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Peer-reviewed articles

Sullivan, N. B., Meyers, S. R., McKay, R. M., van de Flierdt, T., Marschalek, J., Perotti, M., Zurli, L., Talarico, F., Harwood, D., De Santis, L., Florindo, F., Naish, T. R., Grant, G. R., Patterson, M. O., Expedition 374 scientists, [in review]. Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics over a 2.4 Myr Astronomical Grand Cycle. Science Advances

Sullivan, N. B., Meyers, S. R., Levy, R. H., McKay, R. M., Golledge, N. R., Cortese, G., (2023). Millennial-scale variability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Early Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 120(39), p. e2304152120.

Marschalek, J.W., Zurli, L., Talarico, F., van de Flierdt, T., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Beny, F., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Sangiorgi, F., Hemming, S.R. and Pérez, L.F., Colleoni, F., Prebble, J. G., van peer, T. E., Perotti, M., Shevenell, A.e., Browne, I., Kulhanek, D. K., Levy, R., Harwood, D., Sullivan, N. B., Meyers, S. R., Griffith, E. M., Hillenbrand, C. -D., Gasson E., Siegert, M. J., Keisling, B., Licht, K. J., Kuhn, G., Dodd, J. P., Boshuis, C., De Santis, L., McKay, R. M., 2021. A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude Nature, Vol. 600(7889), pp. 450-455.

Dent, L., Normore, L., Sullivan, N.B., Zhen, Y.Y., Forbes, A., (2018) First record of lower - Middle Ordovician (Tremadocian - Dapingian) carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) chemostratigraphy in the Canning Basin, Western Australia; calibrated with geochronology/biostratigraphy and implications for global correlations Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 573, pp. 1-12.

Sullivan, N.B., Loydell, D.K., Montgomery, P., Molyneux, S.G., Zalasiewicz, J., Ratcliffe, K.T., Campbell, E., Griffiths, J.D. and Lewis, G., (2018). A record of Late Ordovician to Silurian oceanographic events on the margin of Baltica based on new carbon isotope data, elemental geochemistry, and biostratigraphy from two boreholes in central Poland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 490, pp. 95-106.

Thomka, J.R., Sullivan, N.B. and Brett, C.E., (2017). Arthrophycus as a mimic of crinoid column impressions in the lower Silurian of central Kentucky, USA. Lethaia. Vol. 49(4), pp. 591-603.

Sullivan, N.B., McLaughlin, P.I., Brett, C.E., Cramer, B.D., Kleffner, M.A., Thomka, J.R. and Emsbo, P., (2016). Sequence boundaries and chronostratigraphic gaps in the Llandovery of Ohio and Kentucky: The record of early Silurian paleoceanographic events in east-central North America. Geosphere, 12(6), pp. 1813-1832.

Sullivan, N.B., McLaughlin, P.I., Emsbo, P., Barrick, J.E. and Premo, W.R., (2016). Identification of the late Homerian Mulde Excursion at the base of the Salina Group (Michigan Basin, USA). Lethaia, 49(4), pp.591-603.

Sullivan, N. B.; Over, D. J.; Minjin, C.; Myrow, P. M.; (2016). Subsidence and Drowning of a Carbonate Platform in South-Central Mongolia (Gobi Altai Region) During the Late Eifelian to Early Givetian: A Synthesis of Conodont Data, Magnetic Susceptibility, and Paleoecology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Vol. 115, pp. 204-213.

Sullivan, N. B.; Kleffner, M. A.; Brett, C. E.; (2014). Conodont Biostratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Taphonomy of the Second Creek Bed and Wolcott Furnace Hematite (Clinton Group) in West Central New York State. Palaeontologica Electronica. Vol. 17 (No. 1), 18 p.

Brett, C. E.; Thomka, J. R.; Sullivan, N. B.; McLaughlin, P. I.; (2014). Anatomy of a compound sequence boundary: A basal Silurian karstic unconformity in the Cincinnati Arch region. GFF, Vol. 136, No. 1, pp. 42-27

Sullivan, N. B.; Brett, C. E.; McLaughlin, P. I.; Kleffner, M. A.; Cramer, B. D.; 2014. Correlation of the Waco Member (Telychian; Llandovery; Silurian) in East-Central Kentucky and South-Central Ohio. GFF, Vol. 136, No. 1, pp. 254-258

Sullivan, N. B.; and Brett, C. E.; (2013). Integrating Magnetic Susceptibility Data with Sequence Stratigraphy in the Ironstone Bearing Successions (Lower Silurian) of Eastern North America. Stratigraphy. Vol. 10 (No. 4), pp. 261-279


Field Trip Guidebooks

Sullivan, N. B.; Brett, C. E.; and McLaughlin, P. I.; 2012. Ironstones, condensed beds, and sequence stratigraphy of the Clinton Group (Lower Silurian) in its type area, central New York. in Rayne, T. W., ed., Field Trip Guidebook for the 84th Annual Meeting of the New York State Geological Association. pp. B5-1-B5-40.

Brett, C. E.; McLaughlin, P. I.; Schramm, T. J.; Sullivan, N. B.; and Thomka, J. R.; 2012. Middle Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Cincinnati Arch: Part 1 Central Kentucky and Southern Ohio. in Brett, C. E., Cramer, B. D., and Gerkie, T. L., eds., Field Trip Guidebook for the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 591, 2nd Annual Meeting and 1st Foerste Symposium. pp. 1-162.


Conference Proceedings

Sullivan, N. B.; Brett, C. E.; McLaughlin, P. I.; Kleffner, M. A.; Cramer, B. D.; Thomka, J. R.; 2013. Constraints on the Age and Correlation of Two Problematic Telychian (Llandovery; Silurian) Stratigraphic Units in Ohio and Kentucky: Synthesizing Biostratigraphy, δ13Ccarb Chemostratigraphy, and Sequence Stratigraphy. in Lindskog, A.; and Mehlqvist, K. (eds.) Proceedings from the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) Project 591 3rd Annual Meeting. GFF Vol. 135, No. 2. pp. 309-310

Sullivan, N. B.; 2010. The Eifelian Givetian boundary (Middle Devonian) at Tsakhir, Govi Altai region, southern Mongolia. in de Wet, A.P. and Heister, L. eds: Keck Geology Consortium. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology. pp. 237-246


Theses

Sullivan, N. B., 2022. Antarctic ice sheet history, Neogene cyclostratigraphy, and quantitative biostratigraphy in the Southern Ocean. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Geoscience Advised by Stephen R. Meyers. 245 p.

Sullivan, N. B., 2013. Refinements to the Depositional History of Lower Silurian Strata in the Northeastern United States by means of Conodont Biostratigraphy, δ13C Chemostratigraphy, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Magnetic Susceptibility. Unpublished Master's Thesis. The University of Cincinnati - Department of Geology. Advised by Carlton E. Brett. 104 p.

Sullivan, N. B., 2010. The Eifelian-Givetian Boundary (Middle Devonian) at Tsakhir, Govi Altai Region, Southern Mongolia. Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis. State University of New York at Geneseo - Department of Geosciences. Advised by D. Jeffrey Over 19 p.

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