The experiment at the Experimental EarthScape facility focused on evaluating sequence stratigraphic discordances in a
Category: Geological models
This post discusses an experimental stratigraphic modeling process conducted at Minnesota University’s Experimental EarthScape facility.
We tend to forget that, despite the plethora of lithofacies and stratigraphic models of turbidites,
Physical experiments on natural systems commonly employ scaled models. A guiding principle of model design
Experimental modeling of geological processes has a long and distinguished history. Throughout, these experiments were
I wonder whether James R. Beerbower had any inkling that his paper on alluvial fan

This post focuses on sandbox models and what they tell us about the mechanics and

Brittle deformation and Mohr-Coulomb failure Deformation of Earth materials takes place predominantly within two rheological

Calculating normal stress and shear stress using Mohr circles Deformation of rock, sediment, and soil

Sandbox analogue models of strike-slip basins and pop-up structures How things have changed. It wasn’t