Sedimentology

Papers
(The median citation count of Sedimentology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana28
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England27
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)25
Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey25
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands24
Source‐to‐sink sediment transport reversals during glacial sea‐level lowstands sustain soil formation on pericoastal carbonate terrains23
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Factors controlling carbonate mud production and accumulation on Upper Jurassic western European mixed siliciclastic–carbonate ramps22
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Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record20
Evolution from shallow‐water deltas to fluvial fans in lacustrine basins: A case study from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in the central Sichuan Basin, China20
Recycling control on chemical weathering indices (Yarlung River, South Tibet)20
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea19
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA19
The role of storms and resulting sediment transport in maintaining the activity of land‐detached canyons17
Astronomical forcing paleoclimate and hydrological controls on depositional cyclicity: Genesis of organic‐rich shales in the early Cambrian of the Upper Yangtze area, China17
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?17
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Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin16
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Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits16
Exploring freshwater influence in epicontinental seas through integrated sedimentology and geochemistry approaches16
The making of pure quartzose sand in continental interiors: Paraná River (Brazil and Argentina)16
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Modern microbial landscape: Aerial mapping of microbially induced sedimentary structures forming in a coastal sabkha15
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Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations15
Fossilized autogenic responses of grain‐size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments14
A photosynthetic, socially motile lifestyle 3.22 billion years ago: Evidence from fossilised tufted microbial mats14
Siderite from the Tibetan Himalaya: Evidence for a low sulphate ocean during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (Early Aptian)14
Spatial variability in aeolian abrasion: Ibex Dune Field, Death Valley National Park14
Down in the dungeons: the hidden role of diatom biofilms and microbial activity in the biogeochemistry of a dynamic estuarine point bar14
Spatial and temporal evolution of a coastal erg margin: the Middle Jurassic Page Sandstone, southern Utah, USA13
Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep‐sea levée sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic trends in carbon burial13
The ejection pattern of sand particles in steady‐state aeolian transport13
Autogenic and allogenic controls on turbidite lobe stacking pattern and architecture: The case of the Turonian to Coniacian deep‐water turbidite lobe complexes (Dønna Terrace, offshore Mid‐Norway13
Origin and composition of hydrothermally‐influenced sediments at Aurora Vent Field, southwestern Gakkel Ridge (82.9°N)13
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina13
Sedimentary record of submarine gravity‐flow events in the southern Ryukyu forearc during the last 200 000 years: Archive of mega‐earthquakes and tsunamis13
Formation of magnesium‐clay in a lacustrine microbialite‐bearing carbonate deposit, Eocene Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah12
Soft‐bedded ice sheet in hummocky terrain of north‐central Poland: Origin of rim ridges and subglacial processes12
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Microbial influence on the formation and subsequent changes of vertebrate tracks: field experiments on present‐day coastal sediments12
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Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids12
Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the shallow, carbonate‐dominated intrashelf Kazhdumi Basin, Zagros Mountains12
Unravelling megaturbidite deposition: Evidence for turbidite stacking/amalgamation and seiche influence during the 1601 ce earthquake at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland11
A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities11
The influence of hybrid sediment gravity flows on distribution and composition of trace‐fossil assemblages: Ordovician succession of the north‐eastern Alborz Range of Iran11
Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands11
Mineralogical variability of suspended sediments induced by mega‐reservoir regulation (Yellow River, China)11
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear11
Coastal engineering structures bifurcate intertidal eco‐morphodynamic trajectories in a sediment‐starved delta11
Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium11
Experimental observations of vertical segregation of sands in oscillatory flows11
Improving predictions of the internal heterogeneity of large‐scale point‐bar deposits through geophysical logging and morphometric analysis: False River, Louisiana11
