C. Hans Nelson - Institute for Geophysics

C. Hans Nelson
Curriculum Vita
Visiting Professor, Graduate Faculty, Consultant , CSIC Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias
de la Tierra, University of Granada, Spain
Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
34 676 081122 cell phone hansnelsonugr@hotmail.com
PERSONAL:
Born: Wabasha, MN, December 16, 1937, married, 4 children
EDUCATION: 1956-1959 B.A. in Geology.- Carleton College
1959-1961 M.S. in Geology.- Univ. of Minnesota
1963-1967 Ph.D. in Geological Oceanography.- Oregon State University
SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS
• Sigma Xi, Oregon State University, April 1966
• Phi Kappa Phi Oregon State Univ. 1967
• Superior Performance Award, 1968
• General Chairman's Award for Best Poster Session, AAPG-SEPM National Meeting, Denver, 1980
• Granted 15 month sabbatical as Visiting Scholar to Spain by the Spanish Ministry of Science 1987- 1989
• Herdman Distinguished Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Liverpool England 1990
• Invitational Travel Grant to Spain from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education , 1991, 1994
• Invitational Travel Grant to France from the French Ministry of Science and Technology, 1995
• Granted 10 month sabbatical as Visiting Scholar to France by the French Ministry of Science & Education,1997
• Rees Distinguished Lecturer, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 2000
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1959 1961 Research Assistant at Univ. of Minnesota & National Park Service at Crater Lake, OR.
1962 1962 Geologic field assistant to Chief, Pacific Coast Branch, US Geological Survey, CA.
1963 1967 Research Assistant, Oceanography Department, Oregon State University
1966 1998 Research Marine Geologist, U S Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.
1981 and 1988 Visiting Scientist, Instituto Jaime Almera and Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
1999 2002 Research Scientist, Oceanography Department, Texas A & M University
2002 present Visiting Professor, CSIC Inst. Ciencias de la Tierra University of Granada
2002 present Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Texas
2002 present Co-Principle Investigator, Gulf of Mexico Project, UTIG, University of Texas at Austin
2006 present Research Associate, Turbidite Research Group, University of Leeds, England
1965 present Chief or Co-Chief Scientist for 28 Oceanographic cruises of 0.5-3 months
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1957 1959 Teaching Assistant, Biology & Geology Department, Carleton College, MN.
1961 1962 Teaching Assistant, Geology Department, Lehigh University, PA.
1962 1963 Instructor in Physical Science, Portland State College, Portland, OR.
1966 1967 Assistant Professor of Biology with World Campus Afloat , Chapman College
1968 1968 Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.
1970 1971 Assistant Professor of Geology, Hayward State University, Hayward, CA
1973 1973 Acting Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

10/81 12/81 Visiting Professor, Comparative Sedimentology Div., State Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1/92- present Consulting Professor, Geology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
10/97- 11/97 Visiting Professor, Geology Department, University of Brest, France
1999 present Graduate Faculty , College of Geosciences, Texas A & M University
1984 present Instructor for 30 SEPM Short Courses on Modern and Ancient Deep-Sea Fan Sedimentation
taught throughout North America, Europe and Asia
SELECTED RECENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES AND EDITORSHIPS
• Editor, Geology and Geophysics, The Eastern Bering Shelf: Its Oceanography and Resources 1981
• Editor, The Northeastern Bering Shelf, Geol. en Mijnbouw Special Issue, March 1982
• Editor, Marine Geology of the Ebro margin, Marine Geology, Special Issue, v. 95 , December, 1990
• SEPM- 1990-1992 Chairman of Turbidite Research Group , SEPM Research Council
• International Consultant for Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology proposals, 1992- present
• National Academy of Science/Joint Oceanographic Inst., Continental Margin Research Panel member, 1993
• Consultant for NATO-Supreme Allied Command Marine Science Center, Laspezia, Italy, 1994
• Editorial Committee for Scientia Marina, 1992- Present
• Keynote speeches 1998: Lake Baikal Symposium, University of Gent, Belgium; Sediment Gravity
Conference, University of Leeds, England; Statoil Turbidite Summit, Trondheim, Norway
• NSF/JOI Continental Margin Research Workshop and Gulf of Mexico Site Panel member, 1999 and 2000
• JOI/ODP Industry/Academia Workshop- Gulf of Mexico Site Chair,1999
• Editor, Marine Geology of the Cadiz continental margin, Marine Geology, Special Issue, v. 155, 1999
• Technical Program Committee GCSSEPM 2000 Research Conference on Deep-water reservoirs of the world
• Technical Program Committee AAPG/SEPM 2002 National Meeting, Houston Texas
• SEPM Research Symposium Chairman –AAPG/SEPM 2002 National Meeting, Houston Texas
PUBLICATIONS
195 refereed books, articles and technical reports; 155 refereed abstracts—complete list available on
request.

HANS NELSON PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
1. Nelson, C. Hans, 1961, Geological Limnology of Crater Lake, Oregon: M.S. Thesis, Univ. of
Minnesota, Distributed by Crater Lake Natural History Association, 178 p.
2. Nelson, C.H., 1967, Sediments of Crater Lake, Oregon: Geological Society of America Bull. v. 78, p.
833-848.
3. Nelson, C.H., Kulm, L.D., Carlson, P.R., and Duncan, J.R., 1968, Masama ash in the northeastern
Pacific: Science, v. 161, p. 47-49.
4. Nelson, C.H., 1968, Marine geology of Astoria deep-sea fan: Ph.D. Thesis, Oregon State Univ.,
Corvallis, 287 p.
5. Carlson, P.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1969, Sediments and sedimentary structures of Astoria Canyon-
Fan system: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 39, no. 4, p. 1269-1282.
6. Nelson, C.H., and Hopkins, D.M., 1969, Sedimentary processes and distribution of particulate gold in
northern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 369, 50 p.
7. Nelson C.H., 1970, Late Cenozoic history of deposition of the northern Bering shelf: Second
International Symposium of Arctic Geology: American Association of Petroleum Geologist Bulletin v.
54, no. 12, p. 249B.
8. Nelson, C.H., Carlson, P.R. Byrne, J.V., and Alpha, T.R., 1970, Physiography of the Astoria Canyon-
Fan System: Marine Geology v. 8, no. 34, p. 259-291.
9. Nelson, C.H., 1970, Potential development of heavy metal resources in northern Bering Sea, in
Proceedings 20th Science Conference in Alaska, 1969: Alaska Division American Association for
Advancement of Science, p. 366-37
10. Nelson, C.H., and Hopkins, D.M., 1971, Joint Soviet-American studies of the sedimentary and
tectonic history of the Bering Sea: A proposal to National Science Foundation for IDOE, 100 p.
11. Nelson, C.H., 1971, NSF Travel Grant Report for attendance at IAS meetings and field trips and
POAC conference, 5 p.
12. Nelson, C.H., 1971, Northern Bering Sea, a model for depositional history of arctic shelf placers;
ecological impact of placer development: Proceedings from First International Conference on Port
and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Technical University of Norway, Trondeim, v. I, p.
246-254.
13. Nelson, C.H., 1972, Trip report for IDOE Symposium on the Bering Sea - Hakodate, Japan, 5 p.
14. Nelson, C.H., Pierce, D.E., Leong, K.W., and Wang, F.H., 1972, Mercury distribution in ancient and
modern sediment of northeastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 533, 33 p.
15. Nelson, C.H., and Hopkins, D.M., 1972, Sedimentary processes and distribution of particulate gold in
northern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 689, 26 p.

16. Nelson, C.H., Hopkins, D.M., and Scholl, D.W., 1972, A proposed model for Cenozoic sedimentary
history of the Bering Sea: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 56, p. 629.
17. Nelson, C.H., 1972, Cenozoic sedimentary and tectonic history of the Bering Sea: IDOE
International Symposium for the Bering Sea Study, preprints, Hakodate, Japan, p. 23.
18. Nelson, C.H., 1973, USGS Foreign travel report - International Symposium on Estuaries - Bordeaux,
Field Work on Turbidites in Spain, Italy and England, 5 p.
19. Nelson, C.H., And Kulm, L.D., 1973, Submarine Fans and Channels: in Turbidites and Deep-Water
Sedimentation, SEPM Pacific Section Short Course, Anaheim, 1973, Pacific Section SEPM, Los
Angeles, California, p. 39-78.
20. Nelson, C.H., Nilsen, Tor, 1974, Depositional trends of ancient and modern deep-sea fans, in
Modern and ancient geosynclinal sedimentation - a symposium in recognition of Marshall Kay,
Robert H. Dott, Jr., (eds.), SEPM Special Publication 19, p. 54-76.
21. Nelson, C.H., 1974, Northern Bering Sea Floor—Summary of Important Result—1973, Research in
Alaska-1974, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 700, p. 13.
22. Nelson, C.H., Pierce, D.W., Leong, K.W., and Wang, F.H., 1975, Mercury distribution in ancient and
modern sediments of northeastern Bering Sea: Marine Geology, v. 18, p. 91-104.
23. Nelson, C.H., Hopkins, D.M., and Scholl, D.W., 1974, Cenozoic sedimentary and tectonic history of
the Bering Sea, in Hood, D.W., and Kelley, E.J., (eds.), Oceanography of the Bering Sea: Institute of
Marine Science, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, P. 485-516.
24. McManus, D.A., Venkatarathnam, K., Hopkins, D.M., and Nelson, C.H., 1974, Yukon River sediment
on the northernmost Bering Sea shelf: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 44, p. 1052-1060.
25. Nelson, C.H., Hopkins, D.M., and Scholl, D.W., 1974, Tectonic setting and Cenozoic sedimentary
history of the Bering Sea, in Herman, Y. (ed.), Arctic Marine Geology and Oceanography: Springer-
Verlag, New York, P. 119-137.
26. Nelson, C.H., 1974, Part 4 - Environmental impact: in Scholl, D.W., and Marlow, M.S., Prenomination
report for St. George Basin—BLM in-house document.
27. Nelson, C.H., 1975, Shelf and slope deposits: in Dickinson, W.R., (ed.), Current concepts of
depositional systems with applications for petroleum geology, San Joaquin Geological Society,
Bakersfield, P. 3-1 - 3-8.
28. Nelson, C.H., 1975, Turbidite Fans and other base of slope deposits: in Dickinson, W.R., (ed.),
Current concepts of depositional systems with applications for petroleum geology, San Joaquin
Geological Society, Bakersfield, p. 6-1 - 6-17.
29. Nelson, C.H., 1975, Hemipelgites and other abyssal basin clastics: in Dickinson, W.R., (ed.), Current
concepts of depositional systems with applications for petroleum geology, San Joaquin Geological
Society, Bakersfield, p. 9-1 to 9-18.
30. Nelson, C.H., Larsen, B.L., and Rowland, R.W., 1975, ERTS imagery and dispersal of Yukon and
Kuskokwim River sediments in northeastern Bering Sea: in Principal Sources and Dispersal Patterns
of Suspended Particulate Matter in Nearshore Surface Waters of the Northeast Pacific Ocean and
the Hawaiian Islands, Carlson, P.E., (ed.), NTIS, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, E-75-10266, p. 26-40.

