This week's Friday Field Photo is from the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains near the town of Ainsa, Spain. It may not be apparent at first glance, but this mountainside is revealing an interesting ...

Sequence stratigraphy, based on sedimentary response to changes in relative sea level gives the explorationist and the development geoscientist a powerful new predictive tool for regional basin ...

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A branch of geology and earth sciences, stratigraphy is a field of study that deals with the arrangement and succession of strata (layers) in the Earth. Additionally, it involves the origin, ...