It’s been a good month in the Planetary Sed Lab! We had a great visit from incoming PhD student Vincent Soldano, who is wrapping up his undergrad at the University of Nevada at Reno and starting up here in January.
We’ve had some nice coverage by Addie Berard of our recent NASA-funded GRL paper. I’m proud of this work – it combines Mars rover observations, satellite observations, 3D seismic reflectance volumes from Earth, and Landlab landscape evolution modeling. We suggest that we may be missing a lot of fluvial stratigraphy on Mars because we haven’t recognize all of the associated landforms generated along the all-important eolian erosional windows. At most places on Mars, exhumed channel belts seem to form fluvial ridges, but here we show that may not hold everywhere!
We’ve also had a (long-brewing) project published in Geology about interpreting cross-bed planview widths. I’m looking forward to sharing this work at next year’s SEPM conference – join us there! Abstracts are due Oct. 30th.
-Ben
