PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1.
Abstracts (refereed), students names
underlined:
1.
Guan, W., W. Yang, B.
M. Jeffrey, Q. Feng, Y. Liu, W. Zhao, Q. Wang, 2010, Distinguishing
Source Areas of Upper-Permian Fluvial-Lacustrine Deltaic Sediment Fills of a
Half Graben Through Petrographic Study, Southern Bogda Mountains, the Greater
Turpan-Junggar Basin, NW China: 2010 AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2.
Jeffrey, B. M., W.
Yang, Q. Feng, Y. Liu, 2010, Nature and Origins of a Cycle Boundary in Lower
Permian Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits in a Half Graben, Southern Bogda Mountains,
NW China: 2010 AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
3.
Yang, W., 2009, Recovering Missing
Paleoclimatic Signals from High-Resolution but Low-Definition Sedimentary
Records: Abstract Volume, AAPG Annual Meeting, Denver, p. 351.
4.
Yang, W., Qiao, F., Liu, Y.Q., Tabor,
N., Guan, W., 2009, Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin-Filling
Processes of a Half-Graben, Outcrop and Subsurface Permian-Triassic
Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits in Southern Bogda Mountains and Turpan-Hami Basin,
NW China: GSA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, p. 402.
5.
Yang, W., Feng, Q., Liu, Y.Q., Lin,
J.Y., Guan, W., 2009, Wither Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphy? Sequence
Stratigraphic Correlation of Lower Permian Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits in a
Half Graben, Bogda Mountains, NW China: 2009 AAPG
Annual Convention and Exhibition, Abstract Volume, Denver, p. 352.
6.
Yang, W., Wei Guan, Yong Wang,
Qiao Feng, Yiqun Liu, Neil Tabor, 2008, Limestone-Sandstone Clinoforms in
Middle-Permian Lacustrine Deposits, Bogda Mountains, NW China – Implications
for Progradational Infilling of Intermontane Lake Basins: 2008 AAPG Annual
Convention and Exhibition, Abstracts Volume, San Antonio, Texas, p. 226.
7.
Thomas, S., Tabor,
N., Yang, W., 2007, Evaluation of pedogenic calcite nodules from the Jiucaiyuan
Fm, NW China: Implications for earliest Triassic
atmospheric pCO2: Geological Society of America Abstract with Programs, v. 39,
Annual Meeting, Denver, p. 497.
8.
Yang, W., Feng, Q., Liu, Y., Tabor, N.,
2007, Kungurian-Olenekian fluvial-lacustrine depositional environments,
cyclostratigraphy, and paleoclimate, Bogda Mountains, Xinjiang, Northwestern
China: XVI International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian, Nanjing,
China.
9.
Monica M. Turner-Williams, Wan
Yang, 2007, 300-Million-YearOld Soils and Their Implications on Predicting
Ancient Climate Conditions: 2007 Annual Meeting of American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Mid-continent Section, Wichita, Kansas: Program of 2007
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Section Meeting,
Wichita, Kansas, p. 46.
10. Yang,
Wan, Feng, Qiao, Liu, Yiqun, Tabor, Neil, Guan, Qiang, Li, Jihong, Zhang, Xiaohui, 2007, Promises and Problems in
Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis – Examples from Fluvial-Lacustrine
Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic Deposits, Bogda Mountains, NW China: Program of
2007 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Section
Meeting, Wichita, Kansas, p. 47.
11. Thomas,
S.,
Tabor, N., Yang, W., 2007, Death, destruction &
dirt: Using paleosols to reconstruct environmental changes across the
Permo-Triassic boundary: Abstract Volume, 2007 AAPG Annual Meeting, Long Beach,
p. 138.
12. Yang,
W, Qiao, F., Liu, Y.Q., Tabor, N., Thomas, S., Yang, Y., Sun, G.Z.,
Sun, B., 2007, Promises and Problems of Two-Dimensional Nonmarine Sequence
Stratigraphic Analysis Using Hierarchical Depositional Cycles – An Example from
Outcrop Lower Permian to Lower Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits, Southern
Bogda Mountains, Turpan Intermontane Basin, NW China: Abstract Volume, 2007
AAPG Annual Meeting, Long Beach, p. 154.
13. Yang,
W., Guan, Q., Li, J.H., Guan, W., Song, F., Yang, W.Q., Zhang, X.H.,
Han, J., 2007, Depositional Environments, Cyclostratigraphy, and Paleoclimatic
Signals of Lower to Middle Jurassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits, Northern Bogda
Mountains, Southeastern Junggar Basin, Northwestern China: Abstract Volume,
2007 AAPG Annual Meeting, Long Beach, p. 154.
14. YANG, Wan, LIU, Yiqun, FENG, Qiao,
15. THOMAS, S.G., TABOR,
N., Yang, W., 2006, Paleoenvironmental transition across the Permian-Triassic
boundary: insights from paleosols of the Junggar Basin, NW China: Geological
Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 532.
16. Runnion,
M.,
and Yang, W., 2006, Fluvial and lacustrine depositional systems and
cyclostratigraphy of Upper Permian Wutonggou Formation, Southern Bogda
Mountains, Northwestern China”: The 2nd
Annual GRASP, Wichita State University, p. 72.
17. Runnion,
M.,
and Yang, W., 2006, Fluvial and lacustrine depositional systems and
cyclostratigraphy of Upper Permian Wutonggou Formation, Southern Bogda
Mountains, Northwestern China.” KGS Annual Meeting, Wichita, Kansas: Transaction,
138th Annual Meeting of Kansas Academy of Science, p. 35.
