Dr. Gary Acton
Publications
Childress, L.B., Acton, G.D., Percuoco, V.P., and Hastedt, M., 2024. The LILY database: linking lithology to IODP physical, chemical, and magnetic properties data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(2):e2023GC011287.
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Blum, P., Rhinehart, B., and Acton, G.D., 2020. International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 384 Preliminary Report. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.384.2020
Lund, S., Acton, G., Clement, B., Okada, M., and Keigwin, L., 2020. On the relationship between palaeomagnetic secular variation and excursions--records from MIS 8-ODP Leg 172. Geophysical Journal International, 225(2):1129-1141. https://doi.org/
Nichols, M.D., Xuan, C., Crowhurst, S., Hodell, D.A., Richter, C., Acton, G.D., and Wilson, P.A., 2020. Climate-induced variability in Mediterranean Outflow to the North Atlantic Ocean during the late Pleistocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(9):e2020PA003947. https://doi.org/
De La Houssaye, B., Flaming, P., Nixon, Q., and Acton, G., 2019. Machine learning and deep learning applications for International Ocean Discovery Program geoscience research. SMU Data Science Review, 2(3):9. https://scholar.smu.edu/datasciencereview/vol2/iss3/9
Jovane, L., Florindo, F., Acton, G., Ohneiser, C., Sagnotti, L., Strada, E., Verosub, K.L., and et al., 2019. Miocene glacial dynamics recorded by variations in magnetic properties in the ANDRILL-2A drill core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(3):2297-2312. https://doi.org/
Robertson, A.H.F., Kutterolf, S., Avery, A., Baxter, A.T., Petronotis, K., Acton, G.D., Carvallo, C., and Schindlbeck, J.C., 2018. Depositional setting, provenance, and tectonic-volcanic setting of Eocene-Recent deep-sea sediments of the oceanic Izu-Bonin forearc, northwest Pacific (IODP Expedition 352). International Geology Review, 60(15):1816-1854. https://doi.org/
Acton, G., Morris, A., Musgrave, R., Zhao, X., and IODP SRM Personnel, 2017. Assessment of the New Superconducting Rock Magnetometer (SRM) on the JOIDES Resolution. http://iodp.tamu.edu/publications/JRSO/SRM_Workshop_2017.pdf
Levy, R., Harwood, D., Florindo, F., Sangiorgi, F., Tripati, R., von Eynatten, H., Gasson, E., Kuhn, G., Tripati, A., DeConto, R., Fielding, C., Field, B., Golledge, N., McKay, R., Naish, T., Olney, M., Pollard, D., Schouten, S., Talarico, F., Warny, S., Willmott, V., Acton, G., Panter, K., Paulsen, T., and Taviani, M., 2016. Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO
2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(13):3453-3458. https://doi.org/
van der Schee, M., Sierro, F.J., Jiménez-Espejo, F.J., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Flecker, R., Flores, J.A., Acton, G., Gutjahr, M., Grunert, P., Garcia-Gallardo, A., and Andersen, N., 2016. Evidence of early bottom water current flow after the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Gulf of Cadiz. Marine Geology, 380:315-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.04.005
Griener, K.W., Warny, S., Askin, R., and Acton, G., 2015. Early to middle Miocene vegetation history of Antarctica supports eccentricity-paced warming intervals during the Antarctic icehouse phase. Global and Planetary Change, 127:67-78. https://doi.org/
Hodell, D., Lourens, L., Crowhurst, S., Konijnendijk, T., Tjallingii, R., Jiménez-Espejo, F., Skinner, L., Tzedakis, P.C., and the Shackleton Site Project Members, 2015. A reference time scale for Site U1385 (Shackleton Site) on the SW Iberian Margin. Global and Planetary Change, 133:49-64. https://doi.org/
Petronotis, K.E., Acton, G.D., Jovane, L., Yongxiang, L., and Zhao, X., 2015. Data report: magnetic properties of sediments and basalts from the Costa Rica subduction margin (Expeditions 334 and 344). In Harris, R.N., Sakaguchi, A., Petronotis, K., and the Expedition 344 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 344: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Dekkers, M.J., Heslop, D., Herrero-Bervera, E., Acton, G., and Krasa, D., 2014. Insights into magmatic processes and hydrothermal alteration of in situ superfast spreading ocean crust at ODP/IODP Site 1256 from a cluster analysis of rock magnetic properties. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(8):3430-3447. https://doi.org/
Hernández-Molina, F.J., Stow, D.A.V., Alvarez-Zarikian, C.A., Acton, G., Bahr, A., Balestra, B., Ducassou, E., Flood, R., Flores, J.-A., Furota, S., Grunert, P., Hodell, D., Jimenez-Espejo, F., Kim, J.K., Krissek, L., Kuroda, J., Li, B., Llave, E., Lofi, J., Lourens, L., Miller, M., Nanayama, F., Nishida, N., Richter, C., Roque, C., Pereira, H., Sanchez Goñi, M.F., Sierro, F.J., Singh, A.D., Sloss, C., Takashimizu, Y., Tzanova, A., Voelker, A., Williams, T., and Xuan, C., 2014. Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic. Science, 344(6189):1244-1250. https://doi.org/
