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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Effects of clay and organic matter on calcareous nannofossil ooze erodibility50
Recognizing key sedimentary facies and their distribution in mixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems: The case of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula42
Holocene seismic activity in south‐eastern Switzerland: Evidence from the sedimentary record of Lake Silvaplana34
Intricate microbial structures: The enigma of reticulated filaments28
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Compositional, micromorphological and geotechnical characterization of Holocene Tiber floodplain deposits (Rome, Italy) and sequence stratigraphic implications22
Depositional and early diagenetic characteristics of modern saline pan deposits at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA21
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Impact of wave, tides and fluid mud on fluvial discharge across a compound clinoform (Pliocene Orinoco Delta)19
Rhythmic iron‐oxide bands of Navajo Sandstone concretions and Kimberley banded claystone: Formation process and buffering reaction rate by diagenetic alteration18
Facies variability and depositional settings of Laguna Salada de Chiprana, an Iberian hypersaline lake18
The role of siliciclastics in carbonate fabric diversity and preservation: A case study from the Neoproterozoic carbonate − siliciclastic Horse Thief Springs Formation, Death Valley18
Early Miocene carbonate ramp development in a warm ocean, North West Shelf, Australia18
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Soft‐sediment deformation structures and Neptunian dykes across a carbonate system: Evidence for an earthquake‐related origin (Norian, Dolomia Principale, Southern Alps, Italy)17
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Pathways for sediment transport and retention in a vegetated, mid‐channel island: Connecting sediment dynamics to morphology in Meinmahla Island, Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar17
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Bedform evolution along a submarine canyon in the South China Sea: New insights from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey17
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Cool deltas: Sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical characterization of ice‐contact deltas and implications for their reservoir properties (Salpausselkä, Finland)16
The supercritical question for pyroclastic dune bedforms: An overview16
From Patagonia to Río de la Plata: Multistep long‐distance littoral transport of Andean volcaniclastic sand along the Argentine passive margin15
Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England15
Focused methane migration formed pipe structures in permeable sandstones: Insights from uncrewed aerial vehicle‐based digital outcrop analysis in Varna, Bulgaria15
Hybrid event beds generated by erosional bulking of modern hyperpycnal flows on the Choshui River delta front, Taiwan Strait15
The impact of high discharge variability on sedimentology and architecture of bar deposits in the meandering Powder River (Montana, USA)15
Rheological sand bed generates non‐rebounding particles14
Evolution and architecture of an exhumed ocean‐facing coarse‐grained submarine canyon fill, Baja California, Mexico14
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Hydrothermal activity near the Permian–Triassic transition in the south‐western Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from carbonate cementation in Upper Permian sandstones14
Spatial distribution and variability of lobe facies in a large sand‐rich submarine fan system: Neoproterozoic Zerrissene Group, Namibia13
Distinguishing mid‐channel and bank‐attached fluvial bars by flow divergence: Implications for the interpretation of stratigraphic records13
Reconstruction of an extreme flood hydrograph and morphodynamics of a meander bend in a high‐peak discharge variability river (Powder River, USA)13
Constraints on dolomite formation in a Late Palaeozoic saline alkaline lake deposit, Junggar Basin, north‐west China12
A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants12
Supercritical‐flow processes and depositional products: Introduction to thematic issue12
Sedimentary record of bottom currents and internal tides in a modern highstand submarine canyon head12
Ontogeny of a subtidal point bar in the microtidal Venice Lagoon (Italy) revealed by three‐dimensional architectural analyses11
Bedload transport and deposition of mud‐grade sediments in deep‐lacustrine settings: A case study in the Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China11
Submarine slope destabilization and gully formation by water sapping: Physical simulation of an underestimated trigger of subaqueous sediment gravity flows11
Corrigendum to: Wave‐influenced deposition of carbonate‐rich sediment on the insular shelf of Santa Maria Island, Azores11
