Detailed studies concentrate on depositional settings within a sequence stratigraphic framework.
Recent studies have been primarily in deep-water siliciclastic depositional systems in the Gulf of Mexico, although my work has encompassed all depositional settings in 40 basins worldwide. New research includes the application of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy in reservoir development in marginal marine strata, and petroleum systems modeling of the northern Gulf of Mexico basin. Studies include the structural styles of passive continental margins, primarily salt and deep-water foldbelts, and the relationship of tectonics and sedimentation and associated growth stratigraphy. SEPM Pacific Section Spec. Twenty-first Annual Research Conference, to be published Dec. 2, 2001.