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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Corrigendum to: Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores24
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)23
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England23
Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey23
Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana21
Holocene sediment distribution in the Al Wajh platform lagoon (northern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia), a modern analogue for large rift basin carbonate platforms20
Ontogeny of a subtidal point bar in the microtidal Venice Lagoon (Italy) revealed by three‐dimensional architectural analyses19
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands19
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Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA18
Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record18
Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: The Puig‐reig anticline (south‐eastern Pyrenees)17
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea17
Climate and sea‐level controlling internal architecture of a Quaternary carbonate ramp (Northwest Shelf of Australia)17
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, China16
Factors controlling carbonate mud production and accumulation on Upper Jurassic western European mixed siliciclastic–carbonate ramps16
Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?16
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Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations15
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Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits14
Non‐palimpsested crowded Skolithos ichnofabrics in a Carboniferous tidal rhythmite: Disentangling ecological signatures from the spatio‐temporal bias of outcrop14
Exploring freshwater influence in epicontinental seas through integrated sedimentology and geochemistry approaches14
Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin14
Sedimentology and diagenesis of Pleistocene calcareous, non‐dolomitic, interdune sediments, Coorong Coastal Plain, South Australia14
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Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms13
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Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores12
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Fossilized autogenic responses of grain‐size transition to sediment supply and water discharge: Alluvial fan experiments12
Spatial variability in river bed porosity determined by nuclear density gauging: A case study from a French gravel‐bed river12
Spatial variability in aeolian abrasion: Ibex Dune Field, Death Valley National Park12
The ejection pattern of sand particles in steady‐state aeolian transport11
A late Holocene shift of typhoon activity recorded by coastal sedimentary archives in eastern China11
How do thrombolites form? Multiphase construction of lacustrine microbialites, Purbeck Limestone Group, (Jurassic), Dorset, UK11
Siderite from the Tibetan Himalaya: Evidence for a low sulphate ocean during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (Early Aptian)11
Down in the dungeons: the hidden role of diatom biofilms and microbial activity in the biogeochemistry of a dynamic estuarine point bar11
Origin and composition of hydrothermally‐influenced sediments at Aurora Vent Field, southwestern Gakkel Ridge (82.9°N)11
Contrasting behaviour of sand and mud in a long‐term sediment budget of the Western Scheldt estuary10
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‐Norway10
Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River, The Netherlands10
Sedimentology of a hypertidal point bar (Mont‐Saint‐Michel Bay, north‐western France) revealed by combining lidar time‐series and sedimentary core data10
Formation of magnesium‐clay in a lacustrine microbialite‐bearing carbonate deposit, Eocene Green River Formation, Sanpete County, Utah10
Radish concretions grown in mud during compaction10
Organic matter deposition and preservation in ancient deep‐sea levée sediments: Implications for Neoproterozoic trends in carbon burial10
A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities10
Comment on ‘Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective’ by Ash‐Mor et al. (2022), Sedimentology, 69, 1231–125110
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina10
Sedimentary record of submarine gravity‐flow events in the southern Ryukyu forearc during the last 200 000 years: archive of mega‐earthquakes and tsunamis10
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Rapid growth of a carbonate island over the last millennium10
An 80 kyr record of intermediate‐depth water flow on the western South Atlantic margin10
High‐resolution facies analysis of a coastal sabkha in the eastern Gulf of Salwa (Qatar): A spatio‐temporal reconstruction9
Unravelling megaturbidite deposition: Evidence for turbidite stacking/amalgamation and seiche influence during the 1601 ce earthquake at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland9
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Sediment dynamics and geomorphology of a submarine carbonate platform canyon system situated in an arid climate setting9
Microbial influence on the formation and subsequent changes of vertebrate tracks: field experiments on present‐day coastal sediments9
Going with the flow: Experimental simulation of sediment transport from a foraminifera perspective9
