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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Issue Information29
Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana28
Issue Information28
Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey26
Corrigendum to: Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores26
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)24
Source‐to‐sink sediment transport reversals during glacial sea‐level lowstands sustain soil formation on pericoastal carbonate terrains22
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands22
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England22
Issue Information21
Factors controlling carbonate mud production and accumulation on Upper Jurassic western European mixed siliciclastic–carbonate ramps21
Recycling control on chemical weathering indices (Yarlung River, South Tibet)20
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
20
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?19
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea17
Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record17
16
Issue Information16
Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms16
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA16
Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits15
Exploring freshwater influence in epicontinental seas through integrated sedimentology and geochemistry approaches15
Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations15
Sedimentology and diagenesis of Pleistocene calcareous, non‐dolomitic, interdune sediments, Coorong Coastal Plain, South Australia15
The making of pure quartzose sand in continental interiors: Paraná River (Brazil and Argentina)15
Modern microbial landscape: Aerial mapping of microbially induced sedimentary structures forming in a coastal sabkha15
Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin15
14
Siderite from the Tibetan Himalaya: Evidence for a low sulphate ocean during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (Early Aptian)14
Down in the dungeons: the hidden role of diatom biofilms and microbial activity in the biogeochemistry of a dynamic estuarine point bar14
Issue Information14
Spatial variability in aeolian abrasion: Ibex Dune Field, Death Valley National Park13
The ejection pattern of sand particles in steady‐state aeolian transport13
Fossilized autogenic responses of grain‐size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments13
Issue Information13
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina12
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‐Norway12
Origin and composition of hydrothermally‐influenced sediments at Aurora Vent Field, southwestern Gakkel Ridge (82.9°N)12
Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep‐sea levée sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic trends in carbon burial12
Formation of magnesium‐clay in a lacustrine microbialite‐bearing carbonate deposit, Eocene Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah11
Unravelling megaturbidite deposition: Evidence for turbidite stacking/amalgamation and seiche influence during the 1601 ce earthquake at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland11
Author Index11
Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium11
Sedimentary record of submarine gravity‐flow events in the southern Ryukyu forearc during the last 200 000 years: Archive of mega‐earthquakes and tsunamis11
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
Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids11
Microbial influence on the formation and subsequent changes of vertebrate tracks: field experiments on present‐day coastal sediments11
Issue Information11
Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands11
Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls11
Mineralogical variability of suspended sediments induced by mega‐reservoir regulation (Yellow River, China)10
Coastal engineering structures bifurcate intertidal eco‐morphodynamic trajectories in a sediment‐starved delta10
Experimental observations of vertical segregation of sands in oscillatory flows10
Morphostratigraphy of an active mixed sand–gravel barrier spit (Baie de Somme, northern France)10
Soft‐bedded ice sheet in hummocky terrain of north‐central Poland: Origin of rim ridges and subglacial processes10
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear10
An 80 kyr record of intermediate‐depth water flow on the western South Atlantic margin10
Microbial mats and thalassinid shrimp: Spatial and geochemical interactions in a modern intertidal environment10
A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities10
Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the shallow, carbonate‐dominated intrashelf Kazhdumi Basin, Zagros Mountains10
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
Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of a submarine carbonate platform canyon system situated in an arid climate setting10
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars9
Depositional environments, hematite–chamosite differentiation and origins of Middle Ordovician iron ooids in the Upper Yangtze region, South China9
Discrimination of tectonic influence from volcano‐sedimentary successions: An example from the Janggi Basin, south‐eastern part of the Korean Peninsula9
A model for the early diagenesis of humid climate, fluvial strata influenced by adjacent salt deposits: Grande Anse Formation, Cumberland Basin, Canada9
9
Extreme events of alternate dry–wet climatic cycles and lacustrine deposits: A case study from the Yanchang Formation (Triassic), Ordos Basin, China9
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
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update9
Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin8
The role of siliciclastics in carbonate fabric diversity and preservation: A case study from the Neoproterozoic carbonate − siliciclastic Horse Thief Springs Formation, Death Valley8
8
Rock‐buffered versus fluid‐buffered geochemistry of structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite: Insights from the Sichuan Basin, China8
Issue Information8
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina8
Author Index8
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan8