Breaking up and making up – reworking of Holocene calcarenite platform into rapidly‐forming beachrock breccias on a high energy coastline (St. Lucia, South Africa)11
Geomorphic and environmental controls on microbial mat fabrics on Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands11
Lost in the wind: An integrated approach for the recognition of mixed clastic–carbonate continental aeolianites11
Erratum to Marine carbonate factories: Review and update11
Deep‐water sand transfer by hyperpycnal flows, the Eocene of Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway11
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Holocene sediment distribution in the Al Wajh platform lagoon (northern Red Sea, Saudi Arabia), a modern analogue for large rift basin carbonate platforms10
A Deccan Large Igneous Province related Maastrichtian regolith of Lameta Formation, Central India: Insights into the genesis and development of calcrete profiles and implications for palaeoclimate var10
Cryptic burrow traces in black shales – a petrographic Rorschach test or the real thing?10
Correction to ‘Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline‐gravity currents versus open‐channel flows’10
Palaeoclimatic and diagenetic controls based on clay mineralogy and organic matter distribution: The continental rift Cuyo Basin (Triassic), west‐central Argentina10
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Stratigraphic change in flow transformation processes recorded in early post‐rift deep‐marine intraslope lobe complexes10
Genesis of island dolostones during rapid island subsidence: Example from the Xisha (Paracel) islands, South China Sea10
Recognition of a cryptic maximum flooding surface in shallow marine carbonate sequences using geochemical (Y/Ho) proxy data10
Geochemical record of the subsurface redox gradient in marine red beds: A case study from the Devonian Prague Basin, Czechia10
Exceptional preservation of a barred shoreline under forced‐regressive conditions (Lower Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin, Argentina)10
Unconfined gravity current interactions with orthogonal topography: Implications for combined‐flow processes and the depositional record10
Pearl River sediment dispersal over its associated delta–estuary–shelf system during the Holocene10
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Does sand promote or hinder the mobility of cohesive sediment gravity flows?9
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), Sedimentolog9
Hummocky sedimentary structures within rippled beds due to combined orbital waves and transverse currents9
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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, 737–7549
Spring origin of Eocene carbonate mounds in the Green River Formation, Northern Bridger Basin, Wyoming, USA9
Source‐to‐sink response to high‐amplitude lake level rise driven by orbital‐scale climate change: An example from the Pleistocene Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa9
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Gravitational resedimentation as a fundamental process in filling fjords: Lessons from outcrops from a late Palaeozoic fjord in Namibia9
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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
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New insights into the palaeoenvironmental–palaeoclimatic significance and sedimentary dynamics of carbonate Lagerstätten: The lower Albian of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)8
Controls on grain‐size distribution in an ancient sand sea8
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Advective sorting of silt by currents: A laboratory study8
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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 change8
Three‐dimensional stratigraphic architecture, secondary pore system development and the Middle Pleistocene transition, Sandy Point area, San Salvador Island, Bahamas8
Century‐scale sequences and density‐flow deltas of the late Holocene and modern Dead Sea coast, Israel8
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Quaternary lacustrine carbonate deposits of the Great Basin, USA: Impact of climate, tectonics and substrate7
Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates – A problem of interpretation7
The hidden biotic face of microbialite morphogenesis – a case study from Laguna de Los Cisnes, southernmost Patagonia (Chile)7
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Multi‐scale and multi‐parametric analysis of Late Quaternary event deposits within the active Corinth Rift (Greece)7
Lake level controls the recurrence of giant stromatolite facies7
High‐magnesium calcite skeletons provide magnesium for burrow‐selective dolomitization in Cretaceous carbonates7
Origin and distribution of calcite cements in a folded fluvial succession: The Puig‐reig anticline (south‐eastern Pyrenees)7
Autogenic evolution of valley‐confined deltas during sea‐level rise: Insights from numerical and physical modelling7
Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach7
