College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and The Department of Geosciences

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Contact Information:
Prof. Peter Flemings
Dept. of Geosciences
Penn State University
307 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
814.865.2309

Publications (Listed in Alphabetical Order)

Alexander, L.L., Flemings, P.B., 1995, Geologic Evolution of a Plio-Pleistocene Salt Withdrawal Mini-basin: Block 330, Eugene Island, South Addition, Offshore Louisiana, AAPG Bulletin, v. 79, no. 12, pp. 1737-1756.

Anderson, R.N., Flemings, P.B., Losh, S., Austin, J., Woodhams, R.L., and Global Basins Research Network Field Demonstration Team, 1994, In Situ Properties of a Major Gulf of Mexico Growth Fault: Implications for Behavior as a Hydrocarbon Migration Pathway, Oil & Gas Journal, v. 92, no. 23, pp. 97-104.

Burkhart, T.D., Hoover, A.R., Flemings, P.B., 2000, Time-lapse seismic monitoring of the K8 and K40 reservoirs, South Timbalier block 295, offshore Louisiana, Geophysics, v. 65, no. 2, p. 351-367.

Cookman, J., Flemings, P.B., 2001, STORMSED1.0: Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport in a 2-D Steady-State, Wind- and Wave-Driven, Coastal Circulation Model, Computers and Geosciences, v. 27, p. 647-674.

Deshpande, A., Flemings, P.B., and Huang, J., 1997, Quantifying lateral heterogeneities in fluvio-deltaic sediments using 3-D reflection seismic data: offshore Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, no. B7, p.15,385 - 15,401.

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., Sawyer, D., Iturrino, G.J., Moore, J.C., Schneider, J., 2007, Physical Properties of Mass Transport Complexes in the Ursa Region, Northern Gulf of Mexico (IODP Expedition 308) Determined from Log, Core, and Seismic Data, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18704.

Dugan, B.E., Flemings, P.B., Olgaard, D.L., Gooch, M.J., 2003, Consolidation Behavior, Stress, and Pressure of Sediments from ODP Site 1073, US Mid-Atlantic Continental Slope, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 215, p. 13-26.

Dugan, B., et al., 2003, Measuring Pore Pressure in Marine Sediments with Penetrometers: Comparison of the Piezoprobe and DVTP-P Tools in ODP Leg 204, Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows, v. 3, p. 179-199.

Dugan, B. and Flemings, P.B., 2002, Fluid flow and stability of the US continental slope offshore New Jersey from the Pleistocene to the present, Geofluids, 2(2), 137-146.

Dugan, B., Olgaard, D.L., Flemings, P.B., and Gooch, M.J., 2002. Data report: Bulk physical properties of sediments from ODP Site 1073. In Christie-Blick, N., Austin, J.A., Jr., and Malone, M.J. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 174A [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174A_SR/chap_07/chap_07.htm>. [Cited 2003-02-08]

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., 2000, Overpressure and Fluid Flow in the New Jersey Continental Slope: Implications for Slope Failure and Cold Seeps, Science, v. 289, p. 288-291.

Dugan, B., Flemings, P.B., 2000, The New Jersey margin: compaction and fluid flow, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 477-481.

Elsworth, D., Lee, D.S., Long, H., Flemings, P.B., 2003, Penetration-Induced Pore Pressure Magnitudes - Methods to Determine Transport Parameters from Terrestrial and Marine Pentrometer Testing, Proceedings of the International Conference on T-H-M-C Processes in Geosystems: Fundamentals, Modeling, Experiments and Applications, Stockholm, Sweden, October13-15, 2003.

Expedition 308 Scientists, 2005, Overpressure and fluid flow processes in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: slope stability, seeps, and shallow-water flow, IODP Prel. Rept., 308. doi:10:2204/iodp.pr.308.2005.

Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., Stump B.B., Flemings, P.B., 2001, Stress, Pore Pressure, and Dynamically Constrained Hydrocarbon Columns in the South Eugene Island 330 Field, Gulf of Mexico, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 85, no. 6, p. 1007-1031.

Flemings, P.B., Long, H., Dugan, B., Germaine, J., John, C., Behrmann, J.H., Sawyer, D., and Expedition 308 Scientists, (submitted), Pore Fluid Overpressure Measured with Penetrometers on the Continental Slope, Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Slope Stability, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. PDF

Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J., Long, H., Dugan, B., Sawyer, D., Behrmann, J.H., John, C., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2006, Measuring Temperature and Pressure with the Temperature Two Pressure (T2P) Probe in the Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico: Development of a New Pressure and Temperature Probe for the IODP, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, May 1-4, 2006, OTC Paper #17957.

Flemings, P.B., Lupa, J.A., 2004, Pressure prediction in the Bullwinkle Basin through petrophysics and flow modeling (Green Canyon 65, Gulf of Mexico), Journal of Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 21, p. 1311-1322.

Flemings, P.B., Liu, X., Winters, W., 2003, Critical Pressure and Multiphase Flow in Blake Ridge Hydrates, Geology, v. 31, no. 12, p. 1057-1060.