Yamamoto, Y., Yamazaki, T., Acton, G.D., Richter, C., Guidry, E.P., and Ohneiser, C., 2014. Palaeomagnetic study of IODP Sites U1331 and U1332 in the equatorial Pacific: extending relative geomagnetic palaeointensity observations through the Oligocene and into the Eocene. Geophysical Journal International, 196(2):694-711. https://doi.org/
Ohneiser, C., Acton, G., Channell, J.E.T., Wilson, G.S., Yamamoto, Y., and Yamazaki, T., 2013. A middle Miocene relative paleointensity record from the equatorial Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 374:227-238. https://doi.org/
Stow, D.A.V., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 339 Scientists (including G.D. Acton), 2013. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 339: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). https://doi.org/
Toffanin, F., Agnini, C., Rio, D., Acton, G., and Westerhold, T., 2013. Middle Eocene to early Oligocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy at IODP Site U1333 (equatorial Pacific). Micropaleontology, 59(1):69-82. https://www.jstor.org/
Wilkens, R.H., Dickens, G.R., Tian, J., Backman, J., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists (including G.D. Acton), 2013. Data report: revised composite depth scales for Sites U1336, U1337, and U1338. In Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). https://doi.org/
Yamazaki, T., Yamamoto, Y., Acton, G., Guidry, E.P., and Richter, C., 2013. Rock-magnetic artifacts on long-term relative paleointensity variations in sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(1):29-43. https://doi.org/
Guidry, E.P., Richter, C., Acton, G.D., Channell, J.E.T., Evans, H.F., Ohneiser, C., Yamamoto, Y., and Yamazaki, T., 2012. Oligocene-Miocene magnetostratigraphy of deep-sea sediments from the equatorial Pacific (IODP Site U1333). In Jovane, L., Herrero-Bervera, E., Hinnov, L.A., and Housen, B. (Eds.), Magnetic Methods and the Timing of Geological Processes. Geological Society Special Publication, 373: 13-27. https://doi.org/
Naafs, B.D.A., Hefter, J., Acton, G., Haug, G.H., Martinez-Garcia, A., Pancost, R., and Stein, R., 2012. Strengthening of North American dust sources during the late Pliocene (2.7 Ma). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-318:8-19. https://doi.org/
Ohno, M., Hayashi, T., Komatsu, F., Murakami, F., Zhao, M., Guyodo, Y., Acton, G., Evans, H.F., and Kanamatsu, T., 2012. A detailed paleomagnetic record between 2.1 and 2.75 Ma at IODP Site U1314 in the North Atlantic: geomagnetic excursions and the Gauss-Matuyama transition. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(5):Q12Z39. https://doi.org/
Pälike, H., Lyle, M.W., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Ridgwell, A., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., Acton, G., Anderson, L., Backman, J., Baldauf, J., Beltran, C., Bohaty, S.M., Bown, P., Busch, W., Channell, J.E.T., Chun, C.O.J., Delaney, M., Dewangan, P., Dunkley Jones, T., Edgar, K.M., Evans, H., Fitch, P., Foster, G.L., Gussone, N., Hasegawa, H., Hathorne, E.C., Hayashi, H., Herrle, J.O., Holbourn, A., Hovan, S., Hyeong, K., Iijima, K., Ito, T., Kamikuri, S.-i., Kimoto, K., Kuroda, J., Leon-Rodriguez, L., Malinverno, A., Moore Jr, T.C., Murphy, B.H., Murphy, D.P., Nakamura, H., Ogane, K., Ohneiser, C., Richter, C., Robinson, R., Rohling, E.J., Romero, O., Sawada, K., Scher, H., Schneider, L., Sluijs, A., Takata, H., Tian, J., Tsujimoto, A., Wade, B.S., Westerhold, T., Wilkens, R., Williams, T., Wilson, P.A., Yamamoto, Y., Yamamoto, S., Yamazaki, T., and Zeebe, R.E., 2012. A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth. Nature, 488(7413):609-614. https://doi.org/
Herrero-Bervera, E., Acton, G., Krása, D., Rodriguez, S., and Dekkers, M.J., 2011. Rock magnetic characterization through an intact sequence of oceanic crust, IODP Hole 1256D. In Petrovský, E., Ivers, D., Harinarayana, T., and Herrero-Bervera, E. (Eds.), IAGA Special Sopron Book Series (Volume 1): The Earth’s Magnetic Interior. Dordrecht, Netherlands (Springer). https://doi.org/
Herrero-Bervera, E., and Acton, G., 2011. Absolute paleointensities from an intact section of oceanic crust cored at ODP/IODP Site 1256 in the equatorial Pacific. In Petrovský, E., Ivers, D., Harinarayana, T., and Herrero-Bervera, E. (Eds.), The Earth’s Magnetic Interior. Dordrecht (Springer Netherlands), 181-193. https://doi.org/