Volume Index8
A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants8
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
Morphodynamics of intermittent density inflow on fan‐deltas: Physical experiments and sedimentological implications7
Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf7
Formation process of the gravel‐dominated deposit from the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, inferred by integrating sedimentology and tsunami modelling7
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean7
Neoichnology and sediment distribution in tidal flats of the mud‐dominated mesotidal Mira River estuary (Portugal)7
Volume Index7
New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)7
Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns7
Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia7
7
Microbial mats in the Río Mayer Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Austral Basin, Argentina: Paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic significance7
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
Eskers formed in the soft‐bed region – a comprehensive study of Late Saalian strata from Poland7
7
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 Shelf6
Deep learning‐based grain‐size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty6
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas6
Where was the Yangtze River mouth during the last glacial maximum?6
The generation of a clotted peloidal micrite fabric by endolithic cyanobacteria in recent thrombolites from Cuatro Cienegas, northern Mexico6
Universal decomposition model: An efficient technique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from grain‐size distributions6
Facies stacking and lateral variability of travertines from the Quaternary Vega Botijuela, Salar de Antofalla Basin, Argentina6
Transport of ‘Nama’‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology6
Issue Information6
Challenges to the ancient methane seep search strategy: The Bedford Canyon Formation (Middle Jurassic, Santa Ana Mountains, California)6
Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation6
Wind‐driven hydrodynamic and depositional patterns in shallow lakes: An exploratory modelling approach based on an archetypal case of Lake Hulun6
Holocene sea‐level changes and the influence of storms on beach ridge formation in the Lower Gulf of Thailand6
Processes controlling rare earth element distribution in sedimentary apatite: Insights from spectroscopy, in situ geochemistry and O and Sr isotope composition6
6
List of Reviewers6
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Barremian synrift barrier island–estuarine depositional systems from blended field and drone‐derived data6
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium6
Bed‐scale quantitative discrimination of hyperpycnites from intrabasinal turbidites—Results from a channelised slope system in the Upper Carboniferous Westward Ho! Formation, United Kingdom6
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
Hydrodynamic behaviour of organo‐phosphatic bioclastic sediments: An experimental study on linguliform brachiopod shell fragments6
Sedimentary facies characterization through CPTU profiles: An effective tool for subsurface investigation of modern alluvial and coastal plains5
Sedimentary evolution of debris avalanche deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Xiguayuan Formation, Luanping Basin, North China5
Formation and preservation of vertebrate tracks in semi‐liquid sediments: Insights from tidal flats and laboratory experiments5
5
Role of microbial mats in the genesis of soft‐sediment deformation structures in a siliciclastic environment5
Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial‐scale growth of Mg‐calcite and protodolomite5
Biogeochemical characterization of micritized carbonate grains in the shallow‐marine Al‐Kharrar Lagoon (Red Sea, Saudi Arabia)5
Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes5
5
Diagenetic formation of stevensite by replacement of diatom frustules in the sediments of the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)5
Development of Holocene lacustrine microbialites on the Iberian Peninsula: Insights into environmental and depositional controls using X‐ray CT and p5
Illite 40 Ar / 395
On the origin of chevron marks and striated grooves, and their use in predicting mud bed rheology5
Planform architecture, meander evolution and grain‐size variability of a deltaic channel belt in the Rhine‐Meuse delta, The Netherlands5
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
Towards an improved understanding of Ca–Mg carbonates with nonplanar surfaces: An experimental approach5
Quantitative sedimentological analysis of the aeolian–fluvial Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Cheshire Basin, UK5
Conditions of submarine levéed channel inception: Examination by flume experiments5
Microbe‐mediated, marine authigenic formation of ooidal chamosite: Insights from upper Ordovician carbonates of the South‐Western Yangtze platform (China)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
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
Australian continental‐scale heavy mineral patterns track climate, weathering and erosion5
Late‐Holocene counterpoint deposition in the Lower Rhine River5
Hemispherical MISS caused by gas‐trapping: Examples from the Trepassey and Fermeuse formations (Ediacaran) of Newfoundland5
The relationship between organic matgrounds and sedimentary packaging: examples from the Ediacaran and early Cambrian5
Upper‐flow‐regime deposits related to glacio‐volcanic interactions in Patagonia: Insights from the Pleistocene record in Southern Andes5
Composition of fine‐grained sediment in the Hikurangi Trough: Evidence for intermingling among axial gravity flows, transverse gravity flows and margin‐parallel ocean currents5
5
Large‐scale sedimentary shift induced by a mega‐dam in deltaic flats5
Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility4
4
Facies analysis provides new insights into event bed deposition in a hadal trench environment4
4
Stromatolite‐rimmed thrombolite columns and domes constructed by microstromatolites, calcimicrobes and sponges in late Cambrian biostromes, Texas, USA4
