Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Mander, L., Jaramillo, C., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2023. Descriptive systematics of Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene pollen and spores from the northern Niger Delta, southeastern Nigeria. Palynology, 10.1080/01916122.2023.2200525 

Zapata, S., Calderon-Diaz, L., Jaramillo, C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Piedrahita, J.C. Rodríguez-Cuevas, M., Cardona, A., Sobel, E.R., Parra, M., Valencia, V., Patiño, A., Jaramillo-Rios, J.S., Flores, M., Glodny, J., 2023. Drainage and sedimentary response of the Northern Andes and the Pebas system to Miocene strike-slip tectonics: a source to sink study of the Magdalena Basin. Basin Research, 35, 1674-1717; https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12769. 

Adojoh, O.C., Marret-Davies, F., Duller, R., Osterloff, L.P., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., and Saylor, B.Z., 2023. Stages of palaeoenvironmental evolution, climate, and sea level change of the Niger Delta - East Equatorial Atlantic: Novelty from elemental tracers, sedimentary facies, and pollen records. The Holocene, 1-10; DOI: 10.1177/09596836231163506. 

Mansour, A., Tahoun, S.S., Raafat, A., Ahmed, M.S., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Gentis, T., and Fu, X., 2023. Organic matter assessment and paleoenvironmental changes of the Middle Jurassic main source rocks (Khatatba Formation) in the North Western Desert, Egypt: palynofacies and palynomorph perspectives. Minerals, 13, 548; https://doi.org/10.3390/min13040548.

Obrist-Farner, J., Eckert, A., Douglas, P.M.J., Perez, L., Correa-Metrio, A., Konecky, B.L., Bauersachs, T., Zimmerman, S., Scheidt, S., Brenner, M., Kutterolf, S., Maurer, J., Flores, O., Burberry, C.M., Noren, A., Myrbo, A., Lachniet, M., Wattrus, N., Gibson, D., and the LIBRE Scientific Team, 2023. Planning for the Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor (LIBRE) continental scientific drilling project in eastern Guatemala. Scientific Drilling, 11, 1-16; https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-11-1-2023. 

Mongol, E., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Obrist-Farner, J., Moreno, J.E., and Correa-Metrio, A., 2023. A millennium of anthropic and climate dynamics in the Lake Izabal Basin, eastern lowland Guatemala. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 312, 104872; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104872. 

Valdon, Y.B., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Maigari, S.A., and Zobaa, M.K., 2023. Source-rock potential and paleoenvironment of the Coniacian Numanha Formation, northeastern Nigeria: An integrated palynofacies and geochemical approach. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 198, 104790; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104790.

Mansour, A., Tahoun, S.S., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Ahmed, M.S., and Gentis, T., 2022. Palynomorph composition and palynofacies analysis of the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation in the north Western Desert of Egypt: Depositional palaeoenvironment and sequence stratigraphic implications. South African Journal of Geology, 125: 361-378; https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.125.0023. 

Ilesanmi, O., Rogers, J.D., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2021. Evaluation of geohazards in the Cape Girardeau area using LiDAR and GIS, Southeast Missouri, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences, 80: 582; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09869-z 

Mathur, R., Mahan, B., Spencer, M., Godfrey, L., Landman, N., Garb, M., Pearson, G.D., Liu, S.-A., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2021. Fingerprinting the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact with Zn isotopes. Nature Communications, 12:4128; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24419-8. 

Zapata, S., Zapata-Henao, M., Cardona, A., Jaramillo, C., Silvestro, D., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2021. Long-term topographic growth and decay constrained by 3D thermo-kinematic modeling: Tectonic evolution of the Antioquia Altiplano, Northern Andes. Global and Planetary Change, v. 203, 103553; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103553. 

Cárdenas, D., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., and Jaramillo, C., and 2021. New acritarch and peridinioid dinoflagellate cyst species from the Oligocene-Miocene of Colombia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 290, 104427.

Sanchez Botero, C.A., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Grabel, L., and Adojoh, O.C., 2021. Palynomorphs in southern Western Australian lake sediments: evidence of climate change and hypersalinity during the Cenozoic. Palynology, v. 45, p. 201-214; https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2020.1789774.

Ilesanmi, O., Liang, X., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Rogers, J.D., Abdelsalam, M., Feight, J., and Witt III, E.C., 2020. UAS-derived surficial deformation around the epicenter of the 2016 Mw 5.8 Pawnee, Oklahoma, USA Earthquake. Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. 26, p. 449-462; https://doi.org/10.2113/EEG-2359.