Krása, D., Herrero-Bervera, E., Acton, G., and Rodriguez, S., 2011. Magnetic mineralogy of a complete oceanic crustal section (IODP Hole 1256D). In Petrovský, E., Ivers, D., Harinarayana, T., and Herrero-Bervera, E. (Eds.), The Earth’s Magnetic Interior. IAGA Special Sopron Book Series, 1: 169-179. https://doi.org/
Hayashi, T., Ohno, M., Acton, G., Guyodo, Y., Evans, H.F., Kanamatsu, T., Komatsu, F., and Murakami, F., 2010. Millennial-scale iceberg surges after intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(9):Q09Z20. https://doi.org/
Kanamatsu, T., Acton, G.D., Evans, H., Guyodo, Y.J.B., and Ohno, M., 2010. Data report: Pleistocene paleomagnetic and rock magnetic records from IODP Site U1312 on the southern flank of the King’s Trough. In Channell, J.E.T., Kanamatsu, T., Sato, T., Stein, R., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., Malone, M.J., and the Expedition 303/306 Scientists, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 303/306: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). https://doi.org/
Lyle, M., Pälike, H., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the IODP Expeditions 320/321 Science Party (including G.D. Acton), 2010. The Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320 and 321: building a 50-million-year-long environmental record of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Scientific Drilling, 9:4-15. https://doi.org/
Expedition 320T Scientists (including G.D. Acton), 2009. USIO Sea Trials and Assessment of Readiness Transit (START): Ontong Java Plateau. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 320T. https://doi.org/
Kanamatsu, T., Ohno, M., Acton, G., Evans, H., and Guyodo, Y., 2009. Rock magnetic properties of the Gardar Drift sedimentary sequence, Site IODP U1314, North Atlantic: implications for bottom current change through the mid-Pleistocene. Marine Geology, 265(1-2):31-39. https://doi.org/
Jovane, L., Acton, G., Florindo, F., and Verosub, K.L., 2008. Geomagnetic field behavior at high latitudes from a paleomagnetic record from Eltanin core 27-21 in the Ross Sea sector, Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 267(3-4):435-443. https://doi.org/
Ohno, M., Murakami, F., Komatsu, F., Guyodo, Y., Acton, G., Kanamatsu, T., Evans, H.F., and Nanayama, F., 2008. Paleomagnetic directions of the Gauss-Matuyama polarity transition recorded in drift sediments (IODP Site U1314) in the North Atlantic. Earth, Planets and Space, 60(9):pagese13-e16. https://doi.org/
Petronotis, K., Acton, G., and Herrero-Bervera, E., 2008. Vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) paleointensity determinations. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 89(53):GP43C-07. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2008/FM/GP43C-07.html
Richter, C., Acton, G., Endris, C., and Radsted, M., 2007. Handbook for shipboard paleomagnetists. Ocean Drilling Program Technical Note, 34. https://doi.org/
Harris, R.N., and the IODP Expedition 306 Scientists (including G.D. Acton), 2006. Borehole observatory installations on IODP Expedition 306 reconstruct bottom-water temperature changes in the Norwegian Sea. Scientific Drilling, 2:28-31. https://doi.org/
Kasahara, J., Stephen, R.A., Acton, G.D., and Frey, F.A. (Eds.), 2006. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 200: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Stein, R., Kanamatsu, T., Alvarez Zarikian, C., Higgins, S.M., Channell, J.E.T., Aboud, E., Ohno, M., Acton, G.D., Akimoto, K., Bailey, I., Bjorklund, K.R., Evans, H., Nielsen, S.H.H., Fang, N., Ferretti, P., Gruetzer, J., Guyodo, Y.J.B., Hagino, K., Harris, R., Hatakeda, K., Hefter, J., Judge, S.A., Kulhanek, D.K., Nanayama, F., Rashid, H., Sierro Sanchez, F.J., Voelker, A., and Zhai, Q., 2006. North Atlantic paleoceanography; the last five million years. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 87(13):129. https://doi.org/
Teagle, D.A.H., Wilson, D.S., Acton, G.D., and Vanko, D.A. (Eds.), 2006. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 206: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Wilson, D.S., Teagle, D.A.H., Alt, J.C., Banerjee, N.R., Umino, S., Miyashita, S., Acton, G.D., Anma, R., Barr, S.R., Belghoul, A., Carlut, J., Christie, D.M., Coggon, R.M., Cooper, K.M., Cordier, C., Crispini, L., Durand, S.R., Einaudi, F., Galli, L., Gao, Y., Geldmacher, J., Gilbert, L.A., Hayman, N.W., Herrero-Bervera, E., Hirano, N., Holter, S., Ingle, S., Jiang, S., Kalberkamp, U., Kerneklian, M., Koepke, J., Laverne, C., Vasquez, H.L.L., Maclennan, J., Morgan, S., Neo, N., Nichols, H.J., Park, S.-H., Reichow, M.K., Sakuyama, T., Sano, T., Sandwell, R., Scheibner, B., Smith-Duque, C.E., Swift, S.A., Tartarotti, P., Tikku, A.A., Tominaga, M., Veloso, E.A., Yamasaki, T., Yamazaki, S., and Ziegler, C., 2006. Drilling to gabbro in intact ocean crust. Science, 312(5776):1016-1020. https://doi.org/
