2008
Allison, P.A., Hesselbo, S.P. and Brett, C.E 2008. Methane seeps on an Early Jurassic dysoxic seafloor. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 000, 000-000. In press.
Hesselbo, S.P. 2008. Sequence stratigraphy and inferred relative sea-level change from the onshore British Jurassic. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, v. 119, 19-34.
Amor, K., Hesselbo, S.P., Porcelli, D., Thackrey, S. & Parnell, J. 2008. A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland. Geology, v. 36, 303-306, doi: 10.1130/G24454A.1
2007
McElwain, J.C., Popa, M.E., Hesselbo, S.P., Haworth, M. and Surlyk, F. 2007. Macroecological responses of terrestrial vegetation to climatic and atmospheric change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in East Greenland. Paleobiology. v.33, 547-573.
Hesselbo, S.P., Jenkyns, H.C., Duarte, L.V., Oliveira, L.C.V. 2007. Reply to comment from J. McArthur on "Carbon-isotope record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Oceanic Anoxic Event from fossil wood and marine carbonate (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal); Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253, 455-470". Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.259, p.640-641, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.002.
Pearce, C.R., Coe, A.L. and Hesselbo, S.P. 2007. Reply to comment from E. Glowniak and H. Wierzbowski on "The mid-Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) positive carbon-isotope excursion recognised from fossil wood in the British Isles; C. R. Pearce, S. P. Hesselbo and A. L. Coe, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v.221, 343-357", doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.11.007
Hesselbo, S.P., Jenkyns, H.C., Duarte, L.V., Oliveira, L.C.V. 2007. Carbon-isotope record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Oceanic Anoxic Event from fossil wood and marine carbonate (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253, 455-470, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.009.
Hesselbo, S.P., McRoberts, C.A. & Palfy, J. 2007. Triassic-Jurassic boundary events: Problems, progress, possibilities. (Introduction to Special Issue on Triassic-Jurassic Boundary Events edited by Hesselbo, S.P., McRoberts, C.A. & Palfy, J.) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 244, 1-10.
Gröcke, D.R., Hesselbo, S.P., Findlay, D.J. (2007). Atypical diagenetic effects on strontium-isotope composition of Early Jurassic belemnites, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44,181-197.
2006
Christian Meister and 12 others. 2006. The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic), Wine Haven, Yorkshire, UK. Episodes, v.29, 93-106.
2005
Haworth, M., Hesselbo, S.P., McElwain, J.C., Robinson, S.A. & Brunt, J.W. 2005. Mid Cretaceous pCO2 based on stomata of the extinct conifer Pseudofrenelopsis (Cheirolepidiaceae). Geology, 33, 749-752.
McElwain, J.C., Murphy, J.W., & Hesselbo, S.P. 2005. Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion of Gondwana coals. Nature, v. 435, p.479-483, doi:10.1038/nature03618.
Pearce, C.R., Hesselbo, S.P. & Coe, A.L. 2005. The mid-Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) positive carbon-isotope excursion recognised from fossil wood in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 221, 343-357.
2004
Hesselbo, S.P., Robinson, S.A. & Surlyk, F. 2004. Reply to discussion by A. Hallam and P.B. Wignall on Sea-level change and facies development across potential Triassic-Jurassic boundary horizons, south west Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 161, p.1053-1056.[PDF]
Hesselbo, S.P., Robinson, S.A. & Surlyk, F. 2004. Sea-level change and facies development across potential Triassic-Jurassic boundary horizons, south west Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 161, p.365-379.[PDF]
Zalasiewicz and 14 others. 2004. Simplifying the stratigraphy of time. Geology, v. 32, p.1-4.
Robinson, S.A. & Hesselbo, S.P., 2004, Fossil-wood carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the non-marine Wealden Group (Lower Cretaceous, southern England). Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 161., p.133-145.[PDF]
2003
Lin, A.T., Watts, A.B. & Hesselbo, S.P., 2003, Cenozoic stratigraphy and subsidence history of the South China Sea margin in the Taiwan region. Basin Research, v. 15, p. 453-478.
Meister, C., Blau, J., Dommergues, J.-L., Feist-Burkhardt, M., Hart, M., Hesselbo, S.P., Hylton, M., Page, K. & Price, G. 2003. A proposal for a stratotype of the Pliensbachian Stage. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, v. 96, p. 275-298.
