Diebold (1999). Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the Caribbean: constraints from multichannel seismic data. In P. Mann (ed.) Caribbean Basins. Sedimentary Basins of the World, 4 (Series Editor: K.J. Hsü) Elsevier Science B.V. Amsterdam, Chapter 20: 591-627.

29. Driscoll, N.W. and G.D. Karner (1999). Three-dimensional quantitative modeling of clinoform development. Marine Geology, v. 154: 383-398.

30. Karner, G.D. and N.W. Driscoll (1999). Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the West African and Eastern Brazilian Margins: insights from quantitative basin modeling. In N.R. Cameron, R.H. Bate, and V.S. Clure (eds.), The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic, Geological Society Special Publication, 153: 11-40.

31. Karner, G.D. and N.W. Driscoll (1999). Style, timing, and distribution of tectonic deformation across the Exmouth Plateau, northwest Australia, determined from stratal architecture and kinematic basin modeling. In C. MacNiocaill and P.D. Ryan (eds.), Continental Tectonics, Geological Society Special Publication 164: 287-323.

32. Driscoll, N.W., J.K. Weissel, and J. Goff (2000). Potential for Large-Scale Submarine Slope Failure and Tsunami Generation along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, Geology, v. 28: 407-410.

33. Uchupi, E., N.W. Driscoll, R.D. Ballard, and T. Bolmer (2001). Drainage of Late Wisconsin glacial lakes and the morphology and Late Quaternary stratigraphy of the New Jersey Southern New England Continental Shelf and Slope, Marine Geology v. 172: 117-145.

34. Fenstermacher, L.E., Crawford, G.B., Borgeld, J.C., Britt, T., George, D.A., Klein, M.A., Driscoll, N.W., and L. A. Mayer (2001). Enhanced acoustic backscatter due to high abundance of sand dollars, Dendraster excentricus. Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, v. 19: 135-145.

35. Woodruff, J.D., W.R. Geyer, C. Sommerfield, and N.W. Driscoll (2001) Seasonal variation of sediment deposition in the Hudson River estuary. Marine Geology, 179: 105-119.

36. Fonseca, L, L. Mayer, D. Orange, N. Driscoll (2002) The high-frequency backscattering angular response of gassy sediments: Model/data comparison from the Eel River Margin, California. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111: 2621-2631.

37. Gutierrez, B.T., E. Uchupi, N.W. Driscoll, and D.G. Aubrey (2003). Relative sea-level rise and the development of valley-fill and shallow-water sequences in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts. Marine Geology 193: 295-314.

38. Karner, G.D., N.W. Driscoll, and D.H.N. Barker (2003). Syn-rift regional subsidence across the West African continental margin: The role of lower plate ductile extension. In Arthur, T.J., MacGregor, D.S. and Cameron, N.R. (eds.) Petroleum Geology of Africa: New Themes and Developing Technologies. Geological Society of London Special Publication 207: 105-129.

39. Karner, G.D., Taylor, B., Driscoll, N.D. and Kohlstedt, D.L, editors + preface. (2004). Rheology and Deformation of the Lithosphere at Continental Margins, Columbia University Press, Chichester, West Sussex, N.Y., 352 p.

40. Hill, J.C., Driscoll, N.W., Weissel, J.K. and Goff, J.A. (2004). Large-scale elongated gas blowouts along the U.S. Atlantic margin. J. Geophys. Res. 109: B09101, 1-14.

41. Donnelly, J.P., Driscoll, N.W., Uchupi, E., Keigwin, L.D., Schwab, W.C., Thieler, E.R., and Swift, S.A., 2005. Catastrophic meltwater discharge down the Hudson Valley: A potential trigger for the Intra-Allerřd cold period Geology V.33, 2: 89–92 DOI: 10.1130/G21043.1

42. Crockett, J. S., C. A. Nittrouer, A. S. Ogston, R. W. Sternberg, N. W. Driscoll, J. Babcock, J. D. Milliman, R. Slingerland, D. F. Naar, B. Donahue, J. P. Walsh, W. Dietrich, G. Parker, M. Bera, H. Davies, P. Harris, M. Goni, R. Aller, J. Aller (2005), Where Rivers and Oceans Collide, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(3), 25, 10.1029/2005EO030002.

43. Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, J.A. Dingler, G.G. Seitz, J.V. Gardner, L.A. Mayer, C.R. Goldman, A.C. Heyvaert, R.C. Richards, R. Karlin, C.W. Morgan, P.T. Gayes, and L.A. Owen, 2005. 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe Geology V.33, 5: 365–368.

44. Silver, E., S. Day, S. Ward, G. Hoffman, P. Llanes, A. Lyons, N. Driscoll, R. Perembo, S. John, S. Saunders, F. Taranu, L. Anton, I. Abiari, B. Applegate, J. Engels, J. Smith, J. Tagliodes (2005), Island Arc Debris Avalanches and Tsunami Generation, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(47), 485, 10.1029/2005EO470001.

45. Keigwin, L.D., Donnelly, J.P., Cook, M.S., Driscoll, N.W., and Brigham-Grette, J., 2006. Rapid sea-level rise and Holocene climate in the Chukchi Sea. Geology V. 34, 10: 861–864. DOI: 10.1130/G22712.1

46. Baldwin, W.E., Morton, R.A., Putney, T.R., Katuna, M. P., Harris, M.S., Gayes, P.T., Driscoll, N.W., Denny, J.F., and Schwab, W.C., 2006. Migration of the Pee Dee River system inferred from ancestral paleochannels underlying the South Carolina Grand Strand and Long Bay inner shelf Geological Society of America Bulletin , V.118, 5: 533–549, doi: 10.1130/B25856.1

47. Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, G.G. Seitz,, J.A. Dingler, and R. Karlin,. 2006. A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe - Comment and Reply, Geology, C114-C116, doi: 10.1130/G22409C.1

48. Hogarth, L.J., Babcock, J., Driscoll, N.W., Le Dantec, N., Haas, J.K., Inman, D.L., and Masters, P.M., 2007. Long-term tectonic control on Holocene shelf sedimentation offshore La Jolla, California. Geology, V. 35, 3: 275–278 doi: 10.1130/G23234A.1

49. Uchupi, E., Giese, G., Driscoll, N.W., and Aubrey, D.G., 2005. Postglacial Geomorphic Evolution of a Segment of Cape Cod Bay and Adjacent Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Journal of Coastal Research, V. 21 n. 6: 1085–1106.

50. Schwehr, K., L. Tauxe, N. Driscoll, and H. Lee, 2006. Detecting compaction disequilibrium with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q11002, doi:10.1029/2006GC001378.

51. Schwehr, K., N. Driscoll, L. Tauxe, 2007. Origin of continental margin morphology: submarine-slide or downslope current-controlled bedforms, a rock magnetic approach. Marine Geology, v. 240: 19-41.

52. Thieler, E.R., Butman, B., Schwab , W.C., Allison, M.A., Driscoll, N.W., Donnelly, J.P., and Uchupi, E., 2007. A catastrophic meltwater flood event and the formation of the Hudson. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 246:120–136.

53. Pratson, L., Nittrouer, C., Wiberg, P., Steckler, M., Swenson, J., Cacchione, D., Karson, J., Murray, A.B., Wolinsky, M., Gerber, T., Mullenbach, B. Spinelli, G., Fulthorpe, C., O’grady, D., Parker, G., Driscoll, N., Burger, C., Paola, C., Orange, D., Field, M., Friedrichs, C. and Fedele, J., 2007. Chapter 7, Seascape evolution on clastic continental shelves and slopes 47 pgs., in Continental-Margin Sedimentation: from Sediment Transport to Sequence Stratigraphy (eds.) Nittrouer, C.A., Austin, J.A., Jr., Field, M.E., Kravitz, J.H., Syvitski, J.P.M., Wiberg, P.L., Blackwell Publishing.

54. Hill, J.C., Driscoll, N.W., Brigham-Grette, J., Donnelly, J.P., Gayes, P.T., Keigwin, L.D., (2007). New evidence for high discharge to the Chukchi shelf since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Research, v. 68, 2: 271-279.

55. Slingerland, R., Driscoll, N.W., Milliman, J. D., Miller, S., Johnstone, E., 2008. Anatomy and Growth of a Holocene Clinothem in the Gulf of Papua, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, F01S13, doi:10.1029/2006JF000628

56. Slingerland, R., Selover, R.W., Ogston, A.S., Keen, T.R., Driscoll, N.W., Milliman , J.D., 2008. Building the Holocene Clinothem in the Gulf of Papua: An Ocean Circulation Study, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 113, F01S14, doi:10.1029/2006JF000680.