Expedition Scientists (including G.D. Acton), 2005. North Atlantic Climate 2. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 306. https://doi.org/
Shipboard Scientific Party (including G.D. Acton), 2005. North Atlantic climate: ice sheet-ocean atmosphere interactions on millennial timescales during the late Neogene-Quaternary using a paleointensity-assisted chronology for the North Atlantic. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 303. https://doi.org/
Teagle, D.H., Wilson, D.S., the ODP Leg 206 Shipboard Party, and Acton, G.D., 2004. The “road to the MoHole” four decades on: deep drilling at Site 1256. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 85(49):521-531. https://doi.org/
McGuire, J.C., and Acton, G.D., 2003. Composite depth scales for the Japan Trench, ODP Leg 186. In Suyehiro, K., Sacks, I.S., Acton, G.D., and Oda, M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results. 186: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Stephen, R.A., Kasahara, J., Acton, G.D., et al., 2003. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 200: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Suyehiro, K., Sacks, I.S., Acton, G.D., and Oda, M. (Eds.), 2003. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 186: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Wilson, D.S., Teagle, D.A.H., Acton, G.D., et al., 2003. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 206: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Acton, G.D., Okada, M., Clement, B.M., Lund, S.P., and Williams, T., 2002. Paleomagnetic overprints in ocean sediment cores and their relationship to shear deformation caused by piston coring. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 107:2067-2081. https://doi.org/
Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., and Ramsay, A.T.S., 2002. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Guyodo, Y., Acton, G.D., Brachfeld, S., and Channell, J.E.T., 2001. A sedimentary paleomagnetic record of the Matuyama chron from the Western Antarctic margin (ODP Site 1101). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 191(1-2):61-74. https://doi.org/
Keigwin, L.D., Rio, D., Acton, G.D., and Arnold, E. (Eds.), 2001. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 172: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Yang, Z., Clement, B.M., Acton, G.D., Lund, S.P., Okada, M., and Williams, T., 2001. Records of the Cobb Mountain Subchron from the Bermuda Rise (ODP LEG 172). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 193(3):303-313. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X01005295
Leckie, R.M., Sigurdsson, H., Acton, G.D., and Draper, G. (Eds.), 2000. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 165: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Sacks, I.S., Suyehiro, K., Acton, G.D., et al., 2000. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 186: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D., et al., 1999. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 178: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Keigwin, L.D., Rio, D., Acton, G.D., et al., 1998. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 172: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
ODP Leg 172 Scientific Party, Lund, S.P., Acton, G., Clement, B., Hastedt, M., Okada, M., and Williams, T., 1998. Geomagnetic field excursions occurred often during the last million years. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 79(14):178-179. https://doi.org/
Sigurdsson, H., Leckie, R.M., Acton, G.D., et al., 1997. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports, 165: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/
Acton, G.D., Petronotis, K.E., Cape, C.D., Ilg, S.R., Gordon, R.G., and Bryan, P.C., 1996. A test of the geocentric axial dipole hypothesis from an analysis of the skewness of the central marine magnetic anomaly. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 144(3):337-346. https://doi.org/
Acton, G.D., and Petronotis, K.E., 1994. Studying oceanic plate motions with magnetic data. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 75(5):49-52. https://doi.org/
Petronotis, K.E., Gordon, R.G., and Acton, G.D., 1994. A 57 Ma Pacific plate palaeomagnetic pole determined from a skewness analysis of crossings of marine magnetic anomaly 25r. Geophysical Journal International, 118(3):529-554. https://doi.org/
Petronotis, K.E., Gordon, R.G., and Acton, G.D., 1992. Determining palaeomagnetic poles and anomalous skewness from marine magnetic anomaly skewness data from a single plate. Geophysical Journal International, 109(1):209-224. https://doi.org/