Domenico Chiarella

🚨 New Paper 🚨

MacDonald et al. investigate passive CO2 mineralisation in anthropogenic carbonate deposits through isotopic geochemical analysis of different samples collected across Scotland and Northern England.

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Nworie & Jobe investigate measurement techniques of biogenic carbonate grains morphologies and evaluate their advantages and limitations when compared to micro-computed tomography analysis.

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LaGrange et al. utilise a combinaison of geochemical, mineralogical and sedimentological data sets to examine the sequence stratigraphic framework of the marine Horn River Group succession (Middle to Late Devonian), Canada.

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🚨 New Paper 🚨

Sabatier et al. investigate the Holocene record of snow avalanches in modern lakes sediments (Corsica) through sedimentological and geochemical analysis.

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Never used it (yet!) but your posts on the topic make me suspicious 🤨😂

🚨 New Paper 🚨

Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive.

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Blog | Pochi iscritti a Scienze Geologiche: invece di pensare ai disastri, si punti alla loro mitigazione Il futuro della disciplina — e, in parte, del pianeta — dipende dalla capacità di trasmettere questa visione coraggiosa, aperta e inclusiva

Contribution on the decline in enrolment in #Geology courses, prepared with colleagues Marco Petitta and Giulio Viola, published in #IlFattoQuotidiano (in Italian 🇮🇹)

#university #enrolment #geology #society

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/08/10/i...

Expanding the Ichnofacies Model to Tidal Straits: Testing Predictions and Assessing Anomalies Trace fossils are instrumental in facies analysis, but some depositional environments remain underexplored. Cenozoic deposits in Italy have been studied to evaluate the ichnology of tidal straits. Th....

New paper on #ichnofacies in #tidal #strait deposits published in TerraNova journal.
#OpenAccess version available here: doi.org/10.1111/ter....

Frontiers | Continental hydroclimate during the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the central Rockies: insights from sedimentological and geochemical records preserved in the greater Green River Basin, s... The late Paleocene to early Eocene (LPEE, ∼59–50 Ma) greenhouse condition is the most recent geologic analogue for future climate change induced by increased...

Congratulations to Min Gao for publishing her paper on continental hydroclimate during the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the central Rockies (Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming, U.S.A.)

The paper is #openaccess and available at this link: doi.org/10.3389/fear...

Blog | Rubble Not Opportunity: Let's Sound the Alarm Against the Dismantling of Scientific Research! - Il Fatto Quotidiano The arts and scientific research shall be free of constraint. Academic freedom shall be respected (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 2009). In the current political scenario of cont...

‘…hatred for universities and their autonomy is usually part of a larger hatred. That of democracy.’

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/05/23/t...

Blog | Rubble Not Opportunity: Let's Sound the Alarm Against the Dismantling of Scientific Research! - Il Fatto Quotidiano The arts and scientific research shall be free of constraint. Academic freedom shall be respected (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 2009). In the current political scenario of cont...

Contribution on the current attack on research and universities www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/05/23/t...

Bernie Sanders and AOC’s Rallies Can Become a Mass Movement The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizi...

#FightingOligarchyTour

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Modern and ancient tidal sedimentary systems in the era of energy transition: Introduction to the special volume of The Depositional Record This volume examines tidal sedimentary systems through 11 articles, spanning ancient and modern tidalites, technological advances and implications for human management. Highlighting contributions fro...

Editorial for #TheDepositionalRecord special issue on 'Modern and ancient tidal sedimentary systems in the era of energy transition' #research #tidal #sedimentology #energy
doi.org/10.1002/dep2...

🚨 New Review Paper 🚨

Biddle et al. (2025) investigates new insights into mudstone grain components origins and compositions by reviewing modern concepts and understandings behind their deposition and their interpretation.

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Blog | Lettera aperta alla Royal Society inglese per espellere Elon Musk: ho firmato anche io - Il Fatto Quotidiano "In attesa che la Royal Society si pronunci, come comunità accademica possiamo solo continuare a tenere alta l’attenzione"

My article published on the Italian newspapers #IlFattoQuotidiano about @scurry.bsky.social open letter to the @royalsociety.org

Make United states Science Kaput

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/02/22/l...

🚨 New Opinion Paper 🚨

Chiarella (2025) discusses the use of mixed siliciclastic-bioclastic sediments as an analogue for plastic-rich systems in natural environments.

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#Plastics #Sediments #Geology #Sedimentology #OpenAccess

🚨 New Paper 🚨

Hudson et al. apply integrated sequence stratigraphy and astrochronology technics to document palaeoclimatic changes at the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary recorded in the Early Jurassic Redcar Mudstone Fm, UK.

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Blog | Il delta del Po e 'Gli uomini pesce' di Wu Ming 1: un’operazione dal valore letterario e divulgativo - Il Fatto Quotidiano "Lavori come Gli uomini pesce sono importanti per portare al centro delle discussioni, in ambienti anche non scientifici, i rischi che i delta attuali stanno correndo"

Articolo pubblicato su #IlFattoQuotidiano relativo ai delta, al Delta del Po e Gli uomini pesce di Wu MIng 1 #Einaudi, e all'importanza di dialogare con altre discipline per portare fuori dal nostro ambito (ora piu che mai) temi di interesse sociale

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/01/30/d...

The world of scientific publishing is changing fast, and Sedimentologika is part of that change!
To accommodate our community needs, we’re glad to communicate that our journal is currently undergoing editorial structure changes, in addition to our current open call for Associate Editors.

Does anyone have access to this paper? Thanks pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapg/aapgbul...

🚨 New Paper 🚨

Okwara et al. discuss the downstream grain-size evolution and spatial facies partitioning of the Middle Jurassic wave-influenced Brent Group deltaic succession through subsurface data analysis.

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🌍 Sedimentologika Vol. 2 Issue 2 is now complete!

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Thanks to all the people who contributed to this issue!

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The SedK team extends its best wishes for the New Year 2025 to the entire Sedimentology community! 🎆
💎Thank you to all our contributors, readers and supporters!

🚨New Paper🚨

Noto et al. develop a new paleoenvironmental reconstruction and depositional history of the Middle Cenomanian Arlington Archosaur Site (Woodbine Group, Texas) through high-resolution palynogical and sedimentological analysis.

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Thinking of using (or just curious to explore potentiality and limitations) X-ray micro computed tomography (μCT)? This simple intro could be a good starting point (Not for experts 🙂)
#Sedimentologika
Free access here doi.org/10.57035/jou...

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🚨New Paper!🚨

Kimitsuki et al. investigate modern trace makers in a high latitude lake setting to further develop ichnological models and understand the influence of environmental factors.

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🚨New Paper🚨

Azzam et al. explore machine learning techniques for automated petrographic analyses and provide 2 novel open source tools (GrainSight and PetroSeg) for grain detection, grain characterization, and porosity calculations.

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