Jaramillo, C., Sepulchre, P., Cardenas, D., Correa-Metrio, A., Moreno, J. E., Trejos, R., Vallejos, D., Hoyos, N., Martinez, C., Carvalho, D., Escobar, J., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Pramparo, M. B., and Pinzon, D., 2020. Drastic Vegetation Change in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) during the Neogene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 35, e2020PA003933; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003933.

Romero, I.C., Kong, S., Fowlkes, C.C., Urban, M.A., Jaramillo, C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., D’Apolito, C., and Punyasena, S.W., 2020. Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2007324117.

Ibrahim, M.I.A., Tahoun, S.S., Zobaa, M.K., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Kholeif, S.E., 2020. Late Cretaceous palynology and paleoenvironment of the Razzak-3 well, North Western Desert, Egypt. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, v. 13, 870; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-020-05705-z.

Cárdenas, D., Jaramillo, C., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2020. Early Miocene marine palynology of the Colombian Caribbean Margin: biostratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 558, 109955; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109955.

Zapata, S., Patiño, A., Cardona, A., Parra, M., Valencia, V., Reiners, P., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., and Genezini, F., 2020. Bedrock and detrital zircon thermochronology to unravel exhumation histories of accreted tectonic blocks: An example from the Western Colombian Andes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 103, 102715; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102715.

Adojoh, O., Marret-Davies, F., Duller, R., Osterloff, P., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Hart, M., and Smart, C., 2020. The biostratigraphy of the offshore Niger Delta during the Late Quaternary: Complexity and progress of dating techniques. Quaternary Science Advances, v.1, 100003; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100003.

Edegbai, A.J., Schwark, L., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2020. Nature of dispersed organic matter and paleoxygenation of the Campano-Maastrichtian dark mudstone unit, Benin flank, western Anambra Basin: Implications for Maastrichtian Trans-Saharan seaway paleoceanographic conditions. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 162; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103654.

Awad, W.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2019. Paleogene-early Neogene paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on palynological analysis of ODP Hole 959A, West Africa. Marine Micropaleontology, v. 148, p. 29-45;   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.003. 

Edegbai, A.J., Schwark, L., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2019b. Campano-Maastrichtian paleoenvironment, paleotectonics and sediment provenance of western Anambra Basin, Nigeria: Multi-proxy evidences from the Mamu Formation. Journal of African Earth Sciences,  v. 156, p. 203-239; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.04.001.

Edegbai, A.J., Schwark, L., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2019c.  A review of the latest Cenomanian to Maastrichtian geological evolution of Nigeria and its stratigraphic and paleogeographic implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 150, p. 823-837; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.10.007.

Zobaa, M.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2018. The magnificent seven: the stratigraphically most important mid-Cretaceous terrestrial palynofloral species in the north Western Desert, Egypt. Journal of Iberian Geology, v. 44, p. 243-255; https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-018-0062-6.

Lorente, F.L., Pessenda, L.C.R., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Junior, A.A.B., de Fátima Rossetti, D., Giannini, P.C.F., Cohen, M.C.L., de Oliveira, P.E., Mayle, F.E., Francisquini, M.I., França, M.C., Bendassolli, J.A., and Macario, K., 2018. An 11,000-year record of depositional environmental change based upon particulate organic matter and stable isotopes (C and N) in a lake sediment in southeastern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 84, p. 373-384; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.04.006.

Scott, R.W., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Benson Jr., D.G., Holbrook, J.M., and Alnahwi, A., 2018. Cenomanian-Turonian flooding cycles: U.S. Gulf Coast and Western Interior. Cretaceous Research, v. 89. p. 191-210; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.027.

Awad, W.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2018. Late Paleogene-early Neogene dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the eastern Equatorial Atlantic. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 140, p. 267-231; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.01.014.

Adams, G., Fielding, C.R. and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2017. Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Mesaverde Group in the northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 485, p. 486-503; doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.07.005.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Antolinez-Delgado, H., and Awad, W.K., 2017. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of a Paleocene-Early Eocene sedimentary succession in the northern Niger Delta Basin: Comparison with low, mid and high latitude regions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 481, p. 29-43; doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.020.

Barron, A., Zobaa, M.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2017. Palynological evidence for sustained deep-marine conditions during the Eocene-Miocene in the southern Gulf of Mexico distal continental margin. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 129, p. 218-228; doi:10.1130/B31559.1.

