Jeff Peakall

It has been absolutely fascinating to take much of what we and others have been working on in deep marine systems and apply this to tsunami deposits in coastal lakes. Very excited about this piece of work!!!

We then examine how the different sediments are formed using advances in process sedimentology. Turns out tsunami form sediment gravity flows in deeper lakes, and hybrid event beds (reflecting spatial and temporal changes in flow rheology) just like those in deep marine systems.

Tsunami versus storms: Diagnostic sedimentary criteria in coastal lakes, lagoons and sinkhole deposits Sedimentary deposits of coastal flooding by tsunamis and storms extend archives of these events across millennia. However, the utility of these record…

Tsunami vs Storms. Here we show unequivocal diagnostic criteria for differentiating between these in coastal lakes and lagoons based on the sedimentological records. Led by the astonishing Patrick.
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Personally this is my 22nd Sedimentology paper. One wonders if it might be the last given all that is happening at the IAS.

Three‐dimensional gravity current interactions with oblique slopes: Deflection, reflection and combined‐flow behaviours Gravity currents interacting with planar slopes have been thought to always ‘reflect’ a component of flow orthogonal to the slope irrespective of the flow incidence angle. Incoming flows are argued t....

Great to see this paper out on turbidity currents interacting with slopes, and how high angle differences between sole marks and ripples can occur. Overturns ideas that have stood for 3 decades! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yes, very odd. It is normally me in the gown!

As settings go, it is quite an impressive place to graduate! The eldest will be up on stage later. Looking forward to it!

Brilliant!!!

The coke that arrives at the cafe. Is it a sign?

Nearly 2 hours now in the Q to register at the IAS Huelva meeting. By some margin the worst organised conference I have attended in 35 years! The sessions started long ago!

Moving at around 1 m per minute and a half.

The Q for registration at the IAS meeting.

Depositional and Erosional Behaviour of Cohesive Sediments in Estuarine Saltmarsh and Mudflat Environments Management of aquatic environments relies on the accurate prediction of sediment transport via numerical models. Knowledge of erosional and depositional behaviours in the muddy sediments dominating th...

Another paper on the wonderful world of cohesive sediments - this time looking at salt marshes. Once upon a time I just worked on sandstones, but then I saw the light. Led by the brilliant Juliet Rounce.

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Revisiting the black shale depositional enigma: Transport processes and contrasting sediment sources in a heterolithic basin fill – Bowland Basin, England Factors that control the accumulation of organic-rich shales are keenly debated and include basin redox variations, sediment provenance and diverse depositional processes. The relative importance of ....

Revisiting the black shales depositional enigma! This one has taken a while, but delighted to see this out at last. With a stellar cast, and me.
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Editors resign from sedimentology society journal amid ‘extraordinary and troubling times’ The chief editors of the journal Sedimentology have resigned, along with nearly a third of its associate editors, as the society running the title amended its publishing contract.  The Interna…

Coverage of the Sedimentology mass resignations at Retraction Watch. Note: 13 of 32 AEs have resigned (40%); the website was already out of date, so figures herein are not quite right.

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The crisis at the journal Sedimentology keeps deepening. Following the letters from present and past Presidents making it clear there will be no changes, there has been another resignation from among the remaining Associate Editors

For those who can access it, I have posted to the BSRG mailing list a brief response to a few of the points in the IAS President's letter. The letter is quite extraordinary. Over and out.

Many of you will have received the letter from the IAS President. The response to our mass resignation as Associate Editors and all the previous resignations is to continue without changing anything one iota. We hope that we have at least shone a light on the workings of the IAS Bureau.

Have sent the IAS letter and the response I posted to BSRG across. We best get you back on the BSRG list.

I think you have nailed it there.

You still on the Imperial email?

Yes the website is way out of date as the people who updated it have gone. All CEs, plus Christa have gone plus 12 of the AEs. There are 7 AEs listed here that had already gone. By the end of Monday Elaine will have gone as well. They have hollowed out the entire journal.

Thanks. Feel free to post it here if you wish. I am still very new here.

Yes I have just posted a response to parts of it to the BSRG list. Perhaps @seismatters.bsky.social and @bedforms.bsky.social could post that here and elsewhere. It comes as absolutely no surprise that there is no change. This has been the way of it since the Treasurer was appointed.

More for them to say really, but some more will resign in the near future if things don't change. Others would support a strike, but are not quite ready to resign. A few have not engaged at all and we have not seen them at meetings. Others explorered an interim CE, but that is on the back burner.

Thanks Chris

We have a resignation letter that we also publicly released via emails. Hopefully a version of this will reach you soon.

Following the resignations of all Chief Editors of the journal Sedimentology, I and about 40% of the Associate Editors have also resigned. This has been a very difficult decision for all of us, however we felt that we could not continue. Some AEs have served the journal for decades.

Armoured mud clasts are far more important in deep marine systems than we thought, and here we detail the evidence for their transport. Also large buckets filled with multicolour plastic balls...

Good spot. Taken in Ulverston, Cumbria, Stan Laurel's birthplace. En route to some rocks of course!