Depositional Environment: The physical, chemical, and biological conditions under which sediments are deposited, influencing the preservation of fossils and sedimentary structures.

Jijun Tian, Chuanzheng Xu, Xin Li, Wenfeng Wang, Wen Lin, Depositional environment and pore structure of mixed lithofacies shale of the Longmaxi Formation in the DM Block, the Southern Sichuan Basin, ...

Additionally, what I'm referring to is a large-scale depositional system (several to 10s of km in length). At a bedform- or sometimes delta front-scale, depositional slopes can be as steep as the ...

Alternating wet and dry depositional environments recorded in the stratigraphy of Mount Sharp at Gale crater, Mars. Geology , 2021; DOI: 10.1130/G48519.1 Cite This Page : ...

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image, looking southwest toward the distant large boxwork structures in the Uyuni ...

Microbial mats in siliciclastic depositional systems through time / edited by Nora Noffke, Henry Chafetz Smithsonian Libraries and ... and Nicolae Dragoş -- Sedimentary dynamics and biostratinomy of a ...

The team’s investigations included analyzing bone fragments from 6 dinosaurs—4 Tyrannosaurus rex specimens, a ceratopsian, and Brachylophosaurus canadensis. These fossils are believed to have been ...

My current research is focused in three areas: 1) resolving depositional cyclicity and evolution of convergent-margin basins (CMBs); 2) assessing the CO 2 storage potential of convergent-margin basin ...

Dongya Zhu 12, Dianwei Zhang 12, Quanyou Liu 12, Fengcun Xing 3, Zhiliang He 12, Rongqiang Zhang 12, Zihao Liu 4, Formation mechanism of dolomite reservoir controlled by fourth-order sequence in an ...

The evidence, say University of Oregon geologists, is in the sedimentary rocks ... "This study makes an important step toward resolving a 20-year-old debate about the depositional environments and ...

Some comments and discussion in a recent post about stratigraphy motivated me to finish this post about the future of sedimentary geology, which I started a few months ago but never finished ...