Haselwander, R.D., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2017. Preliminary observations on the preservation of organic-walled algae in shallow, freshwater lakes from south-central Missouri, USA. Palynology, v. 41, p. 72-88; doi.10.1080/01916122.2015.1091042.

Awad, W.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2016. Early Paleogene dinoflagellate cysts from ODP Hole 959D in the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin, West Africa: new species, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 123, p. 123-144; doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.07.014.

Al-Sheikhly, S.S., Sh.Al-Bazi, N.T., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2016. The Permian-Triassic boundary in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. Journal of Environment and Earth Science, v. 6, p. 39-51.

Lorente, F.L., Pessenda, L.C.R., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Buso, A.A., Cohen, M.C.L., Meyer, K.E.B., Giannini, P.C.F., de Oliveira, P.E., de Fátima Rossetti, D., Filho, M.A.B., França, M.C., de Castro, D.F., Bendassolli, J.A., and Macario, K., 2014. Palynofacies and stable C and N isotopes of Holocene sediments in Lake Macuco (Linhares, Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil): Depositional settings and palaeoenvironmental evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 415, p. 69-82; doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.004.

Scott, R.W., Formolo, M., Rush, N., Owens, J.D., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2013. Upper Albian OAE 1d Event in the Chihuahua Trough, New Mexico, U.S.A. Cretaceous Research, v. 46, p. 136-150, doi.10.1016/j.cretres.2013.08.011.

Bowen, B.B., Story, S.L., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Benison, K.C., 2013, Differences in regolith weathering history at an acid and neutral saline lake on the Archean Yilgarn Craton and implications for acid brine evolution. Chemical Geology, v. 356, p. 126-140.

Sanchez Botero, C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Macphail, M., 2013. First fossil pollen record of the Northern Hemisphere species Aglaoreidia cyclops Erdtman, 1960 in Australia. Alcheringa, v. 37, p. 1-5, doi:10.1080/03115518.2013.785336

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Spencer, M.K., Campbell, C.E. and Haselwander, R.D., 2012. A portrait of Late Maastrichtian and Paleocene palynoflora and paleoenvironment in the northern Mississippi Embayment, southeastern Missouri. Palynology, v. 36, supplement 1, p. 63-79.

Rodríguez-Forero, G., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Jaramillo-Munoz, C., Rueda-Serrano, M.J. and Cadena-Rueda, E., 2012.  Palynology of the Eocene Esmeraldas Formation, Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia. Palynology, v. 36, supplement 1, p. 96-111.

Zobaa, M. K., Zavada, M. S., Whitelaw, M. J., Shunk, A. J. and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F. E., 2011. Palynology and palynofacies analyses of the Gray Fossil Site, Eastern Tennessee: their role in understanding the basin-fill history. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 308, p. 433-444.

Zobaa, M.K., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Ibrahim, M.I., 2011. The Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event in the Razzak Field, north Western Desert, Egypt: source rock potential and paleoenvironmental association. Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 1475-1478.Scott, R.W., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Benson, D.G., Jr., and Holbrook, J.M., 2009. Numerical age calibration of the Albian/Cenomanian boundary. Stratigraphy, v. 6, p. 17-32.

Bowen, B.B., Benison, K.C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Story, S., and Mormile, M., 2008. Active hematite concretion formation in modern acid saline lake sediments, Lake Brown, Western Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 268, p. 52-63, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.12.023.

Antolinez, H.J., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2007. New species of dinoflagellate cysts from the Paleocene of the Anambra Basin, southeastern Nigeria. Palynology, v. 31, p. 53-62.

Benison, K.C., Bowen, B.B., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Jagniecki, E., LaClair, D.A., Story, S.L., Mormile, M.R., and Hong, B., 2007. The sedimentology of acid saline lakes in southern Western Australia: Newly described processes and products of an extreme environment. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 366-388; doi:1-.2110/jsr.2007.038. (SEPM Best Paper Award)

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Benson, D.G., Scott, R.W., Holbrook, J.M., Evetts, M.J., and Erbacher, J., 2007. Re-evaluation of the Albian-Cenomanian boundary in the U.S. Western Interior based ondinoflagellate cysts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 144, p. 77-97.

Holbrook, J.M., Scott, R.W., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2006. Base-level buffers and buttresses:a model for upstream versus downstream control on preservation of fluvial geometry and architecture within sequences. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 162-174.

