Presentations
Significant Publications and Abstracts of Presentations
2007(submitted to Revue de Micropaleontologie), Ligia Pérez-Cruz and Richard N. Benson, Holocene polycystine radiolarians in anoxic sediments in the Bay of La Paz (Gulf of California): Abundance, preservation and taxonomy.
2006, Benson, R.N., and McLaughlin, P.P., The Potomac aquifer of northern Delaware: Resolving aquifer issues in the Delaware coastal plain using sequence stratigraphic concepts I. Abstracts with Program, 2006 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, 22-25 October 2006, Philadelphia (Abstract ID#111589)
2006, Benson, R.N., Internal Stratigraphic Correlation of the Subsurface Potomac Formation, New Castle County, Delaware, and Adjacent Areas in Maryland and New Jersey (with contribution on palynology by P.P. McLaughlin): Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 71, 15 p., 3 plates.
2006, McLaughlin, P.P., Sugarman, P.J., Miller, K.G., Benson, R.N., Browning, J.V., and Brenner, G.J.,. Application of Microfossils to Production-Scale Problems in Ground-Water: Aquifer Biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous and Miocene of Delaware and New Jersey, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA . 2006 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting Abstracts (A102634).
2005, McLaughlin, P.P., and Benson, R.N.,. Application of Micropaleontology to Water Resource Problems: Aquifer Stratigraphy in the Coastal Plain of Delaware (Middle Atlantic Region, United States. Geological Problem Solving with Microfossils Conference, March 6-8, 2005, North American Micropaleontology Section (NAMS) of SEPM, Program with abstracts, p.13
2005, Benson, R. N., Holocene Radiolaria from Sediments of the Gulf of California. http://www.radiolaria.org/index.htm?division=68&view=info.
2004, Benson, R.N., Quaternary, Holocene, Gulf of California. Nassellaria. http://www.radiolaria.org/index.htm?division=68&status=nassellaria.
2004, Benson, R. N., Quaternary, Holocene, Gulf of California. Spumellaria. http://www.radiolaria.org/index.htm?division=68&status=spumellaria.
2004. P. P. McLaughlin (speaker) and R. N. Benson, " Application of micropaleontology to water resource problems: Aquifer stratigraphy in the Coastal Plain of Delaware (Middle Atlantic region, United States)," at International Conference on Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils, Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 6-11.
2004 Chapter 4, Fort Mott Site. Peter J. Sugarman, Kenneth G. Miller, Peter P. McLaughlin Jr., James V. Browning, John Hernandez, Donald Monteverde, Jane Uptegrove, Stefanie J. Baxter, Thomas E. McKenna, A. Scott Andres, Richard N. Benson, Kelvin W. Ramsey, Todd Keyser, Miriam E. Katz, Alicia Kahn, Andrea Friedman, Matt Wojtko, Mark D. Feigenson, Richard K. Olsson, Gil Brenner, Jean M. Self-Trail, and Gene Cobbs III . In Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Browning, J.V., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 174AX (Suppl.). [Online: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174AXSIR/74AXSTOC.HTM].
2004 Characterization of the Potomac Aquifer, an Extremely Heterogeneous Fluvial System in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware. T. E. McKenna, P.P. McLaughlin, and R.N. Benson: Delaware Geological Survey Open File Report 45, three panel poster.
2003, Co-author with Peter P. McLaughlin (presenter), P.J. Sugarman, K.G. Miller, J.V. Browning, and G.J. Brenner. “Application of biostratigraphy to aquifer geology problems: A review of the Cretaceous and Miocene of Delaware and New Jersey, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, U.S. A.,” at joint meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, the Canadian Association of Palynologists, and the North American Micropaleontological Section of SEPM, Oct. 5, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
2003, Co-author with Peter P. McLaughlin (presenter), K.G. Miller, and J.V. Browning. Poster entitled “Neogene sequences from the east-central Delmarva Peninsula: Results from drilling at Bethany Beach, Delaware,” at workshop sponsored by the USGS and the International Continental Drilling Program entitled “Deep Drilling in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure,” September 22-24, 2003, Reston, Virginia.