Huggett, J.M. & Hesselbo, S.P. 2003. Low oxygen levels in earliest Triassic soils: COMMENT. Geology, p. e20. Published Online: June 2003.
Deconninck, J-F., Hesselbo, S.P. Debuisser, N., Averbuch, O., Baudin, F. & Bessa, J. 2003. Environmental controls on clay mineralogy of an Early Jurassic mudrock (Blue Lias Formation, southern England). International Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 92, p.255-266.
Hesselbo, S.P., Morgans-Bell, H.S., McElwain, J.C., Rees P.McA., Robinson, S.A., & Ross, C.E., 2003. Carbon-cycle perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and accompanying changes in the terrestrial paleoenvironment, Journal of Geology, v. 111, p.259-276.[PDF]
2002
Ruffell, A.H., Hesselbo, S.P., Wach, G.D., Simpson, M.I. & Wray, D.S. 2002. Fuller’s Earth (bentonite) in the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian) of Shanklin (Isle of Wight, southern England). Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, v. 113, p. 281-290.
Jenkyns, H.C., Jones, C.E., Gröcke, D.R., Hesselbo, S.P. & Parkinson, D. N. 2002. Chemostratigraphy of the Jurassic System: applications, limitations and implications for palaeoceanography. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 351-378.
Rawson, P.F. and 15 others. 2002. Stratigraphical Procedure. Professional Handbook, Geological Society of London, 57pp. Bath, UK
Hesselbo, S.P., Robinson, S.A., Surlyk, F. & Piasecki, S. 2002. Terrestrial and marine extinction at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary synchronized with major carbon-cycle perturbation: a link to initiation of massive volcanism? Geology, 30, 251-254.[Request a copy]
Robinson, S.A., Andrews, J.E., Hesselbo, S.P., Radley, J.D., Dennis, P.F., Harding, I.C., & Allen, P., 2002, Atmospheric pCO2 and depositional environment from stable-isotope geochemistry of calcrete nodules (Barremian, Lower Cretaceous, Wealden Beds, England). Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 215-224. [PDF]
2001
Williams, C.J., Hesselbo, S.P., Jenkyns, H.C., & Morgans-Bell, H.S., 2001, Quartz silt in mudrocks as a key to sequence stratigraphy (Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Late Jurassic, Wessex Basin, UK). Terra Nova, 13, 449-455. [Request a copy]
Morgans-Bell, H.S., Coe, A.L., Hesselbo, S.P., Jenkyns, H.C., Weedon, G.P., Marshall, J.E.A., Tyson, R.V. & Williams, C.J. 2001. Integrated stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) based on exposures and boreholes in south Dorset, UK. Geological Magazine, 138, 511-539. [PDF]
Link to RGGE project for download of detailed graphic logs
Jenkyns, H.C., Gröcke, D.R. & Hesselbo, S.P. 2001. Nitrogen isotope evidence for water mass denitrification during the early Toarcian (Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event. Paleoceanography, 16, 593-603.
Hesselbo, S.P. & Huggett, J.M. 2001. Glaucony in ocean-margin sequence stratigraphy (Oligocene-Pliocene, Offshore New Jersey, USA; ODP Leg 174A). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71, 598-606. [Request a copy]
Savrda, C.E., Browning, J.V., Krawinkel, H., & Hesselbo, S.P. 2001. Firmground ichnofabrics in deep-water sequence stratigraphy, Tertiary, clinoform-toe deposits, New Jersey slope. Palaios, 16, 294-305.
2000
Hesselbo, S.P. 2000. Late Triassic–Jurassic: disintegrating Pangaea. In: Woodcock, N.H. & Strachan, R.A. (eds). Geological History of Britain and Ireland. Blackwell, Oxford. p. 314-338.
Hesselbo, S.P. & Coe, A.L. 2000. Jurassic sequences of the Hebrides Basin, Isle of Skye, Scotland. In: Graham J.R. & Ryan, A. (eds) Field Trip Guidebook, International Sedimentologists Association Meeting, Dublin, 2000, p.41-58. University of Dublin, Dublin. [PDF]
Hesselbo, S.P., Meister, C, & Gröcke, D.R. 2000. A potential global stratotype for the Sinemurian–Pliensbachian boundary (Lower Jurassic), Robin Hood’s Bay, UK: ammonite faunas and isotope stratigraphy. Geological Magazine, 137, 601-607. [PDF] [See also erratum, Geol. Mag. 2001, 138, 235-236.] [PDF]
Hesselbo, S.P., Gröcke, D.R., Jenkyns, H.C., Bjerrum, C.J., Farrimond, P.L., Morgans-Bell, H.S. & Green, O. 2000. Massive dissociation of gas hydrates during a Jurassic Oceanic Anoxic Event. Nature, 406, 392-395.
