Publications

Publications since 2015

Bold indicates CoRE Director, Underlined indicates CoRE student, * indicates CoRE staff

Also see Zane Jobe’s Google Scholar profile

2023

Cardenas, B. T., Lamb, M. P., Jobe, Z.R., Mohrig, D., & Swartz, J. M., 2023, Morphodynamic Preservation of Fluvial Channel Belts. The Sedimentary Record, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.66285

Gilbert, J.C., & Jobe, Z.R., 2023, Submarine-Channel Element Architecture Demonstrates Facies Heterogeneity in Both Strike and Dip Views: Miocene Modelo Formation, Lake Piru, California, USA. The Sedimentary Record, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.84246

Bishop, J., Bachtel, S., Thompson, J., Miller, C., Ryan, B., Sullivan, M., Jobe, Z.R., 2023, Carbonate submarine fan deposits of the Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. The Depositional Record, 00, 1–36, https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.246

Gross, E., Carr, M., Jobe, Z.R., 2023, Three‐dimensional bounding surface architecture and lateral facies heterogeneity of a wet aeolian system: Entrada Sandstone, Utah. Sedimentology v. 70, p. 145-178, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13035

2022

Naranjo-Vesga, J., Paniagua-Arroyave, J.F., Ortiz-Karpf, A., Jobe, Z.R., Wood, L., Galindo, P., *Shumaker, L., and Mateus-Tarazona, D., 2022, Controls on submarine canyon morphology along a convergent tectonic margin. The Southern Caribbean of Colombia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 137, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105493

Martin, T., Tadla, J., Jobe, Z.R., 2022, Digitalization of Legacy Datasets and Machine Learning Regression Yields Insights for Reservoir Property Prediction and Submarine-Fan Evolution: A Subsurface Example From the Lewis Shale, Wyoming. The Sedimentary Record, v. 20, https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.36638

Kus, K.B., Jobe, Z.R., Laugier, F., Walker, W., Sullivan, M., 2022, Quantifying the lateral heterogeneity of distal submarine lobe deposits, Point Loma Formation, California: Implications for subsurface lateral facies prediction. The Depositional Record v. 8, p. 472-501, https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.169

Hou, P., Jobe, Z.R., Wood, L., 2022, Statistical characterization of a confined submarine fan system: The Pennsylvanian Lower Atoka Formation, Ouachita Mountains, USA. Sedimentology v. 69, p. 775-797, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12925

2021

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N., Martin, J., *Meyer, R., Coutts, D., Hou, P., Stright, L., and Laugier, F., 2021, Sedimentary graphic logs: A template for description and a toolkit for digitalization. The Sedimentary Record, v. 19, https://doi.org/10.2110/sedred.2021.3.3

Fryer, R.C., Jobe, Z.R., Laugier, F., Pettinga, L.A., Gilbert, J.C., *Shumaker, L.E., Smith, J.E., and Sullivan, M., 2021, Submarine lobe deposits of the Point Loma Formation, California: Quantifying event-bed architecture and lateral heterogeneity: Depositional Record, v. 7, p. 374–391, https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.156

Hou, P., Wood, L.J., and Jobe, Z.R., 2021, Tectonic-sedimentary interplay of a confined deepwater system in a foreland basin setting: The Pennsylvanian lower Atoka Formation, Ouachita Mountains, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 91, p. 683–709, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.064

Walker, W., Jobe, Z.R., Sarg, J.F., and Wood, L., 2021, Progradational slope architecture and sediment distribution in outcrops of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Bone Spring Formation, Permian Basin, west Texas: Geosphere, v. 17, p. 1268–1293, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02355.1

Martin, T., *Meyer, R., and Jobe, Z.R, 2021, Centimeter-Scale Lithology and Facies Prediction in Cored Wells Using Machine Learning: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, p. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.659611

Nauton-Fourteu, M., Tyrrell, S., Chew, D.M., Drakou, F., Pfaff, K., and Jobe, Z.R., 2021, Deep- versus shallow-marine sandstone provenance in the mid-Carboniferous Clare Basin, western Ireland: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 178, p. jgs2020-216, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-216

Gilbert, J.C., Jobe, Z.R., Johnstone, S.A., Sharman, G.R., 2021, Identifying elusive piercing points along the North American transform margin using mixture modeling of detrital zircon data from sedimentary units and their crystalline sources. The Sedimentary Record, v. 19, no. 2, p. 12-21, https://doi.org/10.2110/sedred.2021.2.3

Englert, R.G., Hubbard, S.M., Cartigny, M.J., Clare, M.A., Coutts, D.S., Hage, S., Hughes Clarke, J., Jobe, Z.R., Lintern, D.G., Stacey, C. and Vendettuoli, D., 2021. Quantifying the three‐dimensional stratigraphic expression of cyclic steps by integrating seafloor and deep‐water outcrop observations. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12772

2020

Pettinga, L.A. and Jobe, Z.R., 2020, How submarine channels (re)shape continental margins. Journal of Sedimentary Research, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.72

Naranjo-Vesga, J., Ortiz-Karpf, A., Wood, L., Jobe, Z.R., Paniagua-Arroyave, J.F., *Shumaker, L., Mateus-Tarazona, D., and Galindo, P., 2020, Regional controls in the distribution and morphometry of deep-water gravitational deposits along a convergent tectonic margin. Southern caribbean of Colombia: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104639

Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.W., Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., and Fildani, A., 2020, The stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel: Linking seafloor dynamics to depositional products: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.36

*Meyer, R., Martin, T., Jobe, Z.R., 2020, Corebreakout: Subsurface core images to depth-registered datasets, Journal of Open-Source Software, https://github.com/rgmyr/corebreakout

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., Cai, D., Deng, H., Laugier, F., *Shumaker, L.E., 2020, Comparing Aggradation, Superelevation, and Avulsion Frequency of Submarine and Fluvial Channels. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00053

Cardona, S., Wood, L.J., Dugan, B., Jobe, Z.R., Strachan, L.J., 2020, Characterization of the Rapanui mass-transport deposit and the basal shear zone: Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/sed.12697.

2019

Daniels, B.G., Hubbard, S.M., Romans, B.W., Malkowski, M.A., Matthews, W.A., Bernhardt, A., Kaempfe, S.A., Jobe, Z.R., Fosdick, J.C., Schwartz, T.M. and Fildani, A., 2019. Revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Última Esperanza Province, Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 94, p. 102209. 2019, Revised chronostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Última Esperanza Province, Chile: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 94, 102209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.025

Fryer, R. and Jobe, Z.R., 2019, Quantification of the Bed-scale Architecture of Submarine Depositional Environments. The Depositional Record, v. 5 p. 192-211, https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.70

2018

Pettinga, L.A., Jobe, Z.R., Shumaker, L.E.*, and Howes, N.C., 2018, Morphometric scaling relationships in submarine channel–lobe systems. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G45142.1

Shumaker, L.E.*, Jobe, Z.R., Johnstone, S.A., Pettinga, L.A., Cai, D.X., and Moody, J.D., 2018, Controls on submarine channel-modifying processes identified through morphometric scaling relationships. Geosphere, v. 14, no. 5, p. 1–17, https:// doi.org/10.1130/GES01674.1

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., Romans, B.R., Covault, J.A., 2018, Volumes and frequencies of submarine fan-building turbidity currents. The Depositional Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.42

Clare, M., Chaytor, J., Dabson, O., Gamboa, D., Georgiopoulou, A., Eady, H., Hunt, J. Jackson, C., Katz, O., Krastel, S., León, R., Micallef, R., Moernaut, J., Moriconi, R., Moscardelli, L., Mueller, C., Normandeau, A., Patacci, M., Steventon, M., Urlaub, M., Völker, D., Wood, L., and Jobe, Z.R., 2018, A consistent global approach for the morphometric characterization of subaqueous landslides. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 477, SP477.15. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP477.15

Malkowski, M.A., Jobe, Z.R., Sharman, G.R., Graham, S.A., 2018, Down-slope facies variability within deep-water channel systems: Insights from the Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, southern Patagonia. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12452

2017

Jobe, Z.R., Sylvester, Z., Bolla Pittaluga, M., Frascati, A., Pirmez, P., Minisini, D., Howes, N.C., Cantelli, A., 2017, Facies Architecture of Submarine Channel Deposits on the Western Niger Delta Slope: Implications for Grain-size and Density Stratification in Turbidity Currents. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, v. 122, p. 473–491, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF003903

