Publications | Celeste M Cunningham

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Cunningham, C.M., and Archibald, D.B. (2026). Re-evaluation of the lower Meguma Supergroup as a mixed turbidite-contourite system: Evidence from detailed studies on Liscomb Island, Nova Scotia: Geoscience Canada, v. 53.2, p. 89-201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2026.53.232

Farrell, U.C., Abshire, M.L., Sperling, E., Adeboye, O.O., Ahm, A.C., Algeo, T.J., Anderson, R.P., Ansari, A.H., Bastos, L.P.H., Bauer, K.W., Beaty, B., Birdwell, J.E., Bowyer, F.T., Brocks, J.J., Brunoir, T., Busch, F., Canfield, D.E., Caxito, A., Cunningham, C.M., … Johnston, D.T. (2026). The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project Phase 2 Data Release: An open data resource for the study of Earth’s environmental history: Chemical Geology, 123311. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2026.123311

Cunningham, C.M., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2023). Outsized turbidity currents as a primary mechanism for Neoproterozoic organic carbon delivery to the deep sea: The Sedimentary Record, v. 21.2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/001c.77519

Cunningham, C.M., Ruso, S., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2023). Controls on the stratigraphic distribution of organic carbon in ancient deep-marine levees: Marine and Petroleum Geology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2022.106039

Cunningham, C.M., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2023). Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep-sea levee sediments: Implications for global trends in carbon burial: Sedimentology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13052

Bergen, A.L., Cunningham, C.M., Terlaky, V., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2022). Influence of channelized-flow density structure on the stratal architecture of deep-marine levee deposits: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 92.4, p. 381-403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.183

Cunningham, C.M., and Arnott, R.W.C. (2021). Systematic organization of thin-bedded turbidites in ancient deep-marine levees: Possible evidence of rhythmic pulsing in turbidity currents: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v 91.11, p. 1257-1274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2021.003

Vannelli, K.M., Plint, A.G., Buckley, R.A., Krawetz, J.R., and Cunningham, C.M. (2017). An allostratigraphic and paleogeographic framework for the Joli Fou and Pelican formations and contiguous strata (Late Albian, Early Cretaceous) in central Alberta: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 65.3, p. 387-423.

Recent Conference Presentations and Abstracts

Cunningham, C.M., Archibald D.B., and *Poirier, J., Mineralogy of polymetallic metasedimentary rocks of the Cambrian Goldenville Group and significance for critical mineral exploration. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada (GACMAC) Joint Annual Meeting, Canada, 2026.

*McKeough, R.H., Lowe, D., Cunningham, C.M., Archibald, D.B., and Conliffe, J., Facies analysis of the Rocky Ridge sub-basin, La Poile Group, southern Newfoundland. Geological Association of Canada – Mineralogical Association of Canada (GACMAC) Joint Annual Meeting, Canada, 2026.

Cunningham, C.M., and R.W.C. Arnott, Transport and deposition of organic carbon by outsized turbidity currents. International Association of Sedimentologists’ International Sedimentological Congress, New Zealand, 2026.

Cunningham, C.M., Archibald, D.B., *Poirier, J., and *McKeough, R., Critical Mineral Enrichment in Deep-Marine Sedimentary Strata of Eastern Canada. International Association of Sedimentologists’ Meeting of Sedimentology, Spain, 2025.

Cunningham, C.M., *McKeough, R., Furlong, C.M., and Archibald, D.B., Ichnofacies and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Meguma Terrane, Eastern Canada. International Association of Sedimentologists’ Meeting of Sedimentology, Spain, 2025.

*Poirer, J., Cunningham, C.M., and Archibald, D.B., Depths of mystery: Stratigraphic analysis of the Cambrian sedimentary rocks on Liscomb Island, NS. Atlantic Universities Geoscience Conference, Canada, 2024.

Cunningham, C.M., Fraino, P.E., Ruso, S., and Arnott, R.W.C. Sea level as a controlling factor in deep-marine Neoproterozoic organic carbon sequestration. Society for Sedimentary Geology International Sedimentary Geoscience Congress (SEPM ISGC), Flagstaff, U.S.A., 2024.

Cunningham, C.M., Archibald, D.M., and Mallett, J. Mineralogy of manganiferous metasedimentary rocks of the Goldenville Group, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geoscience Society Annual Colloquium, Canada, 2024.

*Mallett, J., Cunningham, C.M., and Archibald, D.B., Provenance and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of manganese-rich metasedimentary rocks of the Goldenville and Halifax groups, Nova Scotia. Atlantic Geoscience Society Annual Colloquium, Canada, 2024.