#sediment

This one was on the more difficult side to edit. I'm still not convinced it's perfect, but I suppose it is good enough for the time being. Until I can figure out what to do better, that is.

Regardless of the editing outcome, I absolutely adore the background here! It feels like something out of a painting to me.

Time to look at some sediment samples! Check out how the individual grains differ on large and small scales. Some samples are much more uniform in size, color, and rounding than other samples. You can learn a lot about the parent rock’s history and environment by looking at sediment samples.

According to highly cited conventional models, cooling and a major drop in sea levels about 34 million years ago should have led to widespread continental erosion and deposited gargantuan amounts of sandy material onto the ocean floor. This was, after all, one of the most drastic climate transitions on Earth since the demise of the dinosaurs. Yet a new Stanford review of hundreds of studies going back decades contrastingly reports that across the margins of all seven continents, little to no sediment has ever been found dating back to this transition. The discovery of this globally extensive gap in the geologic record was published this week in Earth-Science Reviews.

charcoal and coffee watercolour based work in progress, 2025

inspired by Salto do Cabrito, São Miguel Island, Açores