The Sedimentary Record
The Sedimentary Record
The Sedimentary Record is a short-format, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal for all sub-disciplines related to soft rock geosciences. It is published online, sponsored by the SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology. Articles are free to publish and free to read for everyone, and authors retain copyrights.
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- doi: 10.2110/sedred.2021.3
- ISSN 1543-8740
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Current Issue - Volume 20, Issue 1
- Sedimentary record of annual-decadal timescale reservoir dynamics: Anthropogenic stratigraphy of Lake Powell, Utah, U.S.A.
Cari Johnson Jonathan Casey Root Scott A. Hynek John (Jack) C. Schmidt - The revolutionary impact of the Deep Time concept: Geology’s modernity and societal implications
Andrea Fildani - Outcrop conservation: Promoting accessibility, inclusivity, and reproducibility through digital preservation
Brian S. Burnham, Clare E. Bond, Peter P. Flaig, Dolores A. van der Kolk, David Hodgetts
Benefits of publishing in the Sedimentary Record
- Diamond Open Access: authors can publish open access, full color articles at no charge
- Exposure to a global, diverse readership, including promotion by SEPM digital marketing
- Rapid peer review process from at least two reviewers
Author guidelines and manuscript submission
Extensive details regarding TSR submissions may be found here.
Submission Deadlines*
The Sedimentary Record is now using a continuous publishing process. There will be no deadlines to submit a manuscript to a specific issue. Accepted manuscripts will be published online as soon as they have passed the review process and have been formatted for online publishing. The date an article is posted will be its official date of publication. *These deadlines are subject to change as TSR adapts with the culture of open access publishing.
Please direct questions or comments to the editors:
- Jenn Pickering
- Jeong-Hyun Lee
- Howard Harper, SEPM Executive Director
Meet the Editors!
Watch this quick overview of SEPM's TSR to learn more about the journal, editing team and publications process.
TSR Special Issue: Future Directions of Deepwater Sedimentology
The special issue is open to anyone, and we welcome all submissions relevant to deepwater sedimentology; participants of the Deep Water Research Group Forum 2021 are especially encouraged to submit manuscripts related to the work they presented at the forum.
Submissions will be accepted throughout the duration of 2022. Special topics include:
- Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) in deep-sea sediments
- Carbon burial in deep-sea sediments
- Deepwater gas Hydrates
- Critical minerals within deepwater sedimentary deposits
- Deep sea geothermal energy
- Microplastics and Pollutants in Deep-sea sediments
- Recent advances and applications using machine learning and quantitative analysis in deepwater deposits
- Modern day deepwater monitoring of canyons
- Modern Hazards - submarine landslides etc
Questions? Contact the TSR editors or learn more from the Deepwater Research Group.
TSR Archive
- Volume 19, No 2 - June 2021
- Sustainability Without Geology? A Shortsighted Approach
- Andrea Fildani and Angela M. Hessler
- Overnight formation of a bouldery alluvial fan by a torrential rain in a granitic mountain (Mt. Seoraksan, Republic of Korea)
- Jisu Kim, Kyung Sik Woo, Kwang Choon Lee and Young Kwan Sohn
- Identifying Elusive Piercing Points Along the North American Transform Margin Using Mixture Modeling of Detrital Zircon Data from Sedimentary Units and their Crystalline Sources
- J. Clark Gilbert, Zane R. Jobe, Samuel A. Johnstone and Glenn R. Sharman
- Volume 19, No 1 - March 2021
- Renovation of The Sedimentary Record, Jenn Pickering and Jeong-Hyun Lee
- Addressing a Phanerozoic carbonate facies conundrum—sponges or clotted micrite? Evidence from Early Silurian reefs, South China Block Stephen Kershaw, Qijian Li and Yue Li
- Facies changes and a major negative d13C shift suggest the base of Mila Formation as the likely base of the Miaolingian Series, Alborz Mountains, northern Iran Hadi Amin-Rasouli and Yaghoob Lasemi
- Volume 18, No. 4 - December 2020 (low res)
- Volume 18, No. 4 - December 2020 (hi-res 13mb)
- The Bakken Formation - understanding the sequence stratigraphic record of low-gradient sedimentary systems, shale depositional environments, and sea-level changes in an icehouse world, SO Egenhoff, NS Fishman
- Who needs Stratigraphers, Sedimentologists & Paleontologists? Evolving roles through the Energy Transition, A Davies, M Simmons
- Volume 18, No. 3 - September 2020 (low res)
- Volume 18, No. 3 - September 2020 (hi-res 15mb)
- Enriching Lives within Sedimentary Geology: Actionable Recommendations for Making SEPM a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Society for All Sedimentary Geologists, AM Fernandes et al.
