Web Resources for Sedimentary Geologists



(above graphic copied with permission from Paul Heller)


Check out some cool Sediment Transport Movies compiled by Paul Heller.
Jump directly to the Following Sections:

1. Professional Societies
2. Publications
3. Software
4. Research Pages
5. Other Sites
6. Sedimentary Geologists on the Web

. . . or scroll down to find them. This site contains a growing list of web sites of interest for sedimentary geologists. I would appreciate receiving any URL's for sed-strat related web sites that could be added here.


1. Sed-Strat Oriented Professional Societies

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP)

American Geological Institute (AGI)

Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists

Clay Minerals Society

GSA's Sedimentary Geology Division

International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)

Paleontological Society

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)


2. Publications of Interest to Sedimentary Geologists

Earth Science Journals On-Line comprehensive listing from Colorado State University

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology contents and abstracts

Elsevier Publications Sedimentary Geology and PaleoIII (contents of forthcoming issues)

GSA Publications contents and abstracts of the Bulletin, Geology, GSA Today; titles of Memoirs, Special Papers, Maps and Charts, and more

Geotimes Feature Articles, Editorials, Classifieds, etc.

IAS Journals contents of Basin Research and Sedimentology

SEPM Journals - Sedimentary Record, JSR, Palaios, online

SEPM Publications - all other publications of SEPM


3. A Few Software Links

Rick Allmendinger's Structure Software - scroll down to find it on his homepage

Geotechnical Software Directory

Rockware - Geology and Earth Sciences Software

A Different Link to Rockware - Earth Sciences Software

Softree - Natural Resource Software

Structural & Tectonics Software - maintained at Vrije Universiteit (Tectonics Department), Amsterdam

ScienceProf.com - teaching and research software for physical sciences, by Declan De Paor


4. Research and Education Pages

Calamus River Sedimentology Research maintained by Sharon Gabel at SUNY Oswego

Deep Time GeoSystems - a community-based research initiative into paleoclimate and linked systems

Deep Water Clastic Research - led by Bryan Cronin, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Denver Basin Project - at the The Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Drylands River Research - led by Colin North, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Experimental Stratigraphy (Jurassic Tank) - led by Chris Paola, University of Minnesota

FROMAGE (FRiends Of Marine AuthiGEnesis)

Great Barrier Reef Cooperative Research Centre for Ecologically Sustainable Dveloment of the GBR

Ichnology and Trace Fossils authored by Anthony Martin at Emory University

Lacustrine Rift Basins Research maintained by Chris Scholz

Mohawk Valley Biostratigraphy by Raymond Gildner at Union College

Mud Mounds (Devonian) in Belgium by Frederic Boulvain, Universite de Liege

National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics (NCED) - NSF-funded Science and Technology Center, at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

Newark Basin Coring Project maintained by Paul Olsen at LDEO

Triassic-Jurassic Working Group researchers of the Newark Basin Coring Project

Paleopedology Research Group lead by Steven Driese and Claudia Mora, University of Tennessee

SEPM Research Groups

Sedimentary Geology at New Mexico Tech

Sedimentary Geology at Penn State University

Sedimentary Research Group at Stanford Geosciences

Sedimentary Rocks a nice teaching resource at the University of British Columbia

Sediment-Hosted Base Metal Deposits - maintained by Peter McGoldrick at the University of Tasmania

Sequence Stratigraphy - very nice online guide by Steven Holland, University of Georgia

Shale Research Group at Indiana University - maintained by Juergen Schieber

Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Petrology at the University of Georgia

USGS Bedform Sedimentology created by D.M. Rubin, U.S. Geological Survey


5. Other Sites of Interest

International Commision on Stratigraphy (ICS) - "the only organisation concerned with stratigraphy on a global scale"

Images of the U.S. Continental Margin: Seascapes from LDEO

Marine Geoscience WWW Sites from Cardiff University Earth Sciences

Museum of Paleontology at U.C. Berkeley

NASA Global Change Data Center

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)

Western Region Marine and Coastal Surveys from the U.S. Geological Survey


6. Some Sedimentary Geologists on the Web

Kathleen Benison - Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

Henk Berendsen - Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ron Blakey - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Michael Blum - Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Sam Boggs - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Cathy Busby - University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Marjorie Chan - Univerity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Andy Cohen - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Gwen Daley - Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

Becky Dorsey - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Kenneth Eriksson - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Frank Ethridge - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Chris Fedo - Univ. of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

Peter Flemings - Penn State University, University Park, PA

Sharon Gabel - SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY

Craig Glenn - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Paul Heller - University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

Jindrich Hladil - Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Steven Holland - University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Cari Johnson - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Teresa Jordan - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Garry Karner - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY

David King, Jr. - Auburn University, Auburn, AL

George D. Klein - SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc.

Maarten Kleinhans - University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mike Leeder - University of East Anglia, Norwich Norfolk, UK

Neil Lundberg - Florida State University, Talahassee

Peter Mozley - New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM

Colin North - University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Paul Olsen - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY

Chris Paola - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Bruce Railsback - University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Fred Read - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Greg Retallack - University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Ken Ridgway - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Brad Ritts - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Ruth Robinson - University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Juergen Schieber - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Fred Schilling - Engineering Geologist, Tustin, California

Roy Schlische - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Christopher Scholz - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Shan Shanmugam - U.T. Arlington, Arlington, TX

Rudy Slingerland - Penn State University, University Park, PA

Lynn Soreghan - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Doug Smith - California State University, Monterey Bay

Ian West - University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.

Michael Whalen - University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

Mark A. Wilson - The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

(Please contact me if you would like your personal web page added to this list)


Last updated June 7, 2005 by:

Becky Dorsey (rdorsey@uoregon.edu)
Department of Geological Sciences
1272 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR, 97403-1272
Voice: (541) 346-4431
Fax: (541) 346-4692