Here are the most recent papers from our research group:
2026
Ramachandran, H., de Jonge-Anderson, I., Hafizi Musa, I., Nicholson, U., Tan, C., Geiger, S., Doster, F. 2026.Rapid Fault Leakage Modeling for CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers. Water Resources Research (in press).
Stewart, S., Nicholson, U., Abdullah., A.O. and Salem, A.S. 2026. 3D seismic mapping of a kilometer-scale Neogene probable impact crater in Saudi Arabia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science (in press).
Saul, D., Nicholson, U. 2026. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Guyana Basin: implications for sediment routing and slope stability. Basin Research 38:e70097. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.70097
Doan, M.L., Brunet, M., Pizer, C., Okuda, H., Chang, Y.C., Satolli, S., Nicholson, U., Yamamoto, Y., Conin, M., Fukuchi, R. and Kirkpatrick, J., 2026. Real-time unwrapping of 3D X-ray CT scans for visual core description. Scientific Drilling, 35(1), pp.55-60.
Hoggett, M., Dunkley Jones, T., Barbosa, J.A., Heine, C., Eagles, G., Fauth, G., Nicholson, U. and Jones, S.M., 2026. The deep structure of the Pernambuco Plateau, Northeast Brazil, and its implications for Equatorial Atlantic rifting. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 553(1), pp.gslspecpub2024-32.
Ibezim, O.N., Stow, D., Nicholson, U. and Rodrigues, S., 2026. Seismic Stratigraphy of Eocene–Recent Mixed Depositional Systems on the SE New Zealand Continental Margin, Great South Basin. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 69(1), p.e70024.
Aduomahor, B., Duarte, D., Wagner, T., Dunkley Jones, T. and Nicholson, U., 2026. Seismic stratigraphy of the Guinea Plateau before, during and after the opening of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 553(1), pp.SP553-2024.
Kirkpatrick, J.D., Savage, H.M., Regalla, C., Shreedharan, S., Ross, C., Okuda, H., Nicholson, U., Ujiie, K., Hackney, R., Conin, M. and Pei, P., 2025. Extreme plate boundary localization promotes shallow earthquake slip at the Japan Trench. Science, 391(6784), pp.489-493.
2025
Kodaira, S., Conin, M., Fulton, P.M., Kirkpatrick, J.D., Regalla, C., Ujiie, K., Okutsu, N., Maeda, L., Toczko, S., Eguchi, N., Gough, A., Expedition 405 Scientists, 2025. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program Volume 405: Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench (JTRACK).
Kirkpatrick, J.D., Regalla, C., Conin, M., Fulton, P.M., Ujiie, K., Kodaira, S., Okutsu, N., Maeda, L., Eguchi, N., Gough, A. and Nicholson, U., 2025. International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 405 Preliminary Report: Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench (JTRACK).
Nicholson, U., Jonge-Anderson, I.D., Gillespie, A., Kenkmann, T., Dunkley Jones, T., Collins, G.S., Frankel, J., Bray, V., Gulick, S.P. and Parr, R., 2025. Multiple lines of evidence for a hypervelocity impact origin for the Silverpit Crater. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.8312.
Duarte, D., Erba, E., Bottini, C., Wagner, T., Aduomahor, B., Jones, T.D. and Nicholson, U., 2025. Early Cretaceous deep-water bedforms west of the Guinea Plateau revise the opening history of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway. Global and Planetary Change, 249, p.104777.
de Jonge-Anderson, I., Ramachandran, H., Widyanita, A., Busch, A., Doster, F. and Nicholson, U., 2025. Regional screening of saline aquifers in the Malay Basin for CO2 storage. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 143, p.104347.
2024
Nicholson, U., Powell, W., Gulick, S., Kenkmann, T., Bray, V., Duarte, D. and Collins, G., 2024. 3D anatomy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene age Nadir Crater. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 547.
Nicholson, U., Stow, D.A., Brackenridge, R.E., Miramontes, E. and Wåhlin, A., 2024. Introduction: Special issue on bottom currents and contourites: Processes, products and Impact. Marine Geology, 469, p.107237.
de Jonge‐Anderson, I., Widyanita, A., Busch, A., Doster, F. and Nicholson, U., 2024. New Insights into the structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Malay Basin using 3D seismic data: Implications for regional carbon capture and storage potential. Basin Research, 36(4), p.e12885.
de Jonge-Anderson, I., Ramachandran, H., Nicholson, U., Geiger, S., Widyanita, A. and Doster, F., 2024. Determining CO2 storage efficiency within a saline aquifer using reduced complexity models. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 13(1), pp.22-31.
2023
Wilkin, J., Cuthbertson, A., Dawson, S., Stow, D., Stephen, K., Nicholson, U. and Penna, N., 2023. The response of high-density turbidity currents and their deposits to an abrupt channel termination at a slope break: Implications for channel–lobe transition zones. Sedimentology, 70(4), pp.1164-1194.
McGill, P., Nicholson, U., Frei, D. and Macdonald, D., 2023. Defining Regional and Local Sediment Sources in the Ancestral Colorado River System: A Heavy Mineral Study of a Mixed Provenance Unit in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, Southern California. Geosciences, 13(2), p.45.
2022
Nicholson, U., Bray, V.J., Gulick, S.P. and Aduomahor, B., 2022. The Nadir crater offshore West Africa: A candidate Cretaceous-Paleogene impact structure. Science Advances, 8(33), p.eabn3096.
Nishida, N., Itaki, T., Amano, A., Katayama, H., Sato, T., Stow, D. and Nicholson, U., 2022. Anatomy and dynamics of a mixed contourite sand sheet, Ryukyu Island Arc, northwestern Pacific Ocean. Marine Geology, 444, p.106707.
2021
Davies, S., Stow, D. and Nicholson, U., 2021. Late glacial to Holocene sedimentary facies of the Eirik Drift, southern Greenland margin: Spatial and temporal variability and paleoceanographic implications. Marine Geology, 440, p.106568.
2020
Nicholson, U., Libby, S., Tappin, D.R. and McCarthy, D., 2020. The Subantarctic Front as a sedimentary conveyor belt for tsunamigenic submarine landslides. Marine Geology, 424, p.106161.
Brackenridge, R.E., Nicholson, U., Sapiie, B., Stow, D. and Tappin, D.R., 2020. Indonesian Throughflow as a preconditioning mechanism for submarine landslides in the Makassar Strait. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500(1), pp.195-217.
Stow, D., Nicholson, U., Kearsey, S., Tatum, D., Gardiner, A., Ghabra, A. and Jaweesh, M., 2020. The Pliocene-Recent Euphrates river system: Sediment facies and architecture as an analogue for subsurface reservoirs. Energy Geoscience, 1(3-4), pp.174-193.
2019
Nicholson, U. and Stow, D., 2019. Erosion and deposition beneath the Subantarctic Front since the Early Oligocene. Scientific reports, 9(1), p.9296.
Nicholson, U., Carter, A., Robinson, P. and Macdonald, D.I., 2019. Eocene–Recent drainage evolution of the Colorado River and its precursor: an integrated provenance perspective from SW California. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488(1), pp.47-72.