Brian Romans

Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Research field: Earth Sciences - Earth-Surface Processes
sediment transfer across continental margins, clastic stratigraphy, marine geology, tectonics and sedimentation

Publications

Journal Article (13)
- Brian W. Romans, Andrea Fildani, Stephen M. Hubbard et al. (2010) Evolution of deep-water stratigraphic architecture, Magallanes Basin, Chile. In Marine and Petroleum Geology.
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- Stephen M. Hubbard, Andrea Fildani, Brian W. Romans et al. (2010) High-Relief Slope Clinoform Development: Insights from Outcrop, Magallanes Basin, Chile, 357-375. In Journal of Sedimentary Research 80 (5).
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- Brian W. Romans, Andrea Fildani, Stephan A. Graham et al. (2010) Importance of predecessor basin history on the sedimentary fill of a retroarc foreland basin: provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Magallanes, 640-658. In Basin Research.
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- Jacob A. Covault, Brian W. Romans, Andrea Fildani et al. (2010) Rapid Climatic Signal Propagation from Source to Sink in a Southern California Sediment‐Routing System, 247-259. In The Journal of Geology 118 (3).
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- Brian W. Romans, William R. Normark, Mary M. McGann et al. (2009) Coarse-grained sediment delivery and distribution in the Holocene Santa Monica Basin, California: Implications for evaluating source-to-sink flux at millennial time scales, 1394-1408. In Geological Society of America Bulletin.
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- Jacob A. Covault, Brian W. Romans (2009) Growth patterns of deep-sea fans revisited: Turbidite-system morphology in confined basins, examples from the California Borderland, 51-66. In Marine Geology 265 (1-2).
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- Jacob A. Covault, Brian W. Romans, Stephan A. Graham (2009) Outcrop Expression of a Continental-Margin-Scale Shelf-Edge Delta from the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile, 523-539. In Journal of Sedimentary Research 79 (7).
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- Brian W. Romans, Stephen M. Hubbard, Stephan A. Graham (2009) Stratigraphic evolution of an outcropping continental slope system, Tres Pasos Formation at Cerro Divisadero, Chile, 737-764. In Sedimentology 56 (3).
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- Dominic A. Armitage, Brian W. Romans, Jacob A. Covault et al. (2009) The Influence of Mass-Transport-Deposit Surface Topography on the Evolution of Turbidite Architecture: The Sierra Contreras, Tres Pasos Formation (Cretaceous), Southern Chile, 287-301. In Journal of Sedimentary Research 79 (5).
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- Stephen M. Hubbard, Stephan A. Graham, Brian W. Romans (2008) Deep-water foreland basin deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes basin, Chile: architectural elements of a sinuous basin axial channel belt, 1333-1359. In Sedimentology 55 (5).
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Awards and Grants

Sep 2006

Stanford-USGS Fellowship
Jun 2005

AAPG Grants-in-Aid Classen Family grant
Jun 2005

Martin Van Covering Award - Pacific Section AAPG
Sep 2004

McGee Fund Grant - Stanford University

Biographical Information

Assistant professor of geology at Virginia Tech. My expertise and research interests include:
- sediment transfer across continental margins
- deep-marine (turbidite) depositional systems
- high-resolution / sequence stratigraphy
- clastic sedimentology
- tectonics and sedimentation
- marine geology
- geology of petroleum systems