If you are off-board, please bring your lunch and enjoy the discussions.
Sedimentary rocks are the great archive of Earth history.
In essence they are simply sequences of paleosurfaces, stacked in chronological order. These sequences present us with a wonderful array of patterns on scales from millimeters to kilometers. In recent years, advances in plate tectonics, geodynamics, and sediment dynamics have allowed us to begin interpreting these patterns quantitatively. We will talk about some of the advances that have made this possible as well as recent results from our theoretical and experimental work at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. Please contact Joel ASAP if you are interested.