Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications

*Valencia, F. L., Laya, J. C., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Valencia, G.L. (2022) Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Cenomanian Buda Limestone in central Texas, U.S.A.: Implications on regional and global depositional controls. Cretaceous research,

*Teoh, C. P., Laya, J. C., *Rose, K., Kaczmarek, S. (2022) Controls of high-Mg calcite on the dolomitization of carbonate deposits: An experimental study. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 92 (2), p. 134-143

*Teoh, C. P., Jacquemyn C., Laya, J. C. (2021). Geometric Quantification of Dolomitized Clinoforms Using Digital Outcrop Models and Surface-Based Modeling: Insights for Geobody Connectivity from Outcrop Analogues. Marine and Petroleum Geology. v. 134, p. 105344

*Teoh, C. P., Laya, J. C., (2021) Preferential dolomitization in Mio–Pliocene bioclastic clinoforms, Bonaire Island, South Caribbean: insights from petrographic and geochemical analyses. Facies. 67:30

Donovan, A. D., Pope, M., Laya, J.C., *Sleight, J., *Gutierrez, M., *Richards, B., *Sims, E., & *Peavey, E. (2019). Outcrop Windows to the Unconventional Reservoirs and Stratigraphy of Wolfcamp Group in the Permian Basin. The Houston Geological Society Bulletin, 62(4), 8-9.

Laya J. C., *Albader A., Kaczmarek S. E., Pope M., Harris P.M. and Miller B. (2021). Dissolution of ooids in seawater-derived fluids – an example from Lower Permian re-sedimented carbonates, West Texas. Sedimentology. 68, 2671-2706.

Laya, J. C., *Teoh, C. P., Whitaker, F., Manche, C., Kaczmarek, S., Tucker, M., Gabellone, T., & Hasiuk, F. (2021). Dolomitization of a Miocene-Pliocene progradational carbonate platform by mesohaline brines: Re-examination of the reflux model on Bonaire Island. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 126, 104895.

*Tesch, P., Reece, R.S., Markello, J.R., Laya, J.C. and Pope, M.C. (2020) Adding the Missing Third and Fourth Dimensions to Trajectory Analysis in Carbonate Systems. Basin Research.

*Valencia, F. and Laya, J.C. (2020) Burial dissolution controls on Oligo-Miocene giant carbonate reservoir. Perla Field, Gulf of Venezuela Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology.

*Prince, K., Laya, J.C., Betzler, C., Lüdmann, T. and Miller, B. (In prep) Miocene onset of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion: evidence from the meteoric diagenesis of the western Kardiva Platform, Maldives. Facies

Lanci, L., Zanella, E., Jovane, L., Galeotti, S., Alonso-García, M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Bejugam, N.N., Betzler, C., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Eberli, G.P., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Kroon, D., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z. and Young, J.R. (2019) Magnetic properties of early Pliocene sediments from IODP Site U1467 (Maldives platform) reveal changes in the monsoon system. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 533, 109283.

Swart, P.K., Blättler, C.L., Nakakuni, M., Mackenzie, G.J., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Alonso-García, M., Slagle, A.L., Wright, J.D., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Hui Mee, A.L., Young, J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Bialik, O.M., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Nagender Nath, B., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Su, X., Sloss, C.R. and Yao, Z. (2019) Cyclic anoxia and organic rich carbonate sediments within a drowned carbonate platform linked to Antarctic ice volume changes: Late Oligocene-early Miocene Maldives. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 521, 1-13.

Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Lüdmann, T., Reolid, J., Kroon, D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Swart, P.K., Wright, J., Young, J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Hui Mee, A.L., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X. and Yao, Z. (2018) Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean). Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 5, 5.

*Bowling, R.D., Laya, J.C. and Everett, M.E. (2018) Resolving carbonate platform geometries on the Island of Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands through semi-automatic GPR facies classification. Geophysical Journal International, 214, 687-703.