Unravelling the formation and implications of illitic grain coats for reservoir quality in the Permian tight sandstones, northern Ordos Basin, central China4
Divergent mechanisms of organic matter enrichment in contrasting members: A case study of coal‐bearing and oil shale successions4
A tale of two microbialites: Stromatolites and microbially induced sedimentary structures4
Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China4
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments4
Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland3
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes3
Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data3
Issue Information3
A model for the concomitant early formation of dolomite and fibrous clays in coastal bay systems: Evidence from the Eocene (Paris Basin, France)3
Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?3
Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate and glaciation3
Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China3
Stratigraphic architecture of fluvial fans shaped by downstream changes in avulsion style3
Microbial dominated Ca‐carbonates in a giant Pliocene cold‐seep system (Crotone Basin – South Italy)3
Tide‐influenced depositional system recorded in southern Gondwana during the Early Permian: Post‐glacial infill of the Capané palaeovalley3
3
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings3
Formation of Mg‐silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): Environmental versus microbiological drivers3
Issue Information3
Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate3
Stratigraphic evolution of a spectacularly exposed turbidite channel belt from the Tachrift System (late Tortonian, north‐East Morocco)3
Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolu3
Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts3
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
Microbially induced sedimentary structures ( MISS ) in the macrotidal sand flats of the San Antonio Este Bay, Argentina3
Dues Statement3
Estimation of fine sediment stocks in gravel bed rivers including the sand fraction3
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
Enrichment of organic carbon in a deep‐water sand‐prone turbidite system: A study from the Eocene Aínsa Basin (Spanish Pyrenees)3
Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses3
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations3
Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar3
Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach3
Issue Information3
3
M icrobial microsequences modulated by storm dynamics in lower shoreface deposits: A case study from the early Ediacaran, Cerro Largo Formation, Argentina3
Issue Information3
Provenance studies and basin evolution: Insight from the Yukon–Koyukuk Basin, Alaska3
Climate conditions on the South‐Iberian Palaeomargin during the latest Pliensbachian to early Toarcian: A mineralogical and geochemical study from hemipelagic deposits3
Changjiang coastal mud‐belt deposits in Taiwan Strait: Controls on its distribution and facies2
Influence of sediment composition on morphology and internal structure of mixed siliciclastic–bioclastic coastal barriers: Contribution of flume experiments2
The impact of a freshwater diluted plume on spatial halite accumulation in a hypersaline lake: Direct observations from the Dead Sea2
Using machine learning to analyse coastal sediment characteristics from unmanned aerial vehicle data: A case study of the Dasha sandy beach, China2
Reviewers2
The origin of island dolostones: Novel insights from in situ Mg isotope, major and minor elements analyses of Miocene dolostones on Shidao, the Xisha Islands2
Carbonate platform drowning caught in the act: The sedimentology of Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean)2
2
Quantifying the sensitivity of distributive fluvial systems to changes in sediment supply and lake level using stratigraphic forward modelling2
Deep‐water sedimentary systems and tectono–sedimentary interactions on the oblique convergent margin in Antarctica2
Reviewers2
Sedimentary biogeochemical provinces in the northern limit of the oxygen minimum zone from the northeastern Mexican Pacific2
Recognition and three‐dimensional characteristics of ancient supercritical flow bedforms on a submarine slope: An example from the South China Sea2
Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levée development2
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
Bioclastic bottom‐current deposits of a Devonian contourite terrace: Facies variability and depositional architecture (Tafilalt Platform, Morocco)2
Sandstone body character and river planform styles of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA2
Helium‐isotope constraints on palaeoceanographic change and sedimentation rates during precession cycles (Cenomanian Scaglia Bianca Formation, central Italy)2
2
Characterization, prediction and implications of compartments in a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic mass‐transport complex: The Cutoff Formation, Permian Basin, Texas2
Aligned hydrothermal fluid‐flow pathways in Middle Permian near‐shore marine sediments beneath a basaltic lava flow2
Seismic expression of a late Palaeozoic drift and implications for paleo‐basin currents: Midland Basin, West Texas, USA2
A review of the supercritical state of eruption‐fed volcanic density currents in subaerial and subaqueous settings2
Signals of the paleo‐Kuroshio Current: The Pleistocene Chinen Formation, Okinawa Island, south‐west Japan2
Facies mosaic distribution and stratigraphic disorder of a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic tidal succession2
Dues Statement2
Dissolved silica‐driven dolomite precipitation in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and its implication for dolomite formation environments2
Pedogenic continental red beds: How, why and when red? Redox geochemistry and quantitative colour analysis of the Old Red Sandstone, South Wales, UK2
Topographic controls on the distribution of bioturbation in an intertidal sandflat2
Some record it hot: Clumped isotope temperatures from Middle Jurassic molluscan aragonite2
Radiaxial fibrous calcite forms via early marine‐diagenetic alteration of micritic magnesium calcite2
2
0.093544006347656