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  1. Laterite (Pedology 🟤)

    Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminum that often forms in hot, wet areas; most such soil is found in the tropics. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration due to high iron oxide content. Laterite soils develop by intensive and prolonged weathering of the underlying parent rock, usually under conditions of high temperatures and heavy rainfall...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite

    #Laterite #Pedology #Regolith #Weathering #OreDeposits #Sedimentology

  2. #NewPaper #Sedimentology #Paleoenvironment

    Stuart D. Burley, Jonathan D. Radley & Robert A. Coram (2023)
    ‘A hard rain's a-gonna fall’: torrential rain, flash floods and desert lakes in the Late Triassic Arden Sandstone of Central England
    Geology Today 39(3): 90-98
    doi: doi.org/10.1111/gto.12430

  3. #NewPaper #Paleontology #Sedimentology #Ichnology #Paleoenvironment

    Bordy, E., Lockley, M., Rampersadh, A., Mukaddam, R., & Head, H. (2022). Life and land engulfed in the late Early Jurassic Karoo lavas of southern Gondwana. Geological Magazine, 1-22. doi:10.1017/S0016756822001169