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Cari L. Johnson
Associate Chair, Dept. Geology and Geophysics
Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics

Contact:
Office: 335 FASB
Phone: (801) 585-3782
cari.johnson@utah.edu

Classes and Resources


FIELD OF STUDY
Sedimentary Geology, Basin Analysis, Petroleum Geology

BACKGROUND
  • B.A. Geology, 1996, Carleton College
  • Ph.D. Geology, 2002, Stanford University

RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
• Tertiary lake systems of western North America
• Improved petroleum reservoir prediction using Lidar and outcrop analogs
• Fluvial-deltaic depositional systems analysis
• Sequence stratigraphy and controls on sedimentation, Kaiparowits plateau
• Cenozoic sequence stratigraphy, San Joaquin basin, California
• Mesozoic-Cenozoic slip history of the East Gobi fault zone, southern Mongolia
• Timing and implications of Mongol-Okhotsk ocean closure, southern Siberia
• Geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy of the Maikop series, Azerbaijan
• Visualization and effective research / teaching strategies in the geosciences

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
*Please see http://www.mines.utah.edu/basins/CV.html for full list, articles in press, and regular updates with links to pdfs.

Selected 2004-2006 publications (does not include meeting abstracts)

Johnson, C.L., Hudson, S.H., Rowe, H.D., Efendiyeva, M.A., in review, Geochemical constraints on the Paleocene-Miocene evolution of the Kura Depression, Azerbaijan, with implications for the South Caspian basin and eastern Paratethys, Basin Research, submitted November 28, 2008.

Ritts, B.D., Berry, A.K., Johnson, C.L., Darby, B.J., and Davis, G., in review, Early Cretaceous supradetachment basins in the Hohhot metamorphic core complex, Inner Mongolia, China, Basin Research, submitted May 6, 2008.

Moore Ali-Adeeb, J.A., Taylor, A., Johnson, C.L., Ritts, D., and Archer, R., in press, Facies analysis, reservoir characterization, and LIDAR modeling of an Eocene lacustrine delta, Green River Formation, Southwest Uinta basin, Utah, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, accepted February, 2007.

Archer, R., Robanna, E., Ritts, B., Moore Ali-Adeeb, J., Johnson, C.L., and Taylor, A., in press, Reservoir simulation models of an Eocene lacustrine delta, Green River Formation, SW Uinta basin, Utah, in Y. Bartov and D. Nummedal, eds., Sandstones in lacustrine depositional settings, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, accepted February 2008.

Graham, S.A., Cope, T., Johnson, C.L., Ritts, B.D., Darby, B.J., and Davis, G.A., in press, Sedimentary Basins of the Late Mesozoic Extensional Domain of China and Mongolia, in Balley, A., ed., Phanerozoic Regional Geology of the World: Sedimentary basins of
China and Mongolia, accepted 11/2004.

Moore Ali-Adeeb, J.A., Taylor, A., Johnson, C., Ritts, D., and Archer, R., in press, Facies analysis, reservoir characterization, and LIDAR modeling of an Eocene lacustrine delta, Green River Formation, Southwest Uinta basin, Utah, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, accepted February, 2007.

Hudson, S.H., Johnson, C.L., Efendiyeva, M.A., Rowe, H.D., Feyzullayev, A.A., and Aliyev, C.S., 2008, Stratigraphy and geochemical characterization of the Oligocene-Miocene Maikop series: Implications for the paleogeography of Eastern Azerbaijan, in Sorkhabi, R., ed., Out of Tethys: New Geologic Studies on the Making of Asia, Tectonophysics, v. 451, p. 40-55, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.045.

Johnson, C.L., Amory, J.A., Graham, S.A., Lamb, M.A., G. Badarch, and Affolter, M., 2008, Accretionary tectonics and sedimentation during late Paleozoic arc collision, China-Mongolia border region, in A. Draut, P. Clift, and D. Scholl, eds., Formation and applications of the sedimentary record in arc collision zones, Geological Society of America Special Paper 436, p. 363-390.

Johnson, C.L., and Graham, S.A., 2006, Middle Tertiary Stratigraphic Sequences of the San Joaquin Basin, California, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1713, Ch. 6, http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1713/.

Webb, L.E., and Johnson, C.L., 2006, Tertiary strike-slip faulting in southeastern Mongolia and implications for Asian tectonics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 241, p. 323-335.

Johnson, C.L., Bloch, R.B., and Graham, S.A., 2005, Tertiary Sequences of the Central San Joaquin Basin, California: Age Control and Eustatic Versus Tectonic Forcing Factors, AAPG Pacific Section, MP#49, 1 sheet.

Milner, M.A., Johnson, C.L., and Bereskin, S.R., 2005, A subsurface and outcrop interpretation of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, northwest San Juan basin, New Mexico, Rocky Mountain Geologist, January Issue, p. 11-22.

Johnson, C.L., and Graham S.A., 2004, Cycles in perilacustrine facies in Upper Mesozoic rift basins, southeastern Mongolia, J. of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, n. 6, p. 770-785.
 
Johnson, C.L., and Graham, S.A., 2004, Sedimentology and reservoir architecture of a synrift lacustrine delta, southeastern Mongolia, J. of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, n. 6, p. 786-804.

Johnson, C.L., 2004, Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the East Gobi basin: Integration of outcrop and subsurface data, Basin Research, v. 16, n. 1, p. 79-100.

Johnson, C.L., Greene, T.J., Zinniker, D.A., Moldowan, J.M., Hendrix, M.S., and Carroll, A.R., 2003, Geochemical characteristics and correlation of oil and nonmarine source rocks from Mongolia, AAPG Bulletin, v. 87, n. 5, pg. 817-846.



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