A model for the early diagenesis of humid climate, fluvial strata influenced by adjacent salt deposits: Grande Anse Formation, Cumberland Basin, Canada9
Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls9
Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the shallow, carbonate‐dominated intrashelf Kazhdumi Basin, Zagros Mountains9
Kaolinite deposition from moving suspensions: The roles of flocculation, salinity, suspended sediment concentration and flow velocity/bed shear9
Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids9
Morphostratigraphy of an active mixed sand–gravel barrier spit (Baie de Somme, northern France)9
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Holocene evolution and depositional model of a bayhead delta, Lake Illawarra, Australia8
Discrimination of tectonic influence from volcano‐sedimentary successions: An example from the Janggi Basin, south‐eastern part of the Korean Peninsula8
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A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants8
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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
Evaporitic–lacustrine mudstone laminites and prodelta mudlobes – continuity and change in the Hartmann's Valley interval, Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars8
The influence of hybrid sediment gravity flows on distribution and composition of trace‐fossil assemblages: Ordovician succession of the north‐eastern Alborz Range of Iran8
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update8
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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), Sediment8
Detrital zircon in an active sedimentary recycling system: Challenging the ‘source‐to‐sink’ approach to zircon‐based provenance analysis8
Depositional environments, hematite–chamosite differentiation and origins of Middle Ordovician iron ooids in the Upper Yangtze region, South China8
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina8
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
Neoichnology and sediment distribution in tidal flats of the mud‐dominated mesotidal Mira River estuary (Portugal)7
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Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns7
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan7
New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)7
Sedimentation differences and depositional model in slope‐controlled travertine precipitation stream in Huanglong, China7
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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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Late Oligocene to early Miocene delta and linked slope fan systems: Depositional architecture and sediment dispersal, the Pearl River Mouth Basin7
Rock‐buffered versus fluid‐buffered geochemistry of structurally controlled, hydrothermal dolomite: Insights from the Sichuan Basin, China7
Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north‐west Borneo7
Transport of ‘Nama’‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology6
‘Isolated base‐of‐slope aprons’: An oxymoron for shallow‐marine fan‐shaped, temperate‐water, carbonate bodies along the south‐east Salento escarpment (Pleistocene, Apulia, southern Italy)6
Deep learning‐based grain‐size decomposition model: A feasible solution for dealing with methodological uncertainty6
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
Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia6
Tidal dynamics in palaeo‐seas in response to changes in physiography, tidal forcing and bed shear stress6
The generation of a clotted peloidal micrite fabric by endolithic cyanobacteria in recent thrombolites from Cuatro Cienegas, northern Mexico6
Instant sedimentation in a deep Alpine lake (Iseo, Italy) controlled by climate, human and geodynamic forcing6
Inferring time averaging and hiatus durations in the stratigraphic record of high‐frequency depositional sequences6
SediRate‐Fischer plots as a tool to illustrate relative sea‐level and lake‐level changes in subaqueous terrigenous deposits6
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
Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf6
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean6
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium6
Hydrodynamic behaviour of organo‐phosphatic bioclastic sediments: An experimental study on linguliform brachiopod shell fragments6
Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of Barremian synrift barrier island–estuarine depositional systems from blended field and drone‐derived data6
Facies stacking and lateral variability of travertines from the Quaternary Vega Botijuela, Salar de Antofalla Basin, Argentina6
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Modern soil aggregates–colluvium generated by overland flow – stratigraphy and physical experiments6
Quantitative sedimentological analysis of the aeolian–fluvial Triassic Sherwood Sandstone Group, Cheshire Basin, UK5
Conditions of submarine levéed channel inception: Examination by flume experiments5
Holocene sea‐level changes and the influence of storms on beach ridge formation in the Lower Gulf of Thailand5
Role of microbial mats in the genesis of soft‐sediment deformation structures in a siliciclastic environment5
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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