Coe, A.L. & Hesselbo, S.P. 2000. Discussion of Hallam (1999). “Evidence of sea-level fall in sequence stratigraphy: examples from the Jurassic” Geology, 28, 95. [Request a copy]
Metzger, J.M., Flemings, P.B., Mountain, G., Christie-Blick, N., Mountain, G.S., Austin, J.A. & Hesselbo, S.P. 2000. Late Miocene to Pleistocene sequences at the New Jersey outer continental shelf (ODP Leg 174A, Sites 1071 and 1072). Sedimentary Geology, 134, 149-180.
1999
Hesselbo, S.P. & Coe, A.L. 1999. Discussion of De Wet (1998). Journal of Sedimentary Research, 69, 965-967.
Hesselbo, S.P., Oates, M.J. & Jenkyns, H.C. 1999. Reply to discussion by N. Morton of “The lower Lias Group of the Hebrides Basin”. Scottish Journal of Geology, 35, 3-4.
Morgans, H.S. Hesselbo, S.P., & Spicer, R.A. 1999. The seasonal climate of the Early–Middle Jurassic, Cleveland Basin, England. Palaios, 14, 261-272.
Gröcke, D.R., Hesselbo, S.P., & Jenkyns, H.C. 1999. Carbon isotope composition of Lower Cretaceous fossil wood: ocean–atmosphere chemistry and relation to sea-level change. Geology, 27, 155-158. [Request a copy]
Weedon, G.P., Jenkyns, H.C., Coe, A.L. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1999. Astronomical calibration of the Jurassic time scale from cyclostratigraphy in British mudrock formations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London A, 357, 1787-1813.
Page, K.N., Bloos, G., Bessa, J.L., Fitzpatrick, M., Hart, M, Hesselbo, S.P., Hylton, M., Morris, A., & Randall, D.E. 1999. East Quantoxhead, Somerset: a candidate Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Sinemurian Stage (Lower Jurassic). Proceedings of the International Jurassic Symposium, Vancouver, 1998, R.L. Hall and P.L. Smith (eds). p.163-171.
1998
Hesselbo, S.P. 1998. Basal Wealden of Mupe Bay: a new model. In: Underhill, J.R. (ed). Development and Evolution of the Wessex Basin. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 133, p.349-353.
Hesselbo, S. P. & Jenkyns, H. C. 1998. British Lower Jurassic sequence stratigraphy. In de Graciansky, P. C., Hardenbol, J., Jacquin, T., Farley,M. and Vail, P.R. (eds), Mesozoic–Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, Special Publication of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), 60, 561-581.
Hesselbo, S.P., Oates, M.J. & Jenkyns, H.C. 1998. The lower Lias Group of the Hebrides Basin. Scottish Journal of Geology, 34, 23-60.
de Graciansky, P.C., Jacquin, T. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1998. The Ligurian cycle: an overview of Lower Jurassic 2nd order transgressive-regressive facies cycles in western Europe. In de Graciansky, P. C., Hardenbol, J., Jacquin, T., Farley,M. and Vail, P.R. (eds), Mesozoic–Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, Special Publication of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), 60, 468-479.
de Graciansky, P.C., Dardeau, G., Dommergues, J.L., Durlet, C., Goggin, V., Dumont, T., Hesselbo, S.P., Jacquin, T., Marchand, D., Meister, C., Mouterde, R., Rey, J. & Vail, P.R. 1998. Biostratigraphic correlation of Early Jurassic Sequence Stratigraphy in France and comparisons with some UK sections. In de Graciansky, P. C., Hardenbol, J., Jacquin, T., Farley,M. and Vail, P.R. (eds), Mesozoic–Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, Special Publication of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), 60., 583-622.
1997
Bessa, J.L. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1997. Gamma-ray character and correlation of the Lower Lias, SW Britain. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 108, 113-129.