Hydrodynamic controls on sedimentary facies of tidal point bars: A case study in the Georgia coastal plain, USA7
Features and dolomitizing mechanisms in inner platform facies across the Permian–Triassic boundary (External Dinarides, Croatia)7
Climate and sea‐level controlling internal architecture of a Quaternary carbonate ramp (Northwest Shelf of Australia)7
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Contrasting intensity of aragonite dissolution and dolomite cementation in glacial versus interglacial intervals of a subtropical carbonate succession7
Sand and mud generation from continental flood basalts in contrasting landscapes and climatic conditions (Paraná–Etendeka conjugate igneous provinces, Uruguay and Namibia)7
Sinuous bar fingers of digitate shallow‐water deltas: Insights into their formative processes and deposits from integrating morphological and sedimentological studies with mathematical modelling6
Not all shell beds are made equal: Recognizing singular event‐concentrations in megalakes6
Architecture of lacustrine deposits in response to early Carboniferous rifting and Gondwanan glaciation, Nova Scotia, south‐east Canada6
A novel approach to discriminate sedimentary characteristics of deltaic tidal flats with terrestrial laser scanner: Results from a case study6
Diagenesis, compaction strain and deformation associated with chert and carbonate concretions in organic‐rich marl and phosphorite; Upper Cretaceous to Eocene, Jordan6
A typical point bar with atypical strata in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada: Floods, tides and high suspended sediment concentrations6
Freshwater microbial mud: Punctuated diagenesis during marine transgression in the Florida Everglades, USA6
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Coupling near‐surface geomorphology with mangrove community diversity at the estuarine scale: A case study at Dongzhaigang Bay, China6
Flow‐induced interfacial deformation structures (FIDS): Implications for the interpretation of palaeocurrents, flow dynamics and substrate rheology6
Unidirectional and combined transitional flow bedforms: Controls on process and distribution in submarine slope settings6
Bayhead delta succession as a stratigraphic marker of sea‐level changes during the early to late Holocene – the Nakdong valley of south‐eastern Korea6
Exploring electron backscatter diffraction analysis as a tool for understanding stromatolite: Quantitative description of Cretaceous lacustrine stromatolite reveals formative processes and high‐resolu6
Three‐dimensional submerged wall jets and their transition to density flows: Morphodynamics and implications for the depositional record6
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Did the Younger Dryas to Holocene climate transition favour high seismicity rates in the north‐western Alps?6
U–Pb geochronology and clumped isotope thermometry study of Neoproterozoic dolomites from China5
The thickness variability of fluvial cross‐strata as a record of dune disequilibrium and palaeohydrology proxy: A test against channel deposits5
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, China5
Sedimentology and diagenesis of Pleistocene calcareous, non‐dolomitic, interdune sediments, Coorong Coastal Plain, South Australia5
Non‐classical crystallization of very high magnesium calcite and magnesite in the Coorong Lakes, Australia5
Biomineralization processes in modern calcareous tufa: Possible roles of viruses, vesicles and extracellular polymeric substances (Corvino Valley – Southern Italy)5
An experimental investigation of sediment kinematics and multi‐scale propagation for laboratory bed‐load dunes5
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Microplastics as a sedimentary component in reef systems: A case study from the Java Sea5
Marine carbonate factories: Review and update5
Biomineralization of ordered dolomite and magnesian calcite by the green alga Spirogyra5
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The response of high density turbidity currents and their deposits to an abrupt channel termination at a slope break: Implications for channel–lobe transition zones5
Threshold of motion of coral reef sediment under currents in flume experiments5
The role of fluvial and tidal currents on coal accumulation in a mixed‐energy deltaic setting: Pinghu Formation, Xihu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin5
Equilibrium sediment transport by dilute turbidity currents: Comparison of competence‐based and capacity‐based models5
Simulating sedimentation on the Great Bahama Bank – Sources, sinks and storms5
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Morphological controls on delta‐canyon‐fan systems: Insights from stratigraphic forward models4
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Microbialites on the northern shelf of Lake Van, eastern Türkiye#: Morphology, texture, stable isotope geochemistry and age4
Application of end‐member modelling to grain‐size data: Constraints and limitations4
Modern soil aggregates–colluvium generated by overland flow – stratigraphy and physical experiments4