18. Yang,
W, Liu, Y.Q., Qiao, F., Zhou, D.W., Wang, D., Runnion, M., 2006, Middle
Permian to Lower Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Depositional Systems and Sequence
Stratigraphy, Bogda Mountains, Turpan Intermontane Basin, NW China: 2006
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Abstract
Volume, p. 117.
19. Yang,
Wan, Liu, Yiqun, Feng, Qiao, Lin,
Jinyan, and Zhou, Dingwu, 2005, Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Cyclic Sedimentation
of Lower Permian to Lower Triassic Fluvial and Lacustrine Deposits, Tarlong
Valley, Southern Bogda Mountains, Northwestern China: 2005 Geological Society
of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 37,
No. 7, p. 64.
20. Feng,
Qiao, Liu, Yiqun, Lin, Jinyan, Yang, Wan, and Zhou,
Dingwu, 2005, Preliminary Reconstruction of Mid-to-High-Latitude Continental
Climatic Variability Recorded in Permo-Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Rocks, Bogda
Mountains, Northwestern China: 2005 Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Salt Lake City, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 37, No. 7, p. 457.
21. Yang,
W., 2005, Transgressive
Shoreface Erosion, Translation, and Wave Ravinement on an Epeiric Shelf as Recorded
by a Soil Nodule Conglomerate-Arenite in the Upper Pennsylvanian Oread
Cyclothem, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: Official Program, 2005
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Section Meeting,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, p. 28.
22. Wan
Yang, Yiqun Liu, Qiao Feng, Jinyan Lin, Dingwu Zhou, 2005, Mid-Latitude
Continental Climatic Variability Recorded in Permo-Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine
Sedimentary Rocks, Bogda Mountains, Northwestern China: International Symposium
on Triassic Chronostratigraphy and Biotic Recovery, 23-25 May, 2005, Chaohu,
Anhui Province, China.
23. Yang, W., 2004, Transgressive shoreface erosion
and wave ravinement on an epeiric shelf as recorded by a soil nodule
conglomerate-arenite in the Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, SE Kansas and
NE Oklahoma: Geological Society of America Abstracts
with Programs, v. 36, No. 5, p. 211.
24. Yang, W., 2004, Transgressive ravinement on an
epeiric shelf as recorded by a limestone conglomerate in the Upper
Pennsylvanian Leavenworth-Heebner-Plattsmouth-Heumader Depositional Sequence,
SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: 2004
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas,
Abstracts Volume, v. 13, p. A152.
25. Ruban, D., Yang, W., 2004, Upper Miocene Sequence Stratigraphy of Rostov Dome, Russian
Platform, Eastern Paratethys: 2004
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas,
Abstracts Volume, v. 13, p. A121.
26. Zhou, D., Yang, W., Liu, Y., Feng, Q., Hao,
J., 2004, Structural control on hydrocarbon accumulation in the
intermontane Santanghu Basin, Northwestern China: 2004 American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas, Abstracts Volume, v. 13,
p. A154-A155.
27. Feng, Q., Liu, Y., Yang, W., 2004, Thermal
history and hydrocarbon generation in Turpan Basin, Northwestern China: 2004 American Association of Petroleum
Geologists Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas, Abstracts Volume, v. 13, p. A44.
28. Hao, J., Liu, Y., Yang, W., Feng, Q., Cao, Q.,
2004, Source rock maturity in Santanghu Basin, Northwestern China: 2004
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, Dallas, Texas,
Abstracts Volume, v. 13, p. A58.
29. Yang,
W., and Bruemmer, M., 2003, Facies Architecture of the Upper
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, Subsurface Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern
Oklahoma: Official Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Midcontinent Section Meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, p. 46.
30. Yang,
W., S.J. Mazzullo, C. Teal, 2003, Spatial and Temporal Variations in Rates of
Sediment Accumulation of Holocene Shallow-Marine Sediments, Belize: Official
Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake
City, p. A185.
31. Liu,
Y., Yang, W., 2003, Lacustrine Depositional Environments of Guadalupian Source
Rocks in the Turpan, Junggar, and Santanghu Basins, Northwestern China:
Official Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City, p. A105.
32. Liu,
Y., Yang, W., Feng, Q., 2003, Jurassic Coal is Not the Source Rock of Jurassic
Oil in Tu-Ha Basin, Northwest China - Insights from New Organic Geochemical
Data: Official Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual
Meeting, Salt Lake City, p. A105.
33. Bruemmer,
M., Yang,
W., Turner, M., 2003, Cyclo-Stratigraphic Architecture and the
Controlling Processes of Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem in the Transition
Zone between Shelf and Deltaic Depositional Systems, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma:
Official Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City, p. A20.
34. Turner,
M.,
Yang, W., and Bruemmer, M., 2003, Micro-Variability of Floodplain
Paleosols in the Snyderville Shale Member, Oread Limestone Formation (Late
Pennsylvanian), Southeast Kansas: Official Program, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, p. A173.
35. Feng,
Q., Liu, Y., Yang, W., 2003, Organic Geochemical Evidence of Source Rock and
Its Depositional Environment, the Nonmarine Santanghu Basin, Northwest China:
Official Program, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting,
Salt Lake City, p. A52-A53.
36. Yang,
W., S.J. Mazzullo, C. Teal, 2002, Lateral and vertical variations in
sedimentation rates of Holocene subtidal platform carbonate sediments, Belize:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 14.
