Christopher Robin Mattheus

2025

Nearshore ice-complex morphodynamics within an urban embayment, Southwestern Lake Michigan: Insights from a winter 2021–2022 monitoring study

Mattheus, C. R. & Theuerkauf, E. J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 102503.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Response of a sand-limited urban pocket beach to repeat decadal lake-level rise events, Southwestern Lake Michigan

Mattheus, C. R., Theuerkauf, E. J. & Braun, K. N., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 102501.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

2024

Foredune-ridge development along an urban pocket beach, Montrose Dunes Natural Area, southwestern Lake Michigan

Mattheus, C. R., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 102449.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

Lake-bottom geology of the Chicago nearshore: A sand-distribution context for urban beach morphodynamics along a fragmented littoral zone

Mattheus, C. R. & Barklage, M. E., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 102412.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

Morphodynamics and Sand Volumetric Changes within Engineered Great Lakes Pocket Beaches: Varied Responses to a Meter-scale Lake-level Rise, Chicago Lakefront

Mattheus, C. R., Braun, K. N. & Theuerkauf, E. J., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 50, 2, 102302.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Stratigraphic framework and late Holocene history of a lacustrine beach-ridge complex: Paleoclimate archives within migrating strand promontories

Mattheus, C. R., Barklage, M., Braun, K. N. & Theuerkauf, E. J., Feb 2024, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 50, 1, 102274.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

Changing water levels and sandy barrier morphodynamics, eastern lake Ontario

Mattheus, C. R., Oct 2023, In: Journal of Coastal Conservation. 27, 5, 52.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Dynamics of beach-ridge formation along a migrating strandplain with implications for paleo-environmental assessment, Illinois Beach State Park, southwestern Lake Michigan

Mattheus, C. R., Braun, K. N. & Theuerkauf, E. J., Feb 2023, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 49, 1, p. 147-162 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

A radiocarbon chronology of Holocene climate change and sea-level rise at the Delmarva Peninsula, US Mid-Atlantic Coast

Ramsey, K. W., Tomlinson, J. L. & Mattheus, C. R., Feb 2022, In: Holocene. 32, 1-2, p. 3-16 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Great lakes urban pocket-beach dynamics: A GIS-based analysis of infrastructure-design influences on geomorphic development

Mattheus, C. R., Braun, K. N. & Theuerkauf, E. J., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 48, 1, p. 68-83 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Sedimentary in-filling of an urban Great Lakes waterfront embayment and implications for threshold-driven shoreline morphodynamics, Montrose Beach, SW Lake Michigan

Mattheus, C. R., Theuerkauf, E. J. & Braun, K. N., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 48, 5, p. 1147-1158 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The geomorphic role of large wood in the coastal zone: Mobilization threshold and beach morphology impacts in the North American Great Lakes

Braun, K. N., Mattheus, C. R. & Theuerkauf, E. J., Aug 15 2022, In: Geomorphology. 411, 108292.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Urban pocket-beach morphodynamics along the wave-dominated southwest coast of Lake Michigan: An analysis of shoreline and sand volumetric changes

Mattheus, C. R., Braun, K. N., Theuerkauf, E. J. & Santoro, J. A., Feb 2022, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 48, 1, p. 52-67 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Water-level changes and terrain evolution along the Illinois Lake Michigan coast; developing a geochronology for the Zion Beach-ridge plain

Huot, S., Spitzer, L., Mattheus, C. R. & Phillips, A., 2022, Geological Society of America, North-Central Section, 56th annual meeting; Geological Society of America, Southeastern Section, 71st annual meeting.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

2021

Anatomy of a migratory, late Holocene strand complex; a GPR-based architectural study of the Zion Beach-Ridge Plain, SW Lake Michigan

Mattheus, C., Barklage, M. & Braun, K., 2021, Geological Society of America, 2021 annual meeting; GSA connects 2021. Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Exploring Illinois’ Lake Michigan Coast: The Geology of Our Evolving Shoreline

Mattheus, C. R. & Sebetto, C., 2021, 9 p. Illinois Coastal Management Program.

Research output: Other contribution

Open Access

Molluscan aminostratigraphy of the US Mid-Atlantic Quaternary coastal system: Implications for onshore-offshore correlation, paleochannel and barrier island evolution, and local late Quaternary sea-level history

Wehmiller, J. F., Brothers, L. L., Ramsey, K. W., Foster, D. S., Mattheus, C. R., Hein, C. J. & Shawler, J. L., Oct 2021, In: Quaternary Geochronology. 66, 101177.

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Punctuated decadal morphodynamics and coupled vegetation succession along a nontidal, wave-dominated Great Lakes barrier spit, Gull Point, Lake Erie, U.S.A.