Seismic stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene incised valleys and adjacent environments, eastern Central Luconia Province, offshore north‐west Borneo4
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Middle Ordovician bottom current deposits in the western margin of the North China craton: Evidence from sedimentary and magnetic fabrics4
Ecosystem changes through the Permian–Triassic and Triassic–Jurassic critical intervals: Evidence from sedimentology, palaeontology and geochemistry4
Middle to late Holocene sedimentary filling history of the Sebkha el Melah in south‐eastern Tunisia4
Carbonate tufas as archives of climate and sedimentary dynamic in volcanic settings, examples from Gran Canaria (Spain)4
Assessing the origin of pisoids within a travertine system in the border of Puna Plateau, Argentina4
Unravelling a 2300 year long sedimentary record of megathrust and intraslab earthquakes in proglacial Skilak Lake, south‐central Alaska4
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Estimation of fine sediment stocks in gravel bed rivers including the sand fraction4
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
Formation, dispersion and accumulation of terra rossa on the Cayman Islands4
Impact of deep‐time palaeoclimate on the sedimentary records and morphology of lacustrine shoal‐water deltas, Upper Eocene Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China4
Bryozoan‐rich stromatolites (bryostromatolites) from the Silurian of Gotland and their relation to climate‐related perturbations of the global carbon cycle4
Response of large benthic foraminifera to climate and local changes: Implications for future carbonate production4
Elucidating stratovolcano construction from volcaniclastic mass‐flow deposits: The medial ring‐plain of Taranaki Volcano, New Zealand4
Factors controlling the geometry of travertine mounds: Insights from Heinitang (China)4
Statistical characterization of a confined submarine fan system: The Pennsylvanian Lower Atoka Formation, Ouachita Mountains, USA4
Astronomical calibration of a ten‐million‐year Triassic lacustrine record in the Ordos Basin, North China4
Seismic expression and stratigraphic preservation of a coastal plain fluvial channel belt and floodplain channels on the Gulf of Mexico inner continental shelf4
Suction dynamics‐induced bubbly sand under groundwater table fluctuations4
Tidal dynamics in palaeo‐seas in response to changes in physiography, tidal forcing and bed shear stress4
Sedimentary processes at the mouth of a tidally‐influenced delta: New insights from submarine observatory measurements, Fraser Delta, Canada4
Sedimentary dolomite in Western Australia and the dolomite problem: Genesis of channel and playa uranium deposits4
Sedimentological and carbonate isotope signatures to identify fluvial processes and catchment changes in a supposed impact ejecta‐dammed lake (Miocene, Germany)3
Corrigendum to: Architecture of lacustrine deposits in response to early Carboniferous rifting and Gondwanan glaciation, Nova Scotia, south‐east Canada3
Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline‐gravity currents versus open‐channel flows3
Challenges to the ancient methane seep search strategy: The Bedford Canyon Formation (Middle Jurassic, Santa Ana Mountains, California)3
Documenting a coastal sediment routing tract in the sedimentary record: Implications for coastal palaeogeography and sand distribution patterns3
Origin, evolution and significance of giant buried sediment mounds near the Sahara Slide Complex, North‐west African margin3
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Spatial, seasonal and climatic drivers of suspended sediment atop Great Bahama Bank3
Depositional age models in lacustrine systems from zircon and carbonate U‐Pb geochronology3
Dissolution of ooids in seawater‐derived fluids – an example from Lower Permian re‐sedimented carbonates, West Texas, USA3
Calcite‐cemented concretions in non‐marine sandstones: An integrated study of outcrop sedimentology, petrography and clumped isotopes3
Mars is a mirror – Understanding the Pahrump Hills mudstones from a perspective of Earth analogues3
Towards a new generation of fluvial facies models for the interpretation of ancient deposits, based on inter‐annual peak discharge variance of modern rivers3
Testing the viability of normal seawater dolomitization in lower Cambrian carbonates using clumped isotopes3
Tide‐influenced depositional system recorded in southern Gondwana during the Early Permian: Post‐glacial infill of the Capané palaeovalley3
Groundwater red beds in Holocene fluvial sediments as a product of iron and manganese redox cycling; Morava River, Czechia3
Non‐palimpsested crowded Skolithos ichnofabrics in a Carboniferous tidal rhythmite: Disentangling ecological signatures from the spatio‐temporal bias of outcrop3
Shape‐dependent settling velocity of skeletal carbonate grains: Implications for calciturbidites3
Tracing the sedimentary response to the rifting and opening of the Meso‐Tethys Ocean3