37. Yang,
W., Lehrmann, D., Hiatt, E., Wei, J., Yu, Y., Wignall, P., 2002,
Productivity-controlled peritidal carbonate cycles in a super-greenhouse
climate in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, the Lower Triassic (Olenekian)
Great Bank of Guizhou, South China: 2002 America Association of Petroleum
Geologists Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, Official Program, v. 11, p. A194.
38. Bruemmer,
M.,
Yang, W., and Turner-Williams, M., 2002, Where
platform limestone meets deltaic deposits: outcrop stratigraphic architecture
of the Oread cyclothem (Upper Pennsylvanian), SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma:
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 278.
39. Turner-Williams,
M.,
Yang, W., and Bruemmer, M., 2002, Micro-variability of floodplain
paleosols in the Snyderville Shale Member, Oread Limestone Formation (Upper
Pennsylvanian), Southeast Kansas: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 148.
40. Bruemmer,
M., Summervill, M., Turner-Williams, M., Yang, W., 2002, Where layer-cake
stratigraphy breaks down – The coeval development of highstand deltas,
condensed sections, and platform carbonates of the Virgilian Oread Cycle,
southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma: 2002 America Association of Petroleum
Geologists Annual Meeting, Official Program, v. 11, p. A24.
41. Yang,
W., Lehrmann, D.J., 2001, Fischer plots constructed using variable cycle
durations and their alternative sequence stratigraphic interpretation:
Abstracts with Programs, 2001 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Boston, v. 33, No. 6, p. A80.
42. Yang,
W., M. Bruemmer, M. Turner-Williams, A. Jalal, 2001, A
basinward-thickening condensed section, the Heebner Shale Member of Oread
Formation (Virgilian), Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma: 2001
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official
Program, Denver, v. 10, p. A220.
43. Yang,
W., Bruemmer, M., Turner-Williams, M., 2001, Deltaic progradation during
maximum marine transgression, the Heebner Shale member of the Oread Limestone
Formation (Virgilian), Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma: AAPG
Mid-Continent Section Meeting, Amarillo, Texas, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 85, p. 1696.
44. Luo,
X., Yang, W., Yang, J., Dong, W., 2001, Overpressuring mechanisms in Yinggehai
Basin, South China Sea: 2001 American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Annual Convention Official Program Book, Denver, p. A122.
45. Bruemmer,
M., Turner, M., Yang, W., 2001, Repetitive Changes of Ancient Environments
Recorded in the Oread Cycle, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: First Undergraduate
Research Symposium, Wichita State University.
46. Turner,
M.M., Krysti, W., Burke, C.D., Yang, W., 2001, Disentangling
conflicting stratigraphic subdivisions through ammonoid biostratigraphy, the
Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale Formation (Upper Cretaceous), western
Kansas: Geological Society of America North-central and Rockie Mountains
Section Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Geological Society of America
Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, p. 33.
47. Bruemmer,
M., Turner-Williams, M., Burke, H., Dimmick, K., Hall, J., Sellers, D., Stair, K., Williams,
M.,
Yang, W., 2001, Dynamic Evolution of Fluvial Environments – Preliminary Results
of the Ninnescah River Monitoring Program of Department of Geology: Abstracts,
133rd Annual Meeting, Kansas Academy of Science, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas, v. 20, p. 45.
48. Yang,
W., 2000, Carbonate sedimentation rates in mixed siliciclastic and carbonate
cycles, Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian), Eastern Shelf, Texas: Official Program, 2000 American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, p. A162.
49. Yang,
W., Lehrmann, D.J., 2000, Evolving Milankovitch orbital signals in peritidal carbonate
successions of the Lower Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin,
South China: Abstract and Programs, 2000 Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting, Reno, Nevada, p. A176.
50. Yang,
W., 1999, Internal geometry of barrier-bar-lagoon systems, Eocene Jackson
Group, Duval County, South Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bulletin, v. 83, p. 1365.
51. Yang,
W., 1999, Imbrication patterns, depositional dynamics, and reservoir compartmentalization
of barrier-bar systems in the Eocene Jackson Group, Duval County, Texas. 1999
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio,
Texas, p. A155.
52. Yang,
W. and M. Kominz, 1996, Quantitative assessment of causal mechanisms for
cyclicity of the Cisco Group, Eastern Shelf, Midland
Basin: 1996 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention
Official Program, San Diego, California, p. A156.
53. Yang,
W. and D. Parker, 1996, Mud volcanos, their impact on stratigraphic sequence
development and hydrocarbon systems, Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea: 1996
Exploration and Production Symposium, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville,
Oklahoma.
54. Yang,
W., 1993, Estimate the durations of stratigraphic hiatuses in limestone strata--An
isotope geochemical approach: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of
America, Boston, Massachusetts, vol. 25, No. 6, p.
A-474.
55. Yang,
W. and M. Kominz, 1993, Depositional Cycles in the Outcrop Cisco Group
(Virgilian and Wolfcampian), Eastern Shelf, North-central Texas: Program and
Abstracts, 1993 Annual Convention of Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
with Global Sedimentary Geology Program--Pangea Conference, Calgary, Canada, p.
350.
56. Yang,
W. and M. Kominz, 1993, Preliminary results on depositional cyclicity of Cisco
Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian), Eastern Shelf, North-central Texas:
Abstracts with Programs, GSA South-Central Section, Fort Worth, Texas, Vol. 25,
No. 1., p. 47.
57. Yang,
W., M. Kominz, and W. Dharmasamadhi, 1993, Description and regional correlation
of transgression-regression depositional cycles in the Late Pennsylvanian and
Early Permian Cisco Group in the Colorado River valley and Brazos River valley
areas, north-central Texas: 1993
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official
Program, New Orleans, Louisiana, p. 204.