Hughes, N.C. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1997. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the St. Lawrence Formation, Upper Cambrian of the northern Mississippi Valley. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology,. No. 91, 50pp.
Hesselbo, S.P. 1997. Discussion of Macquaker, J.H.S. & Taylor, K. 1996. "A sequence stratigraphic interpretation of a mudstone-dominated succession: the Lower Jurassic Cleveland Ironstone Formation, UK." Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 913-916.
1996
Hesselbo, S.P. 1996. Spectral gamma-ray logs in relation to clay mineralogy and sequence stratigraphy, Cenozoic of the Atlantic margin, offshore New Jersey. In: Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Blum, P., & Twitchell, D. (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 150, New Jersey continental slope and rise. p.411-422.
Hesselbo, S.P. & Parkinson, D.N. 1996. Sequence stratigraphy in British geology. In: Hesselbo, S.P. & Parkinson, D.N. (eds). Sequence Stratigraphy in British Geology. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London 103, p.1-7.
Lorenzo, J.M. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1996. Seismic-to-well correlation at Leg 150 continental slope sites In. Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Blum, P., and Twitchell, D. (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 150, New Jersey continental slope and rise. p.293-307.
Miller, K.G., Mountain, G.S., the Leg 150 Shipboard Party and Members of the New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project. 1996. Drilling and dating New Jersey Oligocene-Miocene sequences: ice volume, global sea level, and Exxon records. Science, 271 (5252), p.1092-1095.
1995
Hesselbo, S.P. & Jenkyns, H.C. 1995. A comparison of the Hettangian to Bajocian successions of Dorset and Yorkshire. In:Taylor, P.D. (ed.) Field Geology of the British Jurassic. Geological Society of London. p105-150.
1994
Jones, C.E., Jenkyns, H.C., Coe, A.L. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1994. Strontium isotopic variations in Jurassic and Cretaceous seawater. Geochimica, Cosmochimica Acta, 58, p.3061-3074.
Jones, C.E., Jenkyns, H.C. & Hesselbo, S.P. 1994. Strontium isotopes in Early Jurassic seawater. Geochimica, Cosmochimica Acta, 58, p.1285-1301.
Mountain, G.S., Miller, K.G., Blum, P., et al. 1994. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 150. New Jersey Continental Slope and Rise. 885 pp.
1992
Hesselbo, S.P. & Palmer, T.J.P. 1992. Reworked early diagenetic concretions and the bioerosional origin of a regional discontinuity within British Jurassic marine mudstones. Sedimentology, 39, p.1045-1065.
Hesselbo, S.P. 1992. Aglaspidida (Arthropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin. Journal of Palaeontology, 66, p.885-923.
1991
Hesselbo, S.P. & Allen, P.A. 1991. Major erosion surfaces in the basal Wealden Beds, Lower Cretaceous, south Dorset. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 148, p.105-113.
1990
Hesselbo, S.P., Coe, A.L., Batten, D.J. & Wach, G.D. 1990. Stratigraphic significance of the Lower Greensand (Aptian) in the Calne area, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 101, p.265-278
Hesselbo, S.P., Coe, A.L. & Jenkyns, H.C. 1990. Recognition and documentation of depositional sequences from outcrop: an example from the Aptian and Albian of the Wessex Basin in south-east England. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 147, p.540-559.
1989
Hesselbo, S.P. 1989. The aglaspidid arthropod Beckwithia from the Middle Cambrian of Utah and the Upper Cambrian of Wisconsin. Journal of Paleontology, 63, p.636-642.
1988
Hesselbo, S.P. 1988. Trace fossils of Cambrian aglaspidid arthropods. Lethaia, 21, p.139-146.
1987
Hesselbo, S.P. 1987. The biostratinomy of Dikelocephalus sclerites: implications for the use of trilobite attitude data. Palaios, 2, p.605-608.
1986
Hesselbo, S.P. 1986. Pseudoleucite from the Gardar of South Greenland. Bulletin of the Danish Geological Society, 35, p.11-17.
1984
Hesselbo, S.P. & Trewin, N.H. 1984. Deposition, diagenesis and structures of the Cheese Bay Shrimp Bed, Lower Carboniferous, East Lothian. Scottish Journal of Geology, 20, p.273-288.