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Best Journal Paper (1952 - 1977)
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1977
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 51:4
Author(s): Robert J. Horodyski
Title: Environmental Influences on Columnar Stromatolite Branching Patterns: Examples from the Middle Proterozoic Belt in Supergroup, Glacier Park, Montana
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 47:1
Author(s): Michael D. Wilson & Edward D. Pittman
Title: Authigenic Clays in Sandstones: Recognition and Influence on Reservoir and Paleoenvironmental Analysis
1976
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 50:6
Author(s): Bruce M. Bell
Title: Phylogenetic Implications of Ontogenetic Development in the Class Edriosteroida (Echinodermata)
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 46:2
Author(s): Edwin L. Hamilton
Title: Variations of Density and Porosity with Depth in Deep-Sea Sediments
1975
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 49:4
Author(s): Philip A. Sandberg
Title: Bryozoan Diagenesis: Bearing on Nature of the Original Skeleton of Rugose Corals
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 45:4
Author(s): A. Conrad Neumann & Lynton S. Land
Title: Lime Mud Deposition and Calcareous Algae inthe Bight of Abaco, Bahamas: A Budget
1974
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 48:5
Author(s): Bruce Runnegar
Title: Evolutionary History of teh Bivalve Subclass Anomalodesmata
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 44:4
Author(s): William J. Cleary & John R. Connolly
Title: Hatteras Deep-Sea Fan
1973
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 47:1
Author(s): Bruce N. Haugh
Title: Water Vascular System of the Crinoides Camerata
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 43:2
Author(s): I. Nicholas McCave
Title: The Sedimentology of a Transgression: Portland Point and Cooksburg Members (Middle Devonian), New York State
1972
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 46:2
Author(s): Steven M. Stanley
Title: Functional Morphology and Evolution of Byssally Attached Bivalve Mollusks
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 42:4
Author(s): Monty A. Hampton
Title: The Role of Subaqueous Debris Flow in Generating Turbidity Currents
1971
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 45:6
Author(s): J. William Schopf & Jan C. Blacic
Title: New Microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (Late Precambrian) of the North-Central Amadeus Basin, Australia
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 41:3
Author(s): H. Edward Clifton & Ralph E. Hunter & R. L. Phillips
Title: Depositional Structures in the Non-Barred High Energy Nearshore
1970
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 44:6
Author(s): J. Robert Dodd & Robert J. Stanton, Jr.
Title: Paleoecologic Techniques - Comparison of Faunal and Geochemical Analyses of Pliocene Paleoenvironments, Kettleman Hills, California
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 40:4
Author(s): George D. Klein
Title: Depositional and Dispersal Dynamics of Intertidal Sand Bars
1969
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 43:4
Author(s): James W. Valentine
Title: Niche Diversity and Niche Size Patterns in Marine Fossils
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 39:2
Author(s): Paul P. Enos
Title: Anatomy of a Flysch
1968
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 42:4
Author(s): Eugene A. Shinn
Title: Burrowing in Recent Lime Sediments of Florida and the Bahamas
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 38:3
Author(s): Thomas W. Todd
Title: Paleoclimatology and the Relative Stablility of Feldspar Minerals under Atmospheric Conditions
1967
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 41:6
Author(s): Charles A. Ross
Title: Development of Fusulinid (Foraminiferida) Faunal Realms
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 37:2
Author(s): Mahlon W. Ball
Title: Carbonate Sand Bodies of Florida and the Bahamas
1966
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 40:5
Author(s): David M. Ramp
Title: Geometric Analysis of Shell Coiling: General Problems
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 36:4
Author(s): Fred T. Mackenzie & Robert M. Garrels
Title: Silica-Bicarbonate Balance in the Ocean and Early Diagenesis
1965
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 39:3
Author(s): Porter M. Kier
Title: Evolutionary Trends in Paleozoic Echinoids
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 35:4
Author(s): Alan V. Jopling
Title: Hydraulic Factors Controlling the Shape of Laminae in Laboratory Deltas
1964
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 38:3
Author(s): Richard A. Robinson
Title: Late Middle Cambrian Faunas From Western Utah
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 34:2
Author(s): John H. Spotts
Title: Grain Orientation and Imbrication in Miocene Turbidity Current Sandstones, California
1963
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 37:1
Author(s): J. Harlan Johnson
Title: The Algal Genus Archaeolithothamnium and Its Fossil Representatives
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 33:3
Author(s): John M. Christie & Harvey Blatt
Title: Undulatory Extinction in Quarts of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks and Its Significance in Provenance Studies of Sedimentary Rocks
1962
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 36:2
Author(s): Michael R. House
Title: Observations on the Ammonoid Succession of the North American Devonian
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 32:4
Author(s): John R. L. Allen
Title: The Petrology, Origin and Deposition of the Highest Lower Sandstone of Shropshire, England
1961
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 35:1
Author(s): William J. Sando
Title: Morphology and Ontogeny of Ankhelasma, a New Mississippian Coral Genus
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 31:4
Author(s): Gerald M. Friedman
Title: Distinction Between Dune, Beach, and River Sands from their Textural Characteristics
1960
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 34:1
Author(s): William A. Oliver, Jr.
Title: Rugose Corals from the Reef Limestones
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 30:1
Author(s): Raymond C. Murray
Title: Origin and Porosity in Carbonate Rocks
1959
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 33:1
Author(s): Paul D. Blackman & Ruth Todd
Title: Mineralogy of Some Foraminifera as Relates to Their Classification and Ecology
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 29:3
Author(s): Robin G. C. Bathurst
Title: Diagenesis in Mississippian Calcilutites and Pseudobreccias
1958
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 32:2
Author(s): Christina L. Balk & James Lee Wilson
Title: Cambrian Biostratigraphy in North America
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 28:1
Author(s): Louis I. Briggs
Title: Evaporite Facies
1957
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 31:6
Author(s): Helen Tappan & Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr.
Title: Correlation of the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Paleocene and Lower Eocene Formations by Means of Planktonic Foraminifera
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 27:3
Author(s): Raymond Siever
Title: Pennsylvanian Sandstones of the Eastern Interior Coal Basin
1956
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 30:3
Author(s): Christina L. Balk
Title: The Evolution of Some Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Trilobite Families
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 26:3
Author(s): Maurice A. Carrigy
Title: Organic Sedimentation in Warnbro Sound, Western Australia
1955
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 29:6
Author(s): William R. Walton
Title: Ecology of Living Benthonic Foraminifera, Todos Santos Bay, California
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 25:2
Author(s): Louis F. Dellwig
Title: Origin of the Salina Salt of Michigan
1954
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 28:3
Author(s): Donald Parkinson
Title: Quantitative Studies of Brachiopods from the Lower Carboniferous Reef Limestones of England
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 24:2
Author(s): Harold N. Fisk & Charles R. Kolb & Edward McFarlan, Jr. & Louis J. Wilbert, Jr.
Title: Sedimentary Framework of the Modern Mississippi Delta
1953
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 27
Author(s): --
Title: none presented
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 23
Author(s): --
Title: none presented
1952
Journal of Paleontology
Issue: 26:3
Author(s): Lloyd G. Henbest
Title: Significance of Evolutionary Explosions for Diastrophic Division of Earth History
Journal of Sedimentary Petrology
Issue: 22:2
Author(s): Philip H. Kuenen & Henry W. Menard, Jr.
Title: Turbidity Currents, Graded and Non-Graded Deposits