57. Hoffmann, G., Silver, E., Day, S., Morgan, E., Driscoll, N., and Orange, D., Sediment Waves in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, Papua New Guinea Geological Society of America Bulletin. In Press.

58. Newman, K.R., Cormier, M., Weissel, J.K., Driscoll, N.W., Kastner, M., Solomon, E.A., Robinson, G., Hill, J.C., Singh , H., Camilli , R., and Eustice, R., 2007. Active methane venting observed at giant pockmarks along the mid-Atlantic shelf break. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 267:341-352 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.11.053

59. J. C. Hill ⁎, N. W. Driscoll 2008. Paleodrainage on the Chukchi shelf reveals sea level history and meltwater discharge. Marine Geology 254: 129–151

60. J. C. Hill, P. T. Gayes, N. W. Driscoll, E. A. Johnstone, G. R. Sedberry, 2008. Iceberg scours along the southern U.S. Atlantic margin. Geology, June 2008; v. 36; no. 6; p. 447–450; doi: 10.1130/G24651A.1.

61. van Wijk, J.W., J.F. Lawrence, N.W. Driscoll, 2008. Formation of the Transantarctic Mountains related to extension of the West Antarctic Rift system. Tectonophysics, V.458: 117–126.

62. Lawrence,J.F., J. W. van Wijk, and N. W. Driscoll, 2007. Tectonic implications for uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains. U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies; USGS OF-2007-1047, EA016.

63. Hangsterfer, A., N. Driscoll and M. Kastne, 2008. Constraining Gas Hydrate Occurrence In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico Continental Slope: Fine Scale Analysis Of Grain-Size In Hydrate-Bearing Sediments.Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008).

64. Dingler, J., Kent, G., Driscoll, N., Babcock, J., Harding, A., Seitz, G., Karlin, B., and Goldman, C. in press. A high-resolution seismic CHIRP investigation of active normal faulting across the Lake Tahoe Basin, California-Nevada. Geological society of America Bulletin.

65. Brothers, D.S. G. M. Kent, N.l W. Driscoll, S. B. Smith, R. Karlin, J. A. Dingler, A. J. Harding, G. G. Seitz, and J. M. Babcock, 2008. New Constraints on Deformation, Slip-Rate, and Timing of the Most Recent Earthquake on the West Tahoe–Dollar Point Fault, Lake Tahoe Basin, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 99, No. 2A, pp. –, March 2009, doi: 10.1785/0120080135

66. Dingler, J., Kent, G., Driscoll, N., Babcock, J., Harding, A., Seitz, G., Karlin, B., and Goldman, C. (2009). A high-resolution seismic CHIRP investigation of active normal faulting across the Lake Tahoe Basin, California-Nevada. Geological society of America Bulletin, v. 121. DOI: 10.1130/B26244.1.

67. Brothers, D.S., Driscoll, N.W., Kent, G.M., Harding, A.J., Babcock, J.M., and Baskin, R.L., (2009). Tectonic evolution of the Salton Sea inferred from seismic reflection data. Nature Geoscience 2, 581-584; doi:10.1038/ngeo590.

68. Hill J.C. and N. W. Driscoll (2010). Iceberg discharge to the Chukchi Shelf during the Younger Dryas. Quaternary Research, v. 74: 57-62.

69. Hoffmann, G., Silver, E., Day, S., Driscoll, N., Appelgate, B., 2010. Drowned Carbonate Platforms in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI 10.1007/s11001-010-9079-8.

70. Silver, E., Day, S., Ward, S., Hoffmann, G., Llanes, P., Driscoll, N., Appelgate, B., Saunders, S., (2009). Volcano collapse and tsunami generation in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, Papua New Guinea, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.06.013.

71. Olsen, M.J, Johnstone, E., Driscoll, N., Ashford, S., and Kuester, F. (2009). Terrestrial Laser Scanning of Extended Cliff Sections in Dynamic Environments: Parameter Analysis. ASCE Journal Of Surveying Engineering 135(4): 161-169.

