Seds Online Courses

Sedimentology Futures - Geoheritage, Planetary Exploration, and Technology

Explora el futuro de la sedimentología: geopatrimonio, exploración planetaria y tecnología. Descubre cómo estos campos interconectados están transformando la investigación y abriendo nuevas fronteras en la ciencia sedimentológica.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reading History From the Afar - Carbonates and Evaporites Unveil the Birth of a Future Ocean

Explore the unique sedimentary record of the Danakil Depression, revealing insights into rift basin formation, sea-level changes, and tectonic processes in this geological laboratory of continental rifting.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change with Mangrove Sediments in the Western Pacific Ocean

Explore late Holocene sea-level changes using mangrove sediments, discussing global distribution, proxy reconstructions, and implications for cultural heritage in the western Pacific.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Close Relation of Carbonate Platforms and Ocean Currents

Ocean currents shape isolated tropical carbonate platforms, influencing growth, sedimentation, erosion, and drowning. Examples illustrate current-controlled systems, their geometric features, and geological evolution.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Impact of Climate Change on Sedimentation

Explore climate change's impact on coastal sediments, ocean acidification, and ancient warming events through expert presentations on cutting-edge research and novel geochemical techniques.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Paired Calcium and Clumped Isotopes, Tools to Probe Changing Diagenetic Systems

Explore calcium and clumped isotopes to study carbonate recrystallization in the Bahamian margin, revealing insights into fluid flow rates and their impact on diagenetic reactions in evolving carbonate systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Meteorites and Mass Extinctions - Size Doesn’t Matter!

Explore the surprising link between meteorite impacts, rock mineralogy, and mass extinctions, challenging conventional theories about impact size and extinction intensity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Forces Shaping the Incredible Steep Slopes of Carbonate Platforms

Explore the formation and dynamics of steep carbonate platform slopes, including cementation, erosion, and current-related processes, using examples from Florida and the Bahamas.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Svalbox Concept - An Arctic Geoscientific Portal

Explore Svalbard's geology through digital outcrop models, integrating regional data for extended field research and virtual exploration of this Arctic geological paradise.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Toasty Coasts in High-CO2 Worlds - Marine Mollusks as Paleo-Weathermen?

Explore how mollusk shells serve as archives for past climate and ecosystem changes, revealing insights into extreme weather patterns and seasonality in high-CO2 environments.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

New Insights into Biogenic Controls on Sedimentation

Explore biogenic influences on sedimentation through case studies on brachiopods, endoevaporites, tufa formation, and microbial fossilization, offering new perspectives on geological processes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How Big Data Can Resolve Regional Palaeogeographies in Tropical Climates

Explore SE Asian palaeogeography through big data analysis of minerals and detrital grains, overcoming challenges of tropical climates to reconstruct complex tectonic histories and ancient landscapes.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Microbes and Lacustrine Carbonates - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Explore the complex interplay between microbes and lacustrine carbonates, examining biotic and abiotic processes in modern environments from the Andes to the Alps and their implications for fossilized microbialites.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Insolation-Paced Sea Level and Sediment Flux During the Early Pleistocene in Southeast Asia

Explore early Pleistocene sea-level cycles in Taiwan, challenging the "41-kyr world" concept with evidence of precession-dominated fluctuations in high-sedimentation rate basins.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Employing Macrofossils in Sedimentology

Explore how macrofossils provide crucial sedimentological data, aiding in interpreting depositional settings, fossil concentration processes, paleocurrent analysis, and diagenetic studies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video