- Data Repository for September 2020 Science Article, AM Fernandes et al.
- Results of the recent SEPM Community Survey, R Grmela and H Harper
- Volume 18, No. 2 - June 2020 (low res)
- Volume 18, No. 2 - June 2020 (hi-res 15mb)
- Observe, Record, Interpret: some examples of teaching sedimentology by distance learning including virtual graphic logs, CS Bristow
- Supplemental Data for June 2020 Science Article CS Bristow
- Volume 18, No. 1 - March 2020 (low res)
- Volume 18, No. 1 - March 2020 (hi-res 13mb)
- The Late Devonian Ice Age and the Giant Bakken Oil Field, B Hart and M Hofmann
- Volume 17, No. 4 - December 2019 (low res)
- Volume 17, No. 4 - December 2019 (hi-res 15mb)
- Mud bedforms in a natural ice flume, A. Guy Plint
- #SEPM - Sedimentary Geology in the Twitterverse, RC Martindale et al.
- Hofmann
- Volume 17, No. 3 - September 2019 (low res)
- Volume 17, No. 3 - September 2019 (hi-res 20mb)
- Fitted-Fabric Grainstones..., Langhorne Smith
- Online Table 1 Reference List.xlsx, Langhorne Smith
- Volume 17, No. 2 - June 2019 (low res)
- Volume 17, No. 2 - June 2019 (hi-res 16mb)
- Deep convolutional neural networks as a geological image classification tool, R Pires de Lima et al.
- Volume 17, No. 1 - March 2019 (low-res)
- Volume 17, No. 1 - March 2019 (hi-res 18mb)
- Domes, rings, ridges, and polygons: characteristics of microbialites......MD Vanden Berg
- Volume 16, No. 4 - December 2018 (low res)
- Volume 16, No. 4 - December 2018 (hi-res 15mb)
- Carbonate mud deposited below storm wave base: a critical review, LP Birgenheier, SA Moore
- A review of carbonate mud generation, LP Birgenheier, SA Moore
- Report on the International Sedimentological Congress, Quebec, J Bynum et al.
- Volume 16, No. 3 - September 2018 (low-res)
- Volume 16, No. 3 - September 2018 (hi-res 20mb)
- Fluvial architecture of the Burro Canyon Fm.- K Lewis et al.
- Volume 16, No. 2 - June 2018 (low-res)
- Volume 16, No. 2 - June 2018 (hi-res 14mb)
- The Making of the Perfect Racetrack...B. Bowen et al.
- Volume 16, No. 1 - March 2018 (low-res)
- Volume 16, No. 1 - March 2018 (hi-res 12mb)
- We need a global comprehensive stratigraphic database... SE Peters, JM Husson
- Volume 15, No. 4 - December 2017 (low-res)
- Volume 15, No. 4 - December 2017 (hi-res 14mb)
- Appendix A.
- Appendix B.
- What's Your Delta? EarthRates - A New NSF Funded Research Coordination Network... LP Boush et al.
- Volume 15, No. 3 - September 2017 (low-res)
- Volume 15, No. 3 - September 2017 (hi-res 12 mb)
- Challenging Orthodoxy: Is the Present the Key to the Past? G Nichols
- Volume 15, No. 2 - June 2017 (low-res)
- Volume 15, No. 2 - June 2017 (hi-res 12 mb)
- Sedimentology and Ichnofacies, Uppermost Three Forks Formation... A Franklin and JF Sarg
- Volume 15, No. 1 - March 2017 (low-res)
- Volume 15, No. 1 - March 2017 (hi-res 16mb)
- Exploration Opportunities in the Pre-Salt Play, Deepwater Campos Basin, Brazil. S Kattah
- Volume 14, No. 4 - December 2016 (low-res)
- Volume 14, No. 4 - December 2016 (hi-res 11mb)
- Paragenesis of Mineralized Fractures and Diagenesis of Prominent N American Shales, RD Elmore et al.
