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P U B L I C A T I O N S

Link to ORCID: ORCID 0000-0002-5652-1222

 

Refereed Journal Articles, first author

Published

  1. O'Connell, B. and Wallace, M.W., 2025. The palaeoenvironmental and biological significance of marine carbonate depositional surfaces. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 556(1), pp.SP556-2024. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP556-2024-90

  2. O’Connell, B., McMahon, W.J., Nduutepo, A., Pokolo, P., Mocke, H., McMahon, S., Boddy, C.E. & Liu, A.G. (2025). Transport of ‘Nama’-type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology. Sedimentology, 72, 365–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13239

  3. O’Connell B., Wallace, M.W., Hood A.Vs, Brooks, H., Lechte, M., Mahon, L., 2022, Nearshore environments before the evolution of land plants, Precambrian Research, 382, 106883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106883

  4. O’Connell B., Wallace, M.W., Hood, A.v.S, Rebbechi, L., 2022, Deep water cuspate stromatolites in the Cryogenian Trezona Formation, Geobiology, 20(2), 194-215 https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12479

  5. O’Connell, B., Dorsey, R.J., Hasiotis, S.T., Hood, A.v.S., 2021, Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic tidal sedimentation in the Miocene to Pliocene Bouse Formation, palaeo-Gulf of California, Sedimentology, 68 (3). https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12817

  6. O’Connell, B., Wallace, M.W, Hood, A.v.S., Lechte, M.A., Planavsky, N.P., 2020. Iron-rich carbonate tidal deposits of the Angepena Formation, South Australia: A redox-stratified Cryogenian basin, Precambrian Research, 342, 105668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105668

  7. O’Connell, B., Dorsey, R.J. and Humphreys, E.D., 2017. Tidal rhythmites in the southern Bouse Formation as evidence for post-Miocene uplift of the lower Colorado River corridor. Geology. 45(2), 99-102 https://doi.org/10.1130/G38608.1

In-late-stage prep

  1. O’Connell, B., Peakall, J., Liu A.G., Volcanism, shock/tsunami waves, combined flow, and the smothering of Ediacaran seafloor ecosystems

  2. O’Connell, B., Wallace, M.W., Hood, A.Vs, Rapid giant ooid precipitation in low-oxygen Cryogenian oceans

In-prep

  1. O’Connell, B., McMahon, W.J., Liu, A.G. Earth’s first mass extinction? Sedimentological insights into the rise and fall of Ediacaran biota

 

Refereed Journal Articles, Co-author

Published

  1. Cole, D.B., O’Connell, B., Planavsky, N.J., 2018 Authigenic chromium enrichments in Proterozoic ironstones. Sedimentary Geology, 372, 25-43.

  2. Dorsey, R.J., O'Connell, B., McDougall, K. and Homan, M.B., 2017. Punctuated sediment discharge during early Pliocene birth of the Colorado River: Evidence from regional stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology. Sedimentary Geology, 363, 1-33

  3. Dorsey, R.J.D., O’Connell, B., Gardner K., Homan, M., Bennett, S.K.E., Thacker, J.O., Darin, M.O., 2021, Tectonostratigraphic record of late Miocene–early Pliocene transtensional faulting in the Eastern California shear zone, southwestern USA, 2021, Geosphere, 17(4), 1101-1125

  4. Jin, C., Li, C., Algeo, T.J., O'Connell, B., Cheng, M., Shi, W., Shen, J. and Planavsky, N.J., 2018. Highly heterogeneous “poikiloredox” conditions in the early Ediacaran Yangtze Sea. Precambrian Research, 311, pp.157-166.

  5. Planavsky, N.J., Slack, J.F., Cannon, W.F., O'Connell, B., Isson, T.T., Asael, D., Jackson, J.C., Hardisty, D.S., Lyons, T.W. and Bekker, A., 2018. Evidence for episodic oxygenation in a weakly redox-buffered deep mid-Proterozoic ocean. Chemical Geology, 483, 581-594

  6. Dorsey, R.J., Braga, J.C., Gardner, K., McDougall, K. O’Connell, B., 2023, Early Pliocene Marine Transgression into the Lower Colorado River Valley, Southwestern USA, By Re-Flooding of a Former Tidal Strait, Special Publication on Straits and Seaways (Geological Society of London), 523(1), 369-397.

