Carboniferous Research Publications Updated: March 2003


  • Morris, R., Rollins, H. B., and G. D. Shaak. 1972. A new ophiuroid from the Brush Creek Shale (Conemaugh Group, Pennsylvanian) of western Pennsylvania. Journ. of Paleontology 47.

  • Cain, B., Donahue, J., Payne, M., Rollins, H. B., Schmidt, V. A. and S. Shulik. 1977. Preliminary paleomagnetic results from Pennsylvanian Conemaugh Group sediments in southwestern Pennsylvania. Abstract, EOS Trans. American Geophysical Union 58: 375.

  • Payne, M., Shulik, S., Cain, B., Schmidt, V. A., Donahue, J., and H. B. Rollins. 1978. A Pennsylvanian (Conemaughian) pole position for the Brush Creek Limestone from western Pennsylvania, U.S.A., abstract, Trans. American Geophysical Union 59: 264.

  • Donahue, J. and H. B. Rollins. 1979. Depositional environments and paleogeography of Lower Conemaugh marine units in western Pennsylvania. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program.

  • Donahue, J. and H. B. Rollins, 1979. Coal geology of Northern Appalachians. 9th International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Guidebook, 50p.

  • Cain, B., Payne, M. A., Shulik, S., Donahue, J., Rollins, H. B., and V. A. Schmidt. 1979. The recovery of paleomagnetic polarities from cyclothemic sediments in the Carboniferous Appalachian Basin, U.S.A.. Geophysical Research Letters 6: 261-264.

  • Donahue, J. and H. B. Rollins. 1980. Relevance of PACs to cyclothemic deposition in the Appalachian Basin. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program.

  • Payne, M. A., Shulik, S., Donahue, J., Rollins, H. B. and V. A. Schmidt. 1981. Paleomagnetic poles for Brush Creek Limestone and Buffalo Siltstone units from southwestern Pennsylvania. Physics of Earth Interiors 25: 113-118.

  • Marrs, T. and H. B. Rollins. 1982. Lithologic characteristics and depositional environments of the non-marine Benwood Limestone (Upper Pennsylvanian) of the Dunkard Basin in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program: 38.

  • Brezinski, D. K. and H. B. Rollins. 1983. Genetic lithostratigraphy of the Mauch Chunk Group in the central Appalachians. Mtg.Appalachian Basin Industrial Associates (ABIA), Syracuse, NY, p.57-76.

  • Busch, R.M., Wells, K, and H. B. Rollins. 1984. Correlation of Carboniferous strata using a hierarchy of transgressive - regressive units. ABIA (Appalachian Basin Industrial Assoc.), Columbus, Ohio, p. 4-44.

  • Busch, R. M. and H. B. Rollins. 1984. Correlation of Carboniferous strata using a hierarchy of transgressive - regressive units. Geology 12: 471-474.

  • Busch, R. M. and H. B. Rollins. 1985. Correlation of Carboniferous strata using a hierarchy of transgressive - regressive units - Reply. Geology 13: 316-317.

  • Anderson, J. R. and H. B. Rollins. 1985. Microgastropod biofacies of the Upper Carboniferous System in the northern Appalachian (Dunkard) Basin. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program: 514.

  • Morrison, J. O., Brand, U. and H. B. Rollins. 1985. Paleoenvironmental and chemical analysis of the Pennsylvanian Brush Creek fossil allochems, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 10th International Congress on Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology. Madrid, Spain, Compte. Rendu: 271-280.

  • Busch, R. M., West, R. R. and H. B. Rollins. 1987. Comment and reply on "Sealevel curve for Pennsylvanian eustatic marine transgressive - regressive depositional cycles along mid-continent outcrop belt, North America". Geology 15: 276-278.

  • Rollins, H. B. and S. K. Kennedy. 1988. Carboniferous microgastropods and hierarchal genetic stratigraphy: Tools for refined evaluation of stochasticism vs. competition in structuring marine communities. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Programs 20: 386.

  • Rollins, H. B., West, R. R., and R. M. Busch. 1988. Paleocommunity replacement and hierarchal genetic stratigraphy. S.E.P.M. Annual Midyear Mtg., abstract, v. 46.

  • Rollins, H. B., West, R. R., and R. M. Busch. Hierarchal genetic stratigraphy: Implications for the paleobiological record. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program 20: 127.

  • West, R. R., Busch, R. M., and H. B. Rollins. 1988. Hierarchal genetic stratigraphy in Mid-continent Upper Paleozoic rocks. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program 20: 132.

  • Busch, R. M., Rollins, H. B. and R. R. West. 1989. Criteria for recognition of genetic surfaces and genetic units in stratigraphic sequences. Geol. Soc. America, Abstract with Program 21(6).

  • Busch, R. M., Rollins, H. B. and R. R. West. 1989. Recognition of genetic surfaces and genetic units in Late Paleozoic stratigraphic sequences: Middle and Late Pennsylvanian chronostratigraphic boundaries in North-central Texas: Glacial-eustatic events, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology, Part. II. Contributed Papers, Texas Tech University Studies in Geology 2: 325-331.

  • Rollins, H. B., Busch, R. M., and R. R. West. 1989. Field recognition of small-scale genetic surfaces. Kansas Geol. Survey, Subsurface Geology Series 12: 43.

  • Yu, J., Rollins, H. B. and R. M. Busch. 1990. Sequence stratigraphy vs. hierarchal genetic stratigraphy: comparative terminology and practice. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program 22(2): 76.

  • Linsley, D. and H. B. Rollins. 1991. Conemaugh basin margin features. Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program 23(1): 59.

  • Brindle, W. D., Rollins, H. B. and S. K. Kennedy. 1992. Morphological analysis of Fusulinacea from the Putnam Hill Limestone Member of the Allegheny Formation (DesMoinesian, Northern Appalachian Basin). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program.

  • Shaulis, J. R. and H. B. Rollins. 1992. Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Pine Creek interval (Conemaugh Group, Missourian), Youghiogheny River Lake, Fayette Co. and Somerset Co., PA. Geol. Soc. America, Northeastern Sect, Abstract with Program 24(3): 75.

  • Zei, R. W. and H. B. Rollins. 1992. Marine intervals of Lower to Lower Middle Pennsylvanian ("Pottsville") rocks of the northern Appalachian Basin. Journal Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, abstract, v. 65: 205.

  • Risek, R. M., Rollins, H. B. and W. H. Kneller. 1993. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Harlem/Ames coal beds (Glenshaw Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian), Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program A-192.

  • Risek, R. M., Rollins, H. B., Kneller, W.A., and A. Fleming. 1994. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Harlem and Ames Coals (Upper Pennsylvanian Glenshaw Formation, Appalachian Basin). 11th Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference: 28.

  • Risek, R. M., Rollins, H. B., Dulong, F., and W. A. Kneller. 1994. X-ray diffraction analysis of the Harlem and Ames Coal beds (Glenshaw Formation, Upper Pennsylvanian). Geol. Soc. America, Abstracts with Program 26(7): A.215.