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• Journal of Sedimentary Petrology/Research (1931-present)
• PALAIOS (1986-present)
• Special Publications (books chapter by chapter)
• Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology (books chapter by chapter)
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A website with information, learning and teaching materials about aspects of sedimentary geology, especially stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy. The existing SEPM STRATA web site was originally designed and produced by Professor Christopher Kendall and Nassir Al Naji, then at the University of South Carolina. For several years the site was maintained and content was updated under their guidance. Upon Dr. Kendalls retirement the site was transferred to SEPM and the site was uploaded to server space at SEPM. SEPM is currently working with Dr. Kendall on a redesign and updating of the site.

The continued development and redesign of the website is sponsored by:

• ExxonMobil
• Saudi Aramco
• Fugro-Robertson

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• Young and/or mature scientists with a developing interest in the history of the earth and the methods used to unravel its origins
• Undergraduate and graduate students in the earth sciences
• Professionals in geological surveys and related institutes
• Professionals in the oil, mining industry, and environmental areas

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SP-97

From River to Rock Record: The Preservation of Fluvial Sediments and Their Subsequent Interpretation

Edited by: Stephanie K. Davidson, Sophie Leleu, and Colin P. North

Over the last couple of decades, fluvial geomorphology and fluvial sedimentary geology have been developing in parallel, rather than in conjunction as might be expected. This volume is the result of the editor’s attempt to bridge this gap in order to understand better how sediments in modern rivers become preserved in the rock record, and to improve interpretation from that record of the history of past environmental conditions. The catalyst for the volume was a conference with the same title as this publication that was hosted at the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2009. The conference brought together a broad spectrum of geomorphology and sedimentology researchers, from academia and industry. This interdisciplinary mix of experience considered and discussed ideas and examples ranging through timescales from the annual movement of individual river bars up to sequence stratigraphic analysis of major sedimentary basins spanning millions of years. The articles in this volume are a mixture of novel concepts, new evaluations of the received wisdom about rivers and their sediments, and improved understanding derived from recent experience with interpreting the rock record. This volume usefully illustrates the current state of knowledge and will provide a stimulus for further research, particularly work that integrates geomorphological and sedimentological approaches and emphasizes cross-disciplinary communication.

This almost 500 page book is printed on high quality paper, hard bound, with many color images and it includes a DVD with a full color digital version of the book plus additional digital appendices of several of the chapters.

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Digital Geospatial Context for 3-D Source-to-Sink Models:

New Insights into the Classic Shelf to Basin System of the

Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains

April 26-May 1, 2012 Carlsbad, NM
(Immediately following 2012 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting)

CSP # 10 Outcrops Revitalized: Tools, Techniques and Applications

Edited by: Ole J. Martinsen, Andrew J. Pulham, Peter D.W. Haughton, and Morgan D. Sullivan 

Outcrops are fundamental to everything we hope to achieve in geological understanding. They are gateways to geological processes, earth history and they ground truth all remote sensing applications. With increasing resolution of subsurface tools and techniques, one could be forgiven in believing that outcrops have had their day and their utility is less than in the past great eras of field mapping and the development of facies models. This premise is far from the truth and this new SEPM volume illustrates how new analytical techniques are revitalizing outcrops and in the process creating a wealth of new data and fresh geological understandings.

In this book you will find a compilation of the growing arsenal of outcrop tools and techniques and a consideration of future developments. This collection of papers, delivered at a SEPM Research Conference on the West coast of Ireland in the summer of 2008, is a smorgasbord of case studies, workflows, modeling, and applications which spans clastic and carbonate settings. Whatever your interest in outcrop geology and its application there is something in this volume for you.
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Special Publication #98

The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands

Edited by: Jürgen Grötsch and Reinhard Gaupp

More than 50 years ago, the discovery of the giant Groningen Gas Field in the subsurface of the Netherlands by NAM B.V. marked a turning point in the Dutch and European energy market initiating the replacement of coal by gas. Despite the fact that the Rotliegend dryland deposits in the Southern Permian Basin are one of Europe’s most important georesources, no sedimentological overview is available to date for the subsurface of the Netherlands. This SEPM Special Publication presents for the first time such a summary of the present-day knowledge, including a comprehensive core atlas from on- and offshore wells. The latter is closely linked to the series of papers in the volume itself, essentially providing a reference handbook for “The Permian Rotliegend of the Netherlands”. Progress as a result of many scientific and consultancy studies in the Rotliegend reservoirs is summarized in this volume, with contributions covering paleogeography, depositional environment, stratigraphy, diagenesis, structural geology as well as pressure and fluid distribution in the subsurface.

Now available in the SEPM Bookstore

Special Publication #100

The End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction and the Chicxulub Impact in Texas

Edited by: Gerta Keller and Thierry Adatte

One of the liveliest, contentious, and long-running scientific debates began over three decades ago with the discovery of an iridium anomaly in a thin clay layer at Gubbio, Italy, that led to the hypothesis that a large impact caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. For many scientists the discovery of an impact crater near Chicxulub on Yucatán in 1991 all but sealed the impact-kill hypothesis as proven with the impact as sole cause for the mass extinction. Ever since that time evidence to the contrary has generally been interpreted as an impact-tsunami disturbance. A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has tested this assertion in new cores and a dozen outcrops along the Brazos River, Texas. In this area undisturbed sediments reveal a complete time stratigraphic sequence containing the primary impact spherule ejecta layer in late Maastrichtian claystones deposited about 200–300 thousand years before the mass extinction. The results are presented in a series of twelve articles with data tables and supplementary material.

Now Available at the SEPM Bookstore