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Contourite on the Limpopo Corridor, Mozambique margin: Long‐term evolution, facies distribution and Plio‐Quaternary processes5
Biogeochemical characterization of micritized carbonate grains in the shallow‐marine Al‐Kharrar Lagoon (Red Sea, Saudi Arabia)5
Upper‐flow‐regime deposits related to glacio‐volcanic interactions in Patagonia: Insights from the Pleistocene record in Southern Andes5
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 Sea5
Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial‐scale growth of Mg‐calcite and protodolomite5
Towards an improved understanding of Ca–Mg carbonates with nonplanar surfaces: An experimental approach5
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Late‐Holocene counterpoint deposition in the Lower Rhine River5
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
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas5
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. Geyer5
Composition of fine‐grained sediment in the Hikurangi Trough: Evidence for intermingling among axial gravity flows, transverse gravity flows and margin‐parallel ocean currents5
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Formation and preservation of vertebrate tracks in semi‐liquid sediments: Insights from tidal flats and laboratory experiments5
Large‐scale sedimentary shift induced by a mega‐dam in deltaic flats5
Diagenetic formation of stevensite by replacement of diatom frustules in the sediments of the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)5
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
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Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data4
Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility4
Sedimentary facies characterization through CPTU profiles: An effective tool for subsurface investigation of modern alluvial and coastal plains4
Unravelling the formation and implications of illitic grain coats for reservoir quality in the Permian tight sandstones, northern Ordos Basin, central China4
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations4
Middle to late Holocene sedimentary filling history of the Sebkha el Melah in south‐eastern Tunisia4
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes4
Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach4
Exceptional preservation of a barred shoreline under forced‐regressive conditions (Lower Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin, Argentina)4
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Sedimentary response to glacial‐interglacial cycles in an alluvial fan at the marginal East Asian monsoon zone, northern China4
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Sedimentary evolution of debris avalanche deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Xiguayuan Formation, Luanping Basin, North China4
Enrichment of organic carbon in a deep‐water sand‐prone turbidite system: A study from the Eocene Aínsa Basin (Spanish Pyrenees)4
Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China4
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, Japan4
A model for the concomitant early formation of dolomite and fibrous clays in coastal bay systems: Evidence from the Eocene (Paris Basin, France)4
Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar4
Formation of Mg‐silicates in the microbial sediments of a saline, mildly alkaline coastal lake (Lake Clifton, Australia): Environmental versus microbiological drivers4
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings4
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
Stromatolite‐rimmed thrombolite columns and domes constructed by microstromatolites, calcimicrobes and sponges in late Cambrian biostromes, Texas, USA4
Australian continental‐scale heavy mineral patterns track climate, weathering and erosion4
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments4
Microbial mats in dinosaur ichnocoenoses4
Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate4
Tide‐influenced depositional system recorded in southern Gondwana during the Early Permian: Post‐glacial infill of the Capané palaeovalley4
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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
Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?4
Biomineralization processes in modern calcareous tufa: Possible roles of viruses, vesicles and extracellular polymeric substances (Corvino Valley – Southern Italy)3
Topographic controls on the distribution of bioturbation in an intertidal sandflat3
Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate and glaciation3
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Quantifying the sensitivity of distributive fluvial systems to changes in sediment supply and lake level using stratigraphic forward modelling3
Bioclastic bottom‐current deposits of a Devonian contourite terrace: Facies variability and depositional architecture (Tafilalt Platform, Morocco)3
Dynamics and stratigraphy of a tidal sand ridge in the Bristol Channel (Nash Sands banner bank) from repeated high‐resolution multibeam echo‐sounder surveys3
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
Provenance studies and basin evolution: Insight from the Yukon–Koyukuk Basin, Alaska3
Identification of a Quaternary rock avalanche deposit (Central Apennines, Italy): Significance for recognition of fossil catastrophic mass‐wasting3
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Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland3