Kunkelova, T., Jung, S.J.A., de Leau, E.S., Odling, N., Thomas, A.L., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Mee, A.L.H., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Lüdmann, T., Bejugam, N.N., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z., Young, J.R., Lindhorst, S., Stainbank, S., Rueggeberg, A., Spezzaferri, S., Carrasqueira, I., Hu, S. and Kroon, D. (2018) A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 5, 86.

Laya, J.C., *Sulaica, J., Teoh*, C.P., Whitaker, F., Gabellone, T., Tucker, M.E., Tesch*, P., Miller, B., *Prince, K. and Izaguirre, I. (2018) Controls on Neogene carbonate facies and stratigraphic architecture of an isolated carbonate platform – the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 94, 1-18.

Lüdmann, T., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Reolid, J., Reijmer, J.J.G., Sloss, C.R., Bialik, O.M., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Kroon, D., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Nakakuni, M., Nath, B.N., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Slagle, A.L., Su, X., Swart, P.K., Wright, J.D., Yao, Z. and Young, J.R. (2018) Carbonate delta drift: A new sediment drift type. Marine Geology, 401, 98-111.

Widodo*, R.W. and Laya, J.C. (2017) Controls on diagenesis and dolomitization of peritidal facies, Early Cretaceous Lower Edwards Group, central Texas, USA. Facies, 63, 23.

Betzler, C., Eberli, G., Alvarez-Zarikian, C., Kroon, D., Wright, J., Swart, P.K., Nath, B.N., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Hui Mee, A.L., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z. and Young, J.R. (2016_. Expedition 359 Preliminary Report: Maldives Monsoon and Sea Level. International Ocean Discovery Program, IODP

Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Kroon, D., Wright, J.D., Swart, P.K., Nath, B.N., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Alonso-García, M., Bialik, O.M., Blättler, C.L., Guo, J.A., Haffen, S., Horozal, S., Inoue, M., Jovane, L., Lanci, L., Laya, J.C., Mee, A.L.H., Lüdmann, T., Nakakuni, M., Niino, K., Petruny, L.M., Pratiwi, S.D., Reijmer, J.J.G., Reolid, J., Slagle, A.L., Sloss, C.R., Su, X., Yao, Z. and Young, J.R. (2016) The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds. Scientific Reports, 6, 29838.

Laya, J.C. and Tucker, M.E. (2015) Petroleum Potential of Permian Carbonates in Northern South America. In: Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Colombia, Caribbean Margin (Eds C. Bartolini and P. Mann), 108, pp. 471-498. American Association of Petroleum Geologist Memoir 108, Tulsa.

*Shenton, B.J., Grossman, E.L., Passey, B.H., Henkes, G.A., Becker, T.P., Laya, J.C., Perez-Huerta, A., Becker, S.P. and Lawson, M. (2015) Clumped isotope thermometry in deeply buried sedimentary carbonates: The effects of bond reordering and recrystallization. GSA Bulletin, 127, 1036-1051.

Laya, J.C., Tucker, M.E., Gröcke, D.R. and Perez-Huerta, A. (2013) Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopic composition of low-latitude Permian carbonates (Venezuelan Andes): climate proxies of tropical Pangea. In: Palaeozoic Climate Cycles: Their Evolutionary and Sedimentological Impact. (Eds A. Gasiewicz and M. Slowakiewicz), 376, pp. 367. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.

Laya, J.C., Tucker, M.E. and Perez-Huerta, A. (2013) Metre-scale cyclicity in Permian ramp carbonates of equatorial Pangea (Venezuelan Andes): Implications for sedimentation under tropical Pangea conditions. Sedimentary Geology, 292, 15-35.

Laya, J.C. and Tucker, M.E. (2012) Facies analysis and depositional environments of Permian carbonates of the Venezuelan Andes: Palaeogeographic implications for Northern Gondwana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 331-332, 1-26.

*Graduate Student