Reply to Comment by John J.G. Reijmer on ‘Understanding carbonate factories through palaeoecological and sedimentological signals – Tribute to Luis Pomar’ by Brandano et al. (2022), Sediment11
Microbial mats and thalassinid shrimp: Spatial and geochemical interactions in a modern intertidal environment10
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The effects of bioturbation on porewater chemistry and early marine diagenesis: Evidence from a modern intertidal zone in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.10
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina10
Extreme events of alternate dry–wet climatic cycles and lacustrine deposits: A case study from the Yanchang Formation (Triassic), Ordos Basin, China10
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars10
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update10
Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of a submarine carbonate platform canyon system situated in an arid climate setting10
Depositional environments, hematite–chamosite differentiation and origins of Middle Ordovician iron ooids in the Upper Yangtze region, South China10
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A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants9
Neoichnology and sediment distribution in tidal flats of the mud‐dominated mesotidal Mira River estuary (Portugal)9
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Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin8
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan8
Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf8
Morphodynamics of intermittent density inflow on fan‐deltas: Physical experiments and sedimentological implications8
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean8
New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)8
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Eskers formed in the soft‐bed region – a comprehensive study of Late Saalian strata from Poland8
Rock‐buffered versus fluid‐buffered geochemistry of structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite: Insights from the Sichuan Basin, China8
The role of fluvial and tidal currents on coal accumulation in a mixed‐energy deltaic setting: Pinghu Formation, Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin8
Microbial mats in the Río Mayer Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Austral Basin, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic significance8
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Sedimentation differences and depositional model in slope‐controlled travertine precipitation stream in Huanglong, China8
Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north‐west Borneo7
Challenges to the ancient methane seep search strategy: The Bedford Canyon Formation (Middle Jurassic, Santa Ana Mountains, California)7
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Deep learning‐based grain‐size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty7
Transport of ‘Nama’‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology7
The generation of a clotted peloidal micrite fabric by endolithic cyanobacteria in recent thrombolites from Cuatro Cienegas, northern Mexico7
Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns7
Formation process of the gravel‐dominated deposit from the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, inferred by integrating sedimentology and tsunami modelling7
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Where was the Yangtze River mouth during the last glacial maximum?7
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Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia7
Modern soil aggregates–colluvium generated by overland flow – stratigraphy and physical experiments7
Sedimentological controls on the distribution and geometry of chlorite‐coated intervals in deeply buried tide‐influenced sandstones, Tilje Formation, Norwegian Continental Shelf7
Wind‐driven hydrodynamic and depositional patterns in shallow lakes: An exploratory modelling approach based on an archetypal case of Lake Hulun7
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas7
Cenozoic tropical carbonate platforms in the Santos Basin, SE Brazilian Margin6
Role of microbial mats in the genesis of soft‐sediment deformation structures in a siliciclastic environment6
Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation6
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium6
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Barremian synrift barrier island–estuarine depositional systems from blended field and drone‐derived data6
The relationship between organic matgrounds and sedimentary packaging: examples from the Ediacaran and early Cambrian6
Composition of fine‐grained sediment in the Hikurangi Trough: Evidence for intermingling among axial gravity flows, transverse gravity flows and margin‐parallel ocean currents6
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Hemispherical MISS caused by gas‐trapping: Examples from the Trepassey and Fermeuse formations (Ediacaran) of Newfoundland6
Reply to Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by E. Landing and G. Geyer6
Holocene sea‐level changes and the influence of storms on beach ridge formation in the Lower Gulf of Thailand6
Hydrodynamic behaviour of organo‐phosphatic bioclastic sediments: An experimental study on linguliform brachiopod shell fragments6
Facies stacking and lateral variability of travertines from the Quaternary Vega Botijuela, Salar de Antofalla Basin, Argentina6