- Volume 14, No. 3 - September 2016 (low-res)
- Volume 14, No. 3 - September 2016 (hi-res 18mb)
- The Stratigraphic Record of Submarine-Channel Evolution, JA Covault et al.
- Volume 14, No. 2 - June 2016 (2.5MB)
- Wheeler's Confusion and the Seismic Revolution... JP Bhattachary and V Abreu
- Volume 14, No. 1 - March 2016 (2MB)
- The Future of Field Geology, Open Data Sharing and CyberTechnology in Earth Science, MA Chan et al.
- Volume 13, No. 4 - December 2015 (5MB)
- Injecting Climate Modeling into Deep Time Studies... NG Heavens
- Volume 13, No. 3 - September 2015 (2.7MB)
- Paleoclimate and the Origin of Paleozoic Chert... C Blaine Cecil
- Volume 13, No.2 -June 2015 (3MB)
- Investigating the Paleoecological Consequences of Supercontinent Breakup... FA Corsetti et al.
- Volume 13, No. 2-Appendix A (18MB) - 12th Int. Symp. Ordovician
- Volume 13, No. 1 - March 2015 (2.3MB)
- STEPPE: Earth's Past, Our Future, DM Smith and D Iler
- Volume 12, No. 4 - December 2014 (2.4MB)
- The Late Paleozoic Ecological-Evolutionary Laboratory, and Land-Plant Fossil Record Perspective, CV Looy et al.
- Volume 12, No. 3 - September 2014 (3.2MB)
- High-Resolution Geobiologic Time Lines, PM Sadler et al.
- Volume 12, No. 2 - June 2014 (3.7MB)
- The Search for Sedimentary Evidence of Glaciation during the Frasnian/Famennian..., GR McGhee, Jr
- Volume 12, No. 1 - March 2014 (4 MB)
- An Opportunity of Geothermal Proportions in Sedimentary Basins, J Holbrook et al.
- Volume 11, No. 4 - December 2013 (7 MB)
- The National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics: Version 2.0 C Paola et al.
- Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN)... L Hsu et al.
- Volume 11, No. 3 - September 2013 (11 MB)
- Application of the Critical Zone Concept to the Deep-Time Sedimentary Record LC Nordt and SG Driese
- Volume 11, No. 2- June 2013 (2MB) - HiRes (8 MB)
- Sedimentary Geology and the Future of Paleoclimate Studies, J Totman Parrish and GS Soreghan
- Volume 11, No.1 - March 2013 (2 MB) - HiRes (7 MB)
- A 'Sedimentary Record' of Opportunities, IP Montañez and PE Isaacson
- Continental Scientific Drilling and the Evolution of the Earth System, G Soreghan and A Cohen
- Volume 10, No.4 - December 2012 (3 MB)
- Sedimentation across the Tidal-Fluvial Transition in the Lower Fraser River, Canada, SE Dashtgard et al.
- Volume 10, No.3 - September 2012 (6 MB)
- Exploring the Sedimentary, Pedogenic, and Hydrologic Factors that Control...ST Hasiotis and BF Platt
- Volume 10, No.3 - Appendix
- Volume 10, No.2 - June 2012 (2 MB) - HiRes (9 MB)
- Application of Inorganic Whole-Rock Geochemistry to Shale Resource Plays...KT Ratcliffe et al.
- Volume 10, No.1 - March 2012 (2 MB)
- Stratigraphic Hierarchy and Shelf-to-Basin Architecture of Aptian-Albian Mural Shelf...S Hiebert et al.
- Volume 9, No.4 - December 2011 (2 MB)
- Back to the Future, EA Shinn and CGStC Kendall
- Volume 9, No 3 - September 2011 (2 MB)
- Shrapnel in Omaha Beach Sand, EF McBride and MD Picard
- Volume 9, No 2 - June 2011 (3 MB)
- The Sedimentary Record of Mars, J Grotzinger et al.
- Volume 9, No 1 - March 2011 (2 MB)
- CSDMS - A Modeling System to Aid Sedimentary Research, JPM Syvitski et al.
- Volume 8, No 4 - December 2010 (2 MB)
- The Pleistocene Cooling Built Challenger Mound, a Deep-Water Coral Mound in the NE Atlantic...A Kano et al.