58. Yang,
W. and M. Kominz, 1992, Duration, origin, and cyclostratigraphy of depositional
cycles in the Middle and Late Devonian Lost Burro Formation, Death Valley,
California: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Vol. 24, No. 7, p. A108-9.
59. Yang,
W. and M. Kominz, 1992, Preliminary results on depositional cyclicity of the
Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian Cisco Group, Eastern Shelf, North-Central
Texas: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, South-Central
Section, Houston, Texas, p. 52.
60. Harmsen,
F., Yang, W., and Rowe, S., 1990, High frequency cyclic stacking patterns in
Devonian Lost Burro Formation, Death Valley, California: Abstracts with
Programs, Geological Society of America, Dallas, Texas, vol. 22, No. 7, p.
A-112.
2.
Papers (refereed), students names underlined
1. Yang,
W. and Lehrmann, D., in preparation, Carbonate productivity-controlled
peritidal cyclic sedimentation, Lower Triassic Great Bank of Guizhou, South
China: intended for Sedimentary Geology.
2. Jonathan
Obrist
and Wan Yang, submitted, Petrographic
Comparison and Contrast of Fluvial and Deltaic Sandstones, Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma:
Kansas Geological Society Bulletin.
3. Thomas,
S.G.,
Tabor, N.J., Yang, W., Myers, T.S., Yang, Y., Wang, D., in review, Palaeosol Stratigraphy
across the Permian-Triassic Boundary, Bogda Mountains, NW China: Implications
for Palaeoenvironmental Transition through Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction:
Sedimentology.
4. Sur,
S.,
Soreghan, G.S., Soreghan, M.J., Yang, W., Saller,
A.H., in press, A
record of glacial aridity and Milankovitch-scale fluctuations in atmospheric
dust from the Pennsylvanian tropics: Journal of Sedimentary Research.
5. Zhang, L.K., Luo, X.R.,
Liao, Q.J., Yang, W., Vasseur, G., Su, J.Q., Yuan, S.Q., Xiao, D.Q., Yu, C.H.,
Wang, Z.M., in press, Quantitative
Evaluation of Syn-Sedimentary Fault Opening and Sealing Properties Using
Hydrocarbon Connection Probability Assessment: AAPG Bulletin, v. 94, p.
1379-1399.
6. Wan Yang, Qiao
Feng, Yiqun Liu, Neil
Tabor, Dan Miggins, Jim Crowley, Jinyan Lin, Stephanie Thomas, 2010, Depositional
Environments and Cyclo- and Chronostratigraphy of Uppermost Carboniferous-Lower
Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits, Southern Bogda Mountains, NW China – A
Terrestrial Paleoclimatic Record of Mid-Latitude NE Pangea:
Global and Planetary Change, v. 73, p. 15–113,
doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.03.008.
7. Feng, Q.,
Yang, W., Liu, Y.Q., 2008, Permian paleosols and their applications in sequence
stratigraphy, southern Bogda Mountains, NW China: Acta Sedimentologica Sinica:
v. 26, p. 725-729 (Chinese with English abstract).
8. Ruban,
D.A., Zerfass, H., Yang, W., 2008, A new hypothesis on the position of the
Greater Caucasus Terrane in the Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic based on
palaeontologic and lithologic data: Trabajos de Geologia, v. 27, p. 19-27.
9. WU Ya
Sheng, YANG Wan, JIANG Hong Xia, FAN Jia Song, 2007. Temporal Pattern of Oceanic Anoxia across the Permian-Triassic Boundary. Earth
& Life (http://www.geofinds.com), 1(2):
15-22. (A Web Journal of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10. Wu Y.S., Yang W., Jiang, H.X., Yang W., and Fan, J.S., 2007, Microbialites of anoxic condition from the Permian-Triassic transition in Guizhou, China: Sciences in China, Series D., v. 50, No. 7, p. 1040-1052.
11. Yang, W., 2007, Transgressive wave ravinement on
an epeiric shelf as recorded by a soil-nodule conglomerate-sandstone unit, the
Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, southeastern Kansas and northeastern
Oklahoma: Sedimentary Geology, v. 197, p. 189-205.
12. Yang, W., Liu, Y.Q., Feng, Q.,
Lin, J.Y., Zhou, D.W., and Wang, D., 2007, Sedimentary evidence on Early
to Late Permian mid-high latitude continental climate variability, southern
Bogda Mountains, NW China: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
v. 252, p. 239-258.
13. Luo Xiaorong, Wang Zhaoming, Zhang
Liqiang, Yang Wan,
Liu Loujun, 2007, Overpressure Generation and
Evolution in a Compressional Tectonic Setting, the Southern Margin of Junggar Basin,
NW China: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 91, p.
1123-1139.
14. Wu Y.S., Fan, J.S., Jiang, H.X., Yang W., 2007,
Extinction pattern
of reef ecosystems in latest Permian: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 52, No. 4,
p. 512-520.
15. Wu Y.S., Yang W., Jiang, H.X., and Fan, J.S.,
2006, Petrologic evidence for
sea-level drop in latest Permian in Jiangxi Province, China and its meanings for the mass extinction: ACTA PETROLOGICA SINICA, vol. 22, No. 12, p. 3039-3046
(Chinese with English abstract).