72. Young, A., Raymond, J., Sorenson, J., Johnstone, E., Driscoll, N., Flick, R., and Guza, R., (2010). Coarse Sediment Yields from Seacliff Erosion in the Oceanside Littoral Cell. Journal of Coastal Research, V.26: 580-585.

73. Le Dantec, N., Hogarth, L., Driscoll, N., Babcock, J., Barnhardt, W., and Schwab, W., (2010). Tectonic Controls on Nearshore Sediment Accumulation and Submarine Canyon Morphology Offshore La Jolla, Southern California. Marine Geology, V.268:115-128

74. Young, A., Olsen, M., Driscoll, N., Flick, R., Gutierrez, R., Guza, R., Johnstone, E., and Kuester, F., (2010). Comparison of Airborne and Terrestrial LIDAR Estimates of Seacliff Erosion in Southern California. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, V.76: 421-427.

75. Blum, J. A., C. D. Chadwell, N. Driscoll, and M. A. Zumberge (2010), Assessing slope stability in the Santa Barbara Basin, California, using seafloor geodesy and CHIRP seismic data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L13308, doi:10.1029/2010GL043293.

76. Wayne E. Baldwin, Robert A. Morton, Jane F. Denny, Shawn V. Dadisman, William C. Schwab, Paul T. Gayes, and Neal W. Driscoll. Maps Showing the Stratigraphic Framework of South Carolina's Long Bay from Little River to Winyah Bay USGS Open File Report 2004-1013.

77. Barnhardt, W.A., W.C. Schwab, P.T. Gayes, R.A. Morton, N.W. Driscoll, W.E. Baldwin, J.F. Denny, M.S. Harris, M.P. Katuna, T.R. Putney, G. Voulgaris, J.C. Warner, and E.E. Wright, (2009). Coastal change along the shore of northeastern South Carolina -the South Carolina coastal erosion study: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1339, 77 pgs.

78. Dartnell, P. Normark, W.R., Driscoll, N.W., Babcock, J., Gardner, J.V., Kvitek, R.G., and Iampietro, P.J., (2007). Multibeam Bathymetry and Selected Perspective Views Offshore San Diego, California. USGS Scientific Investigations Map 2958, Sheets 1 & 2.

79. Hoffmann, G., Silver, E., Day, S., Driscoll, N., and Orange, D.,(2011). Deformation Versus Deposition of Sediment Waves in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea. Mass-Transport Deposits in Deepwater Settings SEPM Special Pulication N96: 455-474 ISBN 978-1-56576-287-9.

80. Olsen, M., Johnstone, E., Kuester, F., Driscoll, N., and Ashford, S. (2011). ”New Automated Point-Cloud Alignment for Ground-Based Light Detection and Ranging Data of Long Coastal Sections.” J. Surv. Eng., 137(1), 14–25.

81. Brothers, D., D. Kilb, K. Luttrell, N. Driscoll and G. Kent (2011). Loading of the San Andreas Fault by flood-induced rupture of faults beneath the Salton Sea Nature Geoscience V. 4, N.7: 486 – 492 DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1184

82. Hogarth, L., N. W. Driscoll, J. M. Babcock, D. L. Orange (2012). Transgressive deposits along the actively deforming Eel River Margin, Northern California Marine Geology 303–306 (2012) 99–114 doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2012.02.005

83. Kleppe, J.A, D.S. Brothers, G.M. Kent, F. Biondi, S. Jensen, N.W. Driscoll (2011) Duration and severity of Medieval drought in the Lake Tahoe Basin Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 3269 -3279 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.015

84. Brothers, D. A. Harding, A. González-Fernández, W. S. Holbrook, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, J. Fletcher, D. Lizarralde, P. Umhoefer, and G. Axen (2012). Farallon slab detachment and deformation of the Magdalena Shelf, southern Baja California. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 39, L09307, doi:10.1029/2011GL050828

85. Sutherland, F., G. M. Kent, A. J. Harding, P. J. Umhoefer, N. W. Driscoll, D. Lizarralde, J. M. Fletcher, G. J. Axen, W. S. Holbrook, A. González-Fernández, and P. Lonsdale (in press). Mid-Miocene to early Pliocene Oblique Extension in the southern Gulf of California. Geosphere


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