Category: Interpreting ancient environments

August 5, 2024

A look at the modern settings for carbonate platform deposits on Aitutaki volcanic island and

July 20, 2024

Prevailing scientific wisdom tells us that volcanic seamounts and oceanic islands are forged from magma

July 1, 2024

Seamounts and volcanic islands – the foundations for atolls and fringing reefs. A historical interlude

May 25, 2024

Every geological outcrop tells a story. How often do you pass a road-side rock outcrop

May 24, 2024

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

$Conjugate fractures and en echelon tension gashes – indicators of brittle failure in Old Red Sandstone, Gougane Barra, County Cork, Ireland.$

April 3, 2024

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

March 12, 2024

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

February 21, 2024

This post deals with the materials, their rheological behaviours, and scaling as they apply to

February 2, 2024

The correct scaling of geometric, dynamic, and kinematic system variables is a critical part of

February 2, 2024

The posts in this series focus on Earth science models, particularly the soft-rock kind. I