🚨 New Research article 🚨
Trombetta et al. assess the diagenetic controls on reservoir quality of resedimented lacustrine carbonates in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, through petrographical analysis.
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🚨 New Research article 🚨
Tahiru et al. explore the relative influence of extrinsic factors on submarine fan depositional architectures variability using stratigraphic forward modelling.
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🚨 New Research article 🚨
How did Early Triassic basins evolve across western and southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard? Zuchuat et al. reveal new palaeogeographical and tectonostratigraphical insights using sedimentology, ichnology, chemostratigraphy, and provenance analysis.
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🚨 New Research article 🚨
Hattori et al. document the evolution of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system deposited in the Pennsylvanian Strawn Group, Permian Basin, Texas, through core and well data analysis.
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🚨 New Research article 🚨
Slootman et al. (Part 2) propose a novel model for particle settling velocity prediction based on realistic grain dimensional analysis through high-resolution micro-computed tomography.
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🚨 New Research article 🚨
Slootman et al. (Part 1) test the validity of the ellipsoidal model in predicting the settling velocities of carbonate and siliciclastic particles, demonstrating that this model is unsuitable for natural sediment grains.
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🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨
Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA.
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@romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social
🔔 Introducing our new journal layout! We invite you to explore it in our website at sedimentologika.org 💻 #sedk #layout #openaccess #journal
Thanks for one more year of supporting Sedimentologika Journal and the Diamond Open Access movement. Here’s to another year of open science, shared knowledge, and collaboration🥂. Happy New Year! 🎊
📣 It’s a wrap! 📣
Sedimentologika Vol. 3 No. 1 is now completed!
Thank you to all the authors, editors, reviewers and other people who contributed to this issue!
More information about our latest Open Access articles here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...
📷 Cover image: Tournier et al., 2025
🌟 Volunteer Opportunity! 🌟
Sedimentologika is currently undergoing a transition to an open-source LaTeX based proofing and production workflow.
We are advertising a volunteering position for one (or more) assistant production editor.
Send your application at contact@sedimentologika.org
🚨 New Method Paper 🚨
Schaller et al. present a novel workflow development in facies prediction of flush drilling data through unsupervised machine learning techniques.
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🚨 New Paper 🚨
Sabatier et al. investigate the Holocene record of snow avalanches in modern lakes sediments (Corsica) through sedimentological and geochemical analysis.
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🚨 New Paper 🚨
LaGrange et al. utilise a combinaison of geochemical, mineralogical and sedimentological data sets to examine the sequence stratigraphic framework of the marine Horn River Group succession (Middle to Late Devonian), Canada.
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🚨 New Paper 🚨
Nworie & Jobe investigate measurement techniques of biogenic carbonate grains morphologies and evaluate their advantages and limitations when compared to micro-computed tomography analysis.
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A recent publication by Dewater et al. in Geomorphica has been featured in articles published in the Portland Press Herald and University of New England! Read more about this research into coastal erosion associated with winter storms in Maine here www.une.edu/UNE-research...
🚨 New Paper 🚨
MacDonald et al. investigate passive CO2 mineralisation in anthropogenic carbonate deposits through isotopic geochemical analysis of different samples collected across Scotland and Northern England.
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🚨 New Paper 🚨
Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive.
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#Factfriday Guild of Diamonds
Check out our sister journals Volcanica, @weareseismica.bsky.social , @wearetektonika.bsky.social , Geodynamica, @sedimentologika.bsky.social , and @weareagc.bsky.social . We are thankful for their support and happy to pass on knowledge to the upcoming journals.
📣 Meet our new Associate Editors!
Fabiano Gamberi - ISMAR, Italy.
Research expertise: deep-sea sedimentology, sediment-gravity flows, volcaniclastic sedimentation, seismic, stratigraphy, submarine geo-hazards
📣 Meet our new Associate Editors!
Emilia Le Pera - University of Calabria, Italy
Siliciclastic petrography & provenance analysis
@arnaudgallois.bsky.social - Kocaeli University, Turkey
Carbonate sedimentology & diagenesis, Microbial carbonates, Non-marine carbonates
📣 Meet our new Associate Editors!
Sanem Acikalin - Newcastle University, UK
Sandstone diagenesis, organic matter transport, paleoclimate, provenance.
Francisco Tognoli - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Digital outcrop models, Machine learning models, Python for Geology, Data analysis
📣 Meet our new Associate Editors!
Nan Wu - Tongji University, China
Submarine landslides, Mass-transport complexes, Turbidity currents, Submarine canyons, Sedimentary process
Thomas Blaise - University Paris-Saclay, France
Mineralogy, Calcite U-Pb geochronology, 3D Geological modelling
📣 Meet our new Associate Editors!
Cecilia Lopez-Gamundi - JPL.
Carbonates, forward modelling, remote sensing, sediment transport, coastal processes.
Arnoud Slootman - Colorado School of Mines.
Bedforms, sediment transport, carbonate slopes, turbidites, carbonate sediment.
🚨 New Review Paper 🚨
Biddle et al. (2025) investigates new insights into mudstone grain components origins and compositions by reviewing modern concepts and understandings behind their deposition and their interpretation.
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🚨 New Opinion Paper 🚨
Chiarella (2025) discusses the use of mixed siliciclastic-bioclastic sediments as an analogue for plastic-rich systems in natural environments.
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#Plastics #Sediments #Geology #Sedimentology #OpenAccess
🚨 New Paper 🚨
Hudson et al. apply integrated sequence stratigraphy and astrochronology technics to document palaeoclimatic changes at the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary recorded in the Early Jurassic Redcar Mudstone Fm, UK.
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The world of scientific publishing is changing fast, and Sedimentologika is part of that change!
To accommodate our community needs, we’re glad to communicate that our journal is currently undergoing editorial structure changes, in addition to our current open call for Associate Editors.
We are advertising volunteering positions for three Associate Editors specialised in 1) Carbonate sedimentology & stratigraphy; 2) Slope to basin-floor processes; 3) Sediment outcrop imaging.
Check out the full position details on our website: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...
🚨 New Paper 🚨
Okwara et al. discuss the downstream grain-size evolution and spatial facies partitioning of the Middle Jurassic wave-influenced Brent Group deltaic succession through subsurface data analysis.
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