• Clastic Sedimentology
• Surface Processes
• Depositional responses to climate change, sea-level change and active tectonics

Responses of large river systems to climate and sea-level change

Coastal evolution and sea-level change

Geochronology of late Pleistocene and Holocene highstands

Current field areas include the SE US Atlantic coast, the US Gulf Coastal Plain, large rivers of southern France, the lower Mississippi Valley, glacio-fluvial systems of west Greenland, the Platte Valley of Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, and the Sahara Desert in Tunisia.

• Ph.D., 1991, The University of Texas at Austin
• M.S., 1987, The University of Texas at Austin
• B.S., 1983, The University of Texas at Austin

Rittenour, T. M., Goble, R. J., and BLUM, M. D. (2003) Luminescence geochronology of late Pleistocene braid channelbelts of the Mississippi River. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 22, pp. 1105-1110.

Straffin, E. C. and BLUM, M. D. (2002) Holocene fluvial response to climate change and human activities, Burgundy, France. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. v. 81.

BLUM, M. D., Carter, A. E., Zayac, T., and Goble, R. J. (2002) Middle Holocene Sea-Level and Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Coast (USA). Journal of Coastal Research. Special Issue 36, pp. 65-80.

Straffin, E. C and BLUM, M. D. (2002) Late and post-glacial fluvial response of the Loire River, Burgundy, France, to climate change. in Bravard, J.-P. (ed.) The Rivers Have a History: Proceedings of the CNRS Colloqium. Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique, France.

BLUM, M. D., Misner, T. J., Collins, E. S., Scott, D. B., Morton, R. A. and Aslan, A. (2001) Middle Holocene sea-level rise and highstand at +2m, Texas Gulf Coast. Journal of Sedimentary Research. v. 71, pp. 581-588.

BLUM, M. D. and Straffin, E. C. (2001) Fluvial response to external forcing: examples from the Massif Central of France, the Texas Coastal Plain (USA), the Sahara of Tunisia, and the Lower Mississippi Valley (USA). pp. 195-228 in Maddy, D. and Macklin, M. A. (eds.) River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. Balkema Press.

Colls, A., Stokes, S., BLUM, M. D., and Straffin, E. C. (2000) Age limits on late Quaternary evolution of the upper Loire River. Quaternary Science Reviews (Quaternary Geochronology). v. 20, pp. 743-750.

Stokes, S., Bray, H. E., and BLUM, M. D. (2000) Optical resetting in large drainage basins: tests of zeroing assumptions using single-aliquot procedures. Quaternary Science Reviews (Quaternary Geochronology). v. 20, pp. 879-885.

BLUM, M. D. and Carter, A. E. (2000) Middle Holocene evolution of the Central Texas Coast: Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. v. 50, pp. 331-341.

BLUM, M. D. and Tornqvist, T. E. (2000) Fluvial response to climate and sea-level change: a review and look forward. Sedimentology. v. 47 (Supplement), pp. 1-48.

BLUM, M. D., Guccione, M. J., Wysocki, D. and Robnett, P. C. (2000) Late Pleistocene evolution of the Mississppi valley, southern Missouri to Arkansas. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 112, pp. 221-235.

Morton, R. A., Paine, J. G., and BLUM, M. D. (2000) Responses of stable bay margins and barrier island systems to Holocene sea-level changes, western Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Sedimentary Research. v.70, pp. 478-490.

Straffin, E. C., BLUM, M. D., and Stokes, S. (2000) Alluvial stratigraphy of the Loire and Arroux Rivers, Burgundy, France. Quaternaire. v. 10, pp. 271-282.

Swezey, C. S., Lancaster, N., Kocurek, G., Deynoux, M., BLUM, M. D., Price, D. M., and Pion, J.-C. (1999) Response of aeolian systems to Holocene climatic and hydrologic changes on the northern margin of the Sahara: a high resolution record from the Chott Rharsa basin, Tunisia. The Holocene. v. 9, pp. 141-147.

Aslan, A. and BLUM, M. D. (1999) Contrasting styles of Holocene avulsion, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. in Smith, N. D. and Rogers, J. J. (eds.) Fluvial Sedimentology VI. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 28, pp. 193-209.

BLUM, M. D. and Price, D. M. (1998) Quaternary alluvial plain construction in response to interacting glacio-eustatic and climatic controls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. pp. 31-48 in Shanley, K. and McCabe, P. (eds.) Relative Role of Eustasy, Climate, and Tectonism in Continental Rocks. Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Special Publication 59.

BLUM, M. D., Kocurek, G., Deynoux, M., Swezey, C., Lancaster, N., Price, D., and Pion, J.-C. (1998) Quaternary wadi-lacustrine-aeolian depositional cycles and sequences, Chott Rharsa Basin, Tunisia. pp. 539-552 in Alsharhan, A. S., Glennie, K., Whittle, G. L., and Kendall, C. G. St.C. (eds.) Quaternary Deserts and Climatic Change. Balkema Press.