- Volume 8, No 3 - September 2010 (3 MB)
- Reflux Dolomite Crystal Size Variation in Cyclic Inner Ramp Reservoir Facies...GP Wahlman
- Volume 8, No 2 - June 2010 (2.5 MB)
- The Geochemistry of Cave Calcite Deposits as a Record of Past Climate, JUL Baldini
- Volume 8, No 1 - March 2010 (4.0 MB)
- Estimating the Age of Near-Shore Carbonate Slides Using Coral Reefs and Erosional Markers...MJ Hornbach et al.
- Volume 7, No 4 - December 2009 (4.8 MB)
- Fate of Sediments Delivered to the Sea by Asian Large Rivers ...JP Liu et al.
- Volume 7, No 3 - September 2009
- Delta Double-Stack: Juxtaposed Holocene and Pleistocene Sequences from the Bengal Basin, Bangladesh, RD Pate et al.
- Volume 7, No 2 - June 2009 (2.8 MB)
- A New Twist on Mud Deposition—Mud Ripples in Experiment and Rock Record , J Schieber and Z Yawar
- Volume 7, No 1 - March 2009 (2.1 MB)
- The Prospect of Compact Estuarine Lagerstätten, CE Savrda et al.
- Volume 6, No 4 - December 2008 (2.8 MB)
- The Habitat of Primitive Vertebrates: The Need for Sedimentary Geology in Paleontology, SM Holland and J Allen
- Volume 6, No 3 - September 2008 (3.0 MB)
- Coastal Recovery Following the Destructive Tsunami of 2004: Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, SC Liew et al.
- Volume 6, No 2 - June 2008 (678 KB)
- Black Mudrocks: Lessons and Questions from the Mississippian Barnett Shale...SC Ruppel and RG Loucks
- Volume 6, No 1 - March 2008 (2.0 MB)
- Tephrochronology of Marine Sediments around the Island of Montserrat, JK Fisher et al.
- Volume 5, No. 4 - December 2007 (1.4 MB)
- Late Holocene Barrier Island Collapse: Outer Banks, North Carolina, SJ Culver et al.
- Volume 5, No. 3 - September 2007 (2.2 MB)
- From BAHA to Jack, Evolution of the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, D Meyer et al.
- Volume 5, No. 2 - June 2007 (2.0 MB)
- Crossing the Ecological Divide: Paleozoic to Modern Marine Ecosystem in the Adriatic Sea, FK McKinney et al.
- Volume 5, No. 1 - March 2007 (3.4 MB)
- The Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Seabed of the Louisiana Shelf, MA Goni et al.
- Volume 4, No. 4 - December 2006 (4.0 MB)
- The "Preservation Paradox"...LE Babcock et al.
- Volume 4, No. 3 - September 2006 (1.6 MB)
- Tempest in a Tree Ring: Paleotempestology and the Record of Past Hurricanes, CI Mora et al.
- Volume 4, No. 2 - June 2006 (1.1 MB)
- Fluvial Landscapes and Stratigraphy in a Flume, N Strong and C Paola
- Volume 4, No. 1 - March 2006 (2.0 MB)
- Charles D. Walcott: Comments on Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, EL Yochelson
- Volume 3, No. 4 - December 2005 (1.8 MB)
- A Toothy Tale of Evolution...CN Ciampaglio et al.
- Volume 3, No. 3 - September 2005 (2.6 MB)
- The Battle over Evolution: How Geoscientists can Help, G Branch
- Volume 3, No. 2 - June 2005 (2.0 MB)
- New Approaches to Understanding the Mechanics of Burgess Shale-Type Deposits...RR Gaines and ML Droser
- Volume 3, No. 1 - March 2005 (1.9 MB)
- The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts...KR Evans et al.
- Volume 2, No. 4 - December 2004 (1.0 MB)
- The Greatest Volcanic Ash Falls in the Phanerozoic...SM Bergström
- Volume 2, No. 3 - September 2004 (768 KB)
- From Turbid to Lucid: A Straightforward Approach to Sediment Gravity Flows and Their Deposits, MR Gani
- Volume 2, No. 2 - June 2004 (6.28 MB)
- Evidence That's an Ocean Apart...KEK St John
- Volume 2, No. 1 - March 2004 (1.7 MB)
- Quo Vadis? Paleoenvironmental and Diagenetic Constraints on Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Skin...MD Wegweiser et al.