Udeze, C.U., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2005. Neogene paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic events inferred from palynological data: Cape Basin off South Africa, ODP Leg 175. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 219, p. 199-223.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Obi, C.G., and Jaramillo, C.A., 2005. Lithofacies, palynofacies, and sequence stratigraphy of Paleogene strata in southeastern Nigeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 41, p. 79-102.

Scott, R.W., Holbrook, J.M., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Evetts, M.J., Benson, D.G., and Kues, B.S., 2004. Middle Cretaceous stratigraphy, Southern Margin, Western Interior Basin. Mountain Geologist, v. 41, p. 33-61.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and De Villiers, S.E., 2003. Dispersed organic matter in samples from the western continental shelf of Southern Africa: palynofacies assemblages and depositional environments of Late Cretaceous and younger sediments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 201, p. 67-88.

Pardo-Trujillo, A., Jaramillo, C.A., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2003. Paleogene palynostratigraphy of the eastern Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia. Palynology, v. 27, p. 155-178.Appendix 1: Palynomoprhs in the Uribe section; Appendix 2: Palynomorphs in the Sogamoso core; AASP Data Committee, PALYDISK 23, http://www.palynology.org/.

Overstreet, R.B., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Gregg, J.M., 2003. Sequence stratigraphy and depositional facies of Lower Ordovician cyclic carbonate rocks, Southern Missouri. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 421-433.

Pletsch, T., Erbacher, J., Holbourne, A.E.L., Kuhnt, W., Moullade, M., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Söding, E., and Wagner, T., 2001. Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 14, p. 147-174.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Hoffmeister, A.P., and Chrisfield, R.A., 1999. Cyclical distribution of dispersed organic matter and dinocysts, ODP Site 959 (Early Oligocene-Early Miocene, Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin). Palynology, v. 23, p. 85-94.

Jaramillo, C.A., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 1999. Sequence stratigraphic interpretations from palynofacies, dinocyst and lithological data of Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene strata in southern Mississippi and Alabama, U.S. Gulf Coast. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 145, p. 259-302.

Mascle, J., Lohmann, P., Clift, P., and ODP Leg 159 Scientific Party, 1997. Development of a passive transform margin: Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana transform margin — ODP Leg 159 preliminary results. Geo-marine Letters, v. 17, p. 4-11.

Oboh-Ikuenobe F.E., Yepes, O., and ODP Leg 159 Scientific Party, 1997. Palynofacies analysis of sediments from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin: preliminary correlation with some regional events in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 129, p. 291-314.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 1996. Correlating palynofacies assemblages with sequence stratigraphy    in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sedimentary rocks of the Book Cliffs, east- central Utah. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 108, p. 1275-1294.

Oboh, F.E., Jaramillo, C.A., and Morris, L M.R., 1996. Late Eocene-Early Oligocene paleofloristic patterns in southern Mississippi and Alabama, U.S. Gulf Coast. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 91, p. 23-34.

Oboh, F.E., and Morris, L.M.R., 1995. Correlation between Sequoia type pollen and Lower Oligocene transgressive deposits in the eastern Gulf Coast. Palaios, v. 10, p. 371-382.

Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P., and ODP Leg 159 Scientific Party, 1995. La marge transformante de Côte-d'Ivoire-Ghana: premiers résultas de la campagne ODP 159 (Janvier-Février 1995). Compte Rendu Académie des Sciences Paris, t. 320, série II, p. 737-747.

Oboh, F.E., and Morris, L.M.R., 1994. Lower Oligocene palynosequences from the eastern  Gulf Coast. Palynology, v. 18, p. 213-235.

Oboh, F.E., 1993. Depositional history of the Middle Miocene E2.0 Reservoir in the Kolo Creek Field, Niger Delta. Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 16, p. 197-212.

Oboh, F.E., 1992a. Multivariate statistical analyses of palynodebris from the Middle Miocene of the Niger Delta and their environmental significance. Palaios, v. 7, p. 559-573.

Oboh, F.E., 1992b. Middle Miocene palaeoenvironments of the Niger Delta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 92, p. 55-84.

 Oboh, F.E., Salami, M.B. and Chapman, J.L., 1992. Palynological interpretation of the palaeoenvironments of Miocene strata of the well Igbomotoru-1, Niger Delta. Journal of Micropalaeontology, v. 11, p. 1-6.

 Oboh, F.E., and Salami, M.B., 1989. Lithostratigraphical and palynostratigraphical studies of Igbomotoru-1 Well, Niger Delta. Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 9, p. 531-540.

