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Friday Field Foto #93: Permian debris flow deposit in Death Valley
This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Death Valley region in California and shows a very nice debris flow deposit (note the hand in the lower right of photo for scale). Permian debris flow d… more →
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Friday Field Foto #93: Permian debris flow deposit in Death Valley
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BrianR wrote 2 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Death Valley region in California and shows a very n … more →
Friday Field Foto #92: Miocene sedimentary rocks, Tierra del Fuego
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BrianR wrote 2 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from some Miocene sedimentary rocks exposed along the Atlanti … more →
Book Blogging: Stories in Stone #1 -- A Review
BrianR wrote 3 months ago: Note: This post is the first of two about Stories in Stone and summarizes my thoughts about the book … more →
Friday Field Foto #84: Plane- and ripple-laminated sandstones in France
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BrianR wrote 6 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the foothills of the French Alps (not far from Nice). As … more →
Friday Field Foto #83: Cross-stratified volcanogenic sands
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BrianR wrote 7 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from Kilbourne Hole in southernmost New Mexico — very c … more →
Happy St. Patrick's Day Rock (repost)
BrianR wrote 8 months ago: Yeah, I know … St. Paddy’s Day is more of an American holiday than an Irish one … … more →
Friday Field Foto #77: Liesegang banding in cross-bedded sandstone
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BrianR wrote 9 months ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto is from the Valley of Fire area in southern Nevada. In 2004 I we … more →
Friday Field Foto #76: Thin-bedded turbidites (special repost)
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BrianR wrote 10 months ago: If you’ve been following this blog since mid-2007 you may remember this particular Friday Fiel … more →
Sea-Floor Sunday #40: Puyallup Delta, Puget Sound
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BrianR wrote 10 months ago: I apologize for the lack of posts lately … I have been incredibly busy the last month or so. O … more →
Stratigraphic evolution of an ancient depositional slope system
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: A large chunk of my Ph.D. research is now out in the journal Sedimentology (you can find it here). T … more →
Friday Field Foto #69: Patterns in a Tierra del Fuego beach
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto doesn’t show off any geologic relationship … I just … more →
The Accretionary Wedge #13: Fluvial deposits on Mars
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: Note: This post is part of the geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge #13: Geology in Spaa … more →
Friday Field Foto #61: Hummocky cross stratification
BrianR wrote 1 year ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto highlights everybody’s favorite oscillatory-/combined-flow … more →
Sea-Floor Sunday #27: Sand waves in the Chukchi Borderland
BrianR wrote 1 year ago: This week’s Sea-Floor Sunday post is very quick … I’ve been busy all weekend with … more →
Friday Field Foto #60: Chunk of microbialite in mudstone
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: My recent trip to the Canadian Rockies to look at some Neoproterozoic turbidites is still very fresh … more →
Neoproterozoic turbidites in the Canadian Rockies
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: Most of you know that I’m a big fat nerd when it comes to deep-marine turbidity currents* and … more →
Friday Field Foto #59: Patagonian deep-marine conglomerate deposits
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: This week’s Friday Field Foto heads back down to southern South America. While doing my own Ph … more →
Friday Field Foto #57: Dish structures
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: A relatively common sedimentary structure found in sandstone turbidite beds are dish structures. Tak … more →
Friday Field Foto #55: Antidunes!
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BrianR wrote 1 year ago: Man, this week has been crazy … just one of those weeks, I guess … I haven’t had a … more →
