Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

  1. Tabor, N.J., Myers, T.S., and Michel, L.A., 2017. Sedimentologist’s Guide for Recognition, Description, and Classification of Paleosols.  Terrestrial Depositional Systems: Deciphering Complexities through Multiple Stratigraphic Methods. Eds. Kate E. Zeigler and William G. Parker, Elsevier 165 – 208.

Papers Accepted or in Press

  1. Michel, L.A., Lehmann, T., Peppe, D.J., Driese, S.G., Dunsworth, H., Fox, D.L., Harcourt-Smith, W.E., Jenkins, K., and McNulty, K.P., accepted. Sedimentological and paleoenvironmental study from Waregi Hill in the Hiwegi Formation (early Miocene), on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Sedimentology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12762
  2. Currano, E.D., Jacobs, B.F., Bush, R.T., Novello, A., Feseha, M., Grímsson, F., McInerney, F.A,. Michel, L.A., Pan, A.D., Phelps, S.R., Polissar, P., Strömberg, C.A.E., Tabor, N.J. 2020. Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 539 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109425. 
  3. Tesfamichael, T., Jacobs, B.F., Tabor, N.J., Michel, L.A., Currano, E., Feseha, M., 2017. Settling the issue of “decoupling” between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature: Reconstructing pCO2 from cooler late Oligocene and warmer early Miocene times using fossil leaves and carbon isotopes. Geology, v. 45 (11) 999-1002 https://doi.org/10.1130/G39048.1.
  4. Gulbranson, E.L., Jacobs, B.F., Hockaday, W.C., Wiemann, M.C., Michel, L.A., Richards, K., and Kappelman, J.W., 2017.Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis inferred from stable isotope analysis of fossil tree rings from the Oligocene of Ethiopia. Geology, v. 45 (8) 687-690 https://doi.org/10.1130/G39213.1. 
  5. Jenkins, K., Nightingale, S., Faith, J.T., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., Michel, L.A., McNulty, K.P., and Tryon, C.A., 2017.Mass kills of the extinct bovid Rusingoryx in the Middle Stone Age: New excavations at Wakondo (Rusinga Island, Kenya). Journal of Human Evolution, v. 108, 72-91 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.11.004. 
  6. Michel, L.A., Tabor, N.J., and Montañez, I.P., 2016. Paleosol Diagenesis and Its Deep-Time Paleoenvironmental Implications, Pennsylvanian-Permian Lodève Basin. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 86, (7) 813-829.
  7. Michel, L.A., Schmitz, M.D., Tabor, N.J., Montanez, I.P., and Davydov, V.I., 2016.  Reply to the Comment on “Chronostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin, France: Evidence for a pan-tropical aridification event across the Carboniferous-Permian boundary” by Michel, L.A., et al., (2015). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 430, 118-131”, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, v. 441, Part 4, 1000-1004.
  8. Michel, L.A., Tabor, N.J., Moñtanez, I.P., Schmitz, M.D, and Davydov, V.I., 2015. Chronostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of the Lodève Basin: Evidence for a pan-tropical aridification event across the Carboniferous-Permian boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 430, 118-131.
  9. Beverly, E.J., Driese, S.G., Peppe, D.J., Johnson, C.R., Michel, L.A., Faith, J.T., Tryon, C.A., 2015. Spring-fed rivers in a Middle to Late Pleistocene semi-arid grassland: Implications for environments of early humans in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. Sedimentology, v. 62 (6) 1611-1635.
  10. Michel, L.A., Peppe, D.J., Lutz, J.A., Driese, S.G., Dunsworth, H.M., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Horner, W.H., Lehmann, T., Nightingale, S., and McNulty, K.P., 2014, Remnants of an ancient forest provide ecological context for Early Miocene fossil apes. Nature Communications. 5:3236 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4236.
  11. Michel, L.A., Driese, S.G., Nordt, L.C., Breecker, D.O., Laboka, D.M., Dworkin, S.I., 2013, Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Vertisols Formed on Marine Limestone and Implications for Deep-time Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.83, 300-308.
  12. Breecker, D.O., Yoon, J., Michel, L.A., Dinka, T.M., Driese, S.G., Mintz, J.S., Nordt, L.C., Romanak, K.D. and Morgan, C.L.S., 2013, CO2 Concentrations in Vertisols: Seasonal Variability and Shrink-Swell.  In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 35-45.
  13. Weissmann, G.S., Hartley, A.J., Scuderi, L.A., Nichols, G.J., Davidson, S.K., Owen, A., Atchley, S.C., Bhattacharya, P.,  Nordt, L.C., Chakraborty, T., Ghosh, P., Michel, L.A., and Tabor, N.J., 2013, Prograding distributive fluvial systems-Geomorphic models and ancient examples: In New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology (S.G. Driese and L.C. Nordt, eds.): SEPM Special Publication Volume No. 104, p. 131-147.