The classical approach to sandstone petrology, established in the golden years of plate
tectonics and based on the axiom that “detrital modes of sandstone suites primarily reflect …

Interpreting the wealth of new data derived from the diverse suite of modern single-grain
provenance approaches available to a sedimentologist requires a thorough understanding …

Siliciclastic sediments owe their origin mainly to land sources. New discriminant-function-
based major-element diagrams for the tectonic discrimination of siliciclastic sediments from …

Over the past decades, rare earth elements (REE) and their radioactive isotopes have
received tremendous attention in sedimentary geochemistry, as tracers for the geological …

Earth exhibits a dichotomy in elevation and chemical composition between the continents
and ocean floor. Reconstructing when this dichotomy arose is important for understanding …

Terrestrial vegetation and soils hold three times more carbon than the atmosphere. Much
debate concerns how anthropogenic activity will perturb these surface reservoirs, potentially …

We often resort to mythical thinking in the face of natural phenomena that we hardly
understand. Sedimentary petrology has several long-standing myths. One is that sediments …

Silicate weathering is critical to global carbon cycle and climate change, and has attracted
considerable attention in Earth science studies. Chemical weathering intensity evaluation …

Geochemical parameters obtained from the analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks
are widely used to infer weathering and paleo-weathering conditions in source areas …

Residual solid products of erosion display a wide range of size, density, shape, mineralogy,
and chemical composition and are hydrodynamically sorted in large river channels during …