Corrigendum to: Evolution of foreland basin fluvial systems in the mid‐Cretaceous of Utah, USA (upper Cedar Mountain and Naturita formations)3
The latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous climate and oceanographic changes in the Western Tethys: The Transdanubian Range (Hungary) perspective3
Ultra‐long‐distance transport of aeolian sand: The provenance of an intermontane desert, south‐east China3
Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland3
A new reef classification model with insights into Phanerozoic evolution of reef ecosystems3
Enhanced mud retention as an autogenic mechanism for sustained delta growth: Insight from records of the Lafourche subdelta of the Mississippi River3
Anomalously low silicate weathering in the North China Craton during the hydroclimatic crisis of the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a interval3
Role of bottom water chemistry in the formation of fibrous magnesium calcite at methane seeps in the Black Sea3
Late Cretaceous aeolianites in South China: Implications for palaeowind systems and palaeoclimate3
Hourly to weekly variations in halite precipitation from the hypersaline Dead Sea: The role of evaporation, water cooling and freshwater plume stability3
Anatomy of a diamondiferous gravel barrier spit at the palaeo‐Orange River mouth, south‐western Namibia3
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The role of mass‐transport complexes in the initiation and evolution of submarine canyons3
Stratigraphic evolution of a spectacularly exposed turbidite channel belt from the Tachrift System (late Tortonian, north‐East Morocco)3
Particle shape trends across experimental cohesive and non‐cohesive sediment gravity flow deposits: Implications for particle fractionation and discrimination of depositional settings3
Assessing Milankovitch forcing in disconformity‐prone cyclic shallow‐water carbonates, Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian), Adriatic Platform, Croatia3
Reducing microenvironments promote incorporation of magnesium ions into authigenic carbonate forming at methane seeps: Constraints for dolomite formation2
Internal isotopic variability of Neogene carbonate concretions: Constraining formational growth mechanisms and isotopic disequilibrium2
Detecting initial aragonite and calcite variations in limestone–marl alternations2
‘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)2
Variability in fluvially‐dominated, fine‐grained, shallow‐water deltas2
A mechanistic approach for interpreting hydroclimate from halite‐bearing sediments2
Trunk river and tributary interactions recorded in the Pleistocene–Holocene stratigraphy of the Po Plain (northern Italy)2
Jurassic intercalated micrite and quartz silt lagoonal laminae: Cyclostratigraphic deposition indicative of Schwabe 11‐year solar cycles2
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Spatial variability in river bed porosity determined by nuclear density gauging: A case study from a French gravel‐bed river2
Sedimentological and ichnological variations in fluvio‐tidal translating point bars, McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada2
Criteria for the recognition of clastic halite: The modern Dead Sea shoreline2
Fluvial and permafrost history of the lower Lena River, north‐eastern Siberia, over late Quaternary time2
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Facies characteristics and stratigraphy of an Upper Cretaceous mud‐dominated subaqueous delta: Medicine Hat Member (Niobrara Formation), Alberta, Canada2
Shallow‐marine calciclastic mass‐transport deposits in an evolving thrust‐top basin: A case study from the North Dalmatian foreland basin, Croatia2
Late Quaternary sedimentary evolution of the distal Galician continental margin (north‐west Iberian Peninsula) based on palaeoclimatic, palaeoproductivity and diagenetic evidence2
Factors controlling the morphology and internal sediment architecture of moats and their associated contourite drifts2
How do thrombolites form? Multiphase construction of lacustrine microbialites, Purbeck Limestone Group, (Jurassic), Dorset, UK2
Microcrystalline dolomite in a middle Permian volcanic lake: Insights on primary dolomite formation in a non‐evaporitic environment2
Evolving fill‐and‐spill patterns across linked early post‐rift depocentres control lobe characteristics: Los Molles Formation, Argentina2
SediRate‐Fischer plots as a tool to illustrate relative sea‐level and lake‐level changes in subaqueous terrigenous deposits2
Source‐to‐sink analysis for the mud and sand in the late‐Quaternary Qiantang River incised‐valley fill and its implications for delta‐shelf–estuary dispersal systems globally2
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Contrasting behaviour of sand and mud in a long‐term sediment budget of the Western Scheldt estuary2
Universal decomposition model: An efficient technique for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from grain‐size distributions2
Sediment density flow distribution on wave‐influenced deltas2
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