31. Nelson, C.H., and Nilsen, Tor, 1975, Depositional trends of modern and ancient deep-sea fans, in
Whitaker, J.H., (ed.), Submarine canyons and deep-sea fans, Halsted Press, New York, p. 69-91.
32. Nelson, C.H., Mutti, E., Ricci Lucchi, F., 1975, Comparison of proximal and distal thin-bedded
turbidites with current-winnowed deep-sea sands: Extraits des publicatons du Congress, IX,
Congres Internationale de Sedimentologie Theme 5, p. 317-325.
33. Nelson, C.H., 1976, Late Pleistocene and Holocene depositional trends, processes and history of
Astoria deep-sea fan, northeast Pacific: Marine Geology, v. 20, p. 129-173.
34. Hopkins, D.M., Nelson, C.H., Perry, R.B., and Alpha, T.R., 1976, Physiographic subdivisions of the
Chirikov Basin, northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 759-B, p. B1-B7.
35. McManus, D.A., Venkatarathnam, K., Hopkins, D.M., and Nelson, C.H., 1977, Distribution of bottom
sediments on the continental shelf, northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
759-C, 37 p.
36. Nelson, C.H., Larsen, B.R., Jenne, E.A., and Sorg, D.H., 1977, Mercury dispersal from lode sources
in the Kuskokwim River drainage, Alaska, Science, v. 1198, P. 820-824.
37. Nelson, C.H., and Creager, J.S., 1977, Displacement of Yukon-derived sediment from the Bering
Sea to Chukchi Sea during the Holocene, Geology, v. 5, p. 141-146.
38. Nelson, C.H., Mutti, E., and Ricci Lucci, F., 1977, Discussion of R.W. Walker paper "Upper
Cretaceous resedimented conglomerates at Wheeler Gorge, California", Journal of Sedimentary
Petrology, v. 45, p. 105-112.
39. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Faulting, sediment instability, erosion and deposition hazards of the Norton
Basin sea floor, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, Oct-Dec 1976, v. 4, p. 447-449.
40. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Summary of faulting, sediment instability, and erosion and deposition hazards of
Norton Basin sea floor, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce.
41. Thor, D.R., Nelson, C.H., and Evans, J.E., 1977, Preliminary assessment of ice gouging in Norton
Sound, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, year ending March 1977, v. 18, p. 93-110.
42. Newby, John, Clukey, E.C., and Nelson, C.H., 1977, Preliminary report—physical properties and
geotechnical characteristics of northern Bering Sound sediments, in Environmental Assessment of
the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory,
Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending March 1977, v. 18, p. 42-78.
43. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Potential seafloor instability from gas-rich sediments and sediment depression
craters, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators
Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year
ending March 1977, v. 18, p. 79-92.

44. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Storm surge effects, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental
Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending March, 1977, v. 18, p. 111-119.
45. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Large-scale bedforms and potential scour areas in northern Bering Sea in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending
March 1977, v. 18, p. 120-129.
46. Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1977, Faulting, sediment instability, erosion and deposition hazards of
Norton Basin sea floor, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, April-June, 1977, v. 18, p. 120-129.
47. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Trace metal content of bottom sediment in northern Bering Sea, in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Oct-Dec 1976,
v. 3, p. 305
48. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Trace metal content of bottom sediment in northern Bering Sea, in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending
March 1977, v. 18, p. 300-320.
49. Patry, J.J., Larsen, B.R., Nelson, C.H., and Heropoulos, Christopher, 1977, Trace metal content of
bottom sediment, northern Bering Sea, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental
Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, April-June 1977, v. *I, p. 846-856.
50. Nelson, C.H., Normark, W.R., Bouma, A.H., and Carlson, P.E., 1978, Thin-bedded turbidites in
modern submarine canyons and fans, in Stanley, D.R., (ed.), Modern and ancient submarine
canyons and fans, Dowden Hutchinson and Ross, Inc., Stroudsberg, Pa., p. 177-189.
51. Nelson, C.H., Kvenvolden, K.A., and Clukey, E.C. 1978, Thermogenic gas in sediment of Norton
Sound, Alaska, Proceedings Offshore Technical Conference, Houston, Texas, Paper no. 3354, p.
1612-1633.
52. Nelson, C.H., Holmes, M.L., Thor, D.R., and Johnson, J.L., 1978, Continuous seismic reflection data,
Sea 5-76-B5 cruise, northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-609, 6 p.
53. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1978, Continuous seismic reflection data, Sea 5-77-B5 cruise,
northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-608, 8 p.
54. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1978, Environmental geologic studies in northern Bering Sea, in
Blean, K.M., (ed.), U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishment during 1977, U.S. Geological
Survey Circular 772-B, p. B94-B95.
55. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1978, Faulting, sediment instability, erosion and deposition hazards of
Norton Basin Sea Floor in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, No. 1977, Jan. 1978, v. 2, p. 447-448.

56. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1978, Faulting, sediment instability, erosion and deposition hazards of
Norton Basin Sea Floor in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, Aug-Oct, 1977, v. 3, p. 628-649.
57. Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1978, Summary of faulting, sediment instability, erosion and
deposition hazards of the Norton Basin sea floor in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan
Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder,
CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending March 1978, v. 12, p. 189-202.
58. Nelson, C.H., Kvenvolden, K.A., and Clukey, E.C., 1978, Potential hazards of thermogenic basin
nearsurface sediment of Norton Sound, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan
Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder,
CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending March 1978, v. 12, p. 228-245.
59. Thor, D.R., Nelson, C.H., Williams, R.O., 1978, Ice gouging in Norton Sound, Alaska, in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending
March 1978, v. 12, p. 262-278.
60. Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Sandstrom, M.W., 1978, Modern biogenic gas craters (seafloor
"pockmarks") on the Bering Shelf, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental
Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending March 1978, v. 12, p. 246-261.
61. Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., 1978, Potential hazard of scour depressions in Yukon silt, in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, year ending
March 1978, v. 12, p. 274-290.
62. Nelson, C.H., Field, M.E., Cacchione, D.A., and Drake, D.E., 1978, Activity of mobile bedforms on
northeastern Bering Shelf, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal
Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, year ending March 1978, v. 12, p. 291-307.
63. Kvenvolden, K.A., Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Larsen, C.W., Redden, G.D., and Rapp, J.B., 1979,
Biogenic and thermogenic gas in gas-charged sediment of Norton Sound, Alaska, Proceedings
Offshore Technical Conference, Houston, Texas, Paper No. 3412, p. 479-483.
64. Clukey, E.C., Nelson, C.H., and Newby, J.E., 1978, Geotechnical properties of northern Bering Sea
Sediment, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-408, 45 p.
65. Fisher, M.A., Patton, W.W., Thor, D.R., Holmes, M.L., Scott, E.W., and Nelson, C.H., 1978,
Resource report for proposed OCS Lease Sale 57, Norton Basin, Alaska, Internal pre-nomination
report to BLM, 40 p.
66. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1979, A summary of interacting surficial geologic processes and
potential hazards in Norton Basin, northern Bering Sea, Proceedings Offshore Technical
Conference, Houston, Texas, Paper No. 3400, p. 377-381.
67. Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Geologic implications and potential hazards of
scour depression on the Bering Shelf, Alaska, Environmental Geology, v. 3, p. 39-47.

68. Kvenvolden, K.A., Weliky, K., Nelson, C.H., and Des Marais, D.J., 1979, Submarine carbon dioxide
seep in Norton Sound, Alaska, Science, v. 205, p. 1264-1266.
69. Nelson, C.H., and Nilsen, T.H., 1979, Modern and Ancient deep-sea fan sedimentation, American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Fall Evaluation Conference, V. II, Education Dept. of AAPG,
Tulsa, OK, p. 39-149.
70. Fischer, M.A., Patton, W.W., Jr., Thor, D.R., Holmes, M.L., Scott, E.W., Nelson, C.H., and Wilson,
C.L., 1979, The Norton Basin of Alaska, Oil and Gas Journal, May 21, p. 956-958.
71. Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Continuous seismic reflection data, 89-78-B5
cruise, northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1673, 8 p.
72. Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1979, Geologic implications and potential hazards of
scour depressions on Bering shelf, Alaska, in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental
Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, v. 10, p. 53-154.
73. Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Larsen, M.C., and Larsen, B.R., 1979, Norton Basin Environmental
Assessment Report for tract selection for OCS proposed Lease Sale 57, Internal Report for BLM,
Anchorage, Alaska, 526 p.
74. Sangrey, D.A., Bouma, A.H., Hampton, M.A., Carlson, P.R., Molnia, B.F., Clukey, E.C., Nelson,
C.H., and Olsen, H.W., 1979, Geotechnical engineering characteristics of the outer continental shelf
lease areas in Alaska, Proceedings 1979 Port and Ocean Engineering Under Arctic Conditions
Conference, p. 963-976.
75. Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Sandstrom, M.W., and Kvenvolden, K.A., 1979, Modern biogenic gasgenerated
craters (seafloor "pockmarks") on the Bering Shelf, Alaska, Geological Society of
American Bulletin v. 90, p. 114-1152.
76. Larsen, B.R., Nelson, C.H., Heropoulos, Christopher, and Patry, J.J., 1980, Distribution of trace
elements in bottom sediment of the northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
80-399A, 118 P.
77. Larsen, B.R., Nelson, C.H., Heropoulos, Christopher, and Patry, J.J., 1980, Map-plots and value
location lists of trace element concentrations in northern Bering Sea bottom sediment, U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-399B, available on microfiche.
78. Nelson, C.H., 1980, Holocene transgression in deltaic (Norton Sound) and non-deltaic (Chirikov
Basin) area of the Bering epicontinental shelf, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-979.
79. Nelson, C.H., Dupré, W.R., Field, M.E., and Howard, J.D., 1980, Linear sand bodies on the Bering
epicontinental shelf, US. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-979.
80. Olsen, H.W., Clukey, E.C., and Nelson, C.H., 1980, Geotechnical characteristics of bottom sediment
in northern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-979.
81. Howard, J.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1980, Sedimentary structures on delta-influenced shallow shelf,
Norton Sound, Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-979.
82. Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1981, Sea ice as a geologic agent on the subarctic Bering shelf in
Hood, D.W., and Calder, J.E., (eds.), The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Its Oceanography and

Resources, NOAA-OCSEAP Juneau Regional Office, Seattle, University of Washington Press, v. 1,
p. 279-291.
83. Clukey, E.C., Cacchione, D.A., and Nelson, C.H., 1980, Liquefaction potential of the Yukon Prodelta,
Bering Sea, Proceedings Offshore Technical Conference, Houston, Texas, Paper No. 3773, p. 315-
325.
84. Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., and Larsen, M.C., 1980, Sediment instability, erosion, and deposition
hazards of the Norton Basin seafloor in Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf,
Principal Investigators Reports, Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S.
Dept. of Commerce, year ending 1980, 311 p.
85. Nelson, C.H., Field, M.E., Cacchione, D.A., Drake, D.E., and Nilsen, T.H., 1980, Ripples and sand
waves on the northern Bering shelf: bedform activity and scour potential, U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 80-979, 17 p.
86. Nelson, C.H., 1980, Graded storm sand layers offshore from the Yukon delta, Alaska, U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-979, 19 p.
87. Larsen, M.C. Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1980, Sedimentary history, depositional processes
and potential geologic hazards in Norton Basin, Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File
Report 80-797, 23 p.
88. Drake, D.E., Cacchione, D.A., Muench, R.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1980, Sediment transport in
Norton Sound, Alaska, Marine Geology, v. 36, p. 97-126.
89. Kvenvolden, K.A., Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., Larsen, M.C., Redden, G.D., and Rapp, J.B., 1980,
Biogenic and thermogenic gas in gas-charged sediment of Norton Sound, Alaska in
Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, Principal Investigators Reports,
Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, NOAA, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
90. Larsen, M.C., Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1981, Sedimentary processes and potential
geologic hazards on the sea floor of northern Bering Sea in Hood, D.W., and Calder, J.A.,
(eds.), The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Its Oceanography and Resources NOAA-OCSEAP
Juneau Regional Office, University of Washington Press, Seattle, v. 1, p. 247-261.
91. Kvenvolden, K.A., Redden, G.D., Thor, D.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1981, Hydrocarbon gases in
nearsurface sediment of the northern Bering Sea, in Hood, D.W., and Calder, J.A., (eds.), The
Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Its Oceanography and Resources, NOAA-OCSEAP Juneau Regional
Office, University of Washington Press, Seattle, v. 1, p. 411-424.
92. Nelson, C.H., Rowland, R.W., Stoker, S., Larsen, B.R., 1981, Interplay of physical and
biological sedimentary structures of the Bering Sea epicontinental shelf in Hood, D.W., and
Calder, J.A. (eds.), The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Its Oceanography and Resources, NOAA-
OCSEAP Juneau Regional Office, Seattle, University of Washington Press, v. 2, p. 1265-1296.
93. Field, N.E., Nelson, C.H., Cacchione, D.A., and Drake, 1981, Migration of sand waves on the
Bering Sea epicontinental shelf, Marine Geology, v. 41, p. 233-258.
94. Nelson, C.H., 1982, Modern shallow-water graded sand layers from storm surges—a mimic of
Bouma sequences and turbidite systems, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 52, p. 537-545.

95. Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., 1982, Introduction to papers from the northeastern Bering Shelf:
New Perspectives of Epicontinenal Shelf Processes and Depositional Products, in Nelson,
C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern Bering Shelf: New Perspectives of Epicontinental
Shelf Processes and Depositional Products, Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 2-4.
96. Nelson, C.H., 1982, Holocene transgression in deltaic and non-deltaic areas of the Bering
epicontinental shelf in Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern Bering Shelf: New
Perspectives of Epicontinental Shelf Processes and Depositional Products, Geologie en
Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 5-18
97. Nelson, C.H., Dupré, W.R., Field, M.E., and Howard, J.D., 1982, Linear sand bodies on the
Bering epicontinental shelf in Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern Bering
Shelf: New Perspectives of Epicontinental Shelf Processes and Depositional Products,
Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 37-48.
98. Olsen, E.W., Clukey, E.C., and Nelson, C.H., 1982, Geotechnical characteristics of bottom
sediment in northern Bering Sea, in Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern
Bering Shelf: New Perspectives of Epicontinental Shelf Processes and Depositional Products,
Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 91-103.
99. Howard, J.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1982, Sedimentary structures on delta-influenced shallow
shelf, Norton Sound, Alaska in Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern Bering
Shelf: New Perspectives of Epicontinental Shelf Processes and Depositional Products,
Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p. 29-36
100. Nio, S.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1982, The North Sea and Northeastern Bering Sea: A comparative
study of the occurrence and geometry and sand bodies of too shallow epicontinental shelves, in
Nelson, C.H., and Nio, S.D., (eds.), The Northeastern Bering Shelf: New Perspectives of
Epicontinental Shelf Processes and Depositional Products, Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p.
105-114.
101. Monaco, A., Aloisi, J-C., Bouye, C., Got, H., Miar, Y., Bellaiche, G., Droz, L., Mirabile, L.,
Mattiello, L., Maldonado, A., LeCalvez, Y., Chassefiere, B., and Nelson, C.H., 1982, Essai de
reconstitution des mecanismes d'alimentation des eventails sedimentaires profonds de L'Ebre
et du Rhone (Mediterranee Occidentale), Act. Coll. Int. CNRS, Bull. Inst. Geol. Bassin
Aquitaine, v. 31, p. 99-109.
102. Nelson, C.H., 1983, Review of "Deep Water Clastic Sediments", SEPM Core Workshop No. 2
(eds.), C.T. Siemers, R W. Tillman, C.R. Williamson) (1981) in Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 61, p.
407-408.
103. Nelson, C.H., 1983, Modern Submarine fans and debris aprons: an update of the first half
century, in Boardman, S.J., (ed.), Revolution in the Earth Sciences: Advances in the Past Half
Century, Kendall Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, p. 148-166.
104. Nelson, C.H., Johnson, K.R., and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1983, Assessment of gray whale feeding
grounds and sea floor interaction in the northeastern Bering Sea, U.S. Geological Survey
Open-File Report 83-727, 148 p.
105. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1983, Geologic framework, sediment dynamics,
environmental hazards, and resources of the Spanish continental margin, research proposal
submitted to the U.S.-Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation, 99
p.

106. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, Andres. Coumes, Francis, Got, Henri, and Monaco, Andre,
1983/1984, The Ebro deep-sea fan system: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3, p. 125-133.
107. Nelson, C.H., 1983/1984, The Astoria fan: an elongate type fan: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3, p. 65-
70.
108. Stow, D.A.V., Howell, D.G., and Nelson, C.H., 1983/1984, Sedimentary, tectonic, and sea level
controls on submarine fans and debris a F on turbidite systems: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 3., p.
57-64.
109. Nelson, C.H., Meyer, A.W., Thor, Devin, and Larsen, Matthew, 1986, Crater Lake, Oregon: A
restricted basin with base-of-slope aprons of nonchannelized turbidites: Geology, v. 14, p. 238-
241.
110. Nelson, C.H. and Johnson, R.R., 1984, Gray Whales, tillers of the sea floor, in Clarke, S.H., ed.,
Highlights in Marine Research of the v.s. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Circular
938, p. 99-107.
111. Johnson, K.R., Mitchell, H.L., and Nelson, C.H., 1984, Gray whale feeding ecology and seafloor
interaction in the northern Bering Sea: preliminary results, in Reed, K.M. and Bartsch-Winkler,
Susan, (eds.)., U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1982: U.S.
Geological Survey Circular, 939, p. 127-132.
112. Johnson, K.R., Nelson C.H., and Mitchell, H.L., 1986, Assessment of gray whale feeding
grounds and sea floor interaction in the Northeastern Bering Sea: Final Reports, U.S. Dept. of
Commerce, NOAA, CCSEAP Final Reports, v. 43, p. 1-161.
113. Johnson, K.R. and Nelson, C.H., 1984, Side-Scan sonar assessment of gray whale feeding in
the Bering Sea: Science, v. 225, p. 1150-1152.
114. Nelson, C.H. and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1985, Cycle 1 Technical and Financial Report for Project 83-
047, "Geologic Framework, Sediment Dynamics, Environmental Hazards, and Resources of the
Spanish] Continental Margin", U.S.-Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and Technological
Cooperation, Madrid, Spain, 25 p.
115. Nelson, C.H., Johnson, K.R., and Barber, J.H., Jr., in press , Gray whale benthic feeding
grounds and sea floor interaction in the Northeastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper 1482, 70 p., (approved 2/4/88).
116. Nelson, C.H., Johnson, K.R., and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1987, Extensive whale and walrus feeding
excavation on the Bering shelf, Alaska: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 57, p. 419-430.
117. Alonso, Belen, Kastens, K.A., Maldonado, Andres, Malinverno, A., Nelson, C.H., O'Connell,
Suzanne, Palanques, Alberto, and Ryan, W.B.F., 1985, Morphology of the Ebro fan valleys from
SeaMARC and SEABEAM F profiles: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 141-148.
118. O'Connell, Suzanne, Alonso, Belen, Kastens, R.S., Maldonado, Andres, Malinverno, A., Nelson,
C.H., Palanques, Alberto, and Ryan W.B.F., 1985, Morphology and downslope sediment
displacement in a deep-sea valley, Valencia Valley, (northwestern Mediterranean): Geo-Marine
Letters, v. 5, p. 149-156.

119. Maldonado, Andres, Palanques, Alberto, Alonso, Belen, Kastens, K.A., Nelson, C.H., O'Connell,
Suzanne, and Ryan, W.B.F., 1985, Physiography and deposition on a distal deep-sea system:
the Valencia Fan (northwestern Mediterranean): Geo-Marine Letters, v. 5, p. 157-164.
120. Nelson, C.H., 1985, Astoria Fan, Pacific Ocean, in Bouma, A.H., Normark, W.R., and Barnes,
N.E., (eds.), Submarine Fans and Related Turbidite Sequences: New York, Springer-Verlag, p .
45-50.
121. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, Andres, Coumes, Francis, Got, Henri, and Monaco, Andres, 1985,
Ebro Fan, Mediterranean, in Bouma, A.H., Normark, W.R., and Barnes, N.E., (eds.)., Submarine
Fans and Related Turbidite Sequences: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 121-127.
122. Stow, D.A.V., Howell, D.G., and Nelson, C.H., 1985, Sedimentary, tectonic, and sealevel
controls, in Bouma, A.H., Normark, W.R., and Barnes, N.E., ed., Submarine Fans and Related
Turbidite Sequences: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 15-22.
123. Nelson, C.H., 1985, Geologic history of the floor of Crater Lake (Technical report to the National
Park Service) in Matthews, Jean, ed., 1984 Annual Science Report, National Park Service,
Pacific northwest Region, p. 5-6.
124. Nelson, C.H. and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1985, Cycle 2 Semiannual Financial Report for Project 83-
047, "Geologic Framework, Sediment Dynamics, Environmental Hazards, and Resources of the
Spanish Continental Margin", submitted to the U.S.-Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and
Technological Cooperation, Madrid, Spain, 3 p.
125. Nelson, C.H., and Nilsen, T.H., 1984, Modern and ancient deep-sea fan sedimentation:
Society of Econ. Geol. and Paleo. Short Course, no. 14, Tulsa, OK, 403 p.
126. Nelson, C.H., and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1986, Seismic stratigraphy and sedimentary history of the
floor of Crater Lake (Technical Report to the National Park Service), 2 p.
127. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, Andres, 1988, Factors controlling depositional patterns of Ebro
turbidite systems, Mediterranean Sea: American Association of Petrokum Geologists Bulletin,
v. 72, no. 6, p. 698-716.
128. Nelson, C.H., Carlson, P.R., and Bacon, C.R., 1988, The Mt. Mazama climactic eruption (c.
6900 B.P.) and resulting convulsive sedimentation on the continent, ocean basin, and Crater
Lake caldera floor, in Clifton, H.E., ed., Sedimentologic Consequences of Convulsive
Geologic Events: Geological Society of America Special Paper, 229, p. 37-56.
129. Carlson, P.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1987, Marine geology and resource potential of Cascadia
Basin, in Scholl, D.W., et al., (eds), Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental
Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Ocean Basins Beaufort Sea to Baja
California: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series, v.
6, p. 523-535.
130. Barber, J.H., Jr., and Nelson, C.H., 1986, Cycle 2 Technical and Financial Report for Project
83-047, "Geologic Framework, Sediment Dynamics, Environmental Hazards, and Resources
of the Spanish Continental Margin", submitted to U.S.Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and
Technological Cooperation, Madrid, Spain, unpublished, 28 p.
131. Nelson, C.H., and Johnson, K.R., 1987, Whales and walruses as tillers of the sea floor:
Scientific American, v. 256, p. 112-117.