Stratigraphic architecture of fluvial fans shaped by downstream changes in avulsion style3
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Dissolved silica‐driven dolomite precipitation in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and its implication for dolomite formation environments3
Intrusions of sediment laden rivers into density stratified water columns could be an unrecognized source of mixing in many lakes and coastal oceans3
Helium‐isotope constraints on palaeoceanographic change and sedimentation rates during precession cycles (Cenomanian Scaglia Bianca Formation, central Italy)3
Depositional patterns of slowly plugging neck cutoffs from core analysis and estimates of bedload transport, White River, Arkansas3
Stratigraphic architecture of a saline lake system: From lake depocentre (Alès Basin) to margins (Saint‐Chaptes and Issirac basins), Eocene–Oligocene transition, south‐east France3
Late Quaternary sedimentary evolution of the distal Galician continental margin (north‐west Iberian Peninsula) based on palaeoclimatic, palaeoproductivity and diagenetic evidence3
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
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Estimation of fine sediment stocks in gravel bed rivers including the sand fraction3
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Sandstone body character and river planform styles of the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA3
Pedogenic continental red beds: How, why and when red? Redox geochemistry and quantitative colour analysis of the Old Red Sandstone, South Wales, UK3
Carbonate platform drowning caught in the act: The sedimentology of Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean)3
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Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts3
Microbial dominated Ca‐carbonates in a giant Pliocene cold‐seep system (Crotone Basin – South Italy)3
Stratigraphic evolution of a spectacularly exposed turbidite channel belt from the Tachrift System (late Tortonian, north‐East Morocco)3
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
Using machine learning to analyse coastal sediment characteristics from unmanned aerial vehicle data: A case study of the Dasha sandy beach, China2
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Discussion of Li et al. (2021) – On the origin and significance of composite particles in mudstones: Examples from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation, Sedimentology, 68, 737–7542
Stratigraphic change in flow transformation processes recorded in early post‐rift deep‐marine intraslope lobe complexes2
High‐magnesium calcite skeletons provide magnesium for burrow‐selective dolomitization in Cretaceous carbonates2
Impact of wave, tides and fluid mud on fluvial discharge across a compound clinoform (Pliocene Orinoco Delta)2
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Changjiang coastal mud‐belt deposits in Taiwan Strait: Controls on its distribution and facies2
Recognition and three‐dimensional characteristics of ancient supercritical flow bedforms on a submarine slope: An example from the South China Sea2
How do carbonate factories influence carbonate platform morphology? Exploring production−transport interactions with numerical forward modelling2
Stacking pattern transition caused by submarine channel inception and internal levée development2
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Radiaxial fibrous calcite forms via early marine‐diagenetic alteration of micritic magnesium calcite2
Hummocky sedimentary structures within rippled beds due to combined orbital waves and transverse currents2
Submarine slope destabilization and gully formation by water sapping: Physical simulation of an underestimated trigger of subaqueous sediment gravity flows2
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Recognizing key sedimentary facies and their distribution in mixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems: The case of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula2
Constraints on the preservation of proxy data in carbonate archives – lessons from a marine limestone to marble transect, Latemar, Italy2
Comment on Brandano et al. (2022) – Introduction of ‘Understanding carbonate factories through palaeoecological and sedimentological signals – Tribute to Luis Pomar’, Sedimentology, 69, 2
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
Deep‐water sedimentary systems and tectono–sedimentary interactions on the oblique convergent margin in Antarctica2
Facies variability and depositional settings of Laguna Salada de Chiprana, an Iberian hypersaline lake2
Reply to the Discussion by Al‐Mufti on “On the origin and significance of composite particles in mudstones: Examples from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation” by Li et al. (2021), Sedimentolog2
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Deep‐water sand transfer by hyperpycnal flows, the Eocene of Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway2
Sedimentological and biofabric patterns for hybrid coquina deposits: Insights from wave tank experiments2
Characterization, prediction and implications of compartments in a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic mass‐transport complex: The Cutoff Formation, Permian Basin, Texas2
Middle Ordovician mass‐transport deposits from western Inner Mongolia, China: Mechanisms and implications for basin evolution2
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