Category: Interpreting ancient environments

March 9, 2025

Deltas come (and go) in all shapes and sizes. They form where a trunk river

March 9, 2025

Fan deltas are like alluvial fans except they dip their toes in lakes and shallow

March 8, 2025

Stromatolites. The Precambrian is replete with them. In many ways they define the Precambrian, that

March 8, 2025

Trace fossils have the privilege of being two things at once: sedimentary structures, and fossils. They

March 6, 2025

Syntectonic deposition This category is a bit different to the other Atlas collections. It does

March 5, 2025

Soft sediment deformation Deformation of sediment while it is soft or semi-consolidated, is common. The

March 4, 2025

Submarine fans and channels: Beyond the slope (continental slope or delta slope) is the deep

March 2, 2025

Marine slopes are bona fide geological settings in themselves, but from a geotectonic perspective they

March 1, 2025

The term ‘shelf’ is used here loosely – it covers a range of submarine settings,

February 26, 2025

The Dalaradian, a 15+km-thick sequence of metasediments and metavolcanics occupies a broad swath through central