Author: brian

September 10, 2021

The selection of sandstones in plain polarized light (left) and crossed nicols (right) shown here

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

June 20, 2021

Allochthonous terranes, suspect terranes, exotic terranes. In 1972 James Helwig introduced the concept of orogenic

June 6, 2021

By the early 1970s, the new tectonics (the plate kind) had established a firm grip

May 21, 2021

In 1940 Harold Wellman and Dick Willett proposed that two groups of rocks at