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  June 2, 2014 Hey look at this, I’m posting on this blog again! The academic year has ended and I feel like I can take a breath. When people told me that being a tenure-track junior prof was going to k...

• Using sedimentation rates to infer long-term global climate change | Clastic Detritus

  Over geologic time scales, the Earth naturally captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through weathering of silicate rocks and sequesters it via the production of carbonate rocks. Ultimately, sub...

• Sediment accumulation rates and bias: The Sadler effect | Clastic Detritus

    A key element to understanding sediment flux is the determination of accumulation rates in areas of net deposition. How fast (or slow) is sediment piling up? How is that rate distributed in space? H...

• A million years worth of deposition: where and how much? | Clastic Detritus

  The theme for this month's geoscience blog carnival, The Accretionary Wedge, was to speculate in some way about the geological future of the Earth. I was the host for this month -- you can read my sum...

• Rapid canyon formation and uniformitarianism | Clastic Detritus

  In 2002, flood waters from Canyon Lake dam reservoir in central Texas were diverted into an emergency spillway at nearly 200 times the normal flow rate. The resulting flood event, which lasted for six...