2003, “Gulf of California Radiolaria on the web,” at the tenth meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists (INTERRAD), September 7-12, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
2003, Chapter 3, Bethany Beach Site. Miller, K.G., McLaughlin, P.P., Browning, J.V., Benson, R.N., Sugarman, P.J., Hernandez, J., Ramsey, K.W., Baxter, S.J., Feigenson, M.D., Aubry,M.-P., Monteverde, D.H., Cramer, B.S., Katz, M.E., McKenna, T.E.,Strohmeier, S.A., Pekar, S.F., Uptegrove, J., Cobbs, G., Cobbs, G., III, andCurtin, S.E., 2003. In Miller, K.G., Sugarman, P.J., Browning, J.V., et al., Proc. ODP, Init. Repts., 174AX (Suppl.), 1-85[Online]. Available from World Wide Web:http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174AXSIR/chap_03/chap_03.htm and http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/174AXSIR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/174AXS_3.PDF
2003, Co-author with Peter P. McLaughlin (Invitee and presenter), Sugarman, P.J., Miller, K.G., McKenna, T.E., and Browning, J.V. “The application of sequence stratigraphy to aquifer geology problems in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, United States: Leveraging petroleum geoscience learnings to public-needs issues” at the Geological Society (London) Conference: New Insights into Petroleum Geoscience Research through Collaboration between Academia and Industry, April, 2003.
2003, Age Estimates of the Seaward-Dipping Volcanic Wedge, Earliest Oceanic Crust, and Earliest Drift-Stage Sediments along the North American Atlantic Continental Margin, in Hames, W.E., McHone, J.G., Renne, P.R., and Ruppel, C. (Editors), The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Insights from Fragments of Pangea: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series Volume 136, p.61–75.
2002, Co-author with Peter P. McLaughlin (presenter), K.G. Miller, and J.V. Browning. “Sequence stratigraphic context for aquifer characterization in the Miocene of the southern Delaware Coastal Plain,” at the Bald Head Island Conference on Coastal Plains Geology, Fort Fisher, N.C., November 16-19.
2002, Co-author with Peter P. McLaughlin (presenter), K.G. Miller, and J.V. Browning. “Palynological record of Miocene sequences of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain: Initial results from the Bethany Beach, Delaware, borehole,” at the joint meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, The British Micropalaeontological Society, and the North American Micropaleontology Section-SEPM, University College, London, England, September 11–13.
2002, Co-author with poster presented by Thomas E. McKenna and Peter P. McLaughlin, "Characterization of the Potomac Aquifer, an extremely heterogeneous fluvial system in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware," at the SEPM Research Conference on Ancient and Modern Coastal Plain Depositional Environments: Aquifer Heterogeneity and Environmental Implications, March 24th - 27th, 2002, in Charleston, S.C.
2001, New perspectives on correlation of nonmarine depositional packages in the Cretaceous Potomac Formation, Delaware Coastal Plain: At the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., November 5 (with P.P. McLaughlin).
2001, Application of palynomorph biostratigraphy to correlation of aquifer units in nonmarine facies of the Cretaceous Potomac Formation, Delaware Coastal Plain: at the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 20-24 (with P.P. McLaughlin [presenter]).
2000, Regional correlation of Miocene sequences, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain: New results from Bethany Beach, Delaware: at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, Nov. 13 (with P.P. McLaughlin [presenter], K.G. Miller, and J.V. Browning).
1999, Investigation of shallow-depth faults in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware USA (Abstract): EOS, v. 80, no. 46, p.1050-1051.
1999, Chronology of Continental Flood Basalts and Seaward-Dipping Reflectors of the North American Atlantic Continental Margin (Abstract): EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 1999 Spring Meeting, v. 80, no. 17, Supplement, p. S318.
1998, Preliminary results of a high-resolution seismic reflection and refraction survey in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware, 4 kilometers south of the Fall Line (Abstract): Programs and Abstracts for the 70th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America, p. 18 (with S.J. Baxter [lead author], T.E. McKenna, R.D. Catchings, M. Goldman, and S.A. Strohmeier).
1998, Radiolarians and diatoms from the Pollack Farm Site, Delaware: Marine-terrestrial correlation of Miocene vertebrate assemblages of the middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, in Benson, R.N., Ed., Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil Site, Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication No. 21, p.5-19.
