Sedimentary Geology, Basin Analysis, Petroleum Geology

• 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

*Please see http://www.mines.utah.edu/basins/Research/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., 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.