Petrographic classifications of sand and sandstone proposed more than half a century ago
are still in use, although they were formulated at a time when depositional and post …

The classical approach to sandstone petrology, established in the golden years of plate
tectonics and based on the axiom that “detrital modes of sandstone suites primarily reflect …

In the last two centuries, since the dawn of modern geology, heavy minerals have been used
to investigate sediment provenance and for many other scientific or practical applications …

We often resort to mythical thinking in the face of natural phenomena that we hardly
understand. Sedimentary petrology has several long-standing myths. One is that sediments …

Heavy metals contamination level and their ecological risk of the Burullus lagoon were
estimated using four cores and twelve surficial sediment samples. The distributions maps of …

We here present the first comprehensive provenance study of the Sahara Desert using a
combination of multiple provenance proxies and state-of-the-art statistical analysis. Our …

We here review what is known about the dunefields and fluvial systems of the Kalahari
Basin in terms of geological setting and Quaternary dynamics and set out what has been …

The fluvial archive literature is dominated by research on river terraces with appropriate
mention of adjacent environments such as lakes. Despite modern sedimentary basins …

A never solved problem in sedimentary petrology is the origin of sandstone consisting
exclusively of quartz and most durable heavy minerals. The Congo River offers an excellent …

We have reconstructed long-term shifts in catchment sediment sources by analysing, for the
first time, the strontium (Sr) and neodymium (Nd) isotope composition of dated floodplain …