1998, (Editor) Geology and paleontology of the lower Miocene Pollack Farm Fossil Site, Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication No. 21 , 191 p.
1997, Chronology of early Mesozoic rift basins, continental flood basalts, seaward- dipping reflectors, and postrift sedimentary rocks of the North American Atlantic continental margin (Abstract): 1997 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 1, p. 31.
1996, Stratigraphy of the Post-Potomac Cretaceous-Tertiary rocks of central Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Bulletin No. 20, 28 p. (with N. Spoljaric).
1995, Centennial Continent/Ocean Transect # 19, E-3 Southwestern Pennsylvania to Baltimore Canyon Trough, in Glover, Lynn, III, and Klitgord, K. D., Chief Compilers: Boulder, CO, The Geological Society of America, 2 sheets plus explanatory pamphlet (with 2 1 other compilers and authors).
1995, Palynological, foraminiferal, and aminostratigraphic studies of Quaternary sediments from the U. S. middle Atlantic upper continental slope, continental shelf, and coastal plain: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 14, p.17-49 (with J. J. Groot and J. F. Wehmiller).
1994, Mid-Oligocene unconformity and faulting in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware correlated with uplift history of the Appalachian-Labrador and Bermuda rises (Abstract): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, p. A-91.
1994, Mesozoic rift basins of the U. S. middle Atlantic continental margin, in Dellagiarino, G., Masterson, A. R., and Miller, L. A., eds., Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Studies Related to Continental Margins: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, p. 99-105.
1993, Earthquakes 1993: Pennsylvania Geology, v. 24, no. 4, p. 9-13.
1993, Radiolarian and diatom biostratigraphic correlation of a diverse land and marine vertebrate fossil assemblage from lower Miocene shell beds, Delaware (Abstract): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A-114.
1992, Map of exposed and buried early Mesozoic rift basins/synrift rocks of the U. S. middle Atlantic continental margin: Delaware Geological Survey Miscellaneous Map Series No. 5, scale 1:1,000,000, with discussion.
1992, Exploration for oil and gas in a frontier area: the United States middle Atlantic continental margin, in Schroeder, D. A., and Anderson, R. C., eds., Earth interpreters F. M. Fryxell, Geology, and Augustana: Rock Island, Illinois, Augustana College Library Publication, No. 36, p. 185-200.
1992, A new Miocene fossil locality in Delaware (Abstract): Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 3, p. 69 (with K. W. Ramsey, A. S. Andres, T. E. Pickett, and W. S. Schenck).
1991, Buried Mesozoic rift basins of the U. S. middle Atlantic continental margin (Abstract): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 75, p. 1379.
1990, (ed.) Geologic and hydrologic studies of the Oligocene-Pleistocene section near Lewes, Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 48, 34 p. (contributions by A. S. Andres, R. N. Benson, K. W. Ramsey, and J. H. Talley).
1990, Geologic structures of the Appalachian orogen, Mesozoic rift basins, and faulted Coastal Plain rocks revealed by new Vibroseis and drill-hole data, southern Delaware and adjacent Maryland, in Hunt, M. C., Doenges, S., and Stubbs, G. S. eds., Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Studies Related to Continental Margins: Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, p. 143-150.
1989, Geologic framework of the offshore region adjacent to Delaware: Marine Geology, v. 90, p. 103-112 (with J. H. Roberts).
1988, Early Mesozoic rift basins and the development of the United States middle Atlantic continental margin, in Manspeizer, W. (ed.), Triassic-Jurassic rifting: Elsevier, The Netherlands, p. 99-127 (with R. G. Doyle).
1986, Seismic stratigraphy along three multichannel seismic reflection profiles off Delaware's coast (with discussion): Delaware Geological Survey Miscellaneous Map Series No. 4 (with A. S. Andres, J. H. Roberts, and K. D. Woodruff).
1985, Geological studies of Cretaceous and Tertiary section, test well Je32-04, central Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Bulletin No. 17, 69 p, 3 pls. (with R. R. Jordan and N. Spoljaric).
1984, Structure contour map of pre-Mesozoic basement, landward margin of Baltimore Canyon trough: Delaware Geological Survey Miscellaneous Map Series No. 2, scale 1:500,000, with discussion.
1979, Hydrocarbon resource potential of the Baltimore Canyon trough: Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 31, 45 p.