Stright, L., Jobe, Z.R., Fosdick, J., Bernhardt, A., 2017, Modeling uncertainty in the three-dimensional structural deformation and stratigraphic evolution from outcrop data: implications for submarine channel knickpoint recognition. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 86, p. 79–94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.05.004

Jobe, Z.R., Sylvester, Z., Howes, N., Pirmez, C., Parker, A., Cantelli, A., Smith, R., Wolinsky, M.A., O’Byrne, C., Slowey, N., and Prather, B., 2017, High-resolution, millennial-scale patterns of bed compensation on a sand-rich intraslope submarine fan, western Niger Delta slope: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 23–37, https://doi.org/10.1130/B31440.1

2016

Covault, J.A., Sylvester, Z., Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., and Sech, R.P., 2016, The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution. The Sedimentary Record, v. 14, September issue, p. 4–11, http://www.sepm.org/The-Sedimentary-Record

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., and Auchter, N.C., 2016, Comparing submarine and fluvial channel kinematics: Implications for stratigraphic architecture: Geology, v. 44, p. 931–934, https://doi.org/10.1130/G38158.1

Parker, A.O., Schmidt, M.W., Jobe, Z.R., and Slowey, N.C., 2016, A new perspective on West African hydroclimate during the last deglaciation: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 449, p. 79–88, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.038

Shumaker, L.E., Jobe, Z.R., & Graham, S. A., 2016, Evolution of submarine gullies on a prograding slope: Insights from 3D seismic reflection data. Marine Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.06.006

2015

Jobe, Z.R., Sylvester, Z., Parker, A.O., Howes, N., Slowey, N., and Pirmez, C., 2015, Rapid Adjustment of Submarine Channel Architecture To Changes In Sediment Supply: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 85, p. 729–753, https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2015.30

Conference presentations since 2016

Bold indicates CoRE Director, Underlined indicates CoRE student, * indicates CoRE staff

2019

Jobe, Z.R., Downard, A., Martin, T.P., Meyer, R.*, 2019, Automated Interpretation of Depositional Environments Using Measured Stratigraphic Sections and Machine-Learning Models. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Walker, W., Jobe, Z.R., 2019, Stratigraphic Architecture and Sediment Partitioning in the Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, Texas. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Martin, T.P., Meyer, R.*, Jobe, Z.R., 2019, Automated Lithology Prediction from Core Images and Well Log Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms: A Case Study from the Greater Schiehallion Area, West of Shetland, United Kingdom. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Pettinga, L., Jobe, Z.R., 2019,How do submarine canyon-channel systems (re)shape continental margins? AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Kus, K.B., Jobe, Z.R., Laugier, F., Sullivan, M., 2019, Lateral Heterogeneity of Distal Submarine Lobe Deposits, Point Loma Formation, California: Implications for Lateral Facies Prediction in Horizontal Wells. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Gross, E., Carr, M.*, Jobe, Z.R., 2019, Three-dimensional eolian bounding surface architecture of the Entrada Sandstone, Utah: Expanding our understanding of reservoir heterogeneity in wet eolian prospects. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

Gilbert, C., Jobe, Z.R., Sharman, G., Johnstone, S., 2019, Unraveling the complex tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Ventura Basin, California, using detrital zircon mixture modeling. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2019.

2018

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., Romans, B.R., Covault, J.A., 2018, Volumes and frequencies of submarine fan-building turbidity currents. ISC Quebec City Technical Program.

Englert, R.G., Hubbard, S.M., Coutts, D., Jobe, Z.R., Cartigny, M., Hage, S., 2018, Preservation of Upper-Flow-Regime Bedforms and Their Recognition in the Stratigraphic Record. ISC Quebec City Technical Program.

Patten, J., Marcantonio, F., Jobe, Z.R., Schmidt, M., Slowet, N., Thomas, D., 2018, The Applicability of the 230Th Constant Flux Proxy in Sediments Offshore of the Niger River Delta. AGU Abstracts with Program, Washington D.C., 2018.