132. Nelson, C.H., Hampton, M.A., Karl, H.A., and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1987, Astoria Fan, a trenchfilling
elongate deep-sea fan, in Schymiczek, Herman, and Suchsland, Reinhard, (eds.).,
Tectonics, Sedimentation and Evolution of the Eel River and Associated Coastal Basins of
Northern California: Bakersfield, CA, San Joaquin Geological Society Miscellaneous
Publication 37, p. 113-120.
133. Barber, J.H., Jr., and Nelson, C.H., 1987, Cycle 3 Technical and Financial Report for Project
83-047, "Geologic Framework, Sediment Dynamics, Environmental Hazards, and Resources
of the Spanish Continental Margin," submitted to US-Spain Joint Committee for Scientific and
Technological Cooperation Madrid.
134. Díaz, J.I., and Nelson, C.H., 1988, Deposito reciente de lodos en la plataforma continental del
delta del Ebro: historia deposicional y control oceanografico: II Congreso Geologico de
Espana, Granada, 1988, Cannunicacions, v. 1, p. 435438.
135. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1988, Investigacion oceanografica sobre el encuadre
geologico, dinamica sedimentaria, riesgos ambientales y recursos del margen continental
espanol: Comite conjunto Hispano - Norteamericano para la cooperacion cientifica y
tecnologica, Proyecto CCA-8309-047, Informe tecnico y financiero, (Geologic framework,
sediment dynamics, environmental hazards and resource assessment of the Spanish
Continental Margin: Joint Spanish-American Committee for Scientific and Technical
Cooperation Project CCA 8309-47 Cycle 4 Technical and Financial Report), 37 p.
136. Nelson, C.H., Piper, D.J.W., and Shanmugam, G., 1988, Initiation of turbidity currents,
COMFAN Panel 10, Summary, 30 p.
137. CADIMS Group. Maldonado, A., Nelson, C.H., Baraza, J., Barber, J., Jr., Checa, A.,
Hampton, M., Lee, H., and Kayen, R., Cenzoic seismic stratigraphy of the Gulf of Cadiz in the
framework of the SW Mediterranean evolution: interaction of tectonism and bottom currents:
Proceedings of XXXI st Congress and Plenary Assembly of I.C.S.E.M., Athens, Greece,
Committee on Marine Geology and Geophysics, 3 p.
138. Maldonado, A., and Nelson, C.H., 1988, Dos ejemplos de margenes continentales de la
Peninsula Iberica: el margen del Ebro y el Golfo de Cadiz: Rev. Soc. Geol. Espana, v. 1, p. 317-
325.
139. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Barber, J.H., Jr., and Alonso, B., 1991, Modern sand-rich and
mud-rich silic-clastic aprons, alternative base-of-slope turbidite systems to submarine fans : in
Weimer, P., and Link, M.H., eds., Seismic facies and sedimentary processes of modern and
ancient submarine fans: New York, Spring-Verlog, p. 171-190.
140. Piper, D.J.W., Nelson, C.H., and Richards, M., 1989, Group discusses fans and turbidites ,
Geotimes, v.34 p. 10-11.
141. EBROMS Group. Albaiges, J., Alonso, B., Baraza, J., Barber, J., Jr., Cacchione, D.A.,
Danobeitia, J.J., Díaz, J.I., Drake, D.E., Farrán, M., Field, M.E., Font, J., Gardner, J.V., Giro, S.,
Grimalt, J., Hampton, M.A., Julia, A., Kayen, R.E., Lee, H.J., Losada, M., Maldonado, A.,
Medina, R., Nelson, C.H., Palanques, A., Plana, F., Salat, J., Vazquez, A., and Zamarreno, I.,
1989, Factors controlling post-Miocene Ebro continental-margin growth, northwestern
Mediterranean Sea, Abs., 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C., v. 2, p. 2-
356.

142. Maldonado, A., Nelson, C.H., Baraza, J., Barber, J., Jr., Checa, A., Hampton, M.A., Kayen, R.E.,
and Lee, H.J., 1989, Tectonic framework, patterns of sedimentation, and potential environmental
problems of the Cadiz continental margin, Spain: Abs., 28th International Geological Congress,
Washington, D.C., USA, v. 3, 3 p..
143. Díaz, J.I., Nelson, C.H., Barber, J., Jr., and Giro, S.,.1990, Late Pleistocene and Holocene
sedimentary facies on the Ebro continental shelf, in Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., eds.,
Marine Geology of the Ebro Continental Margin, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, Marine
Geology Special Issue, v. 95, p.333-352.
144. Nelson, C.H., 1990, Estimated Post-Messinian sediment supply and deposition rates of the
Spanish Ebro margin, in Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., eds., Marine Geology of the Ebro
Continental Margin, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, Marine Geology Special Issue, v. 95, p.
395-418.
145. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Baraza, J., and Barber, J.R., Jr., 1989, Investigacion
oceanografica sobre el encuadre geologica, dinamica sedimentaria, riesgos ambientales y
recursos del margen continental espanol: Comite conjunto Hispano - Norteamericano para la
cooperacion cientifica y tecnologica, Proyecto CCA-8309-047, Informe final tecnico y financiero,
(Geologic framework, sediment dynamics, environmental hazards and resource assessment of
the Spanish Continental Margin: Joint Spanish-American Committee for Scientific and Technical
Cooperation Project CCA 8309-47 Final Technical and Financial Report) 31 p.
146. Nelson, C.H., 1990, Variation of modern siliciclastic turbidite systems and basin settings—
Implications for reservoir development in Carter L.M.H. (ed) The sixth annual V.E. McKelvey
forum on mineral and energy resources, USGS Circular, no. 1060, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, p.
56-57.
147. Barber, J.H., Jr., and Nelson, C.H., 1990, Sedimentary history of Crater Lake caldera, Oregon in
Drake, E.T., Larson, G.L., Dymond, J., and Collier, R. (eds.), Crater Lake: an ecosystem study:
San Francisco, CA, Pacific Div. AAAS, p. 29-39.
148. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1990, Factors controlling Late Cenozoic Ebro margin growth
from the Ebro delta to the western Mediterranean deep sea, in Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A.,
eds., The Ebro continental Margin, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, Marine Geology Special
Issue, v. 95, p. 419-440.
149. Maldonado, A., and Nelson, C.H., 1990, The Ebro margin study, northwestern Mediterranean
Sea—an introduction, in Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., eds., The Ebro Continental Margin,
Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, Marine Geology, v. 95, p. 157-163.
150. Comas et al. (15 authors including C.H. Nelson), 1991, The Alboran Basin and The Atlantic-
Mediterranean Gateway, Ocean Drilling Program Proposal no. 323A, 103 p.
151. Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Kenyon, N.H., and Lee, H.J.,1992, Characteristics
of a Sandy Depositional Lobe on the Outer Mississippi Fan From Seamarc 1A Sidescan Sonar
Images, Geology, 13 p. v. 20, p. 689-692.
152. Nelson, C.H., Twichell, C.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, N.H.,1992, Late
Pleistocene Turbidite Sand Beds and Chaotic Silt Beds in the Channelized Distal Outer Fan
Lobes of Mississippi Fan, Geology, 14 p. v. 20, p. 693-696.

153. Nelson, C.H., Johnson, K.R., Barber, Jr., J.H., Phillips, R.L., 1992, Gray Whale and Walrus
Feeding Excavation on the Bering Sea, Alaska, Alaska OCS Region 1992 Fourth Information
Transfer Meeting Conference Proceedings, U.S. Department of the Interior, MMS, Anchorage,
AK, p. 87-103.
154 Baraza, J. y, Nelson, C.H., 1992, Clasificacion y dinamica de formas de fondo en el Golfo de
Cadiz: implicaciones de la corriente profunda Mediterranea en los procesos sedimentarios
durante al Pliocuaternario, Symposium on Atlantic-Mediterranean Exchanges, III Congress
Geologico de Espanya Salamanca, Spain, Simposios tomo 2, p. 477-486.
155. Nelson, C.H., Benson, R.H., Baraza, J., Faugeres, J.C., Flores, J.A., Kent, D.V., Kidd, R.,
Maldonado, A., Rakic-El Bied, K., Sierro, F.J., Grazzini, Vergnaud, 1992, The Atlantic-
Mediterranean Gateway Ocean Drilling Program Proposal No. 429, 63 p.
156. Lake Baikal Paleoclimate Project Members (including Nelson)(compiled by S.M. Colman),
1992, Initial results of the joint Russian-American project on the paleoclimatic record of Lake
Baikal, southeastern Siberia: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 73, p.
457-462.
157. Nelson, C.H., Baraza, J.,and Maldonado, A., 1993, Mediterranean undercurrent sandy
contourites, Gulf of Cadiz, Spain, in Stow, D.A.V. and Faugeres, J.C., eds., Contourites and
Hemipelagites in the Deep Sea, Sedimentary Geology v. 82, p. 103-131.
158. Nelson, C.H., and Lamothe, P.J., 1993, Heavy Metal Anomalies in the Tinto and Odiel River
and Estuary system, in Kuwabara, J.S., (ed.), Trace Contaminants and Nutrients in Estuaries,
Estuaries, v. 16, p. 496-511.
159. Nelson, C.H., Bacon, C.R., Robinson, S.W., Adam, D.P., Bradbury, J.P., Barber, Jr., J.H.,
Schwartz, D., Vagenas, G., 1994, The Volcanic, Sedimentologic and Paleolimnologic History of
the Crater Lake Caldera Floor, Oregon: Evidence for Small Caldera Evolution, Geol. Soc. Am.
Bull., v. 106, p. 684-704.
160. Nelson, C.H., 1994, review of book: “From Shoreline to Abyss: Contributions in Marine Geology
in Honor of Francis Parker Shepard, ed. by R. H. Osborne, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary
Geology), Special Publication 46” in Sedimentologp. 379-381.
161. Nelson, C.H., van Geen, A., Lamothe, P.J., and Palanques, A.,1994, Heavy Metal
Contamination in River, Estuary and Marine Shelf Sediment from the Rio Tinto Mines, Spain, in
Carter L.M.H. (ed) The ninth annual V.E. McKelvey Forum on Mineral Resources, USGS
Circular, no. 10__, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 3 p.
162. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., 1995, Late Quaternary Lake Baikal turbidite
systems, Russia, in Pickering, K.T., Lucchi, F.R., Smith, Ru, Hiscott, R.N., Kenyon, N. (eds.),
An Atlas of Deep-Water Environments, Chapman and Hall, London, p 29-33.
163. Nelson, C.H., Phillips, R.L., McRea Jr., J.E., Barber Jr.,J.H., McLaughlin, M.W., and Chin, J.L.,
1995, Gray Whale and Pacific Walrus benthic feeding grounds and sea-flloor interaction in the
Chukchi Sea, OCS Study MMS 93-0042, Technical Rept. for Minerals Management Service /
IA No. 14157, 223 p.
164. Nelson, C.H. and Bacon, C.R., 1995, Crater Lake National Park: presently tranquil, The USGS
Marine and Coastal Geology Program, Selected Issues, US G eological Survey, Reston VA, 2p

165. Nelson, C.H. 1995, Whales and Walrus: tillers of the seafloor, The USGS Marine and Coastal
Geology Program, Selected Issues, US Geological Survey, Reston VA, 2p.
166.. Diaz, J.I., Palanques, A, Nelson, C.H., and Guillen, J.,1996, Morpho-structure and
sedimentology of the Holocene Ebro prodelta mud belt (NW Mediterranean Sea), Continental
Shelf Res., v. 16. p 435-456
167. Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., Twichell, D.C., Locat, J., Nelson, C.H. McArthur, W. G.and Kenyon,
N., 1996, Sediment mass -flow processes on a depositional lobe, Journal of Sedimentary
Research, V. 66, No. 5, p. 916-927.
168. Locat, J., Lee, H.J., Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Nelson, C. H.,1996, Analysis of the mobility
of very far reaching debris flows on the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the 6th
International I Symposium on Landslides Conference, Trondheim, Norway, p 1-6.
169. Elias, S.A., Short, S.K., Nelson, C.H., and Birks, H.H., 1996, Life and times of the Bering land
bridge, Nature , v. 382, p. 60-63.
170. van Geen, A., Adkins, J.F., Boyle, E.A., Nelson, C.H., and Palanques, A., 1997, A 120 year
record of metal contamination on an unprecedented scale from mining of the Iberian Pyrite Belt,
Geology, v. 25 p291-294.
171. Nelson, H., Karabanov, E.B., Escutia, C., De Batist, M., Klitgord, K.B., Colman,
S.M., 1998, Lake Baikal turbidite systems: Tectonic, sediment supply and paleoclimatic
controls. International Conference on Active Tectonic Continental Basins,Symposium Volume,
University of Gent, Belgium p.30-36.
172. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., Escutia, C., 1999, Tectonic and sediment
supply control of deep rift lake turbidite systems, Lake Baikal, Russia, Geology, v. 27. p 163-
166.
173. Nelson, C. H. and Maldonado, 1999, A.- The Cadiz margin study off Spain - An introduction.In:
A. Mandonado and C.H. Nelson (Editors), Marine Geology of the Gulf of Cadiz. Mar. Geol.
Special Issue, p 3-8.
174. Nelson, C.H., Baraza, J., Maldonado, A., Rodero, J., Escutia, C. and Barber Jr, J.H. , 1999,
Influence of the Atlantic inflow and Mediterranean outflow currents on Late Quaternary
sedimentary facies of the Gulf of Cadiz continental margin, In: A. Mandonado and C.H. Nelson
(Editors), Marine Geology of the Gulf of Cadiz. Mar. Geol. Special Issue,v 155, p 99-129.
175. Baraza, J., Ercilla, G., and Nelson, C.H. , 1999, Potential geologic hazards on the eastern Gulf
of Cadiz slope (SW Spain). In: A. Mandonado and C.H. Nelson (Editors), Marine Geology of the
Gulf of Cadiz. Mar. Geol. Special Issue, v 155, p191-216.
176. Maldonado, A. and Nelson, C.H. ,1999, Interaction of tectonic and depositional process that
control the evolution of the Iberian Gulf of Cadiz. In: A. Mandonado and C.H. Nelson (Editors),
Marine Geology of the Gulf of Cadiz. Mar. Geol. Special Issue, v 155, p 217- 242.
177. Wolf, S.C., Nelson, C.H., Hamer, M.R., Dunhill, G., and Phillips, R.L., 1999, The Washington
and Oregon mid-shelf silt deposit and its relation to the late Holocene Columbia River sediment
budget, U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-173, 1 map and text.

