Category: Interpreting ancient environments

February 20, 2025

This Atlas of Cool-Water Carbonates-limestones is a companion post to the Atlas of modern coral

February 18, 2025

Texture in a rock describes the relationship of its components – grains, minerals, other chunks

February 18, 2025

Soil, dirt, mud; weathering processes Soils and weathering, the products of physical, chemical, and biological

February 15, 2025

This is a companion post to the Atlas of Cool-water carbonates Modern coral reefs and

February 15, 2025

The two main types of alluvial fans illustrated here are from humid and arid environments.

February 14, 2025

Here are some examples of modern and ancient sand dunes from continental and coastal settings.

February 4, 2025

Ora Hitchcock was an artist, often referred to as America’s first science illustrator, well regarded

January 30, 2025

This biography is part of the series Pioneering women in Earth Sciences – the link

January 21, 2025

We tend to forget that, despite the plethora of lithofacies and stratigraphic models of turbidites,

January 21, 2025

Physical experiments on natural systems commonly employ scaled models. A guiding principle of model design