Zoltan Sylvester

Shell Research, Houston, USA

Personal web page: http://zsylvester.blogspot.com
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Born: 1969

Interests: sedimentology, seismic stratigraphy, turbidite systems

Details:
Education: B.S. (1994) and M.S. (1995), Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania;
Ph.D., Geology, Stanford University, Stanford, California (2001).
Presently at Shell Research & Development, Houston, Texas.
Research interests: turbidite sedimentology; seismic stratigraphy; statistical analysis and modeling of sedimentary geometries.

Selected publications:
• Deptuck, M., Sylvester, Z., Pirmez, C., O'Byrne, C. . Migration–aggradation history and 3-D seismic geomorphology of submarine channels in the Pleistocene Benin-major Canyon, western Niger Delta slope. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 24, pp. 406-433, 2007.
• Sylvester, Z. . Turbidite bed thickness distributions: methods and pitfalls of analysis and modelling. Sedimentology, 54, pp. 847-870, 2007.
• Sylvester, Z., Lowe, D. R. . Textural trends in turbidites and slurry beds from the Oligocene flysch of the East Carpathians, Romania. Sedimentology, 51, pp. 945-972, 2004.
• Sylvester, Z., Lowe, D. R. . Fluid Escape Structures. In Middleton, G. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, pp. 294-296. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
• Buatois, L. A., Mangano, M. G., Sylvester, Z. . A Diverse Deep-Marine Ichnofauna from the Eocene Tarcau Sandstone of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Ichnos - International Journal of Animal and Plant Traces, 8(1), pp. 23-62, 2001.

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