A term I use frequently in this blog is that if a “non-Waltherian contact”. This is a deliberately broad description of a horizon in a…
SE Asia and the science of stratigraphy
A term I use frequently in this blog is that if a “non-Waltherian contact”. This is a deliberately broad description of a horizon in a…
This is a place-holder post for later reference when discussing oxygen isotopes and published eustatic sea level curves. The first figure is my compilation of…
Where did the idea of the Proto-South China Sea come from? A separate, second entry (part 2) discusses new data indicating that there never was…
Explaining uncertainty in a broad subject like geology is usually done in very different terms for each input, or type of observation. If you want…
Why the idea of a Proto-South China Sea is untenable See also notes on the geometry problem of the South China Sea In part 1…
It is a myth that only glacio-eustatic driven processes can change relative sea level by more than 100m in less than a million years Miller…
The following account began in a 1998 IPA field guide to East Java, written by Peter Lunt. Parts of it were copied, un-cited, in a…
Many experimental sciences have recognised a worrying “replication crisis” in their methods. In 2005 John Ioannidis wrote “Why most published research finding are false”; in…
Mature exploration areas are those already well understood, with the majority of the commercially viable oil and gas deposits found. Further exploration in these areas…
The Orbulina datum is now a well known evolutionary datum in foraminiferal biostratigraphy that approximates the base of the Middle Miocene. Not many people will…