Seds Online Courses

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
• Self-Paced
• 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
• Self-Paced
• 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
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chasing Tsunami Deposits With GPR

Explore ground-penetrating radar techniques for tracing tsunami deposits, featuring case studies from Thailand, Indonesia, Scotland, and Shetland Islands. Learn about coastal erosion, sand sheets, and subsurface investigations.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Exploring Sediment Transport Dynamics From Source to Sink

Explore sediment transport dynamics through case studies in Spain, hydraulic geometry, Tasman Leakage, and zircon analysis, offering insights into sedimentary processes and their applications.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Salty Tales of Diagenesis in Antarctica

Explore Antarctic brine's role in sediment cementation and its implications for climate history. Learn about groundwater composition, mineral precipitation, and ice sheet dynamics.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Autogenic Processes in Sedimentary Systems Are Just Part of the Allogenic Spectrum

Explore the debate on autogenic processes in sedimentary systems, examining their relationship to allogenic factors and implications for understanding Earth's geological history.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Insights into Coastal Processes from the Sedimentological Record

Explore coastal processes through sedimentological records, covering marine transgression, reef island formation, coal deposits, and quantitative analyses of sedimentary systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

130 Years of Natural & Anthropogenic Modifications of the Venice Lagoon - Evolution of Tidal Meanders

Explores tidal meander evolution in Venice Lagoon over 130 years, examining hydrodynamic changes, morphology, and sediment transport using diverse data and modeling techniques.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Roles of Oceanography and Orbital Forcing in Greenhouse Climates

Explore the interplay of oceanography and orbital forces in shaping greenhouse climates, focusing on sedimentary records, ocean circulation, and climate pacing in warmer periods of Earth's history.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Disentangling the Controls and Orbital Pacing of SE Atlantic Carbonate Deposition Since the Oligocene

Explore 30 million years of Southeast Atlantic carbonate deposition through XRF core scanning, revealing climate, cryosphere, and carbon cycle interactions since the early Oligocene.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linking Deltaic Distributary Morphodynamics Networks to Stratigraphic Connectivity of Channel Bodies

Explore synthetic stratigraphy creation from surface imagery and its application in predicting subsurface architecture in deltaic environments, focusing on channel network evolution and connectivity.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The 3D Geometry of Meandering Channels - Implications for the Stratigraphic Record

Explore 3D geometry of meandering channels, their migration patterns, and implications for stratigraphic records using Python-based visualization of subaerial and submarine flows.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Is Left After Tsunami Disasters? – A Sedimentological Perspective

Explore tsunami deposits, their identification challenges, and new research methods. Gain insights into recent tsunamis and their geological impacts through sedimentological studies and innovative approaches like paleogenetics.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Effect of Stress on the Acoustic Properties of Carbonate Rocks

Explore the impact of stress on carbonate rock acoustics, examining microstructural models and experimental methods to understand key observations and applications in geophysics.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video