16. Yang, W., 2006, Coeval Deltaic, Platform Carbonate, and Condensed Shelf Sedimentation, Upper Pennsylvanian Leavenworth Limestone-Heebner Shale-Plattsmouth Limestone-Heumader Shale Depositional Sequence, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma – Part II. (Controlling Processes): Kansas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 81, no.3, p. 12-24.
17. Yang,
W., Bruemmer, M., Turner-Williams, M., 2006, Pennsylvanian Leavenworth
Limestone-Heebner Shale-Plattsmouth Limestone-Heumader Shale Depositional
Sequence, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma – Part I. Stratigraphic Architecture:
Kansas Geological Society Bulletin, v. 81, no. 2, p. 12-24.
18. Runnion,
M.,
and W. Yang, 2006, Fluvial and Lacustrine Depositional Systems and
Cyclostratigraphy of Upper Permian Wutonggou Formation, Southern Bogda Mountains,
NW China: Proceedings of the Second Graduate Research
Symposium, Wichita State University, Kansas, 2 pp.
19. Turner-Williams,
M.,
Yang, W., 2005, 300-million-year old soils and their implications on predicting
ancient climate conditions: First Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and
Scholarly Projects, Wichita State University, 3 pp.
20. Burke, C.D., McHenry, T.M., Bischoff,
W.D., Huttig, E. S, Yang, W., and Thorndyke, L., 2004, Coral
mortality, recovery and reef degradation at Mexico Rocks Patch Reef Complex,
Northern Belize, C. A.: 1995-1997: in Fautin, D.G., Westfall, J.A., Cartwright,
P., Daly, M., and Wyttenbach, C.R. (eds.), Coelenterate Biology 2003: Trends in
Research on Cnidaria and Ctenophora: Hydrobiologia, v. 530/531, p. 481-487.
21. Yang, W., Mazzullo, S.J., and Teal, C.S., 2004,
Sediments, facies tracts, and variations in sedimentation rates of Holocene
platform carbonate sediments and associated deposits, northern Belize –
Implications for “representative” sedimentation rates: Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v. 74, p. 498-512.
22. X. Luo, W. Dong, J. Yang,
and W. Yang, 2003, Overpressuring mechanisms in the
Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bulletin, v. 87, p. 629-645.
23. Yang, W. and Lehrmann, D., 2003,
Milankovitch climatic signals in Lower Triassic (Olenekian) peritidal carbonate
successions, Nanpanjiang Basin, South China: Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 201, p. 283-306.
24. Yang,
W., Bruemmer, M., Turner-Williams, M., 2003, Stratigraphic architecture
and processes controlling coeval deltaic, platform carbonate, and condensed
shelf sedimentation, Upper Pennsylvanian Leavenworth Limestone-Heebner
Shale-Plattsmouth Limestone-Heumader Shale minor cyclothem, SE Kansas and NE
Oklahoma: in Papers and Abstracts, 2003 American Association of Petroleum
Geologists Midcontinent Section Meeting (Tulsa), Tulsa Geological Society,
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 31 pp.
25. Yang, W., and M. Kominz, 2002, Characteristics,
stratigraphic architecture, and time framework of multi-order mixed
siliciclastic and carbonate depositional sequences, outcropping Cisco Group
(Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian), Eastern Shelf, north-central Texas,
U.S.A.: Sedimentary Geology, v. 154, p. 53-87.
26. Yang, W., 2001, Estimation
of duration of subaerial exposure in shallow-marine limestones – An isotopic
approach: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71A, p. 778-789.
27. Lehrmann,
D.J., Yang, W., Wei, J. Yu, Y.Y. and Xiao, J., 2001, Lower Triassic peritidal
cyclic limestone: an example of anachronistic carbonate facies from the Great
Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, Guizhou province, South China:
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 173, n. 3-4, p. 103-123.
28. Yang,
W., 1999, Stratigraphic architecture and dynamic evolution of barrier
bar-lagoon depositional systems, Eocene Jackson Group, Duval County, South
Texas: in Transactions, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies,
Lafayette, Louisiana, v. XLIX, p. 510-518.
29. Yang, W., M. Kominz, 1999, Testing
periodicity of depositional cyclicity, Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian),
Texas: Journal of Sedimentary Research, Section B, p. 1209-1231.
30. Yang, W., M. Kominz, R. Major, 1998, Distinguishing the roles of autogenic versus allogenic
processes in cyclic sedimentation, Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian),
North-Central Texas: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p.
1333-1353.
31. Tyler,
R., Clift, S. J., Dutton, S. P., Hamlin, H. S., Holtz, M. H., Major, R. P.,
Vining, M. R., and Yang, W., 1998, State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery
Program: Project STARR, in Stephens, W. C., ed., AAPG Southwest Section
Convention Transactions and Abstracts, p. 133-138.
32. Tyler,
R., Hamlin, H. S., Clift, S. J., Holtz, M. H., Dutton, S. P., and Yang, W.,
1998, Reservoir characterization and the State of Texas Advanced Resource
Recovery Program, in DeMis, W. D., and Nelis, M. K., eds., The search continues
into the 21st century: West Texas Geological Society, Publication 98-105, p.
167-172.
33. Yang,
W., 1996, Book review: Cyclostratigraphy
and the Milankovitch Theory, by W. Schwarzacher, 1993; Developments in
Sedimentology 52: Journal of Sedimentary Research, V. 66A, p. 568-569.
34. Yang, W., 1996, Cycle symmetry and its
causes, Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian), Texas: Journal of Sedimentary
Research, v. 66B, p. 1102-1121.