Peer Reviewed Book 

Hamimi, Z., Khozyem, H., Adatte, T., Nader, F.H., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., Zobaa, M.K., and El Atfy, H., Editors, 2021. The Phanerozoic Geology and Natural Resources of Egypt. Springer 

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Holbrook, J.M., Scott, R.W., Akins, S.L., Evetts, M.J., Benson, D.G., Jr., and Pratt, L.M., 2008. Anatomy of epicontinental flooding: Late Albian-Early Cenomanian of the southern U.S. Western Interior. In: Pratt, B.R., and Holmden, C. (eds.), Dynamics of Epeiric Seas: Sedimentological, Paleontological and Geochemical Perspective. Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 48, p. 201-227.

Campbell, C.E., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Eifert, T.L., 2008. Megatsunami deposit in Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary interval of southeast Missouri. In: Evans, K., Horton, J.W. Jr., King, D.T. Jr., and Morrow, J.R. (eds.), The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts.  Geological Society of America Special Paper 437, p. 189-198, doi: 10.1130/2008.2437(11).

Scott, R.W., Benson, D.G., Morin, R.W., Shaffer, B.L., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2003. Integrated Albian-Lower Cenomanian chronostratigraphy standard, Trinity River section Texas. In: Scott, R.W. (ed.), U.S. Gulf Coast Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleoecology: Perkins Memorial Volume. Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation, Special Publications in Geology 1, p. 277-334.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Jaramillo, C.A., 2003. Palynological patterns in uppermost Eocene     to lower Oligocene sedimentary rocks in the U.S. Gulf Coast. In: Prothero, D.R., Ivany, L., andNesbitt, E. (eds.), The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition. Columbia University Press, p. 269-282.

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Yepes, O., and Gregg, J.M., 1998. Palynostratigraphy, palynofacies and thermal maturation of Cretaceous-Paleocene sediments from the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin. In: Mascle, J., Clift, P., and Moullade, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 159, p. 277-318.

Moullade, M., Watkins, D.K., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Bellier, J.P., Masure, E., Holbourne, A.E.L., Erbacher, J., Kuhnt, W., Pletsch, T., Kaminski, M.A., Rauscher, R., Shafik, S., Yepes, O., Dejax, J., Gregg, J.M., Shin, I.C., and Schuler, M., 1998. Mesozoic biostratigraphic, paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic synthesis, equatorial Atlantic. In: Mascle, J., Clift, P., and Moullade, M. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 159, p. 481-490.

Oboh, F.E., 1995. Sedimentological and palynological characteristics of the E2.0 Reservoir (Middle Miocene) in the Kolo Creek Field, Niger Delta. In: Oti, M.N. and Postma, G. (eds.), Geology of Deltas. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, p. 243-256.

Oboh, F.E., 1992. Clay mineralogy, spore coloration and diagenesis in Middle Miocene sediments of the Niger Delta. In: Houseknecht, D.W. and Pittman, E.D. (eds.), Origin, Diagenesis and Petrophysics of Clay Minerals in Sandstones. SEPM Special Publication, No. 47, p. 175-183.

Peer Reviewed Publications Arising from Conference Presentations

Elgmati, M., Zobaa, M., Zhang, H., Bai, B., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2011. Palynofacies analysis and submicron pore modeling of shale-gas plays. SPE North American Unconventional Gas Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, SPE #144267.

Zobaa, M., Sanchez Botero, C., Browne, C., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Ibrahim, M.I., 2008. Kerogen and palynomorph analyses of the Mid-Cretaceous Bahariya Formation and Abu Roash “G” Member, North Western Desert, Egypt. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions,  v. 58, p. 933-943.

Lea, B., Yu, V., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2007. Application of text mining and data mining in paleontology taxon recommendation and search system. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of Decision Sciences Institute, p. 5091-5096.

Mormile, M.R., Hong, B.y., Adams, N.T., Benison, K.C., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2007. Characterization of a moderately halo-acidophilic bacterium isolated from Lake Brown, Western Australia. In: Hoover, R.B., Levin, G.V., Rozanov, A.Y., and Davies, P.C. (eds.), Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology X. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 66940X; doi:10.1117/12.732741. 

Watkins, C.M., Rogers, J. D., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F., 2007. Use of palynology to complement the analysis and dating of megalandslides in the Colorado Plateau. Conference Presentations, First North American Landslide Conference, Vail, Colorado. Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Special Publication No. 23, p. 810-819.

De La Rue, S. R., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2003. Temporal dynamics of Paleogene paleo-vegetational response to climatic changes and regional upwelling, West Africa (ODP Site 959). Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 53, p. 160-169.