Mattheus, C. R., Diggins, T. P. & Santoro, J. A., Dec 2021, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 47, 6, p. 1538-1553 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

GIS-based reconstruction of the Zion Beach-Ridge Plain, Illinois, based on historical maps, aerial photographs, and a LiDAR-derived DEM

Mattheus, C., Webster, C., Ellis, T. & Braun, K., 2020, AGU 2020 fall meeting. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Issues with integrating carbonate sand texture data generated by different analytical approaches: A comparison of standard sieve and laser-diffraction methods

Mattheus, C. R., Diggins, T. P. & Santoro, J. A., May 15 2020, In: Sedimentary Geology. 401, 105635.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Landform development and coupled vegetation succession along Gull Point, Presque Isle Pa, a barrier-spit system along the southeastern Lake Erie margin

Diggins, T. P., Mattheus, C. R. & Santoro, J. A., 2020, GSA 2020 Connects Online. Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

Morphodynamics of an urban pocket beach along the wave-dominated southwestern coast of Lake Michigan; insights into lacustrine forcing in absence of littoral contributions

Mattheus, C. R., Braun, K. N., Santoro, J. A. & Theuerkauf, E. J., 2020, GSA 2020 Connects Online. Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

THE EVOLUTION OF COASTAL-PLAIN INCISED VALLEYS OVER MULTIPLE GLACIO-EUSTATIC CYCLES: INSIGHTS FROM THE INNER CONTINENTAL SHELF OF DELAWARE, U.S.A.

Mattheus, C. R., Ramsey, K. W. & Tomlinson, J. L., Nov 2020, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 90, 11, p. 1510-1526 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

Evaluating Continental Shelf Seabed-Elevation Changes from Archived Sediment-Core Records: Issues with Vertical Positioning and Implications for Integration with Subsurface Geophysics

Robin Mattheus, C., Ramsey, K. W. & Santoro, J. A., 2019, In: Journal of Coastal Research. 36, 1, p. 41-53 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Geomorphology of a Harbor-Breakwater Beach along a High Sand-Supply, Wave-Dominated Great Lakes Littoral Cell

Mattheus, C. R., Diggins, T. P., Boyce, C., Cockrell, J., Kruske, M. & VanWinkle, M., Jan 2019, In: Journal of Coastal Research. 35, 1, p. 41-55 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

Hurricane Trajectory and Irregular Bedrock Topography as Drivers of Washover Fan Geomorphology on an Isolated Carbonate Platform

Mattheus, C. R. & Yovichin, R. D., Nov 2018, In: Journal of Coastal Research. 34, 6, p. 1328-1340 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

Hydrodynamic and sediment-accommodation controls on headland-beach geomorphology evaluated by statistical methods, southern Lake Erie coast

Mattheus, C. R., Fowler, J. K. & Diggins, T. P., Apr 1 2017, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 43, 2, p. 228-238 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

Barrier-spit geomorphology and inlet dynamics in absence of tides: evolution of the North Pond system, eastern Lake Ontario, New York State

Mattheus, C. R., Fowler, J. K., Diggins, T. P. & Allen, D. F., Aug 1 2016, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 41, 10, p. 1386-1398 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

GIS-based geomorphologic study of Presque Isle Peninsula, a compound lacustrine barrier-spit system along the south-central Lake Erie margin

Mattheus, C. R., Apr 1 2016, In: Journal of Great Lakes Research. 42, 2, p. 336-347 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

Paleotempestite Distribution across an Isolated Carbonate Platform, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Mattheus, C. R. & Fowler, J. K., Jul 1 2015, In: Journal of Coastal Research. 31, 4, p. 842-858 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

Climate-induced changes in rates of headland-beach progradation along the southern coast of Lake Erie

Mattheus, C. R., Jul 2014, In: Journal of Coastal Research. 30, 4, p. 743-755 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Controls on lower-coastal-plain valley morphology and fill architecture

Mattheus, C. R. & Rodriguez, A. B., Apr 2014, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 84, 4, p. 314-325 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

Comparison of pond-sedimentation data with a GIS-based USLE model of sediment yield for a small forested urban watershed

Mattheus, C. R. & Norton, M. S., Oct 2013, In: Anthropocene. 2, p. 89-101 13 p.

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2011

Controls on late quaternary incised-valley dimension along passive margins evaluated using empirical data

Mattheus, C. R. & Rodriguez, A. B., Aug 2011, In: Sedimentology. 58, 5, p. 1113-1137 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2010

Impact of land-use change and hard structures on the evolution of fringing marsh shorelines

Mattheus, C. R., Rodriguez, A. B., McKee, B. A. & Currin, C. A., Jul 10 2010, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 88, 3, p. 365-376 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Transition of a regressive to a transgressive barrier island due to back-barrier erosion, increased storminess, and low sediment supply: Bogue Banks, North Carolina, USA

Timmons, E. A., Rodriguez, A. B., Mattheus, C. R. & DeWitt, R., Dec 15 2010, In: Marine Geology. 278, 1-4, p. 100-114 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

Direct connectivity between upstream and downstream promotes rapid response of lower coastal-plain rivers to land-use change

Mattheus, C. R., Rodriguez, A. B. & McKee, B. A., Oct 2009, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 36, 20, L20401.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2008

Sediment accommodation control on estuarine evolution: An example from Weeks Bay, Alabama, USA

Rodriguez, A. B., Duran, D. M., Mattheus, C. R. & Anderson, J. B., 2008, In: Special Paper of the Geological Society of America. 443, p. 31-42 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2007

Control of upstream variables on incised-valley dimension

Mattheus, C. R., Rodriguez, A. B., Greene, D. L., Simms, A. R. & Anderson, J. B., Mar 2007, In: Journal of Sedimentary Research. 77, 3-4, p. 213-224 12 p.

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Christopher Robin Mattheus

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