Flemings P.B., Stump, B.B., Finkbeiner, T., Zoback, M., 2002, Overpressure and Flow-Focusing in the Eugene Island 330 field (Offshore Louisiana, U.S.A.): Theory, Examples, and Implications, American Journal of Science, v. 302, p. 827-855.

Flemings, P.B., Comisky, J., Liu, X., Lupa, J.A., 2001, Stress-Controlled Porosity in Overpressured Sands at Bullwinkle (GC65), Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, OTC Paper #13103.

Flemings, P.B., Hoover, A.R., Burkhart, T., and Nelson, S.E., 1996, A Case Study of Amplitudes in Drained Pay: The EI-330 LF Sand: In Pacht, J.A., Sheriff, R.E., and Perkins, B.F., eds., Stratigraphic Analysis Utilizing Geophysical, Wireline and Borehole Technology for Petroleum Exploration and Production: Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation Seventeenth Annual Research Conference, p. 99-110.

Flemings, P.B., and Grotzinger, J.P., 1996, STRATA: Freeware for Solving Classic Stratigraphic Problems. GSA Today, v. 6, no. 12, p. 1-7.

Gordon, D.S., Flemings, P.B., 1999, Two-dimensional Modeling of Groundwater Flow in an Evolving Deltaic Environment. NES/SEPM Special Publication, no. 62, p. 301-312.

Gordon, D., and Flemings, P.B., 1998, Generation of overpressure and compaction-driven fluid flow in a Plio-Pleistocene growth-faulted basin, Offshore Louisiana. Basin Research, v. 10, no. 2, p. 177-196.

Hart, B.S., Sibley, D.M., and Flemings, P.B., 1997, Seismic stratigraphy, facies architecture, and reservoir character of a Pleistocene shelf margin delta complex, Eugene Island Block 330 Field, Louisiana Offshore, AAPG Bulletin, v. 81, no. 3, p. 380-397.

Hart, B.S., Sibley, D.M., and Flemings, P.B., 1996, Reservoir compartmentalization by depositional features in a Pleistocene shelf margin (lowstand) delta complex, Eugene Island 330 Field, Louisiana Offshore, In Weimer, P. and Davis, T. eds., AAPG Studies in Geology No. 42 and SEG Geophysical Development Series No. 5, AAPG/SEG Tulsa, p. 21-26.

Hart, B.S., Flemings, P.B., Deshpande, A., 1995, Porosity and Pressure: Role of Compaction Disequilibrium in the Development of Geopressures in a Gulf Coast Pleistocene Basin, Geology, v. 23, no. 1, pp. 45 - 48.

Hoover, A.R., Burkhart, T.D., Flemings, P.B., 1999, Reservoir and Production Analysis of the K40 Sand, South Timbalier 295, Offshore Louisiana, with Comparison to Time-Lapse (4-D) Seismic Results, AAPG Bulletin, v. 83, no. 10, p. 1624-1641.

Hucks, A., Flemings, P., Elsworth, D., Kinoshita, M., (in review), Hydrologic Monitoring in the Nankai accretionary prism, Journal of Geophysical Research.

Jordan, T.E., Tamm, V., Figueroa, G., Flemings, P.B., Richards, D., Tabbutt, K., Cheatham, T., 1996, Development of the Miocene Manantiales foreland basin, Principal Cordillera, San Juan, Argentina. Revista Geologica de Chile, v. 23, no. 1, p. 43-79.

Lee, T., Baker, S., Flemings, P.B., (in review), Time-Lapse acoustic impedance inversion at Popeye field, Green Canyon 116, offshore Gulf of Mexico, Geophysics.

Liu, X., Flemings, P.B., (in press), Dynamic, multi-phase flow modeling of hydrate formation in marine sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research.

Liu, X., Flemings, P.B., 2006, Passing gas through the hydrate stability zone at southern Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 241, p. 211-226.

Liu, X., Flemings, P.B., 2002, Stress-limited Gas Column Height in the Gas Hydrate System of Blake Ridge, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Yokohama, Japan, May 19-23, v. 2, p. 807-812.

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B., Germaine, J.T., Ferrell, D., 2007, Data Report: Penetrometer Measurements of In situ Temperature and Pressure on IODP Expedition 308, In Flemings, P.B., John, C. (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 308.

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J.T., 2007, Interpreting In situ Pressure and Hydraulic Properties with Borehole Penetrometers in Ocean Drilling: DVTPP and Piezoprobe Deployments at Southern Hydrate Ridge, Offshore Oregon, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, B04101, doi:10.1029/2005JB004165.

Long, H., Flemings, P.B., Germaine, J., Dugan, B., Sawyer, D., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2007, In Situ Pore Pressure at IODP Site U1324, Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18772.

Lupa, J., Flemings, P.B., Tennant, S., 2002, Pressure and trap integrity in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, The Leading Edge, v. 21, no. 2, p. 184-187.