Planform architecture, meander evolution and grain‐size variability of a deltaic channel belt in the Rhine‐Meuse delta, The Netherlands6
Quantitative sedimentological analysis of the aeolian–fluvial Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Cheshire Basin, UK6
Biogeochemical characterization of micritized carbonate grains in the shallow‐marine Al‐Kharrar Lagoon (Red Sea, Saudi Arabia)6
Conditions of submarine levéed channel inception: Examination by flume experiments6
Bed‐scale quantitative discrimination of hyperpycnites from intrabasinal turbidites—Results from a channelised slope system in the Upper Carboniferous Westward Ho! Formation, United Kingdom6
Processes controlling rare earth element distribution in sedimentary apatite: Insights from spectroscopy, in situ geochemistry and O and Sr isotope composition6
Universal decomposition model: An efficient technique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from grain‐size distributions6
Upper‐flow‐regime deposits related to glacio‐volcanic interactions in Patagonia: Insights from the Pleistocene record in Southern Andes6
Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes6
Alluvial ridge morphology on avulsing rivers5
Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial‐scale growth of Mg‐calcite and protodolomite5
Large‐scale sedimentary shift induced by a mega‐dam in deltaic flats5
A tale of two microbialites: Stromatolites and microbially induced sedimentary structures5
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The regional evolution of a dryland fluvio‐aeolian and lacustrine succession in response to allocyclic forcing: insights from the Early Permian Cutler Group, Utah, USA5
Late‐Holocene counterpoint deposition in the Lower Rhine River5
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Towards an improved understanding of Ca–Mg carbonates with nonplanar surfaces: An experimental approach5
Formation and preservation of vertebrate tracks in semi‐liquid sediments: Insights from tidal flats and laboratory experiments5
Development of Holocene lacustrine microbialites on the Iberian Peninsula: Insights into environmental and depositional controls using X‐ray CT and p5
Diagenetic formation of stevensite by replacement of diatom frustules in the sediments of the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)5
Ichnological insights into deoxygenation across the Cenomanian–Turonian Boundary Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 in the northern extent of Western Interior Seaway (west‐central Alberta)5
Sedimentary evolution of debris avalanche deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Xiguayuan Formation, Luanping Basin, North China5
Structures, architecture, vertical profiles, palaeohydrology and taphonomy of an upper‐flow‐regime‐dominated fluvial system, the Triassic Dockum Group of the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas5
On the origin of chevron marks and striated grooves, and their use in predicting mud bed rheology5
Microbe‐mediated, marine authigenic formation of ooidal chamosite: Insights from upper Ordovician carbonates of the South‐Western Yangtze platform (China)5
Stromatolite‐rimmed thrombolite columns and domes constructed by microstromatolites, calcimicrobes and sponges in late Cambrian biostromes, Texas, USA5
Australian continental‐scale heavy mineral patterns track climate, weathering and erosion5
Sedimentary facies characterization through CPTU profiles: An effective tool for subsurface investigation of modern alluvial and coastal plains5
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Divergent mechanisms of organic matter enrichment in contrasting members: A case study of coal‐bearing and oil shale successions4
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Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach4
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments4
Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar4
Unravelling the formation and implications of illitic grain coats for reservoir quality in the Permian tight sandstones, northern Ordos Basin, central China4
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Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?4
Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China4
Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China4
Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility4
Facies analysis provides new insights into event bed deposition in a hadal trench environment4
Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolu4
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes4
Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate4
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Quantifying the sensitivity of distributive fluvial systems to changes in sediment supply and lake level using stratigraphic forward modelling3
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Provenance studies and basin evolution: Insight from the Yukon–Koyukuk Basin, Alaska3
Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data3
Microbially induced sedimentary structures ( MISS ) in the macrotidal sand flats of the San Antonio Este Bay, Argentina3
Geochemical evidence of provenance diversity in Holocene sandy land of Qinghai Lake Basin in the north‐eastern margin of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and its implications for climate change3