  7. Konhauser, K.O., Hao, W., Li, Y., von Gunten, K., Bishop, B.A., Alessi, D.S., Tarhan, L.G., O'Connell, B., Robbins, L.J., Planavsky, N.J. and Gingras, M.K., 2019. Diopatra cuprea worm burrow parchment: a cautionary tale of infaunal surface reactivity. Lethaia, 53(1), 47-61.

  8. Farrell, Ú.C., Samawi, R., Anjanappa, S., Klykov, R., Adeboye, O.O., Agic, H., Ahm, A.S.C., Boag, T.H., Bowyer, F., Brocks, … B. O’Connell, … and Brunoir, T.N., 2021. The sedimentary geochemistry and paleoenvironments project. Geobiology, 19(6), pp.545-556.

  9. Lipp, A. G., Shorttle, O., Sperling, E., Brocks, J. J., Cole, D., Crockford, P. W., … O’Connell, B. … & Yang, J., 2021, The composition and weathering of the continents over geologic time. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 7, 21-26.

  10. Mehra, A., Keller, C., Zhang, T., Tosca, N., McLennan, S., Sperling, E.,... O’Connell, B. & Strauss, J., 2021, Curation and analysis of global sedimentary geochemical data to inform earth history. GSA Today, 1-6.

  11. Shen, J., Chen, J., Algeo, T.J., Yuan, S., Feng, Q., Yu, J., Zhou, L., O’Connell, B. and Planavsky, N.J., 2019. Evidence for a prolonged Permian–Triassic extinction interval from global marine mercury records. Nature Communications.

  12. Stockey, R., Cole, D., Farrell, U., Agić, H., Boag, T., Brocks, J., Canfield, D., Cheng, M., Crockford, P., Cui, H. … O’Connell, B., and Dahl, T., 2023. Multiple sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity through the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Eras. in-revision Nature Geoscience, Preprint DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3438740/v1

In review (*student):

  1. *Boddy, C.E., O’Connell, B., McMahon, W., Liu, A.G., Paleo-environmental controls on Ediacaran fossil distribution: evidence from the St. John’s Group and Signal Hill Group of Newfoundland, Canada, JSR

In-late-stage prep

  1. *Hewitt, J., Baas, J., O'Connell B., Green, J.A.M., A Novel Approach to Constraining Carboniferous Tidal Currents using Bedforms in Tidal Rhythmites

  2. *Liu, Y., O’Connell, B., Pang K., Zhe C., Yuan, X., Liu, A.G., Sedimentological controls on Ediacaran fossil distributions in the Shibantan Member, China

 

Conference papers and field guides

  1.  O’Connell, B., Dorsey, R.J., Humphreys, E.D. A pre-Colorado River Northern Gulf of California Marine Embayment recorded by tidal rhythmites in the Southern Bouse Formation. California State University Desert Studies Center 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings (pp. 154-157).

  2. O’Connell, B., Dorsey, R.J., Homan, M., Gootee, B.F. and House, K., 2016. Structural controls on stratigraphic architecture of the southern Bouse Formation near Cibola, Arizona. In 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, California State University Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, Calif (pp. 171-175).

  3. Gootee, B.F., Pearthree, P.A., House, P.K., Youberg, A., Spencer, J.E. and O’Connell, B., 2016. Geologic map and report of the Cibola area. La Paz County, Arizona, and Imperial County, California: Arizona Geological Survey Digital Map DGM-112, scale, 1(24,000), p.21

  4. Dorsey, R.J., O’Connell, B., Homan, M. and Howard, K., 2016, April. Upper limestone of the southern Bouse Formation: evidence for unsteady origins of the Colorado River. In Going LOCO: Investigations along the Lower Colorado River. California State University Desert Studies Center 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings (pp.145-153)

  5. Dorsey, R.J., O’Connell, B., Homan, M., Bennett, S.E. and Reynolds, R.E., 2017. Influence of the Eastern California Shear Zone on deposition of the Mio-Pliocene Bouse Formation: Insights from the Cibola area, Arizona. In Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings. California State University Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, CA (pp. 150-157). 29. Gootee, B.F., Pearthree, P.A., House, P.K., Youberg, A., O'Connell, B., Bright, J. and Reynolds, R.E., 2016, April. A sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of the upper bioclastic unit capping the Bouse Formation in the Cibola Area, Arizona and California. In Going LOCO: Investigations along the Lower Colorado River: California State University Desert Studies Center 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings (pp. 15-18).

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