178. Nelson, C.H., Escutia, C., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., 2000, Tectonic and sediment
supply control of deep rift lake turbidite systems, Lake Baikal, Russia, Reply, Geology, v. 28,
p190-191.
179. 2000 Twichell, D.C., H. Nelson, and J.E. Damuth, Late-stage development of the Bryant Canyon
turbidite pathway on the Louisiana continental slope: In: Weimer, P., et al. (Eds) Deep-Water
Reservoirs of the World, 20 th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research
Conference, CD-ROM, p. 1032-1044.
180. Escutia, C., Eittreim, S.L., Cooper, A.K., and Nelson, C.H., 2000, Morphology and acoustic
character of the Antarctic Wilkes Land turbidite systems: ice-sheet-sourced versus riversourced
fans Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 84-93.
181. Nelson, C. H., Chris Goldfinger, Joel E. Johnson , Gita Dunhill , 2000, Variation of Modern
Turbidite Systems Along the Subduction Zone Margin of Cascadia Basin and Implications for
Turbidite Reservoir Beds, in Weimer, P.W., Nelson, C. H. et al. (Editors), Deep-water
Reservoirs of the World, Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and
Mineralogists Foundation 20 th Annual Research Conference, CD ROM, 31p, 15 Figures.
182. Nelson, C.H., 2000, Modern turbidite systems as analogues for deep-water petroleum
reservoirs, Short Couse Notes for SEPM/AAPG/Petroleum company courses, published
individually, 500 p.
183. Nelson, C.H., et. al., 2000, Gulf of Mexico mini-basin depositional processes, products, and
stratigraphic evolution, Ocean Drilling Program Proposal, 33 p.
184. C. Escutia, C.H. Nelson, G.D. Acton, S.L. Eittreim, A.K. Cooper, D.A. ,Warnke, J.M. Jaramillo.
2002. Current Controlled Deposition on the Wilkes Land Continental Rise, Antarctica. In:
Stow, D.A.V.Faugeres, J-C., Howe, J.C., Pudsey, C., & Viana, A. (eds): Deep-Water Contourite
Systems: Modern Drifts and Ancient Series, Seismic and Sedimentary Characteristics.
Geological Society, London, Memoirs 22, p 373-384.
185. Colman, S.M., Karabanov, E.B., Nelson C. H., 2003, Quaternary Sedimentation and
Subsidence History of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Based on seismic Stratigraphy and Coring: Journal
of Sedimentary Research, v. 73(6), p. 941-956.
186. Nelson, C.H., Phillips, R.L., Barber Jr., J.H., Johnson, K.R. , McRea Jr., J.E., and Chin, J.L., in
press, Gray Whale benthic feeding grounds and sea floor interaction in the Chukchi Sea, in.
Braham, H.W., and Donovan, G. P., (eds) Comprehensive assessment of Whale Stock: Gray
Whales (Eschrichitius robustus), International. Whaling Commission, Special Issue 14,
Cambridge, U.K.,74p
187. Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C. H., Johnson, J. E., 2003, Holocene Earthquake Records From The
Cascadia Subduction Zone And Northern San Andreas Fault Based On Precise Dating Of
Offshore Turbidites: Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., v.31, p.555-577.
188. Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C.H., and Johnson, J.E., 2003, Deep-Water Turbidites as Holocene
Earthquake Proxies: The Cascadia Subduction Zone and Northern San Andreas Fault Systems:
Annals of Geophysics, v. 46, p. 1169-1194.
189. Maldonado, A., Barnolas, A., Bohoyo, F., Escutia,C., Galindo-Zalzivar J., Hernandez –Molina, F.J.,
Jabaloy, A., Lobo, F., Nelson C. H., Rodríguez-Fernandez, J., Somoza, L., Suriñach, E., Vazquez,

J.T., 2004, Miocene to Recent Contourite Drifts Development in the Northern Weddell Sea
(Antarctica): Special Issue on Global and Planetary Change, v. 45, p 99-129.
190. Maldonado, A., Barnolas, A., Bohoyo, F., Escutia, C., Galindo-Zaldívar, J., Hernández-Molina, J.,
Jabaloy, A., Lobo, F.J., Nelson, C.H., Rodríguez-Fernández, J., Somoza, L., Suriñach, E. and
Vázquez, J.T., 2006, Seismic stratigraphy of the Scotia Sea and Weddell Sea deposits, Miocene to to
Recent sedimentary deposits in the central Scotia Sea and northern Weddell Sea (Antarctica):
influence of bottom flows. In: Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G, Miller H, Tessensohn F (eds)
Antarctica: Contributions to global Earth sciences. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp
441-446.
191. Nelson C. H., Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C., 2006, Gulf of Mexico Intraslope Basin Project, Atlas section
A and B, report and maps, University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, Austin, TX 96 p.
192. Nelson C. H., Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C,. 2006, Gulf of Mexico Intraslope Basin Project, Atlas section
C, seismic profiles and isopach maps, University of Texas Institute of Geophysics, Austin, TX 93 p.
193. Goldfinger, C., A. Morey, and C.H. Nelson, 2006, Deep-Water Turbidites as Holocene Earthquake
Proxies along the Northern San Andreas Fault System, Seismological Research Letters 77(2), 195-
196.
194. Goldfinger, C., A. Morey, M. Erhardt, C.H. Nelson, J. Gutierrez-Pastor, R. Enkin, and A. Dallimore,
2006, Cascadia Great Earthquake Recurrence: Rupture Lengths, Correlations and Constrained
OxCal Analysis of Event Ages, proceedings of the USGS Tsunami Sources Workshop, Diggles,
Geist, and Lee, eds. CD-ROM, April 21 and 22, 2006.
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195. Goldfinger, C., A.E. Morey, C.H. Nelson, J. Gutierrez-Pastor, J.E. Johnson, E. Karabanov, J.
Chaytor, and A. Ericsson ., 2007, Rupture Lengths and Temporal History of Significant Earthquakes
on the Offshore and North Coast Segments of the Northern San Andreas Fault Based on Turbidite
Stratigraphy, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 254, p 9-27.
196. Nelson, C. H., Escutia, C., Goldfinger, C., Karabanov, E.B., Gutierrez-Pastor, J., 2009 , External
controls on modern clastic turbidite systems: three case studies, in eds: B. Kneller, W. McCaffrey and
O. J. Martinsen:Geological Society/SEPM, Special Publication, External Controls on Deep-Water
Depositional Systems, 35 p.
197. Gutierrez-Pastor, J., Nelson, C. H., Goldfinger, C., and Johnson, J.E., Escutia, C., Eriksson, A., and
Morey, A. and The Shipboard Scientific Party, 2009, Earthquake control of Holocene turbidite
frequency confirmed by hemipelagic sedimentation chronology on the Cascadia and northern
California active continental margins, in eds: B. Kneller, W. McCaffrey and O. J.
Martinsen:Geological Society/SEPM, Special Publication, External Controls on Deep-Water
Depositional Systems, 30p.
198. Nelson, C. H., Escutia, C., Goldfinger, C., Twichell, D.C., Damuth, J.E., In Press , Variation of masstransport
and turbidite deposits in different continental margin settings and time periods, in eds: C.
Shipp, P. Weimer and H. Posimentier, SEPM, Special Publication, Mass Transport Deposits, 35 p.
199. Goldfinger, C., Grijalva, K., Burgmann, K., Morey,A. , Johnson, J. E. Nelson, C. H., Gutiérrez-Pastor,
J., Karabanov, E., Patton, J., Gracia, E., 2008, Late Holocene rupture of the northern San Andreas
Fault and possible stress linkage to the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Bulletin of the Seismological
Society of America, 55p.
200. Twichel,D., Nelson, C. H., Kenyon, N., Schwab, w., 2009, The influence of external processes on the
latest pleistocene and holocene evolution of the Mississippi Fan, in eds: B. Kneller, W. McCaffrey
and O. J. Martinsen:Geological Society/SEPM, Special Publication, External Controls on Deep-Water
Depositional Systems, 36 p.
201. Goldfinger, C., C.H. Nelson, A.E. Morey, J. Gutierrez-Pastor, J.E. Johnson, E. Karabanov, J.
Chaytor, G. Dunhill, and A. Ericsson, In Review, Rupture lengths and temporal history of Cascadia
great earthquakes based on turbidite stratigraphy, USGS Professional Paper 1661-F, in Kayen, R.
ed, Earthquake hazards of the Pacific Northwest Coastal and Marine regions,192p

ABSTRACTS
1. Nelson, C.H., 1964, [abs.], Sedimentation in Crater Lake, Oregon: Oregon Academy of Science, p.
15.
2. Kulm, L.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1967 [abs.], Comparison of deep-sea channel and interchannel
deposits off Oregon: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bull. v. 51, p. 472.
3. Nelson, C.H., 1968, Sediments of Nome nearshore regime: Pacific Northwest Oceanographers
Conference, p. 5.
4. Nelson, C.H., 1968, Sediments of Astoria Fan off Oregon: Pacific Northwest Oceanographers Conf.,
p. 8.
5. Nelson, C.H., and Hopkins, D.M., 1968 [abs.], Concentration of particulate gold sediments north
Bering Sea: Geological Society of American Annual Meeting, p. 218.
6. Nelson, C.H., and Byrne, J.V., 1968, [abs.], Astoria Fan: A model for deep-sea fan deposition:
Geological Society of American Annual Meetings, p. 219.
7. Hopkins, D.M., Nelson, C.H., Tagg, A.R., and Wang, F.H., 1968, [abs.], Exploration for minerals and
fuels in northern Bering Sea: Mining Engineering, v. 20, no. 12, p. 63.
8. Nelson, C.H., 1969, [abs.], Potential development of heavy metal resources in northern Bering Sea:
20th Alaskan Sci. Conf.: Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, p. 44.
9. Nelson, C.H., Hopkins, D.M., and Ness, G.L., 1969 [abs.] Interpretating complex relict and modern
sediment patterns of the Bering shelf: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, P. 159.
10. Hopkins, D.M., Grim, Muriel, and Nelson, C.H., 1969, Extent of glaciation on the floor of northern
Bering Sea: INQUA, Paris.
11. Nelson C.H., Perry, R.B., and Hopkins, D.M., 1979, History of deposition and morphology of the
northern Bering Sea floor: International Symposium on Geology and Geophysics of the Bering Sea,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, P.6.
12. Nelson, C.H., 1971, Northern Bering Sea: A model for depositional history of arctic shelf placers,
potential ecological impact of placer development, First International Conference on Port and Ocean
Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Technical University of Norway, Trondheim, p. 46-54.
13. Nelson, C.H., 1971, A preliminary model for deep-sea fan depositional processes, trends, and
history: International Association of Sedimentologists, VIII International Sedimentological Congress,
p. 71.
14. Nelson, C.H., 1971, Trace metal content of surface relict sediments and displacement of northern
Bering Sea Holocene sediments: Second Coastal and Shallow Water Resources Conference, p.
269.