Metzger, J.M., Flemings, P.B., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G. S., Austin Jr., J., Hesselbo, S., 2000, Late Miocene to Pleistocene sequences at the New Jersey outer continental shelf (ODP Leg 174A, Sites 1071 and 1072), Sedimentary Geology, v. 134, no. 1-2, p. 149-180.

Moore, J.C., Iturrino, G.J., Flemings, P.B., Hull, I., Gay, A., 2007, Fluid Migration and State of Stress above the Blue Unit, Ursa Basin: Relationship to the Geometry of Injectites, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #18812.

Poulsen, C.P., Flemings, P.B., Robinson, R.A. J., Metzger, J.M., 1998, Three-Dimensional stratigraphic evolution of the Miocene Baltimore Canyon region: Implications for eustatic interpretations and the systems tract model. GSA Bulletin, v. 110, no. 9; p 1105-1122.

Rothman, D.H., Grotzinger, J., Flemings, P.B., 1994, Scaling in Turbidite Deposition, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. A64, no. 1, pp. 59-67.

Rowan, M.G., Hart, B.S., Nelson, S., Flemings, P.B., Trudgill, B.D, 1998, Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a salt-related growth-fault array: Eugene Island 330 field, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Marine & Petroleum Geology, v. 15, p. 309-328.

Rowan, M.G., Villamil, T., Flemings, P.B., and Weimer, P., 1996, Use of cross-section restoration to determine paleobathymetry and sea-floor topography in the Gulf of Mexico basin, Geology, v. 24, no. 4, pp. 299-302.

Rowan, M.G., Weimer, P. and Flemings, P.B., 1994, Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a composite, multi-level salt system, western Eugene Island, offshore Louisiana, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Associations of Geological Societies, v. 44, pp. 641-648.

Sawyer, D.E., Flemings, P.B., Shipp, C., Winker, C., 2007, Seismic Geomorphology, Lithology, and Evolution of the Late Pleistocene Mars-Ursa Turbidite Mini-Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Bulletin, V.91, no. 2, pp. 215-234.

Sawyer, D., Flemings, P.B., Dugan, B., Shipboard Scientific Party, IODP Expedition 308, 2007, Lateral Variations in Core, Log, and Seismic Attributes of a Mass Transport Complex in the Ursa Region, IODP Expedition 308, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Proceedings of the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, April 30-May 3, 2007, OTC Paper #19098.

Seldon, B., Flemings, P.B., 2005, Reservoir Pressure and Sea Floor Venting: Predicting Trap Integrity in a Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Turbidite Minibasin, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 89, no. 2, p. 193-209.

Strickland, B., Flemings, P.B., Lee, T., Kuhl, E.J., (in press), Integrated Time-Lapse Seismic Analysis of the Two G-Sand Facies, Popeye Field, Green Canyon Block 116, Gulf of Mexico, Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Stump, B, Flemings, P.B., 2002, Consolidation State, Permeability, and Stress Ratio as Determined from Uniaxial Strain Experiments on Mud Samples from the Eugene Island 330 Area, Offshore Louisiana, in: A.R. Huffman and G.L. Bowers, eds., Pressure regimes in sedimentary basins and their prediction: AAPG Memoir 76, p. 131-144.

Stump, B., Flemings, P.B., 2000, Overpressure and fluid flow in dipping structures of the offshore Gulf of Mexico (E.I. 330 field), Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 69-70, p. 23-28.

Stump, B.B., Flemings, P.B., Feinbeiner, T., and M. D. Zoback, 1998, Pressure differences between overpressured sands and bounding shales of the Eugene Island 330 Field (Offshore Louisiana, USA) with implications for fluid flow induced by sediment loading, in Mitchell, A. and Grauls, D., editors, Overpressures in Petroleum Exploration, Memoire 22, Elf EP Editions, pp. 83-92.

Swanston, A.M., Flemings, P.B., Comisky, J.T., Best, K.D., 2003, Time-lapse imaging at Bullwinkle, GC 65, offshore Gulf of Mexico, Geophysics, v. 68, no. 5, p. 1470-1484.

Tan, B., Germaine, J.T., Flemings, P.B., 2006, Consolidation and Strength Characteristics of Sediments from ODP Site 1244, Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Continental Margin, Proceedings ODP, Sci. Results, Leg 204, April 27, 2006, http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/204_SR/102/102_.htm .

Trehu, A., Flemings, P.B., Bangs, N. L., Chevallier, J., Gracia, E., Johnson, J. E., Liu, C.-S., Liu, Xiaoli, Riedel, M., Torres, M.E., 2004, Feeding methane vents and gas hydrate deposits at south Hydrate Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L23310, 4 pgs.

Yuvancic-Strickland B., Kuhl, E.J., Lee, T.W., Seldon, B.J., Flemings, P.B., Ertekin, T., 2003, Integration Of Geologic Model And Reservoir Simulation, Popeye Field, Green Canyon 116, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies (GCAGS), v. 53, p. 918-932.

 

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