M icrobial microsequences modulated by storm dynamics in lower shoreface deposits: A case study from the early Ediacaran, Cerro Largo Formation, Argentina3
Helium‐isotope constraints on palaeoceanographic change and sedimentation rates during precession cycles (Cenomanian Scaglia Bianca Formation, central Italy)3
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Estimation of fine sediment stocks in gravel bed rivers including the sand fraction3
Carbonate platform drowning caught in the act: The sedimentology of Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean)3
A model for the concomitant early formation of dolomite and fibrous clays in coastal bay systems: Evidence from the Eocene (Paris Basin, France)3
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Enrichment of organic carbon in a deep‐water sand‐prone turbidite system: A study from the Eocene Aínsa Basin (Spanish Pyrenees)3
Stratigraphic architecture of fluvial fans shaped by downstream changes in avulsion style3
Climate conditions on the South‐Iberian Palaeomargin during the latest Pliensbachian to early Toarcian: A mineralogical and geochemical study from hemipelagic deposits3
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings3
Sandstone body character and river planform styles of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA3
The origin of island dolostones: Novel insights from in situ Mg isotope, major and minor elements analyses of Miocene dolostones on Shidao, the Xisha Islands3
Tide‐influenced depositional system recorded in southern Gondwana during the Early Permian: Post‐glacial infill of the Capané palaeovalley3
Stratigraphic evolution of a spectacularly exposed turbidite channel belt from the Tachrift System (late Tortonian, north‐East Morocco)3
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Formation of Mg‐silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): Environmental versus microbiological drivers3
Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts3
Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses3
Microbial dominated Ca‐carbonates in a giant Pliocene cold‐seep system (Crotone Basin – South Italy)3
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations3
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Bioclastic bottom‐current deposits of a Devonian contourite terrace: Facies variability and depositional architecture (Tafilalt Platform, Morocco)3
Reply to the Comment by John J. G. Reijmer on ‘Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective’ by Ash‐Moret al. (2022), Sedimen3
Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland3
Signals of the paleo‐Kuroshio Current: The Pleistocene Chinen Formation, Okinawa Island, south‐west Japan2
Some record it hot: Clumped isotope temperatures from Middle Jurassic molluscan aragonite2
Pedogenic continental red beds: How, why and when red? Redox geochemistry and quantitative colour analysis of the Old Red Sandstone, South Wales, UK2
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Characterization, prediction and implications of compartments in a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic mass‐transport complex: The Cutoff Formation, Permian Basin, Texas2
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Meiobenthic trace fossil ‘ Mycellia ’ and associated ichnofabrics from the Cambrian shallow marine carbonates of southern North China Block2
Deep‐water sedimentary systems and tectono–sedimentary interactions on the oblique convergent margin in Antarctica2
An improved criterion for the threshold of motion of sand to gravel‐sized bioclastic carbonate sediments under steady unidirectional flow: Insights from coral skeletal grain experiments2
Dissolved silica‐driven dolomite precipitation in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and its implication for dolomite formation environments2
Topographic controls on the distribution of bioturbation in an intertidal sandflat2
The impact of a freshwater diluted plume on spatial halite accumulation in a hypersaline lake: Direct observations from the Dead Sea2
Impact of wave, tides and fluid mud on fluvial discharge across a compound clinoform (Pliocene Orinoco Delta)2
Influence of sediment composition on morphology and internal structure of mixed siliciclastic–bioclastic coastal barriers: Contribution of flume experiments2
Seismic expression of a late Palaeozoic drift and implications for paleo‐basin currents: Midland Basin, West Texas, USA2
Radiaxial fibrous calcite forms via early marine‐diagenetic alteration of micritic magnesium calcite2
Facies mosaic distribution and stratigraphic disorder of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic tidal succession2
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Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate and glaciation2
Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levée development2
Changjiang coastal mud‐belt deposits in Taiwan Strait: Controls on its distribution and facies2
Aligned hydrothermal fluid‐flow pathways in Middle Permian near‐shore marine sediments beneath a basaltic lava flow2
Using machine learning to analyse coastal sediment characteristics from unmanned aerial vehicle data: A case study of the Dasha sandy beach, China2
A review of the supercritical state of eruption‐fed volcanic density currents in subaerial and subaqueous settings2
Sedimentary biogeochemical provinces in the northern limit of the oxygen minimum zone from the northeastern Mexican Pacific2
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