Browsing by Subject "Sedimentology"
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(2020-08-05)The study of archaeology does not exist without understanding stratigraphy. Terrestrial archaeologists frequently utilize studies in sedimentation to understand a site’s stratigraphic history, but many tools have not been ...
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(2015-11-30)Microbial life has been fundamental in the evolution of the Earth throughout geologic time. Although insignificant as individuals, collectively as communities microorganisms impact sedimentary environments by producing ...
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(2021-07-15)The year 2020 Common Era (CE) observed the highest number of named tropical cyclone events since the instrumental record began in 1850 CE. Most downscaled models suggest that the frequency and destructive potential of major ...
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(2014-08-08)The southern slopes of Grand Mesa Colorado consist of glacio-fluvial sediments deposited when the Pleistocene ice cap draping Grand Mesa melted. Debris flows intermixed with braided and meandering stream deposits, were the ...
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(2009-05-15)Fluvial and coastal depositional environments may have been quite different before the development of land plants in the late Silurian. Rapid drainage of terrestrial surfaces, flashy rivers with poorly stabilized banks, ...
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(2017-05-03)Stratigraphic thickness may vary as a member is deposited basinward of the shelf margin. Leonardian (Lower Permian) Avalon Shale and Bone Spring Formation strata of the southeastern region of the Delaware Basin in Reeves ...
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(2014-12-02)Estuaries are economically and ecologically significant regions that are highly sensitive to external forcing from sea-level rise, storm events, and anthropogenic change. West Galveston Bay (West Bay) is a back-barrier ...