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AGU 2009 blogging #1 — getting ready
Although AGU 2009 is already half over I’m just getting ready for it! I’ve had an incredibly busy week with non-AGU obligations so tomorrow (Thursday) will be my first day at the conference....
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Friday Field Foto #99: Angular unconformity in Darwin Canyon, California
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from an area just west of Death Valley called Darwin Canyon. As you can see, there is a sharp, angular contact between two sedimentary formations — an angular...
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Sand: The Neverending Story — a book review
The post below is my review and the first of two posts devoted to the book ‘Sand: The Neverending Story’ by Michael Welland^. The second post is a Q&A between me and Michael combined with an open...
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What am I working on right now?
This month’s installment of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge, which you can find here on the Geology Happens blog, asked potential participants these questions: This AW is to share...
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Friday Field Foto #108: A beautiful day in the Canadian Rockies
I realize it’s been pretty quiet on this blog for a few weeks — I was doing some traveling (mostly for work but with some fun thrown in there as well). But now that I’m back and have returned to the...
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Friday Field Foto #110: Thin-bedded turbidites of Cretaceous Great Valley...
This week’s Friday Field Foto returns to what makes up the majority of my field photograph collection — turbidte outcrops. Unfortunately, I could not find the notebook that corresponds to this...
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Geo-image extravaganza — my header photograph
This month’s installment of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge, is hosted by Highly Allochthonous and is asking participants to highlight images of geoscience: The theme that we’ve...
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Using sedimentation rates to infer long-term global climate change
Over geologic time scales, the Earth naturally captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through weathering of silicate rocks and sequesters it via the production of carbonate rocks. Ultimately,...
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Friday Field Foto #120: Roadcut of fine-grained strata in Patagonia
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Upper Cretaceous Magallanes Basin strata in southern Chile. The “natural” outcrops in this region are exceptional, but a geologist will always take advantage...
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New Paper: Deep-Time Perspective of Land-Ocean Linkages
I have a new paper out in the Annual Reviews of Marine Science titled ‘A Deep-Time Perspective of Land-Ocean Linkages in the Sedimentary Record’ that is now available ahead-of-print here. It will come...
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Wish list of digital ‘tools’ for stratigraphic analysis
Matt Hall and Evan Bianco of Agile Geoscience recently ran a two-day ‘hackathon’ where participants got together in a room and created some digital tools for working with geophysical data of subsurface...
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Debris basins and signals in sedimentary landscapes
I recently submitted a review paper along with four co-authors on the topic of signal propagation in sedimentary systems across timescales. The idea that landscapes contain within them information...
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