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Andrew La Croix

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UQ-SDAAP
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Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (20)
Conference Papers (2)
Research Reports (10)

Book Chapters

Dashtgard, Shahin E. and La Croix, Andrew D. (2015). Sedimentological trends across the tidal–fluvial transition, Fraser River, Canada. Developments in Sedimentology Volume 68: Fluvial-Tidal Sedimentology. (pp. 111-126) edited by Philip Ashworth, James Best and Daniel Parsons. Amsterdam , The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-444-63529-7.00005-5
Gingras, Murray K., Baniak, Greg M., Gordon, Mark, Hovikoski, Jussi, Konhauser, Kurt O., La Croix, Andrew D., Lemiski, Ryan T., Mendoza, Carl A., Pemberton, S. George, Polo, Camilo and Zonneveld, J. P. (2012). Porosity and permeability in bioturbated sediments. Developments in Sedimentology Vol. 64: Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments. (pp. 837-868) edited by Dirk Knaust and Richard G. Bromley. Amsterdam , The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-444-53813-0.00027-7

Journal Articles

Sobczak, Kasia, La Croix, Andrew D., Esterle, Joan, Hayes, Phil, Holl, Heinz-Gerd, Ciesiolka, Rachael, Crowley, James L. and Allen, Charlotte M. (2022). Geochronology and sediment provenance of the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Australia: implications for the palaeogeography of eastern Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 111, 189-208. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2022.08.003
La Croix, Andrew D., Sobczak, Kasia, Esterle, Joan S., Bianchi, Valeria, Wang, Jiahao, He, Jianhua, Hayes, Phil, Underschultz, Jim R. and Garnett, Andrew (2022). Integrating palynostratigraphy with zircon geochronology in the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation to improve stratigraphic correlation within the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 144 105845, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.105845
Pearce, J. K., La Croix, A. D., Brink, F. J., Hayes, P. J. and Underschultz, J. R. (2021). CO2 mineral trapping comparison in different regions: predicted geochemical reactivity of the Precipice Sandstone reservoir and overlying Evergreen Formation. Petroleum Geoscience, 27 (3) petgeo2020-106, petgeo2020-106. doi: 10.1144/petgeo2020-106
He, Jianhua, La Croix, Andrew D., Gonzalez, Sebastian, Pearce, Julie, Ding, Wenlong, Underschultz, Jim R. and Garnett, Andrew (2020). Quantifying and modelling the effects of pre-existing basement faults on folding of overlying strata in the Surat Basin, Australia: Implications for fault seal potential. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 198 108207, 108207. doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2020.108207
Pearce, J. K., La Croix, A. D., Underschultz, J. R. and Golding, S. D. (2020). Long term reactivity of CO2 in a low salinity reservoir-seal complex. Applied Geochemistry, 114 104529, 104529. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104529
Hayes, Phil, Nicol, Chris, La Croix, Andrew D., Pearce, Julie, Gonzalez, Sebastian, Wang, Jiahao, Harfoush, Ahmed, He, Jianhua, Moser, Andrew, Helm, Lauren, Morris, Ryan and Gornall, David (2019). Enhancing geological and hydrogeological understanding of the Precipice Sandstone aquifer of the Surat Basin, Great Artesian Basin, Australia, through model inversion of managed aquifer recharge datasets. Hydrogeology Journal, 28 (1), 175-192. doi: 10.1007/s10040-019-02079-9
La Croix, Andrew D., Wang, Jiahao, He, Jianhua, Hannaford, Carey, Bianchi, Valeria, Esterle, Joan and Undershultz, Jim R. (2019). Widespread nearshore and shallow marine deposition within the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 109, 760-790. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.06.048
La Croix, Andrew D., Harfoush, Ahmed, Rodger, Iain, Gonzalez, Sebastian, Undershultz, Jim R., Hayes, Phil and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Reservoir modelling notional CO2 injection into the precipice sandstone and evergreen formation in the Surat Basin, Australia. Petroleum Geoscience, 26 (1), petgeo2019-058. doi: 10.1144/petgeo2019-058
La Croix, Andrew D., He, Jianhua, Bianchi, Valeria, Wang, Jiahao, Gonzalez, Sebastian and Undershultz, Jim R. (2019). Early Jurassic palaeoenvironments in the Surat Basin, Australia – marine incursion into eastern Gondwana. Sedimentology, 67 (1) sed.12649, 457-485. doi: 10.1111/sed.12649
La Croix, Andrew D., Dashtgard, Shahin E. and MacEachern, James A. (2019). Using a modern analogue to interpret depositional position in ancient fluvial-tidal channels: example from the McMurray Formation, Canada. Geoscience Frontiers, 10 (6), 2219-2238. doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2019.03.008
Wang, Jiahao, La Croix, Andrew D., Gonzalez, Sebastian, He, Jianhua and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Lower Jurassic Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Australia: implication for the architecture of reservoir and seal for CO2 storage. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 102, 829-843. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.01.038
He, Jianhua, La Croix, Andrew D., Wang, Jiahao, Ding, Wenlong and Underschultz, J.R. (2019). Using neural networks and the Markov Chain approach for facies analysis and prediction from well logs in the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation, Surat Basin, Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 101, 410-427. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.12.022
La Croix, Andrew D. , MacEachern, James A. , Ayranci, Korhan , Hsieh, Amy and Dashtgard, Shahin E. (2017). An ichnological-assemblage approach to reservoir heterogeneity assessment in bioturbated strata: insights from the Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation, Alberta, Canada. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86, 636-654. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.06.024
La Croix, Andrew D. and Dashtgard, Shahin E. (2015). A synthesis of depositional trends in intertidal and upper subtidal sediments across the tidal–fluvial transition in the Fraser River, Canada. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 85 (6), 683-698. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2015.47
La Croix, Andrew D. , Dashtgard, Shahin E. , Gingras, Murray K. , Hauck, Tyler E. and MacEachern, James A. (2015). Bioturbation trends across the freshwater to brackish-water transition in rivers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 440, 66-77. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.08.030
Baniak, Greg M. , La Croix, Andrew D. , Polo, Camilo A. , Playter, Tiffany L. , Pemberton, S. George and Gingras, Murray K. (2014). Associating x-ray microtomography with permeability contrasts in bioturbated media. Ichnos, 21 (4), 234-250. doi: 10.1080/10420940.2014.958224
La Croix, Andrew D. and Dashtgard, Shahin E. (2014). Of sand and mud: sedimentological criteria for identifying the turbidity maximum zone in a tidally influenced river. Sedimentology, 61 (7), 1961-1981. doi: 10.1111/sed.12126
La Croix, Andrew D., Gingras, Murray K., Pemberton, S. George, Mendoza, Carl A., MacEachern, James A. and Lemiski, Ryan T. (2013). Biogenically enhanced reservoir properties in the Medicine Hat gas field, Alberta, Canada. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 43, 464-477. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2012.12.002
Dashtgard, Shahin E., Venditti, Jeremy G., Hill, Phillip R., Sisulak, Chad F., Johnson, Stacy M. and LaCroix, Andrew D. (2012). Sedimentation across the Tidal-Fluvial Transition in the Lower Fraser River, Canada. The Sedimentary Record, 10 (4), 4-9. doi: 10.2110/sedred.2012.4.4
La Croix, Andrew D. , Gingras, Murray K. , Dashtgard, Shahin E. and Pemberton, S. George (2012). Computer modeling bioturbation: the creation of porous and permeable fluid-flow pathways. AAPG Bulletin, 96 (3), 545-556. doi: 10.1306/07141111038

