List of Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
- Sullivan, N. B. & White, T. S. (in review). Lithium in Pennsylvanian Clay Strata from the Appalachian Foreland Basin. GSA Today.
- Forsythe, I. J., Brett, C. E., Da Silva, A.-C., & Sullivan, N. B. (2026). Orbits, Ice, and Invaders: Cincinnatian Strata as an Encoded Record of Earth’s Movement Through Space. Geology, 54(7), 695–700.
- Zhang, L., Algeo, T. J., Sullivan, N. B., Zhao, L., Chen, Z.-Q., Poulton, S. W., Zhang, Z., Lyu, Z., & Li, C. (2026). Testing Early Triassic timescales based on orbital cyclostratigraphy in South China. GSA Bulletin.
- Patterson, M., Rosenberg, C., Seki, O., Yamamoto, M., Romero, O., Nelissen, M., Sangiorgi, F., Golledge, N., Grant, G., Arnuk, W., Keisling, B., Naish, T., Levy, R., Meyers, S., Sullivan, N., Ash, J., Kulhanek, D., Romans, B., Varela, N., Jones, H., Beny, F., Browne, I., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I., Dodd, J., Esper, O., Gales, J., Harwood, D., Ishino, S., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J. S., Leckie, R., Müller, J., Shevenell, A., Singh, S., Sugisaki, S., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T., Xiao, W., De Santis, L., & McKay, R. (2026). Spatially variable response of Antarctica's ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene. Nature Geoscience.
- Sullivan, N. B., Meyers, S. R., Levy, R. H., 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., Grand, G. R., Patterson, M. O., & Expedition 374 Scientists. (2025). Obliquity disruption and Antarctic ice sheet dynamics over a 2.4-Myr astronomical grand cycle. Science Advances, 11(17), eadl1996, 1–11.
- 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 Sciences, 120(39), 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., 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, 600(7889), 450–455.
- Dent, L., Normore, L., Sullivan, N. B., Zhen, Y. Y., & Forbes, A. (2021). 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, 573, 1–12.
- Sullivan, N. B., Loydell, D. K., Montgomery, P., Molyneux, S. G., Zalasiewicz, J., Ratcliffe, K. T., Campbell, E., Griffiths, J. D., & 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, 490, 95–106.
- Thomka, J. R., Sullivan, N. B., & Brett, C. E. (2017). Arthrophycus as a mimic of crinoid column impressions in the lower Silurian of central Kentucky, USA. Lethaia, 49(4), 591–603.
- Sullivan, N. B., McLaughlin, P. I., Brett, C. E., Cramer, B. D., Kleffner, M. A., Thomka, J. R., & 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), 1813–1832.
- Sullivan, N. B., McLaughlin, P. I., Emsbo, P., Barrick, J. E., & Premo, W. R. (2016). Identification of the late Homerian Mulde Excursion at the base of the Salina Group (Michigan Basin, USA). Lethaia, 49(4), 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, 115, 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. Palaeontologia Electronica, 17(1), 18p.
- 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, 136(1), 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, 136(1), 254–258.
- Sullivan, N. B. & Brett, C. E. (2013). Integrating magnetic susceptibility data with sequence stratigraphy in the ironstone bearing successions (Lower Silurian) of Eastern North America. Stratigraphy, 10(4), 261–279.
Field Trip Guidebooks
- Sullivan, N. B. & Brett, C. E. (2025). Field Trip B3: Clinton ironstones of the Silurian in their type area of central New York. in Tewksbury, B. J., and Bailey, D. G., eds., New York State Geological Association Centennial Guidebook: New York State Geological Association 100th annual meeting, pp. B3-1–B3-26.
- Sullivan, N. B., Brett, C. E., & 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., & 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.
Page last updated 15 September 2026
Unless otherwise noted, all content © N. B. Sullivan
Unless otherwise noted, all content © N. B. Sullivan