Atmospheric circulation on Mars: An aeolian context
An Introduction to aeolian processes and deposition, comparing the conditions on Earth and Mars. Mars current climate is basically a […]
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Wind-blown sand on Mars, Venus, and Titan
An Introduction to wind-blown, aeolian deposition, comparing the conditions on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan. Modern sand dunes cover extensive
Reba Byrd Masterson (1882 – 1969)
This biography is part of the series Pioneering women in Earth Sciences – the link will take you to the
Mud and mudstone classification
A series on clay and clay mineralogy – clay crystallography, identification, diagenesis, mudstone classification, and deposition. “… the study of
Clay dewatering; smectite dehydration
A series on clay minerals – their crystal chemistry, identification, formation, diagenesis It has long been recognized that mudrock compaction
Promoting burial diagenesis
The transformation of soft sediment to hammer-ringing rock is driven by physical and chemical diagenesis during burial. Diagenesis of sediment
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Clays produced by weathering
A series on clay minerals – their crystal chemistry, identification, formation Weathering of sediment and rock at Earth’s surface is
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Identification of clay minerals
A series on clay minerals – their crystal chemistry, identification, formation Sedimentary clays are tiny. The Udden-Wentworth upper grain-size limit
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Mineralogy of the common clays
A series on clay minerals – their crystal chemistry, identification, formation Clays are a ubiquitous component of nearly all siliciclastic,
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The crystallography of clays
A series on clay minerals – their crystal chemistry, identification, formation Clays belong to the phyllosilicate group of minerals, that