Conference Papers

Pearce, J.K., La Croix, A.D., Brink, F., Honari, V., Gonzalez, S., Harfoush, A. and Underschultz, J.R. (2019). CO2-water-rock predictions from aquifer and oil field drill core data: the Precipice Sandstone-Evergreen formation CO2 storage reservoir-seal pair. AEGC 2019, Perth, WA, Australia, 2-5 September 2019. Taylor & Francis . doi: 10.1080/22020586.2019.12073162
La Croix, Andrew D., Honari, Vahab, Gonzalez, Sebastian, Underschultz, Jim and Garnett, Andrew (2018). Impact of sequence stratigraphy on static and dynamic reservoir models: examples from the Precipice-Evergreen succession, Surat Basin, Queensland. 1st Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference – Exploration Innovation Integration, Sydney, NSW Australia, 18-21 February 2018. Clayton South, VIC Australia: CSIRO. doi: 10.1071/aseg2018abm1_3c

Research Reports

La Croix, Andrew, Hannaford, Carey and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Palynological analysis of the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
La Croix, Andrew, Wang, Jiahao and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Integrated facies analysis of the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Gonzalez, Sebastian, Harfoush, Ahmed, La Croix, Andrew and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Seismic files: data set. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Rodger, Iain, La Croix, Andrew, Underschultz, Jim and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Transition zone behaviour test models. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
La Croix, Andrew, Harfoush, Ahmed, Rodger, Iain and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Sector-scale static reservoir modelling of the basin-centre in the Surat Basin. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
La Croix, Andrew, He, Jianhua, Wang, Jiahao and Underschultz, Jim (2019). Facies prediction from well logs in the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Pearce, Julie, Underschultz, Jim and La Croix, Andrew (2019). Mineralogy, geochemical CO2-water-rock reactions and associated characterisation. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Gonzalez, Sebastian, Harfoush, Ahmed, La Croix, Andrew, Underschultz, Jim and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Regional static model. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
La Croix, Andrew, Wang, Jiahao, Gonzalez, Sebastian, He, Jianhua, Underschultz, Jim and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Sequence stratigraphy of the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Harfoush, Ahmed, Hayes, Phil, La Croix, Andrew, Gonzalez, Sebastian and Wolhuter, Alexandra (2019). Integrating petrophysics in modelling. The University of Queensland Surat Deep Aquifer Appraisal Project (UQ-SDAAP) Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.