The two main types of alluvial fans illustrated here are from humid and arid environments. Arid climate fans I have […]
Here are some examples of modern and ancient sand dunes from continental and coastal settings. Click on the images for
Mary Austin Holley was a prolific writer and artist. She is largely remembered for her cultural, historical, and geographic accounts
Ora Hitchcock was an artist, often referred to as America’s first science illustrator, well regarded at the time, but largely
This biography is part of the series Pioneering women in Earth Sciences – the link will take you to the
We tend to forget that, despite the plethora of lithofacies and stratigraphic models of turbidites, submarine channels, and submarine fans,
Physical experiments on natural systems commonly employ scaled models. A guiding principle of model design is to maintain similarity between
Experimental modeling of geological processes has a long and distinguished history. Throughout, these experiments were devised to duplicate, at much
This biography is part of the series Pioneering women in Earth Sciences – the link will take you to the
Women naturalists in the 18th and 19th centuries who showed an inclination for geological science were commonly ‘directed’ towards a