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., Georgiou, I., Cai, D., Deng, H., Laugier, F., Shumaker, L.E.*, 2018, Comparing Aggradation, Superelevation, and Avulsion Frequency of Submarine and Fluvial Channels. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Fryer, R.C., Jobe, Z.R., Shumaker, L.E.*, 2018, Quantitative Analysis of the Bed-Scale Facies Architecture of Submarine Lobe Deposits. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Thompson-Jobe, J.A., Giles, K., Hearon, T.E., Trudgill, B., Gannaway, C.E., Jobe, Z.R., Rowan, M.G., 2018, Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Sinbad Valley Salt Wall, Northeast Paradox Basin, Southwest Colorado. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Pettinga, L., Jobe, Z.R., Shumaker, L.E.*, Howes, N.C., 2018, Morphometric scaling relationships in submarine channel-lobe systems: implications for turbidite depositional processes and stratigraphic architecture. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Morris, P.D., Covault, J.A., Sech, R., Sylvester, Z., Jobe, Z.R., 2018, Deepwater Channel Trajectory Controls on Resultant Reservoir Connectivity. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Deng, H., Wood, L., Jobe, Z.R., 2018, Mass Failure Complex Morphometrics as an Indicator of Flow Rheology and Composition: A Comprehensive Study in the Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Walker, W., Jobe, Z.R., 2018, Stratigraphic Architecture of Turbidite and Mass-Transport Deposits in the Outcropping Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, Texas. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Shumaker, L.E.*, Jobe, Z.R., Moody, J., Cai, D., 2018, Scaling Relationships Between Stratigraphy and Morphology of Submarine Channels. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

Wang, J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Jobe, Z.R., 2018, Scaling Relationships of Channel-Lobe Deposits in Large Fluvial Fan Systems: Implications for Subsurface Reservoir Prediction. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2018.

2017

Fryer, R.C., Jobe, Z.R., Shumaker, L.E.*, Stammer, J., Fleming, A., 2017, Quantifying the Bed-scale Architecture of Submarine Lobe Deposits, Point Loma Formation, California. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2017.

Southern, S.J., Stright, L., Jobe, Z.R., Romans, B.R., Hubbard, S.M., 2017, The Stratigraphic Expression of Slope Channel Evolution: Insights From Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Channel Fills From the Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation, Southern Chile. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2017.

Shumaker, L.E.*, Howes, N.C., Pettinga, L.A., Jobe, Z.R., 2017, Investigating Controls on Submarine Channel Evolution Through Morphometric Scaling Relationships. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2017.

Pettinga, L.A., Shumaker, L.E.*, Howes, N.C., Jobe Z.R., 2017, Scaling Relationships in Linked Submarine Channel-Lobe Systems: Enabling Prediction of Reservoir Scales and Geometries in Deep-Water Sediment Routing Systems. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2017.

Jobe, Z.R., 2017, Submarine Sediment Routing Systems on the Western Niger Delta Slope: Autogenic and Allogenic Signal Propagation and Preservation. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2017.

Jobe, Z.R., and Howes, N.C., 2017, Scaling Relationships, Kinematics, and Stratigraphic Architecture of Submarine Channels: Application to Reservoir Prediction. Deep-water Depositional Systems: Advances and Applications (Geological Society of London).

2016

Jobe, Z.R., 2016, Mass Delivery and Frequency of Submarine Fan-Building Turbidity Currents. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2016, abstract #OS12C-07.

Jobe, Z.R., 2016, Characterization of a Submarine Channel-Lobe Transition Zone, Western Niger Delta. GSA 2016 Annual Conference, session T190. Modern and Ancient Sediment Transport on Earth and Planetary Surfaces.

Jobe, Z.R., Howes, N.C., Auchter, N., 2016, Temporal Evolution of Submarine Channel Trajectory and Mobility: Quantitative Analysis and Comparison to Rivers. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2016.

Romans, Brian W., Auchter, N.C., Bernhardt, A., Covault, J.A., Daniels, B.G., Fildani, A., Fosdick, J.C., Hubbard, S.M., Jobe, Z.R., Malkowski, M.A., Schwartz, T.M., Sickmann, Z.T., Stright, L., Graham, S.A., 2016, Stratigraphic Record of Foreland Basin Dynamics, Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Chile and Argentina. AAPG Technical Program, Annual Convention, 2016.