15. Nelson, C.H., and Nilsen, T.H., 1972, Depositional trends of ancient and modern deep-sea fans:
Conference on Modern and Ancient Geosynclinal Sedimentation, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
p. 16.
16. Nelson, C.H., 1972, Mercury dispersal in ancient and modern sediment of Bering Sea: Geological
Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 4, no. 7, p. 610.
17. Nelson, C.H., 1972, Sediment and mercury dispersal through estuary, shoreline and epicontinental
shelf environments of the northeastern Bering Sea: Symposium on International Relations
Sedimentaires Entre Estuaires Et Plateaux Contientaux, Institute de Geologie du Basin d'Aquitaine,
Bordeaux, France, p. 65.
18. Nelson, C.H., Larsen, B.R., and Rowland, R.W., 1973, Late Holocene sediment dispersal in
northeastern Bering Sea: Transactions American Geophysical Union, v. 54, p. 1122.
19. Nelson, C.H., Mutti, E., Ricci Lucchi, F.,1974, Criteria for distinguishing thin-bedded turbidites
deposited in proximal overbank and distal basin plain environments: Geological Society of
America, v. 6, no. 7, p. 887-888.
20. Nelson C.H., 1975, Holocene dispersal of Yukon River sediments in Bering Sea and
implications for interpretation of ancient epicontinental shelves: Proceedings 1975 Alaska
Geological Society Symposium: Recent and Ancient Depositional Environments in Alaska, p.
30.
21. Nelson, C.H., 1975, Storm lag deposits on the Bering Epicontinental shelf, IAS Proceedings,
Nice 1975, Theme 6, Sedimentary mechanics: rates of sedimentary processes, Middleton,
G.V., and Winnock, E., (eds.), International Association of Sedimentologists, 1 p.
22. Nelson, C.H., 1976, Sedimentary facies and structures of the Bering epicontinental shelf,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 60, p. 702.
23. Nelson, C.H., Normark, W.R., Bouma, A.H., and Carlson, P.R., 1976, Thin-bedded turbidites in
modern submarine canyons and fans: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin,
v. 60, p. 702-703.
24. Nelson, C.H., Cacchione, D.S., Field, M.A., Drake, D.E., and Nilsen, Tor, 1977, Complex ridge
and trough topography on a shallow current-dominated shelf, northwest Alaska, American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 61, p. 817.
25. Cacchione, D.A., Drake, D.E., and Nelson, C.H., 1977, Sediment transport in Norton Sound,
Alaska, Transaction American Geophysical Union, EOS, v. 58, p. 408.
26. Howard, J.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1977, Physical and biological sedimentary structures of Norton
Sound, Alaska, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, no. 7, p. 1028.
27. Nelson, C.H., and Thor, D.R., 1977, Environmental geologic hazards in Norton Basin, Bering
Sea, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, no. 7, p. 1111.
28. Nelson, C.H., 1977, Ice gouging and other environmental geologic problems of northern Bering
Sea, in Blean, K.M., (ed.), U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, Accomplishments during 1976,
U.S. Geological Survey Circular, 751-B, p. B98.

29. Field, M.E., Nelson, C.H., Cacchione, D.A., and Drake, D.E., 1977, Dynamics of bedforms of an
epicontinental shelf: northern Bering Sea, Transactions American Geophysical Union, EOS, v.
58, no. 12, p. 1162.
30. Kvenvolden, K.A., Rapp, J.B., and Nelson, C.H., 1978, Low molecular weight hydrocarbons in
sediments from Norton Sound, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62, p.
534.
31. Nelson, C.H., Thor, D.R., and Sandstrom, M.W., 1978, Modern biogenic gas craters (sea floor
"pockmarks") on the Bering shelf, Alaska, International Association of Sedimentologists,
Program and Abstracts, 10th International Congress on Sedimentology, Jerusalem, 1978, v. 2,
p. 461.
32. Field, M.E., Richmond W.C., and Nelson, C.H., 1979, Videotapes of active primary physical and
biogenic sedimentary structures of an epicontinental shelf—northern Bering Sea, 1979, AAPG-
SEPM Annual Convention, Program with Abstracts, p. 85.
33. Nelson, C.H., 1979, Holocene transgression in deltaic and non-deltaic area of the Bering
epicontinental shelf, in Abstracts volume of IAS International Meeting on Holocene Marine
Sedimentation in the North Sea Basin, p. 89.
34. Dupré, W.R., and Nelson, C.H. 1979, A comparison of ice-dominated and tide-dominated deltas
on the Bering epicontinental shelf, Alaska, Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America,
Abstracts with Program. p. 418 .
35. Howard, J.D., and Nelson, C.H., 1979, Sedimentary structures on a delta-influenced shallow shelf,
northeastern Bering Sea, in Abstracts volume of IAS International Meeting on Holocene Marine
Sedimentation in the North Sea Basin, p. 79.
36. Kvenvolden, K.A., Redden, G.D., Nelson, C.H., 1979, Gases in nearsurface sediment of the northern
Bering Sea, in Abstracts volume of IAS international Meeting on Holocene Marine Sedimentation in
the North Sea Basin, p. 82.
37. Nelson, C.H., Field, M.E., and Dupré, 1979, Linear sand bodies on the Bering epicontinental shelf, in
Abstracts volume of IAS International Meeting on Holocene Marine Sedimentation in the North Sea
Basin, p. 90.
38. Olsen, H.W., Clukey, E.C., and Nelson, C.H., 1979, Geotechnical characteristics of bottom
sediments in the northern Bering Sea, in Abstracts volume of IAS International Meeting on Holocene
Marine Sedimentation in the North Sea Basin, p. 91.
39. Nelson, C.H., and Wright, A.A., 1980, Variation in submarine fan sand facies and application to
petroleum geology, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 64, p. 756.
40. Nelson, C.H., Cacchione, D.A., and Drake, D.E., 1980, Sedimentary characteristics and processes
of a current-dominated epicontinental shelf, northern Bering Sea, Alaska, American Association of
Petroleum Geologist Bulletin, V. 64, p. 757.
41. Nelson, C.H., Wright, A.A., Thor, D.R., and Larsen, M.C., 1980, Turbidite sedimentation in a nonchannelized,
small restricted basin, Crater Lake, Oregon, Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, p. 491.

42. Nelson, C.H., and Wright, A.A., 1981, Facies models and petroleum potential of modern submarine
fans, IAS 2nd Regional Meeting 1981, Bologna, Abstracts, p. 124.
43. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Got, H., and Monaco, A., 1982, (abs), The Ebro deepsea fan system,
Mediterranean Sea: a different growth model than other fans: Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, v. 14, no. 7, p. 575.
44. Nelson, C.H., and Cacchione, D., 1983, (abs.), Sedimentary patterns and processes of the currentdominated
Bering epicontinental shelf, Alaska, in Treatise Abstract of the International Symposium on
Sedimentation on the Continental Shelf, with Special Reference to the East China Sea, Hangzhou,
China, p. 177-178.
45. Johnson, K.R., and Nelson, C.H., 1983, A side-scan-sonar method for assessing the feeding ecology
of gray whales in the Bering Sea, in abstracts volume of the Fifth Biennial Conference on the Biology
of Marine Mammals, Boston, p. 50.
46. Nelson, C.H., Johnson, K.R., and Barber, J.H., Jr., 1984, Significant gray whale feeding excavation on
the Bering Shelf, Alaska, .Abstract Volume of the 1st Annual SEPM Midyear Meeting, August 10-13,
1984, San Jose, CA, p. 59.
47. Nelson, C.H., 1984, Controlling factors and important differences of sedimentary processes and
patterns in unidirectional-current-dominated epicontinental (epeiric) shelves (abs.): Program and
abstracts of research symposium on the Sedimentology of shelf sands and sandstones, sponsored by
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologist, June 25-27, 1984, Calgary, Canada, p. 56.
48. Nelson, C.H., 1986, Holocene sedimentary processes and history of the Yukon Delta Bering
epicontinental shelf system, Alaska (abs.): in Collins, M.B., ed., River sediment supply, delta formation,
and adjacent shelf processes: conference report and introduction: Journal of the Geological Society,
London, v. 143, p. 914.
49. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, Andres and Alonso, Belen, 1985, The Ebro deep-sea fan system: an
example of factors controlling fan depositional patterns in the western Mediterranean Sea
(abs.): International Association of Sedimentologists, 6th European Meeting of Sedimentology,
April 15-17, 1985, Lleida, Spain, p. 318-320.
50. O'Connell, Suzanne, Alonso, Belen, Kastens, K.A., Maldonado, Andres, Malinverno, A., Nelson,
C.H., Palanques, Alberto, and Ryan, W.B.F., 1985, Recent sedimentation in the Valencia Valley
(northwestern Mediterranean) :.International Association of Sedimentologists, 6th European
Meeting of Sedimentology, April 15-17, 1985, Lleida, Spain, p. 333-336.
51. Maldonado, Andres, Alonso, Belen, Got, Henri, Kastens, K.A., Monaco, Andre, Nelson, C.H.,
O'Connell, Suzanne, Palanques, Alberto, and Ryan, W.B.F., 1985, Depositional environments
and processes of a distal fan variant: the Valencia fan (northwestern Mediterranean),
International Association of Sedimentologists, 6th European Meeting of Sedimentology, April
15-17, 1985, Lleida, Spain, p. 256-259.
52. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Alonso, B., Palanques, A., Ryan, W.B.F., Kastens, K., and
O'Connell, 5., 1985, Factors controlling Ebro deep-sea fan growth [abs . ]: Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, v. 17, no. 7, p.
53. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1986, Factors controlling deep-sea fan depositional patterns,
Mediterranean Sea (abs.): Abstracts Volume of the 12th International Sedimentological
Congress, August 24-30, 1986, Canberra, Australia, p. 226.

54. Nelson, C.H., Bacon, C.R., and Robinson, S.W., 1986, The caldera floor sedimentary history of
Crater Lake, Oregon: Abstracts Volume of the 12th International Sedimentological Congress,
August 2430, 1986, Canberra, Australia, p. 226.
55. Maldonado, A., Nelson, C.H., Díaz, J.l., Farrán, M., Field, M.E., Barber, J.H., Jr., Giro, 5., and
Vazquez, A., 1986, Barras en la plataforma continental externa de Castellon [Ridges on the
Castellon outer continental shelf: resumenes de comunicaciones Congress Espanol de
Sedimentologia, Barcelona, Spain, p. 104.
56. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Drake, D., Palanques, A., Field, M.E., Gardner, J.V., Díaz, J.I.,
Farrán, M., Cacchione, D.A., Barber, J.H., Jr., Giro, 5., and Baraza, J., 1986, Sedimentacion de
lodos al sur del delta del Ebro [Mud deposition south of the Ebro delta]: resumenes de
canunicacions XI Congreso Espanol de Sedimentologia, Barcelona, Spain, p. 120.
57. Baraza, J., Hampton, M.A., Kayen R., Lee, H.J., Maldonado, A., and Nelson, C.H., 1986,
Caracteristicas geotecnicas y estabilidad del talud continental en el margen del Ebro,
Tarragona (Espana) [Geotechnical characteristics and stability of the continental slope on the
Ebro Marin, Tarragona (Spain)]: resumenes de comunicaciones XI Congreso Expanol de
Sedimentologia, Barcelona, Spain, p. 24.
58. Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1987, Turbidite systems in the western Mediterranean Sea:
Abstracts Volume IV of the Annual SEPM Mid-year Meeting, August 20-23, 1987, Austin, TX, p.
60.
59. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., and EBROMS Group, 1988, The Ebro margin sedimentary
system in the
western Mediterranean Sea, from delta to deep sea: Abstract Volume of the AAPG
Mediterranean Basins Conference, 2 p.
60. Díaz, J.I., and Nelson, C.H., 1988, Rhythmic deposition in the Ebro mud belt, Western
Mediterranean Sea: Shelf sedimentation events and rhythms, Soc. Econ. Paleon. Miner.
Research Conference, Santa Cruz, California, June 26-July 1, 1988, Program and Abstracts, v.
1, p. 14.
61. Nelson, C.H. and Barber, J. Jr., 1988, Siliciclastic aprons in Crater Lake, Oregon: analogues for
facies and resources in rift basins: International Association of Sedimentologists Workshop-
Field Seminar on Lacustrine facies models in rift systems and related natural resources.
Barcelona-Rubielos de Mora, Spain, Programs with Abstracts, p. 15.
62. Nelson, C.H., l990, Variation of modern siliciclastic turbidite systems and basin settings, Herdman
Earth Sciences Symposium, University of Liverpool, England, Abstracts volume, 1 p.
63. Maldonado, A., Baraza, J., Checa, A., Hampton, M., Lee, H., and Nelson, C.H., 1989, Tectonism
and bottom currents controlling the Cenozoic evolution of Cadiz continental Margin (SW Iberia)
[abs.], XIV General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Barcelona, Marzo 1989.
Annales Geophysicae, 1989, Special Issue., p. __.
64. Nelson, C.H., 1989, Climatically and culturally induced changes in Post-Messinian sediment
discharge of the Ebro River, Spain [abs.], AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CO, EOS
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 70, p. 1125.

