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  1. Interbedding (Petrology 💎)

    In geology, interbedding occurs when beds of a particular lithology lie between or alternate with beds of a different lithology. For example, sedimentary rocks may be interbedded if there were sea level variations in their sedimentary depositional environment. Intercalation is a special case of interbedding where a layer is variably inserted into an already existing s...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbed

    #Interbedding #Petrology #Stratigraphy #Sedimentology

  2. Neogene Uplift Of The Chiribiquete Tabletop Mountains In The Colombian Amazon And Its Paleobiogeographic Implications
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    doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026. <-- shared paper
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    H/T Richard F. Ott
    “The Chiribiquete are table top mountains located deep in the Colombian Amazon and host many rare endemic species. Helanlin Xiang's work shows that the Chiribiquete Mountains likely upifted before the Early Miocene and could have acted as a long-lived stepping stone, connecting species in the Andes with the Guyana Shield…”
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    #Miocene #Paleogeography #Palynology #Amazonia #Caquetá #paleobiogeography #Columbia #Amazon #jungle #geomorphology #neogene #uplift #geology #structuralgeology #tectonics #Chiribiquete #tabletopmountains #Andes #GuyanaShield #dating #isotopes #biome #ecosystem #tepui #elevation #sedimentology #stratigraphy #Araracuara #fluvial #lacustrine #deposition orogeny #regional #uplift #drainage #hydrography #hydrology #river #network #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geophysics #seismology

  3. Some more #work stuff.

    Getting an European Research Council (ERC) grant had this terrible outcome that I thought: now we can do in-depth, thoughtful research without cutting corners and ducktape solutions. Understanding #evolution in the #fossil record required a reproducible model representation of that record and we weren't satisfied with any of the existing models. Computer models made by (Earth) scientists are rarely very good, because we are not necessarily trained to make them, but to model events happening over hundreds of thousands of years, we crucially rely on their quality.

    So we decided to develop one. Thanks to its main developer Johan Hidding @eScienceCenter and the collaboration with Peter Burgess, Xianyi Liu and @Niklas_Hohmann we have a fast, sustainable, #OpenSource package in #julialang for modeling #carbonate platforms.

    The preprint is out for public review: please leave us a comment at egusphere.copernicus.org/prepr or try CarboKitten.jl at mindthegap-erc.github.io/Carbo
    #geoscience #stratigraphy #sedimentology