Faculty Directory

Education

• Ph.D. in Geology, December 1998, Göteborg University, Sweden
• Fil.Lic. in Geology, May 1996, Göteborg University, Sweden
• M.Sc. in Geology, June 1993, Tartu University, Estonia
• B.Sc. in Geology, 1993, Tartu University, Estonia

Research

Publications

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• *Slawson, J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Beverly, E. J., & Bachtadse, V. (2025). Paleosol-based reconstruction indicates decoupling of mean annual precipitation and precipitation intensity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Uinta Basin, Utah. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40, e2024PA004966. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004966
• *Slawson, J.S., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Reichler, T. and *Baldassare, D., 2025. More intermittent mid-latitude precipitation accompanied extreme early Palaeogene warmth. Nat. Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01870-6
• *Gezovich, L. J., Plink-Björklund, P., and *Henry, J., 2025. Discriminating fluvial fans and deltas: Channel network morphometrics reflect distinct formative processes, EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2497.
• Fustic, M., Plink‐Bjorklund, P., Shchepetkina, A., Umralin, A. and Strobl, R., 2025. Atypical strata in a typical point bar of the McMurray Formation—a function of floods, tides and high sediment concentrations, or salt dissolution tectonics? REPLY TO DISCUSSION of Paul Broughton. Sedimentology.
• Feng, S., *Tan, C., Plink‐Björklund, P., Shan, X., Li, S., Li, S., Yu, X., Chen, L. and Ji, H., 2025. Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China. Sedimentology.
• *Xu, Z.H., Wu, S.H., Plink-Björklund, P., Zhang, T., Yue, D.L., Qian, Q.H., Li, Q. and Feng, W.J., 2025. Autocyclic switching processes and architecture of lobes in river-dominated lacustrine deltas. Journal of Palaeogeography, 14(1), pp.126-140.
• *Tan, C., and Plink-Björklund, P. 2024, Centimeter-scale sedimentary structures in a lacustrine delta front, northern China: Ripples or Froude supercritical-flow bedforms? Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2024.106667
• *Xu, Z.H., Wu, S.H., Plink-Björklund, P., Zhang, T., Yue, D.L., Qian, Q.H., Li, Q. and Feng, W.J., 2024. Autocyclic switching processes and architecture of lobes in river-dominated lacustrine deltas. Journal of Palaeogeography.
• Fustic, M., Plink-Bjorklund, P, Shchepetkina, A., Strobl, R., 2024. A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations. Sedimentology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13198
• *Xu, Z., and Plink-Björklund, P. (2023). Quantifying formative processes in river- and tide-dominated deltas for accurate prediction of future change. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104434. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104434
• *Zellman, K. L., P. Plink‐Björklund, and *Spangler, L., 2024, Progradational‐to‐retrogradational styles of Palaeogene fluvial fan successions in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Basin research, v. 36, no. 1, doi:10.1111/bre.12823.
• *Baldassare, D., Reichler, T., Plink-Björklund, P., and *Slawson, J. 2023: Large Uncertainty in Observed Meridional Stream Function Tropical Expansion, Weather and Climate Dynamics 4 (2), 531-541, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1438.
• Jobe, Z., Bishop, J., Slootman, A., Ryan, B. and Plink-Björklund, P., 2023. A Glitch in the Matrix: Do Carbonate Textural Descriptions Complicate Depositional-Process Interpretations? Advances in the Understanding and Interpretation of Carbonates Editors: Ted E. Playton and Paul (Mitch) Harris, SEPM Short Course Notes Advances in the Understanding and Interpretation of Carbonates Doi: https://doi.org/10.2110/sepmscn.057.21
• *Nadhim, Z., Wood, L., Jobe, Z., Plink-Björklund, P. and Slootman, A., 2023. Architecture and Mechanical Stratigraphy of Carbonate Slope Systems: Case Study of the Mississippian Crinoidal Fan System of the Doña Ana Member of the Lake Valley Formation, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico.
• *Campos-Soto, S., Benito, M.I., Mountney, N.P., Plink-Björklund, P., Quijada, I.E., Suarez-Gonzalez, P. and Cobos, A., 2022, Where humid and arid meet: Sedimentology of coastal siliciclastic successions deposited in apparently contrasting climates. Sedimentology, 69: 975-1027.
• *Xu, Z., Plink-Björklund, P., Wu, S., Liu, Z., Feng, W., Zhang, K., Yang, Z., Zhong, Y., 2022. Sinuous bar fingers of digitate shallow-water deltas: Insights into their formative processes and deposits from integrating morphological and sedimentological studies with mathematical modelling, Sedimentology, 69 (2), 724-749.
• *Tan, C., Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2021. Froude supercritical flow deposits in a modern river and delta system: Daihai Lake, Northern China. Sedimentology, 68, 1606-1639.
• *Ono, K., Plink-Björklund, P., Eggenhuisen, J.T., and Cartigny, M.J.B., 2021. Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures: New insights from experiments. Sedimentology.
• Plink-Bjorklund, P., 2021. Distributive fluvial systems, fluvial and alluvial fans. Encyclopedia of Geology 2nd edition, 745-758.

Additional Information

Professional Experience

2020-Present Professor Colorado School of Mines, USA
2006-2020 Associate Professor Colorado School of Mines, USA
2005-2006 Swedish Research Council CAREER award Associate Professor at Göthenburg University, Sweden
2003-2004 Swedish Research Council CAREER award Research Assistant Professor at Göteborg University, Sweden
2002 fall Post-doctoral researcher sponsored by The Swedish Institute at Göteborg University, Sweden
2002 spring Post-doctoral researcher sponsored by the WOLF Consortium at Göteborg University, Sweden and University of Wyoming, USA
2001 fall Post-doctoral researcher sponsored by the Swedish Research Council at Göteborg University, Sweden
1999-2001 Post-doctoral researcher sponsored by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation and Higher Education at University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
1995-1999 Visiting scholar at University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
1995-1998 Visiting scholar at Statoil Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway
1993/1994 Visiting scholar at University of Göteborg, Sweden
1991-1993 Research assistant at Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia