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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Corrigendum to: Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores26
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The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)26
Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana24
Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey24
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands23
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England23
Ontogeny of a subtidal point bar in the microtidal Venice Lagoon (Italy) revealed by three‐dimensional architectural analyses22
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA21
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea20
Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: The Puig‐reig anticline (south‐eastern Pyrenees)20
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?20
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Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record19
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Factors controlling carbonate mud production and accumulation on Upper Jurassic western European mixed siliciclastic–carbonate ramps19
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, China18
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Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin16
Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations15
Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits15
Sedimentology and diagenesis of Pleistocene calcareous, non‐dolomitic, interdune sediments, Coorong Coastal Plain, South Australia15
Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms15
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Exploring freshwater influence in epicontinental seas through integrated sedimentology and geochemistry approaches14
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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
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Spatial variability in aeolian abrasion: Ibex Dune Field, Death Valley National Park13
Fossilized autogenic responses of grain‐size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments13
Down in the dungeons: the hidden role of diatom biofilms and microbial activity in the biogeochemistry of a dynamic estuarine point bar13
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Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep‐sea levée sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic trends in carbon burial12
Siderite from the Tibetan Himalaya: Evidence for a low sulphate ocean during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (Early Aptian)12
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina12
Sedimentary record of submarine gravity‐flow events in the southern Ryukyu forearc during the last 200 000 years: Archive of mega‐earthquakes and tsunamis12
Contrasting behaviour of sand and mud in a long‐term sediment budget of the Western Scheldt estuary12
The ejection pattern of sand particles in steady‐state aeolian transport12
Comment on ‘Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective’ by Ash‐Mor et al. (2022), Sedimentology, 69, 1231–125111
Unravelling megaturbidite deposition: Evidence for turbidite stacking/amalgamation and seiche influence during the 1601 ce earthquake at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland11
Origin and composition of hydrothermally‐influenced sediments at Aurora Vent Field, southwestern Gakkel Ridge (82.9°N)11
Microbial influence on the formation and subsequent changes of vertebrate tracks: field experiments on present‐day coastal sediments11
Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids11
Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores11
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Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls10
Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands10
Formation of magnesium‐clay in a lacustrine microbialite‐bearing carbonate deposit, Eocene Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah10
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), Sediment10
A model for the early diagenesis of humid climate, fluvial strata influenced by adjacent salt deposits: Grande Anse Formation, Cumberland Basin, Canada10
An 80 kyr record of intermediate‐depth water flow on the western South Atlantic margin10
Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the shallow, carbonate‐dominated intrashelf Kazhdumi Basin, Zagros Mountains10
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear10
Morphostratigraphy of an active mixed sand–gravel barrier spit (Baie de Somme, northern France)10
Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium10
A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities10
Coastal engineering structures bifurcate intertidal eco‐morphodynamic trajectories in a sediment‐starved delta10
Discrimination of tectonic influence from volcano‐sedimentary successions: An example from the Janggi Basin, south‐eastern part of the Korean Peninsula9
Depositional environments, hematite–chamosite differentiation and origins of Middle Ordovician iron ooids in the Upper Yangtze region, South China9
Detrital zircon in an active sedimentary recycling system: Challenging the ‘source‐to‐sink’ approach to zircon‐based provenance analysis9
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars9
Microbial mats and thalassinid shrimp: Spatial and geochemical interactions in a modern intertidal environment9
Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of a submarine carbonate platform canyon system situated in an arid climate setting9
Holocene evolution and depositional model of a bayhead delta, Lake Illawarra, Australia9
The influence of hybrid sediment gravity flows on distribution and composition of trace‐fossil assemblages: Ordovician succession of the north‐eastern Alborz Range of Iran9
Experimental observations of vertical segregation of sands in oscillatory flows9
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina8
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A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants8
New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)8
Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin8
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update8
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Neoichnology and sediment distribution in tidal flats of the mud‐dominated mesotidal Mira River estuary (Portugal)8
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The role of siliciclastics in carbonate fabric diversity and preservation: A case study from the Neoproterozoic carbonate − siliciclastic Horse Thief Springs Formation, Death Valley8
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Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan8
Rock‐buffered versus fluid‐buffered geochemistry of structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite: Insights from the Sichuan Basin, China8
Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north‐west Borneo7
Sedimentation differences and depositional model in slope‐controlled travertine precipitation stream in Huanglong, China7
Tidal dynamics in palaeo‐seas in response to changes in physiography, tidal forcing and bed shear stress7
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean7
Facies stacking and lateral variability of travertines from the Quaternary Vega Botijuela, Salar de Antofalla Basin, Argentina7
The role of fluvial and tidal currents on coal accumulation in a mixed‐energy deltaic setting: Pinghu Formation, Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin7
Eskers formed in the soft‐bed region – a comprehensive study of Late Saalian strata from Poland7
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Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns7
Modern soil aggregates–colluvium generated by overland flow – stratigraphy and physical experiments7
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Challenges to the ancient methane seep search strategy: The Bedford Canyon Formation (Middle Jurassic, Santa Ana Mountains, California)7
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Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf7
Morphodynamics of intermittent density inflow on fan‐deltas: Physical experiments and sedimentological implications7
Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia7
Microbial mats in the Río Mayer Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Austral Basin, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic significance7
Universal decomposition model: An efficient technique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from grain‐size distributions7
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Barremian synrift barrier island–estuarine depositional systems from blended field and drone‐derived data6
SediRate‐Fischer plots as a tool to illustrate relative sea‐level and lake‐level changes in subaqueous terrigenous deposits6
Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation6
Where was the Yangtze River mouth during the last glacial maximum?6
Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial‐scale growth of Mg‐calcite and protodolomite6
Biogeochemical characterization of micritized carbonate grains in the shallow‐marine Al‐Kharrar Lagoon (Red Sea, Saudi Arabia)6
Shoreline migration paths and depositional architecture of early–mid Miocene deltaic clinoforms in response to sea‐level changes in the north‐eastern shelf margin, South China Sea6
Wind‐driven hydrodynamic and depositional patterns in shallow lakes: An exploratory modelling approach based on an archetypal case of Lake Hulun6
The generation of a clotted peloidal micrite fabric by endolithic cyanobacteria in recent thrombolites from Cuatro Cienegas, northern Mexico6
Processes controlling rare earth element distribution in sedimentary apatite: Insights from spectroscopy, in situ geochemistry and O and Sr isotope composition6
Hydrodynamic behaviour of organo‐phosphatic bioclastic sediments: An experimental study on linguliform brachiopod shell fragments6
Quantitative sedimentological analysis of the aeolian–fluvial Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Cheshire Basin, UK6
Planform architecture, meander evolution and grain‐size variability of a deltaic channel belt in the Rhine‐Meuse delta, The Netherlands6
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
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium6
Transport of ‘Nama’‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology6
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas6
Structures, architecture, vertical profiles, palaeohydrology and taphonomy of an upper‐flow‐regime‐dominated fluvial system, the Triassic Dockum Group of the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas6
Instant sedimentation in a deep Alpine lake (Iseo, Italy) controlled by climate, human and geodynamic forcing6
Deep learning‐based grain‐size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty6
Sedimentary facies characterization through CPTU profiles: An effective tool for subsurface investigation of modern alluvial and coastal plains5
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
Large‐scale sedimentary shift induced by a mega‐dam in deltaic flats5
Stromatolite‐rimmed thrombolite columns and domes constructed by microstromatolites, calcimicrobes and sponges in late Cambrian biostromes, Texas, USA5
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Role of microbial mats in the genesis of soft‐sediment deformation structures in a siliciclastic environment5
Upper‐flow‐regime deposits related to glacio‐volcanic interactions in Patagonia: Insights from the Pleistocene record in Southern Andes5
Formation and preservation of vertebrate tracks in semi‐liquid sediments: Insights from tidal flats and laboratory experiments5
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Microbe‐mediated, marine authigenic formation of ooidal chamosite: Insights from upper Ordovician carbonates of the South‐Western Yangtze platform (China)5
Diagenetic formation of stevensite by replacement of diatom frustules in the sediments of the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)5
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Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes5
Conditions of submarine levéed channel inception: Examination by flume experiments5
Late‐Holocene counterpoint deposition in the Lower Rhine River5
Unravelling the formation and implications of illitic grain coats for reservoir quality in the Permian tight sandstones, northern Ordos Basin, central China5
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
Australian continental‐scale heavy mineral patterns track climate, weathering and erosion5
On the origin of chevron marks and striated grooves, and their use in predicting mud bed rheology5
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Towards an improved understanding of Ca–Mg carbonates with nonplanar surfaces: An experimental approach5
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Composition of fine‐grained sediment in the Hikurangi Trough: Evidence for intermingling among axial gravity flows, transverse gravity flows and margin‐parallel ocean currents5
Sedimentary evolution of debris avalanche deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Xiguayuan Formation, Luanping Basin, North China5
Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility5
Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar4
Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate4
Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach4
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings4
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Divergent mechanisms of organic matter enrichment in contrasting members: A case study of coal‐bearing and oil shale successions4
Facies analysis provides new insights into event bed deposition in a hadal trench environment4
Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses4
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations4
Enrichment of organic carbon in a deep‐water sand‐prone turbidite system: A study from the Eocene Aínsa Basin (Spanish Pyrenees)4
Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data4
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments4
Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China4
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 change4
Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China4
Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?4
Formation of Mg‐silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): Environmental versus microbiological drivers4
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Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolu4
Estimation of fine sediment stocks in gravel bed rivers including the sand fraction3
A model for the concomitant early formation of dolomite and fibrous clays in coastal bay systems: Evidence from the Eocene (Paris Basin, France)3
Tide‐influenced depositional system recorded in southern Gondwana during the Early Permian: Post‐glacial infill of the Capané palaeovalley3
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Topographic controls on the distribution of bioturbation in an intertidal sandflat3
Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts3
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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
Bioclastic bottom‐current deposits of a Devonian contourite terrace: Facies variability and depositional architecture (Tafilalt Platform, Morocco)3
Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland3
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
Distinctive lithofacies architecture of sand ridges built by storm and ocean currents: An example from a Middle Pleistocene shallow‐marine succession on the Boso Peninsula, Japan3
Stratigraphic evolution of a spectacularly exposed turbidite channel belt from the Tachrift System (late Tortonian, north‐East Morocco)3
Microbial dominated Ca‐carbonates in a giant Pliocene cold‐seep system (Crotone Basin – South Italy)3
Identification of a Quaternary rock avalanche deposit (Central Apennines, Italy): Significance for recognition of fossil catastrophic mass‐wasting3
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Pedogenic continental red beds: How, why and when red? Redox geochemistry and quantitative colour analysis of the Old Red Sandstone, South Wales, UK3
Quantifying the sensitivity of distributive fluvial systems to changes in sediment supply and lake level using stratigraphic forward modelling3
Helium‐isotope constraints on palaeoceanographic change and sedimentation rates during precession cycles (Cenomanian Scaglia Bianca Formation, central Italy)3
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Stratigraphic architecture of fluvial fans shaped by downstream changes in avulsion style3
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Middle to late Holocene sedimentary filling history of the Sebkha el Melah in south‐eastern Tunisia3
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes3
Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate and glaciation3
Carbonate platform drowning caught in the act: The sedimentology of Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean)3
Dissolved silica‐driven dolomite precipitation in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and its implication for dolomite formation environments3
Sandstone body character and river planform styles of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA3
Intrusions of sediment laden rivers into density stratified water columns could be an unrecognized source of mixing in many lakes and coastal oceans3
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Provenance studies and basin evolution: Insight from the Yukon–Koyukuk Basin, Alaska3
The erosionally confined to emergent transition in a slope‐derived blocky mass‐transport deposit interacting with a turbidite substrate, Ventimiglia Flysch Formation (Grès d’Annot System, north‐west I2
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
Changjiang coastal mud‐belt deposits in Taiwan Strait: Controls on its distribution and facies2
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Deep‐water sedimentary systems and tectono–sedimentary interactions on the oblique convergent margin in Antarctica2
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Deep‐water sand transfer by hyperpycnal flows, the Eocene of Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway2
Recognizing key sedimentary facies and their distribution in mixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems: The case of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula2
Submarine slope destabilization and gully formation by water sapping: Physical simulation of an underestimated trigger of subaqueous sediment gravity flows2
Facies mosaic distribution and stratigraphic disorder of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic tidal succession2
Radiaxial fibrous calcite forms via early marine‐diagenetic alteration of micritic magnesium calcite2
Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levée development2
Using machine learning to analyse coastal sediment characteristics from unmanned aerial vehicle data: A case study of the Dasha sandy beach, China2
Signals of the paleo‐Kuroshio Current: The Pleistocene Chinen Formation, Okinawa Island, south‐west Japan2
Aligned hydrothermal fluid‐flow pathways in Middle Permian near‐shore marine sediments beneath a basaltic lava flow2
Sedimentological and biofabric patterns for hybrid coquina deposits: Insights from wave tank experiments2
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Facies variability and depositional settings of Laguna Salada de Chiprana, an Iberian hypersaline lake2
Some record it hot: Clumped isotope temperatures from Middle Jurassic molluscan aragonite2
Comment on Brandano et al. (2022) – Introduction of ‘Understanding carbonate factories through palaeoecological and sedimentological signals – Tribute to Luis Pomar’, Sedimentology, 69, 2
Characterization, prediction and implications of compartments in a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic mass‐transport complex: The Cutoff Formation, Permian Basin, Texas2
The impact of a freshwater diluted plume on spatial halite accumulation in a hypersaline lake: Direct observations from the Dead Sea2
Recognition and three‐dimensional characteristics of ancient supercritical flow bedforms on a submarine slope: An example from the South China Sea2
Deciphering the role of microbial influence in trace fossil diagenesis in sandstone (Ipu Formation, Silurian, Parnaíba Basin, Brazil)2
Impact of wave, tides and fluid mud on fluvial discharge across a compound clinoform (Pliocene Orinoco Delta)2
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Influence of sediment composition on morphology and internal structure of mixed siliciclastic–bioclastic coastal barriers: Contribution of flume experiments2
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