Publications

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*Slawson, J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Beverly, E. J., & Bachtadse, V. 2025. Paleosol-based reconstruction indicates decoupling of mean annual precipitation and precipitation intensity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Uinta Basin, Utah. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40, e2024PA004966. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004966

*Slawson, J.S., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Reichler, T. and *Baldassare, D., 2025. More intermittent mid-latitude precipitation accompanied extreme early Palaeogene warmth.  Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01870-6

*Gezovich, L. J., Plink-Björklund, P., and *Henry, J., 2025. Discriminating fluvial fans and deltas: Channel network morphometrics reflect distinct formative processes, EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2497.

Fustic, M., Plink‐Bjorklund, P., Shchepetkina, A., Umralin, A. and Strobl, R., 2025. Atypical strata in a typical point bar of the McMurray Formation—a function of floods, tides and high sediment concentrations, or salt dissolution tectonics? REPLY TO DISCUSSION of Paul Broughton. Sedimentology.

Feng, S., *Tan, C., Plink‐Björklund, P., Shan, X., Li, S., Li, S., Yu, X., Chen, L. and Ji, H., 2025. Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China. Sedimentology.

*Xu, Z.H., Wu, S.H., Plink-Björklund, P., Zhang, T., Yue, D.L., Qian, Q.H., Li, Q. and Feng, W.J., 2025. Autocyclic switching processes and architecture of lobes in river-dominated lacustrine deltas. Journal of Palaeogeography, 14(1), pp.126-140.

*Tan, C., and Plink-Björklund, P. 2024, Centimeter-scale sedimentary structures in a lacustrine delta front, northern China: Ripples or Froude supercritical-flow bedforms? Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2024.106667

*Xu, Z.H., Wu, S.H., Plink-Björklund, P., Zhang, T., Yue, D.L., Qian, Q.H., Li, Q. and Feng, W.J., 2024. Autocyclic switching processes and architecture of lobes in river-dominated lacustrine deltas. Journal of Palaeogeography.
Fustic, M., Plink-Björklund, P., Shchepetkina, A., Strobl, R., 2024. A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13198

*Xu, Z., and Plink-Björklund, P.(2023). Quantifying formative processes in river- and tide-dominated deltas for accurate prediction of future change. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104434. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104434

*Zellman, K. L., P. Plink‐Björklund, and *Spangler, L., 2024, Progradational‐to‐retrogradational styles of Palaeogene fluvial fan successions in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Basin research, v. 36, no. 1, doi:10.1111/bre.12823.

*Baldassare, D., Reichler, T., Plink-Björklund, P., and *Slawson, J. 2023: Large Uncertainty in Observed Meridional Stream Function Tropical Expansion, Weather and Climate Dynamics 4 (2), 531-541, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1438.

Jobe, Z., Bishop, J., Slootman, A., Ryan, B. and Plink-Björklund, P., 2023. A Glitch in the Matrix: Do Carbonate Textural Descriptions Complicate Depositional-Process Interpretations? Advances in the Understanding and Interpretation of Carbonates Editors: Ted E. Playton and Paul (Mitch) Harris, SEPM Short Course Notes Advances in the Understanding and Interpretation of Carbonates Doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmscn.057.21

*Nadhim, Z., Wood, L., Jobe, Z., Plink-Björklund, P. and Slootman, A., 2023. Architecture and Mechanical Stratigraphy of Carbonate Slope Systems: Case Study of the Mississippian Crinoidal Fan System of the Doña Ana Member of the Lake Valley Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico.

*Campos-Soto, S., Benito, M.I., Mountney, N.P., Plink-Björklund, P., Quijada, I.E., Suarez-Gonzalez, P. and Cobos, A., 2022, Where humid and arid meet: Sedimentology of coastal siliciclastic successions deposited in apparently contrasting climates. Sedimentology, 69: 975-1027.

*Xu, Z., Plink-Björklund, P., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Feng, W., Zhang, K., Yang, Z., Zhong, Y., 2022. Sinuous bar fingers of digitate shallow-water deltas: Insights into their formative processes and deposits from integrating morphological and sedimentological studies with mathematical modelling, Sedimentology, 69 (2), 724-749.

*Tan, C., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Froude supercritical flow deposits in a modern river and delta system: Daihai Lake, Northern China. Sedimentology, 68, 1606-1639.

*Ono, K., Plink-Björklund, P., Eggenhuisen, J.T., and Cartigny, M.J.B., 2021. Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures: New insights from experiments. Sedimentology.

Plink-Bjorklund, P., Distributive fluvial systems, fluvial and alluvial fans. Encyclopedia of Geology 2^nd edition, 745-758

*Zellmann, K., Plink-Bjorklund, P., and Fricke, H., 2020. Testing hypotheses on precipitation variability signatures in the river and floodplain deposits of the Paleogene San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Sedimentary Research 90, 1770-1801.

*Li, Haipeng and Plink-Bjorklund Piret, in press. Applying Information Theory and Bayesian Inference to Paleoenvironmental Interpretation. Geophysical Research Letters.