35. Yang,
W., Harmsen, F., and Kominz, M. A., 1995, Quantitative analysis of a peri-tidal
carbonate sequence, the Middle and Upper Devonian Lost Burro Formation, Death
Valley, California--A possible Milankovitch climatic record: Journal of
Sedimentary Research, v. 65B, p. 306-322.
36. Yang,
W., 1989, Facies analysis of the middle member of Devonian Lost Burro
Formation, Death Valley, California: Journal of Natural Science, Cal. State
Univ., Fresno, Vol. 4, p. 31 - 35.
37. Liu, F.
and Yang, W. (translators), 1988, Evaluation and design of a large spacing
loop-loop electromagnetic tool: Foreign Well Logging Technology, Vol. 3, No. 5,
p. 64 - 73.
38. Yang,
W., 1987, Transmission losses and lithofacies prediction: the First Geophysical
Exploration Conference of China for Young Geophysicists, Zhuo Xian, Hubei,
China, 24 pp.
39. Yang,
W., 1987, Characteristics and forming mechanisms of abnormal mudstone
compaction belts, Kongdian Oilfield, Huanghua Basin; in Essays of Geologic Symposium: Shannxi Scientific Publishing Co.,
Xian, China, p. 541 - 553.
3.
Reports, Textbooks, Short Course Notes, and Guidebooks (non-refereed), students names underlined
1.
Lehrmann, D., Yang, W., Yi, Y.Y., 2009,
Field Geology Course – Part Two: Evolution of Ancient Seas, Tropical Reefs, and
Life in the Nanpanjiang Basin of Guizhou South China: University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh, Wichita State University, Guizhou University, China. 210 pp.
2.
Yang, W., 2008, Depositional Systems
Analysis within a Seismic Sequence Stratigraphic Framework, Turpan-Hami Basin,
NW China: Tu-Ha Oil Company Internal Report, PetroChina, 49 pp.
3.
Yang, W., Mazzullo, S.J., 2007,
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Upper Pennsylvanian Oread
Cyclothem in shelf-to-delta transition zone, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma and
sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Lower Permian Funston Limestone and Speiser Shale Formations (uppermost Council Grove Group) to
the basal Threemile Member of the Wreford
Formation (basal Chase Group): Field Trip Guidebook: 2007 American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Section Meeting, 130 pp.
4.
Yang, W., Lehrmann, D., 2007, Field
Geology Course – Part One: The Geological Corridor from Ordos Basin to Qinling
Orogen, North-Central China: Wichita State University and University of
Wisconsin, Oshkosh. 302 pp.
5.
Yang, W., 2006, A Short Course on Modern
and Ancient Carbonate Depositional Environments, Sequence Stratigraphy, and
Applications to Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation: Wichita State
University. PetroChina, Chengdu, China, 357 pp.
6.
Yang, W., 2006, Field Guide for Chinese
Geologists from PetroChina: Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks and Stratigraphy,
Franklin and Guadalupe Mountains, Texas and New Mexico, U.S.A.: Wichita State
University, 213 pp.
7.
Yang, W., Fox, D., 2005, Depositional
Systems Analysis within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework, Jurassic Cotton
Valley Group, Western East Texas Basin, Eastern Texas – Potential Sandstone-Rich Exploration Targets: Clayton Williams
Petroleum Company Internal Report, Midland, Texas, 14 pp.
8. Yang,
W., Bruemmer, M., Turner, M., Summervill, M., and Skelton, L., 2003,
Field guidebook: Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Upper
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem in
shelf-to-delta transition zone, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: 2003 Spring Field
and Subsurface Workshop, Kansas Geological Society, 58 pp.
9. Yang, W., 2001, Sequence stratigraphic analysis of
Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sedimentary deposits, North Louisiana Basin and a
Tutorial on Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis: Phillips Petroleum
Company Internal Report, Houston, Texas, 48 pp.
4.
Presentations
1.
Wan Yang, 2010, “Ordered and Order-less Stratigraphy and Field Activities, Bogda Mountains, NW China, 2004-2010.” Dept. of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Missouri
University of Science and Technology.
2.
Wan Yang (invited), 2010, “Perspectives
and Caveats in Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphic
Analysis of Rift Basin Fills.” Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
3.
Wan Yang (invited), 2009, 2010,
“International and Intercultural Communications – The Chinese Perspective”:
Elliot School of Communications, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Wichita State University.
4.
Wan Yang, (invited), 2009, “Paradox of
representative sedimentation rates – implications on carbonate sequence
stratigraphy.” Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
5.
Yang, W. (invited), 2008, “Application
of Sequence Stratigraphy – Lessons Learned from Fluvial-Lacustrine Rocks of
Northwestern China.” Colby College, Maine.
6.
Yang, W. (invited), 2008, “Whither
non-marine sequence stratigraphy?”: University of
Oklahoma.
7.
Yang, W. (invited), 2008, “Seismic
sequences stratigraphic analysis using outcrop analogs, Tu-Ha Basin, NW China.”
Research and Development Division, Tu-Ha Petroleum Bureau, PetroChina.
8.
Yang, W. (invited), 2008, “Problems and
promises of nonmarine sequence stratigraphy – examples from Jurassic and
Permo-Triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits of NW China.” China University of
Geosciences, Beijing.
9.
Yang, W. (invited), 2008, “Application
of Sequence Stratigraphy – Lessons Learned from
Fluvial-Lacustrine Rocks of Northwestern China.” University of Wisconsin,
Oshkosh.
10. Yang,
W. (invited), 2007, “Application of
Sequence Stratigraphy – Lessons Learned from Fluvial-Lacustrine Rocks of
Northwestern China.” Kansas Geological Society.
