Bilal Haq - Selected Publications#

Bilal Haq is author/co-author of over 170 peer-reviewed papers and books. Several of these have become citation classics and two are amongst the most cited in Geosciences with a global impact. His total citations are listed as over 29,000 which is a relative underestimate because this does not include many citations in text books, compendia volumes and specialized literature in geology and geophysics.

1. Haq, B.U. 2026. Restless Tides of Time - Sea-Level Change: Past, Present and Prescient. Springer-Nature. 213 pp.

2. Haq, B.U. and Cloetingh , S., 2025. Tectonics and Eustasy: The Ocean Container and its Contents. Earth Science Reviews 105116.

3. Haq, B.U. and Ogg, J.D., 2024. Retraversing the highs and lows of Cenozoic sea levels. GSA Today, 34(6), 4-10.

4. Haq B.U. and Milliman, J.D., 2023. Perilous future for river deltas. GSA Today, 33(4), 4-12.

5. Xu, G. and Haq, B.U. 2022. Seismic facies analysis: Past, present and future. Earth Science Reviews, 224, 103876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103876.

6. Boulila, S., Haq, B.U. et al., 2021. Potential encoding of coupling between Milankovitch forcing and Earth’s interior processes in the Phanerozoic sea-level record. Earth Science Reviews: 220: 103727.

7. Haq, B., et al., 2020. Deep Mediterranean’s Messinian evaporite giant. Global Planetary Change, 184, 103052.

8. Haq, B.U., 2018. Triassic eustatic variations reexamined. GSA Today, 28(12):1-6 (and #2018390 GSA Data Repository, 16 pp + 2 Figs.) (2018).

9. Haq, B.U., 2017. Jurassic sea-level variations – A Reappraisal. GSA Today, 28(1): 1-7 (and #2017387 GSA Data Repository, 7 online pp + 1 Fig) (2017).

10. Haq, B.U., 2016. Scientific Research Imperative for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Pakistan. The Lahore Journal of Economics, 21:SE (2016): pp. 1–14.

11. Haq, B.U. and Huber, B. 2016. Anatomy of a eustatic event during the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) hot greenhouse climate. Science China Earth Sciences, 60 (1): 20-29.

12. Pomar, L. and Haq, B.U., 2016. Decoding depositional sequences in Carbonates: Concepts vs Experience. Global and Planetary Change, 146 (2016) 190–225. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.10.001.

13. Cloetingh, S and Haq, B.U. 2015: Inherited Landscapes and Sea-Level Change. Science, 347,1258375 (2015). DOI: 10.1126/science.1258375

14. Haq, B.U. 2014: Cretaceous Eustasy revisited. Global and Planetary Change, 113:44–58;doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.007

15. Haq, B.U. and Schutter, S.R, 2008. A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes. Science, 322:64-68.

16. Haq, B.U., and Al-Qahtani, A.M., 2005. Phanerozoic cycles of sea-level change on Arabian Platform. GeoArabia, 10(2):127- 160.

17. Haq, B.U., 1999. Natural Gas Deposits: Methane in the Deep Blue Sea. Science, 285:543-544, July 23, 1999.

18. Haq, B.U., 1999. Past, Present and Future of the Indus Delta. In A. and P.S. Meadows (eds.): The Indus River - Biodiversity, Resources and Humankind. Linnean Society, London. Oxford University Press, pp. 132-140.

19. Haq, B.U., 1994. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence: Rates & Threats. Environment Department of the World Bank, Washington, DC. 34 pp.

20. Haq, B.U., 1991. Sequence Stratigraphy, Sea-Level Change and Significance for the Deep Sea. Spec. Publs. Internat. Assoc. Sediment., 12:1-36.

21. Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J., and Vail, P.R., 1988. Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and cycles of sea level change. In: C.W. Wilgus et al. (eds.): Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach. Soc. Economic Paleont. Mineral., Special Publication 42: 71-108.

22. Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J. and Vail, P.R., 1987. Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels since the Triassic. Science: 235: 1156-67.

23. Haq, B.U., Berggren, W.A. and van Couvering, J.A., 1977. Corrected age of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary. Nature, 269: 483-488.