*Hansford, M., Plink-Bjorklund, P., and Jones, E.,2020. Quantitative analyses of global river discharge variability and hydrograph shape. Invited review. Earth Science Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102977

*Ono, K., Plink-Björklund, P., Eggenhuisen, J.T., and Cartigny, M.J.B., 2020. Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures: New insights from experiments. Sedimentology. doi: 10.1111/SED.12682

*Wang, J., and Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2019. Variable-discharge-river macroforms in the Sunnyside Delta Interval of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, US. Sedimentology. doi: 10.1111/SED.12688

Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2019. Shallow-water deltaic clinoforms and process regime. Basin Research. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12384

*Wang, J and Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2019, Stratigraphic complexity in fluvial fans: Lower Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, USA. Basin Research. DOI: 10.1111/bre.12350.

Plink‐Björklund, P., 2019. Latitudinal Controls on River Systems: Implications of Precipitation Variability, in Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts, Fraticelli (ed.). SEPM Special Publication 108. DOI: 108. 10.2110/sepmsp.108.05.

*Ono, K., and Plink‐Björklund, P., 2018. Froude supercritical flow bedforms in deepwater slope channels? Field examples in conglomerates, sandstones and fine‐grained deposits. Sedimentology. DOI: 10.1111/sed.12396.

* Hall W.S., Hitzman, M.W., Kuiper, Y.D., Kylander-Clark, A.R.C., Holm-Denoma, C.S., Moscati, R.J., Plink-Björklund, P., Enders, M.S., 2018. Igneous and detrital zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf geochronology of the late Meso- to Neoproterozoic northwest Botswana rift: Maximum depositional age and provenance of the Ghanzi Group, Kalahari Copperbelt, Botswana and Namibia. Precambrian Research, 318, 133-155.

*Laugier, J.J., Plink‐Björklund, P., 2016, Defining the shelf edge and the three‐dimensional shelf edge to slope facies variability in shelf‐edge deltas, Sedimentology 63 (5), 1280-1320. DOI: 10.1111/sed.12263

Plink-Björklund, P., 2015, Morphodynamics of rivers strongly affected by monsoon precipitation: Depositional style and forcing factors, Invited review, Sedimentary Geology 323, 110-147. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.04.004

*Grundvåg, S.A., Johannessen, E.P., Helland-Hansen, W., and Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2014 Depositional architecture and evolution of stacked 1 basin-floor fans in the Eocene Central Basin of Spitsbergen, Sedimentology, 61, 535–569.

Plink-Björklund, P., Birgeneier, L., Jones, E., 2014. Extremely bad early Eocene weather: evidence for extreme precipitation from river deposits. CBEP Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2014, Ferrara. https://dx.doi.org/10.3301/ROL.2014.107öö.

*Al-Ramadan, K., Morad, S. and Plink-Björklund, P., 2013, Distribution of diagenetic alterations in relationship to depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy of wave- and tide-dominated siliciclastic shoreline complex: Upper Cretaceous Chimney Rock Sandstones, Wyoming and Utah, USA. In M. Ketzer and S. Morad (editors), Linking Diagenesis to Sequence Stratigraphy of Sedimentary Rocks. IAS Special Publication 45, Blackwell Science, 271-296.

*Mansurbeg, H., Morad, S., Plink-Björklund, P. and El-ghali, M., 2013, Diagenetic alterations related to falling stage and lowstand systems tracts of shelf, slope and basin floor sandstones (Eocene Central Basin, Spitsbergen). In M. Ketzer and S. Morad (editors), Linking Diagenesis to Sequence Stratigraphy of Sedimentary Rocks. IAS Special Publication 45, Blackwell Science, 353-378.

*McDowell, B., and Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2013, Reservoir Geometries and Facies Associations of Fluvial Tight-Gas Sands, Williams Fork Formation, Rifle Gap, Colorado, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, doi:10.1190/URTEC2013-261

*Schmandt, D., Broughton, D., Hitzman, M.W., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Edwards, D., and Humphrey, J., 2013, The Kamoa Copper Deposit, Democratic Republic of Congo: Stratigraphy, Diagenetic and Hydrothermal Alteration, and Mineralization, Economic Geology, 108, 1301-1324, doi:10.2113/econgeo.108.6.1301

Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2012, Effects of tides on deltaic deposition: Causes and responses, Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 279, 107-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.07.006

Buatois, L., Santiago, N., Herrera, M., Plink-Björklund, P., Steel, R., Espin, M., and Parra, K., 2012, Sedimentological and ichnological signatures of changes in wave, river, and tidal influence along a Neogene tropical deltaic shoreline, eastern Venezuela, Sedimentology, Vol 59, 1568-1612. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01317.x

Steel, R., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Aschoff, J., 2012, Tidal deposits of the Western Interior Seaway, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, USA, R.A. Davis, Jr. and R.W. Dalrymple (eds.), Principles of Tidal Sedimentology, 437 DOI 10.1007/978-94- 007-0123- 6_17