65. Nelson, C.H. and Maldonado, A., 1990, Spanish Ebro continental margin sedimentation study -
delta to deep sea, one approach [abs.], AGU Winter Meeting, New Orleans, EOS, Transactions of
American Geophysical Union, v. 71, p. 89.
66. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Barber, J.H., Jr., and Alonso, B., 1990, Modern sand-rich and mudrich
siliciclastic aprons, alternative base-of-slope turbidite systems to submarine fans [abs.], AAPG
Bull., v. 74, p. 729-730.
67. Baraza, J., Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1990, Factors controlling Plio-Quaternary
sedimentation on the Gulf of Cadiz continental slope , abs., AAPG Bull., v. 74, p. 604-605.
68. Escutia, C., and Nelson, C.H., 1990, Post-Messian sediment supply, depocenters and deposition
rates in Valencia Trough. Valencia Trough: Geology and Geophysics, Terra Abs. 2, Blackwell Sci.,
Pub., Boston, p. 115..
69. Nelson, C.H., 1990, Man's effects exceed Pleistocene climatic influence on sediment supply of
Mediterranean rivers: 13th International Sedimentological Congress, Nottingham, England,
Abstracts volume, p. 382-383.
70. Nelson, C.H., Baraza, J., and Maldonado, A., 1990, Mediterranean undercurrent "contourites" in the
Eastern Gulf of Cadiz, Spain: 13th International Sedimentological Congress, Nottingham, England,
Abstracts volume p. 383-384.
71. Escutia, C., and Nelson, C.H., 1991, The Sedimentary Record of the Valencia Trough Margin,
Mediterranean Sea., 1991, SEPM First Annual Theme Meeting, Continental Margins, p. 11.
72. Nelson, C.H., 1991, Eustatic Reversal of Sediment Dispersal in Various Continental Margin
Settings, 1991 SEPM First Annual Theme Meeting, Continental Margins, p. 24.
73. Nelson, C.H., and Lamothe, P.J., 1991, Contamination in the Tinto and Odiel River and Estuary
System, Spain, 11th International Estuarine Research Conference, San Francisco, CA.,
November 10-14, 1991, p. 99.
74. Nelson, C.H., Bacon, C.R., Robinson, S.W., Adams, D.P., Bradbury, J.P., Barber Jr., J.H.,
1992, The Geologic History of the Crater Lake Floor, Crater Lake National Park, 90th
Anniversary Symposium, Southern Oregon State College, Program, p. 10.
75. Nelson, C.H., Maldonado, A., Baraza, J., 1992, Mediterranean Undercurrent Contourite
Sequences, Gulf of Cadiz, Spain, Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins CNRS-IFP, Dijon,
France, Abstracts Volume p. 464.
76. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E., Colman, S.M., Maldonado, A., 1992, Recent Turbidite Sequences
in Valencia Trough, western Mediterranean, and Lake Baikal , Russia: A key to complex
ancient turbidite systems in rift basins, Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, CNRS-IFP,
Dijon, France, Abstracts Volume p. 465. .
77. Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., 1991, Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., and Kenyon, NH, Depositional
Processes on the Distal Mississippi Fan: Sedimentology and Mass Transport Mechanisms, GSA
Abstracts with Programs, V. 23, no. 5, p. A386.
78. Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., 1991, and Kenyon, N.H., Depositional Processes on the
Mississippi Fan: Sidescan Sonar Images, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 23, no. 5, p. A386.

79. Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., Lee, H.J., Kenyon, N.H., O'Brien, T.F., and
Danforth, W. 1992, Ground Truthing the Distal Mississippi Fan with Seamarc Images and
Cores: What happens at the end of the pipe, The eighth annual V.E. McKelvey forum on
mineral and energy resources, USGS circular no.1074, p. 77.
80. Nelson, C.H., O'Connell, S., Twichell, D.C., Pulham, A., 1992, Classification of Turbidite
Systems: A suggestion for an old problem, AAPG Annual Convention, Official Program, p. 95.
81. Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Lee, H.J., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., 1992, Late
Pleistocene Sedimentation on the Distal Mississippi Fan: Mass transport mechanisms, AAPG
Annual Convention, Official Program, p. 115-116.
82. Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Kenyon, N.H., Nelson, C.H., and Lee, H.J., 1993, Pleistocene
Stratigraphy and Sedimentation on the Distal Mississippi Fan, AAPG Annual Meeting, Official
Program, p. 192-193
83. Karabanov, E.B., Nelson, C.H., and Colman, S.M., 1992, Preliminary Assessment of Late
Quaternary Lake Baikal Turbidite Systems, Russia, AAPG Annual Convention, Official
Program, (presented but abstracts omitted by error from program).
84. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., and Colman, S.M., 1992, Massive sands in sand-rich base of
slope aprons in rift and caldera lake basins: Abstracts volume, Arthur Holmes European
Research Conference on Deep Water Massive Sands, Cefalu, Sicily, Programme p. 15.
85. Nelson, C.H., 1992, Potential Occurrence of Contourite Massive Sands from the Mediterranean
Undercurrent Deposits, Eastern Gulf of Cadiz, Spain, Abstract Volume, Arthur Holmes
European Research Conference on Deep Water Massive Sands, Cefalu, Sicily, Programme p.
14.
86. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., Maldonado, A., and Escutia, C., 1992,
Quaternary turbidite systems in the Valencia Trough (western Mediterranean) and Lake Baikal
(Russia), a key to complex ancient turbidite sequences in rift basins: Symposium volume,
Deep-sea depositional systems, XXXIII Congress of CIESM, Trieste, Italy, Rapp. Comm. Int.
Mer Medit, v. 33, p. 145.
87. Maldonado, A., Nelson, C.H., and Baraza, J., 1992, Mediterranean Undercurrent Contourites in
the Gulf of Cadiz (Spain): (I) Pliocene-Quaternary Seismic Facies and Bedform Patterns:
Symposium volume, Deep-sea depositional systems, XXXIII Congress of CIESM, Trieste, Italy,
Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Medit, v. 33, p. 142.
88. Baraza, J., Nelson, C.H., and Maldonado, A., 1992, Mediterranean Undercurrent Contourites in
the Gulf of Cadiz (Spain): (I) Pliocene-Quaternary Seismic Facies and Bedform Patterns:
Symposium volume, Deep-sea depositional systems, XXXIII Congress of CIESM, Trieste, Italy,
Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Medit, v. 33, p. 115.
89. Nelson, C.H., Bacon, C.R., Robinson, S.W., Adams, D.P., Bradbury, J.P., and Barber, Jr., J.H.,
1992, The geologic history of the Crater Lake floor, Crater Lake National Park: Still Beautiful at
90, Program, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR, p. 10.
90. Barber, Jr., J.H., Nelson, C.H., and Bacon, C., 1992, Mass wasting at Crater Lake and its effect
on lake-floor history, Crater Lake National Park: Still Beautiful at 90, Program, Southern Oregon
State College, Ashland, OR, p. 11.

91. Kenyon, N. H., Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., and Nelson, C.H., 1992, Sand lobes on
the Mississippi fan: The Geological Society British Sedimentological Research Group, Abstracts
with Programs, 2p.
92. Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., and Nelson, C.H., 1992, Pelagic sedimentary complexes and
sedimentation conditions in Lake Baikal, Siberia, EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, v. 73, No.
43, p. 206.
93. Schwab, W.C., Twichell, D.C., Lee, H.J., Nelson, C.H.,and Kenyon N.H.,1993, Upper
Pleistocene mass flow deposits on the distal Mississippi Fan: mass transport mechanisms,
AAPG, Annual Convention Official Program, p. 180.
94. Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., and Schwab, W.C., 1993, Influence of Sediment Supply and Slope
Stability on Depositional Style of Present-Day Mississippi Margin Turbidite Systems, AAPG,
Annual Convention Official Program, p. 156.
95. Schwab, TW.C., Twitchell, D.C., Winters, W.J., Lee, H.J., Nelson, C.H., DaSilva, J.L. and
Kenyon, N.H., 1993, Sediment mass transport mechanisms and deposition o n the Distal
Mississipi Fan, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts Volume, p.342
96. Twichell, D.C., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, C.H., and Kenyon, N.H., 1993, Heirarchy of depostional
features on the Mississippi Fan: Predictive tool for deep-sea fan studies, GSA Annaul Meeting,
Boston, 1p.
97. Elias,S.A., Short, S.K., Phillips, R.L., and Nelson, C.H., 1994, New eveidence on the timing of
inundation of theBering Land Bridge, based on radiocarbon ages of microfossils, AGU1994
Ocean Science Meeting Abstracts Volume, p 221.
98. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M.,1994, Patterns of turbidite systems in modern
deep rift lakes, IAS 94, 14th International Sedimentological Congress, Recife, Abstracts, p S1-
13 to 14.
99. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S., Escutia, C., and Barber, J.,1994, High
sedimentation rates in modern ponded turbidite basins compared with low rates in drained
basins. Geological Socety of America Annual Meeting, Seatle, Washington, Abstracts with
Programs v. 26, p. A-70.
100. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., 1995, Glacial climatic effect on Lake Baikal turbidite systems:
International Association of Sedimentologists 16 th Regional European Meeting, Aix-les-Bains, Savoie,
France, Abstracts Volume, p. 113.
101. B. Savoye 1 , M. Voisset 1 , C.H. Nelson 2 , G. Dromart 3 , D. Piper 4 , J.P. Rehault 5 , G. Pautot 1 ,
P. Cochonat 1 , L. Droz 1 , K. Skene, 1995, The Var Fan lobe (Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean):
side-scan and seismic imagery, nature of deposits, International Association of
Sedimentologists 16 th Regional European Meeting, Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, Abstracts
Volume, p. 132.
102. Savoye , B, P. Cochonat , D. J. W. Piper , Nelson , H ., M. Voisset , et L. Droz, 1995, Late
Quaternary turbidity current activity: The Var deep-sea fan case study (Northwestern
Mediterranean), International Association of Sedimentologists 16 th Regional European
Meeting, Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, Abstracts Volume, p. 132.

103. Nelson, C.H.,Savoye , B., Rehault, J.P.,and Escutia, C.,1995, Interfingering of western
Corsican margin aprons with the Var Fan lobe and an apparent Late Quaternary Corsican
paleoseismic event, International Association of Sedimentologists 16 th Regional European
Meeting, Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, Abstracts Volume, p. 113.
104. Nelson, C.H., Karabanov, E.B., Colman, S.M., and Escutia, C.,1995, Tectonic and sediment
supply control of deep rift lake turbidite systems, Lake Baikal Russia: The First International
Limno-geological Congress, Research and research methods in ancient and modern basins,
Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen , Abstracts Volume, p. 92.
105. Nelson, C.H., Savoye, B., Rehault, J.P., and Escutia, C., 1996, Interfingering sand-rich aprons
and Var Fan lobe deposits off Corsica: Analog for thick and laterally extensive turbidite
petroleum reservoirs. AAPG Annual Convention, San Diego, California, Official Program
Abstracts Volume, p. A104.
106. Nelson, C. H., Goldfinger, C. Vallier, T.L. McGann, M.L., Kashgarian, M.,l996, North to south
variation in Cascadia Basin turbidite event history:implications for paleoseismicity, Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, V. 28, No. 5, p. 95.
107. van Geen, A, Adkins, J.F., Boyle, E.A.., Nelson, C.H., Palanques, A., 1996, A 120-year record
of widespread contamination from mining of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, Eos., Transactions, AGU v.
77, No. 46, p. F239.
108. Nelson, C.H., Klitgord, K., Debatist, M., Evgeny, B., and Colman, S.M., 1997, Control of late
Quaternary turbidite system architecture in Lake Baikal, AAPG Annual Convention, Dallas,
Texas, Official Program Abstracts Volume. 1p
109. Nelson, H., Karabanov, E.B., Escutia, C., De Batist, M., Klitgord, K.B., Colman, S.M., 1998,
Lake Baikal, a natural laboratory outlining tectonic, sediment supply and climatic factors that
control turbidite system development, SEPM and the Geological Society of London Conference
on Sediment Transport and Deposition by Particulate Gravity Currents, Abstracts Volume, p 44-
45. .
110. Escutia, C., Nelson, C.H., De Batist, M., 1998, Glacial sediment supply, a major factor
controlling turbidite system processes and products, SEPM and the Geological Society of
London Conference on Sediment Transport and Deposition by Particulate Gravity Currents,
Abstracts Volume, p.66-67.
111. Wolf, S.C., Nelson, C.H., Reiss, C.C., and Hamer, M.R., 1998, The Washington and Oregon
mid-shelf silt deposit and its relation to the Late Holocene Columbia River sediment budget.
1998 Southwest Washington coastal erosion study principal investigator's workshop abstracts.
p. 30-32
112 Nelson, C.H., Wolf, S.C., and Dunhill, G., 1998, Dams and potential effects on delta and
coastline erosion. World Deltas Symposium, Coastal Studies Institute, Louisana State
University, Abstracts vol., 1p
113. Escutia, C., Nelson, C.H., Cooper, A.K., and Eitrriem, S.L., 1998, Morphological differences
between glacial-sourced and fluvial-sourced turbidite systems. Amercian Geophysical Union
Abstracts, volume 79. 1p.

114. Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C.H., and Yongdong, Z., 1998, Investigating the turbidite
paleoseismologic record of Holocene great earthquakes on the Cascadia margin. Amercian
Geophysical Union Abstracts, volume 79. 1p.
115. Twichell, D.C., Nelson, C.H., Damuth, J.E., and Dunhill, G., 1999, Bryant Canyon turbidite
system pathway on the Louisiana continental slope. American Association of Petroleum
Geologists, Annual Convention, Abstracts, p. A141
116. Nelson, C.H., Goldfinger, C., Wolf, S.C. and Dunhill, G., 1999, Cascadia Basin channel
pathways and Late Holocene turbidite event history. American Association of Petroleum
Geologists , Annual Convention, Abstracts. p. A10.
117. Nelson, C. H., and Goldfinger, C., 1999, Turbidite Event Stratigraphy and Implications for
Cascadia Basin Paleoseismicity: EOS Trans. AGU, 80, Fall Meet., Abstract, p. 733.
118. 1999 Twichell, D.W., C.H. Nelson, J.E. Damuth and G. Dunhill, Bryant Canyon turbidite system
pathway on the Louisiana continental slope: 1999 AAPG Annual Convention Official Program,
p. A141.
119. Nelson, C. H., Goldfinger, C., Johnson, J. E., 2000, Turbidite Event Stratigraphy and
Implications for Cascadia Basin Paleoseismicity: in Clague, J, Atwater, B Wang, K., Wand,
M.M. Wong, I eds., Proceedings of the GSA Penrose Conference Great Cascadia Earthquake
Tricentennial, Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, p.73-74.
120. Nelson, C. H., and Goldfinger, C., 2000, Turbidite event stratigraphy: implications for Holocene
Paleoseismicity of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and northern San Andreas Faults: EOS Trans.
AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract, S61D-09.
121. Nelson, C.H., Twichell, D.C., Bryant, W., Damuth, J.E., and Dunhill, G., 2000 , Salt Neotectonic
Activity and Slope Stability Along the Bryant Canyon and Fan Turbidite System Pathway on the
Louisiana Continental Margin, 2000 AAPG Annual Convention Official Program, p. A106.
122. Goldfinger, C, Nelson, C. H., and Johnson, J. E., 2002, Cascadia Great Earthquake Chronology
Based on the Turbidite Event Record: GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, Corvallis, Oregon, May
13-15.
123. Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C. H., and Johnson, J. E., 2002, New Patterns Emerging for Cascadia
Paleoearthquakes: Clues from the Turbidite Record: EOS Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl.,
Abstract, S21C-07.
124. Johnson, J. E., Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C. H., 2002, Holocene Earthquakes, Slope Failures,
and Submarine Gas Hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin: EOS Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall
Meet. Suppl., Abstract, S22B-1024.
125. Johnson, J. E., Goldfinger, C., Nelson, C. H., Tréhu, A. M., 2002, Tectonic Controls on Gas
Hydrate Stability in an Active Margin Setting, Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Accretionary Prism:
GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, , p11.
126. Nelson, C. H., Basic Types of Turbidite Systems Based on Modern Sea Floor Images, 2002,
AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program, v. 11, p A128.
127. Nelson, C.H., Damuth, J.E., Olson, H.C., and Twichell, D., 2002, Comparison of modern
intraslope mini-basins to deep-sea fan turbidite systems in the Gulf of Mexico: 2002 AAPG
Annual Convention Official Program, v.11, p. A129.

128. Nelson, C. H., Goldfinger, C., Chaytor, J., Johnson, J. E., Ericksson, A., Etheredge, D., and the
Shipboard Scientist party, 2002, Origins of Turbidites Along the Northern California Margin:
Earthquakes on the Northern San Andreas Fault EOS Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl.,
Abstract, S72D-07.
129. Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C., Nelson C. H.,2003, Study of Latest Quaternary Processes of Texas
Lousiana Intrslope Basin Province to Develop Analogs for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs, Internatinal
Conference “ Deep Water Processes in Modern and Ancient Enviroments”,Abstracts
Book,CSIC, Barcelona, p. 7.
130. Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C., Nelson C. H.,2003, Latest Quaternary Processes of the Texas
Lousiana Intraslope Basin Province: The Gulf of Mexico Intraslope Basin Project, Submarine
Slope Systems: Processes, Products & Prediction, Liverpool,UK, Slope Coferences, Abstracts
Volume, p. 34.
131. Escutia, .C., Nelson C. H., Acton, G. D., Eitreim, S. L:, Cooper, A. K., Wanke, D.A., Jaramillo,
J.M.,2003, Current Controlled Deposition on the Wilkes Land Continental Rise, Antarctica ,
EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice France, Abstracts Volume, p_____.
132. Goldfinger, C., Nelson C. H., Johnson, J. E., Ericsson, A., 2003, Determining the Ages and Origins
of Earthquake Triggered Submarine Landslides: EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl.,
Abstract, OS31A-05.
133. Goldfinger, C., Nelson C. H., Johnson, J. E., Morey-Ross, A., 2003, Physical Property Correlations
and Radiocarbon Ages Illuminate Cascadia Earthquake Recurrence Patterns, EOS Trans. AGU,
84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract, S42A-0144.
134. Johnson, J. E., Goldfinger, C., Nelson C. H., Underwood, M. B.,2003, Holocene Earthquakes, Gas
Hydrates, and an 11,000 Year Record of Slope Failures at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin,
EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract, OS52D-04.
135. Maldonado, A., Bohoyo, F., Escutia,C, Galindo-Zalzivar J., Hernandez –Molina, F.J., Jabaloy,
A., Lobo, F., ., Nelson C. H., Rodríguez-Fernandez, J., Somoza, L., Suriñach, E., Vazquez, J.T.,
2003, Intensified Northern Weddell Gyre Flow and Splitting of Flow Pathways since the Middle
Miocene, Antarctica, 9 th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Abstract,
Postdam, Germany, September 8-12.
136. Morey-Ross, A., Goldfinger, C., Nelson C. H., Chaytor, J., Johnson, J. E., Ericsson, A., 2003, Turbidite
Based Earthquake Record Along the Northern San Andreas Fault: EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall
Meet. Suppl., Abstract, T51C-02.
137. Nelson C.H., Goldfinger, C., Johnson, J. E., Gutierrez-Pastor, J., 2003, Holocene History of Great
Earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone Based on the Turbidite Event Stratigraphy: EOS
Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract, S42I-05.
138. Nelson C.H., Goldfinger, C., Karavanov, E., Gracia, E., Johnson, J. E., Ericksson, D., Chaytor,
J.,2003, Sand-Rich Holocene Turbidite Systems Along the Active Transform Fault Margin of
Northern California, AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program, v. 12, p. A127.
139. Vazquez, J.T., Hernandez –Molina, F.J., Jabaloy, A., Maldonado, A., Galindo-Zalzivar,
Somoza, L., Nelson C. H.,2003, Morphologic and Stratigraphi Stacking Pattern from an Active
to Passive Margin at the end of the SW Extreme of South Shetland Trench, Antarctic

Peninsula, International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Poster, Postdam, Germany,
September 8-12, p. 329-330.
140. Nelson C. H., Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C., Twichell, D.,2003, The influence of Sediment Supply
and Topography on Modern Turbidite-System Development in the Gulf of Mexico: Submarine
Slope Systems: Processes, Products & Prediction, Liverpool,UK, Slope Coferences, Abstracts
Volume, p. 72.
141. Nelson, C.H. and Damuth, J.E., 2003, Myths of turbidite system control: Insights provided by
modern turbidite systems: Conference on Deep Water Processes in Modern and Ancient
Environments, Barcelona and Ainsa, Spain, 15-19 September 2003, p.7.
142. Gutierrez-Pastor J., Nelson C. H., Goldfinger, C., Johnson, J. E., 2004, Turbidite Stratigraphy on
active tectonic margins and implications for Holocene Paleoseismicity of the Cascadia
Subduction Zone and Northern San Andreas Fault , 32 nd International Geological Congress
meeting, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 1 p.
143. Damuth J. E., Olson, H.C., Nelson C. H, 2004, Latest quaternary gravitational processes of the
Texas-Louisiana intraslope basin province 32nd International Geological Congress CD ROM
abstract number 265-11.
144. Nelson, C.H., and Damuth, J.E., 2004, Myths of turbidite systems: Insights from studies of
modern systems. 32 nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.
145. Nelson C. H, Goldfinger C., Gutierrez-Pastor J., Johnson J. E. 2004. Holocene turbidite recurrence
frequency off northern California: insights for San Andreas fault paleoseismicity: EOS Trans.
AGU, Fall Meet .Suppl. Abstract T12B-08.
146. Gutierrez-Pastor, J., Nelson,H. C., Goldfinger C., Johnson, J.2005. Holocene turbidite history
in the Cascadia Subduction Zone shows the potential to develop paleoseismicic methods for
the Sumatra and other subduction zones. EGU Congress, Viena, Austria, submitted.
147. Nelson, C.H., Goldfinger, C.,Gutierrez-Pastor, J., Johnson, J. 2005. Holocene Turbidite
Paleoseismic record of great earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone: confirmation by
onshore records and the Sumatra 2004 Great earthquake. EGU Congress, Vienna, Austria,
submitted.