Research topics:

CSS themes:

• Characterizing the updip pinchout of slope channel systems: Implications for trapping mechanisms and sediment transfer.

• Integrating longitudinal facies and architectural variability in submarine channel-fills with observations with modern systems to improve understanding of how channels fill with sand.

• Are ancient channel levee systems long-term sinks of terrigenous organic  carbon?

Other themes:

• Grain-type distribution in submarine fans and its implications for reservoir quality, signal shredding, and flow processes.

• Microplastic transport and sequestration in submarine fans.

• The influence of basin confinement on depositional processes and the resultant stratigraphic architecture.

Non-CSS Publications:

• Bell, D., Soutter, E. L., Cumberpatch, Z. A., Ferugson, R. A., Spychala, Y. T., Kane, I. A., and Eggenhuisen, J. T., 2021, Flow-process controls on grain-type distribution in an experimental turbidity current deposit: Implications for signal-preservation and microplastic distribution in submarine fans: The Depositional Record. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.153

• Soutter, E.L., Bell, D., Cumberpatch, Z.A., Ferguson, R.A., Spychala, Y.T., Kane, I.A., and Eggenhuisen, J.T., 2021, The influence of confining topography orientation on experimental turbidity currents and geological implications: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 8, p. 620. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.540633

• Stevenson, C.J., Peakall, J., Hodgson, D.M., Bell, D.,and Privat, A., 2020, TB or not TB: banding in turbidite sandstones: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 821–842. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.43

• Bell, D., Hodgson, D.M., Pontén, A.S.M., Hansen, L.A.S., Flint, S.S., and Kane, I.A., 2020, Stratigraphic hierarchy and three-dimensional evolution of an exhumed submarine slope channel system: Sedimentology, v. 67, p. 3259–3289. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12746

• Hansen, L.A.S., Hodgson, D.M., Pontén, A., Bell, D.,and Flint, S., 2019, Quantification of basin-floor fan pinchouts: Examples from the Karoo Basin, South Africa: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 7, p. 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00012

• Bell, D., Kane, I.A., Pontén, A.S.M., Flint, S.S., Hodgson, D.M., and Barrett, B.J., 2018a, Spatial variability in depositional reservoir quality of deep-water channel-fill and lobe deposits: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 98, p. 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.07.023

• Bell, D., Stevenson, C.J., Kane, I.A., Hodgson, D.M., and Poyatos-Moré, M., 2018b, Topographic controls on the development of contemporaneous but contrasting basin-floor depositional architectures: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 88, p. 1166–1189. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2018.58