Category: Interpreting ancient environments

December 3, 2021

This post continues the series on volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks in outcrop, with a brief

November 12, 2021

19th century experiments that helped quantify the nature of fluid flow, surface waves, and bedforms.

October 5, 2021

Natural analogues for full-sized fan deltas Walk any sandy beach at low water, negotiating flotsam,

September 21, 2021

Here is a brief description of a submarine channel complex in the Jurassic Bowser Basin

September 6, 2021

Teasing the tectonic subsidence from total basin subsidence Sedimentary basins are defined as regions of

September 6, 2021

Decompacting a stratigraphic column to determine basin subsidence The analysis of a sedimentary basin begins

August 19, 2021

The changing fortunes of fault permeability and fluid flow Faults can act as conduits or

August 4, 2021

Fluid flow, like rocks and sediments, define sedimentary basins There is a complex interweave

August 4, 2021

Fluid flow at lithospheric scales There’s not much that goes on in sedimentary basins that

July 6, 2021

Sediment routing systems – or how sediment is dispersed between source and sink Earth scientists