11. Yang,
W. (invited), 2006, "Promises and Problems of Spectral Analysis of
Peritidal Carbonate Records to Detect Milankovitch Climatic Signals".
University of Kansas.
12. Yang,
W. (invited), 2006, “Nonmarine cyclo- and sequence stratigraphy – examples from
Permian-Triassic and Jurassic of NW China”: Sinopec, Urumuqi, China.
13. Yang,
W. (invited), 2006, “Success and failure in nonmarine cyclo- and sequence
stratigraphy – examples from Permian-Triassic of Bodga Mountains, NW China”:
PetroChina, Hami, China.
14. Yang,
W. (invited), 2006, “No barrier-bar sandstone reservoirs in the Upper
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem in SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma, whispered by a
soil-nodule conglomerate": Kansas Geological Society.
15. Yang,
W. (invited), 2005, Personal views on sequence stratigraphy – Examples from the
Permian and Triassic fluvial and lacustrine deposits: Tu-Ha Oil Company,
PetroChina Corporation, Hami, Xinjiang Province,
China.
16. Yang,
W. (invited), 2005, Personal views on sequence stratigraphy – Examples from the
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: Petroleum University
of China, Dongying, Shandong Province, China.
17. Yang,
W. (invited), 2005, Personal views on sequence stratigraphy – Examples from the
Permian and Triassic fluvial and lacustrine deposits: Dongxing Production
Company of Shengli Petroleum Company, Sinopec Corporation, Dongying, Shandong
Province, China.
18. Yang,
W. (invited), 2005, Personal views on sequence stratigraphy – Examples from the
Permian and Triassic fluvial and lacustrine deposits: Research Institute of
Shengli Petroleum Company, Sinopec Corporation, Dongying, Shandong Province, China.
19. Yang,
W. (invited), 2004, Part I. Cyclo- and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: Research Center,
Bureau of Eastern Junggar Exploration, Xinjiang Petroleum Corporation, Fukang,
China.
20. Yang,
W. (invited), 2004, Part II. Principles and procedure of sequence stratigraphic
analysis in nonmarine sedimentary basins: Research Center, Bureau of Eastern
Junggar Exploration, Xinjiang Petroleum Corporation, Fukang, China.
21. Yang,
W. (invited), 2004, Part I. Cyclo- and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper
Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma: Center of
Experimental Petroleum Geology, Xinjiang Petroleum Corporation, Karamay, China.
22. Yang,
W. (invited), 2004, Part II. Principles and procedure of sequence stratigraphic
analysis in nonmarine sedimentary basins: Center of Experimental Petroleum
Geology, Xinjiang Petroleum Corporation, Karamay, China.
23. Yang,
W. (guest lecturer), 2004, Part I: Principals of sequence stratigraphic
analysis, using the Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem as an example:
Department of Geology, Northwestern University, China.
24. Yang,
W. (guest lecturer), 2004, Part II: Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphic
analysis of Permian and Triassic nonmarine strata in Tarlang, northwestern
China.
25. Yang,
W. (invited), 2002, State-line geology of the Oread Cyclothem: Kansas
Geological Society, Wichita, Kansas.
26. Yang,
W. (invited), 2001, Quantitative methods of cyclostratigraphy: Institute of
Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
27. Yang,
W. (invited), 2001, Principles and Approaches on Predictive Stratigraphy:
Department of Geology, Northwestern University, China.
28. Yang, W.
(invited), 2001, Paleoclimatic indicators in the geologic record: American
Meteorology Society and National Weather Association South-Central Kansas
Chapter Bi-Annual Meeting, Wichita State University.
29. Yang,
W. (invited), 2001, Jurassic to Cretaceous paleogeography of Northern Louisiana
Salt Basin: North America Exploration and Production, Phillips Petroleum
Company, Houston, Texas.
30. Yang,
W. (invited), 2000, Experiments on quantitative cyclostratigraphy: School of
Geology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
31. Yang,
W. (invited), 1997, Mud volcanos, their characteristics and impact on
stratigraphic sequence development and hydrocarbon systems, Yinggehai Basin,
South China Sea: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
32. Yang,
W. (invited), 1997, Quantitative cyclostratigraphy -- problems and
perspectives: Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Xian,
China.
33. Yang,
W. (invited), 1997, Cyclostratigraphy of Cisco Group, Eastern Shelf,
north-central Texas: West Texas Geological Society, Midland, Texas.
34. Yang,
W. (invited), 1996, Autogenic and allogenic processes in cyclic sedimentation
of the Cisco Group, north-central Texas: Annual Meeting of the
Cyclostratigraphy Research Group of Society of Sedimentary Geology, 1996 AAPG
Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
35. Yang,
W. (invited), 1995, Cycle symmetry and its causes: Annual Meeting of the
Cyclostratigraphy Research Group of Society of Sedimentary Geology, 1995 AAPG
Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.
36. Yang,
W. (invited), 1994, Effects of cycle symmetry and
stratal hiatuses on the spectral configurations of cyclic sequences: Inaugural
Meeting of the Cyclostratigraphy Research Group of Society of Sedimentary
Geology, 1994 AAPG Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
37. Yang,
W., 1990, Methods of clast counting in conglomerate and their practical
sedimentological significance, 21p. (Presented in the 11th Central Valley
Research Symposium, Fresno, California, and in the 4th Graduate Research
Competition of Cal. State Universities, Sacramento, California).
5. Professional Workshop, Field Trip, and
Short Courses
1.
