With three new grad students recently accepted into the CoRE research group at Colorado School of Mines, I wanted to take them into the field to scope out thesis projects and just to show them some classic turbidite locales in California. Here is a very quick overview of that trip, and some pertinent references in case …
I tweeted an image that got a lot of attention the other day and wanted to follow it up with a quick post describing the deposit. The back story is this: Lesli Wood, a submarine landslide expert, showed an image at a recent conference that is a spectacular example of a mass transport deposit (MTD), or …
Continue reading Submarine landslide deposits – a spectacular outcrop example from Japan
Callan Bentley over at Mountain Beltway just posted about Aden Crater, and I though i would share a few photos from Kilbourne Hole, a nearby maar volcanic crater. It's only about 15 miles from my childhood home, and I went there quite a bit in high school, both for geology and just to get out …
Continue reading Kilbourne Hole – turbidity currents on land!
After a long hiatus due to general craziness at work and at home, I am starting up the blog again with this call for a cool geology sign. The Ross Sandstone is a upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) formation along the coast in western Ireland that is famous for its excellent turbidite channel and lobe exposures. See …
For a while now, the most popular page on my site has been this one, a photo of a Halloween pumpkin I carved to look like the Bouma sequence. It is the most popular because people are looking for information about the Bouma sequence, so it is time to do a real post on the …
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