Holbrook, J.M., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2002. Bounding-surface hierarchies and related sources of heterogeneity in seemingly uniform fluvial sandstone sheets. Research Conference Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Section, SEPM, p. 217-230.

Jaramillo, C.A. and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2001. Sequence stratigraphy of the Pachuta- Marianna interval (Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene) in the U.S. Gulf Coast. In: Goodman, D.K., and Clarke, R.T. (eds.), Proceedings of the IX International Palynological Congress, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1996. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, p. 263-276.

Morris, E.J., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2000. Sedimentology, palynology, and sea level fluctuations recorded from two Pennsylvanian cores from northwestern Missouri. Transactions, Missouri Academy of Science, v. 34, p. 49-59.

Book Reviews

Intercultural Learning: Critical Preparation for International Student Travel, by Peter Jones, Debra Miles and Narayan Gopalkrishnan, 2018. Open Education Resources, ISBN 13: 9780994503992; Reviewed April 2019, https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/intercultural-learning-critical-preparation-for-international-student-travel 

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2009. Paleopalynology, 2nd Edition, by Alfred Traverse, 2007, Topics in Geobiology, Volume 28, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; ISBN 978-1-4020-5609-3 and ISBN 978-1-4020-6684-9. Palaios Online, Book Reviews, DOI: 10.2110/palo/2009/BR46.

Exhibits,  Scholarly Contributions, Featured Articles and Podcasts (Peer Reviewed as noted)

Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology, 2021. Paleontological Research Institution, Museum of the Earth. https://www.museumoftheearth.org/daring-to-dig/

Spencer, M.K., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2019. Enigmatic structures along the 38th Parallel in Missouri. Missouri Natural Areas Newsletter, Vol. 19, Issue 1, p. 19-23; https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/downloads/NANewsletter 2019.pdf

Women in Paleontology, 2018. Paleontological Research Institution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-N6K_WvhM

Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology, 2018. Voices of Women in Paleontology.  http://www.daringtodig.com/francisca-obohikuenobe

People Behind the Science Podcast, Episode 450, 2018. Dr. Francisca Ikuenobe: Unearthing Clues About Our Planet’s Past From Tiny Fossils Found in Rock. http://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-francisca-ikuenobe/

Science Communications Hub Nigeria, 2018. https://www.scicomnigeria.org/article/I-Loved-Mathematics-And-Science-Related-Subjects-Said-Prof-Francisca-Oboh-Ikuenobe

Trowel Blazers, 2018. Pioneering Women in Archaeology, Palaeontology & Geology — Past & Present, Twitter 2016. https://trowelblazers.com/francisca-oboh-ikuenobe/

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2016. A Tribute to a Former Professor: http://www.seasonofrahaman.com/tribute/a-former-students-tribute-to-prof-omar-rahaman/

“Life in Extreme Environments,” 2008-2013 Exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center based on Australian hypersaline lake research — Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Benison, K.C., Mormile, M.R., Bowen, B.B., Story, S.L., Jangniecki, E, and Hong, B.y. (Currently displayed in the McNutt Hall Commons at Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Wicander, E., and Strother, P., 2005. 38th Annual Meeting, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Program and Abstracts, 63 p.

Scott, R.W., Holbrook, J.M., Evetts, M.J., and Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., 2001. Albian- Cenomanian depositional cycles transgressed from Chihuahua Trough to Western Interior. In: Lucas, S.G., and Ulmer-Scholle, D.S. (eds.), Geology of the Llano Estacado. New Mexico Geological Society, Fifty-second Annual Field Conference, p. 221-228. (Peer Reviewed)

Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., Hoffmeister, A.P., and Chrisfield, R.A., 1997. Patterns of palynomorphs and palynofacies distribution in Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene sediments of the Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin. Memorias del VIII Congreso Géológico Venezolano, Sociedad Venezolano de Géológico, tomo II, p. 204-208.

Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D. and ODP Leg 159 Scientific Party, 1996. Introduction.  In: Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Results, Vol. 159. College Station, Texas, p. 5-16. (Peer Reviewed)

Shipboard Scientific Party, 1996a. Sites 959 to 962. In: Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Results, Vol. 159. College Station, Texas, p. 65-294. (Peer Reviewed)

Shipboard Scientific Party, 1996b. Principal Results. In: Mascle, J., Lohmann, G.P., Clift, P.D. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Results, Vol. 159. College Station, Texas, p. 297-314. (Peer Reviewed)