SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Grimm, 2003. Is Earth A Living System? Abstract submitted to Special Session 25 (Sustainability Science?) of the 2003 GAC-MAC Conference in Vancouver (www.vancouver2003.com)

Pufahl, P.K., Grimm, K.A., Abed, A.M., and Sadaqah, R.M.Y., 2002. The sedimentology and geochemistry of phosphatic and associated strata in Jordan: Implications for phosphogenesis and the formation of economic phosphorite. submitted to Sedimentary Geology.

Pufahl, P.K. and Grimm, K.A., 2002. Coated phosphate grains: The granular equivalent of condensed beds. submitted to Geology.

Johnson, K.M. and Grimm, 2001. Opal and Organic Carbon in Laminated Diatomaceous Sediments: Saanich Inlet, Santa Barbara Basin and the Miocene Monterey Formation. Marine Geology 174: 159-175.

Grimm, K.A., 2000. The Architecture of Living Systems: Insights from the Phytoplankton Microcosm. American Geophysical Union, Chapman Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis, p. 21. (click here to read this abstract online)

Grimm, K.A., 2000. Stratigraphic condensation and the redeposition of economic phosphorite: Allostratigraphy of Oligo-Miocene shelfal sediments, Baja California Sur, Mexico, in Craig R. Glenn, Liliane Prévôt-Lucas and Jacques Lucas (eds ) Marine Authigenesis: From Microbial to Global, SEPM Special Publication No. 66:325-347.

Benson, B., Clague, J.J. and Grimm, K.A. 1999. Relative sealevel inferred from intertidal marsh sediments containing tsunami sand sheets, Vancouver Island, BC. Quaternary International60: 49-54.

Chang, A.S., and Grimm, K.A. 1998. Speckled beds: Distinctive gravity-flow deposits in finely-laminated diatomaceous sediments, Miocene Monterey Formation, California. Journal of Sedimentary Research V. 69(1): 122-134.

Chang, A.S., Grimm, K.A., and White, L.D. 1998. Diatomaceous sediments from the Miocene Monterey Formation, California: A lamina-scale investigation of biological, ecological, and sedimentary processes. Palaios 13: 439-458 (awarded best paper of the year for this journal by the SEPM).

Grimm, K.A., 1998. There's no substitute for phosphate: Looming fertilizer ore problems threaten our food security. Monitor: 7(4) 18-21.

Grimm, K.A. and Orange, D., 1997. Syn-sedimentary fracturing, fluid migration and subaqueous mass wasting: Intrastratal microfractured zones in laminated diatomaceous sediments, Miocene Monterey Formation, California, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research 67(3): 615-627.

Grimm, K.A., 1997. Biogenic Sediments, Geophysiology and Earth's Environmental History. PALAIOS 12(4): 299-301 (read this essay online)

Grimm, K.A. and Lange, C.M. and Gill, A.S., 1997. Self-sedimentation of phytoplankton blooms in the geologic record. Sedimentary Geology (Expressed), 110(3-4): 151-161.

Benson, B.E., Grimm, K.A., and Clague, J.J., 1997. Tsunami sand sheets beneath tidal marshes on Northwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Quaternary Research 48: 192-204.

Caplan, M.L., Bustin, R.M., and Grimm, K.A., 1996. Demise of a Devonian-Carboniferous carbonate ramp by eutrophication, Geology 24(8): 715-718

Grimm, K.A. and Lange, C.M. and Gill, A.S., 1996. The biological forcing of hemipelagic sedimentary laminae: Evidence from ODP Site 893, Santa Barbara Basin, California, Journal of Sedimentary Research, 66(3): 613-624.

Glenn, C.R., Fˆllmi, K.F., Riggs, S.R., Baturin, G.N. and Grimm, K.A., et al., (1994). Phosphorus and phosphorites: Sedimentology and environments of formation. Eclogae geol. Helv. 87/3: p. 747-788.

Grimm, K.A., 2000. The Architecture of Living Systems: Insights from the Phytoplankton Microcosm. American Geophysical Union, Chapman Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis, p. 38-38.

Grimm, K.A., Pufahl, P.K., Abed, A.M., Sadaqah, R.M.Y., 2000. Phosphorites feed people: Non-renewable, strategic resources in the Middle East and North Africa. Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Abstract Volume 32, p. A-15.

Grimm, K.A., Pufahl , P. K., Abed, A. M. & Sadaqah, R., 1998. The South Tethyan Phosphorite Giant: Non-renewable, Strategic Resources in Jordan and Earth's Environmental Evolution, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 30, No. 7, October 1998, p. 316.

Grimm, K.A., Chang, A. S., Gill, A.S., Johnson, K.A., 1997. Emerging Perspectives on Laminated Diatomaceous Sediments: Highlighting Results from The Miocene Monterey Formation and ODP Cores. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 81(4), p. 686.

Grimm, K.A., 2000. Phosphorites Feed People: Nonrenewable Resources and Earth's Environmental Evolution in the South Tethyan Phosphorite Giant. Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting, Abstract Volume 32, p. A25.