Field trip co-leader, Oct. 2007,
“Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Upper Pennsylvanian Oread
Cyclothem in shelf-to-delta transition zone, SE Kansas and NE Oklahoma and
sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Lower Permian Funston Limestone and
Speiser Shale Formations (uppermost Council Grove Group) to the basal Threemile
Member of the Wreford Formation (basal Chase Group).” 2007 American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Mid-Continent Bi-Annual Meeting, Wichita, Kansas
2.
Lecturer, “Modern and Ancient Carbonate
Depositional Environments, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Applications to Petroleum
Exploration and Exploitation” (to be offered Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 2006) for
PetroChina, Chengdu, China.
3.
Field trip leader, 3-day field trip
(April, 2006): “Carbonate Sedimentology, Depositional Environment, Depositional
Cyclicity, and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lower and Middle Ordovician and Permian
Strata, West Texas”: for PetroChina, West Texas.
4.
Field trip leader and workshop
instructor. “Kansas Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy Workshop” (March, 2003).
Including a one-day field trip in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma and a
half-day subsurface lecture and exercises. Kansas Geologic Society, Wichita,
Kansas.
5.
Field trip leader, 3-day field trip
(April, 1998): “Carbonate Sedimentology, Depositional Environment, Depositional
Cyclicity, and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lower and Middle Ordovician and Permian
Strata, West Texas”: for China National Petroleum Corp, West Texas.
PARTICIPATION IN FIELD TRIPS,
SHORT COURSES,
1.
Workshop: Department chair balancing
acts: Managing stress, time, and conflict, by W.H. Gmelch, 2008 Academic
Chairpersons Conference, Feb. 5, Orlando, Florida.
2.
Field Trip 7: Lacustrine cyclicity and
the Triassic-Jurassic Transition: P. Olsen, J. Whiteside, J. Smoot (fieldtrip
leaders): 2006 GSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
3.
Field Trip 1: Paleontology and Geology of
the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming: Arvid K. Aase; Alan Carroll; H. Paul Buchheim;
Meredith Rhodes (field trip leaders). 2002 Geological Society of America Annual
Meeting.
4.
Short Course: Applied subsurface
mapping: J. Brewton (lecturer), American Association of Petroleum Geologists,
Austin, Texas, May, 1998.
5.
Short Course: Applied subsurface structural geology: D.
Bischke (lecturer), Subsurface Consultants & Associates, Inc., Houston, TX,
August, 1997.
6.
Short Course: Exploration and production applications of
sequence stratigraphy: J. Sangree and R. Mitchum (lecturers), Sangree
Exploration, Inc., Bartlesville, OK, March 1996.
7.
Field Trip: Jurassic coal-bearing
sequences and their source-rock potential, Tarim Basin, China. J. Su (leader),
December 1996.
8.
Field Trip: Thrust tectonics of Rocky
Mountains, Utah. S. Schammal (leader). 1996 ESRI, University of Utah Industry
Associate Meeting, Salt Lake City, May, 1996.
9.
Field Trip No. 1: Cyclostratigraphy of
the Lower Ordovician El Paso, Franklin Mountains, West Texas. R. Goldhammer,
LeMone, D., Atchley, S., and Lehrmann, D. (leaders). 1995 AAPG Annual Meeting,
Houston, March 1995.
10. Field
trip: Paleogene sequence stratigraphy of the Brazos River section, Texas.
Yancey, T.E. and A.J. Davidoff (leaders), 44th Annual Meeting of the Gulf Coast
Association of Geol. Soc., Austin, Texas,
11. SEPM
Short Course #29-2: Geologic log interpretation: Reading the rocks from
wireline logs. Taught by J. H. Doveton. Denver, Colorado (6/11/94).
12. Field
trip: Advanced sequence stratigraphy of Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central
Utah. Field trip leaders: Drs. M.
Gardner and R. Buffler (5/16-5.23/94).
13. Field
Trip: Mesozoic of the Wessex Basin. The Cambridge-Austin International Field
Exchange, Dorset, southern coast of UK. Field trip leaders: Drs. J. A. D.
Dickson, S. Conway Morris, R. A. Wood, N. J. White, and Mr. P. Wilson
(3/10/-3/18/94).
14. Field
trip: Advanced sequence stratigraphy of Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, central
Utah. Field trip leaders: Drs. M. Gardner
and R. Buffler (5/16-5.23/94).
15. AAPG
student chapter field trip: Modern mudlumps and associated environments of the
Mississippi River Delta. 1993 AAPG Annual Convention. Leaders: Dag Nummedal;
Robert T. Clarke.
16. Field
Trip No. 24: A GeoHistrorical boat tour of Boston Harbor: The New England
Section, Association of Engineering Geologists, Geological Society of America
1993 Annual Meeting, Boston. J. Humphrey, Hager, J.,
and Woodhouse, D. (leaders), Oct. 1993.
17. Field
Trip: Holocene sea-level and its impact on the evolution of East Texas coastal
environments (John B. Anderson and Fernando P. Siringan, leaders), 1992
South-Central Section, The Geological Society of America, 26th Annual Meeting,
Houston, TX (2/23/92).
18. SEPM
Continuing Education 1991--Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Sequences: A core
workshop (A. J. Lomando and P. M. Harris, organizers), Dallas, TX (4/7/91).
19. Offshore
investigation of modern submarine landslides in Monterey Submarine Canyon,
Monterey Bay, Offshore California: 3-day cruise as a research assistant. Dr.
Gary Green of USGS as Chief Scientist (11/89).