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
I wonder whether James R. Beerbower had any inkling that his paper on alluvial fan dynamics would seriously influence stratigraphic
A look at the modern settings for carbonate platform deposits on Aitutaki volcanic island and lagoon. Isolated carbonate platforms are
Prevailing scientific wisdom tells us that volcanic seamounts and oceanic islands are forged from magma hotspots fed by mantle-derived plumes.
Seamounts and volcanic islands – the foundations for atolls and fringing reefs. A historical interlude Darwin’s elegant explanation of atoll